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re: World War 2 soldiers who went on to be famous
Posted on 5/12/22 at 10:08 pm to fool_on_the_hill
Posted on 5/12/22 at 10:08 pm to fool_on_the_hill
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World War 2 soldiers who went on to be famous
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I don't know if you consider him to be famous or infamous, but he did go on to be POTUS.
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Posted on 5/14/22 at 7:46 pm to fool_on_the_hill
Audie Murphy.
Posted on 5/14/22 at 8:00 pm to pioneerbasketball
Posted on 5/14/22 at 9:12 pm to fool_on_the_hill
Julia Child famous chef was an Intelligence Officer for the OSS during WWII and also helped develop a shark repellent during the war.
Posted on 5/14/22 at 9:18 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
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This is a really dumb thread
Just about every male at that time was in the military
You are pitiful.
Posted on 5/14/22 at 9:20 pm to West Palm Tiger561
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Johnny Carson
Sidekick Ed McMahon served in the Marine Corps during 3 wars.
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In 1944, he was commissioned in the Marine Corps and earned his pilot's wings. He became a Marine Corps test pilot and a flight instructor in F4U Corsair aircraft at Lee Field, in Green Cove Springs, Florida.
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McMahon remained in the Marine Corps Reserve after the war and was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. He was awarded six Air Medals for flying 85 combat missions over North Korea in an OE-1 unarmed observation aircraft.
HEY-OOOOOO!!!!
Posted on 5/14/22 at 10:06 pm to cable
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Bob Dole
The picture of Bob Dole saluting the casket of President George H W Bush is to me one of the defining moments in describing who the Greatest Generation truly was. Politics aside, that is what true respect is.
Posted on 5/14/22 at 10:12 pm to andouille
Teddy Ballgame never saw combat in WW2. He never got farther West than Hawaii.
Posted on 5/14/22 at 10:12 pm to fool_on_the_hill
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i believe i read somewhere the would only chop off what was needed to keep the meat fresh , if im wrong on that my apologies
Think of the cruelest thing you could ever imagine doing to someone, and then realize that the Japs did shite 10x worse to POWs and civilians on a mass scale. They were one of the most evil, barbaric societies of the last 1000 years.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 12:27 am to VADawg
Alan Ludden (Betty Whites husband) game show host
He served in the United States Army as officer in charge of entertainment in the Pacific theater, received a Bronze Star Medal for unknown reasons,
He served in the United States Army as officer in charge of entertainment in the Pacific theater, received a Bronze Star Medal for unknown reasons,
Posted on 5/18/22 at 12:51 am to fool_on_the_hill
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Bobby Hutchins was an American child actor who was a regular in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1933. A native of Tacoma, Washington, he was given the nickname of Wheezer after running around the studios on his first day so much that he began to wheeze.
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Wheezer appeared in 58 Our Gang films during his six years in the series. For much of his run, "Wheezer" was portrayed as the perennial tag-along little brother, put off by the older children but always eager to be part of the action.
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He left the series at the end of the 1932-33 film season after appearing in Mush and Milk; his only film work outside of Our Gang includes a handful of appearances in three outside features in 1932 and 1933. Hutchins was 8 when he left the series in 1933.
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After outgrowing the series, Hutchins and his family eventually moved back to Tacoma, where he entered public school. He joined the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1943 after graduating high school and enrolled in the Aviation Cadet Program with the goal of becoming a pilot.
Hutchins was killed in a mid-air collision on May 17, 1945, while trying to land a North American AT-6D-NT Texan, serial number 42-86536, of the 3026th Base Unit, when it struck an AT-6C-15-NT Texan, 42-49068, of the same unit at Merced Army Air Field in Merced, California, later known as Castle Air Force Base, during a training exercise. The other pilot, Edward F. Hamel, survived. Hutchins's mother, Olga Hagerson Hutchins, had been scheduled to travel to the airfield for his graduation from flying school, which would have occurred the week after he died
Posted on 5/18/22 at 5:47 am to fool_on_the_hill
Vin Diesel
Posted on 5/29/22 at 8:59 pm to Kafka
Tony Randall
Randall served for four years with the United States Army Signal Corps in World War II, including work at the codebreaking Signal Intelligence Service
Randall served for four years with the United States Army Signal Corps in World War II, including work at the codebreaking Signal Intelligence Service
Posted on 5/29/22 at 9:41 pm to fool_on_the_hill
Audie Murphy
Posted on 5/29/22 at 9:46 pm to fool_on_the_hill
My dad’s Army buddy-
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:01 pm to tigernchicago
quote:I’ll bet Williams had better eyesight than Glenn.
Ted Williams flew in the same squadron with John Glenn.
That cheap bastard could see the grip and rotation of the ball coming out of the pitcher’s hand.
Reportedly Chuck Yeager had the best eyesight of any sob in the service.
He could see shite in the air before anyone else.
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:06 pm to soccerfüt
quote:any stories?
My dad’s Army buddy
The obit you posted mentions the controversy surrounding his age. When I was a kid I read an article that gave his birth year as 1918. But almost all sources now give it as 1926.
Akins attended the celebrated drama school at Northwestern U, but I don't know what years.
Posted on 5/29/22 at 10:18 pm to Kafka
None during the war.
Once Akins got famous (late ‘70s), the old man was in California on business and met up with him.
He invited him to a show in LA and asked the old man what flavor of woman he wanted. (as his escort for the evening)
As the old man had blonde and brunette daughters (no pics), he said red-head.
Made for a few awkward Polaroids once he got home of them all at dinner.
I doubt he banged her, maybe, in the spirit of the OT, he finger-banged her?
Once Akins got famous (late ‘70s), the old man was in California on business and met up with him.
He invited him to a show in LA and asked the old man what flavor of woman he wanted. (as his escort for the evening)
As the old man had blonde and brunette daughters (no pics), he said red-head.
Made for a few awkward Polaroids once he got home of them all at dinner.
I doubt he banged her, maybe, in the spirit of the OT, he finger-banged her?
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:13 pm to soccerfüt
Chuck Yeager was full of shite, but definitely the biggest a-hole of his era.
Posted on 6/1/22 at 7:34 pm to fool_on_the_hill
Alec Guinness
commanded a Landing Craft Infantry at the Allied invasion of Sicily, and later ferried supplies and agents to the Yugoslav partisans in the eastern Mediterranean theatre
commanded a Landing Craft Infantry at the Allied invasion of Sicily, and later ferried supplies and agents to the Yugoslav partisans in the eastern Mediterranean theatre
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