Posted on 07/21/2018 5:37:05 PM PDT by eastforker
Naval Service PO1 Boone first shows in US Navy Muster Reports Show his sqaudron being transporter aboard the USS Prince WIlliam leaving San Diego on June 14, 1943 and his rank at that time was AOM3c (E-4) or Petty Officer 3rd Class. He arrived somethime after that at Naval Air Station Maui, Hawaii On June 29, 1943, the squadrom was once again transported via the USS Panay from NAS Maui to NAS Pearl Harbor. for possible departure on a carrier. Muster reports do not show PO Boone again untile he being transported on November 5, 1943 from Maui to Pearl Harbor for assigment on the USS Intrepid with the rank of AOM2c (E-5) or Petty Officer 2nd Class. His next Muster that he shows up is being received on the USS White Plains on Febuary 25, 1944 from the USS Intrepid to Pearl Harbor. His final Rank was listed as AOM1c (E-6) or Petty Officer 1st Class on that muster report. No futher records were available.
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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."
One old gunsmoke episode had a very young Arron Spelling as a featured guest star, “the guitar” I believe it was.
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.
Oh I don’t know, made E-6 in 3 years, not bad.
“Still going strong. God has surely blessed him.”
I hear that he is in extremely stable condition.
That little derringer saved his ass a bunch.
If I recall correctly it was him.
No good linky, sorry.
No good linky, sorry.
I tend to think that was the best western ever made.
I doubt we will see acting like that anymore.
Oh man, wrong Boone, was thinking of Pat Boone. My mistake.
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.”
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.
Will Travel
Scary dude in The Kremlin Letter. He killed Bibi Anderson. I never forgave him.
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.
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.
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.
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