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
"Vic" Morrow dropped out of high school when he was 17
and enlisted in the United
States Navy
in 1946-1948.
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris joined
the United
States Air Force as an Air
Policeman in 1958 and was
sent to Osan
Air Base, South
Korea.
It was there he began his training in Tang
Soo Do, an interest that
led to black
belts in that art and the
founding of the Chun
Kuk Do form.
When he returned to the United States, he continued to serve as an AP at March
Air Force Base in
California and was discharged in August 1962.
Warren Mercer Oates After high school he enlisted in the United
States Marine Corps
for two
years serving in the air wing as an aircraft mechanic.
William
Joseph Patrick "Pat" O'Brien (Served
1918-1921) During World
War I, he
joined the United
States Navy.
Attended boot camp at the Great
Lakes Naval Training Center,
but the war ended before his training
had finished and was honorably discharged as a Seaman 2nd Class in 1921.
Byron Hunkins Palmer Served in WW2 II and operated a radio station on one of the islands in the Pacific.
Leo Z. Penn
served in the United
States Army Air Forces during World
War II as
a B-24
Liberator bombardier
with the 755th Bomb Squadron, 458th Bomb Group, stationed in England as
part of the Eighth
Air Force.
Lee Powell (born Lee
Berrian Powell) enlisted in the Corps on 17 August 1942 serving in the
2nd Pioneer Battalion, 18th
Marine Regiment of
the 2nd
Marine Division.
Sergeant Powell
fought in the Battle
of Tarawa and Battle
of Saipan.
Although widely reported to have been killed in action against the enemy,
he died of alcohol poisoning on Tinian as
the result of a concoction that also temporarily blinded another Marine.
Herbert Birchell "Bert" Remsen World War II veteran who served as
a coxswain on a destroyer.
He won a Purple Heart during his tour of duty.
Harold John “Hal” Smith served in the United States Army Special Services during World War II.
Gene Raymond (actor) Following the beginning of war in Europe in
1939, Raymond felt certain the U.S. would eventually enter the war.
He trained as a pilot for that eventuality, and after the attack on Pearl
Harbor in
1941, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Army
Air Forces.
He served as an observer aboard B-17 anti-submarine flights along the Atlantic
coast before attending intelligence school and shipping out to England in July
1942.
He served with the 97th
Bomb Group before
taking over as assistant operations officer in the VIII
Bomber Command.
He was transferred back to the U.S. in 1943 and piloted a variety of aircraft,
both bombers and fighters, in stateside duties.
He remained in the United
States Air Force Reserve following
the war, retiring in 1968 as a colonel.
Gig Young (born Byron
Elsworth Barr) enlisted in the United
States Coast Guard in
1941
where he served as a pharmacist's
mate Petty
Officer Third Class until the end of World
War II
in 1945.
David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine) in 1960 was inducted into the United States Army and honorably discharged in 1962.
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