HOLLYWOOD & THE STARS WHO SERVED IN WORLD WAR II
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Ronald Reagan

Captain, US Army Air Corps.  Because of a severe hearing loss, he was not allowed any flying duties.  However, he appeared in training films.  Prior to the war, he was a cavalry officer in the Nebraska National Guard.

Audrey Hepburn
as a child she was a courier for World War II resistance fighters in Holland.

Carroll O'Connor

Merchant Marines
1942

Jack Palance  

US Army Air Corps. 455th bomb group. Required facial reconstruction from terrible injuries received in 1943 when his B17 crash landed in Britain.

Robert Stack
US Navy.  Because of his expertise as an Olympic champion skeet shooter, he was assigned to teach anti-aircraft gunnery.

ROBERT ALTMAN  

(B-24 Co-Pilot) - Producer/ Director/Screenwriter.  Enlisted in the Air Force, 1945, and served with the 307th Bomb Group.

WALTER MATTHAU  
(B-24 Radioman/Gunner) - Actor/Director/Producer

Served as a radio cryptographer with the 453rd Bomb Group.

RUSSELL JOHNSON  
(B24 Crew Member) - Actor
AKA "The Professor" (Roy Hinkley) on 'Gilligan's Island' (1964-1967)

Earned a Purple Heart (for injuries during battle) when the B-24 Liberator bomber he was a crewman on was shot down during a bombing run against Japanese targets in the Philippine Islands (March 1945).

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