It was emailed to me by a friend. Only people our age, since todays people dont have any idea that these Men were Hollywood actors, who served in WWII, and thats a pity. Ronald Reagan, US Army Air Corps. Captain, volunteered for the Duration of the War. Sterling Hayden, US Marines and OSS. Smuggled guns into Yugoslavia and parachuted into Croatia. James Stewart, (Its a Wonderful Life) US Army Air Corps. Volunteered for Duration of War, as a Private.Trained as a Bomber pilot, rose to the rank of General. Kirk Douglas, US Navy. Sub-chaser in the Pacific. Wounded in action and medically discharged. Robert Mitchum, US Army. Dale Robertson, US Army. Tank Commander in North Africa under Patton.Wounded twice. Henry Fonda, US Navy. Destroyer USS Satterlee. Lee Marvin US Marines Corps Sniper. Wounded in action on Saipan. Buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Sec. 7A next to Joe Louis. Art Carney, US Army. Wounded on Normandy beach, D-Day. Limped for the rest of his life. Rod Steiger, US Navy. Was aboard one of the ships that launched the Doolittle Raid The First bombing run on Tokyo, Japan! BIG BALLS Mickey Rooney, US Army under Patton. Bronze Star. Denver Pyle, US Navy. Wounded in the Battle of Guadalcanal. Medically discharged. Neville Brand, US Army, Europe. Was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Tyrone Power, US Marines. Transport pilot in the Pacific Theater. Charlton Heston, US Army Air Corps. Radio operator and aerial gunner on a B-25, Aleutians. James Arness, US Army. As an infantryman, he was severely wounded at Anzio, Italy. Efram Zimbalist, Jr., US Army. Purple Heart for a severe wound received at Huertgen Forest. Gene Autry, US Army Air Corps. Crewman on transports that ferried supplies over The Hump in the China-Burma-India Theater. Wiliam Holden, US Army Air Corps. Alan Hale Jr, US Coast Guard. Tom Bosley, US Navy. Claude Akins, US Army. Signal Corps., Burma and the Philippines. Chuck Connors, US Army. Tank-warfare instructor. Robert Stack, US Navy. Gunnery Instructor. Brian Keith, US Marines. Radioman/Gunner in Dauntless dive-bombers. Fess Parker, US Marines. Charles Durning. US Army. Landed at Normandy on D-Day. Shot multiple times. Awarded the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Raymond Burr, US Navy. Shot in the stomach on Okinawa and medically discharged. Clark Gable, US Army Air Corps. B-17 gunner over Europe. Charles Bronson, US Army Air Corps. B-29 gunner, wounded in action. Jack Palance, US Army Air Corps. Severely injured bailing out of a burning B-24 bomber. 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. Randolph Scott. Tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected due to injuries sustained in US Army, World War 1. John Wayne. Declared 4F medically unfit due to pre-existing injuries, he nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times (Army, Navy and Marine Corps.) so he gets honorable mention. And of course we have Audie Murphy, Americas 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. Would someone please remind me again how many of todays Hollywood elite put their careers on hold to enlist in Iraq or Afghanistan? The only one who even comes close 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 killed in action 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. Ladies and Gentlemen, I submit to you that this is not the America today that it was sixty years ago. And I, for one, am saddened.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:54:57 +0000
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