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Post by vegalyra on Apr 21, 2021 23:24:15 GMT
James Garner fought in the Korean War. Received two purple hearts.  |
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Post by OldAussie on Apr 21, 2021 23:37:09 GMT
David Niven!
Commando!
Killed people up close and personal.
Never talked about his experiences but he was personally thanked by Churchill.
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Post by OldAussie on Apr 21, 2021 23:40:03 GMT
Lee Marvin was highly respected by John Ford and John Wayne for his service - he was wounded at Iwo Jima.
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Post by paislene on Apr 22, 2021 0:27:22 GMT
Dirk Bogarde - decorated Officer WWII , was one of the first British officers into the death camps .
Michael Caine - served in Korea . Was on the frontline for nearly a year .
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Post by paislene on Apr 22, 2021 0:32:19 GMT
Don Adams - WWII United States Marine Corps
Jonathan Winters - WWII United States Marine Corps
James Doohan - WWII Canadian Infantry/Artillery Officer at Juno Beach D-Day
badly wounded , but retrained and served as a spotter pilot
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 22, 2021 0:41:35 GMT
David Niven! Commando! Killed people up close and personal. Never talked about his experiences but he was personally thanked by Churchill. Niven once briefed his men before a mission by saying, "You chaps are lucky. You only have to do this once. I'll have to do it over again in Hollywood – with Errol Flynn!"
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 22, 2021 0:44:13 GMT
Merian C Cooper was a WW1 pilot.
Claude Rains was blind in one eye from gas during the same conflict.
Basil Rathbone was an observer inside a tree trunk in no man's land. After the war, when asked his favorite role, he replied, "During the war I played a tree."
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Post by vegalyra on Apr 22, 2021 0:47:43 GMT
Sir Alec Guinness Commanding officer of a landing craft, saw action at Sicily and Normandy among others.  |
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Post by vegalyra on Apr 22, 2021 0:50:27 GMT
One for the other side...  Hardy Kruger Starting in 1941, he attended an Adolf Hitler School at the Ordensburg Sonthofen. When he was 13, he joined the “Hitler Jugend” (Hitler Youth) as required by all 13-year-old German boys of the time. The Hitler Youth was an organization devoted to preparing young men for military service. At the age of 15, Hardy made his film debut in a German film called “Young Eagles” which was released in 1944. At 16, he was drafted into the army and assigned to an infantry unit. In 1945, he was conscripted by the 38th SS Division Nibelungen. He was part of heavy fighting before being captured by the Americans. |
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Post by vegalyra on Apr 22, 2021 1:00:35 GMT
 The great French actor Jean Gabin fought in WW2. He commanded an M-10 tank destroyer in the fighting in France serving with the Régiment Blindé de Fusiliers-Marins,in the Free French Army's 2nd Armored Division. Gabin was part of the military contingent that entered a liberated Paris. He was too late for the Normandy invasion, but served in the push to Germany, most notably in the taking of the Royan Pocket, one of the last German strongholds in post-D-Day France. |
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 22, 2021 1:00:47 GMT
The Great Escape trivia
Donald Pleasance was in the RAF and spent time in a POW camp.
Hannes Messemer, who played the camp commandant, was taken prisoner at Stalingrad, but escaped.
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 22, 2021 1:05:39 GMT
Richard Jaeckel had a small role in Guadalcanal Diary (1943) and later served in the Merchant Marine during the war.
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Post by dirtypillows on Apr 22, 2021 1:47:57 GMT
Russ Meyer
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Post by sostie on Apr 22, 2021 13:05:37 GMT
One for the other side... Hardy Kruger Starting in 1941, he attended an Adolf Hitler School at the Ordensburg Sonthofen. When he was 13, he joined the “Hitler Jugend” (Hitler Youth) as required by all 13-year-old German boys of the time. The Hitler Youth was an organization devoted to preparing young men for military service. At the age of 15, Hardy made his film debut in a German film called “Young Eagles” which was released in 1944. At 16, he was drafted into the army and assigned to an infantry unit. In 1945, he was conscripted by the 38th SS Division Nibelungen. He was part of heavy fighting before being captured by the Americans. He was also accused of cowardice and sentenced to death when he refused to execute some American soldiers. He avoided execution when an officer rescinded the order
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Post by sostie on Apr 22, 2021 13:07:01 GMT
Gert Frobe (Goldfinger)
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Post by politicidal on Apr 22, 2021 13:12:16 GMT
During World War 2, Klaus Kinski was conscripted into the German military when he was 17. Then he was later captured by the British and was a POW for the remainder of the war. After returning to Germany he learned both his parents died. Whatever psychological problems he had, I wonder how much that exacerbated them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2021 23:20:57 GMT
Lee Marvin was highly respected by John Ford and John Wayne for his service - he was wounded at Iwo Jima. "Gee, thanks." |
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 3, 2021 2:45:43 GMT
The Great Escape trivia Donald Pleasance was in the RAF and spent time in a POW camp. Hannes Messemer, who played the camp commandant a lot, was taken prisoner at Stalingrad, but escaped. That's an interesting contrasting pair.
If Messemer had not escaped, would he have survived the Soviet POW camp? They were known to be very inhospitable.
I don't think you could sit out the war in a Soviet camp.
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Jun 3, 2021 3:29:09 GMT
Chuck Norris was in the Air Force.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was in the Austrian Army.
Steve McQueen was in the Marine Corps.
Jack Palance served in World War 2 as a bomber pilot.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 3, 2021 3:48:23 GMT
The Great Escape trivia Donald Pleasance was in the RAF and spent time in a POW camp. Hannes Messemer, who played the camp commandant a lot, was taken prisoner at Stalingrad, but escaped. That's an interesting contrasting pair.
If Messemer had not escaped, would he have survived the Soviet POW camp? They were known to be very inhospitable.
I don't think you could sit out the war in a Soviet camp.
The USSR released the last German POWs in the mid-1950s - ten years after the war ended.
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