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8. A whole generation of actors and comics lined up and served when their country called.

Fri Mar 25, 2022, 05:44 PM

Mar 2022

Watch any 1950s or 1960s sitcom and you're probably looking at at least a couple of WW2 vets

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Would ya believe...Don Adams (Get Smart) fought in the Battle of Guadalcanal [View all] RFCalifornia Mar 2022 OP

I didn't know that. underpants Mar 2022 #1

And he came this close - OhZone Mar 2022 #2

Sometimes people are confused by the character actor vs the human. LakeArenal Mar 2022 #3

Off that list, Eastwood at least actually served in uniform Bucky Mar 2022 #7

I see what you mean. But .... LakeArenal Mar 2022 #11

Eddie Albert from Green Acres fits the would ya believe category Submariner Mar 2022 #5

You sure can't judge a book by its cover ironflange Mar 2022 #6

Just what I was going to bring up. rurallib Mar 2022 #9

16M served in the US military during WWII sarge43 Mar 2022 #14

Some of these Jewish comedians are sooo badass!! mucifer Mar 2022 #10

Lee Marvin was wounded in the Battle of Saipan lpbk2713 Mar 2022 #13

My father served in the U.S. Navy Seabees on Guadalcanal red dog 1 Mar 2022 #15