US Navy Rejected His Boats For 5 Years — Then He Built 92% Of Their Fleet

June 6, 1944. 6:30 in the morning. 1,500 plywood boats racing toward Normandy. Inside one of them — a 19-year-old coxswain from Rhode Island named Richard Fazzio. Behind him, 30 men of the 1st Infantry Division. Ninety seconds later, most of them will be dead. Now look at what carried them in. Not