Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Omar Bradley Map of the attack plan for Operation Overlord . The Augusta stood out of Plymouth on 5 June with Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, and his staff, embarked. The Augusta waited offshore, a rakish beauty among the snub-nosed LST's. Its curved yacht like bow and eight-inch turrets pointed toward the Channel. I was assigned the skipper's cabin, the one occupied by President Roosevelt in 1941 when he joined Churchill off the Newfoundland shore to draft the Atlantic Charter.