D-Day veteran honored by Braves as Hometown Hero

After enlisting in the Army in December, 1942, Master Sergeant Carl Beck saw his first combat action when he parachuted into Normandy on D-Day. Beck served in the military for 20 years, then retired and became a professor of Military Science at Wofford College in South Carolina. He eventually moved to Atlanta, where he still resides today.

Since retiring from the Army, Beck has returned to parachute into Normandy two more times -- once in 1994 when he was 70 and again at the age of 80 in 2004. He also plans on another drop on his 90th birthday in 2014.

Beck has been a Braves fan since the team moved to Atlanta in 1966, and the club returned the support by honoring him on the field as Tuesday's Hometown Hero for his 20 years of service.

Said Beck, "I didn't know I was a hero!"

-- Meera Venkatraman / MLB.com Real-Time Correpondent

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