One handsome devil before he realized that he had a brighter future as an engineer in the space navy than he did in the Canadian Army.

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He almost got a perfect score from the judges of the Mister Universe contest
Face: 10/10
Acting: 10/10
Hands: 9/10
No wonder he was so cool under pressure. Nothing on the Enterprise stood up to that kind of hell.
- I agree. However, the colorful space food was likely it's own special kind of helll.
  
  Are you saying you don't find this appetizing?
  Well, you can always have a ham sandwich and some coff- ooh.
What this doesn't tell you is that he was shot six times not by Nazis.... but by friendly fire 🤦‍♂️.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Doohan
- To be fair, it was really chaotic and bullets were flying everywhere in both directions. There were a lot of friendly fire casualties on both sides when they stormed Normandy.
- "...and how many Nazi snipers did you take out at Normandy Laddy?"
  
  Killed four of them. Then was captured in the South Pacific. They took my shins. But I escaped. Hid under a pile of bodies for two weeks. When I got back they sewn my feet back to my knees so I could walk again.
~~The urge to fact-check this is so strong, even though I know it to be inherently false. I want to believe~~
Holy. Shit... this is going to take a sec to sink in. I'm in awe of what I have learned here today. Thank you
- Which part, the D-Day part or the Space Navy part?
  
  I've seen his Spacy Navy docuseries ~~before~~, ~~a few times~~, a bunch (which was badass already), but I had no idea he was in D-day, taking out snipers and getting shot like it was out of some "Saving Private Ryan" shit... and he was a skilled pilot‽ Blew my mind today
Damn, Doohans the man.
Never knew this, thanks
Are you trying to tell me smoking saved his life?
- Smoking- the savior and the death of WWII veterans?
- Smoking saved Scotty and killed Spock. Leonard Nimoy died of COPD from smoking.

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