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Happy birthday, Tyrone Power. I don't forget.....
Happy Heavenly Birthday to Tyrone Power USMC Aviator and Veteran of the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa
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Please join us at WWII uncovered in honoring the service of Tyrone Power on the 112th Anniversary of his Birthday.
Already an established actor, Tyrone Power starred in such productions as: "Lloyd's of London," "The Mark of Zorro," "The Black Swan," "Jesse James" and "Marie Antoinette." Tyrone was the second largest box office star in 1939. His career was in full swing when he walked away to serve his country.
Tyrone Power enlisted in the US Marine Corps at the age of 28 in August of 1942. He refused his studio's offer to obtain an Officer's commission and enlisted as a Private.
According to the Flying Leatherneck Historical Foundation: "Tyrone Power attended boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. Then, Officer’s Candidate School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, where he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on June 2, 1943. Due to Tyrone's being an accomplished pilot (Like Jimmy Stewart) prior to enlistment He went through an accelerated training program at Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas."
"In July 1944, First Lieutenant Power was assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352 as an R5C transport co-pilot at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. The squadron moved to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in California in October 1944. Power was later reassigned to VMR-353, joining them on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in February 1945. From there, he flew missions carrying cargo in and wounded Marines out during the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Power was decorated with the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two bronze stars, and the World War II Victory Medal." - Flying Leatherneck Historical Foundation and USMC
Tyrone Power returned to the United States in November 1945 and was released from active duty in January 1946. He was promoted to the rank of Captain in the Reserves on May 8, 1951. Tyrone would go on to star in over 20 movies after the war.
Major Tyrone Power remained in the Marine Corps Reserve until his death on November 15, 1958 at the age of 44. Major Power was buried with full military honors at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles California. Lest We Forget.
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mikesim said:
Tx, Coyote!

Mike
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It is interesting that so many stars and future stars did serve and not just in cushy safe places. James Arness
served as a rifleman with the US 3rd Infantry Div, and was severely wounded during Operation Shingle, at Anzio, Italy when he was hit in the right leg with machine gun fire.

According to James Arness – An Autobiography, he landed on Anzio Beachhead on January 22, 1944 as a rifleman with 2nd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division. Because of his height, he was the first ordered off his landing craft to determine the depth of the water; it came up to his waist.

On January 29, 1945, having undergone surgery several times, Arness was honorably discharged. His wounds continued to bother him, and in later years Arness suffered from chronic leg pain, which sometimes hurt when mounting a horse.

His decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three bronze battle stars, the World War II Victory Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge.

His wounds were not minor. He was bothered by the leg the rest of his life. Gunsmoke co-star Burt Reynolds remembered:
They would get ready to do a shot. Jim Arness would come limping on to the set, and Dennis Weaver who played the lame Chester would walk briskly. The director would yell ‘Action!’ and Arness would walk briskly, and Weaver would start to limp.
 
mikesim said:
I just wonder how many of todays Hollywoodians would volunteer for service if the $hit would really hit the fan!

Mike
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None. Maybe Tom Selleck if he were younger. How many Hollyrats volunteer to go overseas and entertain our troops today?
 
Considring heroes, Marines, or any other military service personnel it is depressing to even think about what war would look like in our technology advanced world. What skills would a person need to be effective? And what mentality must a person have to be a warrior now? Trench and jungle warfare are a thing of the past. Urban warfare??? Or launching rockets and missiles by pushing buttons? I can't imagine recent high school graduates filling hundreds of sandbags in adverse conditions. Most can't even change a tire on a car. They can, however, operate a keyboard and maybe that skill is much more important in our modern times. But then AI can't dig a hole of fix a flat tire. I'm afraid that our country has the most to defend but do we have the best ability to defend it either politically or in warfare? I was impressed when my son came home from the Marine Corps (30 years ago) and said "Dad, I learned that you have to try as hard as you can to stay out of a fight, but if you get in a fight you have to fight as hard as you can". I wonder if our country can now do either of those things. Could our country unify enough to be effective? I wish every member of Congress would spend a day in a VA hospital and then visit a VA cemetery to get a first-hand view of consequences.
 
junglejim said:
Considring heroes, Marines, or any other military service personnel it is depressing to even think about what war would look like in our technology advanced world. What skills would a person need to be effective? And what mentality must a person have to be a warrior now? Trench and jungle warfare are a thing of the past. Urban warfare??? Or launching rockets and missiles by pushing buttons? I can't imagine recent high school graduates filling hundreds of sandbags in adverse conditions. Most can't even change a tire on a car. They can, however, operate a keyboard and maybe that skill is much more important in our modern times. But then AI can't dig a hole of fix a flat tire. I'm afraid that our country has the most to defend but do we have the best ability to defend it either politically or in warfare? I was impressed when my son came home from the Marine Corps (30 years ago) and said "Dad, I learned that you have to try as hard as you can to stay out of a fight, but if you get in a fight you have to fight as hard as you can". I wonder if our country can now do either of those things. Could our country unify enough to be effective? I wish every member of Congress would spend a day in a VA hospital and then visit a VA cemetery to get a first-hand view of consequences.
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Your questions are valid for the US for sure, especially with the media fighting every valid conflict out there. In Korea to Bhutan, they have compulsory service to in part instill a sense of belonging and fighting for who they are, as well as how to become self reliant and yet work as a group. And in some countries, compulsory service entails doing many things, like how to handle disasters... Israel too. The Ukrainians have adapted to the new warfare by building everything from watercraft drones to drones that can easily drop a small bomb on a Russian soldiers on crutches who cant run away. I have seen the footage. Your son has learned well.
I am less afraid of most kids having no technical ability like checking spare tire pressure than their attitude about all the history they were not taught and the fact that many have no idea that you now have to put your hand over your heart during the national anthem. How many kids now even go into scouting? They have no idea what being an American is all about and why we are the way we are..or at least were.
 
junglejim said:
In other words Chris, “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” Right
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Or in the words of Woody Allen, "Sex is like air...you dont miss it until after its gone"
But you and I will have to have a conversation at Spearfish about this.
I see this as more of the boiling frog effect. A frog put into boiling water will jump out...but put the frog into a pot of water and slowly raise the temp and you get frog soup.

The America we saw in the 1950s...truth, justice, and the American way, the America of Superman, the boy scouts, law and order...where justice prevailed....where kids had fathers...where the air waves were clogged with as many as 27 Westerns on TV, where people for the most part knew right from wrong...and when Pearl Harbor was bombed, America knew just what to do. It wasnt perfect for sure.....it wasnt The Andy Griffith show....but we all wanted it to be....and the most terrible things about America were changing....getting better.....slowly but surely....
we will have to talk about what happened to our country at Spearfish....when our gang meets up.
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