After his landing craft was pushed 2000 yards astray from its destination, he rallied his troops, telling them “We’re going to start the war from right here.” Though he walked with the use of a cane, he led his troops into the fight. He was the oldest and only general in the first wave to hit the beaches.
Something that is unconceivable nowadays
You forgot Australia, Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia, Greece, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway and Poland.