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Mar 8, 2002 · Lee Marvin, actor, and Bob Keeshan, television's "Captain Kangaroo" were World War II veterans who fought together at Iwo Jima. Rating: False. About this rating. What's True. Actor Lee...
He received his bachelor's degree in education in 1951. [5] An urban legend claims that actor Lee Marvin said on The Tonight Show that he had fought alongside Keeshan at the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. Over time, this legend has been published verbatim.
Mar 17, 2015 · Lee Marvin and Bob Keeshan did both serve in the Marines. Before his death in January, 2004, we checked with Bob Keeshan, who was living in Vermont, and he said he never served at Iwo Jima, was not presented with the Navy Cross and, in fact, never saw combat.
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Jun 14, 2007 · Bob Keeshan, a.k.a. "Captain Kangaroo," also enlisted in the U.S. Marines two weeks before his 18th birthday, several months after the fighting at Iwo Jima and never saw combat.
Feb 5, 2004 · By. PUBLISHED: February 5, 2004 at 5:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 27, 2021 at 6:12 a.m. Jim Gregory was outraged when he read the obituary for Bob Keeshan, better known as Captain Kangaroo.
Aug 28, 2019 · The only problem: Lee Marvin was injured at Saipan, not Iwo Jima, and Bob Keeshan never served in the Pacific at all. He turned eighteen (and enlisted in the Marine Corps reserves) in 1945, several months after American forces retook Iwo Jima.
Dec 11, 2020 · The prominent rumor argues that it has a clip of dialogue taken from ‘The Tonight Show’ between actor Lee Marvin and host Johnny Carson. In the clip, Lee Marvin talks about how Bob Keeshan is the bravest man he ever knew and maintained that the two fought together at Iwo Jima in the Pacific.
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