The great Lee Marvin would be 94 today.
Here he is seen as Sgt. Turk in the “Bridge at Chalons” episode of Combat! (1963)
And if he looks natural with that Garand, he came about it honestly.
Leaving school at 18 to enlist in the Marines after Pearl Harbor, this member of The Greatest Generation was seriously wounded while a part of the 24th Marines during the assault on Mount Tapochau in the Battle of Saipan in 1944 and spent over a year in recovery before he was medically discharged.