My generation grew up
watching, being entertained by and laughing with so many of these fine people.
Never really knowing what they contributed to the war effort.
Like millions of Americans during WWI & WWII, there was a job that needed
doing and they didn't question it,
just went and did it.
Those that came home returned to their now new normal life and carried on
and
very few ever saying what they did or saw.
They took it as their "responsibility" and their "duty" to the Country to
protect and preserve our freedoms.
American way of life not just for themselves, but for all future generations to
come.
As a member of that “Finest" generation, I'm forever humbly in their debt.
Here are only a few of these silent heroic Heroes that are slowly being forgotten
Do You Remember These Men?
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Victor Jory was the boxing and wrestling champion of the United States Coast Guard during his military service.
John Banner- In 1942 enlisted in the United
States Army Air Corps
(1942-45)
He was placed in a concentration camp in early stages of Hitler's campaign.
Released, he fled to U.S. not knowing any English with $3 in his pocket.
His parents died in the camps
Bill Williams enlisted in the United
States Army during World
War II,
but was discharged before the end and became an actor.
Morgan Woodward
(born Thomas Morgan Woodward) enlisted in the
Army Air Corps as a pilot
then recalled to active duty with Air Force and sent to Korea.
Discharged in December 1945.
Werner Klemperer was in 'real life' the son of a Jew who fled
with his family from Nazi Germany
in the 1930s. He served 1942-45 in the U.S. Army during World War II.
After serving in the United
States Army during World
War II,
he began his professional acting
career on the Broadway stage
in 1947. When he was offered the
Col. Klink role,
''I had one
qualification when I took the job: if they ever wrote a segment
whereby Colonel Klink
would come out the hero, I would leave the show.''
Lonny Chapman, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps served in the South Pacific during World War II.
Oliver Stone
joined the U.S. Army in April 1967, specifically requesting combat duty. " Stone
landed in Vietnam on September 16, 1967,
and was assigned to the 2nd Platoon of Bravo Company, 3rd
Battalion, 25th infantry,
stationed near the Cambodian border.
He was wounded twice in action, and was later transferred to 1st
Cavalry and
assigned to a Long Range Reconnaissance Platoon in April of 1968.
It was during this time that he Juan Angel Elias, who would become the
inspiration for Sgt. Elias (Willem Dafoe) in Platoon,
which drew heavily on Stone's Vietnam experiences.
Eventually Stone was discharged in November 1968 after 15 months of duty, and
received two personal awards:
the Bronze Star with "V" device, which he received
after conducting "extraordinary acts of courage under fire,"
and a Purple Heart with one Oak Leaf Cluster.
Ken Berry in 1950 volunteered for induction into the United
States Army, and he was assigned to Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
His first year in the Army was spent in the Artillery division.
Berry's second and final year was as a part of the Special Services Corps, under
the command of Sergeant Leonard Nimoy.
Leon Askin-
(Born Leo Aschkenasy) enlisted in the
Army Air Corps-WW2-fleeing the Nazis,
he arrived in the States in 1940. He
served in World War II as a
Staff Sergeant in the US Army Air Forces.
I was put in the Air Corps.
“I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon
my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.
When the Nazis occupied Austria his parents were imprisoned and killed in a Nazi
concentration camp”.
David Janssen (born David Harold Meyer) He served two years as an enlisted man in the United States Army.
Nancy Kulp (1943-1946) volunteer for service in the US
Naval Reserve (WAVES)
during World
War II.
While on active duty Ltjg. Kulp received several decorations, including the American
Campaign Medal,
National Defense Metal ,
Good Conduct Medal.
She left
the service in 1946.
“She stated that patriotism motivated her to join up.
In the long run, however, she could not envision a career for herself in the
military, and so she left the service in 1945.”
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