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Richard Johns's avatar

My (Aussie) Dad always said of the various war movies out of Hollywood, "You'd think John Wayne won the whole bloody thing on his own!" My Dad and Mum were both involved in the Coral Sea area during WWII.

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TCinLA's avatar

John Wayne - Hollywood's #1 draft dodger during World War II - tried in 1943 to get a draft deferment on the grounds the war movies he was doing were a "critical industry contributing to the war effort." I met several guys from that time when I first got here, and nobody had a good word to say about "America's Biggest Hero."

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