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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Logan Carlisle Ramsey, Jr. (actor)
served (1944-46) as a Naval
Aviator aboard
the sunken Block Island's namesake
carrier.
During down time, Ensign Ramsey would participate in "smokers" (entertainment
programs) aboard ship.
Ray Anthony (born Raymond Antonini) (actor) enlisted in the US Navy in 1942 and was discharged in 1946.
Charles
Douglas Greer child actor character named "Turkey Egg"
in Our
Gang.
During World War II, Greer was a member of the 10th
Mountain Division.
Greer was called back to service on June 8th, 1944
with the "1267 Combat Engineers" and visited England, France, Luxemburg and
Germany.
He was Honorably Discharged on March 31, 1946.
Brian Kelly served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War.
Gervase
Duan "G.D." Spradlin served in the United
States Army Air Force during World
War II,
where he was stationed in China
as an air traffic controller.
Melvin
Howard Tormé (actor)
was drafted in
the U.S. Army during World War II
and was
discharged from the Army in 1946.
William
Lundigan enlisting in the U.S.
Marine Corps in
World War II was Salute
to the Marines.
He served as a combat cameraman in the Battle
of Peleliu and
the Battle
of Okinawa returning
at war's end as a Corporal.
Larry Martin Hagman
In
1952, during the Korean
War, enlisted in the United
States Air Force.
Stationed in London, he spent the majority of his military service in the United
Kingdom and at bases in
Europe.
Discharged from the Air Force in 1956.
Thomas
"Buddy"/"Bud" McDonald
child
actor perhaps best known as one of the Our
Gang
joined the United
States Marine Corps,
where he served in Guadalcanal during World
War II.
George Gobel, comedian, Army
Air Corps, taught fighter pilots at CONUS bases, primarily in Oklahoma.
Johnny Carson made a big deal about it once on the Tonight Show,
to which George said "the Japs didn't get past us".
Nick Adams
(born
Nicholas Aloysius Adamshock)
In January
1952,
Adams enlisted in the United
States Coast Guard,
and served three years (1952-1955).
Raymond
Thomas Bailey enlisted in the U. S. Army. He again
served and after the United States entered World War II
in the United States Merchant Marine and worked as a deckhand on a
freighter in China,
Japan, Hawaii, the Philippines and the Mediterranean.
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