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I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.