Were any celebrities (particularly interested in actors/musicians) killed serving in WWII?
Were any celebrities (particularly interested in actors/musicians) killed serving in WWII?
Jace Jones
Henry Collins
Glenn Miller
Chase Anderson
>While traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Capt. Glenn Miller's aircraft disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel.
Adrian Morris
Lee Marvin got shot in the as serving as a Marine on Saipan
Ayden Rivera
I read a theory that he was accidentally killed by the RAF, who were dumping excess bombs above where his plane was last seen.
Robert Lee
He defected to Germany and was killed in the defense of Berlin in 1945. Buried in a mass grave.
Lucas Russell
Wasn't Kennedy wounded in the Pacific?
Leo Fisher
Yep. PT-109.
His brother Joe died testing Project Aphrodite.
Dominic Smith
Its pretty aazing that Jimmy Stewart wasnt an actor who joined the military, but was an army officer who just started acting in training films and then that spread out into a career as an actor
Austin Bell
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, already a famous french author whom you'll know as having written "The little prince" (and "The patrol", which is an awesome perspective into the French airforce of 1940).
His plane was downed near Corsica in 1943/1944ish fighting for Free France from Africa, whether due to malfunction or a fight with an enemy plane we don't know.
Samuel Harris
poet Keith Douglas died at the battle of normandy
Leo Clark
Where did you read that? Stewart was already an accomplished pilot, but he didn't join the army until after Pearl Harbor happened and he thought the army could use more pilots. He was even rejected for service at first because he was too skinny.
Daniel Long
He also led the inquest that determined American pilots 'accidentally' bombed Switzerland, thinking they were over Germany. The Swiss were not amused, and this intensified the de facto air war between the Swiss and the Allies during WWII.
Adrian King
You probably don't know him but he was the most famous Polish pre-war actor. Known for his roles in comedies, romances and musicals.
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Dressed as "Polish Mae West".
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Here after being arrested by the NKVD.
Ryan Powell
Amy Johnson
Michael Hughes
George Orwell almost got killed in Spanish Civil War. Got shot in the neck.
Carter Hernandez
>Lea Dragica Deutsch was born in Zagreb to Croatian Jewish parents, Stjepan and Ivka (née Singer) Deutsch. Their surname was at the time also spelled Dajč. Her father was a lawyer, and her mother was an educated housewife, who was actively engaged in chess. She also had a brother, Saša. The Deutsch family lived in Zagreb at Gundulićeva street 39 in a three-story house. Deutsch began acting at the HNK Zagreb at the age of five, playing small roles in professional productions of Molière and Shakespeare. Her mentor and dance teacher was Rod Riffler, a modern dance teacher and choreographer from Zagreb. People were enchanted by her, and she was thought an exceptional talent, a "Croatian Shirley Temple." [3] Even the famous Parisian firm Pathé heard of Deutsch and arrived in Zagreb to film a short documentary about her.[2] She quickly rose to become a popular child actor.
>In the lower floor of their house, the Deutsch family had at one time a tenant, a young man from Herzegovina, who occasionally wore the Ustaše uniform. In the words of Deutsch's friend Nika Grgić, this young man offered to falsely marry Lea in an attempt to save her from deportation, but that was not done for unknown reasons. Later it was discovered that Deutsch's mother did not want to consent to the wedding, because Lea was still a minor at the time.
>In May 1943, Deutsch, her mother and her brother were deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis. Out of 75 prisoners during the six-day journey in the cattle wagon, without food and water, 25 did not survive. Lea Deutsch was among them, her heart having been weakened by diphtheria in her childhood. Her mother and brother were killed in Auschwitz. Her father, Stjepan, managed to save himself, hiding as a patient at the ward of an ophthalmologist, in the Sisters of Charity Hospital, Zagreb. Stjepan Deutsch survived the Holocaust and lived until 1959. He was buried in the Jewish part of the Mirogoj Cemetery, with Lea's photo on his tombstone.
Caleb Kelly
>watchu want senpai
>gimme that acid attack fade
>say no more
Robert Gutierrez
RIP
Blake Carter
where you getting that from? Jimmy started his acting career in 1932 and didn't join the military until 1941.
Bentley Nguyen
now that would be a story
Brayden Peterson
The poet Hirsh Glick was murdered by the Nazis while engaged in partisan operations.
Angel Evans
Fucking based Stewart. Apparently John Wayne had a sore spot about Jimmy Stewart because Stewart was everything Wayne wanted to be