Posted on 09/24/2011 4:19:32 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Serling was never a POW. He was a paratrooper who fought in the Philippines, including in the block-to-block fighting for Manila. He was wounded three times, including one that wrecked his knee, and suffered some form of PTSD the rest of his life, but he was never a prisoner of the Japanese.
I guess I heard wrong. Donald Pleasance who played the Forger in the The Great Escape was a POW. Or so I heard.
That one’s true. Pleasance was shot down over Germany in August, 1944 and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp. He was something of an adjunct technical advisor on “The Great Escape,” helping make things as accurate as possible.
It was a animated movie, but I had major bones to pick with “Anastasia”...First of all, obviously Anastasia did not survive the liquidation of the Romanovs....second, they had Rasputin as her arch enemy....no mention of what the Bolsheviks did.
Now I am racking my brain over who it was that was a POW, some kind of celebrity, and hated Hogan’s Heroes. I could have sworn it was Serling.
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“Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourselves” =
RANDALL WALLACE, personified...
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Randall Wallace, not Ernie Savage?
Not Ernie Savage - I meant Basil Plumley...
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Actually, “WE WERE SOLDIERS” Screenwriter/Producer/Director RANDALL WALLACE wrote these words for the Motion Picture
S/Major BASIL PLUMLEY after evacuation from the Battle of IA DRANG-1965 = See 1st Photo:
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm
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