Celebrities That Served In the Military Before Hollywood Fame

J. D. Salinger

The writer of Catcher in the Rye had quite a stint in World War II. He met Ernest Hemmingway while he was stationed in Normandy and the two expressed a fondness for each other. However, the actual combat deeply affected Salinger, who once wrote to his daughter "You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live."

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