 We just sat down there and waited for a day or two or whatever and then all of a sudden here we go. That was it. That started to started the invasion. June 6th, we started we started shelling the Omaha Beach. We started firing first. It was still very dark. But the troops started landing at about 6.30 or 7 o'clock. So we had to stop shelling then. Well, I must have been down in the probably in the plotting room is where I've actually got the news. Well, we got the word this moody. He was a chaplain at the time on the ship and he he went over the PA system. You know, it was kind of letting everybody know what's going on and chaplain was on the bridge and he was telling us that the German shells were coming out and missing us on each side of the ship. They put me up in the gun room, which is where the the gun was fired from and wanted me to handle the powder. Now the powder to fire a 14-inch shell is it took 400 pounds of powder and the bags of powder weighed 104 pounds each and you had to lift them from below and put them up on the cradle to have them rammed into the shell. And the 14 is like a tight. 14-inch wasn't so bad. 14-inch, I was behind one, but it would take a five-inch. It would almost take your clothes off. Just trying to get fire into guns. I see that a little barrel go back, you know. And only chance it broke, broke the darn thing already. That's just what I said, only chance. Of course, I learned a little later the recoil come back and everything. Yeah, I thought oh and I said exactly that. He must have broken it. And just he just sat there and it's waited, waited, waited, you know. And finally, you know, when things would quiet down a little bit. So, I wasn't the instigator, but one of the other guys, it might have been older than me, opened the door, you know, and it could look out and see what's what's what, but don't go out. And I was looking out at the cliffs over there. This was all maybe ten days later and I noticed in the water, there was some shell or splices in the water and kind of find out it was a German sniper out there trying to shoot somebody on the ship. So we were out of range, but we sent word to the captain, the captain radioed in, and this is the first time I saw a P-38 in action. P-38 come in and sprayed that beach with it with his machine guns and we didn't see any more. I was kind of close to one that he got his helmet got nicked right right up here somewhere and it came under here and came out came out here and one of the bullet went into his helmet and wrapped around it and took his eye out, you know, I talked to him. I survived. So I'll tell you that these were these guys were amazing. Well, I don't think they were kids much older than me. I don't give a damn. They didn't have much chance for us, I don't think. You know, surviving that. But we did.