ubject: MANY FAMOUS ACTORS They
Were Real Men
AMAZING LIST ---I WOULD HAVE NEVER GUEST MANY OF THESE
Really interesting....read at bottom the statements about todays
actors.
I never knew there were so many. Quite a long list.
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> Sterling Hayden
US Marines and OSS. Smuggled guns into
Yugoslavia and
> parachuted into Croatia.
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> James Stewart
US Army Air Corps. Bomber pilot who rose
to the rank of General.
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> Ernest Borgnine
US Navy. Gunners Mate 1c, destroyer USS
Lamberton.
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> Ed McMahon
US Marines. Fighter Pilot. (Flew OE-1
Bird Dogs over Korea as well.)
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> Telly Savalas
US Army.
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> Walter Matthau
US Army Air Corps., B-24
Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer.
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> Steve Forrest
US Army. Wounded, Battle of the Bulge.
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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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> Paul Newman
US Navy Rear seat gunner/radioman,
torpedo bombers of USS Bunker Hill.
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> Kirk Douglas
US Navy. Sub-chaser in the Pacific.
Wounded in action, medically discharged.
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> Robert Mitchum
US Army.
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> Dale Robertson
US Army. Tank Commander in North Africa
under Patton. Wounded twice. Battlefield
Commission.
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> Henry Fonda
US Navy. Destroyer USS Satterlee.
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> John Carroll
US Army Air Corps. Pilot in North Africa.
Broke his back in a crash.
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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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> Art Carney
US Army. Wounded on Normandy beach,
D-Day. Limped for the rest of his life.
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> Wayne Morris
US Navy fighter pilot, USS Essex. Downed
seven Japanese fighters.
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> Rod Steiger
US Navy. Was aboard one of the ships that
launched the Doolittle Raid.
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> Tony Curtis
US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus. In Tokyo
Bay for the surrender of Japan.
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> Larry Storch
US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony
Curtis.
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> Forrest Tucker
US Army. Enlisted as a private, rose to
Lieutenant.
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> Robert Montgomery
US Navy.
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> George Kennedy
US Army. Enlisted after Pearl Harbor,
stayed in sixteen years.
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> Mickey Rooney
US Army under Patton. Bronze Star.
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> Denver Pyle
US Navy. Wounded in the Battle of
Guadalcanal. Medically discharged.
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> Burgess Meredith
US Army Air Corps.
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> DeForest Kelley
US Army Air Corps.
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> Robert Stack
US Navy. Gunnery Officer.
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> Neville Brand
US Army, Europe. Was awarded the Silver
Star and Purple Heart.
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> Tyrone Power
US Marines. Transport pilot in the
Pacific Theater.
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> Charlton Heston
US Army Air Corps. Radio operator and
aerial gunner on a B-25, Aleutians.
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> Danny Aiello
US Army. Lied about his age to enlist at
16. Served three years.
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> James Arness
US Army. As an infantryman, he was
severely wounded at Anzio, Italy.
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> Efram Zimbalist, Jr.
US Army. Purple Heart for a severe wound
received at Huertgen Forest.
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> Mickey Spillane
US Army Air Corps, Fighter Pilot and
later Instructor Pilot.
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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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> Wiliam Holden
US Army Air Corps.
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> Alan Hale Jr
US Coast Guard.
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> 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.
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> William Conrad
US Army Air Corps. Fighter Pilot.
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> Jack Klugman
US Army.
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> Frank Sutton
US Army. Took part in 14 assault
landings, including Leyte, Luzon, Bataan and
Corregidor.
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> Jackie Coogan
US Army Air Corps. Volunteered for
gliders and flew troops and materials into Burma
behind enemy lines.
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> Tom Bosley
US Navy.
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> Claude Akins
US Army. Signal Corps., Burma and the
Philippines.
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> Chuck Connors
US Army. Tank-warfare instructor.
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> Harry Carey Jr.
US Navy.
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> Mel Brooks
US Army. Combat Engineer. Saw action in
the Battle of the Bulge.
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> Robert Altman
US Army Air Corps. B-24 Co-Pilot.
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> Pat Hingle
US Navy. Destroyer USS Marshall
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> Fred Gwynne
US Navy. Radioman.
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> Karl Malden
US Army Air Corps. 8th Air Force, NCO.
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> Earl Holliman
US Navy. Lied about his age to enlist.
Discharged after a year when they Navy found out.
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> Rock Hudson
US Navy. Aircraft mechanic, the
Philippines.
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> Harvey Korman
US Navy.
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> Aldo Ray
US Navy. UDT frogman, Okinawa.
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> Don Knotts
US Army, Pacific Theater.
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> Don Rickles
US Navy aboard USS Cyrene.
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> Harry Dean Stanton
US Navy. Served aboard an LST in the
Battle of Okinawa.
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> Robert Stack
US Navy. Gunnery Instructor.
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> Soupy Sales
US Navy. Served on USS Randall in the
South Pacific.
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> Lee Van Cleef
US Navy. Served aboard a sub chaser then
a mine sweeper.
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> Clifton James
US Army, South Pacific. Was awarded the
Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart.
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> Ted Knight
US Army, Combat Engineers.
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> Jack Warden
US Navy, 1938-1942*, then US Army,
1942-1945*. 101st Airborne Division.
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> Don Adams
US Marines. Wounded on Guadalcanal, then
served as a Drill Instructor.
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> James Gregory
US Navy and US Marines.
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> Brian Keith
US Marines. Radioman/Gunner in Dauntless
dive-bombers.
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> Fess Parker
US Navy and US Marines. Booted from pilot
training for being too tall, joined Marines as a
radio operator.
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> Charles Durning
US Army. Landed at Normandy on D-Day.
Shot multiple times. Awarded the Silver Star and
Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Survived
Malmedy Massacre.
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> Raymond Burr
US Navy. Shot in the stomach on Okinawa
and medically discharged.
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> Hugh O'Brian
US Marines.
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> Robert Ryan
US Marines.
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> Eddie Albert
US Coast Guard. Bronze Star with Combat V
for saving several Marines under heavy fire as
pilot of a landing craft during the invasion of Tarawa.
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> Clark Gable
US Army Air Corps. B-17 gunner over
Europe.
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> Charles Bronson
US Army Air Corps. B-29 gunner, wounded
in action.
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> Peter Graves
US Army Air Corps.
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> Buddy Hackett
US Army anti-aircraft gunner.
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> Victor Mature
US Coast Guard.
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> Jack Palance
US Army Air Corps. Severely injured
bailing out of a burning B-24 bomber.
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> Robert Preston
US Army Air Corps. Intelligence Officer
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> Cesar Romero
US Coast Guard. Coast Guard. Participated
in the invasions of Tinian and Saipan on the
assault transport USS Cavalier.
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> Norman Fell
US Army Air Corps., Tail Gunner, Pacific
Theater.
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> Jason Robards
US Navy. was aboard heavy cruiser USS
Northampton when it was sunk off Guadalcanal.
Also served on the USS Nashville during the invasion of
the Philippines, surviving a kamikaze hit that
caused 223 casualties.
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> Steve Reeves
US Army, Philippines.
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> Dennis Weaver
US Navy. Pilot.
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> Robert Taylor
US Navy. Instructor Pilot.>
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> Randolph Scott
Tried to enlist in the Marines but was
rejected due to injuries sustained in US Army,
World War 1.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Audie Murphy
America's most-decorated soldier, who became a Hollywood star as a result
of his US Army service that included his being
awarded the Medal of Honor.
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> Would someone please remind me again how many of today's Hollywood elite
> put their careers on hold to enlist in Iraq or Afghanistan?
>
> The only one I can recall was Pat Tillman, who turned down a contract
offer of $3.6 million over three years from the
Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the US Army after
September, 11, 2001 and serve as a Ranger in Afghanistan, where
he died in 2004. But rather than being lauded for his choice and his
decision to put his country before his career, he
was mocked and derided by many of his peers and
the Left.
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> *Ladies and Gentlemen, I submit to you that this is not the America today
> that it was seventy years ago. And I, for one, am saddened.*
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> *My generation grew up watching, being entertained by and laughing with so
> many of these fine people, never really knowing what they contributed to
the war effort. Like millions of Americans during
the WWII, there was a job that needed done, they
didn't question, they went and did it, those that
came home returned to their now new normal life
and carried on, very few ever saying what they
did or saw. They took it as their "responsibility", their
"duty" to Country, to protect and
preserve our freedoms and way of life, not just
for themselves but for all future generations to
come. As a member of that "First" generation, I'm forever humbly
in their debt. *