John Banner
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John Banner was an Austrian-born American actor, best known for his role as Sergeant Schultz in the situation comedy Hogan's Heroes. Schultz, constantly encountering evidence that inmates of his stala
Banner as Sergeant Schultz on Hogan's Heroes, 1965
Military recruitment
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Military recruitment is attracting people to, and selecting them for, military training and employment.
John Banner
…1942, Banner enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces, underwent basic training in Atlantic City and became a supply sergeant. He even posed for a recruiting poster. He served until 1945. According to fellow Hogan's Heroes actor Robert Clary, who was a Holocaust survivor himself, "John lost a lot of his family" to…
A World War II recruiting poster for the Women's Royal Naval Service. Recruiting women for non-combat roles freed up men for the front lines.
Billboard in Moscow promoting contract army service in August 2024. The poster promised income "from 5.2 million rubles" (approx. $60,000) for the first year of active duty.
Vladimir Putin's Young Army in Crimea on 9 May 2022
A military recruit undergoing an eye examination, September 1917