D-Day veteran reminisces on Omaha Beach ship he was aboard 71 years ago
June 06, 2015 12:00 am
• Last Updated: June 07, 2015 8:31 pm
Vincent "Jimmy" Lijoi of Valley Stream, N.Y., reminisces as he walks around the Cross Sound Ferry, Cape Henlopen, formerly the USS LST 510, during a journey from Point Orient, N.Y. to New London Saturday, June 6, 2015. Seventy-one years ago, on D-Day, Lijoi was a seaman first class aboard the 510 when it landed on Omaha Beach during the Battle of Normandy. (Tali Greener/Special to The Day)
New London — Vincent "Jimmy" Lijoi of Valley Stream, N.Y., reminisced as he walked around the Cross Sound Ferry, Cape Henlopen, formerly the USS LST 510, during a journey from Point Orient, N.Y. to New London Saturday. Seventy-one years ago on D-Day, Lijoi was 18 and a seaman first class aboard the 510 when it landed on Omaha Beach during the Battle of Normandy.
Lijoi was the guest of Cross Sound Ferry Services, according to director of marketing and public affairs Stanley Mickus.
"You are a real hero," says Annette Ferrara of Smithtown, N.Y. as she embraces Vincent "Jimmy" Lijoi of Valley Stream, N.Y., as Lijoi rides the Cross Sound Ferry's Cape Henlopen, formerly the USS LST 510, from Point Orient, N.Y. to New London Saturday, June 6, 2015. (Tali Greener/Special to The Day)
Vincent "Jimmy" Lijoi of Valley Stream, N.Y., reminisces as he walks around the Cross Sound Ferry, Cape Henlopen, formerly the USS LST 510, during a journey from Point Orient, N.Y. to New London Saturday, June 6, 2015. (Tali Greener/Special to The Day)
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