Jimmy Stewart, 1945 | A War Hero Returns Home.Written by Ben Cosgrove for LIFE Magazine, September 24, 1945.When James Maitland Stewart, the oldest child and only son of Alexander and Elizabeth Stewart of Indiana, PA, enlisted in the United States Army in 1941, he wasn’t like most privates. For one thing, he was already well into his 30s. For another, he had already been rejected by the military for being too skinny. (The first time around, he was five pounds under the Army’s weight standard for

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