[StBernard] We Were Men

Westley Annis westley at da-parish.com
Sat Jan 18 08:10:10 EST 2014


In those days every able bodied man served



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Stewart
Hayden, US Marines and OSS. Smuggled guns into Yugoslavia and
parachuted into
Croatia.

James
Stewart, US Army Air Corps. Bomber pilot who rose to the rank of
General.

Ernest
Borgnine, US Navy. Gunners Mate 1c, destroyer USS Lamberton.

Ed
McMahon, US Marines. Fighter Pilot. (Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over Korea
as
well.)

Telly
Savalas, US Army.

Walter
Matthau, US Army Air Corps., B-24 Radioman/Gunner and cryptographer.

Steve
Forrest, US Army. Wounded, Battle of the Bulge.

Jonathan
Winters, USMC. Battleship USS Wisconsin and Carrier USS Bon Homme
Richard. Anti-aircraft gunner, Battle of Okinawa.

Paul
Newman, US Navy Rear seat gunner/radioman, torpedo bombers of USS
Bunker
Hill

Kirk
Douglas, US Navy. Sub-chaser in the Pacific. Wounded in action and
medically
discharged.

Robert
Mitchum, US Army.

Dale
Robertson, US Army. Tank Commander in North Africa under Patton.
Wounded twice.
Battlefield Commission.

Henry
Fonda, US Navy. Destroyer USS Satterlee.

John
Carroll, US Army Air Corps. Pilot in North Africa. Broke his back in
a
crash.

Lee
Marvin US Marines. Sniper. Wounded in action on Saipan. Buried in
Arlington
National Cemetery, Sec. 7A next to Greg Boyington and Joe Louis.

Art
Carney, US Army. Wounded on Normandy beach, D-Day. Limped for the
rest of his
life.

Wayne
Morris, US Navy fighter pilot, USS Essex. Downed seven Japanese
fighters.

Rod
Steiger, US Navy. Was aboard one of the ships that launched the
Doolittle
Raid.

Tony
Curtis, US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus. In Tokyo Bay for the
surrender
of Japan.

Larry
Storch. US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony Curtis.

Forrest
Tucker, US Army. Enlisted as a private, rose to Lieutenant.

Robert
Montgomery, US Navy.

George
Kennedy, US Army. Enlisted after Pearl Harbor, stayed in sixteen
years.

Mickey
Rooney, US Army under Patton. Bronze Star.

Denver
Pyle, US Navy. Wounded in the Battle of Guadalcanal. Medically
discharged.

Burgess
Meredith, US Army Air Corps.

DeForest
Kelley, US Army Air Corps.

Robert
Stack, US Navy. Gunnery Officer.

Neville
Brand, US Army, Europe. Was awarded the Silver Star and Purple
Heart.

Tyrone
Power, US Marines. Transport pilot in the Pacific Theater.

Charlton
Heston, US Army Air Corps. Radio operator and aerial gunner on a
B-25,
Aleutians.

Danny
Aiello, US Army. Lied about his age to enlist at 16. Served three
years.

James
Arness, US Army. As an infantryman, he was severely wounded at
Anzio,
Italy.

Efram
Zimbalist, Jr., US Army. Purple Heart for a severe wound received at
Huertgen
Forest.

Mickey
Spillane, US Army Air Corps, Fighter Pilot and later Instructor
Pilot.

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 Corps.

Alan
Hale Jr, US Coast Guard.

Harry
Dean Stanton, US Navy. Battle of Okinawa.

Russell
Johnson, US Army Air Corps. B-24 crewman who was awarded Purple
Heart when his
aircraft was shot down by the Japanese in the Philippines.

William
Conrad, US Army Air Corps. Fighter Pilot.

Jack
Klugman, US Army.

Frank
Sutton, US Army. Took part in 14 assault landings, including Leyte,
Luzon,
Bataan and Corregidor.

Jackie
Coogan, US Army Air Corps. Volunteered for gliders and flew troops
and materials
into Burma behind enemy lines.

Tom
Bosley, US Navy.

Claude
Akins, US Army. Signal Corps., Burma and the Philippines.

Chuck
Connors, US Army. Tank-warfare instructor.

Harry
Carey Jr., US Navy.

Mel
Brooks, US Army. Combat Engineer. Saw action in the Battle of the
Bulge.

Robert
Altman, US Army Air Corps. B-24 Co-Pilot.

Pat
Hingle, US Navy. Destroyer USS Marshall

Fred
Gwynne, US Navy. Radioman.

Karl
Malden, US Army Air Corps. 8th Air Force, NCO.

Earl
Holliman. US Navy. Lied about his age to enlist. Discharged after a
year when
they Navy found out.

Rock
Hudson, US Navy. Aircraft mechanic, the Philippines.

Harvey
Korman, US Navy.

Aldo
Ray. US Navy. UDT frogman, Okinawa.

Don
Knotts, US Army, Pacific Theater.

Don
Rickles, US Navy aboard USS Cyrene.

Harry
Dean Stanton, US Navy. Served aboard an LST in the Battle of
Okinawa.

Robert
Stack, US Navy. Gunnery Instructor.

Soupy
Sales, US Navy. Served on USS Randall in the South Pacific.

Lee
Van Cleef, US Navy. Served aboard a sub chaser then a mine sweeper.

Clifton
James, US Army, South Pacific. Was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze
Star, and
Purple Heart.

Ted
Knight, US Army, Combat Engineers.

Jack
Warden, US Navy, 1938-1942,
then US Army, 1942-1945.
101st Airborne Division.

Don
Adams. US Marines. Wounded on Guadalcanal, then served as a Drill
Instructor.

James
Gregory, US Navy and US Marines.

Brian
Keith, US Marines. Radioman/Gunner in Dauntless dive-bombers.

Fess
Parker, US Navy and US Marines. Booted from pilot training for being
too tall,
joined Marines as a radio operator.

Charles
Durning. US Army. Landed at Normandy on D-Day. Shot multiple times.
Awarded the
Silver Star and Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Survived
Malmedy
Massacre.

Raymond
Burr, US Navy. Shot in the stomach on Okinawa and medically
discharged.

Hugh
O'Brian, US Marines.

Robert
Ryan, US Marines.

Eddie
Albert, US Coast Guard. Bronze Star with Combat V for saving several
Marines
under heavy fire as pilot of a landing craft during the invasion of
Tarawa.

Clark
Gable, US Army Air Corps. B-17 gunner over Europe.

Charles
Bronson, US Army Air Corps. B-29 gunner, wounded in action.

Peter
Graves, US Army Air Corps.

Buddy
Hackett, US Army anti-aircraft gunner.

Victor
Mature, US Coast Guard.

Jack
Palance, US Army Air Corps. Severely injured bailing out of a
burning B-24
bomber.

Robert
Preston, US Army Air Corps. Intelligence Officer

Cesar
Romero, US Coast Guard. Coast Guard. Participated in the invasions
of Tinian and
Saipan on the assault transport USS Cavalier.

Norman
Fell, US Army Air Corps., Tail Gunner, Pacific Theater.

Jason
Robards, 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.

Steve
Reeves, US Army, Philippines.

Dennis
Weaver, US Navy. Pilot.

Robert
Taylor, US Navy. Instructor Pilot.

Randolph
Scott. Tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected due to
injuries sustained
in US Army, World War 1.

Ronald
Reagan. US Army. Was a 2nd Lt. in the Cavalry Reserves before the
war. His poor
eyesight kept him from being sent overseas with his unit when war
came so he
transferred to the Army Air Corps Public Relations Unit where he
served for the
duration.

John
Wayne. Declared "4F medically unfit" due to pre-existing injuries,
he
nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times (Army, Navy and Film
Corps.) so
he gets honorable mention.

And
of course we have Audie Murphy, America's most-decorated soldier,
who became a
Hollywood star as a result of his US Army service that included his
being
awarded the Medal of Honor.

Would
someone please remind me again how many of today's Hollywood elite
put their
careers on hold to enlist in Iraq or Afghanistan?

The only one who even comes close was Pat Tillman,
who turned down a contract offer of $3.6 million over three years
from the
Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the US Army after September, 11,
2001 and
serve as a Ranger in Afghanistan, where he died in 2004. But rather
than being
lauded for his choice and his decision to put his country before his
career, he
was mocked and derided by many of his peers and the Left.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I submit to you that this is not the America
today that it was
seventy years ago. And I, for one, am saddened.




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