Linedoggie Posted October 4, 2015 Share #26 Posted October 4, 2015 Then 1SG, now CSM B.co. "Blacksheep" 2/156th infantry, 256th BCT And he did his waterboy impression for us at NTC in 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 4, 2015 Share #27 Posted October 4, 2015 Wow you ain't lying Linedoggie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 8, 2015 Share #28 Posted November 8, 2015 I think this Airman on the left in these two photos from the 50s looks a lot like Alan Ladd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan H. Posted November 8, 2015 Share #29 Posted November 8, 2015 Here is one that I always thought was uncanny. Union Civil WAR General Benjamin Franklin Butler and actor Dennis Franz. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 9, 2015 Share #30 Posted November 9, 2015 While adding another post to the Tobacco Pipes in the Military topic, I was looking again at one of the photos of early Air Corps war hero Boyd D. Wagner, and he reminded me of a celebrity. It came to me who, Tim Curry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOLO Posted November 10, 2015 Share #31 Posted November 10, 2015 Gunny Sgt Lee R Ermey looks like actor Jim Backus "Mr Howell" from Gilligan's Island Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 19, 2015 Share #32 Posted November 19, 2015 Gunny Sgt Lee R Ermey looks like actor Jim Backus "Mr Howell" from Gilligan's Island Yes Lovely! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 19, 2015 Share #33 Posted November 19, 2015 I seen this foto for years and years in various books, and now online, I always thought that Ships Detachment Cpl, looks like the Movie Critic Rex Reed, albeit a Young Rex Reed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOLO Posted November 19, 2015 Share #34 Posted November 19, 2015 Lee R Ermey reminds me of tv show host Todd Carmichael from the show Dangerous Grounds something about Todd Carmichael reminds me of Lee Ermey's personality, he seems "Gung Ho" like a Marine and resembles him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krautpot Posted November 23, 2015 Share #35 Posted November 23, 2015 The pic is from the m1917 rifle reference thread. Guy posing with the rifle. Looks like Josh Hartnett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 27, 2015 Share #36 Posted November 27, 2015 I think Ringo Starr looks a lot like this GI, albeit without the Mop Head of course . But on a more serious note to this post, the GI is one John Moss, Jack as he's known (He's still with us at 92), Jack was a Texas National Guardsman with the 2nd Bn 131st Field Artillery, orignially part of the 36th Division, it's detached from the division in November 1941 and sent to out to the Philippines, but is diverted to Java in the Dutch East Indies, where it is ulimatley captured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted January 1, 2016 Author Share #37 Posted January 1, 2016 Here's another Brad Pitt look-a-like. It's not spot on like the first one, but it'll do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOLO Posted January 5, 2016 Share #38 Posted January 5, 2016 Gunnery Sgt Bob Gray Recon Marine from Camp Pendelton , Ca / actor Bill Paxton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 5, 2016 Share #39 Posted January 5, 2016 I,m thinking like a younger Gary Busey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOLO Posted January 6, 2016 Share #40 Posted January 6, 2016 I,m thinking like a younger Gary Busey the facial expression and teeth do look more like Gary Busey, thats a closer match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted January 26, 2016 Author Share #41 Posted January 26, 2016 This 42nd Division Doughboy from WW I kind of reminded me of the British actor David Suchet who is best known for his portrayal of the fictional detective Hercule Poirot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share #42 Posted January 27, 2016 Maybe its the moustache, but this 6th Infantry Division Doughboy from WW I looks like a slightly younger, and less weathered version of the American actor Sam Elliott. Doughboy photo courtesy of the John Adam-Graf collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share #43 Posted February 12, 2016 This Officer from America's 1918 incursion into Northern Russia bears a resemblance to "Goodfellow" Ray Liotta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted March 12, 2016 Author Share #44 Posted March 12, 2016 This guy looks a bit like a pudgy Leonardo Dicaprio ... Photo courtesy of the John Adam-Graf collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 12, 2016 Share #45 Posted March 12, 2016 BG Micheal Paulick Assistant Division Commander, 7th Inf Div looks like former NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly. Kelly by the way was a Marine Artillery Officer in Vietnam, 1st Mar Div. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 12, 2016 Share #46 Posted March 12, 2016 Ray Kelly in Vietnam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 14, 2016 Share #47 Posted March 14, 2016 No it's not Spike Lee in a cameo in his WWII movie Miracle at St. Anna. It's Pow in the Ardennes who looks like Spike Lee a bit, right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 15, 2016 Share #48 Posted March 15, 2016 Hey I thought Rusty Staub was playing for the Houston Astros in the summer of 1967, not humping it in the RVN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 16, 2016 Share #49 Posted March 16, 2016 Hey I thought Rusty Staub was playing for the Houston Astros in the summer of 1967, not humping it in the RVN! rsz_scan0002.jpg This is Rusty Staub by the way, for those who don't know who he is, you youngsters that IS . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
world war I nerd Posted March 16, 2016 Author Share #50 Posted March 16, 2016 A WW I French Piolu who resembles the actor Liev Schreiber Piolu photo courtesy of the John Adam-Graf collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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