At 95, Clint Eastwood Finally Opens Up About His Army Years

At 95, Clint Eastwood Finally Opens Up About His Army Years Before he was Dirty Harry. Before "The Man with No Name." Before two Best Director Oscars. Clint Eastwood was a 21-year-old Army draftee, hitchhiking a ride home on a Navy bomber, and that bomber went down in the Pacific. No radio. No fuel. Just freezing water, three miles of open ocean, and a coastline he could barely see. He didn't know it then, but he was swimming through one of the most dangerous shark breeding grounds on the California coast. He made it. And the two years that followed, at a California Army base most people have never heard of, quietly built the man who would become a legend. This is that story.