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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Ken Curtis was an American singer and actor during WWII,
Curtis served in the united states army from 1943 to 1945.
Edward G. Robinson-
served in the US
Navy during World
War I,
but was never sent overseas and
was too
old for WW2 but gave money and traveled to entertain troops.
Rip Torn served in the Military Police in the United States Army.
John Forsythe enlisted in the Army Air Forces he appeared in plays and
movies,
then worked with injured soldiers who had developed speech problems.
Buddy Ebsen Joined the US Coast Guard in 1941, and was given the rank of
Lieutenant, Junior Grade.
This wartime rank was one step up from the rank of Ensign, the usual rank given
newly appointed naval officers in peacetime.
Ebsen served as damage control officer and later as executive officer on the
Coast Guard-manned Navy frigate USS Pocatello,
which recorded weather at its “weather station” These patrols consisted of 30
days at sea, followed by 10 days in port in Seattle.
Bea
Arthur joined the US Marines became Staff Sergeant 1943-45
30 months as a truck driver.
Bob
Barker
he joined the US Navy, becoming a fighter pilot,
but the war ended before he was assigned to a seagoing squadron.
pilot on a F-4U.
Douglas
Fowley (born Daniel Vincent Fowley) (American movie and television actor in more
than 240 films)
enlistment in the United
States Navy during World
War II
led to his being wounded when he served on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific
Ocean.
Clint
Eastwood joined US Army in 1951 assigned to Fort Ord in Ca.
He was a passenger on a AD Bomber that ran out of fuel and crashed in to the
Ocean.
Had to swim 3 miles to safety.
Hal Linden (born Harold Lipshitz) enlisted in the United States Army in 1952 where he was sent to Fort Belvoir.
John
Huston join Army Signal Corp WWII as Captain and rose to Major.
Received the Legion of Merit.
Norman Lear US Army Air Corps (Served 1942-1945) Best known as the creative
force behind "All in the Family"
during World War II, he served in the Mediterranean Theater as a radio
operator/gunner on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
bombers with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) of
the Fifteenth Air Force.
He flew 52 combat missions, for which he was awarded the
Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters.
Lear was discharged from the Army in 1945.
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