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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: midnight Target on October 17, 2004, 09:00:44 PM
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Like This guy (http://www.lynnpdesign.com/classicmovies/niven/niven51.jpg)
Was a graduate of Sandhurst class of '27 (British version of West Point) served in a British commando unit and is one of only 25 brits to be awarded the Legion of Merit by the US.
or this guy
(http://www.midatlantic.net/8x10/henry-fonda.jpg)
Who enlisted and served as a Lt. on the destroyer Saterlee, and was awarded a Bronze Star
one more (http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/owlive/img/dec03/whodied30_carney_big.jpg)
Who was wounded on the beach at Normandy without ever firing a shot, and always limped from the injury.
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(http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/js-4.jpg)
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/js.htm
Apparently he even flew one combat mission in Vietnam...
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Certifiable comic genius
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/384_1098066417_spike1.jpg)
It was in North Africa, during WWII, as Gunner Milligan, 954024, that Spike first met Harry Secombe.
The circumstances of their meeting were only narrowly non-fatal. Milligan's 25-pounder gun jumped out of its placement due to recoil, and ran down the hill narrowly missing another gun unit. Spike went down the hill and asked, "Has anyone seen a gun?" One of the men in the other gun unit said, "What colour?" It was Harry Secombe.
"I told you I was ill" - his epitaph.
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(http://www.cpinternet.com/~tlong1//eddiealbert.jpg)
"Eddie Albert was a genuine war hero. A thousand Americans and 4,800 Japanese lives were lost in bloody battle at Tarawa, a Pacific island, and Albert fought in the first wave of the three day combat. Afterward, he was ordered to salvage usable military equipment off the battlefield, and won his Purple Heart for finding and rescuing wounded men instead, who'd been abandoned under heavy fire."
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(http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/lee-marvin-gravesite-7a-062803.jpg)
RIP
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So, where's Sean Penn in all of this?
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(http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-coastguardsmen/Cesar-Romero-1.jpg) (http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-coastguardsmen/Victor-Mature.jpg)
Uncle Jed(http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/famous-coastguardsmen/Buddy-Ebsen.jpg)
Blake Edwards(http://www.sineport.com/oscar/2004/blakeedwards.jpg)
Semper Paratas!
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Famous B-24/PB4Y Crew Members (http://www.b24bestweb.com/b24bestweb-Famous.htm)
B-24 United States Army Air Forces
(Liberator)
ROBERT ALTMAN (B-24 Co-Pilot) - Producer/Director/Screenwriter
LLOYD M. BENTSEN Jr. (B-24 Pilot) - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
GEORGE S. BROWN (B-24 Pilot) - Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
JOHN "RED" COCHRAN (B-24 Pilot) - Pro Football Player/Coach/Scout
SABU DASTIGIR (B-24 Ball Turret Gunner) - Actor
FRED FISKE (B-24 Radioman/Gunner) - Senior Commentator
RUSSELL JOHNSON (B24 Crew Member) - Actor
BEIRNE LAY Jr. (B-24 Pilot) - Screenwriter/Producer/Author
DELBERT MANN (B-24 Pilot) - Director
WALTER MATTHAU (B-24 Radioman/Gunner) - Actor/Director/Producer
GEORGE McGOVERN (B-24 Pilot) - United States Senator
GEORGE OLESEN (B-24 Pilot) - Cartoonist
JACK PALANCE (B-24 Pilot in Training) - Actor
JACK SMIGHT (B-24 Navigator) - Director/Producer
JIMMY STEWART (B-24 Pilot) - Actor
DAVID WESTHEIMER (B-24 Navigator) - Screen Writer/Author
JAMES C. WRIGHT, JR. (B-24 Bombardier) - Speaker of the House
(PB4Y-1 - "Liberator" Split Tail) / (PB4Y-2 - "Privateer" Single Tail)
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY Jr. (PB4Y Pilot) - Brother: John F. Kennedy
TYRONE POWER (PB4Y Pilot) - Actor
ROBERT STACK (PB4Y Gunnery Instructor) - Actor
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Originally posted by Toad
So, where's Sean Penn in all of this?
Why would you bother saying something like that in this thread? Don't answer, and hopefully yer post and my response gets ignored.
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Cuz' I think Penn is puerile, especially in comparison?
Where are the Snowden's of yesteryear?
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Originally posted by Nash
Why would you bother saying something like that in this thread? Don't answer, and hopefully yer post and my response gets ignored.
hed say it to show the difference between top actors then and now maybe? to make people wonder when top actors all of a sudden started getting the idea that they have a better grasp on the "real" world than anyone else? pretty interesting to compare then and now sometimes.
rod serling saw combat as a paratrooper in world war two.
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How very Rip-like. Adds nothing. Subtracts much. It's basically verbal pollution.
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Guys even I, EVEN I, resisted the temptation to turn this into a Sean Penn thread....
Please lets move on...
Who has a next famous person who fought in WW2?
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good man.
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Originally posted by Murdr
Famous B-24/PB4Y Crew Members (http://www.b24bestweb.com/b24bestweb-Famous.htm)
B-24 United States Army Air Forces
(Liberator)
JIMMY STEWART (B-24 Pilot) - Actor
My info says Stewart was a B-17 pilot who flew 25 missions. His plane was named '4 Yanks and a Jerk'.
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one more..
(http://www.varietyclubofmanitoba.ca/Ed%20mcMahon.JPG)
Marine pilot stationed for a time on the CV Guadalcanal.
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Here is a fun one...
Hedy Lamar..
(http://www.rtspecialties.com/tobar/conex1/hedy4.jpg)
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.
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What about Audey Murphy.
Errol Flyn's son was a combat photographer in Vietnam, wrong war for thread, but innerestin' all the same.
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Originally posted by Nash
Adds nothing. Subtracts much. It's basically verbal pollution.
Pot/Kettle/etc
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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.
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(http://www.military.com/pics/MLbush.jpg)
George Herbert Walker Bush
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(http://www.yle.fi/linnanjuhlat/galleria/isot/125.jpg)
(http://www.tuomioja.org/koiv.jpg)
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..
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(http://www.yogi-berra.com/images/navyfather.jpg)
Yogi Berra - Machine Gunner on a LCSS Rocket boat providing close naval support for the Omaha Beach landing.
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(http://www.loeschmann.net/mediac/400_0/media/bronson-charles0.jpg)
Served during World War 2 as a truck driver and later as a tail-gunner on a B-29 bomber
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Here is a fun one...
Hedy Lamar..
(http://www.rtspecialties.com/tobar/conex1/hedy4.jpg)
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. :)
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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.
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/22_1098084040_dad.jpg)
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(http://www.mel-brooks.com/mel-brooks.jpg)
Mel Brooks was in the Combat Engineers and saw action in the Ardennes in the "Battle of the Bulge"
(http://www.crazy4cinema.com/Actor/imgs/matthau.jpg)
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.
(http://www.pathcom.com/~boby/gif/gene.jpg)
(http://www.cowboypal.com/gndeath.jpg)
2 Gene's
Roddenberry & Autry
C-46/C-47 Pilots
(http://www.tuxedomask.com/SailorMoonExpanded/one_step_beyond/rod_serling.gif)
Rod Serling-Paratrooper. New Guinea, Philippines. Purple Heart, ACM, NDM, Philippines Liberation Medal (w/battle star)
(http://www.lightspeedfineart.com/Photos/DoohanA.jpg)
James Doohan. Wounded during Normandy invasion. Retrained as a pilot artillery observer and earned commision.
(http://www.monmouth.com/~solarized/superstars/AthruM/coogan1.jpg)
Jackie Coogan-Glider pilot in the invasion of Burma.
(http://www.filmup.com/curiosita/img/20000801a.jpg)
Charlton Heston, USAAF Sgt, B-25 radioman/gunner 11th AF
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(http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/microsites/murray_walker/images/murray_walker_cover.jpg)
Murray Walker, the voice of F1 - British tanker in Europe
(http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/tingwell/img/tingwell_1.jpg)
Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Great Australian actor (Breaker Morant, The Desert Rats) flew PR Spitfires in the Middle East, Mosquito's in Borneo
(http://www.mustav.co.uk/images/todd_thinking.jpg)
Sir Richard Todd, Para at Pegasus Bridge (played Maj Howard in the Longest Day)
Tronsky
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Christopher Lee
(http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/17/film.rings.saruman.ap/story.lee.jpg)
RAF pilot decorated by 4 nations.
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Cool MT. I didnt know about Lee
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Thanks for the correction Jackal.
And hey, now your Dad is famous to us O Club lurkers too :)
Sort of relevent to MT's post.....JRR Tolkein, the guy who wrote The Lord of the Rings, was a WWI infantryman, some say you can see the effect the war had on him in his writings....ie the LOTR story gets darker and more menacing in the parts he wrote post war.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Here is a fun one...
Hedy Lamar..
(http://www.rtspecialties.com/tobar/conex1/hedy4.jpg)
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.
She did indeed serve though perhaps not in traditional sense.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Christopher Lee
(http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/17/film.rings.saruman.ap/story.lee.jpg)
RAF pilot decorated by 4 nations.
lord of the geeks makes him ghey. I don't care how decorated he is.
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Originally posted by midnight Target
Here is a fun one...
Hedy Lamar..
(http://www.rtspecialties.com/tobar/conex1/hedy4.jpg)
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.
Her frequency hopping idea is one of the foundation stones of cellular telephone technology.
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Cant Forget Mcale
(http://www.iwvpa.net/hollywood/images/borgnine.jpg)
Earnest Borgnine was a Unites States Navy Gunners Mate 1935-1945
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And lets not forget Art "Fatso" Donovan
(http://www.wideright.com/images/fatso.gif)
USMC 1942-45
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Image of Jimmy Stewart while he was Ops Officer for the 453rd BG. Walter Matthau was also a member of the 453rd.
Dan/Slack
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/169_1098252231_jstewart453rd.jpg)
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(http://www.lebenslust.at/lieben/archiv/behaart/img/connery.gif) HYLANDER!!^^^^
(http://www.crazyabouttv.com/Images/macgyver.jpg)
This guy made the first a-bomb with shoe string and a cheese grader^^^^^
(http://knight-rider.w.interia.pl/gfx/knight.jpg)
British radio operator in ww2^^^^
(http://www.oz.dreadedned.com/ecards/pics/think/0207.jpg)
^^^^^FUBAR!!
(http://www.whatsbetter.com/static/images/2450.jpg)
PREPARE TO DIE!
(http://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/MMPH/247171.jpg)
RAFE IS TEH MAN!
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Originally posted by Toad
So, where's Sean Penn in all of this?
Here he is: ;)
(http://www.eskimo.com/~toates/malick/trl/laugh.jpg)
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Lt. Jackie Robinson
US Army
(http://espn-att.starwave.com/i/sportscentury/inline/jrobinson.jpg)
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Woody Guthrie of course
"Moved by his passion against fascism, during World War II, Woody served in both the Merchant Marine and the Army, shipping out to sea on several occasions with his buddies Cisco Houston and Jimmy Longhi. In one of many anti-Fascist songs written during the war, Woody tells us:
We were seamen three, / Cisco, Jimmy and me
Shipped out to beat the fascists / Across the land and sea." (http://www.woodyguthrie.org/images/wg-carsonhighres_1.jpg)
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Fashion Designer Bill Blass was in the covert 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, 603rd Engineer Camouflage Battalion.
In 1943 he heard about the search for camouflage specialists and enlisted. The book "Secret Soldiers" was written after this unit. They had to keep it hush-hush for 50 years.
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Guys even I, EVEN I, resisted the temptation to turn this into a Sean Penn thread....
Please lets move on...
Who has a next famous person who fought in WW2?
Charles Durning, the guy was everywhere, from Omaha Beach to Sicily to
France was one ofim that got away at Malmedy...
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Here...
Originally posted by Darkish
Certifiable comic genius
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/384_1098066417_spike1.jpg)
It was in North Africa, during WWII, as Gunner Milligan, 954024, that Spike first met Harry Secombe.
The circumstances of their meeting were only narrowly non-fatal. Milligan's 25-pounder gun jumped out of its placement due to recoil, and ran down the hill narrowly missing another gun unit. Spike went down the hill and asked, "Has anyone seen a gun?" One of the men in the other gun unit said, "What colour?" It was Harry Secombe.
"I told you I was ill" - his epitaph.
Hehehe, I am reading his stuff and it's hilarious.
Well, anyway, wannt some FAMOUS AND IN AVIATION?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/Jimmy_Stewart_getting_medal.jpg
AND:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Clark_Gable_8th-AF-Britain1943.jpg
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Then here's an actual commando, who was at Malta and in Normandy
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3e/DavidNiven.jpg)
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lol, do the dead links at an old thread like this one get buried in the tomb of the unknows?
i maked this thread (http://hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=192647)
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Actually the little red x in the first post is David Niven.
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Clark Gable flew combat missions on B-17s making training films for the Army Air Corp to train gunners. I don't believe he flew 25, but he did have combat time.
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Wasn't Ted Williams a Corsair pilot ?
Bronk
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IIRC the some of the Clark Gable flight film is in Combat America available for free fast download at archive.org (along with a 3 gig mpeg of The Fighting Lady in it's entirety & a ton of other great stuff including weekly movie newsreels for the whole of the 1940s & 1950s).
Ted Williams flew wingman for John Glenn in the Korean War in F9Fs, dont know about his 2nd world war combat record, but i want too...do know that he flew F4Us in FLA
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Originally posted by Toad
Cuz' I think Penn is puerile, especially in comparison?
Where are the Snowden's of yesteryear?
Nice Heller allusion Toad.
Regards,
hap
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Decorated after naval ops. Thought dead for a while:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/John_F_Kennedy_cropped.jpg)
And this one was a POW in Dresden when it was bombed;
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Vonnegut.jpg)
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And here is James Bond's dad, - commander Ian Flemming, British Naval intelligence:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Ian_Fleming.jpg)
Then Alec Guinness, British Navy guy, was at Sicily and then at the Balkans:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Obiwankenobi.jpg)
Here's a more tricky one. Gert Fröbe was hiding jews from the Gestapo at the end of the war Mostly known as Goldfinger:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/GertFrobe007.jpg)
And more Villains, Lee Van Cleef was in the US Navy:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/LeeVanCleef.JPG)
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(http://www.comedy-zone.net/images/people/comedians/sellers-peter.jpg)
The Great Peter Sellers ... Was an Airman in the royal air force during ww2, R.I.P.
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Yup, he was.
Denhom Elliot was also an airman, and ended up as a POW.
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iirc Vonnegut describes himself as amongst the worst soldiers in US military history.
expensive training & deployment, captured almost immediately.
i'd bet DoD's share of his income taxes from Slaughterhouse Five paid him off, though...
unfunny Washington Post humor columnist Art Buchwald was ground crew for a USMC Corsair squadron & wrote the squadron newsletter The U-Man Comedy.[/I]
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(http://www.roalddahlfans.com/pictures/picture5.jpg)
Roald Dahl, Childrens author and Hurricane pilot.
"1941 – This photograph was taken a few months before Dahl's 25th birthday. At the time, he was rejoining his squadron after having crashed in Libya a year earlier. That incident, recounted in Going Solo and Dahl's first story "Shot Down Over Libya", resulted in his later discharge from the RAF due to head injuries."
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Ian Smith, former premier of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Spitfire pilot. (Not a hero of mine I hasten to add!)
"Following the outbreak of World War II, Smith joined the Royal Rhodesian Air
Force and after he had completed his flying training, he was seconded to the Royal Air Force in the rank of Pilot Officer. He served with distinction in the Royal Air Force at Pembrey. On 4 October 1943, his plane crashed on takeoff resulting in Smith suffering burn and facial injuries (he received plastic surgery and half of his face was to remain paralyzed)."(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Smithy.jpg)
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Joseph Heller, Author of Catch 22.
"After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941, Heller joined the Twelfth Air Force. He was stationed in Corsica, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. "
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Let's go Royalty:
The great BoB pilot Peter Townsend, both known for his BoB career and his affair as a divorcee with princess Margareth:
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1095000/images/_1099594_townsend2.jpg)
And of course, - Louis Mountbatten, the commander of the famous HMS Kelly:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Mountbatten.jpg)
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Oh, A B-24 Co-Pilot
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/RobertAltman.jpg)
Named Robert Altman. RIP.
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If you can handle the music, here's a page with bookoo names.
Hollywood on the Flip Side (http://www.palletmastersworkshop.com/flipside.html)
All the best.
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Originally posted by Bronk
Wasn't Ted Williams a Corsair pilot ?
Bronk
Yes.
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Former Governor of Alaska Jay Hammond was an F4U pilot. May he rest in peace:
(http://www.hanscomfamily.com/Jay%20Hammond.jpg)
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Originally posted by B17Skull12
lord of the geeks makes him ghey. I don't care how decorated he is.
(http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/17/film.rings.saruman.ap/story.lee.jpg)
He was the "Man with the golden gun" .. way befor middle earth .... so how does that make him "ghey" ???
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Originally posted by Roscoroo
(http://www.comedy-zone.net/images/people/comedians/sellers-peter.jpg)
The Great Peter Sellers ... Was an Airman in the royal air force during ww2, R.I.P.
Will there be any better actors?
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Laurence Harvey.
Served in the S-African Army and that meant for him, Egypt and Italy.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Laurence_Harvey.jpg)
Both Trevor Howard and Anthony Quayle were army men as well
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Ernest Borgnine, Navy guy between 1935 and 1945 ;)
(http://ia.ec.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/30/75/12m.jpg)
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Telly Savalas ("Kojak") was an American tanker...oddly he played one years later in the film "Battle of The Bulge".
Heddy Lamar's invention of "spread spectrum" encription oddly has found its way into the officiating of professional (NHL, NBA, NCAA) and many Olympic sports.
If you see a sport where the official has what looks like a pager on their belt with a short dangling wire, and blows a whistle to start or stop the clock that also bears a short dangling wire, the officials are using the "Precision Time" (TM) system.
The "spread sprectrum" encryption system only responds to the EXACT audio frequency sound of the whistle, and the system's transmitter and receiver only know what frequency will be used next (usually jumping every X/fraction of a second in a pre-specified range (or spectrum) of frequencies in the VHF or UHF spectrums). This system stops or starts the game clock at the speed of radio waves (the speed of light).
With this system, game clock debacles (i.e. USA vs USSR 1972 Olympic finals) could have never happened...and players play the WHOLE game duration, not the duration caused by human reaction time and/or human error.
This means no joker in the crowd is able to start or stop the clock by blowing a different whistle, or attempt to hack the transmitter.
The system was invented by a ham, Michael Costabile (WD4MGP), based on Heddy Lamar's Spread Sprectrum hypothesis. Michael is also a former NCAA and NBA official (the younger, skinny ref with short hair in the tapes of that HUGE Charlotte Hornets game fight back in the 90's was Michael...breaking up a player melee against guys 2 feet taller and 100 pounds heavier!) :aok
On top of that...Heddy was a hottie in her time.
If Sarah Jessica Parker was that smart, I'd invite HER into MY hamshack!
ROX
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K5TEN (ex-KA9SOX, ex-KA0NIU, ex-VE3/KA9SOX, ex-VE1/KA9SOX)
WAS-40M SSB, 3 QSL's short of DXCC...I HATE the current solar cycle doldrums! GO SUNSPOTS!! But not til 2008...:rolleyes: