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Offline Bluedog

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« Reply #30 on: October 19, 2004, 10:38:38 PM »
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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« Reply #31 on: October 19, 2004, 10:49:54 PM »
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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.


She did indeed serve though perhaps not in traditional sense.
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« Reply #32 on: October 19, 2004, 11:47:45 PM »
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Christopher Lee


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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« Reply #33 on: October 19, 2004, 11:52:12 PM »
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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.


Her frequency hopping idea is one of the foundation stones of cellular telephone technology.
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« Reply #34 on: October 19, 2004, 11:52:32 PM »
Cant Forget Mcale

Earnest Borgnine was a Unites States Navy Gunners Mate 1935-1945
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« Reply #35 on: October 20, 2004, 12:05:11 AM »
And lets not forget  Art "Fatso" Donovan



USMC 1942-45
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« Reply #36 on: October 20, 2004, 01:06:44 AM »
Image of Jimmy Stewart while he was Ops Officer for the 453rd BG.  Walter Matthau was also a member of the 453rd.

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« Reply #37 on: October 20, 2004, 01:18:20 AM »
HYLANDER!!^^^^

This guy made the first a-bomb with shoe string and a cheese grader^^^^^

British radio operator in ww2^^^^


^^^^^FUBAR!!

PREPARE TO DIE!

RAFE IS TEH MAN!
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« Reply #38 on: October 20, 2004, 01:20:22 AM »
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So, where's Sean Penn in all of this?


Here he is: ;)

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« Reply #39 on: October 20, 2004, 03:22:45 AM »
Lt. Jackie Robinson

US Army

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« Reply #40 on: November 21, 2006, 01:13:05 PM »
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."
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« Reply #41 on: November 21, 2006, 01:57:17 PM »
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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« Reply #42 on: November 21, 2006, 03:48:11 PM »
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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?



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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« Reply #43 on: November 21, 2006, 04:13:38 PM »
Here...

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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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« Reply #44 on: November 21, 2006, 04:16:12 PM »
Then here's an actual commando, who was at Malta and in Normandy

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It was very interesting to carry out the flight trials at Rechlin with the Spitfire and the Hurricane. Both types are very simple to fly compared to our aircraft, and childishly easy to take-off and land. (Werner Mölders)
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