Lee Marvin - True Hollywood Hero - True War Story from Iwo Jima

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[lisaann8]

Lee Marvin - True War Story

Some people have been a bit offended that Hollywood star Lee Marvin is buried in a grave at Arlington National Cemetery alongside 3 and 4 star generals. His marker gives his name, rank (PVT) and service (USMC). Nothing else. Isn't this a guy who was only a famous movie star who served his time; why the heck does he rate burial with these guys?

Well, following is the amazing answer:

[VOA]

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[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Did you know Oscar the Grouch was hero in VietNam?

I heard also that Mother Goose was a heroin junkie.

[DD938]

THAT'S MY STEAK VALANCE...........
YOU PICK IT UP.

JOHN WAYNE
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE

[ffusco]

Nuts! Now I want some Cuervo Gold!

[ffusco]

Spc. Oscar "Grouch" Solomon was a LURP in Viet Nam.

[lisaann8]

Well, the smart people at free republic, got us and got us good. But wasn't it a great story? Lee Marvin is still a hollywood-hero as we found a more accurate accounting of his war service on a different site. Sorry, we fell for an old rumor, but looking for heroes these days is tough. We've posted the corrections on our site. It appears Mr. Marvin was wounded at Saipan. Go to the site for the whole poop. As to Bob Keeshan, it appears he says he enlisted too late for Iwo Jima. As an aside, there were many soldiers who fought in World War II, who were younger than their stated age, my father was one of them. He enlisted when he was 15 and by the time of the pacific theater, he was a captain in the Army Air Corp and flew 25 missions over Japan, at 24! So, who knows?

[Future Snake Eater]

Actually, you're already close to another urban legend--Mr. Rogers being a former Green Beret sniper. I've heard that several times.

[husky ed]

Actually he was a Seal. Of course now I've got to kill ya. (8^O

j/k

[billorites]

"Captain Kangaroo enlisted too late to be deployed. "

Sad too. As he and Bunny Rabbit could have hastened the war's end by six months or more.

[dennisw]

bttttttttttttttttttt

[Brian Allen]

Might even be a good piece but as you won't post it, I shall never know!

[jackbill]

such as Tom Landry, coach of the Dallas Cowboys, flew B-17s with the Eighth Army

Uh, wouldn't that be the Eighth Air Force?

[ibtheman]

I heard Lee Marvin on the Johnny Carson Show, many years ago. He stated he was shot in the but! Also he said the bravest man he has ever met, Captain Kangaroo, do yaw remember him? Lee stated he witnessed the captain, directing the l.c.u.'s where to land at the beach head. He was wounded, but continued to direct traffic, he was being shot at by enenmy fire, the entire time Lee said that was the bravest man he has ever met!

[mrustow]

That he was. He was one glorious, outrageous, son-of-a-bitch! He's maybe the only tough-guy-playing movie star -- including George Raft -- who was every bit as mean and tough as the guys he played on the screen. There's no man I'd rather have had on my side in a barfight, and no man I'd want to go up against less. Why, rattlesnakes wriggled away, when they smelled him comin.'

[Cloud William]

Jimmy Stewart was in the AirForce

Indeed he was. The following interesting tidbit comes from www.jimmy.org:

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The Last Mission

After he was discharged from the Army Air Forces on September 29, 1945, Stewart was immediately appointed to colonel in the U.S. Army Air Forces Reserve. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1959 and retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserve in 1968. But, before retiring, the decorated officer had one last mission:

After Stewart's death in 1997, Air Power History published a memoriam that included this little-known item: "In 1966, during his annual two weeks of active duty, Stewart requested a combat assignment and participated in a bombing strike over Vietnam. Stewart's stepson, 1st Lt. Ronald McLean, was killed at age 24 in the Vietnam War.

In his World War II years, Stewart flew 20 combat missions, among them the tough ones: Brunswick, Bremen, Frankfurt, Schweinfurt and Berlin. His wartime decorations included the Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster, four Air Medals, and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm.

With myriad honors of a celebrated and eclectic career, including the highest in his profession, the Academy Award, it is not hard to believe that Jimmy Stewart reached the best time of his life in those eventful and dangerous years of World War II.

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How about that... a B-52 mission, most likely.

[Hazzardgate]

If you don't already have it, start with this one:

This one also kicks lots of @ss (and it co-stars Ronald Reagan):

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: Air Power History published a memoriam that included this little-known item: "In 1966, during his annual two weeks of active duty, Stewart requested a combat assignment and participated in a bombing strike over Vietnam.

Here's Jimmy!
returning from that mission.

If he were alive today, Baghdad
would receive another B-52 visit.

[LS]

Not in WW II. No "Air Force" until after the war. Technically, it was the "Army Air Force," but that was too long to put in.