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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Bruce Cabot (born Étienne
Pelissier Jacques de Bujac) enlisted in December 1942 and, after Officer
Training School in Miami Beach,
became a first lieutenant in the U.S.
Army Air Forces.
He was an Air
Transport Command operations
officer at El Aouina, Tunis
from July to November 1943. He was separated from the service on 19 July
1944.
William Kneighly enlisted in the Army Air Force during World
War II,
he supervised the First
Motion Picture Unit of
the U.S.
Army Air Forces.
He retired in 1953 and moved to Paris with
his actress wife Genevieve
Tobin.
Thomas J.
D'Andrea was drafted during World War II and served in the Army Air Corps.
He went to Camp Roberts, Calif., where he was assigned to write a radio
program
for British singer and comedienne Gracie Fields and to read lines. A host of
military radio shows followed.
Arthur
Kennedy served from 1943 to 1945 in the United
States Army Air Forces (USAAF)
making aviation training films, both as a narrator and an actor.
Many of those films today serve as an historical record of not only how aviators
were trained
but also how the equipment was operated.
Dabney
Coleman (born Dabney Wharton Coleman) attended a Virginia military school before
studying law and serving in the army.
He was drafted in 1953 to the United
States Army and
served in Europe.
Charles Callias he served in the US Army in Germany during World War 2.
Robert
Edward "Bob" Crane In 1948 Crane enlisted for two years in the Connecticut
Army National Guard
and was honorably discharged in 1950.
Tony
Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto) After high school enlisted in the
final stages of
World War II as
a U.S.
Army
infantryman in
the European
Theater.
Hugh Malcolm Downs served in the United States Army during World War II in 1943 then discovered he was color blind.
Wallace Ford (born Samuel Jones Grundy) service
as a trooper at Fort
Riley,
Kansas,
with the United
States Army Cavalry during World
War I.
Alan Alda (born Alphonso
Joseph D'Abruzzo) served for a year
at Fort
Benning,
and then six months in the United
States Army Reserve
in Korea.
Frank John
Gorshin Jr. was drafted into the United
States Army
(1953-55)
and posted to Germany attached to Special
Services.
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