Yeah, I found him, I was also right about his large personal library, apparently largely destroyed in a fire, I gather, I think you'll find this of interest, I might also send this into the site and app generally, it's an interesting bio....
Neville Brand (born Lawrence Neville Brand; August 13, 1920 – April 16, 1992) was an American television and film actor. He was also a highly decorated World War II American combat soldier.
As I'd thought, he was never in, though his brother was Navy, lost in WW2, I didn't see anything about why he wasn't in, from what I saw, maybe I missed something, I'd always kinda wondered about that with him....
William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918– November 12, 1981) was an American actor who was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and 1960s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1953 for his role in Stalag 17, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his role in the 1973 television film The Blue Knight.
Actually, I got it wrong, the play was apparently semis autobiographical, based on two former US POWs in Germany, loosely adapted from what they'd gone through, also, the war hero I'd !mentioned apparently wasn't Son Taylor, I'll find him, he was a well known character actor of the period, I'll get his Wikipedia page....
Stalag 17 is a 1953 comedy-drama war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is an informant. The film was adapted by Billy Wilder and Edwin Blum from the Broadway play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, which was based on their experiences as prisoners in Stalag 17B in Austria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Taylor_(American_actor_and_director)
Don Taylor (American actor and director) - Wikipedia
Donald Richie Taylor (December 13, 1920 – December 29, 1998) was an American actor and film director.[1] He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including the 1948 film noir The Naked City, Battleground, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and Stalag 17. He later turned to directing films such as Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), Tom Sawyer (1973), and Damien: Omen II (1978).