Coast Guard vet Sid Caesar passes

His generation as noted above were the best boat handlers. From each landing in the Pacific, to the Med, Italy and D-Day … the Coast Guard provided the most skilled coxswains to the US Navy.

SM1 Munro, USCG, MoH Recipient, for actions Point Cruz, Guadalcanal on 27 September 1942.

Sid at Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Caesar

Sid was an entertainer in the military and he was pretty damn good.

“In 1939, he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard, and was stationed in Brooklyn, New York, where he played in military revues and shows.[10] Vernon Duke, the composer of “Autumn in New York”, “April in Paris”, and “Taking a Chance on Love”, was at the same base and collaborated with Caesar on musical revues.[citation needed]

During the summer of 1942, Caesar met his future wife, Florence Levy, at the Avon Lodge. They were married on July 17, 1943,[11] and had three children: Michele, Rick, and Karen.[8] After joining the musicians’ union, he briefly played with Shep Fields, Claude Thornhill, Charlie Spivak, Art Mooney, and Benny Goodman.[8] Still in the service, Caesar was ordered to Palm Beach, Florida, where Vernon Duke and Howard Dietz were putting together a service revue called Tars and Spars. There he met the civilian director of the show, Max Liebman, who later produced his first television series. When Caesar’s comedy got bigger applause than the musical numbers, Liebman asked him to do stand-up bits between the songs. Tars and Spars toured nationally, and became Caesar’s first major gig as a comedian.”