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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Tony
Martin (born Alvin Morris) In World
War II, he
first joined the United
States Navy,
but as a result of rumors that he had gotten an officer's commission through
bribery he left the navy and joined the United
States Army Air Forces.
As a corporal he was assigned as technical sergeant in the Air
Transport Command and
stationed in India,
where Brig. Gen. William
H. Tunner, commanding the Hump
Airlift.
Dean Martin was drafted into the United States Army in 1944
during World War II,
serving a year in Akron, Ohio.
Howard Terbell McNear enlisted as a private in the United States Army Air Corps on November 17, 1942, during World War II.
Mario Lanza (born Alfred
Arnold Cocozza) (Hollywood film
star) World War II made him a private in the Army Air Corps in Texas.
A bad eye kept him away from combat.
Drew Allison Carey enlisted in and serving in the United States Marine Corps for 6 years.
Casey Kasem ( born
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem )
In 1952, Kasem was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Korea.
There, he worked as a DJ/announcer on the Armed
Forces Radio Korea
Network.
Whitner Nutting Bissell was an airman serving in the United States Army Air Corps.
Wayne Rogers (born
William
Wayne McMillan Rogers III
)
served (1954-1957) in the United
States Navy as
a
navigator aboard the USS Denebola.
A converted ship, when he first thought of giving up the sea for acting.
Left the Navy at the rank of Lieutenant.
Howard
Cosell (born Howard William Cohen) in 1941 entered World
War II,
entered the United
States Army Transportation Corps,
where he was promoted to the rank of major
during his time in the service He left the service in 1945.
Gordon MacRae (born
Albert
Gordon MacRae ) (actor) graduated in 1940 from Deerfield
Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts,
and he thereafter served as a navigator in the United
States Army Air Forces during World
War II.
Gregory
"Pappy" Boyington (writer & actor) was a leading U.S. air ace of the Pacific
Theater.
He became famous after the war by writing his detailed autobiography, "Baa Baa
Black Sheep,"
A Native American, Major Boyington was in the Marine Corps before war broke out,
and was such a good pilot that he became a flight instructor at Pensacola.
He resigned his commission to serve with the Flying Tigers in China before Pearl
Harbor Shot down and taken prisoner
on one of his last days in service after two tours, he served out the war in a
Japanese prisoner of war camp in Japan, nearly starving to death.
He was promoted to Colonel while imprisoned. He
received both the Medal
of Honor and
the Navy
Cross.
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