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?
Page #13
Leonard Nimoy
enlisted in
the United
States Army Reserve at Fort
McPherson Georgia,
serving for 18 months until 1955, leaving as a sergeant.
Part of Nimoy's time in the military was spent with the Army
Special Services.
Glen
Ford was a SGT-USMC 1942-45, and Capt. USNR 1958-70, help build safe houses in France.
Hiding people from the Nazies. Went to Vietnam 1967.
Earned Navy Commendation Medal & French Legion of Honor.
Glenn Miller While he was traveling to entertain U.S.
troops in France during World War II,
Glenn Miller disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra was re-formed after the war and continues to record
and perform to this day.
Spencer Tracy (served 1918-21) along with his school buddy and
later also Hollywood star,
Pat O'Brian,
left school at the start of WWI and joined the US Navy.
At the end of WWI Tracy was still at Norfolk Navy Yard in Virginia.
Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton
served in the United
States Army during World
War II.
After being assigned to the entertainment corps, Skelton performed as many as
ten to twelve shows per day before troops in both the United States and in
Europe.
The pressure of his workload caused him to suffer exhaustion and
a nervous
breakdown.
His nervous collapse while in the army left him with a serious stuttering problem.
While recovering at an army hospital in Virginia, he met a soldier who had been
severely wounded and was not expected to survive.
Skelton devoted a lot of time and effort to trying to make the man laugh.
As a result of this effort, his stuttering problem was cured; his army friend's
condition also improved and
he was no longer on the critical list. He was released from
his army duties in September 1945.
Gene Hackman (Served 1946-1951) US Marine Corps When he was
16,
Gene served the Marines for four years.
Robert Horton (born Meade
Howard Horton, Jr).
attended California
Military Institute in Perris,
After graduation from the military school, in 1943, at age 19, he was
enlisted in the U.S.
Coast Guard.
George Reeves US Army Air Force (Served 1943-1946)
Was part of the First Motion Picture Unit where he made training
films.
Dennis Franz served in Vietnam with the 82nd Airborne Division.
Jerry
Tucker "rich
kid" was an child actor, most notable for having played in the Our
Gang.
He serve in the United
States Navy during World
War II and
the Korean
War.
He served aboard the USS Sigsbee.
During the war he sustained an injury that caused him to limp,
when his ship was hit by a Japanese Kamikaze.
Jonathan Winters, USMC WW II. At age 17,
he quit high school and joined the Marines serving two and a half years in the
Pacific.
Julia Child was an
American spy during WWII for the Office of
Strategic Services.
Child joined the Office
of Strategic Services (OSS)
after finding that she was too tall
(6'3" at her full
height)
to enlist in the Women's
Army Corps (WACs) or
in the U.S. Navy's WAVES.
She began her OSS career as a typist at its headquarters in Washington, but
because of her education and experience soon was given
a more responsible position as a top secret researcher working directly for the
head of OSS, General William
J. Donovan.
"DISCLAIMER"
This is a personal web site that is not sponsored and/or does not claim to be the official pages of the organizations listed on this site. This is a free site for information purposes only and is to list contacts and events.