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Gavin MacLeod RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Air Force	American actor most notable for playing Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat. Served in the 1950s.
Karl Malden RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he featured in classic Marlon Brando films such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks. Among other notable film roles were Archie Lee Meighan in Baby Doll, Zebulon Prescott in How the West Was Won and General Omar Bradley in Patton. His best-known role was on television as Lt. Mike Stone on the 1970s crime drama, The Streets of San Francisco. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was the spokesman for American Express, reminding cardholders "Don't leave home without it". Served in WW2 as a non-commissioned officer with the 8th Air Force in the European Theater.
Delbert Mann RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty. Mann is also the only director other than Billy Wilder and Roman Polanski to win an Oscar for his direction and a Cannes Palme d'Or for the same film. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America. Served in WW2 as a combat pilot of a B-24 Liberator of the 467th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force in England.
Rocky Marciano RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	Italian-American boxer and the heavyweight champion of the world from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956. When he retired he became the only heavyweight champion to finish his career undefeated. In March 1943, Marciano was drafted for a term of two years. Stationed in Swansea, Wales, he helped ferry supplies across the English Channel to Normandy. After the war ended, he completed his service in March 1946 at Fort Lewis, Washington.
Dean Martin RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare" and smash hit "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?". Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he was one of the members of the "Rat Pack" and a major star in four areas of show business: concert stage/night clubs, recordings, motion pictures, and television. Drafted in 1944 during WW2 he served a year stationed in Akron, Ohio. He was then reclassified as 4-F (possibly because of a double hernia; Jerry Lewis referred to the surgery Martin needed for this in his autobiography) and was discharged.
Dino Martin RETURN TO INDEX	California Air National Guard	American entertainer, noted as a tennis player, a singer and actor, and a military pilot. Born Dean Paul Martin, son of performer Dean Martin and his second wife, Jeanne Biegger. At age thirteen he joined Desi Arnaz Jr. and Billy Hinsche in the pop group Dino, Desi, & Billy, which had a few minor nationwide hits between 1965 and 1968, landing in the Top 30 twice. Martin began to go by his given name of Dean Paul instead of the nickname "Dino" in his late teens. He became a successful tennis player (he competed in a junior competition at Wimbledon) and an actor. He co-starred with Ali MacGraw in the 1979 film Players, starring as a professional tennis player, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as Best New Star of the Year -- Male. He later starred in the TV series Misfits of Science which aired during the 1985 to 1986 television season. An avid pilot, he obtained his pilot's license at age 16 and became an officer in the California Air National Guard in 1981. He rose to the rank of Captain. He died in 1987 when his National Guard F-4 Phantom fighter jet crashed in California's San Bernardino Mountains during a snowstorm, killing him and his WSO (Weapons Systems Officer), Captain Ramon Ortiz.
Strother Martin RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American actor in numerous films and television programs. Martin is perhaps best known as the prison "captain" in the 1967 Paul Newman film Cool Hand Luke, where he uttered the line, "What we've got here is...failure to communicate." Martin's distinctive, reedy voice and menacing demeanor made him ideal for villainous roles in many of the best-known Westerns of the 1960s and 1970s, including The Horse Soldiers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In 1967, he appeared in the episode "A Mighty Hunter Before the Lord" of NBC's The Road West. In 1972, he appeared in the "Zacharia" episode of Nichols. Martin appeared in all three of the classic Westerns released in 1969: Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (as Coffer, a bloodthirsty bounty hunter); George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (as Percy Garris, the "colorful" Bolivian mine boss who hires the two title characters); and Henry Hathaway's True Grit (as Colonel Stonehill, a horse dealer). Though he usually appeared in supporting roles, he had major parts in Hannie Caulder, The Brotherhood of Satan (both 1971), Pocket Money (1972), and SSSSSSS (1973). He also appeared in the hockey classic Slap Shot (1977), again with Paul Newman, as the cheap manager of the Charlestown Chiefs. On televsision he appeared in I Love Lucy, Gunsmoke, Kentucky Jones, The Legend of Jesse James, Lost In Space, Gilligan's Island, and The Rockford Files. One of his last acting jobs was as host of Saturday Night Live on April 19, 1980. Served in WW2 as a swimming instructor in the U.S.
Lee Marvin RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	American film actor known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6' 2" stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers and other hardboiled characters, but after winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou (1965), he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles. Served in WW2 as a sniper in the 4th Marine Division. He was wounded in action during the Battle of Saipan, during which most of his platoon were killed. Marvin's wound was from machine gun fire, which severed his sciatic nerve. He was awarded the Purple Heart and was given a medical discharge with the rank of Private First Class.
Jerry Mathers RETURN TO INDEX	Air National Guard	American television, film, and stage actor. Mathers is best known for his role in the television sitcom series Leave It to Beaver (1957 to 1963), in which he played Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver. His early movies included This is My Love (1954), Men of the Fighting Lady (1954), The Seven Little Foys (1955) and The Trouble with Harry (1955). In 1978, he reentered the entertainment industry. He has since starred in Playing Patti (1998) and Better Luck Tomorrow (2002). He has also been in It's Howdy Doody Time (1987), Down the Drain (1990) and Sexual Malice (1994). He has also appeared in numerous stage productions. Served in the Air National Guard from 1966 to 1969.
Don Matheson RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps & U.S. Army	American television actor, best known for his continuing role in Irwin Allen's series Land of the Giants. In 1965 Matheson appeared in the Lost in Space episode, The Sky Is Falling in the non-speaking roll of the alien Retho and then in 1968 as Idak Alpha 12 in the episode Revolt of the Androids. After working in a number of plays, television episodes and commercials, Matheson was signed to join the cast of the Land of the Giants. In 1984, he had a regular role in the primetime series Falcon Crest. He also appeared briefly in another primetime soap, Dynasty. Served in the Korean War. Left high school at the age of sixteen, and continued his education whilst in service in the Marine Corps. After some time in the Army Airborne division, he was transfered to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). He acted as an agent for the United Nations Command, posted in Korea. Whilst in Korea, he was awarded the Bronze Star for valorous leadership and a Purple Heart for injuries suffered in an explosion. His CID work included investigations in to the use of narcotics amongst Army troops.
Tim Matheson RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps Reserve	American actor, director and producer. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the smooth-talking Eric 'Otter' Stratton in the 1978 comedy Animal House. At the age of 13, he in the TV comedy series Window on Main Street (1961 to 1962). In 1964, he provided the voice of the lead character in the cartoon Jonny Quest. He was also the voice of Jace in the original animated series Space Ghost. He also appeared earlier in the ABC television comedy series My Three Sons and Leave It to Beaver. In 1969, he joined the cast of NBC's The Virginian. In the fall of 1976, Matheson appeared with Kurt Russell in the 15-episode NBC series The Quest. He co-starred in Animal House (1978) opposite John Belushi; the following year, he appeared opposite Belushi again in Spielberg's 1941. Matheson starred in the 1984 comedy movie Up the Creek and the comedy Fletch. He went on to act in over 100 film and television projects. In addition to playing Sheriff Matthew Donner in the short-lived Wolf Lake, he has directed episodes of Third Watch, Ed, The Twilight Zone, Cold Case, Without a Trace, The West Wing, Burn Notice, Psych, Shark, White Collar, and Criminal Minds. In 2009, Matheson directed the pilot episode of Covert Affairs. Service dates unknown.
Christy Mathewson RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played his entire career in what is known as the dead-ball era. In 1936, Mathewson was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" inaugural members. In 1918, Mathewson enlisted in the United States Army for WW1. He served overseas as a Captain in the newly formed Chemical Service along with Ty Cobb. While in France, during a training exercise he was accidentally gassed and subsequently developed tuberculosis.
Walter Matthau RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears. He won an Academy Award for his performance in the 1966 Billy Wilder film The Fortune Cookie. During WW2 he served with the Eighth Air Force in England as a B-24 Liberator radioman-gunner, in the same 453rd Bombardment Group as James Stewart. He reached the rank of staff sergeant.
Al Matthews RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	American actor and singer, best known as Sergeant Apone in the 1986 movie Aliens. He has played various movie roles, including a fire chief in Superman III (1983), General Tudor in The Fifth Element (1997), and Master Sergeant #3 in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). He has also worked in British television and theatre, and has worked in radio, both as an actor (on BBC Radio 4) and as a presenter for BBC Radio 1 and Capital Radio. In 1975, he scored his only hit in the UK Singles Chart, "Fool" which reached number 16 in the autumn of that year. Served in Vietnam. After 6 years of service he holds thirteen combat awards and decorations, including two purple hearts. He was the first black Marine in the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam, to be meritoriously promoted to the rank of sergeant. He served with Kilo Battery, Fourth Battalion, 11th Marines, 1st Marine Division.
Bill Mauldin RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. He was most famous for his WW2 cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters "Willie and Joe", two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field. These cartoons were broadly published and distributed in the American army abroad and in the U.S. Served in WW2. Assigned to the 45th Infantry Division, he volunteered to work for the unit's newspaper, drawing cartoons about regular soldiers or "dogfaces". In July 1943 as a sergeant of the 45th Division's press corps, he landed with the division in the invasion of Sicily and later in the Italian campaign. Mauldin began working for Stars and Stripes, the American soldiers' newspaper; as well as the 45th Division News, until he was officially transferred to the Stars and Stripes in February 1944. In in September 1943 he was wounded in the shoulder by a German mortar while visiting a machine gun crew near Monte Cassino. By the end of the war he also received the Army's Legion of Merit for his cartoons.
Bob May RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American actor best remembered for playing The Robot on the television series Lost in Space, which debuted in 1965 and ran until 1968. May appeared in all 83 episodes inside a prop costume built by Bob Stewart. May became an actor, stage performer, stuntman, director and public speaker, appearing in several films together with Jerry Lewis, including The Nutty Professor. He also performed in several television series, including The Time Tunnel, McHale's Navy and The Red Skelton Show. May also worked as a stuntman, performing in television programs and movies of the 1950s and 1960s, among them Cheyenne, Hawaiian Eye, Palm Springs Weekend, Stagecoach, Surfside 6, The Roaring Twenties and 77 Sunset Strip. Was a sergeant, dates unknown. Served with the U.S.O. as an in-house performer when the outside shows could not reach the camps. Bob gave much to the entertainment of the soldiers, as he produced and performed in many productions during his service.
Tim McCoy RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army & U.S. Army Air Forces	American actor, military officer, and expert on American Indian life and customs. Resigning from the Army, he returned to ranching and concurrently served as territorial Indian agent. In 1922, he provided Indian extras for the Western extravaganza, The Covered Wagon (1923). He brought hundreds of Indians to Hollywood and served as technical advisor on the film. MGM speedily signed him to a contract to star in a series of Westerns and McCoy rapidly rose to stardom, making scores of Westerns and occasional non-Westerns. In 1935, he left Hollywood, first to tour with the Ringling Brothers Circus and then with his own Wild West show. He returned to films in 1940, in a series teaming him with Buck Jones and Raymond Hatton. Hosted local TV (Los Angeles) with The Tim McCoy Show (1952) for children on weekday afternoons and Saturdays in which he provided authentic history lessons on the Old West. Served in WW1. Serving again in WW2 in Europe, her rose to the rank of Colonel with the Army Air Corps. He also served the state of Wyoming as its Adjutant General between the wars with the brevet rank of Brigadier General. McCoy spent the war in the U.S. Army and performed liaison work with the Army Air Forces in Europe, winning several decorations. At 28, he was reputed to be the youngest Brigadier General in the history of the US Army.
Jody McCrea RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American film and television actor. He began acting on the 1959 to 1960 television series Wichita Town with his father. He went on to star in films, including Lafayette Escadrille, The Broken Land, Law of the Lawless, and Cry Blood, Apache, which he also produced. He was most notable for his comedic role as dumb-minded "Deadhead" ("Bonehead") in Beach Party (1963). Other beach movies in which he has appeared include Muscle Beach Party, Bikini Beach, and Beach Blanket Bingo. He made several television appearances, including Wagon Train, Vacation Playhouse, and The Greatest Show on Earth. Served in Special Services.
George McFarland RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Air Force	American actor most famous for his appearances as "Spanky" in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The Our Gang shorts were later syndicated to television as "The Little Rascals". His earliest films show him as an outspoken toddler, grumpily going along with the rest of the gang. His scene-stealing abilities brought him more attention, and by 1935 he was the de facto leader of the gang, often paired with Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, and always the enterprising "idea man". McFarland's only starring feature-film vehicle was the 1936 Hal Roach film General Spanky, an unsuccessful attempt to move the Our Gang series into features. He also appeared as a juvenile performer in many non-Roach feature films, including the Wheeler & Woolsey comedy Kentucky Kernels and two Fritz Lang features of the 1940s. Following the 1938 Our Gang short Came the Brawn, McFarland "retired" from Our Gang, beginning a personal appearance tour. In the mid-1950s he hosted an afternoon children's show, The Spanky Show, on KOTV television in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His final television performance was in 1993, playing himself in the cold open of the Cheers episode "Woody Gets An Election". In 1952, at age 24, he joined the service.
Bill McKinney RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American character actor whose most famous role was the sadistic mountain man who abused and then sodomized Bobby Trippe (Ned Beatty) in the movie Deliverance (1972). McKinney is also recognizable for his performances in seven Clint Eastwood films, most notably as Union cavalry commander Captain "Redlegs" Terrill in The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). Other memorable films The Shootist (1976), First Blood (1982), Against All Odds (1984), Heart Like a Wheel (1983), Back to the Future Part III (1990), and The Green Mile (1999). As well as films, McKinney has appeared in the classic TV movie The Execution of Private Slovik (1974), while guest-starring on some of the top TV shows, including The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Starsky and Hutch, The A-Team, Murder, She Wrote and Columbo. Served in the Korean War. Joioned at 19. He served two years on a mine sweeper in Korean waters, as well as being stationed at Port Hueneme in Ventura County, California.
Victor McLaglen RETURN TO INDEX	British Army	English boxer who became a successful film actor. Towards the end of his life he was naturalised as a U.S. citizen. He became a popular character actor, with a particular knack for playing drunks. He also usually played Irishmen, leading many film fans to mistakenly assume he was Irish rather than English. The highlight of his career was an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Informer (1935). Between 1920 and 1958 he appeared in over 110 films. Toward the end of his career, he made several guest appearances on television, particularly in Western series such as Have Gun, Will Travel and Rawhide. Left home at fourteen to join the service with the intention of fighting in the Second Boer War. However, much to his chagrin, he was stationed at Windsor Castle with the Life Guards and was later forced to leave the army when his true age was discovered. In 1913 during WW1 he served as a Captain (acting) with the 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, part of The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires). Later he claimed to have served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers. He served for a time as military Provost Marshal for the city of Baghdad. He also continued boxing, and was named Heavyweight Champion of the British Army in 1918.
Ed McMahon RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	American comedian, game show host and announcer. He is most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's announcer and sidekick on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. He also hosted the original version of the talent show Star Search from 1983 to 1995. He co-hosted TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes with Dick Clark from 1982 to 1986. He also presented sweepstakes for the direct marketing company American Family Publishers. Served as a flight instructor for two years in the continental U.S., finally being ordered to the Pacific fleet in 1945. However, his orders were canceled after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forcing Japan's surrender. As an officer in the reserves, He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. This time, he flew the OE-1 Cessna O-1 Bird Dog, an unarmed single-engine spotter plane. He functioned as an artillery spotter for the Marine batteries on the ground and as a forward controller for the Navy and Marine fighter bombers. He flew a total of 85 combat missions, earning 6 Air Medals. After the war, he stayed with the Marines, as a reserve officer, retiring in 1966 as a Colonel, he was later commissioned to the rank of Brigadier General in the California National Guard.
Howard McNear RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American film, television and radio character actor. McNear is best remembered as Floyd Lawson, the barber in The Andy Griffith Show. Enlisted as a private on November 17, 1942 during WW2.
Steve McQueen RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	American movie actor. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles. His other popular films include The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, Papillon, and The Towering Inferno. In 1974, he became the highest-paid movie star in the world. In 1947 was quickly promoted to Private First Class and assigned to an armored unit. Was demoted to private seven times. Went UA (unauthorized absence) by failing to return after a weekend pass had expired, resisted arrest and spent 41 days in the brig. Resolved to focus his energies on self-improvement and embraced the Marines' discipline. Saved the lives of five other Marines during an Arctic exercise, pulling them from a tank before it broke through ice into the sea. Assigned to an honor guard responsible for guarding then-U.S. President Harry Truman's yacht. Served until 1950 when he was honorably discharged.
Ralph Meeker RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American stage and film actor, producer, best-known for starring in the 1953 Broadway production of Picnic, and in the 1955 film noir cult classic Kiss Me Deadly. In 1957, he did co-star in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory, playing one of the condemned soldiers. Later films included 1961's Ada with Dean Martin and the 1967 drama The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in which he played gangster George "Bugs" Moran. He also appeared in 1967's hit The Dirty Dozen as Captain Kinder, a military psychologist who attempts to analyze the men. Meeker portrayed police officers in 1969's The Detective with Frank Sinatra and The Anderson Tapes (1970) with Sean Connery. He was producer of the movie My Boys Are Good Boys (1978). Enlisted after after graduating from Northwestern University in 1942. Military service ended after a shipboard accident left him with a neck injury.
Allan Melvin RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American character actor who appeared in several television shows and may be best remembered for his roles as Corporal Henshaw in The Phil Silvers Show; Sam the Butcher, Alice's boyfriend on The Brady Bunch; and Barney Hefner, Archie Bunker's best friend on All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place. Served during WW2.
Adolphe Menjou RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies, appearing in such films as The Sheik, A Woman of Paris, Morocco, and A Star is Born. He was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931. Served in WW1 as as a captain in the ambulance service.
Tommy Mercer RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American professional wrestler, currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Crimson. He also works for various promotions on the independent circuit, including Absolute Intense Wrestling (AIW), NWA Main Event and Showtime All-Star Wrestling (SAW). Served for five years which included two tours of Iraq in the 101st Airborne Division as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Burgress Meredith RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American actor. A distinguished theatre director, he won a Tony Award nomination for his 1974 Broadway staging of Ulysses in Nighttown. Meredith achieved iconic status for playing The Penguin in the television series Batman. He was nominated for Academy Awards in the Best Supporting Actor category for his roles in The Day of the Locust (1975) and Rocky (1976). Served in WW2, reaching the rank of Captain. He was discharged in 1944 to work on the movie The Story of G.I. Joe, in which he starred as the popular war correspondent Ernie Pyle.
Glenn Miller RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army & U.S. Army Air Forces	American jazz musician (trombone), arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big Bands". Miller's notable recordings include In the Mood, American Patrol, Chattanooga Choo Choo, A String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000. In 1942, at the peak of his civilian career, Miller decided to join the war effort. At 38, Miller was too old to be drafted, and first volunteered for the Navy but was told that they did not need his services. He then wrote to Army Brigadier General Charles Young and persuaded the United States Army to accept him. He was transferred to the Army Air Force and served initially as assistant special services officer for the Army Air Forces Southeast Training Center at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1942. He received permission to form his 50-piece Army Air Force Band and take it to England in the summer of 1944, where he gave 800 performances. While he was traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. His body has never been found.
Martin Milner RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American actor best known for his performances in two popular television series, Adam-12 and Route 66. In 1952, was drafted into the service. In Special Services at Fort Ord on California's Monterey Bay peninsula, he directed training films and, with fellow actor/soldier David Janssen, emceed and performed in skits to entertain the soldiers. Milner and Janssen encouraged fellow soldier Clint Eastwood to pursue an acting career when his time in the Army ended.
Robert Mitchum RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American film actor, author, composer and singer and is #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s. Drafted in WW2, serving at Fort MacArthur, California.
Gerald Mohr RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in over 4,000 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows. Mohr excelled in playing the handsome, charming villain. He appeared in mostly B-movies throughout his career and starred in My World Dies Screaming aka Terror in the Haunted House (1958) and A Date with Death (1959), both of which were filmed in the experimental Psychorama format, Guns, Girls, and Gangsters (1959), and The Angry Red Planet (1960). Served in WW2 from 1942 to 1945.
Robert Montgomery RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American actor and director whose film career spaned over 30 years (1929 to 1960). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor as a psychopath in the chiller Night Must Fall. Served during WW2 rising to the rank of lieutenant commander.
Alvy Moore RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Marine Corps	American light comic actor best known for his role as scatterbrained county agricultural agent "Hank Kimball" on the television series Green Acres. Served in WW2 seeing combat in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Robin Moore RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army Air Forces	American writer who is most known for his books The Green Berets, The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy and, with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story. Moore also co-authored the lyrics for the "Ballad of the Green Berets", which was one of the major hit songs of 1966. The song was also featured in the film based on Moore's book which starred John Wayne. Served in WW2 as a nose gunner, flying combat missions in the European Theater. For his outstanding service, he was awarded the Air Medal.
Roger Moore RETURN TO INDEX	British Army	English actor and film producer, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint. At 18 years old, shortly after the end of WW2, Moore was conscripted for National Service. He was commissioned as an officer and eventually became a Captain. He served in the Service Corps, commanding a small depot in West Germany. He later transferred to the entertainment branch.
Wayne Morris RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American film and television actor, as well as a decorated World War II fighter ace. He appeared in many notable films, including Paths of Glory (1957), The Bushwackers (1952) and the title role of Kid Galahad in 1937. Morris was considered by the Navy as physically 'too big' to fly fighters. After being turned down several times as a fighter pilot, he went to his brother in law, Cdr. David McCampbell, imploring him for the chance to fly fighters. Cdr. McCampbell said "Give me a letter." He flew with the VF-15, the famed "McCampbell Heroes." While filming Flight Angels (1940), Morris became interested in flying and became a pilot. With war in the wind, he joined the Naval Reserve and became a Navy flier in 1942, leaving his film career behind for the duration of the war. Flying the F6F Hellcat off the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9), Morris shot down seven Japanese planes and contributed to the sinking of five ships. He was awarded four Distinguished Flying Crosses and two Air Medals.
Vic Morrow RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American actor, whose credits include a starring role in the 1960s TV series Combat!, prominent roles in a handful of other television and cinema dramas, and numerous guest roles on television. Dropped out of high school at 17 to joined the service in 1946.
Audie Murphy RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	After the war he became a celebrated movie star for over two decades, appearing in 44 films. He also found some success as a country music composer. Murphy's successful movie career included To Hell and Back (1955), based on his book of the same title (1949). Murphy became the most decorated United States soldier of the war during twenty-seven months in action in the European Theatre. He received the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military's highest award for valor, along with 32 additional U.S. and foreign medals and citations, including five from France and one from Belgium.
Charlie Murphy RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Navy	American actor, comedian, and writer notable as being a cast member and writer on the Comedy Central sketch-comedy series Chappelle's Show. He is also known for his work with his younger brother Eddie Murphy. Served from 1978 to 1984 as a Boiler Technician aboard a ship.
Mystikal RETURN TO INDEX	U.S. Army	American rapper and actor born Michael Lawrence Tyler. Served during Desert Storm in 1991.

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