With his Clark Gable good looks and an appetite for adventure, Peter Ortiz left college after one year in 1932, enlisted in the French Foreign Legion, and fought in the Moroccan Rif before returning to southern California and becoming a consultant in the motion picture industry. But when World War II broke out in Europe, he couldn't sit idly by so he hoped a ship back to France, reenlisted in the Foreign Legion, and was taken prisoner when France fell. To make a long story short, he escaped back to the states, joined the Marine Corps, and got back into the fight as quickly as he could.
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