Posted on 09/24/2015 5:31:44 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
He had a list of people I remembered. I had no idea about some of them, a lot oh yeah, I mean I know about Audie Murphy, but some of those were quite unexpected. I actually teared up a couple of times from old memories not seen since at least the early 70s.
I need a link people.
And I had no idea Lee Marvin was in Arlington, She Who Must Be Obeyed and I would have paid him some respect the way we did that Texas boy, when we were up yonder.
The actors who played German characters in Hogan’s Heroes served in the US military during WW2.
Colonel Wilhelm Klink (portrayed by Werner Klemperer)
Sergeant Hans Schultz (portrayed by John Banner)
General Albert Hans “Hansi” Burkhalter (portrayed by Leon Askin)
Major Wolfgang Hochstetter (portrayed by Howard Caine)
And a general to boot.
Seconded! Thanks Bobalu.
Glenn Miller, not Benny Goodman.
Thanks for sharing
Brig. General James Stewart flew one special mission in Vietnam on a B52. I think he was allowed to turn on the bomb-release switch as he had been activated from his Reserve status to Active for one day.
It was written up in “Vietnam Magazine” a number of years ago.
Also, he and his wife visited wounded American soldiers and sailors in at least one military hospital in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. They are listed on the Visitors Log, in 1969.
I was researching whether one of John Kerry’s “claimed” SwiftBoat crewmen was in that hospital before Kerry actually took command of PC 94. The sailor, along with another crewman, had sustained serious injuries (esp. head injuries, which is why they were sent to this specific field hospital in the Delta).
Both claimed that they had served under Kerry in combat but both were hit and medevaced out for care before Kerry came aboard PC 94).
The few docs on this hospital at the National Archives contained a monthly Log-In list of visitors which included the Stewarts, either in Feb. 1969 or a few months later.
Jimmy Stewart was one helluva an Officer and a Gentleman.
Thanks very much for all the good info. and perspective.
Wayne certainly contributed to the war effort of WW II, Korea and VN. I participated in the last of the three and we knew we had his support.
Jimmy Stewart. Just logging in with the Missus to bust. Good man
Thanks for the correction. Memory is getting a little sketchy as I was only a few months old in 1945.
Don Adams as a DI?
“Would you believe........30 push-ups??”
I know.
Absolutely!
They knew what they were fighting for back then. That was a different era than today.
God will get you for that.
Bruce Willis attempted to enlist after 9/11 but was rejected due to age.
There are also some musical talents who have spent their time in uniform:
Orville Burrel (aka "Shaggy") served in the USMC in Desert Storm.
I went to ROTC Advanced Camp at Ft. Bragg and CTLT in Germany with Shawn Mullins who received a reserve commission.
FYI: re “Hogan’s Heroes” - Jewish actors in it
* Leon Askin: Austrian refugee from Hitler; beaten by the SS in 1933 - (Gen. Burkhalter
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*John Banner - refugee from Austria - (Sgt. Schultz)
*Werner Klemperer - refugee, Germany, son of famous orchestra conductor Otto Klemperer. - (Col. Klink)
*Robert Clary (prisoner Louis Lebeau). Polish Jew deported from France to Buchenwald concentration camp. Lost most of his family there.
Source: “The Forward”, a Jewish weekly newspaper (Forward.com), “Funny Nazis? The Return (In Bulk) of Hogan’s Heroes”, Benjamin Ivry, Jan. 19. 2010, among other articles.
Louis LeBeau - Robert Cary, Spent WWII in a concentration camp.
Schultz - John Banner also spent time in a camp, but it was still early in the regime, so he got out. And then bugged out.
Leslie Howard, was shot down and killed Ashly Wilkes Gone With the wind... in 1943 . Fighter pilot for the Royal air force. my .
This list would not be complete without mention of a Gunner’s Mate from WWII and later a baseball player.
That would be Yogi Berra who passed this week at age 90.
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