Baseball legend Yogi Berra — who passed away almost two years ago — was famous for not only his numbers and championships on the diamond, but also his unparalleled “sayings”. His malapropisms.

The stout hall of famer may have enjoyed putting on the goofball act at times — hamming it up — but it wasn’t because he was a softee.

The man was one of the thousands of courageous American service members who successfully invaded on June 6, 1944.

D-Day.

In 2009, he sat down with a Yankee broadcaster for the 65th anniveresary to talk about his experience launching rockets and more, in a boat just off the coast of Normandy.

“The English boats, they fired over our heads. And sometimes they fired a little short.”

“The only time we got a little worried is when we got to southern France. They had the rockets that would fly over. They could go into you.”

“We ran into a machine gun nest in a hotel on the beach. And I was on the twin 50. So I start shooting over there. I think I got a few of them running out of there.”