Reply #29: And Jimmy Stewart was born in 1908 [View All]

[SiobhanClancy]

and it obviously didn't keep him serving with great distinction. Even Clark Gable(b.1901) enlisted,although he was certainly beyond the draft age.
A bit about Gable:
Clark Gable (Mega-Movie Star when war broke out) Although he was beyond the
>draft age at the time the U.S. entered WW II, Clark Gable enlisted as a
>private in the AAF on Aug. 12, 1942 at Los Angeles. He attended the
>Officers' Candidate School at Miami Beach, Fla. and graduated as a second
>lieutenant on Oct. 28, 1942. He then attended aerial gunnery school and in
>Feb. 1943 he was assigned to the 351st Bomb Group at Polebrook where flew
>operational missions over Europe in B-17s. Capt. Gable returned to the U.S.
>in Oct. 1943 and was relieved from active duty as a major on Jun. 12, 1944
>at his own request, since he was over-age for combat.
>
There doesn't seem to a very good reason for Wayne not to have served...especially considering his incredible hawkishness during Vietnam.