John Wayne stood up to Hollywood Communists.
James Stewart flew B-17s.
#18. Add to “James Stewart flew B-17’s”, the fact that he flew one secret B-52 mission, reportedly over N. Vietnam, during the war. He was either a Lt. Gen. or Brig. General (Reserves), but was reactivated for that one mission.
Also he and his lovely wife visited a key Medevac Trauma unit in the Mekong Delta about Jan. 1969. I found their name on the list of visitors to it, at the National Archives, when I was researching two of Kerry’s “claimed” PC boat crewmen. They appeared at his nomination part of the Democrat Convention in 2004 and claimed to have served with him, but neither did.
They got wounded a day or two before he arrived to assume command of PC 94, and were medevaced to that head trauma field hospital (and then probably to Japan for more advance treatment). One, later the Rev. Alston, reportedly confessed that he had lied about serving in combat with Kerry. The other fellow apparently confessed in private but not publicly.