General Discussion

In real life, he did what many actors only pretended to do in movies.

After becoming an actor, Hayden he joined the military prior to Pearl Harbor and became a commando with the Office of the Coordinator of Information which later became the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) which later formed the basis of the CIA. During World War II, he joined the Marines running guns and supplies to into Yugoslav partisans and parachuting into Croatia to aid guerilla activities.