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Famous Veteran : Jack Palance USAAF
TWS ^ | 2014 | A3C Michael S. Bell

Posted on 07/11/2018 5:59:54 PM PDT by eastforker

With the outbreak of the Second World War, Palance's boxing career ended and his military career began as a member of the United States Army Air Forces. Palance's rugged face, which took many beatings in the boxing ring, was disfigured when he bailed out of a burning B-24 Liberator bomber while on a training flight over southern Arizona, where he was a student pilot. Plastic surgeons repaired the damage as best they could, but he was left with a distinctive, somewhat gaunt, look. After much reconstructive surgery, he was discharged in 1944.

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To: eastforker
"You are a low down lying Yankee."

"Prove it!"

21 posted on 07/11/2018 7:02:22 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Bonemaker

thank you.


22 posted on 07/11/2018 7:04:15 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: eastforker

Attila the Hun in “Sign of the Pagan.”


23 posted on 07/11/2018 7:04:16 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: eastforker

Compare these guys to the pu$$ys in Hollywood today.


24 posted on 07/11/2018 7:09:20 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: eastforker

Thanks for posting these links.


25 posted on 07/11/2018 9:15:57 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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