HOLLYWOOD & THE STARS WHO SERVED IN WORLD WAR II
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Ernie Pyle

Went to war in the 1940s. His popularity soared when he traveled to Europe and later to the Pacific to write about the lives of ordinary soldiers coping with war. For many at home, Ernie Pyle's columns were the real story of World War II-the story of sons and husbands living a deadly adventure day by day in a foreign land.

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James Garner

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 James Garner did stints in the Army and merchant marines before working as a model.

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Dick Van Dyke

During World War II, he entered the Air Force and served for two years.

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Efram Zimbalist, Jr.

Served  in World War II (in which he earned a Purple Heart),

Sam Peckinpah

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Peckinpah served in the Marine Corps and earned a master's degree from U.S.C. in 1950.

Tony Randall

Army.  Signal Corps. Discharged as a Lieutenant.

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Norman Fell 

 USAAF B-25 Gunner

David Brinkley

Came to Washington in 1943, when he joined NBC News, covering Franklin D. Roosevelt's weekly news conferences as a writer for radio.

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