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With the arrival of the war, Taylor was swift to make his contribution to the work. As an actor, he manufactured two unforgettable fight videos: Stand by for Motion (1942) and the much better regarded (and for the time, rather graphic) Bataan (1943). From 1943-46 he was in the US Naval Air Corps as a lieutenant, instructing would be pilots. He also discovered time to direct two flight instruction teaching films (1943) and other education movies for the Navy. Rather didactic in his ultra-conservative political beliefs, he became involved as a "friendly witness" for the Residence Un-American Activities Committee investigating "Communist subversion" in the movie business. Everyone who knew Taylor knew he was an arch conservative, but doubt if he could articulate why-at least devoid of a script. He publicly stated that his accepting a purpose in Tune of Russia (1944) was bad judgment (in actuality it was towards his nature to balk at any movie assignment though at MGM) and that he considered the film "pro-Communist." He also-relatively unwittingly, but however unforgivably-fingered fellow actor Howard Da Silva as a disruptive drive in the Display Actor's Guild. Though he didn't explicitly accuse Da Silva of being a Communist, his costs of "disruption" had the very same result, and the veteran actor identified himself blacklisted by the studios for many years. My websites: Spanx: Quality and Comfort at Best