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Offline midnight Target

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« on: October 17, 2004, 09:00:44 PM »
Like This guy
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

Who enlisted and served as a Lt. on the destroyer Saterlee, and was awarded a Bronze Star

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Who was wounded on the beach at Normandy without ever firing a shot, and always limped from the injury.
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Offline GRUNHERZ

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« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2004, 09:11:23 PM »


http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/js.htm

Apparently he even flew one combat mission in Vietnam...

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« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2004, 09:30:07 PM »
Certifiable comic genius

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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« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2004, 09:43:01 PM »


"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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« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2004, 09:50:36 PM »

RIP
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« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2004, 10:04:48 PM »
So, where's Sean Penn in all of this?
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« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2004, 10:55:44 PM »


Uncle Jed
Blake Edwards
Semper Paratas!
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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2004, 11:02:12 PM »
Famous B-24/PB4Y Crew Members
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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Offline Nash

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« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2004, 11:07:49 PM »
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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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Offline Toad

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« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2004, 11:37:16 PM »
Cuz' I think Penn is puerile, especially in comparison?

Where are the Snowden's of yesteryear?
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« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2004, 11:38:59 PM »
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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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« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2004, 11:44:16 PM »
How very Rip-like. Adds nothing. Subtracts much. It's basically verbal pollution.
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Offline GRUNHERZ

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« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2004, 11:46:56 PM »
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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Offline Nash

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« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2004, 11:49:06 PM »
good man.
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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2004, 11:51:50 PM »
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Famous B-24/PB4Y Crew Members
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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