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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Carl Reiner
was
drafted into the Army
Air Forces in
1943 and served during World War II,
eventually achieving the rank of corporal.
In 1944, after completing language training, he was sent to Hawaii to
work as a teleprinter operator.
He was to ship out for an unknown assignment to
Guam, Saipan, Tinian,
and Iwo
Jima for
the next two years. He was discharged in 1946.
William J. Sanderson was an army medic in Vietnam for two years.
Rudy Vallée
(born Hubert Prior Vallée) In
1917 decided to enlist for World War I,
but was discharged when
the Navy authorities
found out that he was only 15.
He enlisted in Portland, Maine on March 29, 1917, under the false
birthdate of
July 28, 1899.
He was discharged at the Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island, he tried
to enlist in WW-II but was too old.
John
Randolph "Jack" Webb During World
War II
enlisted (1942-45) in the United
States Army Air Force,
and served as a crewman aboard a B-26 Marauder Bomber.
Robert L.
Webber served
in the United
States Marine Corps
(1942-45) during World
War II,
serving on Guam and Okinawa.
Harold John
Avery Russell (Served 1941-1944) On June 6, 1944, he was training troops
at Camp MacKall North Carolina.
A charge exploded in his hands, resulting in the loss of both hands.
In 1946 he was in the movie "The Best Years of Our Lives", portraying a war
veteran Homer Parrish,
who had lost both hands in the Navy. For his role in the movie, he
won TWO academy awards.
Tommy Sands after WW-II served in the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
Gerald Patrick "Jerry" Mathers enlisted in the Air National Guard and had the rank of sergeant.
Eric
Fleming (born Edward
Heddy, Jr.) he joined the Merchant
Marine,
before joining the United
States Navy in
1942 for World
War II.
He served as a Seabee in
a naval construction battalion.
He received severe facial injuries during a bet in which he was
attempting to lift a 200-pound (91 kg) weight and
had to undergo extensive plastic surgery to reconstruct his forehead, nose, and
jaw.
Howard
Caine (born Howard
Cohen) (Served 1944-1946) in the United
States Navy during World
War II,
fighting the Japanese in the Pacific
Theatre.
Brian Keith SGT, U.S. Marine Corps WW II. He served (1942–1945)
as an air gunner
(he was a Radio-Gunner in the rear cockpit of a two-man Douglas SBD Dauntless
dive-bomber in a U.S. Marine squadron)
, and received an Air Medal.
Vic Damone (born Vito
Rocco Farinola) was drafted and served in the army from 1951 to 1953.
In November, 1952, he was an Army corporal.
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