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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Russ Conway (Actor)
During World War
II, he served in the United
States Army, attached to the Special
Services unit.
For several months he was at
Fort Ord on Monterey
Bay in California before
he was sent to the Philippine
Islands and
then Japan.
He worked as a producer and announcer for Armed
Forces Radio.
Jan Merlin-
During World
War II, he
enlisted in the United
States Navy and
became a torpedoman.
He served on three successive ships in the North Atlantic and Pacific
fleets and accumulated ten battle stars,
before he entered Japan's Inland
Sea with
the first group of occupation forces following Japan's surrender.
Alfred Ryder (born Alfred Jacob Corn) (Actor) During World War II he joined the United States Army Air Forces.
Dashiell
Hammett (born Samuel Dashiell Hammett)
(Actor)
enlisted in the Army in 1918 and
served in the Motor
Ambulance Corps.
He was afflicted during that time with the Spanish
flu and
later contracted tuberculosis.
He spent most of his time in the Army as a patient at Cushman Hospital in Tacoma,
Washington.
During WW-II at the age of 48, Hammett enlisted as
a private in the Army.
Three years later he was Honorably discharged as a sergeant.
Bert Parks (born Bertram
Jacobson) enlisted in the joined the
United
States Army Air Forces.
He was sent to
China, Burma, and the India
Theatres.
Jack Pennick (born
Ronald Jack Pennick)
(Actor)
1912 joined the United
States Marine Corps and
served with the
Peking Legation
Guard in China.
He was with the Marines in World
War I and
reenlisted in the United
States Navy in
September, 1941, at the age of 45.
He was promoted to chief warrant officer (chief photographer) in December
1942 and served in the Field
Photographic Unit under Commander John
Ford.
He received the Silver Star for action where he was
wounded at Majazal Bab, Tunisia during WWII.
Alexander Crichlow "Lex" Barker
Jr. (Actor) In February 1941, nearly a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor,
Barker left his fledgling acting career and enlisted in the U.S. Army as a
Private.
The 6'3" 208-pound soldier rose to the rank of Major
during the war.
He received a Purple Heart being wounded the head
and leg in action fighting in Salerno and Sicily.
Back in the USA, he recuperated at an Arkansas military
hospital, then upon his discharge from service.
(Served 1941-1945).
Henry Gibson (born James
Bateman) served in France in the
66th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing,
becoming target intelligence officer in the United
States Air Force
(1957 – 1960) at
the rank of Captain.
Leon Marcus Uris,
at the age of seventeen joined the United States
Marine Corps (Served 1942-1945)
.
He served in the South
Pacific with
the 2nd
Battalion, 6th Marines,
where he was stationed in New Zealand,
and fought as a radioman in combat on Guadalcanal and Tarawa from
1942 through 1944.
He was sent to the US after suffering from dengue
fever, malaria, and
a recurrence of asthma
that made him miss his battalion's decimation at Saipan that
featured in Battle
Cry.
While recuperating from malaria in
San Francisco, he met Betty Beck, a Marine sergeant;
they married in 1945.
Hari Rhodes
(Actor)
When
he was 15, Rhodes spent two months learning to copy his mother's
signature and forged it on enlistment papers
to join the U.S.
Marine Corps
2nd Marine Division/2nd Combat Service Group
FMF (Served 1949-1952).
He later wrote a book about his experiences called "A Chosen Few".
George Segal, Jr. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1956.
Howard Jerome "Howie" Morris
(actor) was best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.
Served in the U.S.
Army during World
War II, first as an infantryman who
saw action in such places as Guadalcanal and The
Philippines,
in the Pacific
Theater, and later, after
the war, when he was a first
sergeant.
He was a member of an entertainment
unit, where he remet an old
friend, Carl
Reiner and
entertained American
troops throughout the Pacific.
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