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In one instance, Serling’s good friend, Private Melvin Levy, ventured out to watch an aircraft drop off food crates to the beleaguered paratroopers. Levy was joking about where the food would fall when one of the crates landed on his head and decapitated him as Serling looked on in horror.
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Jul 6, 2011 · Wikipedia reports that Serling was in the 11th Airborne Division, and that the incident he witnessed was slightly different, that a private named Melvin Levy “was in the middle of a comic ...
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Dec 17, 2022 · The man who created "The Twilight Zone" series, who wove his narratives with his own experience of peril drawn from his service in WWII, was Rod Serling. He is credited with 71 scripts of...
Jan 21, 2021 · The National World War II Museum describes how, during downtime between bullets and bombs, Serling's friend, Private Melvin Levy, decided to watch the Air Force's ammunition drops come in. Serling and Levy were joking about where the drops would land when a crate fell from the sky and decapitated Levy. This freak accident shocked Serling, and ...
May 10, 2024 · NEW YORK (AP) — In a famous “Twilight Zone” episode from the early 1960s, a bloodthirsty World War II commander stationed in the Philippines finds himself transported into the body of a Japanese lieutenant and, to his horror, expected to help kill an entrapped and wounded American platoon.
May 11, 2024 · In the opening section of “First Squad,” Cpl. Melvin Levy is introduced as the squad’s resident comedian, whose usual barrage of jokes had been silenced by the ongoing starvation that...
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May 9, 2024 · There's a reason Rod Serling is considered one of scripted television's most daring and incisive storytellers and much of it comes from his experiences in WWII. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning creator of The Twilight Zone spent three years as a paratrooper during WWII.
