Famous Folks and WW2

[midnight Target]

one more..

Marine pilot stationed for a time on the CV Guadalcanal.

[midnight Target]

Here is a fun one...
Hedy Lamar..


No, she didn't serve, but she did co-invent a radio guidance system for torpedoes. Her idea of 'frequency hopping' was ahead of its time, and never adopted by the Navy.

[Bluedog]

What about Audey Murphy.
Errol Flyn's son was a combat photographer in Vietnam, wrong war for thread, but innerestin' all the same.

[FUNKED1]

Originally posted by Nash
Adds nothing. Subtracts much. It's basically verbal pollution.

Pot/Kettle/etc

[Murdr]

Originally posted by midnight Target
My info says Stewart was a B-17 pilot who flew 25 missions. His plane was named '4 Yanks and a Jerk'.

He instructed in AT-6, AT-9, and B-17 aircraft and flew bombardiers in the training school at Albuquerque, N. Mex.
In the fall of 1943, Stewart went to England as Commanding Officer of the 703d Bomb Squadron, equipped with B-24s.

He spent his entire combat tour assigned to B-24 Liberator units in the 8th Air Force, rising from squadron operations officer to wing commander.  

In his World War II years, Stewart flew 20 combat missions, among them the tough ones: Brunswick, Bremen, Frankfurt, Schweinfurt and Berlin. His wartime decorations included the Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster, four Air Medals, and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm.

[Murdr]

George Herbert Walker Bush

[mipoikel]

Mauno Koivisto (born 1923) was the president of Finland from 1982 to 1994.


At the beginning of the Winter War, when he was 16, he joined a field firefighter's unit. During the Continuation War, Koivisto served in the Infantry Detachment Törni, led by the later famous Lauri Törni.



Still with us..

[Murdr]

Yogi Berra - Machine Gunner on a LCSS Rocket boat providing close naval support for the Omaha Beach landing.

[Murdr]

Served during World War 2 as a truck driver and later as a tail-gunner on a B-29 bomber

[anonymous]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Here is a fun one...
Hedy Lamar..


No, she didn't serve, but she did co-invent a radio guidance system for torpedoes. Her idea of 'frequency hopping' was ahead of its time, and never adopted by the Navy.

first gunfire simulators were called hedy lamars. used by first special operations guys when operating behind enemy lines. set them off and run enemy thinks they taking fire hopefully and pauses to sort things out and not get shot. probably didnt work against german combat troops but security police types probably reacted as planned. youll love why they named them after her. they called them hedy lamars because "she has a similar effect on most men she stuns them and then causes panic in some and inability to react in most". thats not the exact quote but its close. been awhile since i was told the story.

[Jackal1]

Originally posted by Bluedog
What about Audey Murphy.
 

  His name is spelled Audie.
  The picture was taken on the set of the "This Is Your Life" radio program.  This was at the release of Audie`s book "To Hell And Back" that was later made into a movie with Audie playing himself.
  The tall guy in the back row is my Dad. He is famous only to me and my family, but is my favorite hero of WWII.
 
 

[Murdr]

Mel Brooks was in the Combat Engineers and saw action in the Ardennes in the "Battle of the Bulge"


In 1942, Matthau enlisted in the United States Army Air Force as radio cryptographer in a heavy bomber unit of the U.S. Army Air Corps in Europe. He served as a radio operator and gunner in England, France, Holland, Belgium, and Germany and won six battle stars.



2 Gene's
Roddenberry & Autry
C-46/C-47 Pilots


Rod Serling-Paratrooper.  New Guinea, Philippines.  Purple Heart, ACM, NDM, Philippines Liberation Medal (w/battle star)


James Doohan.  Wounded during Normandy invasion.  Retrained as a pilot artillery observer and earned commision.


Jackie Coogan-Glider pilot in the invasion of Burma.


Charlton Heston, USAAF Sgt, B-25 radioman/gunner 11th AF

[-tronski-]

Murray Walker, the voice of F1 - British tanker in Europe



Charles "Bud" Tingwell,  Great Australian actor (Breaker Morant, The Desert Rats) flew PR Spitfires in the Middle East, Mosquito's in Borneo



Sir Richard Todd, Para at Pegasus Bridge (played Maj Howard in the Longest Day)

 Tronsky

[midnight Target]

Christopher Lee


RAF pilot decorated by 4 nations.

[Murdr]

Cool MT.  I didnt know about Lee