“Love your Freedom, because that’s what we fought for”—D-Day Gunner’s Mate Frank DeVita
Frank Joseph DeVita, Robert C. Grant —
“DeVita, drop the ramp!” For a few seconds I froze, because I knew when I dropped that ramp, the machine gun bullets will come into the boat. And then for the third time he yelled, punctuated with colorful profanity and I dropped the ramp. The bullets that were hitting the ramp came into the boat.