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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Victor Mature,
attempted
to enlist in the U.S. Navy, but was rejected for color blindness.
He enlisted in the U.S.
Coast Guard after
taking a different eye test the same day.
He was assigned to the USCGC Storis,
which was doing Greenland
Patrol work.
Cesar
Romero, US Coast Guard. Coast Guard.
Participated in the invasions of Tinian and Saipan on the assault transport
USS Cavalier.
Isaac Sidney “Sid” Ceasar enlisted into the US Coast Guard in 1939 to 1946.
Roy Richard Scheider served three years in the United States Air Force, rising to the rank of first lieutenant.
Dennis Weaver, US he served as a pilot in the United States Navy.
Robert Taylor,
During World
War II, served in the United
States Naval Air Corps,
where he worked as a flight instructor and appeared in instructional films.
Jay R. Smith “Pinky” was an American child actor who appeared in the Our Gang, he served in the US Army during WWII.
Randolph Scott, in April 1917 entered the US Army during World War 1.
Served in France as an artillery observer with the 2nd Trench Mortar
Battalion 19th Field Artillery
Ronald Reagan, US Army. Was a 2nd Lt. in the Cavalry Reserves before
the war.
His poor eyesight kept him from being sent overseas with his unit when war came
so he transferred to the Army Air Corps Public Relations Unit where he served
for the duration.
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 sergeant in the Air
Transport Command and
stationed
in India.
John
William
“
Jonny”
Carson
joined the United
States Navy on
June 8, 1943 until 1945,
He
enlisted as a Seaman Apprentice
and received V-12
Navy College Training Program
officer training at Columbia
University and Millsaps
College. Commissioned
an ensign late
in the war,
Carson was assigned to the USS Pennsylvania in
the Pacific. While in the Navy,
Carson posted a 10–0 amateur boxing record, with most of his bouts fought on
board the Pennsylvania.
He was en route to the combat zone aboard a troop ship when the bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended
the war.
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