42: Star Wars Episode XV: Why John Wayne Didn’t Sign Up

42: Star Wars Episode XV: Why John Wayne Didn’t Sign Up

42: Star Wars Episode XV: Why John Wayne Didn’t Sign Up

You Must Remember This - April 21, 2015 - 33:53

No actor on movie screens in the 1940s embodied American patriotism and unpretentious masculinity better than John Wayne. But Wayne didn’t have the defining experience of most adult American men of the 1940s — Wayne didn’t enlist to serve in World War II.

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