more died that day than at the utah beach landing at normandy.ut it wasn't found out until later. >> they came to us posthaste and in fact, seal your lips. i think for good reason they probably didn't want hitler and his hierarchy to know what a critical blow they had dealt us that morning. >> summer 1943, adolf hitler continued to hit from below. sailors at sea were never safe. ed nash then got orders to report to new london, connecticut. >> august of '43, nash heads off to where? >> i was called in to talk to a coast guard commander. asking what duty what i wanted. there was one billet so i grabbed that. >> gunnery officer on a destroyer s boat? >> yes. the one i was was on the ss man -- >> what's the mission of an escort? >> well, they made the destroyer escorts about one every minute. >> 30 march 1944, ed nash and the crew joined a convoy in virginia bound for the mediterranean. >> a german air raid -- >> to your battle stations and your battle stations. >> april of '44. >> they hit us just at dusk. they sent in -- these guys came in and trie

. >> seaman first class yogi barra was on board a rocket boat at utah beach. >> we used to call ourselfhe suicide squad. .230 caliber. >> we didn't get there until the first of august. and we went -- we landed on omaha beach and i never will forget this. there was a big streamer, a tall streamer across the entrance and the sign said through these portals america's finest soldiers have tread. >> there was a bridge before we got in there on the river. we had to capture that and hold it. in fact we had to retake the bridge twice. they took it from us and we took it again. very costly. >> 8,000 miles from france the japanese held islands of guam were under attack and bob feller on the uss alabama was there. >> our target area was on the west side of the island of saipan and leveled it. >> after the landing, the alabama turned to the task of defeating the japanese counter stroke. japanese chief of staff eastwarded the mobile fleet nine air r carriers, five battle ships and 14 cruisers to repel the invasion. in the skies over the islands, some one,000 american aps japanese planes engaged in t

. >>> the 23 day, 2200-mile tour de france gain today. 116.8 miles to utah beach. mark cavendish sprinted to the finish, taking the age in 4:14 and will wear the yeley jersey for the first time in his career. this sports report brought to you by orchard supply hardware. warrior fans unhappy with harrison's play in the post but if he heft you're losing a starter. >> next, 50 years and counting. the reason one east bay city is celebrating today. abc7 news >>> join u.s. tonight on kofy tv 20. this is a big weekend for old glory. we'll take you inside the company that still makes thousands of the flags hi hand. >>> then at 11:00 here on channel 7, these one-time strangers come from across the country once a year to see people who look and act just like them. how a bay area man czeched to this unusual reunion. that's tonight at 11:00. >>> the union city police department threw a huge party today to celebrate their 50th 50th anniversary. we were at civic center park in union city today as huge crowds came to celebrate the milestone. there were bounce houses, food, and po

. >>> the 23 day, 2200-mile tour de france gain today. 116.8 miles to utah beach. mark cavendish sprinted to the finish, taking the age in 4:14 and will wear the yeley jersey for the first time in his career. this sports report brought to you by orchard supply hardware. warrior fans unhappy with harrison's play in the post but if he heft you're losing a starter. >> next, 50 years and counting. the reason one east bay city is celebrating today. abc7 news cont phil sanders, timely bible lesson the lord's way. churches of christ in the area, have you visit and worship assemblies. i hope you will. we love you. in search of the lord's way. >>> join u.s. tonight on kofy tv 20. this is a big weekend for old glory. we'll take you inside the company that still makes thousands of the flags hi hand. >>> then at 11:00 here on channel 7, these one-time strangers come from across the country once a year to see people who look and act just like them. how a bay area man czeched to this unusual reunion. that's tonight at 11:00. >>> the union city police department threw a huge part

2nd armored division and also let's not forget the 4th american infantry division that landed at utah beach. that's often forgotten. the french did not liberate themselves entirely by their fellow countrymen. in fact, 4th i.d. veterans from utah actually fought in the streets of paris to liberate it. not many french people will tell you that, or not many of them know that. by the 25th of august 1944 the jacksons were -- had been deported from france. they were exposed and betrayed and just two weeks before d-day in may of 1944 arrested by the french paramilitary police, the milise, taken to vichy south of paris, handed over to the french gestapo, knochen's men in the gestapo in the south of france, and then split up. toquette was taken to paris. she was deported on the 18th of august 1944. just literally a week before the americans and the french arrived. she could hear the sound of american artillery as she waited to be deported. phillip and sumner were sent into germany to a concentration camp called neuengamer, a labor camp where they spent most of the winter of 1944-45. this is a pictur

camouflage, six of them, pointing at utah beach. ammunition stacked up all around them. germans? no. no germans. only's about 150 germans 100 guns away on the other side of the open field in the corner. they are all standing in a big circle and somebody is talking to them. nobody is around the guns. lameldoes the melted -- do? he has two thermite grenades. to the guns, drop some in the barrels, and firing mechanisms, doesn't make any noise, thermite grenades as earned. they even start clubbing some of on the things with their weapons. the germans keep talking. they are getting organized. they are close. we're only talking about a football field or a football field and a half away. there is only two ranges there destroying the guns. he is running out of thermite grenades, he runs back to his squad, says i need more thermite grenades and they give him four more and he runs back and dumps for more in an industry guns. -- they destroyed the guns. the germans are still talking. what happened to those germans? i don't know. later they were probably part of the attack. this all happened

with lebron james when he chose to leave and go to south beach but you know what, we got to get something new and creative. when karl malone left utahg 19 seasons no one said a word then lebron james leaves, people want to burn jerseys. you're burning up money. what you need to do is put out a heartfelt thank you because we have one of the guys as one of the best in the scoring champ and spent nine wonderful seasons and now he's looking to do what's best for himself. you can't look back in yesteryears and say, you know what, i wonder if i would have went there and see what would have happened because he's in his prime right now and get himself what lebron has or fast as championships. >> all right, bruce bowen. tell it like it is. he's a great guy. he really is and so is steph so two really great guys on and off the court joining forces. we'll see -- no guarantees. life in basketball. >> none at all. you know that, robin. >> no guarantee we would make it to jupiter but we did, mike. we did and no guarantees about the lottery. who knows what's going to happen. kevin, bringing it all together, gentlemen. thank you three for being with