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?
Page #19
Hoot
Gibson joined the US Army, eventually attaining the rank of sergeant while
serving with the Tank Corps,
and was honorably discharged in 1919.
When the war ended, he returned and became an American rodeo champion and a
pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer.
Richard Anderson served a tour of duty in the United States Army.
Lee
J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby) served in
United States Army Air Forces
during
WWII.
Cobb served in the First
Motion Picture Unit of
the United
States Army Air Forces.
Cobb served until the end of the war and was discharged with the rank of
corporal.
Sherman
Hemsley (Served 1954-1958)
joined the United
States Air Force,
where he served for four years.
He served in Japan and Korea before returning to the states.
Don Herbert
(born Donald Herbert Kemske AKA Mr.
Wizard) volunteered in the US Army Air Corps (Served 1942-1945).
As a B-24 bomber pilot, he flew 56 missions over Italy, Germany and
Yugoslavia and received the
Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with
three oak-leaf clusters. Reaching the rank of Captain.
Clayton Moore (born
Jack
Carlton Moore) (AKA
The Lone Ranger) in1942 joined in the
US Army Air Forces (1942-45) and made training films.
Bill Erwin- enlisted into the
United States Army Air Corps in World
War II,
reaching the rank as Captain.
Whit Bissell (born Whitner Nutting Bissell) was an American
character actor.
He served in the Army Air Force during WW2.
Gerald O'Loughlin
enlisted
(served 1943-1952)
in the Marines
during World War II and active duty during the Korean
conflict.
and reached the rank of 1st. Lt.
Dean Carroll Jones served in the United States Navy during the Korean War.
George Plimpton (Born George Ames Plimpton) enlisted as a soldier
in the United States Army 1945 and 1948.
He was stationed primarily in Italy, where he worked as a tank driver.
Robert E. "Bobby" Hutchins “Wheezer”
was the
child actor in
the Our
Gang.
Hutchins was killed in a mid-air
collision on
May 17, 1945 while trying to land when it struck by the same unit,
at Merced
Army Air Field in Merced,
California.
Hutchins' mother, Olga Hagerson, had been scheduled to travel to the airfield
for his graduation from flying school,
which would have occurred the week after he died.
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