Naval Combat Demolition Unit specialist Ernie Corvese talks about landing on D-Day
From The Front To The Films: A World War II Podcast
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The last time Ernie Corvese set foot on Omaha Beach, he spent 12 hours pinned down by German artillery. Much of that time he spent face-down and motionless, hoping he wouldn’t attract a sniper.
Today, as Corvese prepares to return to Normandy for the first time since he arrived on D-Day with his Naval Combat Demolition Unit, you can hear the emotion in his voice as he talks about the experience.
“I never told anybody,” he says. For decades, his four children and extended family knew little, if anything, about his WWII service.