Famous Veteran: Richard Boone USNAVY AOM1c

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[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.

[eastforker]

. It was also in that year that Boone was cast in what is his best-known role, the cultured gunfighter Paladin in the highly regarded western series Have Gun - Will Travel (1957). Although a gun for hire, Paladin was usually a moral one, did the job and lived at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco. Immensely popular, the show made Boone a star. The series lasted six years, and in addition to starring in it, Boone also directed some episodes. He still kept busy on the big screen during the series' run, appearing as Sam Houston in the John Wayne epic The Alamo (1960), and as a weary cavalry captain fighting Indians in A Thunder of Drums (1961). After Have Gun - Will Travel (1957) ended in 1963, Boone hosted a dramatic anthology series, The Richard Boone Show (1963), but it was not successful.

[eastforker]

Lots of pics at site.

[Fungi]

Still going strong. God has surely blessed him.

[eastforker]

He died in 1981

[Reily]

Richard Boone died in 1981.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Boone

[Tax-chick]

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

[eastforker]

But his cousin Pat is still around doing commercials.

[TADSLOS]

He played an excellent bad guy in Hombre starring Paul Newman.

[yarddog]

I watched a couple of episodes of “Have Gun Will Travel” this morning. When I was a kid and the show first came on, I thought his name was Wire Paladin.

[eastforker]

Paladin means Knight in Scotish, his name was never revealed on the show, remember the knight on his holster?

[SaveFerris]

Seems like you should be on this thread

[yarddog]

I not only remember the knight, I recall there was a dimple in it.

[Deaf Smith]

Boone was also in Wayne’s movie The Shootist
.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Heh, same here.

[Tax-chick]

I have seen that only once. Too depressing. In “Big Jake,” they were all having fun.

[Bonemaker]

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

“Your fault, my fault, nobody’s fault...”

[Tax-chick]

“I thought you wuz dead!”

[JBW1949]

I drank a beer with Richard Boone at Flagler College in St Augustine FL in the student center pub...That was in 1971...He was a down to earth cool guy...

[Tax-chick]

Wikipedia says “Paladin” originated in Latin, “palatinus,” officer of the palace. It passed through Italian to French. If it’s used in Scotland, they probably got it from France, with whom they had a long alliance based on opposition to England.

[eastforker]

If anyone is interested, you can get the entire first and second season on DVD Netflix, I just finished about 60 episodes.