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 #26
Philip
Carey (born Eugene
Joseph Carey) served in the United
States Marine Corps
and was wounded as part of the
ship's detachment of the USS Franklin during World
War II and
served again in the Korean
War.
Louis
Charles Hayward During World
War II, he
enlisted in the United
States Marine Corps in
July 1942.
He commanded a photographic unit that filmed the Battle
of Tarawa in
a documentary titled With
the Marines at Tarawa.
Hayward was awarded the Bronze
Star Medal.
Peter
Lawrence Boyle Jr. After graduating from Officer
Candidate School in
1959,
he was commissioned as an ensign in
the United
States Navy.
Charles Ray Willeford III (actor)
In 1942, stationed at Fort
Benning, Georgia, for infantry
school.
He was assigned to the Third Army, Company C, 11th Tank Battalion, 10th
Armored Division and sent
to Europe as a tank commander.
He fought in the Battle
of the Bulge and earned
the Silver
Star, the Bronze
Star for
outstanding bravery,
the Purple
Heart with
one oak leaf cluster, and the Luxembourg
War Cross.
After V-E
day, he studied at Biarritz American University until he was shipped
back to the United States. Charles
again enlisted in 1945 for a term of three years.
As a member of the 24th
Infantry Division he was stationed in Kyūshū,
Japan, from 1947 to 1949.
He ran the Army radio station WLKH and was promoted to master
sergeant.
Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor, Jr. serving in the Korean War while in the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson
joined the U.S. Army and attained the rank of Captain.
He became a helicopter pilot after receiving flight training at Fort
Rucker, Alabama.
He also completed Ranger
School. During the early
1960s, he was stationed in West
Germany as
a member of the 8th
Infantry Division.
In 1965 his tour of duty ended.
James Ramon Jones after high school enlisted in the United
States Army in
1939 at the age of 17
and served in the 25th
Infantry Division 27th
Infantry Regiment before
and during World
War II.
First in Hawaii at Schofield
Barracks on Oahu,
when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941.
He remained in Hawaii until late in 1942, when he was shipped to Guadalcanal.
While in combat on Guadalcanal at
the Battle
of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse,
where he injured his ankle,
for which he earned both a Bronze Star and a Purple
Heart. He
returned to the US and was discharged in July 1944.
He also worked as a journalist covering the Vietnam
War.
Moses Gunn serving in the United States Army.
Eugene
Barton Evans served in the Army during World War II as a combat engineer.
Evans rose to the rank of Sergeant in the combat engineers,
and was awarded 5 stars for service in the Second
World War for his participation in the Normandy landings and other battles,
was awarded the Purple Heart and the
Bronze Star for bravery in action.
William Hopper (né DeWolf
Hopper, Jr.) (1942-45)
enlisted with the United
States Navy during
World War II,
as a Frogman
and as member of the newly created Underwater
Demolition Team.
He received a Bronze
Star and
several other medals during operations in the
Pacific,
It’s said
the stress he endured during the war caused his hair to turn white.
Donald Paul
Bellisario Served in the United States Marine Corps from January 1955 to January
1959.
Was discharged as a Sergeant and was awarded the Marine Corps
Good Conduct Medal.
Waldo Brian Donlevy (Actor)
lied about his
age (he was actually 14) so he could join the
mobilization.
Donlevy served during the expedition Mexican rebels
under Villa's command raided Columbus, NM, and killed 16 American soldiers.
When the United States entered World War I,
Donlevy went to France with Company C, 127th
Infantry Regiment,
a part of the 32nd
Infantry Division as
a pilot with the
Lafayette Escadrille, a unit of the French Air Force comprised of
American and Canadian pilots.
As such, he was an honorary member of The Lafayette Flying Corps (also known as
the Franco-American Flying Corps).
Was wounded twice while serving as a fighter pilot in France during World War I
earning both a
Bronze Star and a Purple
Heart.
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