With three other Navy pilots, Wayne Morris (second from Left) poses for a picture aboard their carrier after a strike against Formosa in 1944.  Morris entered the Naval Reserve in 1942, was commissioned a lieutenant, won the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1944 for destroying seven Japanese planes, six on the ground and one in the air.

Actor Wayne Morris - Navy Pilot

Robert Montgomery, in 1940 a volunteer ambulance driver in France with the American Field Service, won a Navy commission, rose to the rank of lieutenant commander, saw action in the Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean.  After six months at Guadalcanal, he fought in the Kula Gulf Battle, commanded a destroyer during the invasion of France.

Actor Robert Montgomery - US Navy

Enlisting in the Navy as an apprentice seaman in 1942, Henry Fonda saw active duty, worked his way up to the rank of lieutenant on staff duty, Air Combat.