http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Albert#MilitaryMilitary
Prior to World War II, and before his film career, Albert toured Mexico as a clown and high-wire artist with the Escalante Brothers Circus, but secretly worked for U.S. Army intelligence, photographing German U-boats in Mexican harbors.[3] On September 9, 1942, Albert enlisted in the United States Navy and was discharged in 1943 to accept an appointment as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. A genuine war hero, he was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa in November, 1943, when, as the pilot of a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft, he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire.
Thats the short version from Wikipedia, in fact he spent most of the day doing making several trips.
But this was the quickest version to find.
Another genuinely ballsy guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_BronsonEarly life and World War II service
Bronson was born Charles Dennis Buchinski (some sources note that he was born as Karolis Bučinskis[1] Casimir Businskis[2] or Karol Buczyński[3]) in the Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania coal-mining neighborhood of Scooptown in the Pittsburgh Tri-State area. He was one of 15 children born to a Polish[4][5][6] or Lithuanian[7][8] immigrant father of Lipka Tatar ancestry[9] and a Lithuanian mother. Both his parents were immigrants from Lithuania.[10][11][12][13] His father[7][14] was from the town of Druskininkai.[15]
Charles Bronson graduated from high school. Supposedly he was the first member of his family to do so.[7] As a young child Charles did not speak English and learned it later as a foreign language.[8] Bronson's father died when he was only 10, and he went to work in the coal mines. Initially Charles worked in the office of a coal mine, later in the mine itself.[7] Charles worked there until he entered military service during World War II.[7] He earned $1 per ton of coal mined. His family was so poor that, at one time, he reportedly had to wear his sister's dress to school because he had nothing else to wear.[16][17]
In 1943, Bronson joined the United States Army Air Forces and served as an aircraft gunner in the 760th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, and in 1945 as a B-29 Superfortress crewman with the 39th Bombardment Group based on Guam. He was awarded a Purple Heart for wounds received during his service
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