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Buddy Hackett RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American comedian and actor. A frequent guest on such talk shows as those of Jack Paar and Arthur Godfrey, telling brash, often off-color jokes, and mugging at the camera. He was on the Johnny Carson show as a frequent guest. During this time, he also appeared as a panelist on What's My Line?. Hackett became widely known from his role in the 1963 box-office success It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Served in WW2 in an anti-aircraft battery.
Larry Hagman RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Air Force	American film and television actor, producer and director known for playing J.R. Ewing in the 1980s primetime television soap opera Dallas and Major Anthony 'Tony' Nelson in the 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. Drafted in 1952 during the Korean War. Stationed in London, spent the majority of his military service entertaining U.S. troops in the UK and at bases in Europe.
Gene Hackman RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	American actor and novelist. Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned four decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films include his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971) and its sequel French Connection II (1975); The Poseidon Adventure (1972); A Bridge Too Far (1977); his role as arch-villain Lex Luthor in Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987); Hoosiers (1986); Mississippi Burning (1987); Unforgiven (1992); and Crimson Tide (1995). At 16, he left home to join the service where he served four-and-a-half years as a field radio operator. Dates unknown.
Donald Haines RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American child actor who had recurring appearances in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1929 to 1933. His career began during the early talkies up through the "Miss Crabtree episodes". His first Our Gang short was Shivering Shakespeare, which featured the youngster giggling his way through his lines. On the next short The First Seven Years, he was a main character, playing opposite Jackie Cooper. After that, he was a recurring character with a few small speaking roles until 1931. At that time he was offered a contract with Paramount, which would begin with a role in a feature called Skippy. Haines left the Our Gang series in 1933, but continued working as an actor at Hal Roach studios on many shorts and features until 1941. This included the East Side Kids films, beginning with East Side Kids, and Boys of the City as "Pee Wee", then That Gang of Mine, Pride of the Bowery, Flying Wild, Bowery Blitzkrieg and Spooks Run Wild as "Skinny". Served in WW2. Enlisted as an aviation cadet on December 10, 1941. He was killed in action shortly after entering the service. At the time of his death, his rank was First Lieutenant. The exact date and place of his death remain unknown.
Alan Hale Jr. RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Coast Guard	American movie and television actor, best known for his role as Skipper (Jonas Grumby) on the popular sitcom Gilligan's Island. During his career, he was noted for his supporting character roles in such movies as Up Periscope with James Garner, The Fifth Musketeer, The Lady Takes a Flyer, stock car racing film Thunder in Carolina, The Giant Spider Invasion, Hang 'Em High with Clint Eastwood, and The West Point Story with James Cagney as well as The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck. Served in WW2.
Tom T. Hall RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American country balladeer, songwriter, country singer and author. He has written 11 #1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the pop crossover hit "I Love", which reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. He became known to fans as "The Storyteller," thanks to his storytelling skills in his songwriting. One of his earliest successful songwriting ventures, Harper Valley PTA, was recorded in 1968 by Jeannie C. Riley, sold over six million copies, and won both a Grammy Award and CMA award. Hall won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes in 1973 for the notes he wrote for his album Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits. On February 12, 2008, Hall was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Enlisted in 1957 and was stationed in Germany. While in Germany, he performed at local NCO clubs on the Armed Forces Radio Network, where he sang mostly original material, which usually had a comic bent to it. After four years of service, he was discharged in 1961.
MC Hammer RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American rapper, entertainer, business entrepreneur, dancer and actor. Born Stanley Kirk Burrell, he was commercially most popular during the late 1980s until the mid-1990s. Remembered for a rapid rise to fame before losing the majority of his fortune, Hammer is also known for his hit records, including "U Can't Touch This", flamboyant dance techniques and trademark Hammer pants. Hammer's superstar-status made him a household name and pop icon. He has sold more than 50 million records worldwide, demonstrating hip hop's potential for mass market success. Served for three years in the mid-1980s with Patron (Patrol Squadron) Forty Seven (VP-47) of Moffett Field in Mountain View, California as a Petty Officer Third Class Aviation Store Keeper (AK3) until his honorable discharge.
Cedric Hardwicke RETURN TO INDEX	British Army	English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly fifty years. Hardwicke's theatre work included notable performances in productions of the plays of William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw, and his film work included leading roles in a number of adapted literary classics. He played in such film classics as Les Misérables (1935), King Solomon's Mines (1937), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Winslow Boy (1948) Richard III (1955), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949), and The Ten Commandments (1956). He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. From 1914 to 1921 he served with the British Army in France.
Tom Harmon RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American college football star, a sports broadcaster, and patriarch of a family of American actors. As a player, he won the Heisman Trophy in 1940 and is considered by some to be the greatest football player in Michigan Wolverines history. Harmon rushed for 2,134 yards during his career at Michigan, completed 100 passes for 1,304 yards and 16 touchdowns, and scored 237 points. During his career he played all 60 minutes 8 times. He led the nation in scoring in 1939 and 1940, a feat that remains unmatched. From 1946 to 1947 Harmon played football professionally with the Los Angeles Rams. He focused his professional career as planned on being a sports broadcaster on radio and television, one of the first athletes to make the transition from player to on-camera talent. In 1954, Harmon was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame. Served in WW2. Enlisted as a pilot in the Army Air Corps on November 8, 1941. Early in 1943, Harmon parachuted into the South American Jungle when his plane flew into a tropical storm. None of the other crewmen bailed out or survived. He was the object of a massive regional search operation once his plane was reported missing. Four days later he stumbled into a clearing in Dutch Guiana. He then transferred to single seat fighters. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Silver Star for his actions with the 449th Fighter Squadron. These included having his plane shot down over Japanese occupied China.
Rex Harrison RETURN TO INDEX	Royal Air Force	English actor of stage and screen. Harrison won both an Academy Award and a Tony Award. He was best known for his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins with Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 film version of My Fair Lady. Served in WW2, reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant.
Freddie Hart RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	American country musician and songwriter best-known for his No. 1 hit "Easy Loving," which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award in 1971 and 1972. Hart charted singles from 1953–1987, and later became a gospel singer. He continues to perform at music festivals and other venues. In 2001, Hart was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. Served in WW2. At age 15, Hart lied about his age to join the service seeing combat action on Guam and Iwo Jima.
Ernie Harwell RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	American sportscaster, known for his long career calling play-by-play of Major League Baseball games. For 55 years, 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers, Harwell called the action on radio and/or television. In January 2009, the American Sportscasters Association ranked Harwell 16th on its list of Top 50 Sportscasters of All Time. Served in WW2 from 1942 to 1946 as a correspondent, location unkown.
Bob Hastings RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American film, radio, and television character actor. He started in radio on "Coast-to-Coast on a Bus" for NBC. After the war he played the role of Archie Andrews in a series based on the Archie comic book series on the NBC Red Network. Hastings later moved to television in 1949, performing in early science-fiction series, including Atom Squad. His first recurring role was as a lieutenant on Sergeant Bilko in the late 1950s. He appeared on several sitcoms including Green Acres, McHale's Navy, and The Munsters. He was briefly the host of the game show Dealer's Choice, and had a recurring role as bar owner Tommy Kelcy on All in the Family. He was in the 1971 comedy movie How to Frame a Figg. Hastings has also done voice work for animation and commercials. Served in WW2 as a navigator on a B-29 Superfortress in the Pacific Theater.
Howard Hawks RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Service	American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), the highest-grossing film of its year and won two Academy Awards (Best Actor and Best Editing), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Rio Bravo (1959), and El Dorado (1967). Hawks has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street. Served after WW1 in the Army Air Service.
Stirling Hayden RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as Johnny Guitar, The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing. Later on he became noted as a character actor for such roles as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). He also played the Irish policeman, Captain McCluskey, in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather in 1972. He left Hollywood and joined the Marines as a private, under the name "John Hamilton" (a pseudonym Hayden only used in the military). While at Parris Island he was recommended for Officer Candidate School. After graduation, he was commissioned a second lieutenant and was transferred to service as an undercover agent with William J. Donovan's COI office. He remained there after it became the OSS. As OSS agent John Hamilton, his WW2 service included sailing with supplies from Italy to Yugoslav partisans and parachuting into fascist Croatia. Hayden, who also participated in the Naples-Foggia campaign and established air crew rescue teams in enemy-occupied territory, became a first lieutenant on September 13, 1944, and a captain on February 14, 1945. He received the Silver Star (for gallantry in action in the Balkans and Mediterranean; "Lt. Hamilton displayed great courage in making hazardous sea voyages in enemy-infested waters and reconnaissance through enemy-held areas"), a Bronze Arrowhead device for parachuting behind enemy lines, and a commendation from Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. He left active duty on December 24, 1945.
Peter Lind Hayes RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter, and film and television actor. He appeared in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and had a significant television career in the 1950s. He may be best remembered for several short-lived television series in which they co-hosted or co-starred, such as The Peter Lind Hayes Show (1950 to 1951) or Peter Loves Mary (1960 to 1961). He had a considerable reputation as a singer of comic songs, several of which made their way onto record, e.g. "Life Gets Teejus, Don't It". Served in WW2 as a Technical Sergeant from 1942 to 1946. Awarded the Bronze Star.
Jay Hebert RETURN TO INDEX	U.S.Marine Corps	American golfer. He won seven times on the PGA Tour including the 1960 PGA Championship. He played on the 1959 and 1961 Ryder Cup teams and was captain for the 1971 team. Hebert worked as the playing pro at Mayfair Country Club in the 1950s. The club was home to a PGA Tour event, the Mayfair Inn Open, from 1955 to 1958. Served in WW2. He rose to the rank of captain and was wounded in the leg at the Battle of Iwo Jima and received a Purple Heart.
Van Heflin RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American film and theatre actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager (1942). He began his acting career on Broadway in the early 1930s before being signed to a contract by RKO Radio Pictures. He made his film debut in A Woman Rebels (1936), opposite Katharine Hepburn. He was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was initially cast in supporting roles in Santa Fe Trail (1940). MGM began to groom him as a leading man in B movies, and provided him with supporting roles in more prestigious productions. His best-known film became the 1953 classic western Shane. Among his other notable film credits are Presenting Lily Mars (1943), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Possessed (1947), Green Dolphin Street (1947), Act of Violence (1948), The Three Musketeers (1948), The Prowler (1951) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957). Heflin also performed on stage throughout his acting career. Credits include The Philadelphia Story on Broadway, A Memory of Two Mondays, and A View From the Bridge. Served in WW2 as a combat cameraman in the Ninth Air Force in the European Theater and with the First Motion Picture Unit.
Hugh Hefner RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American magazine publisher, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises. Served during WW2 as a writer for a military newspaper, location unknown.
Joseph Heller RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American satirical novelist, short story writer and playwright. He wrote the influential novel Catch-22 about American servicemen during WW2. The title of this work entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty. In 1942, at age 19, he joined the service. Two years later he was sent to Italian Front, where he flew 60 combat missions as a B-25 bombardier. His Unit was the 488th Bomb Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the beginning... You got the feeling that there was something glorious about it.
Sherman Hemsley RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Air Force	American actor, most famous for his role as George Jefferson on the CBS television series All in the Family and The Jeffersons, and as Deacon Ernest Frye on the NBC series Amen. Dropped out of school and joined the service in the late 1950s where he stayed for four years.
Chad Hennings RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Air Force	American football defensive lineman for the Air Force Academy Falcons and Dallas Cowboys. He won the Outland Trophy in his senior year of college. Despite facing an obligation to enter the Air Force upon graduating the Academy, he was drafted in the eleventh round of the 1988 NFL Draft by the Cowboys, and played in the National Football League, winning three Super Bowls. Graduating from the United States Air Force Academy in 1988, entered undergraduate pilot training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas as part of the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) Program conducted by the 80th Flying Training Wing. He became an A-10 pilot and was assigned to the 92d Tactical Fighter Squadron, a unit of the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing based at RAF Bentwaters in the United Kingdom, in June 1990. He deployed twice to the Persian Gulf. From April to June 1991, and October 1991 to January 1992, based at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, he flew 45 A-10 missions in support of Operation Provide Comfort, an effort that helped provide relief and humanitarian aid to Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq. He was twice awarded the Air Force Achievement Medal, a humanitarian award and an Outstanding Unit Award for his actions in the service.
Charlton Heston RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Taylor in Planet of the Apes, twice as Andrew Jackson in The President's Lady and The Buccaneer; the eponymous characters of El Cid and Judah Ben Hur in Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Heston was also known for his political activism. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Initially a moderate Democrat, he later supported conservative Republican policies and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003. During WW2 served for two years as a radio operator and aerial gunner aboard a B-25 Mitchell stationed in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands with the Eleventh Air Force. He reached the rank of Staff Sergeant.
Christopher Hewett RETURN TO INDEX	Royal Air Force	English actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Belvedere on the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere. At 16, Hewett joined the Royal Air Force leaving in 1940.
Tony Hillerman RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. Several of his works have been adapted as big-screen and television movies. Hillerman's commercial breakthrough was "Skinwalkers," published in 1987 - the first time he put both characters and their divergent world views in the same book. It sold 430,000 hardcover copies, paving the way for "A Thief of Time," which made several best seller lists. In all, he wrote 18 books in the Navajo series, the most recent titled "The Shape Shifter." Hillerman's novels have made the New York Times bestseller list four times and been translated into at least thirteen languages, including Japanese. He has received many honors, including the Edgar Award and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America, the Center for the American Indians Ambassador Award, the Silver Spur Award for Western novels, the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, and the Navajo Tribe's Special Friend Award. Served in WW2 and was a decorated combat veteran, having served as a mortarman in the 103rd Infantry Division in the European Theater. He earned the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart.
Pat Hingle RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American actor. Hingle was traditionally known for playing judges, police officers, and other authority figures. He was a guest star on the early NBC legal drama Justice. He is probably best known for his role as Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film Batman, and its three sequels. Hingle appeared in Hang 'Em High (1968), Sudden Impact (1983), Road To Redemption (2001), When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (1979), Brewster's Millions (1985), Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Grifters (1990), Citizen Cohn (1992), The Land Before Time (1988), Wings (1996), and Shaft (2000). He played Dr. Chapman in the TV series Gunsmoke (1971), and Col. Tucker in the movie Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992). Served in WW2. Enlisted in December 1941, dropping out of the University of Texas. He served on the destroyer USS Marshall (DD-676) in the Pacific Theater.
Hal Holbrook RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American actor. His television roles include Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. He is also known for his role in the 2007 film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award. He has also done a one man show as Mark Twain since 1954. Served in WW2 and was stationed in Newfoundland, Canada.
William Holden RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American actor. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1953 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974. One of the biggest box office draws of the 1950s, he was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954 to 1958, 1961) and appeared on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years…100 Stars list as #25. Served in WW2 as a 2nd lieutenant where he acted in training films.
Don Holleder RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American college football star. He was heavily recruited by a number of top college football teams, including West Point's offensive coach Vince Lombardi. He elected to enroll at the United States Military Academy at West Point. The New York Giants selected Holleder in the 1956 NFL Draft college draft, but Holleder was not interested in a professional football career. After graduating West Point, he continued to serve in the Army. Over the next ten years he rose to the rank of Major, serving posts in Korea and Germany, and briefly returning to West Point as an instructor and assistant football coach. In 1967, Holleder requested to be sent to Vietnam, where he became the Operations Officer for 2nd Battalion 28th Infantry of the 1st Infantry Division. He was killed in the Battle of Ong Thanh on October 17, 1967 while attempting to rescue a group of his fellow soldiers who had been ambushed. Holleder battled sniper fire to land his helicopter in a clearing. While he was leading the evacuation, he was struck by enemy fire and killed. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart.
Earl Holliman RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American film and television actor. Holliman first appeared in 1953's Scared Stiff. Three years later, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture for his performance in the 1956 film, The Rainmaker. Other notable film appearances were in Broken Lance, Giant, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Forbidden Planet, Hot Spell, Visit to a Small Planet, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, The Trap, The Big Combo, The Sons of Katie Elder, Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff, Last Train from Gun Hill and Summer and Smoke. He continued to appear in television guest roles throughout the 1970s and 1980s. His most notable role was in the hit mini-series The Thorn Birds. He also took part in the Gunsmoke reunion movie Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987). Holliman has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Blvd. Served in WW2. He lied about his age and enlisted. Assigned to a Navy communications school in Los Angeles, he spent his free time at the Hollywood Canteen, talking to stars who dropped by to support the servicemen and women. A year after he enlisted, the Navy discovered his real age and discharged him. As soon as he was old enough, he re-enlisted in the Navy and was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. Interested in acting, he was cast as the lead in several Norfolk Navy Theatre productions.
John Holmes RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American porn star, appearing in about 2,500 adult loops, stag films, and pornographic feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s. His early movie success included Deep Throat (1972), Behind the Green Door (1972), and The Devil in Miss Jones (1973). He died from AIDS-related complications. With his mother's written permission, he dropped out of his junior year of high school and enlisted in 1960. After advanced training at Fort Gordon, Georgia, he spent three years in West Germany in the Signal Corps.
Tim Holt RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Force	American film actor perhaps best known for co-starring in the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. In 1938 at the age of 19, Holt, stared as Harry Carey in The Law West of Tombstone. It was the first of the many Western films he made during the 1940s. He was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Served in WW2. Was discharged with the rank of second lieutenant. Wounded in Tokyo on the last day of the war, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Victory Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, and the Purple Heart.
Anthony Hopkins RETURN TO INDEX	British Army	Welsh actor of film, stage and television. Considered to be one of the greatest living actors, Hopkins is perhaps best known for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor), its sequel Hannibal, and its prequel Red Dragon. Other prominent film credits include The Lion in Winter, Magic, The Elephant Man, 84 Charing Cross Road, Dracula, Legends of the Fall, The Remains of the Day, Amistad, Nixon, and Fracture. Hopkins was born and brought up in Wales. Retaining his British citizenship, he became a U.S. citizen on 12 April 2000. Hopkins' films have spanned a wide variety of genres, from family films to horror. As well as his Academy Award, Hopkins has also won three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys, a Golden Globe and a Cecil B. DeMille Award. Spent two years in the British Army doing his national service, circa 1957 to 1959.
Ralph Houk RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American catcher, coach, manager, and front office executive in Major League Baseball. He is best known as the successor of Casey Stengel as the manager of the New York Yankees from 1961 to 1963, when he won three consecutive American League pennants and the 1961 to 1962 World Series championships. Served in WW2. He enlisted in the armed forces, became an Army Ranger, and rose to Major (the source of his Yankee nickname). He was a combat veteran of Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge, and was awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and the Silver Star with oak clusters.
John Howard RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American actor noted for his work in film and television. Howard made his Broadway debut in Hazel Flagg in 1953. He was a regular guest on My Three Sons, playing Fred MacMurray's boss. He became one of the first screen actors to commit to working in the new field of television and continued to make occasional film appearances until the mid-1970s, then gradually moved into academia. Served during WW2, eventually as Executive Officer aboard a minesweeper. When his vessel struck a mine off the French coast in August, 1944, killing the captain and severely damaging the ship, Howard took over command and fought valiantly to save his ship and crew, even jumping into the sea to save several wounded sailors. For his gallantry he was awarded both the U.S. Navy Cross and the French Croix de Guerre.
Leslie Howard RETURN TO INDEX	British Army	English stage and film actor, director, and producer. Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939) and roles in Berkeley Square (1933), Of Human Bondage (1934), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The Petrified Forest (1936), Pygmalion (1938), Intermezzo (1939), Pimpernel Smith (1941) and The First of the Few (1942). Served in WW1 at the outbreak of the war. He served in the British Army as a subaltern in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, but suffered shell shock, which led to his relinquishing his commission in May 1916. He died in 1943, when the KLM plane he was in was shot down by German fighters over the Bay of Biscay.
Rock Hudson RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American film and television actor, recognized as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in several romantic comedies with Doris Day. Hudson was voted "Star of the Year", "Favorite Leading Man", and similar titles by numerous movie magazines. The 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall actor was one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. He completed nearly 70 motion pictures and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned over four decades. Hudson was also one of the first major Hollywood celebrities to die from an AIDS-related illness. Served in the Philippines as an aircraft mechanic during WW2.
Tab Hunter RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Coast Guard	American actor, singer, former teen idol and author who has starred in over forty major films. He had a 1957 hit record with a cover of the song "Young Love", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks. Hunter's was in the 1958 musical film Damn Yankees. Hunter was Warner Bros. top money grossing star from 1955 through 1959. In 1958, he sang on ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, a venue open to scores of performers in the entertainment world. On October 27, 1960, Hunter performed on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. In 1946 at the age of 15, he joined the Coast Guard, lying about his age in order to be admitted.
Bobby Hutchins RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army & U.S. Army Air Forces	American child actor who was a regular in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1926 to 1933. A native of Tacoma, Washington, he was given the nickname of Wheezer after running around the studios on his first day so much that he began to wheeze. He appears as the main character of several of the films, including Bouncing Babies, Pups is Pups, Big Ears and Dogs is Dogs. He left the series at the end of the 1932 to 1933 film season after appearing in Mush and Milk; his only film work outside of Our Gang includes a handful of appearances in three outside features in 1932 and 1933. Served in WW2. Joined in 1943 after graduating high school, and in 1945 enrolled to become an air cadet. Hutchins was killed in a mid-air collision on May 17, 1945, while trying to land a North American AT-6D-NT Texan, serial number 42-86536, of the 3026th Base Unit, when it struck an AT-6C-15-NT Texan, 42-49068, of the same unit, at Merced Army Air Field in Merced, California, during a training exercise.

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