Editing Charlton Heston (section)

===World War II service===
In March 1944 Heston married [[Northwestern University]] student [[Lydia Clarke|Lydia Marie Clarke]] at Grace Methodist Church in downtown [[Greensboro, North Carolina]]. That same year, he joined the military. Heston enlisted in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] and served for two years as a [[radio operator]] and [[Air gunner|aerial gunner]] aboard a [[B-25 Mitchell]] medium bomber stationed in the [[Alaska]]n [[Aleutian Islands]] with the [[77th Bombardment Squadron]] of the [[Eleventh Air Force]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Mecca|first=Pete|url=http://www.covnews.com/archives/47708|title=During World War II, Hollywood got serious|publisher=Covnews.com|date=December 10, 2013|access-date=August 8, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904044627/http://www.covnews.com/archives/47708/|archive-date=September 4, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/heston-tribute-to-airmen-1243279.html|title=Heston tribute to airmen|newspaper=The Independent|date=August 2, 1997|access-date=August 24, 2014|archive-date=April 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419133748/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/heston-tribute-to-airmen-1243279.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He reached the rank of [[Staff sergeant#United States|staff sergeant]].

After his rise to fame, Heston narrated for highly [[classified information|classified]] [[U.S. Armed Forces]] and [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]] instructional films, particularly relating to [[nuclear weapon]]s, and "for six years Heston [held] the nation's highest security clearance" or [[Q clearance]]. The Q clearance is similar to a [[DoD]] or [[Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]] clearance of [[United States security clearance#Top Secret|top secret]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Top Secret|url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/keyword/security-clearance|access-date=August 18, 2011|newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|archive-date=June 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607205747/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/keyword/security-clearance|url-status=dead}}</ref>