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Hollywood Heroes of Yesteryear
« on: February 01, 2014, 09:19:24 AM »
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Heroes! Saving this list!
 
We’ll never again see another list like this!
 
Worth going over this list, however the younger generations may not recognize many of the movie stars' names.

Nick Adams, US Coast Guard.

Humphrey Bogart, US Coast Guard.

Beau Bridges, US Coast Guard.
 
Stewart Hayden, US Marines and OSS. Smuggled guns into Yugoslavia and parachuted into Croatia.

James Stewart, US Army Air Corps. Bomber pilot who rose to the rank of General.

Ernest Borgnine, US Navy. Gunners Mate 1c, destroyer USS Lamberton.

Ed McMahon, US Marines. Fighter Pilot. (Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea as well.)

Telly Savalas, US Army.

Walter Matthau, US Army Air Corps., B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer.

Steve Forrest, US Army. Wounded, Battle of the Bulge.

William Randolph Hearst III, US Coast Guard.

Jonathan Winters, USMC. Battleship USS Wisconsin and Carrier USS Bon Homme Richard. Anti-aircraft gunner, Battle of Okinawa.

Paul Newman, US Navy Rear seat gunner/radioman, torpedo bombers of USS Bunker Hill.

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. Battlefield Commission.

Henry Fonda, US Navy. Destroyer USS Satterlee.

John Carroll, US Army Air Corps. Pilot in North Africa. Broke his back in a crash.

Lee Marvin US Marines. Sniper. Wounded in action on Saipan. Buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Sec. 7A next to Greg Boyington and Joe Louis.

Art Carney, US Army. Wounded on Normandy beach, D-Day. Limped for the rest of his life.

Wayne Morris, US Navy fighter pilot, USS Essex. Downed seven Japanese fighters.

Rod Steiger, US Navy. Was aboard one of the ships that launched the Doolittle Raid.

Tony Curtis, US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus. In Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan.

Larry Storch. US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony Curtis.

Forrest Tucker, US Army. Enlisted as a private, rose to Lieutenant.

Robert Montgomery, US Navy.

George Kennedy, US Army. Enlisted after Pearl Harbor, stayed in sixteen years.

Mickey Rooney, US Army under Patton. Bronze Star.

Denver Pyle, US Navy. Wounded in the Battle of Guadalcanal. Medically discharged.

Burgess Meredith, US Army Air Corps.

Victor Mature, US Coast Guard.

Walter Sande, US Coast Guard.

Robert Stevens, US Coast Guard.

DeForest Kelley, US Army Air Corps.

Neville Brand, US Army, Europe. Was awarded the Silver 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.

Danny Aiello, US Army. Lied about his age to enlist at 16. Served three years.

Rudy Valee, US Coast Guard.

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.

Mickey Spillane, US Army Air Corps, Fighter Pilot and later Instructor Pilot.

Rod Serling. US Army. 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific. He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila.

Lloyd Bridges, US Coast Guard.

Sid Caesar, US Coast Guard.

Gower Champion, US Coast Guard.

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.

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.

William Conrad, US Army Air Corps. Fighter Pilot.

Walter Cronkite, US Coast Guard.

Jack Dempsey, US Coast Guard.

Marlene Dietrich, US Coast Guard SPAR.

Buddy Ebson, US Coast Guard.

Jack Klugman, US Army.

Frank Sutton, US Army. Took part in 14 assault landings, including Leyte, Luzon, Bataan and Corregidor.

Jackie Coogan, US Army Air Corps. Volunteered for gliders and flew troops and materials into Burma behind enemy lines.

Tom Bosley, US Navy.

Claude Akins, US Army. Signal Corps., Burma and the Philippines.

Chuck Connors, US Army. Tank-warfare instructor.

Harry Carey Jr., US Navy.

Arthur Fiedler, US Coast Guard.

Charles Gibson, US Coast Guard.

Arthur Godfrey, US Coast Guard

Mel Brooks, US Army. Combat Engineer. Saw action in the Battle of the Bulge.

Robert Altman, US Army Air Corps. B-24 Co-Pilot.

Pat Hingle, US Navy. Destroyer USS Marshall.

Fred Gwynne, US Navy. Radioman.

Karl Malden, US Army Air Corps. 8th Air Force, NCO.

Earl Holliman. US Navy. Lied about his age to enlist. Discharged after a year when they Navy found out.

Tom Waits, US Coast Guard.

Rock Hudson, US Navy. Aircraft mechanic, the Philippines.

Harvey Korman, US Navy.

Aldo Ray. US Navy. UDT frogman, Okinawa.

Don Knotts, US Army, Pacific Theater.

Gale Gorden, US Coast Guard.

Don Rickles, US Navy aboard USS Cyrene.

Harry Dean Stanton, US Navy. Served aboard an LST in the Battle of Okinawa.

Robert Stack, US Navy. Gunnery Instructor.

Soupy Sales, US Navy. Served on USS Randall in the South Pacific.

Lee Van Cleef, US Navy. Served aboard a sub chaser then a mine sweeper.

Clifton James, US Army, South Pacific. Was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart.

Ted Knight, US Army, Combat Engineers.

Jack Warden, US Navy, 1938-1942, then US Army, 1942-1945. 101st Airborne Division.

Don Adams. US Marines. Wounded on Guadalcanal, then served as a Drill Instructor.

James Gregory, US Navy and US Marines.

Brian Keith, US Marines. Radioman/Gunner in Dauntless dive-bombers.

Wynn Handman, US Coast Guard.

William Hopper, US Coast Guard.

Robert Horton, US Coast Guard.

Fess Parker, US Navy and US Marines. Booted from pilot training for being too tall, joined Marines as a radio operator.

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.

Raymond Burr, US Navy. Shot in the stomach on Okinawa and medically discharged.

Hugh O'Brian, US Marines.

Robert Ryan, US Marines.

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.

Clark Gable, US Army Air Corps. B-17 gunner over Europe.

Charles Bronson, US Army Air Corps. B-29 gunner, wounded in action.

Peter Graves, US Army Air Corps.

Buddy Hackett, US Army anti-aircraft gunner.

Victor Mature, US Coast Guard, USCGC Storis, USS Admiral HT Mayo.

Jack Palance, US Army Air Corps. Severely injured bailing out of a burning B-24 bomber.

Robert Preston, US Army Air Corps. Intelligence Officer.

Gig Young, US Coast Guard.

Patrick Wayne, US Coast Guard.

Tab Hunter, US Coast Guard.

Cesar Romero, US Coast Guard. Coast Guard. Participated in the invasions of Tinian and Saipan on the assault transport USS Cavalier.

Norman Fell, US Army Air Corps., Tail Gunner, Pacific Theater.

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.

Steve Reeves, US Army, Philippines.

Dennis Weaver, US Navy. Pilot.

Robert Taylor, US Navy. Instructor Pilot.

Randolph Scott. Tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected due to injuries sustained in US Army, World War One.

Victor Jory, US Coast Guard.

Guy Madison, US Coast Guard.

Monty Markham, US Coast Guard.

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.

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.

Elvis Presley, US Army. Sergeant.

Bod Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), Marine Corps, Served with Lee Marvin, Iwo Jima.

Arnold Palmer, US Coast Guard. Yeoman, Third Class.

And of course we have 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.

 

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 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 died in 2004.
 
This is not the America today that it was seventy years ago.

God Bless every one of them!  ::victory::  ::clapping::
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Re: Hollywood Heroes of Yesteryear
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2014, 09:56:13 AM »
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Alan Hale Jr, US Coast Guard
And later skipper of the Minnow with Gilligan

Seriously, that's a great list.
Thanks for sharing
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Re: Hollywood Heroes of Yesteryear
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2014, 10:05:34 AM »
 ::USA:: Thanks for sharing, looking at today's rejects currently being bandied about as role-models, it really puts things in perspective on how far this country has slidden backwards.
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Re: Hollywood Heroes of Yesteryear
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2014, 11:49:38 AM »
I believe Elvis Presley deserves to be on that list, too.
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Re: Hollywood Heroes of Yesteryear
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2014, 11:52:06 AM »
Quote from: Pandora on February 01, 2014, 11:49:38 AM
I believe Elvis Presley deserves to be on that list, too.

Fred Rodgers also.
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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2014, 12:06:16 PM »
Quote from: IronDioPriest on February 01, 2014, 11:52:06 AM
Quote from: Pandora on February 01, 2014, 11:49:38 AM
I believe Elvis Presley deserves to be on that list, too.

Fred Rodgers also.

As in "Mr. Rodgers"?
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Re: Hollywood Heroes of Yesteryear
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2014, 12:09:23 PM »
Quote from: IronDioPriest on February 01, 2014, 12:07:20 PM
Quote from: Pandora on February 01, 2014, 12:06:16 PM
Quote from: IronDioPriest on February 01, 2014, 11:52:06 AM
Quote from: Pandora on February 01, 2014, 11:49:38 AM
I believe Elvis Presley deserves to be on that list, too.

Fred Rodgers also.

As in "Mr. Rodgers"?

Yup.

Oops! I just doublechecked... apparently his service in the military is an urban legend. My bad!
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Re: Hollywood Heroes of Yesteryear
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2014, 12:25:33 PM »
I added one or two to the list. From now on, I'll add them in followup posts. Rusty may also add some if he's able to locate a few we talked about.
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« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2014, 01:00:27 PM »
I'll add Elvis right now.
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« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2014, 01:30:25 PM »
In trying to find military info on Fred Rogers, also saw he was from Latrobe, Penn. and that reminded me of another from Latrobe -- none other than a legend of golf, Arnold Palmer.  'Arnie' dropped out of Wake Forest early and joined the Coast Guard in 1950 [Korean War then] becoming a E4 Yeoman. [As pictured]



[somewhere I read a story about Palmer; besides being a ['fair' golfer'{yes smart a*s remark} when a close friend of his died he got out of service at the end of his enlistment, went back to Wake Forest, did not graduate but did become a pro golfer in 1954 [surprise,surprise} - I think that served him well !!]
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« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2014, 01:57:16 PM »
I'll add Palmer.

Fred Rodgers is an urban legend.
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« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2014, 02:34:38 PM »
Hope I don't duplicate, mine are all former Coast Guard unless noted;

Nick Adams - actor
Humphrey Bogart - 1944 Also volunteered the use of his yacht {Santana}
Beau Bridges - actor - 2 week reserve duty at Alameda one year while I was stationed there.
Jeff Bridges - same as above.
Lloyd Bridges - actor
Sid Caesar - comedian
Gower Champion - actor/dancer
Walter Cronkite - newscaster, USCG reserve/Auxiliary
Jack Dempsey - Boxer
Marlene Dietrich - actress - SPAR
Buddy Ebsen - actor
Arthur Fielder - orchestra conductor [Boston pops]
Charles Gibson - newscaster
Arthur Godfrey - entertainer
Gale Gordon - actor
Alan Hale jr. - actor
Wynn Handman - actor
William Hopper - actor
Robert Horton - actor
Tab Hunter - actor
Victor Jory - actor
Guy Madison - actor
Mont Markham - actor
Victor Mature - CG's post
Walter Sande - actor
Robert Stevens - actor
Rudy Vallee - entertainer
Tom Waits - actor
Patrick Wayne - John Waynes son - was at Alameda for boot camp just before I was transferred there.
Gig Young - actor

And a none actor, but famous family; William Randolph Hearst III - [Pattie Hearst is his sister] first met him doing dental exam for boot camp, was friend of his company CO, then he stayed at Alameda as perm, party after boot camp when I really go to know him - invited to family ranch at San Simeon to hunt.

Many other famous former Coast Guard, But others not during any war time I know of.
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Re: Hollywood Heroes of Yesteryear
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2014, 04:03:31 PM »
There are some on your list that I had forgotten.  ::oldman::   ::whatgives::   They're all added to the OP. I don't think there are any duplicates, but I was going cross-eyed checking things. So if anyone finds a duplicate, please let me know.
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« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2014, 04:15:16 PM »
Harry Dean Stanton is on there twice.
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« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2014, 04:42:44 PM »
Thanks. Now to find the names and delete one of them.

DONE!

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« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2014, 09:23:43 PM »
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« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2014, 08:32:39 AM »
Oddly, even the lefties joined the military back then.
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« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2014, 08:42:24 AM »
Quote from: AlanS on February 02, 2014, 08:32:39 AM
Oddly, even the lefties joined the military back then.

I know. When was that corner turned?
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« Reply #19 on: February 02, 2014, 10:19:41 AM »
Quote from: oldcoastie6468 on February 02, 2014, 08:42:24 AM
Quote from: AlanS on February 02, 2014, 08:32:39 AM
Oddly, even the lefties joined the military back then.

I know. When was that corner turned?

Vietnam.

Robert Stack is on there twice, too.
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