Originally posted by Dr. Mirakle:
But those people are all gone now. US athletes now are out of touch with the common folks and Hollywood is filled with USA haters. Shameful.
Dr.:
Below are listed the Hollywood stars who put their careers aside and enlisted for WWII, some of whom joined immediately after Pearl Harbor.
WWII: Clark Gable, Jason Robards (Pearl Harbor survivor), James Stewart, Kirk Douglas, Mel Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Alec Guinness, David Niven (stormed Normandy), Tony Bennett, Tyrone Power, Jack Palance, Lee Marvin (wounded at Iwo Jima), Lorne Greene, DiMaggio, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliot, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews, Richard Todd (dropped in on D-Day and seized the critical Pegasus Bridge), Charles Durning, Neville Brand, Paul Newman, Rod Steiger, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Robert Montgomery (PT boat commander), James Arness (wounded at Anzio), Gene Autry, Sterling Hayden (OSS operative in Yugoslavia) and Rod Serling, Lee Powell (KIA on Tinian Island), Harold Russell and Wayne Morris to name a few. Even the quirky director, Edward D. Wood Jr., served......................
The above enlisted and served, many in combat, some wounded. Of them, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. stands above them all: He volunteered to led countless missions as a commander of a amphibious craft and later a line commander of amphibious craft as a Beach Jumper fleet in Special Operations. He earned the British DSC and an American Silver Star.
Below are listed the Hollywood actors who enlisted after September 11th.
It's not quite as long as the WWII list.