This agile young man is PFC. Sabu Dastigar of the AAF, swinging through an obstacle course during training at Greensboro, N.C.  Known to audiences merely as Sabu, the Indian-born star of Elephant Boy and other pictures was inducted into the army in 1943.  Soon afterward he became a U.S. citizen; later he was sent to the South Pacific.

Actor Sabu The Jungle Boy - US Army

A veteran of the First War, producer-director Frank Capra (right) served in this one as a Colonel in the Signal Corps.  Entering the Army shortly after Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to Washington, produced the Why We Fight series of orientation films, later saw action in the three combat theaters, won the Legion of Merit for his Army film work.

Frank Capra in the Signal Corps.

Lew Ayres made news in 1942 when he was sent to a conscientious objectors camp.  Later he served honorably in the Army Medical Corps in the Philippines.