World War II Hollywood Heroes
Lee Marvin US Marines Sniper. Wounded in action on Saipan. Buried in Arlington national Cemetery, Sec. 7A next to Greg Boyington and Joe Louis.
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!”
Telly Savalas, US Army.
Ernest Borgnine, US Navy. Gunners Mate 1c, destroyer US Lamberton.
Steve Forrest, US Army. Wounded, Battle of the Bulge.
Ed McMahon, US Marines. Fighter Pilot. Y Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea as well.)
Paul Newman, US Navy Rear seat gunner/radioman, torpedo bomers of USS Bunker Hill.
Walter Matthau, US Army Air Corps., B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer.
Tony Curtis, US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus. In Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan.
Robert Mitchum, US Army.
Rod Steiger, US Navy. Was aboard one of the ships that launched the Doolittle Raid.
Jonathan Winters, USMC. Battleship USS Wisconsin and Carrier USS Bon Homme Richard. Anti-aircraft gunner, Battle of Okinawa.
Charles Bronson, US Army Air Corps. B-29 gunner, wounded in action.
Art Carney, US Army. Wounded on Normandy Beach, D-Day. Limped for the rest of his life.
Rod Serling. US Army, 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific. He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila.
Gene Autry, US Army Air Corps. Crewman on transports that ferried supplies over “The Hump” in the China-Burma-India Theater.
James Arness, US Army as an infantryman. He was severly wounded at Anzio, Italy.
Kirk Douglas, US Navy. Sub-chaser in the Pacific. Wounded in action and medically discharged.
Forrest Tucker, US Army. Enlisted as a private, rose to Lieutenant.
Mickey Rooney, US Army under Patton. Bronze Star.
Robert Montgomery, US Navy.
Larry Storch, US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony Curtis.
Chuck Connors, US Army. Tank-warfare instructor.
Tom Bosley, US Navy
Charlton Heston, US Army Air Corps. Radio operator and aerial gunner on a B-25, Aleutians.
