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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Donald O'Connor Drafted
into the US Army
On his 18th birthday in 1943,
during World
War II O'Connor
served two years overseas.
John
Amos enlisted into the 50th Armored Division of the New Jersey National Guard
and Honorary Master Chief of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Ossie Davis was Drafted
into the
then segregated US Army from 1942 to 1945.
He began his service as a surgical technician in Army
hospital in Liberia, West Africa.
Later, he was transferred to the Special Services Department.
Archie Campbell
joining the United
States Navy in
1941. At the end of World
War II,
Campbell returned to WNOX. He helped start Knoxville's first country
music
television show that premiered in 1952 and ran until 1958.
Tony
Randall served for four years with the United States Army Signal Corps in World
War II,
refusing an entertainment assignment with Special Services.
He had to delay his personal plans for military service in World War II.
Dennis Day
enlisted into the US Navy From 1944 through 1946 he served in the United States
Navy as a Lieutenant.
Last Station 110x the US Navy Liberation Force.
Jeffrey "Jeff" Hunter (born Henry
Herman “Hank” McKinnies, Jr)
enlisted in the United States Navy
in World War II from 1946 to 1949.
He completed a naval radar course at the Radio Technical School and was assigned
to Communications Division.
He was discharged with the rank of Seaman 1st class.
Josephine
Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri.
When World War II (1939-45), Baker worked for the Red Cross during the
occupation of France.
Baker did work for the French Resistance, at times smuggling messages hidden in
her sheet music and even in her underwear.
For these efforts, at the war’s end, Baker was awarded both the
Croix de Guerre and the
Legion of Honour with the rosette
of the Resistance, two of France’s highest military honors.
Jeff Chandler enlisted in the US Army in World War II (1941-45),
finishing with the rank of lieutenant.
His enlistment record for the Cavalry on November 18, 1941 gave his height as
six foot four inches and his weight as 210 pounds.
Rick Jason enlisted in the US Army Air Force (Served 1943-1945) during World War II.
Vincent Pastore enlisted as a sailor in the United States Navy and then attended Pace University for three years.
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