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World War II Hollywood Heroes

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Lee Marvin US Marines Sniper.  Wounded in action on Saipan.  Buried in Arlington national Cemetery, Sec. 7A next to Greg Boyington and Joe Louis.

 

 

 

 

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George Gobel comedian taught fighter pilots, possibly in Oklahoma.  Johnny Carson made a big deal about it once on the Tonight Show, /geirge saudm “The Japs didn’t get past us!”

 

 

 

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Telly Savalas, US Army.

 

 

 

 

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Ernest Borgnine, US Navy. Gunners Mate 1c, destroyer US Lamberton.

 

 

 

 

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Steve Forrest, US Army.  Wounded, Battle of the Bulge.

 

 

 

 

 

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Ed McMahon, US Marines.  Fighter Pilot. Y Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea as well.)

 

 

 

 

 

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Paul Newman, US Navy Rear seat gunner/radioman, torpedo bomers of USS Bunker Hill.

 

 

 

 

 

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Walter Matthau, US Army Air Corps., B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer.

 

 

 

 

 

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Tony Curtis, US Navy.  Sub tender USS Proteus.  In Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan.

 

 

 

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Robert Mitchum, US Army.

 

 

 

 

 

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Rod Steiger, US Navy.  Was aboard one of the ships that launched the Doolittle Raid.

 

 

 

 

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Jonathan Winters, USMC.  Battleship USS Wisconsin and Carrier USS Bon Homme Richard.  Anti-aircraft gunner, Battle of Okinawa.

 

 

 

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Charles Bronson, US Army Air Corps.  B-29 gunner, wounded in action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Art Carney, US Army.  Wounded on Normandy Beach, D-Day.  Limped for the rest of his life.

 

 

 

 

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Rod Serling.  US Army, 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific.  He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila.

 

 

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Gene Autry, US Army Air Corps.  Crewman on transports that ferried supplies over “The Hump” in the China-Burma-India Theater.

 

 

 

 

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James Arness, US Army as an infantryman.  He was severly wounded at Anzio, Italy.

 

 

 

 

 

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Kirk Douglas, US Navy.  Sub-chaser in the Pacific.  Wounded in action and medically discharged.

 

 

 

 

 

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Forrest Tucker, US Army.  Enlisted as a private, rose to Lieutenant.

 

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Mickey Rooney, US Army under Patton.  Bronze Star.

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Robert Montgomery, US Navy.

 

 

 

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Larry Storch, US Navy.  Sub tender  USS  Proteus with Tony Curtis.

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Chuck Connors, US Army.  Tank-warfare instructor.

 

 

 

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Tom Bosley, US Navy

 

 

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Charlton Heston, US Army Air Corps.   Radio operator and aerial gunner on a B-25, Aleutians.

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