James Arness, 3rd Infantry, wounded at Anzio, Bronze Star winner. Played Marshall Matt Dillon on the long running American tv series, "Gunsmoke". texag57
Texas, thanks for adding photo of the great James Arness, who appeared for many years in leading role on ‘Gunsmoke’. For viewers interest, his brother and fellow actor was the late Peter Graves, who appeared in many TV series and films.
It would be neat if something about his brother’s military service would turn up. I remember him well in the “Mission Impossible” tv shows.
John Wayne was a good friend of Jim Arness and introduced Arness at the beginning of the first show of the Gunsmoke series.