You got this one wrong. Here is Wikipedia, followed by info I got from declassified CIA files:
America's entry into World War II resulted in a deluge of support for the war effort from all sectors of society, and Hollywood was no exception. Wayne was exempted from service due to his age (34 at the time of Pearl Harbor) and family status, classified as 3-A (family deferment). He repeatedly wrote John Ford saying he wanted to enlist, on one occasion inquiring whether he could get into Ford's military unit, but consistently kept postponing it until after "he finished just one or two pictures".[28] Wayne did not attempt to prevent his reclassification as 1-A (draft eligible), but Republic Studios was emphatically resistant to losing him; Herbert J. Yates, President of Republic, threatened Wayne with a lawsuit if he walked away from his contract[29] and Republic Pictures intervened in the Selective Service process, requesting Wayne's further deferment.[30]

Wayne toured U.S. bases and hospitals in the South Pacific for three months in 1943 and 1944.[31] By many accounts, Wayne's failure to serve in the military was the most painful experience of his life.[32] His widow later suggested that his patriotism in later decades sprang from guilt, writing: "He would become a 'superpatriot' for the rest of his life trying to atone for staying home."[33]

U.S. National Archives records indicate that Wayne had, in fact, made an application [34] to serve in the O.S.S., today's equivalent of the C.I.A., and had been accepted within the U.S. Army's allotted billet to the O.S.S. William Donovan, O.S.S. Commander, wrote Wayne a letter informing him of his acceptance in to the Field Photographic Unit, but the letter went to his estranged wife Josephine's home. She never told him about it. [35]

So Wikipedia lets you know what was going on IN PUBLIC, but what was going on he could not talk about? Donovan of OSS did reach him, he did do reconnaissance work by filming enemy movements and got a medal from OSS ( see picture at link) but he was not allowed to keep the medal ( to protect his spy work). https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=391595450985&l=88d1f7c3e8

"Even his greatest detractors will admit that FDR was a truly great speaker". You would be too if you had Michael Straight writing for you. A KGB agent ( CHEKA) recruited in the 1930's he was IN the White House. This from Wikipedia: While a student at Cambridge University in the mid-1930s, Straight became a Communist Party member and a part of an intellectual secret society known as the Cambridge Apostles. Straight worked for the Soviet Union as part of a spy ring whose members included Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, and KGB recruiter Anthony Blunt.[1] A document from Soviet archives of a report Blunt made in 1943 to the KGB states, "As you already know the actual recruits whom I took were Michael Straight".[citation needed]
After returning to the United States in 1937, Straight worked as a speechwriter for President Franklin Roosevelt and was on the payroll of the Department of the Interior. Beginning in 1938, Straight carried on a covert relationship with Iskhak Akhmerov, the KGB spy. In 1940, Straight went to work in the Eastern Division of the U.S. State Department.

Now you know why McCarthy did not trust the State Department. The Democratic Party back then has oddly been covered by the politics of the of the Party today. You would never know they backed lynching, segregation, blocking blacks from government jobs, the KKK. FDR came to prominence by limiting the number of Jews that could become lawyers. He refused ships of Jewish refugees and sent them back to Germany. He threw Paul Robeson out of the White House for asking that he back the Republican bill to make lynching a Federal crime. Did I mention Japanese Americans losing their jobs, homes and bank accounts to be moved out to camps in the desert!?!

He spoke at American Nazi and Ku Klux Klan rallies against race mixing. Which is why you do not see him at Obama events.