Tag: Pistol

The officer who stormed Normandy with nothing but a cane and pistol

“We’ll start the war from right here!” Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile from its target destination on Utah Beach the morning of June 6, 1944. At the age of 56, Roosevelt, the son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was not only the oldest soldier deployed […]