How many of these men do you remember..

Had to look up a couple of the names to jog my memory.....old timers is workin on me plus remembering names has never been a strong suit.

If you read in there you'll find the word, most, not all. Point taken.

I recognize better than half. Im in my mid 50s.

That's a neat list. Hey where's Sorrell Booke!(boss hogg). Me being me however I wonder what the list would look like had it not been for the draft.

There's like 5 names that I don't know. What I do want to know is how the hell did Rock Hudson serve when he's a **** plooker? Wasn't that against the UCMJ back then?

Chuck Norris-US Air Force

I am a movie addict. Love them. I remember every last one of those men. Distinguished patriots and heroes , bar none.

Was Ted Williams on the list?? he flew a b-17 didn't he? put his baseball on hold to help our country. God Bless them all. Dave.

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What I do want to know is how the hell did Rock Hudson serve when he's a **** plooker?

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I didn't see a sub-section for Rear-Gunners.....maybe we need to revise the list.

I remember most of them.

remember every person on that some of the best men of our times there are a lot that are not on it along with quite a few women

I recognized most all of them, a couple only sound familiar
I'm an old movies buff, I especially love the old westerns
& most all the old war movies,
Revolutionary War, Spanish American War, War of 1812,
Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, Viet Nam War
(the Cold War, against socialism/communism, the black listed etc.)

& even the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars past 19+ years

some serious service & some serious heroism in that group

that was a completely different era, by most, that were in the public eye

(not all but a vast majority)
Hollyweirdo's, their producers & music industry, funders & backers
MSM propagandists, sports stars, is far different group today

When most men were real men, acted like real men do
they didn't hide that fact they were men
(not any man-buns in the bunch, sadly they're the **** that "they" call toxic masculinity today)
or try to act all feminine weak or apologetic, like today's celebrities

it was NOT frowned upon, looked down on, to be a patriot,
you weren't degraded as much, spat on, called names
(late 60's early 70's dirty filthy Hippies crap is an exception to that statement)
by your peers/contemporaries, it was actually encouraged
to be patriotic person to serve your country proudly
(draft or not most that group had enlisted freely, some were drafted I'm sure)
& be a US flag waver & anti-commies/anti-socialists

(not all, but it's a huge majority of haters, in that realm/demographic today)
it's a far stretch from today celebrities/Hollyweirdo's, producers
or music & sports stars NOW

Recognized just about all of them, surprised about some of them. The biggest surprise was Don Adams - US Marines. Wounded on Guadalcanal - then served as a Drill Instructor. Get Smart Don Adams??????? Didn't think he could kick my *** till now !!!!

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Was Ted Williams on the list?? he flew a b-17 didn't he? put his baseball on hold to help our country. God Bless them all. Dave.

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Military service[edit]
Ted Williams

Williams served as a Naval Aviator during World War II and the Korean War. Unlike many other major league players, he did not spend all of his war-time playing on service teams.[141] Williams had been classified 3-A by Selective Service prior to the war, a dependency deferment because he was his mother's sole means of financial support. When his classification was changed to 1-A following the American entry into World War II, Williams appealed to his local draft board. The draft board ruled that his draft status should not have been changed. He made a public statement that once he had built up his mother's trust fund, he intended to enlist. Even so, criticism in the media, including withdrawal of an endorsement contract by Quaker Oats, resulted in his enlistment in the U.S. Naval Reserve on May 22, 1942.

Williams did not opt for an easy assignment playing baseball for the Navy, but rather joined the V-5 program to become a Naval aviator. Williams was first sent to the Navy's Preliminary Ground School at Amherst College for six months of academic instruction in various subjects including math and navigation, where he achieved a 3.85 grade point average.

Williams was talented as a pilot, and so enjoyed it that he had to be ordered by the Navy to leave training to personally accept his American League 1942 Major League Baseball Triple Crown.[141] Williams' Red Sox teammate, Johnny Pesky, who went into the same aviation training program, said this about Williams: "He mastered intricate problems in fifteen minutes which took the average cadet an hour, and half of the other cadets there were college grads." Pesky again described Williams' acumen in the advance training, for which Pesky personally did not qualify: "I heard Ted literally tore the sleeve target to shreds with his angle dives. He'd shoot from wingovers, zooms, and barrel rolls, and after a few passes the sleeve was ribbons. At any rate, I know he broke the all-time record for hits." Ted went to Jacksonville for a course in aerial gunnery, the combat pilot's payoff test, and broke all the records in reflexes, coordination, and visual-reaction time. "From what I heard. Ted could make a plane and its six 'pianos' (machine guns) play like a symphony orchestra", Pesky says. "From what they said, his reflexes, coordination, and visual reaction made him a built-in part of the machine."[142]

Williams completed pre-flight training in Athens, Georgia, his primary training at NAS Bunker Hill, Indiana, and his advanced flight training at NAS Pensacola. He received his gold Naval Aviator wings and his commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps on May 2, 1944.

Williams served as a flight instructor at NAS Pensacola teaching young pilots to fly the complicated F4U Corsair fighter plane. Williams was in Pearl Harbor awaiting orders to join the Fleet in the Western Pacific when the War in the Pacific ended. He finished the war in Hawaii, and then he was released from active duty on January 12, 1946, but he did remain in the Marine Corps Reserve.[78]


Press photo of Williams signing autographs in Kokomo, Indiana 1944.
Korean War[edit]
On May 1, 1952, 14 months after his promotion to captain in the Marine Corps Reserve, Williams was recalled to active duty for service in the Korean War.[143] He had not flown any aircraft for eight years but he turned down all offers to sit out the war in comfort as a member of a service baseball team. Nevertheless, Williams was resentful of being called up, which he admitted years later, particularly regarding the Navy's policy of calling up Inactive Reservists rather than members of the Active Reserve.

After eight weeks of refresher flight training and qualification in the F9F Panther jet fighter at the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, Williams was assigned to VMF-311, Marine Aircraft Group 33 (MAG-33), based at the K-3 airfield in Pohang, South Korea.[78]

On February 16, 1953, Williams, flying as the wingman for John Glenn (later astronaut then U.S. Senator), was part of a 35-plane raid against a tank and infantry training school just south of Pyongyang, North Korea. During the mission, a piece of flak knocked out his hydraulics and electrical systems, causing Williams to have to "limp" his plane back to K-13 air base, a U.S. Air Force airfield close to the front lines. The plane burst into flames soon after he landed. For his actions of this day, he was awarded the Air Medal.

Williams stayed on K-13 for several days while his plane was being repaired. Because he was so popular, GIs and airmen from all around the base came to see him and his plane. After it was repaired, Williams flew his plane back to his Marine Corps airfield.

Williams flew 39 combat missions in Korea, earning the Air Medal with two Gold Stars in lieu of second and third awards, before being withdrawn from flight status in June 1953 after a hospitalization for pneumonia. This resulted in the discovery of an inner ear infection that disqualified him from flight status.[144] During the Korean War, Williams also served in the same Marine Corps unit with John Glenn; the future astronaut described Williams as one of the best pilots he knew,[141] while his wife Annie described him as the most profane man she ever met.[145] In the last half of his missions, Williams was flying as Glenn's wingman.[146]

Williams likely would have exceeded 600 career home runs if he had not served in the military, and may have even approached Babe Ruth's then record of 714. He might have set the record for career RBIs as well, exceeding Hank Aaron's total.[141] While the absences in the Marine Corps took almost five years out of his baseball career, he never publicly complained about the time devoted to service in the Marine Corps. His biographer, Leigh Montville, argued that Williams was not happy about being pressed into service in South Korea, but he did what he thought was his patriotic duty.

Following his return to the United States in August 1953, he resigned his Reserve commission to resume his baseball career.[143]

biomedtechguy said:

From the article:

• 30 are Democrats, 66 are Republicans.
• Thanks SFSI for posting that link.

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The 30 and 66 you just had to post were all Americans and identified themselves as such. Political division as we see it today was not even close to what it is today. What some fail to remember is according to elders ive had contact with, it was a different time in America.
Many knew they would be called into service and so they enlisted. There seems to be according to what I read here that being drafted and serving was somehow less patriotic than enlisting.
I saw how the country reacted after 9/11 and there is little doubt in my mind that God forbid we are ever faced again with a attack like that again, America will unite as it was in the time after the attacks on Sept 11.
Maybe its just that I have more faith in younger Americans in the fact that if we needed them to fight for our country they would do so without hesitation.

great reading,great patriots.

Another one, and I don't remember his real name, but 'Captain Kangaroo'...

kiwigtx said:

Only a few I don't recognise....and the first person I thought of when I saw the list was Lee Marvin. I am so pleased he is on the list.

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This talks about his war wounds, but I saw at least 2 TV interviews where he said 'I was shot in the ***,' when speaking of where on his body he was wounded.
'Lee Marvin, of New York City New York, enlisted with the US Marine Corps Reserve on August 12, 1942, at the age of 18 years old. He enlisted with his father, Lamont (age 51) a decorated World War I veteran, in New York City and trained at Parris Island in South Carolina.
After completing Quartermaster School Marvin was promoted to Corporal but subsequently downgraded to Private First Class resulting from disciplinary issues. He
served with I Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division. On June 18, 1944, Marvin was wounded in action during the assault on Mount Tapochau during the Battle of Saipan. Lee was hit by incoming fire that severed his sciatic nerve in addition to severely damaging his foot. Even with these devastating injuries, Marvin was lucky as he was one of only six survivors from his unit of 247 men. (Source: USMC Archive)
After spending over a year in medical treatment at various naval hospitals he was given a full medical discharge. Despite his injury, he tried to reenlist but was turned down. Private First Class Marvin was decorated with the Purple Heart Medal, the Presidential Unit Citation, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Combat Action Ribbon.
After the war Lee returned to upstate New York and worked various odd jobs until he established a successful acting career to include such works as The Big Heat, The Wild One, M Squad and The Dirty Dozen. In 1965 he won the Academy Award for Best actor for his role in Cat Ballou.
Lee Marvin passed away on August 29, 1987 at the age of 63. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors'.

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This talks about his war wounds, but I saw at least 2 TV interviews where he said 'I was shot in the ***,' when speaking of where on his body he was wounded.
'Lee Marvin, of New York City New York, enlisted with the US Marine Corps Reserve on August 12, 1942, at the age of 18 years old. He enlisted with his father, Lamont (age 51) a decorated World War I veteran, in New York City and trained at Parris Island in South Carolina.
After completing Quartermaster School Marvin was promoted to Corporal but subsequently downgraded to Private First Class resulting from disciplinary issues. He
served with I Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division. On June 18, 1944, Marvin was wounded in action during the assault on Mount Tapochau during the Battle of Saipan. Lee was hit by incoming fire that severed his sciatic nerve in addition to severely damaging his foot. Even with these devastating injuries, Marvin was lucky as he was one of only six survivors from his unit of 247 men. (Source: USMC Archive)
After spending over a year in medical treatment at various naval hospitals he was given a full medical discharge. Despite his injury, he tried to reenlist but was turned down. Private First Class Marvin was decorated with the Purple Heart Medal, the Presidential Unit Citation, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Combat Action Ribbon.
After the war Lee returned to upstate New York and worked various odd jobs until he established a successful acting career to include such works as The Big Heat, The Wild One, M Squad and The Dirty Dozen. In 1965 he won the Academy Award for Best actor for his role in Cat Ballou.
Lee Marvin passed away on August 29, 1987 at the age of 63. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors'.

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