Many well-known actors have served honorably in uniform, but far fewer have seen combat.
Here are 10 actors who saw real action.
Based in England, he commanded groups of up to 150 aircraft on a total of 20 bombing missions.
On landing, the aircraftbroke apartwith a crack ripping from the bulkhead to the cockpit.
He died at 89 in 1997.
Bronson used the GI Bill to study acting.
Among his most famous movie roles was as a prisoner of war in 1963sThe Great Escape.
Hedied at 81in 2003.
At one point, he and two comrades found themselves surrounded by Chinese soldiers.
The three soldiers decided to charge the enemy and lived to tell the tale.
A star ofA Bridge Too Far(1977), Sir Michael Caine is still acting at 89.
Heearned theCombat Action Ribbon in Kosovo after being shot at while out on patrol.
That night, he was hit six times by machine gun fire.
One bullet took off his right middle finger.
Doohan had been a victim of friendly fire from a Bren gun wielded by a nervous Canadian sentry.
Doohandied in 2005at age 85.
Cortes: Platoon sergeant in Iraq invasion
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Cortes, 47, was a Marine platoon sergeant during the invasion of Iraq.
Everything resonated with me: the hard work, esprit de corps, teamwork, tradition, helater reflected.
