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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Jeff Corey
joined the United States Navy Photographic Service in 1943 and was assigned to
the aircraft carrier Yorktown as a combat photographer.
He earned three citations while serving during the
war, including one for shooting footage on the Yorktown during a kamikaze attack
on the ship.
The citation, which was awarded in October 1945, read:
"His sequence of a Kamikaze attempt on the Carrier Yorktown, done in the face of
grave danger,
is one of the great picture sequences of the war in the Pacific, and
reflects the highest credit upon Corey and the U.S. Navy Photographic Service."
John
Wayne. Declared “4F – medically unfit” due to pre-existing civilian injuries,
he nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times (Army, Navy and Film Corps.)
so he gets honorable mention.
Ted Van Brunt enlisted in the U.S. Marines served in WW-II and Korea.
Dan Blocker was drafted into the US Army during the Korean War.
He served as an Infantry sergeant in F Company, 2nd Battalion, 179th Infantry
Regiment, 45th infantry Division in Korea,
December 1951 to August 1952. He received a Purple Heart
for wounds in combat.
Charles Edward “Buddy” Rogers (actor) he served in the United States Navy as a flight training instructor during World War II.
Homer Durward Kirby (actor) served 1943-45 in the United States Navy during World War II.
Barry
Nelson (born Haakon Robert Nielsen) in 1943 enlistment in the Army during World
War II
and went on the road with other actors performing the wartime play "Winged
Victory,"
J.D. Salinger (born Jerome David Salinger) In the spring of
1942, several months after the United States entered World
War II,
Salinger was drafted into
the army, wherein he saw combat with the 12th
Infantry Regiment, 4th
Infantry Division.
He was present at Utah
Beach on D-Day,
in the Battle
of the Bulge, and the Battle
of Hürtgen Forest.
Richard Greene (born Richard Marius Joseph Greene) serve in the Second
World War in
the 27th
Lancers,
where he distinguished himself. After three months, he went to Sandhurst and
was commissioned.
He was promoted to captain in the 27th Lancers in May 1944 and was discharged
in December 1944.
Vic Damone (born Vito
Rocco Farinola) (actor, radio and television presenter)
He was drafted and served from 1951 to 1953 in the United
States Army.
He served with future Northwest Indiana radio personality Al Evans, and country
music star Johnny
Cash.
Edward
James Begley Sr. left home aged eleven and drifted from job to job,
had a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy.
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