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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Bobby Troup (born Robert Wesley Troup Jr.)
(Actor) (served 1942-46) Upon
graduating from college in 1941
he enlisted in the United
States Marine Corps,
but did not receive orders until January 1942.
After completing officer training, as a Captain In command he was assigned as
one of two dozen white officers
to direct recruit training at Montford
Point,
recruit depot for the first Black Marines.
By spring of 1943 he became recreation officer, he also organized the
first
African-American band of U.S. Marines.
Norman
Kingsley Mailer,
(actor)
In 1943 he was drafted into the
U.S. Army.
After training at Fort Bragg, Mailer was stationed in the Philippines with and
served
briefly with a rifle company in the Philippines with the 112th Cavalry.
John Richard "Dickie" Moore,
Jr.
popular actor
during his childhood and youth in the Our
Gang series.
Joined the US Army during the Second World War.
Jack Kelly (born John Augustus Kelly, Jr.) was an actor.
He enlisted in the US Army during WWII, and served in Alaska as a weather
observer.
Donald Haines child
actor who
had recurring appearances in the Our
Gang,
enlisted as an aviation cadet in the United
States Army Air Forces on
December 10, 1941, to serve in World
War II.
He was killed
in action on
February 20, 1943 (North Africa). At the time of his death, his
rank was first
lieutenant.
John McLiam (born John
Williams) enlisted in the US Navy During World War II
and served as an intelligence officer having received a
Bronze Star (Served 1941-1945).
James Edwards (Actor) - serving in the South Pacific during World
War II.
He was seriously wounded in combat and leaving at the rank of Lieutenant
having received a Purple Heart.
Donald "Don" Porter served in the US Army during WWII,
He was commissioned a Lieutenant as a combat photographer.
Scott Brady (born Gerard
Kenneth Tierney)
(actor) (Served 1943-1946) He enlisted before graduating from high school
and served as a naval aviation mechanic overseas
on the USS
Norton Sound.
During his term of duty
he earned a light heavyweight boxing medal. He was
discharged in 1946.
John Donald
Fiedler
(Served 1943-1945)
enlisted in the United
States Navy and
served until the end of World
War II.
His career
lasted more than 55 years in stage, film, television.
Eamon Joseph O'Brien joined and served in the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1942-1944.
Richard Arlen (born Sylvanus Richard Mattimore) enlisted in the
United
States Army Air Forces
and became a flight instructor
in World
War II.
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