thirty seconds over tokyo

February 11 movie: Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. I said before that this is one of my favorite war movies, and I stand by it.

While watching, I was thinking about wartime movies, and the odd fact that the men who played soldiers and sailors during the war, the ones who inspired the homefront, were the ones who didn't themselves serve in the military. Van Johnson was injured in a car accident and was ineligible for medical reasons. I don't know why Robert Walker and Robert Mitchum didn't serve. Probably medical as well. It's not like being an actor could get someone out of the draft, although it could on occasion get a soldier a safe, relatively cushy stateside job, like certain ex-presidents I could mention. Heck, at least Reagan served. Unlike certain current presidents I could mention.