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    Not sure on HM's ship launching stats but Her Maj has been at it for years, bish bash with the Moet, and so she must be in the high hundreds or perhaps she's EVEN done herself a complete Helen of Troy.
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    Oh, right.

    Did you know that James Mason was a conscientious objector? Then he went on to make all that money by playing Rommel.
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    Rod Serling (Twilight Zone creator, director, screen-writer) was a US paratrooper
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    I'm pretty sure Leslie Nielsen of Naked Gun fame was a tailgunner in some kind of bomber. I also seen to remember, that he actually has som form of hearing loss because of the noises he was subjected to...
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    R Lee Ermy (of full metal jacket fame) was an actual marine drill sargent
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    Originally posted by Low_Flyer_MkII:
    Thank 'ee kindly sir,

    Denholm Elliot was a P.O.W. Bomber crew, I think.
    I work in movies (lighting). An assistant director I was working with told me that he once had to get Denholm Elliot out of his trailer because they were ready for him but they were six or seven hours behind so he had been waiting all day. The AD apologized and Elliot said that was OK - After the night he was sitting in the tail of his Lancaster one second, and the next second falling through the night sky over Germany, his plane and crewmates completely gone, never seen again, being late to set was really no big deal. I always thought that was pretty cool.
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    I heard that Forrest Tucker - Sarge in "F Troup" - was a combat Marine.
    And don't forget Charles Durning who was bayoneted, captured during the Bulge, escaped and then was later shot and was in hospital at the end of the war. http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/wwii/durning.html
    All that from the guy who put the moves on Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie.
    A real man's man, I'd say.
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    i met forrest tucker once, i was working cleaning furniture and cleaned his couch in the 70s. he was a nice guy from the little i talked to him. gave me a big tip and told me to go and drink some beer after work, he himself was pretty smashed at the time.
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    Just in from CNN.com: Thanks to Sharpe26.

    LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Actor Pat Morita, whose portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid" earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 73.

    Born in northern California on June 28, 1932, the son of migrant fruit pickers, Morita spent most of his early years in the hospital with spinal tuberculosis. He later recovered only to be sent to a Japanese-American internment camp in Arizona during World War II.

    "One day I was an invalid," he recalled in a 1989 AP interview. "The next day I was public enemy No. 1 being escorted to an internment camp by an FBI agent wearing a piece."

    Thought it might be of interest.
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