Famous Veteran: Richard Boone USNAVY AOM1c

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[Does so]

Didn't make much Navy rank (for wartime service). Should have arrived just before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class (AOM3c). "Aviation Ordnanceman are aircraft armament (weapons) specialists in charge of storing, servicing, inspecting and handling of all types of weapons and ammunition carried on Naval aircraft."

[eastforker]

One old gunsmoke episode had a very young Arron Spelling as a featured guest star, “the guitar” I believe it was.

[SES1066]

I too enjoyed a lot of his work. One of his last TV efforts was as “Hec Ramsey” where he combined Paladin with a bit of Sherlock Holmes in the early 1900s Indian Territory (Oklahoma). I believe that the time slot was split between several shows so I kept missing these episodes as I had no interest in the other revolving programs.

He played a veteran lawman who was a good man with a gun but now was not afraid to use modern (1900s) science to solve crimes. His foil was the new, college-educated Police Chief (Rick Lenz) who had strong doubts based upon prior reputation. Also starred Harry Morgan as town doctor (prior to his Col.Potter role on M*A*S*H). Very well done in an honest effort to show the American West evolving into the modern civilization.

[Cvengr]

He never claimed to be Richard Boone, but he was the spitting image of him, especially with a few more years on him. He spent most of his time in Cuba, but reflected back upon past associations with celebrity, JBL, and media entertainment of yesteryear, in passing. It didn't dawn on me until later when I saw this JBL ad and it all fit together.

[eastforker]

Oh I don’t know, made E-6 in 3 years, not bad.

[Blue House Sue]

“Still going strong. God has surely blessed him.”

I hear that he is in extremely stable condition.

[eastforker]

That little derringer saved his ass a bunch.

[doorgunner69]

Scary dude in "Hombre"

If I recall correctly it was him.

[eastforker]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/navyphotos-togetherweserved/2402173_med.jpg

[eastforker]

No good linky, sorry.

[eastforker]

No good linky, sorry.

[crz]

I tend to think that was the best western ever made.

I doubt we will see acting like that anymore.

[Fungi]

Oh man, wrong Boone, was thinking of Pat Boone. My mistake.

[arrogantsob]

Have Gun Will Travel was my favorite western even more so than Gunsmoke.

I loved him in “Big Jake” too. “Sting ‘em a little more.”

[skepsel]

I met him in St Augustine too when I was a kid, he was a judge at an art show on the plaza about the same time frame, we were living on the backside of the barrier island.

[G Larry]

Have Gun

Will Travel

[Spok]

Scary dude in The Kremlin Letter. He killed Bibi Anderson. I never forgave him.

[Robwin]

Before he was Paladin, Boone played the leader of a group of doctors in the first realistic TV medical show, “Medic”. I still remember how Mad Magazine did an “interview” of his “mother” and asked her how she felt about her son going from being a doctor to a hired killer.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

His show “ Hec Ramsey” was the first real “forensics” based western or crime show that I can remember. Pretty neat for its time.

Another honorable WW2 veteran. Hollywood should be ashamed of what it has today.

[Rummyfan]

I loved him as the villain in John Wayne’s “Big Jake.”

And as Cicero Grimes in Hombre. Also as Charlton Heston's right-hand man in The Warlord. He played a great bad guy in a lot of flicks.