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    WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WW II MOVIE STARS

    Hope you find this as informative as I did.
    In contrast to the ideals, opinions and feelings of today's "Hollywonk" the real actors of yester-year loved the United States. They had both class and integrity.
    With the advent of World War II many of our actors went to fight rather than stand and
    rant against this country we all love.
    They gave up their wealth, position and fame to become service men & women, many as simple "enlisted men".

    This page lists but a few, but from this group of only 18 men came over 70 medals in honor of their valor, spanning from Bronze Stars, Silver Stars, Distinguish Service Cross', Purple Hearts and one Congressional Medal of Honor.

    So remember; while the "Entertainers of 2005" have been in all of the news media lately I would like to remind the people of what the entertainers of 1943 were doing. Most of these brave men have since passed on.

    "Real Hollywood Heroes"


    Alec Guinness (Star Wars) operated
    a British Royal Navy landing craft on D-Day.


    James Doohan ("Scotty" on Star Trek)
    landed in Normandy with the U. S. Army on D-Day.< /B>


    Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was an R. A. F. pilot who was shot down, held prisoner and tortured by the Germans.



    David Niven was a Sandhurst graduate and
    Lt. Colonel of the British Commandos in Normandy.


    James Stewart Entered the Army Air Force
    as a private and worked his way to the rank of Colonel. During World War II, Stewart served as a bomber pilot, his service record crediting him with leading more than 20 missions over Germany, and taking part in hundreds of air strikes during his tour of duty. Stewart earned the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, France's Croix de Guerre, and 7 Battle Stars during World War II. In peace time, Stewart continued to be an active member of the Air Force as a reservist, reaching the rank of Brigadier General before retiring in the late 1950s.


    Clark Gable (Mega-Movie Star when war broke out) Although he was beyond the draft age at the time the U.S. entered WW II, Clark Gable enlisted as a private in the AAF on Aug. 12, 1942 at Los Angeles.
    He attended the Officers' Candidate School at Miami Beach, Fla. and graduated as a second lieutenant on Oct. 28, 1942.
    He then attended aerial gunnery school and in Feb. 1943 was assigned to the 351st Bomb Group at Polebrook where flew operational missions over Europe in B-17s.
    Capt. Gable returned to the U.S. in Oct. 1943 and was relieved from active duty as a major on Jun. 12, 1944 at his own request, since he was over-age for combat.


    Charlton Heston was an Army
    Air Corps Sergeant in Kodiak.


    Ernest Borgnine was a U. S.
    Navy Gunners Mate 1935-1945.


    Charles Durning was a U. S.
    Army Ranger at Normandy
    earning a Silver Star and
    awarded the Purple Heart.


    Charles Bronson was a tail gunner
    in the Army Air Corps, more
    specifically on B-29's in the 20th
    Air Force out of Guam, Tinian, and Saipan


    George C. Scott was
    a decorated U. S. Marine.


    Eddie Albert (Green Acres TV)
    was awarded a Bronze Star for his heroic action a s a U. S. Naval officer aiding
    Marines at the horrific battle on the
    island of Tarawa in the Pacific Nov. 1943.


    Brian Keith served as a U.S. Marine rear gunner in several actions against the
    Japanese on Rabal in the Pacific.


    Lee Marvin was a U.S. Marine on Saipan during the Marianas campaign when he was
    wounded earning the Purple Heart.


    John Russell: In 1942, he enlisted in the Marine Corps where he received a battlefield
    commission and was wounded and highly decorated for valor at Guadalcanal.


    Robert Ryan was a U. S. Marine
    who served with the O. S. S. in Yugoslavia.


    Tyrone Power (an established movie star when Pearl Harbor was bombed) joined the
    U.S. Marines, was a pilot flying supplies into, and wounded Marines out of, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.



    Audie Murphy, little 5'5" tall 110 pound
    guy from Texas who played cowboy parts after the War: Most Decorated serviceman of WWII and earned: Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, 2 Silver Star Medals, Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Star Medals with "V", 2 Purple Hearts, U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, 2 Distinguished Unit Emblems, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with One Silver Star, Four Bronze Service Stars (representing nine campaigns) and one Bronze Arrowhead (representing assault landing at Sicily and Southern France) World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation Medal with Germany Clasp, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, French Fourragere in Colors of the Croix de Guerre, French Legion of Honor, Grade of Chevalier, French Croix de Guerre With Silver Star, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Medal of Liberated France, Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 Palm
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