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Old 09-01-05, 03:20
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Default Beam Me Up, Scotty

Captain James Doohan who played Scotty on the original Star Trek series, had joined the Canadian Army at the age of 19. He was commissioned from the ranks and became an Artillery officer and landed in Normandy on D-day as a Forward Observation Officer (What Regt?). He lost the middle finger of his right hand to machine gun fire. Five weeks later he volunteered to start training to become a pilot- observer in an Air-OP squadron.

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