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Famous Veteran: Richard Boone USNAVY AOM1c
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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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: famousveteran; havegunwilltravel; paladin
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To: eastforker
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."

41 posted on 07/21/2018 6:23:47 PM PDT by Does so (No mention of "Brown Shirts" on this page?)
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To: PhiloBedo

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


42 posted on 07/21/2018 6:27:45 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: eastforker

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.


43 posted on 07/21/2018 6:28:10 PM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: eastforker
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.
44 posted on 07/21/2018 6:28:41 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Does so

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


45 posted on 07/21/2018 6:28:55 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: Fungi

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

I hear that he is in extremely stable condition.


46 posted on 07/21/2018 6:37:07 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: Blue House Sue

That little derringer saved his ass a bunch.


47 posted on 07/21/2018 6:40:15 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: eastforker
Scary dude in "Hombre"

If I recall correctly it was him.

48 posted on 07/21/2018 6:49:09 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: doorgunner69

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


49 posted on 07/21/2018 6:52:21 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: eastforker

No good linky, sorry.


50 posted on 07/21/2018 6:53:01 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: eastforker

No good linky, sorry.


51 posted on 07/21/2018 6:53:34 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: Deaf Smith

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

I doubt we will see acting like that anymore.


52 posted on 07/21/2018 7:00:12 PM PDT by crz
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To: eastforker; Reily; Blue House Sue

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


53 posted on 07/21/2018 7:03:13 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: eastforker

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.”


54 posted on 07/21/2018 7:04:25 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: JBW1949

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.


55 posted on 07/21/2018 8:06:10 PM PDT by skepsel (Apres moi, le deluge.)
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To: eastforker
Have Gun

Will Travel

56 posted on 07/21/2018 8:28:28 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: doorgunner69

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


57 posted on 07/21/2018 9:37:25 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho) to sun spot6)
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To: Spok

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.


58 posted on 07/21/2018 10:07:06 PM PDT by Robwin (very)
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To: eastforker

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.


59 posted on 07/21/2018 11:14:13 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Tax-chick
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.

60 posted on 07/22/2018 12:01:39 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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