What about johhny carson served in usn in the pacific.
here's a personal favorite of mine: don adams A.K.A agent 86 served in marine corps
at gudalcanal,was the only survivor of his platoon!
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=11827535
Oh yeah my dad enlisted in us army air coprs sept 3rd 1939 trained as flyer eventually to p-38's,rank of staff sargent
ended up in cryptolgy dept,north africa, italy,iran and southern russia ammongst areas of deployment.