Strabo wrote:

Other Notables:

Jack Palance
Robert Mitchum
Roy Rogers
Dean Martin

I find it fascinating to watch war films made after WWII
featuring war veteran actors who actually experienced many
of the scenarios depicted.




Strabo,

You did get one right. Jack Palance was a bomber pilot in WWII and
suffered burns in a crash that gave him his famous gaunt looks.

However:

Robert Mitchum was drafted in 1945 after spending most of the war acting
movies and theater. He spent only 8 months in the military, mostly
promoting a war movie he made.

Roy Rogers never served. He spent the war years making singing cowboy
movies, filling a vacancy left by western actor Gene Autry who did join up.

Dean Martin was excused from serving due to a hernia.

Just the facts, man, just the facts.

Fred