|
Don Adams, US Marines. Wounded
on Guadalcanal - then served as a
Drill Instructor. |
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Danny
Aiello, US Army. Lied
about his age to enlist at age 16 -
served 3 years. |
|
Claude
Akins, US Army. Signal Corps, Burma
and the Philippines. |
|
Eddie Albert, US
Coast Guard. Bronze Star with
Combat V for saving several Marines
under fire during the invasion of
Tarawa. |
|
James Arness,
US Army. Served as an
infantryman & was wounded at Anzo,
Italy. |
|
Gene
Autry,
US Air Corps. Crewman on
Transports that ferried supplies
into the China-Burma-India Theater. |
|
Ernest Borgnine, US Navy. Gunners
Mate 1c, destroyer USS Lamberton -
10 years active duty.
Discharged in 1941 & re-enlisted
after Pearl Harbor. |
|
Charles Bronson, US Army
Air Corps. B-17 gunner, wounded in
action. |
|
Mel
Brooks,
US
Army. Combat Engineer. |
|
Raymond Burr, US Navy.
Medically discharged after being
shot in the abdomen on Okinawa.
|
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Harry Carey, Jr., US Navy. |
|
Art Carney, US Army. Wounded on
Normandy Beach, D-Day. |
|
Chuck Connors, US Army. Tank-warfare
Instructor. |
|
William Conrad, US Army Air Corps.
Fighter Pilot. |
|
Tony Curtis, US Navy. Sub tender USS
Proteus. |
|
Kirk Douglas, US Navy. Sub-chaser in
the Pacific. Wounded in action and
medically discharged. |
|
Charles Durning, US Army. Landed at
Normandy on D-Day. He was shot
multiple times. Awarded the Silver
Star and Bronze Star and three
Purple hearts. |
|
Henry Fonda, US Navy. Destroyer USS
Satterlee. |
|
Clark Gable, US Army Air Corps. B-17
Gunner over Europe. |
|
George Gobel, Army Air Corps.
Instructor of fighter pilots. |
|
Peter Graves, US Army Air Corps. |
|
James Gregory, US Navy and US
Marines. |
|
Fred Gwynne, US Navy. Radioman. |
|
Buddy Hackett, US Army .
Anti-aircraft gunner. |
|
Sterling Hayden, US Marines and OSS.
Smuggled guns into Yugoslavia and
parachuted into Croatia. Awarded Silver
Star. |
|
Charlton Heston, US Army Air Corps.
Radio operator and aerial gunner on
a B-25 Aleutians. |
|
William Holden, US Army Air Corps. |
|
Rock Hudson, US Navy. Aircraft
mechanic in the Philippines. |
|
Brian Keith, US Marines.
Radioman/Gunner in dive bombers. |
|
George Kennedy, US Army. Enlisted
after Pearl Harbor. |
|
DeForest Kelley, US Army Air Corps. |
|
Jack Klugman, US Army. |
|
Ted Knight, US Army. Combat
Engineers. |
|
Harvey Korman, US Navy. |
|
Don Knotts, US Army. |
|
Karl Malden, US Army Air Corps. 8th
Air Force, NCO. |
|
Lee Marvin, US Marines. Sniper.
Wounded in action on Saipan. |
|
Walter Matthau, US Army Air Corps.
B-24 Radioman/Gunner and
Cryptographer. |
|
Victor Mature, US US Coast Guard. |
|
Burgess Meredith, US Army Air Corps. |
|
Ed McMahon, US Marines, Fighter
Pilot. |
|
Robert Mitchum, US Army. |
|
Robert Montgomery, US Navy. |
|
Audie Murphy, US Army. America's
most decorated soldier. |
|
Paul Newman, US Navy. Rear
Seat Radioman/Gunner torpedo bombers
of USS Bunker Hill. |
|
Hugh O'Brian, US Marines |
|
Jack Palance, US Army Air Corps.
Severely injured bailing out of a
burning B-24 bomber. |
|
Fess Parker, US Navy and US Marines.
Booted from Pilot Training for being
too tall, joined Marines as a Radio
Operator. |
|
Robert Preston, US Army Air Corps.
Intelligence Officer. |
|
Tyrone Power, US Marines, Transport
Pilot in the Pacific Theater. |
|
Ronald Reagan, US Army. 2nd Lt. in
the Cavalry Reserves before the war.
Due to poor vision, when the war
started he could not go overseas
with his unit. He then transferred
to the Army Air Corps Public
Relations Unit. |
|
Don Rickles, US Navy. Aboard USS
Cyrene. |
|
Jason Robards, US Navy. Was aboard
the USS Northampton when it sunk off
Guadalcanal |
|
Dale Robertson, US Army. Tank
Commander in North Africa under
Patton. Wounded twice. |
|
Cesar Romeo, UC Coast Guard. |
|
Mickey Rooney, US Army under Patton.
Bronze Star |
|
Soupy Sales, US Navy. Served on USS
Randall in the South Pacific. |
|
Telly Savalas, US Army. |
|
Randolph Scott, US Army. World War I |
|
Mickey Spillane, US Army Air Corps,
Fighter Pilot and later Instruction
Pilot. |
|
Rod Serling, US Army 11th Airborne
Division in the Pacific. |
|
Robert Stack, US Navy, Gunnery
Officer |
|
Rod Steiger, US Navy. |
|
Frank Sutton, US Army |
|
Forest Tucker, US Army |
|
Dennis Weaver, US Navy. Pilot |
|
Johnathan Winters, US Marine Corps.
Battleship USS Wisconsin and Carrier
USS Bon Homme Richard. Anti-aircraft
Gunner. Battle of Okinawa. |
|
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., US Army.
Severely wounded at Huertgen Forest.
Purple Heart. |
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