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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Edgar
McLean Stevenson Jr
joined
the United
States Navy
(1946-48) and served as a corpsman,
sometimes listed as pharmacist’s mate. His last station was at the
Naval Hospital Great
Lakes, IL.
Edgar was awarded the
WWII Victory Medal for his service.
Charles
DeWayne Zink
enlisted
in the United
States Marine Corps,
and served during World
War II, receiving a Bronze
Star.
After he became Skipper Chuck Zink the host of “Skipper Chuck Show” in Miami
from 1957 to 1979.
Richard
Cromwell, (born LeRoy Melvin
Radabaugh) (actor) served during the last two years
of World War II with the United
States Coast Guard.
Joe E. Ross (born Joseph
Roszawikz)
served in the United
States Army Air Corps
(1942-45)
at Camp
Blanding, Florida,
before being stationed in England
and was discharged at the war's end.
John Lawrence Russell Served in WW2, though he was initially
rejected because of his height of 6 ft 4 in.
He was commissioned as second lieutenant on November 11, 1942, and was
assigned to the 6th Marine Regiment.
He received a battlefield commission, was wounded (awarded
the Purple Heart) and highly decorated for valor at
Guadalcanal.
He later served as an assistant intelligence officer, contracted malaria and
returned home with a medical discharge.
Julius "Nipsey"
Russell served as a medic in
the United
States Army during World
War II.
Enlisting as a private on June 27, 1941, and
returning from Europe in 1945 was commissioned as a
captain in the field.
Darryl
Francis Zanuck
In
1918 during WW-I despite being sixteen, he deceived
a recruiter,
joined the United
States Army
fought in Belgium, and served in France with
the Nebraska National
Guard.
Larry
Blyden (born Ivan Lawrence Blieden)
enlisting in the United
States Marine Corps during World
War II.
Before receiving
an honorable discharge in 1946, Larry rose to the officer rank of
Lieutenant.
Robert W.
Tessier served in the United States Armed Forces seeing action in Korea
as a paratrooper and earning both a Silver Star and
a Purple Heart.
Gower
Carlyle Champion
serving
in the U.S.
Coast Guard during World
War II,
his service also included troop entertainment at USO shows.
Gale Gordon (born Charles
Thomas Aldrich, Jr ) joined the United States Coast Guard in World War II.
He joined willingly and he wasn't drafted and rose to the rank of
Petty Officer First Class in the three years he was
in the Guard.
Going on US Navy vessels his military service took him all around the most
dangerous parts of the world at that time... mostly to Asia.
Salvatore "Robert" Loggia enlisted (1943-45) in the United States Army.
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