Director & #OSS officer John Ford won @TheAcademy award for documentary he produced for OSS: Battle of Midway
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Ford followed his brother to Hollywood & began his career in the movie industry as a prop man & acting in his brother’s silent films.
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1934: Ford joined @USNavy Reserves.
1940: he began gathering a reserve unit of experienced Hollywood filmmakers.
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October 1941: Ford & 30 men started what would become #OSS Field Photographic Branch producing documentary, training, & field films.
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Ford won 2 @TheAcademy Awards for his #OSS films: The Battle of Midway (1942) & December 7 (1943), a propaganda #film.
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Ford was discharged with the rank of captain, but later continued his service as a rear admiral during the Korean War.
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Ford died in 1973.
He was posthumously awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by Nixon & the 1st @AmericanFilm Life Achievement Award.
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Ford used his talent as a filmmaker during #WWII, proving how everyone can aid in the security of a nation.
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* * *One century minus 10 years apart* * *
* * *We're literally one century apart* * *
i factor more important things above entertainment. it's important, but one of life's frivolties. it's normally mindless and predictable.
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