I believe he was a decorated Korean War Veteran with two Purple Hearts.
Yes. He got his High School diploma in the Army and in Korea, he was the Company "scrounger", a role he was right at home with once again in The Great Escape.
25 posted on 07/20/2014 1:12:01 AM PDT by BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)