Trivia: Sean Connery & HMS Formidable

[dragon53]

TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
In YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, Commander James Bond is shown in his Royal Navy uniform aboard a British submarine as he meets with M. In reality, Sean Connery was an anti-aircraft gunner on the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Formidable.

In YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, Commander James Bond is shown in his Royal Navy uniform aboard a British submarine as he meets with M.




While being interrogated by Helga Brandt, SPECTRE's Number 11, James Bond said, "I love ships, and I used to be a sailor."




In reality, Sean Connery was an anti-aircraft gunner on the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Formidable.

[Dick J]

Are you sure about this one? According to IMDB, Connery was born in August of 1930. Formidable decommissioned in March of 1947, at which time Connery would have been 16.

[DougC]

Back then, boys as young as 15 could enlist in the British Navy with parental consent. They were known as boy seamen.

[dragon53]

DICK J:

"In 1946, at the age of 16, Connery enlisted in His Majesty's Royal Navy. He received training at the naval gunnery school in Portsmouth and was assigned to an anti-aircraft artillery crew. His first and only ship assignment was the Illustrious-class aircraft carrier HMS Formidable. After three years of naval service, Connery was medically discharged due to a duodenal ulcer."