#7: The Combat Pilot Enlistment (1941)
In 1941, Stewart did something almost unimaginable for a major movie star: he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces as a private and took his military service seriously. Publicity photographs of him in uniform look different from studio glamour shots. The smile is smaller. The posture is straighter. He was not simply posing for patriotic headlines. Stewart had long loved aviation, and he was determined to serve as more than a celebrity mascot. Stardom waited. The war did not.
