This page profiles some celebrities who are alive today (as of January 31, 2021) who served in WW2

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Tony Bennet – served in a rifle company with the 63rd division in the ETO

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Norman Lear was a radio operator/gunner on a B17 and flew 52 missions over Europe 

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OK…Norman Lloyd wasnt really in the army but he did appear in one of my favorite movies made during the war; “A walk in the sun” made in 1945

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Mel Brooks served as a combat engineer with the 78th division in the ETO

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William Daniels was drafted in 1945 and served as an Army radio disc-jockey

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Bob Barker joined the Navy and became a pilot but he was never attached to a combat squadron

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Dick Van Dyke left high school in 1944 because he wanted to become an Army Air Corps pilot. They said he was too skinny so he became an army radio announcer instead.

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Harry Belefonte; a Jamaican-American Born in Harlem; He left NYC and joined the Navy

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Betty White joined the American women’s volunteer services and served in California

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Ed Asner was in the signal corps but he didn’t get to Europe until the war was over.

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Sidney Poitier joined the army and worked in an army psychiatric hospital.

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Larry Storch joined the Navy and served on a submarine tender in the pacific. He was ship-mates with Tony Curtis.

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