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Max Baer, Jr. RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Air Force Reserve	American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. Perhaps best known for his role as Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies. He was the son of boxing champion Max Baer. His first acting role was in Goldilocks and the Three Bears at the Blackpool Pavilion in England in 1949. He made appearances on television programs such Maverick, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, Cheyenne and 77 Sunset Strip. Baer wrote and produced the drama Macon County Line (1974). It was the highest-grossing movie per dollar invested at the time. Made for just US$110,000, it earned almost US$25 million at the box office. Baer also wrote, produced, and directed the drama The Wild McCullochs (1975), and produced Ode to Billy Joe (1976). Retired from acting, Baer has spent the past two decades struggling to build his dream project on 24 acres of land he owns in Carson Valley, Nev., a Hillbillies-themed casino and theme park not far from his Lake Tahoe home. Served in the late 1950s. Stationed at Gunter Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama when he heard of his father's death.
Raymond Bailey RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Merchant Marine	American actor on the Broadway stage, movies, and television. He is best known for his role as wealthy banker, Milburn Drysdale, in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies. Served during WW2.
Conrad Bain RETURN TO INDEX	Canadian Army	Canadian-American actor. His television credits include a leading role as Phillip Drummond in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes and as Dr. Arthur Harmon on Maude. Served during WW2.
Hobey Baker RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Service	American amateur athlete of the early twentieth century. Regarded as the first American star in ice hockey, he was also an accomplished football player. Born into a prominent family from Philadelphia, he enrolled at Princeton University in 1910 and excelled on both the university's hockey and football teams, and later became a noted amateur hockey player for the St. Nicholas Club in New York City. He was a member of three national championship teams, for football in 1911 and for hockey in 1912 and 1914, and helped the St. Nicholas Club win a national amateur championship in 1915. Graduating from Princeton in 1914, Baker worked for J.P. Morgan Bank until he enlisted in the United States Army Air Service. Served in WW1. He served with the 103rd and the 13th Aero Squadrons before earning promotion to captain and commanding the 141st Squadron. In December 1918 Baker died when he crashed a plane he was test piloting, hours before he was to leave France and return to America.
Martin Balsam RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American actor. He is known for his Oscar-winning role as "Arnold Burns" in A Thousand Clowns and his role as "Detective Milton Arbogast" in Psycho. appeared in such films as On the Waterfront (1954), 12 Angry Men (1957), Time Limit (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), The Carpetbaggers (1964), Seven Days in May (1964), The Anderson Tapes (1971), Hombre (1967), Catch-22 (1970), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Little Big Man (1970), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), All the President's Men (1976), and The Delta Force (1986). He also starred as Murray Klein on the All in the Family spin-off Archie Bunker's Place for two seasons (1979–1981). Served in WW2.
Bob Barker RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history, and for hosting Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1975. Served in WW2 as a fighter pilot. However, the war ended before he was assigned to a seagoing squadron.
Lex Barker RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American actor best known for playing Tarzan of the Apes and leading characters from Karl May's novels. In February 1941, ten months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Barker left his fledgling acting career and enlisted. He rose to the rank of major during the war. He was wounded in action (in the head and leg) fighting in Sicily and received the Purple Heart. Back in the U.S., Barker recuperated at an Arkansas military hospital and was discharge from service.
Hank Bauer RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	American right fielder and manager in Major League Baseball. He played with the New York Yankees (1948 to 1959) and Kansas City Athletics (1960 to 1961); he batted and threw right-handed. He served as the manager of the Athletics in both Kansas City (1961 to 1962) and in Oakland (1969), as well as of the Baltimore Orioles (1964 to 1968), becoming the winning manager of the 1966 World Series, four games to none, over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Served in WW2. Enlisted one month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. While serving in the Pacific Theater, Bauer contracted malaria on Guadalcanal, but he recovered from that well enough to earn 11 campaign ribbons, two Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts (for being wounded in action) in 32 months of combat. Bauer was wounded his second time during the Battle of Okinawa, when he was a lieutenant in command of a platoon of 64 Marines. Only six of the 64 Marines survived the Japanese counterattack, and Bauer was wounded by shrapnel in his thigh. His wounds were severe enough to send him all the way back to the U.S. to recuperate.
Warren Beatty RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Air Force Reserve	American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. He has won four Golden Globe Awards including the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Beatty's overall Academy Award nominations number 14: he received Best Picture nominations for Bonnie and Clyde, Bugsy, Reds and Heaven Can Wait, received writing nominations for Shampoo, Reds, Bulworth and Heaven Can Wait, received Best Director nominations for Heaven Can Wait and Reds, and has received Best Actor nominations for Bonnie and Clyde, Heaven Can Wait, Reds and Bugsy. Under his original name of Henry W. Beaty, Warren Beatty enlisted in the California Air National Guard on February 11, 1960. On January 1, 1961, Beatty was discharged from the Air National Guard due to physical disability. He was also simultaneously discharged from the U.S. Air Force Reserve. He served on inactive duty only.
Archie Bell RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American solo singer and former lead singer of Archie Bell & the Drells. Archie Bell became known around the world for the hit that he had with the Drells, "Tighten Up". Since the break up of the Drells in 1980, Archie Bell has pursued a solo career. Bell later released one solo album (I Never Had It So Good - 1981) on Beckett Records and continued to perform with The Drells off and on for the next twenty years. Drafted in 1967, and sent to Fort Polk, Louisiana for basic training. Served in Vietnam where he was wounded in the leg and awarded the Purple Heart. He was sent to Germany for hospitalization and recovery. The Army was generous and let Archie tour with his group during the summer of 1968. He was discharged on April 15, 1969.
Tony Bennett RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz. Drafted into the service in November 1944, during the final stages of World War II. He did basic training at Fort Dix and Fort Robinson as part of becoming an infantry rifleman. Processed through the huge Le Havre replacement depot, in January 1945, he was assigned as a replacement infantryman to 255th Infantry Regiment of the 63rd Infantry Division, a unit filling in for the heavy losses suffered in the Battle of the Bulge. He moved across France and into Germany. His company saw bitter fighting in cold winter conditions, often hunkering down in foxholes as German 88 mm guns fired on them. At the end of March, they crossed the Rhine and entered Germany, engaging in dangerous house-to-house, town-after-town fighting to clean out German soldiers. He narrowly escaped death several times. At the war's conclusion he was involved in the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg. He stayed in Germany as part of the occupying force, but was assigned to an informal Special Services band unit that would entertain nearby American forces.
Jack Benny RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film. Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny played the role of the comic penny-pinching miser, insisting on remaining 39 years old on stage despite his actual age, and often playing the violin badly. Left show business briefly in 1917 to serve during WW1.
Irving Berlin RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest American songwriters in history. He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which made him "a legend" before he turned thirty. During his 60-year career he wrote an estimated 1,500 songs, including the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films, with his songs nominated eight times for Academy Awards. Many songs became popular themes and anthems, including Easter Parade, White Christmas, Happy Holiday, This is the Army, Mr. Jones, and There's No Business Like Show Business. His Broadway musical and 1942 film, This is the Army, with Ronald Reagan, had Kate Smith singing Berlin's God Bless America which was first performed in 1938. In 1917 Berlin was drafted into the army, and the news of his induction became headline news: "Army Takes Berlin!" one paper read. However, the army only wanted Berlin, now aged 30, to do what he knew best: to write songs of patriotism. Hence, while stationed at Camp Upton in New York, he composed an all-soldier musical revue titled Yip Yip Yaphank, written to be patriotic tribute to the Army.
Yogi Berra RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American Major League Baseball catcher, outfielder, and manager. He played almost his entire 19-year baseball career (1946 to 1965) for the New York Yankees. He was one of only four players to be named the Most Valuable Player of the American League three times and is one of only six managers to lead both American and National League teams to the World Series. As a player, coach, or manager, Berra appeared in 21 World Series. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. Served in WW2. Join the Navy at 18 and was sent to Bainbridge, Maryland for bootcamp. At Norfolk, Virginia he volunteered to serve on amphibs. As a Gunners Mate he initially served on a 'rocket boat', a 36-foot vessel with 12 rockets on each side, 5 machine guns, all in preparation for the Invasion of Normandy. On D-Day his boat was about 300 yards off the beach providing fire coverage. After ten days he returned to USS Bayfield (P833).
Ken Berry RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American dancer, comedic actor and singer. He began on stage as a dancer and later starred in television sitcoms. A favorite guest on The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s, Berry was chosen to star in the spin-off Mama's Family, featuring the dysfunctional Harper clan. Berry called his time on F Troop "two years of recess", and has referred to the idyllic Mayberry as "America's 'Brigadoon'". Served during the Korean War.
Bill Bixby RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	American film and television actor, director, and frequent game show panelist. His career spanned over three decades; he appeared on stage, in motion pictures and TV series. He is best known for his roles as Tim O'Hara on the CBS sitcom My Favorite Martian, Tom Corbett on the ABC comedy-drama series The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and Dr. David Banner on the CBS drama series The Incredible Hulk. Dropped out of college and joined the United States Marine Corps after being drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War. Bixby served stateside duty in the Marines and was honorably discharged.
Robert Blake RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American actor who starred in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta. Joined the service in 1950.
Bobby Bland RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American singer of blues and soul. He is an original member of The Beale Streeters and is sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues". Along with such artists as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, and Junior Parker, Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1981, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. Served from 1952 to 1955.
Freddie Blassie RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American professional wrestling villain and manager, better known as "Classy" Freddie Blassie, born in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a master at antagonizing the crowd, and inspired legendary animosity. He was also a one-time NWA Georgia Heavyweight Champion (later known as the NWA Wildside Heavyweight Championship). Was also a 1 time NWA Southern Florida Champion. Served in WW2. Enlisted in the Navy and served in the Pacific Theater for 42 months. The war was a trying time for his family back home because of his parents' German heritage. They were often accused of being unpatriotic. In addition, he married a Jewish girl named Nettie Needles in California while on shore leave. He achieved the rank of Petty Officer Second Class before he was discharged.
Rocky Bleier RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American National Football League halfback who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1968 and from 1971 to 1980. In addition to being a great lead blocker, Bleier was the second of the Steelers' rushing weapons, but was effective nonetheless at both blocking and rushing. In 1976, both Harris and Bleier rushed for over 1,000 yards, making this the second NFL team to accomplish this feat, after Mercury Morris and Larry Csonka of the 1972 Miami Dolphins. Bleier played in the first four Steeler Super Bowl victories, and caught the touchdown pass from Terry Bradshaw that gave Pittsburgh a lead it would never surrender in Super Bowl XIII. Bleier retired after the 1980 season with 3,865 rushing yards, 136 receptions for 1,294 yards, and 25 touchdowns. At the time of his retirement, he was the Steelers fourth all-time leading rusher. Served in Vietnam. Was drafted in December 1968. He volunteered for duty in the Vietnam War and shipped out in May 1969, serving with the 196th Light Infantry Brigade. On August 20, while on patrol in Heip Duc, Bleier was wounded in the left thigh by a rifle bullet when his platoon was ambushed in a rice paddy. While down, an enemy grenade landed nearby after bouncing off a fellow soldier, sending shrapnel into his lower right leg. He was later awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. His rank was Specialist 4.
Roberts Blossom RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American actor and poet. He acted several theater roles in the 1950s, for which he won the Obie Award four times. He landed his first film roles in the television adaptation of the play Our Town (1959). In the thriller Deranged (1974) he played the lead role of killer Ezra Cobb. He also appeared in The Great Gatsby (1974), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Vision Quest (1985), and in Home Alone (1990), as Marley, Kevin McCallister's reclusive, unfairly stigmatized snow-shoveling neighbor. He retired from acting in the late-1990s to pursue writing poetry. Served in WW2 in the European Theater.
Humphrey Bogart RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon. The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema. His performance in Casablanca raised him to the peak of his profession and, at the same time, cemented his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. Other successes followed, including The African Queen (1951), for which he won his only Academy Award. During a film career of almost thirty years, he appeared in 75 feature films. Enlisted in 1918. Recorded as a model sailor who spent most of his months in the Navy after the Armistice was signed, ferrying troops back from Europe.
Cal Bolder RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	A bodybuilder who later turned to acting, Bolder was known for his roles in really bad movies and classic television series, but is best remembered for his role as 'Hank Tracy/Igor' in Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter in 1966. Bolder also appeared on the television programs Star Trek, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, Outlaws, and Cimarron Strip. Served in the Korean War.
Tommy Bond RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American actor best known for his work as a child actor for two different nonconsecutive periods on Our Gang (Little Rascals) comedies, and also for being the first actor to portray the role of "Superman's pal" Jimmy Olsen on screen. Bond was hired at Hal Roach Studios for the Our Gang series in the summer of 1931. In late 1934, Bond left the series and returned to public school. He later returned to Our Gang on a recurring basis late in 1936, when Roach hired him to play "Butch", the neighborhood bully. After the war Bond returned to acting, and appeared in a handful of East Side Kids, and Gas House Kids features alongside former on-screen rival Carl Switzer. In the late 1940s, Bond became the first actor to portray cub reporter Jimmy Olsen in two Superman film serials: Superman (1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950). He also appeared as Joey Pepper in several installments of the Five Little Peppers serial. He worked at Channel 11, KTTV in Los Angeles from the 1950s to the early 1970s. He then went to work for CBS affiliate Channel 30 KFSN in Fresno from the early 1970s to 1991. Bond also worked as a prop manager on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Served in WW2.
Richard Boone RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns and for starring in the TV series Have Gun - Will Travel. Joined in 1941. He served on three ships in the Pacific Theater during WW2, seeing combat as an aviation ordnanceman and gunner on TBM Avenger torpedo planes.
Ernest Borgnine RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American actor of television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning turn in the 1955 film Marty. On television, he played Quinton McHale in the 1962 to 1966 series McHale's Navy and costarred in the mid-1980s action series Airwolf in addition to a wide variety of other roles. Borgnine earned an Emmy nomination at age 92 for his work on the series ER. Served in WW2. Joined in 1935, after graduation from James Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut. He was discharged in 1941, but re-enlisted when the U.S. entered World WW2 and served until 1945 (a total of ten years), reaching the rank of Gunner's Mate 1st Class. He served aboard the destroyer USS Lamberton (DD-119). His military decorations included the American Campaign Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the American Defense Service Medal with Fleet Clasp, and the World War II Victory Medal.
Tom Bosley RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American actor best known for portraying Howard Cunningham on the long-running ABC sitcom Happy Days. His first motion picture role was in 1963, as the would-be suitor of Natalie Wood in Love with the Proper Stranger. Other films include The World of Henry Orient, Divorce American Style, Yours, Mine and Ours, Gus and the made-for-television The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal. He also portrayed the eponymous Father Frank Dowling on the TV mystery series, Father Dowling Mysteries. Served in WW2. Joined in 1945 at age 17. Bosley was remembered as having said: "I’m the only guy I know who went in as a seaman and came out a seaman".
Scott Brady RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American film and television actor. He specialized in tough-guy roles in films like He Walked by Night, Canon City and Johnny Guitar. He appeared twice on the long running TV western The Virginian in the 1960s. He also appeared regularly on the 1970s cop show, Police Story. Served in WW2 as a naval aviation mechanic overseas. During his term of duty he earned a light heavyweight boxing medal and was discharged in 1946.
Neville Brand RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army National Guard & U.S. Army	American television and movie actor. He used his GI Bill education assistance to study drama with the American Theater Wing and then appeared in several Broadway plays. His first movie was Port of New York (1949). Among his earliest films was the Oscar-winning Stalag 17 (1953). His heavy features and gravelly voice made Brand a natural tough guy. He played Al Capone in The George Raft Story (1961), The Scarface Mob (1959) (TV), and TV's "The Untouchables" (1959). Among his other memorable roles are the sympathetic guard in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and the representative of rioting convicts in Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954). Perhaps his best-loved role was that of the soft-hearted, loud-mouthed, none too bright but very effective Texas Ranger Reese Bennett of Backtrack! (1969), Three Guns for Texas (1968), and TV's "Laredo" (1965). He entered the Illinois Army National Guard on October 23, 1939 as a private in Company F, 129th Infantry Regiment. He then enlisted as Corporal Neville L. Brand infantryman on March 5, 1941. He trained at Fort Carson, and served nine months and nineteen days in the Army in WW2 seeing action with the 331st Infantry Regiment of the 83rd Infantry Division (Thunderbolt Division) in the Ardennes, Rhineland, and Central European campaigns. Brand, a sergeant and platoon leader, was wounded in action along the Weser River on April 7, 1945 for which he received the Purple Heart. His upper right arm was hit by a bullet, and he nearly bled to death. He was discharged from service in October 1945.
Hugh Brannum RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	American vocalist, arranger, composer and actor best known for his role as "Mr. Green Jeans" on the children's television show Captain Kangaroo. Served in WW2 and joined a Marine band led by Bob Crosby.
Walter Brennan RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor three times and is tied with Jack Nicholson for the most Academy Award wins for a male actor. Served as a private with the 101st Field Artillery Regiment in France during WW1.
Beau Bridges RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Coast Guard & U.S. Coast Guard Reserve	American film and television actor and director. In 1989, he starred opposite his brother in perhaps his best known role, as one of The Fabulous Baker Boys. First appeared in the movie The Red Pony (1949). In the 1962 to 1963 television season, Beau along with brother Jeff, appeared on their father's CBS anthology series, The Lloyd Bridges Show. Acting via a small role on his father's TV series Sea Hunt. He made his stage debut in 1966's Where's Daddy and continued appearing in leading film roles throughout the 1960s and '70s, easing into character leads. Bridges directed two feature films, The Wild Pair (1987) and Seven Hours to Judgment (1988). From 1993 to 1994 he appeared with his father in the 15-episode CBS comedy/western series, Harts of the West. He had a recurring role in the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers (1999 to 2000). On February 8, 2009, he won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Enlisted in 1959 and also spent 8 years in the reserves.
Jeff Bridges RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Coast Guard	American actor and musician. Bridges is also a musician, a photographer, and an occasional vintner and a storyteller. He comes from a well-known acting family, and worked as a child with his father, Lloyd Bridges, and brother Beau on television's Sea Hunt. Some of his best-known movies include Tron, Fearless, Iron Man, The Contender, Starman, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds, The Fisher King, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Seabiscuit, Tron: Legacy, and The Big Lebowski. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 82nd Academy Awards for his role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the 2009 movie Crazy Heart. Served in the late 1960s and as a reservist in the early 1970s.
David Brinkley RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top rated nightly news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on election night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Served in WW2. Joined in 1941 and was discharged for medical reasons in 1943.
Al Brodax RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American film and television producer. He was sometimes credited as "Al Broadax." From 1950 to 1960, Brodax helped develop Your Show of Shows, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse, and Omnibus. He joined King Features Syndicate in 1960 as the head of their film and television development department. Brodax oversaw the production of over 200 Popeye shorts in 1960 to 1962. Brodax was also the producer of King Features' animated revival of Krazy Kat, as well as Cool McCool, Beetle Bailey, Snuffy Smith, and Casper the Friendly Ghost. He was later involved in the production of the animated Beatles film, Yellow Submarine, as producer and co-screenwriter. Served in WW2. Enlisted at the age of eighteen. He was wounded in action, and was subsequently awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Medical Badge, and three battle stars.
Charles Bronson RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American actor best known for his "tough guy" image. Bronson starred in films such as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Mr. Majestyk, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series. In 1943, Bronson enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces and served as an aerial gunner in the 760th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, and in 1945 as a B-29 Superfortress crewman with the 39th Bombardment Group based on Guam. He was awarded a Purple Heart for wounds received during his service.
Mel Brooks RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 comedy films of all-time: Blazing Saddles at number 6, The Producers at number 11, and Young Frankenstein at number 13. Served as a corporal during WW2, taking part in the Battle of the Bulge.
William F. Buckley, Jr. RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. He wrote God and Man at Yale (1951); among over 50 other books on writing, speaking, history, and politics. Served in WW2. Upon his graduation from the U.S. Army Officer Candidate School in 1944, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant. In his book, Miles Gone By, he briefly recounts being a member of Franklin Roosevelt's honor guard when the president died.
Richard Burton RETURN TO INDEX	Royal Air Force	Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role (without ever winning), and was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. Served in WW2 (1944 to 1947) as a navigator.
Red Buttons RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	Academy Award-winning American comedian and actor. Drafted in 1943 he appeared in the Army Air Forces Broadway show Winged Victory. A year later he appeared in Darryl F. Zanuck's movie version of Winged Victory, directed by George Cukor. He also entertained troops in the European Theater in the same unit as Mickey Rooney.

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