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February 23, 2014
Paul Newman in the Navy, 1943
Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 23, 2014 7:17 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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How many of today's big Hollyweird schmucks will you see with a military ID photo?
Posted by: Peccable at February 24, 2014 4:02 AM
Not just with a military ID photo, but also with a real, no-kidding combat record. Newman served as a radioman-gunner in Avenger torpedo bombers in the Pacific. By the time he saw action, the worst of the Japanese air threat had passed, but flak was ever-present on the low-level missions typically flown by Avengers, and it's always possible to die when flying off a carrier. And Newman was by no means unique for his generation.
Posted by: waltj at February 24, 2014 9:43 AM
You guys nailed it. I googled "movie stars served in WWII" something like that and I was surprised. those men and there were some women too, they were the role models for oh, up to the Eisenhower kids. When the sixties came in everything started going for a shit. I am ashamed to say I was a boomer kid and the sixties was "my" decade. I would also add that I was in that world, not of it. Ahem, stole some horses as they say. I have offered testimony elsewhere on this site; I dang sure wasn't no fuzzy-headed doper, "peace, love, groovy? Really? Did that shit work for you?
Posted by: chasmatic at February 24, 2014 4:47 PM