Talk:Gilligan/@comment-97.90.11.105-20150723025838/@comment-1790715-20181205092641

If we assume that Gilligan is the same age as actor Bob Denver, he would have been 29 when the series began. That means he would have been 17 in 1952 during the Korean Conflict so it's possible the "war" that the skipper and him served together in was the Korean War.