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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Hal Holbrook served From 1942 through 1946 in the United
States Army
in World
War II and
was stationed in Newfoundland.
Steve
McQueen joined the Marines from 1947-50,
served as honor guard to President Truman’s yacht.
Peter Paul Fix enlisted in the US Navy during WWI and served until 1919.
Jamie
Farr
was drafted and Served a two-year stretch
in the U. S. Army in Japan during the Korean War.
Humphrey Bogart enlisted in the US Navy (Served 1918-1919) Many young
men were anxious to join the fighting overseas
and show the Huns a thing or two; to Humphrey Bogart, it sounded like a grand
adventure.
He would probably get to go to Paris, meet some French girls. Soon after
returning from school,
Humphrey went down to the receiving ship USS Granite State and joined the Navy,
officially ending his formal schooling.
Frank
Sutton U S Army WWII, Participated in 14 assault landings in the Pacific.
Including Leyte, Luzon, Bataan, and Corregidor.
Receiving an Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney,
was drafted
into the United
States Army as
an infantryman
and machine gun crewman during World
War II.
During the Battle
of Normandy serving
in the 28th
Infantry Division,
he was wounded in the leg by shrapnel
and
walked with a limp for the rest of his life.
As a result of the injury, his right leg was 3/4-inch shorter than his left.
Receiving an Purple Heart.
Robert
Blake (born Michael
James Gubitosi) “Micky” began performing with a lead role in
Our Gang.
In 1950, Blake was drafted into
the Army
and service from
1954-56.
Sammy Davis Jr.
Davis was
drafted into the United
States Army in
1943, when he turned eighteen.
Served in the U.S.
Army, Special Services, 1943-45, during
World War II, however, he was confronted by
racial prejudice. An African American sergeant, who taught him how to read,
befriended him.
William Wayne McMillan Rogers III,
joined the U.S. Navy, serving (1954
– 1957) as a navigator aboard the
USS Denebola,
a ship that carried supplies to ports all over the world.
Stuart Whitman (Served 1945-1948) American leading man in
generally rugged roles.
He spent three post-war years with the Army Corps of Engineers.
In the army he
won 32 of 31 fights as a light-heavyweight boxer.
Whitman was honorably discharged in 1948 while his close friend Scott went on
the following year to OCS
ending his service with the rank of Colonel.
Charlie Chaplin Jr. (born Charles Spencer Chaplin III ) served in the US Army in Europe during World War II.
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