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Entertainment Industry News & Views
How Different
Hollywood is Today as Compared to Yester-Year
In
contrast to the ideals, opinions and feelings of today's "Hollywonk"
the real actors of yester-year loved the United States. They
had both class and integrity. With the advent of World War II many of our actors
went to fight rather than stand and rant against this country we all love.
They
gave up their wealth, position and fame to become service men & women, many
as simple "enlisted men".
This
page lists but a few, but from this group of only 18 men came over 70 medals in
honor of their valor, spanning from Bronze Stars, Silver Stars, Distinguish
Service Cross', Purple Hearts and one Congressional Medal of Honor.
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<<Alec
Guinness (Star Wars) operated a British Royal Navy landing craft on D-Day.
James Doohan ("Scotty" on Star Trek) landed in Normandy with the
U. S. Army on D-Day.>> |
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<<Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was an R. A. F. pilot who was shot
down, held prisoner and tortured by the Germans.
Charlton Heston was an Army Air Corps Sergeant in Kodiak.>> |
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<<David Niven was a Sandhurst graduate and Lt. Colonel of the British Commandos in
Normandy.
Charles Durning was a U. S. Army Ranger at Normandy earning a Silver Star and
awarded the Purple Heart.>> |
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<<James Stewart Entered the Army Air Force as a private and worked his way to the
rank of Colonel. During World War II, Stewart served as a bomber pilot,
his service record crediting him with leading more than 20 missions over
Germany, and taking part in hundreds of air strikes during his tour of duty.
Stewart earned the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, France's Croix de
Guerre, and 7 Battle Stars during World War II. In peace time, Stewart
continued to be an active member of the Air Force as a reservist, reaching the
rank of Brigadier General before retiring in the late 1950s.
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Clark
Gable (Mega-Movie Star when war broke out) Although he was beyond the
draft age at the time the U.S. entered WW II, Clark Gable enlisted as a
private in the AAF on Aug. 12, 1942 at Los Angeles. He attended the
Officers' Candidate School at Miami Beach, Fla. and graduated as a second
lieutenant on Oct. 28, 1942. He then attended aerial gunnery school
and in Feb. 1943 he was assigned to the 351st Bomb Group at Polebrook
where flew operational missions over Europe in B-17s. Capt. Gable
returned to the U.S. in Oct. 1943 and was relieved from active duty as a
major on Jun. 12, 1944 at his own request, since he was over-age for
combat.>>
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<<Audie Murphy, little 5'5" tall 110 pound guy from Texas who played cowboy
parts?
He was the most decorated serviceman of WWII and earned: Medal of Honor,
Distinguished Service Cross, 2 Silver Star Medals, Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze
Star Medals with "V", 2 Purple Hearts, U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian
Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, 2 Distinguished Unit Emblems, American
Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with One Silver
Star, Four Bronze Service Stars (representing nine campaigns) and one Bronze
Arrowhead (representing assault landing at Sicily and Southern France) World War
II Victory Medal Army of Occupation Medal with Germany Clasp, Armed Forces
Reserve Medal, Combat Infantry Badge, Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar, Expert
Badge with Bayonet Bar, French Fourragere in Colors of the Croix de Guerre,
French Legion of Honor, Grade of Chevalier, French Croix de Guerre With Silver
Star, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Medal of Liberated France, Belgian Croix
de Guerre 1940 Palm.
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<<Earnest Borgnine was a U. S. Navy Gunners Mate 1935-1945.
Tyrone Power (an established movie star when Pearl Harbor was bombed) joined the
U.S. Marines, was a pilot flying supplies into, and wounded Marines out of, Iwo
Jima and Okinawa.>>
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<<Charles Bronson was a tail gunner in the Army Air Corps, more specifically on
B-29s in the 20th Air Force out of Guam, Tinian, and Saipan
George C. Scott was a decorated U. S. Marine.>>
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<<Eddie Albert (Green Acres TV) was awarded a Bronze Star for his heroic action as
a U. S. Naval officer aiding Marines at the horrific battle on the island of
Tarawa in the Pacific Nov. 1943.
Brian
Keith served as a U.S. Marine rear gunner in several actions against the
Japanese on Rabal in the Pacific.>>
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<<Lee Marvin was a U.S. Marine on Saipan during the Marianas campaign when he was
wounded earning the Purple Heart.
John Russell: In 1942, he enlisted in the Marine Corps where he received a
battlefield commission and was wounded and highly decorated for valor at
Guadalcanal.>>
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<<Robert Ryan was a U. S. Marine who served with the O. S. S. in
Yugoslavia.
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Interesting
comparison to many of those in Hollywood today like Michael Moore and his ilk
with their anti-Americanism as they bite the hand that feeds them. Can you imagine
these stars of yester-year saying they hate our flag, making anti-war speeches,
marching in anti-American parades and saying they hate our president?
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