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And we continue with our American stories.

Here to tell another Hollywood Goes to War story is our own Roger McGrath. McGrath is the author of gunfighters,

High Women, and Vigilantees, Violence on the Frontier,

a U.S. Marine and former history professor at UCLA.

Dr. McGrath has appeared on numerous History Channel documentaries

and is a regular contributor here at Our American Stories.

Here's McGrath.

Peter Ortiz began his career in Hollywood as a technical advisor for all things military.

After a highly decorated service in World War II, he began appearing in movies as a character actor.

Tall, lean, and handsome, and with a military bearing, often portrayed military officers, which she had been.

He appeared in five of John Ford's films, included She wore a a yellow ribbon and Rio Grande.

He appeared in 22 other films and a two television series.

He worked with such directors as John Sturgis, Michael Cortiz, Rall Walsh, Robert Wise, and Sam Fuller.

The lead actors in the movies Ortiz had roles in

included such stars as John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck,

Humphrey Bogart, and James Cagney.

Peter Ortiz is born in New York City in 1913.

He's christened Pierre Julian Ortiz, but will go by Peter. His mother is an American of Swiss-German descent and his father French.

He is reared partly in New York and partly in France, and grows up speaking English, French, and German. He later acquires fluency in Spanish and Arabic and conversational proficiency in Italian and Portuguese.

He's an excellent student in a private and secondary school in France and is accepted for admission to the University at Grenoble.

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