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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Raymond Burr, US Navy. Shot in the stomach on Okinawa and medically
discharged.
His service in the United
States Navy
he sustained battle injuries at Okinawa.
Hugh
O’Brian,
enlist
in the Marine Corps during World
War II.
At seventeen,
He became the youngest Marine drill
instructor.
(Actor played Wyatt Earp)
Thomas Ross "Tommy" Bond “Butch” was best known for his character on Our Gang, enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
James Coburn In 1950,
he enlisted in the United
States Army,
in which he served as a truck driver and an occasionally disc
jockey on
an Army radio station in Texas.
Coburn also narrated Army training films in Mainz,
Germany.
George Robert "Bob" Newhart is an
American stand-up comedian and actor.
Newhart was drafted into the USA and served stateside during the Korean War as a
personnel manager.
He was honorably discharged in 1954.
Jack Palance military career began as a
member of the United
States Army Air Forces.
Palance's face, was said to have become disfigured while bailing out of a
burning B-24
Liberator bomber
during a training flight over Southern
Arizona (where
Palance was a student pilot).
Billy De Wolfe was an American character actor.
During World War II, he served in the United States Navy until he was discharged
for "medical" reasons in 1944.
Parley Baer, Born in Salt Lake City, UT. Served in the Army
Air Corps
in the Pacific in WW II earning seven battle stars.
Attained rank of captain.
Norman Fell,
serving
as a tail
gunner
on a B-25
Mitchell in
the United
States Army Air Forces during World
War II
In the Pacific Theater.
Jason
Robards, joined the US Navy. Was aboard heavy cruiser USS Northampton when it was sunk off
Guadalcanal.
Also served on the USS Nashville during the invasion of the Philippines,
surviving a kamikaze hit that caused 223 casualties.
Robert Guillaume (born Robert Peter Williams) joined and served in the United States Army before pursuing an acting career.
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