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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Richard "Dick" Gautier (Actor) enlisted in the United States Navy (Served 1955-1959) special services.
Art Gilmore
(born Arthur Wells Gilmore,) (Actor) enlisted in the US Navy (Served 1942-1945)
During World
War II,
he served as a fighter-director U.S.
Navy officer
aboard an aircraft
carrier in
the Pacific
Ocean.
Thomas "Tom" Tryon (Actor) served in the United
States Navy in
the Pacific from
1943–1946 during and after World
War II.
Upon return from the U.S. Navy he attended and graduated from Yale.
Hoyt Wayne Axton enlisting in the US Navy, served aboard the USS Princeton and the USS Ranger.
Hal Hackett (Actor)
During World War II, when he was in his third year in pre-medical school at
UCLA,
he joined the U.S. Army and was assigned to the Division Surgeon's office.
Before the end of his first month in France he was critically injured under fire
earning
a Purple
Heart,
and was sent back to Gardner General Hospital in Chicago.
Rune H.
Hultman (Actor) enlisted in the Army Air Corp In 1942,
As an air Gunner he was injured in a training flight in New Mexico and he would
suffer the after effects for years to come.
Robert “Woody” Woodbury
(Actor)
In 1943
enlisted in the military, choosing the U.S. Navy Aviation Cadet
Program.
Finally chose the Marine Corps, graduating flight school at Pensacola,
Florida, earning his wings,
and was then ordered to the U.S. Naval Air Station in Daytona Beach to fly
fighter aircraft.
Finally, in 1945, he was ordered to the Marine Corps Air Station in
Miramar, California, near San Diego.
He would be in one of the first invading fighter waves to sweep over Japan.
Before that could happen, the A-Bomb was dropped and World War II came to an
end.
David White
(born Daniel David White) enlisted in the United
States Marine Corps
during World
War II
and completing his 4 year term.
Walter Clarence "Buck" Taylor, III, (actor) Before pursuing a
career in acting
he joined the united States Navy and served his country for two years.
Craig
Stevens (born Gail
Shikles, Jr.) enlisted during World War II,
Stevens served in the United
States Army Air Corps First
Motion Picture Unit based
in Culver City, California, acting in propaganda and training films.
The unit came to be known as "The Culver City Commandos".
Shecky Green
(born Fred
Sheldon Greenfield) served
(1941-44) on aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard,
based in the Pacific and
discharge after three years of service.
John Ernest "Johnny" Crawford enlisted in the United
States Army for
two years.
His rank was sergeant at
the time of his honorable discharge in December 1967
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