# 42: Star Wars Episode XV: Why John Wayne Didn’t Sign Up

An episode of [You Must Remember This](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/858124601), 21 Apr 2015, 34 min.

Audio: https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8253343/8253343_2026-04-14-120743.192.mp3?rssID=6337

No actor on movie screens in the 1940s embodied American patriotism and unpretentious masculinity better than John Wayne. But Wayne didn’t have the defining experience of most adult American men of the 1940s — Wayne didn’t enlist to serve in World War II.

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