Thank you Veterans. Honor the Military Veterans on cardboard.

[swarmee]

After a distinguished career in the Army Air Forces, Audie Murphy helped Hap Arnold and Tooey Spatz lead the charge to create the US Air Force in 1947. Audie was also in some movies, and was featured in the first ever series of Topps cards in 1948.
So even though he didn't play baseball (to my knowledge), he goes back to the early days of card collecting.

[Jay Wolt]

[buymycards]

Kaiser served in WWI. On the American side, in spite of his nickname.

[Piratedogcardshows]

Thank you to all Veterans for all you have done and continue to do for us all.

[Exhibitman]

Benny Leonard, US Army:





Barney Ross, USMC

[tedzan]

Marine Fighter Pilot......WWII and Korea





TED Z
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[ValKehl]

Mickey Vernon was in the Navy during the 1944 & 1945 seasons - this is from his SABR bio:

"Shortly after the 1943 season ended, Vernon was inducted into the Navy. He spent the next two years as a sailor, serving some of the time in Honolulu and the South Pacific, where he was part of a traveling baseball team, made up mostly of major leaguers, that played before crowds of 10,000 to 12,000 troops. At one point, Mickey also ran softball and basketball leagues. One of the players especially attracted his attention. He was a 20-year-old sailor named Larry Doby. The two became close friends, and later Mickey helped Doby became the American League’s first African American player. Vernon spent 1944 and 1945 in the service."

[bender07]

[jandr272]

When they made the war movies about LT Murphy, they had to scale back his actions as they were too unbelievable to make a movie out of!

Originally Posted by swarmee

After a distinguished career in the Army Air Forces, Audie Murphy helped Hap Arnold and Tooey Spatz lead the charge to create the US Air Force in 1947. Audie was also in some movies, and was featured in the first ever series of Topps cards in 1948.
So even though he didn't play baseball (to my knowledge), he goes back to the early days of card collecting.