These two 100 year olds invaded Normandy.

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striped_frog on June 14th, 2021 at 12:25 UTC »

Lock up your grandmas

gumpythegreat on June 14th, 2021 at 13:19 UTC »

Not in WW2, mind you. They did it last weekend.

Meet the new Kings of Normandy. All residents of Normandy are required to pay tribute.

Spartan2470 on June 14th, 2021 at 13:27 UTC »

The source of this appears to be Rodney Queen on Facebook. Per there:

June 6, 2020

Seventy six years ago today brothers Ubert Terrell, 100, right, and L.C. Terrell, 98, were both invading Normandy on D-Day, one on the ground and the other by air. L.C. took out two enemy machine gun nests with hand grenades that day. He knew he could throw accurately because he'd spent a lot of time catching and throwing balls with a minor league baseball player he'd known before the war. He successfully lobbed a grenade into the nest, but only after crawling up the beach on his belly. Ubert, who was fluent in Cajun French, Spanish, and Italian, carried out five covert missions to gather intelligence for D-Day by parachuting into occupied France by night and meeting up with members of the French underground. That’s in addition to him flying over Normandy to help deliver paratroopers onto the battlefield. Not bad for two country boys from Louisiana.

On June 11, 2021 she commented:

I posted this last June 6th about these two brothers….from my post it has been shared 124,000 times and has been liked over 130,000 times. That’s what you call “going viral”. As I result, I’ve gotten hundreds of friend requests (which I have to delete) in the last week since June the 6th and many personal messages asking for more information.

They told their story to the New Orleans Advocate here.