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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Richard "Dick" Peabody was a World
War II Navy
veteran, and had an early career in radio commercial production in 1942,
he joined the United States Navy, and was discharged in 1945 as an Electronic
Technician.
(Actor) best known for "Combat".
Sterling
Price Holloway Jr. served
during World
War II (1941-45),
Holloway, assigned to the army's Special Services unit,
produced a show for servicemen and toured with it near the front lines in North
Africa and Italy.
Gordon Scott (born
Gordon Merrill Werschkul)
was drafted into the United
States Army in
1944.
He served as a drill
sergeant and military
policeman until he was
honorably discharged in 1947.
Known best as a television actor as
Tarzan.
Marty
Allen (born Morton David Alpern) joined the U.S.
Army Air Corps.
He was stationed in Italy where
he attained the rank of sergeant and earned a Soldier's
Medal for
his bravery
during a fire which happened while a plane was being refueled.
His heroism also earned him a full-dress parade.
David Hedison (born
Albert
David Hedison, Jr.)
(actor) enlisted in the United
States Navy in
1945,
but the war ended before he completed basic training. He served 18 months, then
mustered out.
Douglas
Richards Kennedy during
World War II,
served as a major
in the Signal
Corps with the Office
of Strategic Services and Army
Intelligence.
Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace (American
journalist,
game show host,
actor) Wallace enlisted in the
United States Navy in 1943
and during
World War II served as a communications officer
on the
USS Anthedon, a
submarine tender.
Joseph E.
Brown At 50, Brown was too old to enlist,
but he traveled thousands of miles at his own expense to entertain American
troops.
During WWII, he spent a great deal of time entertaining troops.
Brown was one of only two civilians to be awarded
the Bronze
Star in
WWII.
In 1942 Brown's son, Captain Don E. Brown, was killed when
his A-20 Havoc crashed.
George N.
Neise
served in World
War II
and left with the rank of
colonel
in the Army Air Corps
and
became an actor following service.
Rand Brooks (actor) served in the United States Army during World War II.
Jan
Merlin during World
War II
enlisted in the United
States Navy and became a
torpedo man.
He served on three successive ships in the North Atlantic and Pacific fleets and
accumulated ten battle stars,
before he entered Japan's Inland
Sea with
the first group of occupation forces following Japan's surrender.
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