And him...he was commissioned by Navy intel, as they were apparently more flexible in WW2, I'd read, about being able to take pretty much whomever they wanted, regardless of education or lack thereof, if deemed useful...I found his involvement in the acoustic battle deception aspects on D-Day of esp intererest....
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Wikipedia
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., KBE, DSC (December 9, 1909 – May 7, 2000), was an American actor and producer, and a decorated naval officer of World War II. He is best known for starring in such films as The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Gunga Din (1939) and The Corsican Brothers (1941). He was the son of actor Douglas Fairbanks and was once married to Joan Crawford.
I always quite honestly found his story among the very best of those...his stuff is on the NARA OSS public archives website, if you all ever wanna download it as a PDF...he was the one who played mad Brig Gen Jack Ripper in Dr Strangelove....
Sterling Hayden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | RallyPoint
A now little known ww2 hero a merchant mariner who went USMC ran dangerous missions in the nazi infested Adriatic andmwas decorated by Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia for aiding partisans while attached to OSS and received I think a silver star look at his records downloadable asma PDF from the NARA website of the Natl archives...
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