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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Tyrone Power, US Mrines. Transport pilot in the Pacific Theater.
He reported to the United
States Marine Corps for
training in late 1942, but was sent back,
at the request of 20th Century-Fox, to complete one more film, Crash
Dive, a patriotic war movie released in 1943.
He was credited in the movie as Tyrone Power, U.S.M.C.R., and the movie served
as a recruiting film.
"Tyrone Power was a Marine 'fly boy' and a part of the USMC Squadron VMR352 at
one point.
He wasn't one of the original members of the squadron when it was founded.
Jack Hanlon
was a precocious, freckle-face child actor was part of the 'Our Gang' series.
Enlisted in the Army Air Corps paratrooper during WWII.
Charlton Heston enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in
1944.
Served 2 yrs as a radio operator and aerial gunner aboard a B-25 Mitchell
stationed in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands with the Eleventh Air Force.
He reached the rank of Staff Sergeant. After his service and rise to fame, he
was chosen as a narrator
for highly classified Military and Department of Energy
instructional films,
particularly relating to nuclear weapons For 6 yrs he held the nation’s highest
security clearance.
Danny Aiello, US Army. Lied about his age to enlist at 16. Served three years.
James Arness served as a rifleman with the U.S. 3rd Infantry
Division,
and was severely wounded during Operation Shingle, at Anzio, Italy.
He wanted to be a pilot but was too tall.
Efram
Zimbalist, Jr , US Army.
Received a Purple Heart for a severe wound received
at Huertgen Forest
Rod
Serling, US Army. 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific.
He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila.
Gene
Autry, US Army Air Corps. Crewman on transports that ferried
supplies over “The Hump” in the China-Burma-India Theater.
Wiliam Holden,
US Army Air Force (Served 1942-1945)
Few Hollywood actors have conveyed spiritual and physical pain with the
charismatic authority of William Holden.
Holden joined the Army Air Force, served in WWII and returned to the screen with
a more complex personality.
(His brother Robert was KIA in the Pacific and many said
it changed him.)
James Whitmore joined the Marines in WWII,
he posed for the Marine Poster, he served the Panama Canal Zone.
Russell Johnson, served in the US Army Air Force during WWII.
He flew 44 combat missions as a bombardier in B-25 bombers. In March 1945, he
and two other B-25s were shot down in the Philippines.
He broke both his ankles and the radioman next to him was killed. Johnson earned
a Purple Heart, among other honors.
He was honorably discharged and later served in the Army Reserve
Lloyd
Vernet Bridges, Jr. enlist in the Coast Guard during WWII, and returned to
acting after the war.
He was a member of Coast Guard Auxiliary in the 11th District and did a number
of public service announcements for the Coast Guard.
He was latter appointed an honorary commodore.
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