Even John Wayne disliked liberals...........

[mhall]

The Duke..............good stuff

[kygorski]

I'm having a hard time finding out any facts on military career. I know jimmy stewert was in the air force, ted Williams was a fighter pilot in two mars. Lee Marvin was a marine, but no "duke".

[GeoFisher]

I'm having a hard time finding out any facts on military career. I know jimmy stewert was in the air force, ted Williams was a fighter pilot in two mars. Lee Marvin was a marine, but no "duke".

From the internet:

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According to Randy Roberts and James Olson’s top notch John Wayne American, as a married but separated father of four and thirty-four years old in 1942 Wayne was classified by the Selective Service as 3-A (deferred for family dependency). In 1944 as the U.S. Military feared a manpower shortage he was reclassified 1-A (draft eligible). There is no record that he disputed this reclassification but his employer, Republic Studios, did and requested he be given a 2-A classification (deferred in the national interest, i.e., war bond drives, visiting the troops, etc.). Selective Service records for World War II are spotty at best, many having been destroyed, but surviving records indicate these claims were filed “by another,” i.e. Republic Studio’s legal department. In fact, a letter from Republic Studios head Herbert Yates threatened to sue Wayne for breach of contract should he leave the studio for volunteer military service, though it is doubtful he would have carried through with the threat. But Wayne was indeed Republic’s biggest moneymaker during the war and that studio’s only “A” star at the time.
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