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Famous people serving in military conflicts

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Famous people serving in military conflicts. There's a surprising high amount of famous people, intellectuals, actors, writers, future heads of state who served in armies throughout history in various conflicts.

I'd like to see some lesser known ones. I'm thinking Hemingway, Connery and others.
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>ywn be a cheeky tommy giving her a quick knee-trembler behind the munitions shed
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>>3317314
My fav is Teddy Williams. Killing Krauts, batting .400.
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The British author Saki (H.H Munro) enlisted in World War I and died on the front lines in 1916.
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Jean Gabin.
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Albert, King of the Belgians
Commander of the Belgian Forces during the Great War
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>>3317314
Frédéric Bazille, one of the early impressionists, died in the Franco-Prussian war.
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>>3317314
Harry Truman was an artillery Captain in WWI.
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>>3317495
That's kind of cheating, 7 future presidents served during the Civil War
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>>3317495
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_of_World_War_I#American_Artillery
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>John F. Kennedy- served on P.T. boat during ww2, his boat was rammed by Japanese warship
>Theodore Roosevelt jr. - served in US Army during ww2, killed in Normandy
>Christopher Lee - served in RAF, SOE, LRDG and SAS during ww2
>Ian Fleming - served in British intelligence during ww2
>Clint Eastwood - served in US Army during Korean war
>Morgan Freeman - served in US air force
Jimi Hendrix
>J.R.R. Tolkien - served in British infantry during ww1
>Hugh Hefner - correspondent during ww2
>Ernest Hemingway - republican volunteer in Spanish civil war
>George Orwell - same as above
>Robert Capa - same as above
Were in army but so no combat
>Vladimir Putin - KGB
>Elvis Presley - was stationed with US Army in West Germany
>Chuck Norris - was stationed with US air force in South Korea
>George Carlin - US air force
>Jimi Hendrix - US army
>Johnny Cash - US army
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>>3317519
fucc sorry, accidently another Hendrix broke into my veteran greentext
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yoni netanyahu
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>>3317463
>The commander of the army, commanding the army
Colour me surprised
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French actor Luis De Funes served in WW2
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>>3317314
Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil war against the fascist government, wrote a great book about it
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>Charles Bronson
>Aerial gunner
>25 combat missions over the Japanese mainland
>Purple Heart recipient
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Charles de Gaulle fought in the Polish-Soviet War before he became a professional backstabbing autist
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>no one's posted Lee Marvin yet

You people disgust me.
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>James Stewart
>From Private to Colonel in the duration of the war
>Went on to serve as a reservist, retiring a Major General
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directors Yasujiro Ozu & Sadao Yamanaka both served in manchuria
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>>3317344
>tfw your grandpa was being scouted by the new york yankees then the war happened and he got conscripted
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>>3317842
>tfw Stalin ruins your anarchist-socialist paradise because he's just a douche like that
>you write two books shitting on him and his perversion of the ideology you love as revenge, and one book lamenting the loss of everything you fought for in Spain and describing its wonders as inspiration for future generations
>several thousand times a day some ignorant Ameriburger will incorrectly cite your most famous book as definitive proof that socialism is bad and capitalism is the one true economic system or invoke your name to argue that making a video game woman's ass 10% smaller is LITERALLY going to cause a Stalinist dystopia
England should just use George's perpetually turning corpse as a source of infinite energy tbqh.
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>>3317863
Lmao and he showed up in Dirty Dozen.
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>>3317519
Christopher Lee lied about his service. he had a "good war" on some random air force base in the middle of nowhere africa
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I bet you didn't know that Bruce Willis was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific, and won the Pacific War and the Korean War.
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>>3317519
Didn't Sir Christopher also drive ambulances in the Winter War?
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Mark Wahlberg during the Vietnam War circa 1 February 1968 executing a Viet Cong insurgent in Saigon.
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Louis Napoleon and Joachim of Murat both served in WWII, the latter dying in action while serving in the Charles Martel brigade - which both were members of. The former offered to join the French Army, was denied, then joined the FFL under an assumed named. He was then captured be the Germans, released, and joined the resistance, seeing action in Africa. Later became a pretty successful businessman. Bonapartistes STRONK.
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>>3317519
>Theodore Roosevelt jr. - served in US Army during ww2, killed in Normandy

He wasn't killed, he died of a heart attack.
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>>3319354
Yeah, it's almost like he was in the SAS and was still under the official secrets act.
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>>3319042
While I really like reading the book, I still feel that the spanish anarchist state would not have truly worked in the long term at all. For such a state to really work, there would have to be some centralization (But that of course would trigger the anarchists)
But yes, i'm pretty sure somewhere in the after life Orwell is facepalming perpetually.
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The singer James Blunt was an infantry officer with the UK's peacekeeping mission in Yugoslavia when he received orders to engage Russian regulars that had occupied an airfield that was part of their objective. Blunt and his commanding officer decided to disobey the order to fire, telling the American general "I'm not starting WW3 for you"

Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, was a military child growing up. His songs frequently contained anti war lyrics, but ironically, his father was the one in charge of US Navy ships during the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and gave the authorization to fire on the North Vietnamese
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>>3319042
>He didn't read the book

Orwell is constantly shitting on the Spanish Republicans, basically calling them a bunch of retards that kill each other more than they kill Spanish Nationalists
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>>3319596
Did you read the book? Orwell admired the CNT-FAI and POUM, his ire is aimed at the Second Republic and the Stalinist Putsch they carry out in Catalonia.
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>>3319579
>Blunt and his commanding officer decided to disobey the order to fire, telling the American general "I'm not starting WW3 for you"

Typical Brits
Why fight when you can Dunkirk out of the place and let the Americans do the job?
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>>3319354
Remeber anon, a true professional never tells
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