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      • Melvin Levy was born on 11 May 1902 in Trinidad, Colorado, USA. He was a writer, known for Hideaway (1937), Daniel Boone (1964) and The Cry Baby Killer (1958).
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  1. Jun 25, 2015 · Former Leeds United director Melvyn Levi has died at the age of 71, his family confirmed today. Mr Levi suffered a massive heart attack while travelling with his wife, Carole, on a ferry from ...

  2. May 10, 2024 · In the opening section of “First Squad,” Cpl. Melvin Levy is introduced as the squad’s resident comedian, whose usual barrage of jokes had been silenced by the ongoing starvation that threatened to kill them all.

  3. Dec 17, 2022 · He witnessed one of his fellow platoon mates, Melvin Levy, killed when a food crate being air-dropped to their location landed on Levy's head while he was telling a joke to the platoon.

  4. Jul 6, 2011 · Wikipedia reports that Serling was in the 11th Airborne Division, and that the incident he witnessed was slightly different, that a private named Melvin Levy “was in the middle of a comic ...

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    He saw death every day while in the Philippines, at the hands of his enemies and his allies, and through freak accidents such as that which killed another Jewish private, Melvin Levy. Levy was delivering a comic monologue for the platoon as they rested under a palm tree when a food crate was dropped from a plane above, decapitating him.

  6. Jan 21, 2021 · The National World War II Museum describes how, during downtime between bullets and bombs, Serling's friend, Private Melvin Levy, decided to watch the Air Force's ammunition drops come in. Serling and Levy were joking about where the drops would land when a crate fell from the sky and decapitated Levy. This freak accident shocked Serling, and ...

  7. Nov 13, 2014 · Serling's best friend, a Pvt. Melvin Levy of Brooklyn, was decapitated in front of the future screenwriter by a "biscuit bomb," a food crate intended to nourish the life of the man it killed.

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