I wanted to fly and it was not possible
you know because I had some kind of eye
deficiency and so I went into the
service as a as a buck private and
subsequently became a sergeant as I went
along I never got into combat what I was
since I had done some remedial speech
work in college I was a I was put as
part of a medical unit then that worked
with young pilots who had lost their
power of speech in combat and I would do
some of the physical ization they lost
the completely their ability to talk and
the psychiatrists and that was a thing
in itself to be working with
psychiatrists at the beginning of the
burst of energy that psychiatry brought
to the world so I've worked in
conjunction with the with the the people
with the doctors and with these pilots
in their in their effort to to learn to
speak what where was this well this was
appalling New York and down in Florida
to Tampa Bay so I never got out of the
country how long were you in the service
about three years
so so you you were discharged after the
war at the end of the war yes and then
you went right back into acting yes I
had a contract at that point with Warner
Brothers a small contract I think I made
a hundred dollars a week that was
considered a lot of money there and I
was in a couple of movies right after I
got out of the service one of them
called destination Tokyo picture about
submarines and and I was mostly in
pictures related to the war and playing
soldier parts or sailor parts or
whatever
