HOLLYWOOD & THE STARS WHO SERVED IN WORLD WAR II
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James Coburn

Army

Clint Walker

Joined the Merchant Marine when he was 18, going to Catalina Island for maritime training.

Stuart Whitman

Spent three post-war years with the Army Corps of Engineers. In the army he won 32 fights as a light-heavyweight boxer.

Esther Williams

Member of the 1940 Olympic team headed for Tokyo when World War II intervened, canceling the games – along with her hopes for the gold and international fame.. By the tail end of World War II, Williams was a pinup favorite with returning Gl’s.

Buddy Ebsen
Jed Clampett
(Beverly Hillbillies)

Fess Parker

When World War II came, Fess and a couple of his friends decided to get into the Air Corps. Both the Air Corps and the Navy turned down Fess' offer of services. At the time they weren't taking boys that tall.

A few months later, the Navy changed its mind and drafted him.Fess landed on the ship YMS 334, a 132-foot, shallow-draft sweeper whose job was to explode Japanese mines around the Philippines. In those ten months Fess saw no direct action on the mine sweep, and kept busy only in the performance of the craft's duties.

Gig Young

Coast Guard

Richard Todd

Trained for a military career at Sandhurst, which led to six years active service during the Second World War. As a member of the 6th Airbourne he parachuted into France during the D-Day Invasion of 1944. Served with distinction as a paratrooper in the Second World War.  spent six years' service in World War II, first as an officer in the Yorkshire Light Infantry, then as a paratrooper with the 6th.