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/k/ celebrities thread? 2017-03-13 04:20:39 Post No. 33291755
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Starting with a classic, Jimmy Stewart
>Wildly successful movie star
>had a commercial pilots licence
>Decides to ditch hollywood for the service to fly planes and drop bombs on Uncle Sam's enemies
>Gets rejected at first because he was a hungry skeleton
>determined, gets /fit/ to meet the weight requirement
>Enlists as a private and eventually commissions as an officer and goes to flight school
>Gets used as a propaganda tool and an instructor for former civilian pilots
>Eventually convinces his higher ups to okay him for combat
>flies B17s for a few years, bombing the shit out of the hun
>Is awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Croix de Guerre by the end of the war
>Fast forward a few years, Jimmy is still in the service during Vietnam
>Flies as an observer on archlight missions for shits and giggles
>Eventually ends up retiring as a Brigadier General in 1968
>Tfw the guy from it's a wonderful life vaporized krauts and slants after he got sick of Hollywood
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>cavalryman
>military aviator
>crashed inna desert and survived
>writefag
>maybe fucked lindberg's wife
>died shot down in a P-38
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Wasn't Tolkien a lieutenant for the Brits in WW1? Dude was in the Somme iirc.
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>>33292297
Tolkien 1916
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I only watched FOTP the other day too, classic film, the remake sucks dick though.
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>>33292297
Wasn't he creating the LOTR lore and using it as a coping device in the trenches?
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goes to work in coal mines at 11 years old
earned 1 dollar for every ton of coal he mined
so poor he had to wear his sisters dress to school sometimes
enlists during ww2
gets shot by nips while flying tail gunner in B29s over Nippon
Becomes a boxer
Roommates with Jack Klugman who gets him bit acting parts in westerns
Starts staring in cool movies about 10 years later
Roald Dalh was a fighter ace in WW2 and then worked for MI6. He had a really interesting life.
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I look so similar to jimmy stewart it creeps me out. Pretty sure he fucked my mom...
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>>33291755
I think he actually flew B 24s during WW 2
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me
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>>33291916
>tfw The Little Prince is a euphemism for a child he saw die in the desert for no reason
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>>33295731
Please tell me you get all the girls then. If not, humanity is doomed to be ugly half-breeds.
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Too lazy to greentext.
Christopher Lee is pretty damn badass. When told during filming on a Lord of the Rings movie to imagine what it sounds like when a man is stabbed, he said "I don't need to imagine it". He did all kinds of secret shit during WW2.
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> join the Army to go after Pancho Villa
> fly bombers in WWI and kill Huns
> get shot down and captured
> join Polish Air Force after WWI and kill Bolsheviks
> get shot down and captured
> escape prison camp and have an affair with a Polish q.t.
> awarded Silver Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari
> by Piłsudski himself
> make “King Kong” movie
> reenlist when WWII comes around
> involved in Doolittle Raid
> serve as chief of staff for Claire Chennault
> promoted to Brig Gen
> on board USS Missouri in Tokyo Harbor for Japan’s surrender
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