What is not mentioned here are the women who also participated during the war. They too have been laid to rest with honors. No---they don't make'em like they used too.
THEY DON'T MAKE 'EM LIKE THEY USE TO...
Stewart Hayden,
US Marines and OSS. Smuggled guns into Yugoslavia and parachuted into Croatia.
James Stewart
US Army Air Corps. Bomber pilot who rose to the rank of General.
Ernest Borgnine
US Navy. Gunners Mate 1c, destroyer USS Lamberton.
Ed McMahon
US Marines. Fighter Pilot. Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea as well.
Telly Savalas
US Army.
Walter Matthau
US Army Air Corps. B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer.
Steve Forrest
US Army. Wounded, Battle of the Bulge.
Jonathan Winters
US Marines. Battleship USS Wisconsin and Carrier USS Bon Homme Richard. Anti-aircraft gunner, Battle of Okinawa.
Paul Newman
US Navy. Rear seat gunner/radioman, torpedo bombers of USS Bunker Hill.
Kirk Douglas
US Navy. Sub-chaser in the Pacific. Wounded in action and medically discharged.
Robert Mitchum
US Army.
Dale Robertson
US Army. Tank Commander in North Africa under Patton. Wounded twice. Battlefield Commission.
Henry Fonda
US Navy. Destroyer USS Satterlee.
John Carroll
US Army Air Corps. Pilot in North Africa. Broke his back in a crash.
Lee Marvin
US Marines. Sniper, Wounded in action on Saipan. Buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Sec. 7A next to Greg Boyington and Joe Louis.
Art Carney
US Army. Wounded on Normandy beach, D-Day. Limped for the rest of his life.
Wayne Morris
US Navy. Fighter pilot, USS Essex. Downed seven Japanese ghters.
Rod Steiger
US Navy. Was aboard one of the ships that launched the Doolittle Raid.
Tony Curtis
US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus. In Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan.
Larry Storch
US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony Curtis.
Forrest Tucker
US Army. Enlisted as a private, rose to Lieutenant.
Robert Montgomery
US Navy.
George Kennedy
US Army. Enlisted after Pearl Harbor, stayed in sixteen years.
Mickey Rooney
US Army under Patton. Bronze Star.
Denver Pyle
US Navy. Wounded in the Battle of Guadalcanal. Medically scharged.
Burgess Meredith
US Army Air Corps.
DeForest Kelley
US Army Air Corps.
Robert Stack
US Navy. Gunnery Officer.
Neville Brand
US Army. Europe. Was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart.
Tyrone Power
US Marines. Transport pilot in the Pacific Theater.
Charlton Heston
US Army Air Corps. Radio operator and aerial gunner on a B-25, Aleutians.
Danny Aiello
US Army. Lied about his age to enlist at 16. Served three years.
James Arness
US Army. As an infantryman, he was severely wounded at Anzio, Italy.
Efram Zimbalist, Jr.
US Army. Purple Heart for a severe wound received at Huertgen Forest.
Mickey Spillane
US Army Air Corps. Fighter Pilot and later Instructor Pilot.
Rod Serling
US Army. 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific. He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila.
Gene Autry
US Army Air Corps. Crewman on transports that ferried supplies over "The Hump" in the China-Burma-India Theater.
Wiliam Holden
US Army Air Corps.
Alan Hale Jr
US Coast Guard.
Harry Dean Stanton
US Navy. Battle of Okinawa.
Russell Johnson
US Army Air Corps. B-24 crewman, awarded Purple Heart when his aircraft was shot down by the Japanese in the Philippines.
William Conrad
US Army Air Corps. Fighter Pilot.
Jack Klugman
US Army.
Frank Sutton
US Army. Took part in 14 assault landings, including Leyte, Luzon, Bataan and Corregidor.
Jackie Coogan
US Army Air Corps. Volunteered for gliders and flew troops and materials into Burma behind enemy lines.
Tom Bosley
US Navy.
Claude Akins
US Army. Signal Corps, Burma and the Philippines.
Chuck Connors
US Army. Tank-warfare instructor.
Harry Carey Jr.
US Navy.
Mel Brooks
US Army. Combat Engineer. Saw action in the Battle of the Bulge.
Robert Altman
US Army Air Corps. B-24 Co-Pilot.
Pat Hingle
US Navy. Destroyer USS Marshall.
Fred Gwynne
US Navy. Radioman.
Karl Malden
US Army Air Corps. 8th Air Force, NCO.
Earl Holliman
US Navy. Lied about his age to enlist. Discharged after a year when the Navy found out.
Rock Hudson
US Navy. Aircraft mechanic, the Philippines.
Harvey Korman
US Navy.
Aldo Ray
US Navy. UDT frogman, Okinawa.
Don Knotts
US Army, Pacific Theater.
Don Rickles
US Navy. USS Cyrene.
Harry Dean Stanton
US Navy. Served aboard an LST in the Battle of Okinawa.
Robert Stack
US Navy. Gunnery Instructor.
Soupy Sales
US Navy. Served on USS Randall in the South Pacific.
Lee Van Cleef
US Navy. Served aboard a sub chaser, then a mine sweeper.
Clifton James
US Army. South Pacific. Was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart.
Ted Knight
US Army. Combat Engineers.
Jack Warden
US Navy, 1938-1942; then US Army, 1942-1945. 101st Airborne Division.
Don Adams
US Marines. Wounded on Guadalcanal, then served as a Drill nstructor.
James Gregory
US Navy and US Marines.
Brian Keith
US Marines. Radioman/Gunner in Dauntless dive-bombers.
Fess Parker
US Navy and US Marines. Booted from pilot training for being too tall, joined Marines as a radio operator.
Charles Durning
US Army. Landed at Normandy on D-Day. Shot multiple times. Awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Survived Malmedy Massacre.
Raymond Burr
US Navy. Shot in the stomach on Okinawa and medically discharged.
Hugh O'Brian
US Marines.
Robert Ryan
US Marines.
Eddie Albert
US Coast Guard. Bronze Star with Combat V for saving several Marines under heavy fire as pilot of a landing craft during the invasion of Tarawa.
Cark Gable
US Army Air Corps. B-17 gunner over Europe.
Charles Bronson
US Army Air Corps. B-29 gunner, wounded in action.
Peter Graves
US Army Air Corps.
Buddy Hackett
US Army anti-aircraft gunner.
Victor Mature
US Coast Guard.
Jack Palance
US Army Air Corps. Severely injured bailing out of a burning B-24 omber.
Robert Preston
US Army Air Corps. Intelligence Officer.
Cesar Romero
US Coast Guard. Participated in the invasions of Tinian and Saipan on the assault transport USS Cavalier.
Norman Fell
US Army Air Corps. Tail Gunner, Pacific Theater.
Jason Robards
US Navy. Aboard heavy cruiser USS Northampton when it was sunk off Guadalcanal. Also served on the USS Nashville during the invasion of the Philippines, surviving a kamikaze hit that caused 223 casualties.
Steve Reeves
US Army. Philippines.
Dennis Weaver
US Navy. Pilot.
Robert Taylor
US Navy. Instructor Pilot.
Randolph Scott
Tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected due to injuries sustained in US Army, World War One.
Ronald Reagan
US Army. Was a 2nd Lt. in the Cavalry Reserves before the war. His poor eyesight kept him from being sent overseas with his unit when war came, so he transferred to the Army Air Corps Public Relations Unit where he served for the duration.
John Wayne.
Declared "4F medically unfit" due to pre-existing injuries, he nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times (Army, Navy and Film Corps.) so he gets honorable mention.
Audie Murphy,
America's most-decorated soldier, who became a Hollywood star as a result of his US Army service that included his being awarded the Medal of Honor.
Would someone please remind me again how many of today's Hollywood elite put their careers on hold to enlist in Iraq or Afghanistan? For the most part this so-called elite are pimps and whores (parasites)
The only one who even comes close was Pat Tillman, who turned down a contract offer of $3.6 million over three years from the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the US Army after September 11, 2001, and serve as a Ranger in Afghanistan, where he died in 2004. But rather than being lauded for his choice and his decision to put his country before his career, he was mocked and derided by many of his peers and the Left.
