World War II Hollywood Heroes page 2
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Don Adams, US Marines. Wounded on Guadalcanal, then served as a Drill Instructor.
Don knots. US Army, Pacific Theater
Don Rickles, US Navy aboard USS Cyrene.
Soupy Sales, US Navy. Served on USS Randall in the South Pacific.
John Wayne. Declared “4F, medically unfit” due to pre-existing injuries, he nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times. (Army, Navy and Film Corps.) so he gets honorable mention.
Randolph Scott. Tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected due to injuries sustained in US Army, World War I
Ronald Reagan. US Army. Was a 2nd Lt. in the Cavalry Reserves before the war. His poor eyesight kept him from being sent overseas with his unit when war came so he transferred to the Army Air Corps Public Relations Unit where he served for the duration.
Dennis Weaver, US Navy. Pilot.
Henry Fonda, US Navy. Destroyer USS Satterlee.
Efram Zimbalist Jr., US Army. Purple Heart for a ssevere wound received at Huertgen Forest.
Russell Johnson, US Army Air Corps. B-24 crewman who was awarded Purple Heart when his aircraft was shot down by the Japanese in the Philippines.
William Conrad, US Army Air Corps. Fighter Pilot.
Pat Hingle, US Navy. Destroyer USS Marshall.
Mel Brooks, US Army. Combat Engineer. Saw action in the Battle of the Bulge.
Alan Hale Jr. US Coast Guard.
Jack Klugman, US Army.
Harvey Korman, US Navy.
Rock Hudson, US Navy. Aircraft mechanic, the Philippines.
Aldo Ray. US Navy. UDT frogman, Okinawa.
Clifton James, US Army, South Pacific. Was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze star, and Purple Heart.
Ted knight, US Army, Combat Engineer.
Jack Warden, US Navy, 1938-1942, then US Army, 1942-1945; 101st Airborne Division.
Brian Keith, US Marines. Radioman/Gunner in dauntless dive-bombers.
Charles Durning. US Army. Landed at Normandy on D-Day. Shot multiple times. Awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Survived Malmedy Massacre.
Raymond Burr, US Navy. Shot in the stomach on Okinawa and medically Discharged.
Glenn Miller and his big band swing music, the ‘Glenn Miller Sound of American jazz. (love his music) He played the trombone, was an arranger, composer and bandleader. In 1939 at the age of 38, he volunteered for the Navy but was told that they did not need his services. In 1942, he enlisted in the US Army Air Force. He was the host of ‘Sustain the Wings,’ a weekly radio show. He wrote 70 top ten hits between 1939 to 1942, ‘In the Mood,’ ‘A string of Pearls,’ ‘Little Brown Jug,’ and ‘moonlight Serenade.’
28 Jul 1945, Le Havre, France — US soldiers listen to a Saturday afternoon jam session by Glenn Miller’s Band at Camp Herbert Tareyton near Le Havre, France. — Image by © CORBIS
Glenn Miller formed a network of service orchestras for the war effort. General Jimmy Doolittle said, ‘next to a letter from home, his organization was the greatest moral builder in the European Theater of Operations’.
Source: Wartime Entertainment in WWII Library of Congress
