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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Woodrow Wilson Woolwine
"Woody" Strode,
was born the son of a Creek–Blackfoot-black father
and a black-Cherokee mother.
He served in the US Army during World War II
and
spent the war
unloading
bombs in Guam and the Marianas.
Carroll O'Connor was rejected in 1942 by the USN. He then
enrolled with the US Merchant Marines
Academy and served in WWII working on ships in the Atlantic.
He eventually joined the National Maritime Union and sailed the North Atlantic,
Caribbean,
and Mediterranean as a merchant seaman during the late stages of the war.
Cameron Mitchell( born Cameron McDowell Mitzel),
served as a bombardier with the United States Army Air Forces during World War
II.
Pernell Roberts was singing in USO Shows during WWII while he was
still in high school.
He enlisting in 1946, he served for two years in the United
States Marine Corps.
Jack Lemmon
(Born John Uhler Lemmon III), took a break from his studies during World War
II.
Served as a member of the V-12
Navy College Training Program and
was commissioned by the United
States Navy,
serving briefly as an ensign on
an aircraft carrier before returning to Harvard after completing his military
service.
Bill Hayes- (Born William Foster Hayes III) enlisted in as a US Naval Airman in WW2.
Joey Bishop
(born Joseph Abraham Gottlieb)
joined the Army (1941-45),
was based at Fort Sam Houston in Texas and rose to sergeant being discharge in
1945.
(He was also a champion welterweight boxer in the Army)
Roger Dean
Miller Sr. At 17, enlisted in the Army and served in Korean War.
"My education was Korea, Clash of '52." Near the end of his military
service, while stationed in Atlanta, Georgia.
James Garner - His
military service spread over 2 wars.
Garner joined the United
States Merchant Marine at
age 16 near the end of World
War II.
Then he enlisted in the National
Guard, serving his first 7
months in California.
He then went to Korea for
14 months, as a rifleman in the 5th
Regimental Combat Team during
the Korean
War.
He was wounded twice, first in the face and hand by shrapnel fire
from a mortar round
Where he received his
first Purple Hearts,
and the second time in the buttocks from friendly
fire from
U.S. fighter jets as he dove headfirst into a foxhole,
but he did not actually receive
his second Purple Heart
it until 1983,
32
years after the event.
Joseph Campanella (born
Joseph Anthony
Campanella)
enlisted during World War II served in the U.S. Navy
and became one of the youngest ever skippers in the wartime navy...
Robert Patrick "Bob" Gunton, Jr.
served
in the United
States Army (1969–71),
earning a Bronze Star for valor and the
Vietnam Service Medal.
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