2006-06-27 11:31:53 · 8 answers · asked by rilash020100 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
NO, but he was a tank driver in the Marines. The following is a quote from "the first Steve McQueen website."
"While in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Steve decided to join the Marines.
"It was all very pleasant just lying in the sun and watching the girls go by, but one day I suddenly felt bored with hanging around and went and joined the Marines."
In April, 1947 he enlisted, just a month after his seventeeth birthday.
Steve was not a model Marine at first. He was sentenced to fourty-one days in the brig (the first twenty-one on bread and water) for allowing a weekend pass to drag into two weeks and then fighting with the shore patrol when they went to pick him up. He would redeem himself later on, however.
During a training excercise in the Arctic, a transport ship struck a sandbank and flung several tanks and their crews into the freezing water. Many Marines drowned immediately, unable to get out of their tanks. McQueen jumped into the Actic water personally saved the lives of five men, who were almost frozen to death. For this act of heroism Steve McQueen was chosen to be part of the Honor Guard protecting Harry S. Truman's yacht.
He was honorably discharged April, 1950."
2006-06-28 02:56:13 · answer #1 · answered by lana_sands 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably. Steve McQueen was cool. He's the type to have done something like that.
2006-06-27 11:37:18 · answer #2 · answered by Bonapartess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
damn straight, son. they kicked me out just because i didn't have good colore selection. you think thats fair? hell no its not. i am steve McQueen who ever that was/is.
2006-06-27 11:37:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
More details needed
2016-08-08 02:00:57 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just got off a website all about him and I didn't see anything about it, but of course that don't mean it didn't happen :)
2006-06-27 11:47:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not know, but that's pretty funny!
2006-06-27 11:35:36 · answer #6 · answered by altruistic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do not know
2006-06-27 11:33:32 · answer #7 · answered by stewart little 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thx for the replies, much appreciated.
2016-08-23 00:40:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋