Lee Marvin was born on February 19, 1924 and died on August 29, 1987. Lee Marvin did enlist in the U.S. Marines, saw action as Private First Class in the Pacific during World War II, and was wounded (in the buttocks) by fire which severed his sciatic nerve. He received this injury in the battle of Spain in 1944 but bared through the pain and a few months later fought in the battle of Iwo Jima one of the most known battles of World War 2. Lee was a well-known movie actor appearing on the Tonight Show in the 70’s and appeared in several movies.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi and was murdered on June 12, 1963, By getting shot in the back at his home in Jackson. Evers had left high school and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943, and served with distinction in Europe as part of the 325th Port Company, a segregated unit of black soldiers who delivered vital supplies during the Normandy invasion. Though Jim Crow limited black troops’ involvement in combat, Evers saw front line action as part of the “Red Ball Express,” a famous supply convoy that trucked fuel and other provisions to General George Patton’s tank units as they cut their way through France.