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Happy Veterans Day, everyone.
In 1941, Jimmy Stewart left a successful acting career to enlist in the US Army Air Corps, which became the US Army Air Force. He was the first major Hollywood star to sign up in the prelude to World War II. Stewart had learned to fly as a private citizen.
Je received a commission at the beginning of 1942. He spent a year training pilots, and then appealed to be sent to the front. He flew B-24 bombers in the European Theater of Operations. After the war, as the USAAF became the US Air Force, he moved to the reserves and during his service time qualified to fly B-47s and B-52s. He reached the rank of Brigadier General before he retired in 1968.
