Did You Know This About Charles Durning

[WendyZXZ]

Thanks for this. Only one I knew about till now was Scottie (James Doohan) losing a finger on D-day.

Kind of makes you wonder how many would recognize the miracle working engineer of Star Trek in this uniform instead of redshirt:

 

[pyth0n]

Found these.

WWII Soldier, character actor Charles Durning to be interred at Arlington

Triple Purple Heart holder, Silver Star recipient and award-winning character actor Charles Durning, who died at 89 on Christmas eve of natural causes, will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., Feb. 21, 2013.

www.army.mil

Famous Veteran: Charles Durning

Future actor Charles Durning was drafted into the U.S. Army just in time to fight in World War II. He was part of the landing forces at Normandy during the initial invasion of France by Allied forces.

www.military.com

https://news.va.gov/98192/veteranoftheday-army-veteran-charles-durning/

 

[pyth0n]

One of the very best episodes of NCIS was "Call of Silence" from season 2 in 2004, with Charles Durning. He was excellent in it and it was a very special/moving episode. I have a feeling he had quite an effect on the other cast members and suspect they were made aware of his past military experiences prior to coming to film that episode.

Yes, an excellent episode.