Russell Short Celebrating July 4th Tucson Medical Center 1990-2008
by David Lee Guss
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Russell Short Celebrating July 4th Tucson Medical Center 1990-2008
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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WW2 veteran Russell Short (1925-2010) spent the war as a teenager stranded on a remote Pacific island. His outfit had been dropped off and then forgotten.
They were told to maintain air silence, as the U.S. was island hopping in preparation for the eventual air and land invasion of Japan.
Russell is celebrating July 4th at the University Medical Center. Lee Marvin died three years earlier in 1987 at the Tucson Medical Center
Marvin had acted in John Boorman's "Hell In the Pacific" (1968) where he plays a pilot deserted on an uninhabited island; his sole Japanese adversary Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997) likewise stranded.
In real life Marvin had been a teenage Marine sniper on the Pacific island of Saipan.
{NOTE: A fascinating account of the endless frustrations in making "Hell," on a remote Pacific island, with numerous script revisions (even though there is little dialogue as both Marvin and Toshiro Mifune, spoke only their own languages, is recounted in John Boorman's 2003 autobiography "Adventures of a Suburban Boy."}
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