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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Iwo Jima. Later Korean War, Bay of Pigs
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa.2nd Marines, 2nd MarDiv
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American Female Vietnam War Troop Moral Booster (Donut Dolly)
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W W I I pilot, lawyer, Gov Clinton's Chief Of Staff, author
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Member of the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo --WWII 'Pilot Crew #12'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa. USS Presque Isle (LST-678, later renumbered APB-44). The Presque Isle was an auxiliary personnel barracks where sailors of sunk ships could stay until they could be reassigned
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member of pappy boyingtons Black sheep squardron
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WWII: MTO. Rome Arno, North Apennines and Po Valley. Co. A, 361st Infantry Regiment, 91st Division
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navy admiral
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Dan Bowling (2)
Decorated World War II B-25 pilot -
WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Marine, 5th Division. Purple Heart
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American Retired Four - Star Navy Admiral
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge (ST. Vith, Moircy, a.o.), Koblenz, Rhine. 345th Infantry Regiment, 87th Infantry Division
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Tuskegee Pilot, flew the p-40, p-47. p-51
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WWII: PTO. Boatswain 2nd Class, U.S. Coast Guard. Served on 12 ships in the Pacific
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WWII: Battle of Wake Island December 1941. POW until the end of the war
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Luzon. 33rd Infantry Division
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South African Born English Retired Royal Navy Officer. Former Admiral of the Fleet. Crossbench Member House of Lords
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Retired COL, USAF. Board Member of American Fighter Ace Assn. Radar Intercept Officer in F-101B and Flew 234 combat sorties in RF-4C Phantom
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US Army Col. (1879-1919). Mexican border howitzer battery. Made aid-de-camp to Gen. Pershing in October 1917. French Legion of Honor. Died in France from the flu in 1919
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Retired 4 star Air Force General
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WWII American Air Force - Tuskegee Airmen (Class 45G)
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Lt. Lt. DFC, R.A.F. No. 195 Squadron, No. 3 Group, Bomber Command Lancaster Pilot, 33 Missions over Germany and France
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WWII Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, Wheeler Field
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(Born 1938) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, a Distinguished Flying Cross, a Purple Heart, and a Legion of Merit
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WWII: Marine Corps hero immortalized in HBO's 'The Pacific'. Fought at Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa. Silver Star
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JFK: Guarded the JFK gravesite at Arlington shortly after the funeral
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1st- was a flying tiger/ then led black sheep squadron-vmf-214- fighter ace- 28 kills/ medal of honor recipient ww2/ prisoner of war in ww2 in japanese pow camp for 20 months too
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Canadian Former Chief of Defence Staff (1996)
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WWII: PTO. Thirteenth Army Air Force
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WWII: German officer awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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WWII - A seaman on the USS Taylor, he witnessed the surrender of Japan on Sept. 2, 1945 on board the USS Missouri as the USS Taylor had been selected to anchor next to the Missouri
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Longest held civilian POW during the Vietnam War. He spent almost 8 years as a POW
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WWII: US Navy. Survied the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor Survivor, USMC. Later Bougainville, Iwo Jima
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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WWII: PTO. US Navy 1941-1945
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII: ETO. E Co., 262nd Reg., 66 Inf. Div. Eyewitness to the sinking of the SS Leopoldville by torpedo as he was aboard the HMS Cheshire, which was right behind in the convoy that should support the US troops in the Battle of the Bulge
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Flag Raiser Iwo Jima
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Army General
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, corpsman
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(Born 1929) US Navy Korean and Vietnam War Veteran. POW in North Vietnam from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, 2 Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Don Brady (2) WWII: B-24 ball turret gunner in the 760th Bomb Squadron, 460th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. Flew 50 m issions from February to August 1944 (airfield Spinazzola). Missions include Austria, Germany, Bucharest, Ploesti
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, Remagen. H Company, 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division
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Navy Admiral
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Medal of honor army vietnam war, born 1936
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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Retired General
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Author - To Sir With Love, also served in the RAF as a pilot in WWII
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British field marshal, also known as Baron Bramall, served as Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1979 and 1982
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First African-American officer of the United States Marine Corps (Years of service 1943-1955)
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; also saw service in Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima
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German World War One survivor
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German ww2 pilot
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USMC General
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WWII Era Veteran, Combat Engineering Battalion, 2nd Special Brigade Amphibious Engineers Years of service: 1945-47 Post war Japan Occupation
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 75th Infantry Division, 289th Regiment. Purple Heart
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WWII: PTO. Morotai. 389th Anti Aircraft Artillery Bn, 13th AF
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WWII: PTO. He flew with the troop carrier units in oversea duty in the C-46 Combat Cargo Group in the South/Western Pacific-Australia to Japan
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WWII: Pilot of the 'Clay Pigeon', a C-47 that flew paratroopers into Normandy on D-Day and was shot down on Sept. 17, 1944, during Operation Market Garden
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. USS Rigel
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army general
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WWII: ETO A-Company, 282nd Engineering Combat Battalion, 3rd Army, Battle of the Bulge
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American Female WWII veteran, Coast Guard SPAR
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Lz- xray 1965 nam
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US WWII Navy veteran, born 1927. USS Indianapolis Survivor, one of the last 5 living as of 6/21
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(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 4 Silver Stars
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WWII: 447th Bomb Squadron, 321st Bomb Group, 57th Bomb Wing, 12th Air Force. B-25 Mitchell pilot in the ETO/MTO. 68 missions along the German supply lines in the Brenner Pass between the border of Austria and Italy. Flew, among others, #43-27542 'Supersti
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US army general
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WWII: PTO. South Pacific, New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa, and China. Navy corpsman. Purple Heart
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Korean War vet, US Army, born 1932. Served in Korea 1950-51 with the 2nd Division, 23rd Infantry. Jeep driver. Struck in the shoulder by shelling near the Naktong River in North Korea, received Purple Heart and back to combat a day later
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Roi and Namur, Saipan.Purple Heart
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WWII - Contemporary witness of the Port Chicago, CA, disaster in July 1944
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Jack Brennan (2)
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WWII: 7th Armored Division, Company B 17th Tank. Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Remagen
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Holocaust Survivor, M.S. St. Louis
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Last surviving surgeon of the D-Day landings. He saved the lives of 1,000 troops in nine months in France. Born: 1913. He is now 103 and lives in Wickham, Hampshire, England
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale
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Tuskegee Airmen, WW2
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US WWII Army veteran, born 1917. Critically injured in the Battle of St Lo, not expected to survive. But now 106
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(Born 1925) US Army WW2 Veteran. Captured as a POW during the Battle of the Bulge and did hard labor and lost 70 pounds at time of his release. Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Legion of Honor recipient
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Retired German born toolmaker living in Pennsylvania; accused WII Nazi war criminal who worked at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
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Centenarian (1895-2001). US veteran of the Army expedition against the Pancho Villa raids in 1916, and then served in WWI in France. During the New Deal era, he worked for the Roosevelt's TVA
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air force general hero
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division, 227th Field Artillery Battalion
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Retired Air Force Test Pilot
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(Born 1940) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Silver Star recipient
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American Centenarian, born 1920. Served in the New Deal's CCC, then WWII's Battle of the Bulge (4th Armored Division), and the Korean War
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WWII veteran. Italian translator for General Patton. Received the Purple Heart after being shot in the spine during combat. Born 1919
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WWII: Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Hardy, which was sunk during the First Battle of Narvik, April 1940
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navy admiral
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Last Survivor Of The HMS Hood
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W.A.S.P. Pilot. Flew PT-19, BT-13, AT-6, AT-7, AT-11, C-78, B-25, B-26, SBD (A-24), SBC (A-25), and the P-47 towing target
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WWII: Company G, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Received a Bronze Star for action in the Battle of Remagen, March 28, 1945
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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WWII - D-Day. 82nd AB, 507th PIR, Division HQ; Aide to Gen.l Gavin. Saw heavy fighting in the Battle of La Fiere Causeway on June 9, 1944, bloodiest small unit combat of the initial landing days. Also Operation Market Garden. Purple Heart
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JFK - Escorted Jackie Kennedy to the consecration of the Eternal Flame grave site March 15, 1967; popular through a photo that became an official postcard. Also served at the Pageant of Peace ceremony, Dec. 17, 1962 for JFK
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(Born 1967) Former US Army Major General who served from 1989 to 2023
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Rear Admiral
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American Female Author, Academic, And Former Military Officer. Novel - 'All In: The Education of General David Petraeus' (Co Writer With Vernon Loeb)(2012)
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WWII: German Flying Ace, Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54) Grünherz (Green Heart), 81 victories
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US Army Vietnam, Gulf, and Iraq War veteran. Army career stretching to 39 years, 213th ASHC Black Cats
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WWII: US Army; veteran of the Aleutian Islands Campaign; fought in the Battle of Attua (May 1943) called '19 Days of Hell'
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One of the last survivors of the Great Escape in WWII
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USMC General
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Soviet WWII Female Pilot 'Night Witches'
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Member of The Ritchie Boys (Born Nov. 11, 1923) was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War 2 now 97 years old
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marine corps general
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WWII: PTO. Gunner's Mate 2nd Class in PT-Boat squadrons MTB RON 16 and MTB RON 42 in the Southwest Pacific incl. Mios Woendi, Dutch New Guinea; Mindoro, P.I.; Brunei Bay, Borneo
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Tarawa, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 13 victories, USAAF. 15th AF, 31st Fighter Group, 307th Fighter Squadron, based in San Severo, Italy. Test pilot after the war. Married singer Martha Tilton in 1953. Flew P-51, P-38, P-40, B-45, F-86 Sabre in Korea and F-100
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Oldest WW2 veteran Born September 12, 1909
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US WWII Naval Air Corps vet, born 1923. Jokingly signed up a buddy for the Blimp program to hear him complain, then got picked for it himself. At 99, possibly the last Navy Blimp pilot of WWII. Postwar career as a Texas preacher
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Chief Machinist Mate on the USS Liberty when it was attacked by the Israelis in 1967. Awarded the Silver Star for his actions
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. B Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Regiment, 5th Marine Division. Purple Heart
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British ace from WW2, 15 victories, Battle of Britain
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WWII US Navy (b. 1925) Joined 1943, first in his training class. Assigned to Adm. Bull Halsey's staff, clerical and radio duties. Switched to USS Missouri with Halsey, present for the onboard Japanese Surrender Ceremony
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Tug boat Hoga (YT-146
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Albert Brown (2) WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
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Flying Tiger-pilot and CAF flight instructor. The last surviving pilot of the Flying Tigers
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army general
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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British former Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 different types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history
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Navy sniper vietnam 17 confirmed kills
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P-38 Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of the 55th Fighter Group
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Gordon Brown (3)
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Tuskegee Airmen, Flew PT-17 Stearman, B-47, P-51 and F-80 Jet. Flew 20 different plane types
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air force general
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James R. Brown (2)Military air force general
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Larry Brown (6) Tuskegee Airmen
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Centenarian (1901-2007). Was last living US Navy veteran of WWI
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USCG Admiral
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Micheal Brown (2) D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in Chorleywood, Hampshire, UK. One of four surviving gliders from the Glider Pilot Regiment
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American Female Army Medic Sargent. First Medic To Receive The Silver Star. First Woman In Afghanistan And Only The Second Female Soldier Since World War II To Receive The Silver Star. (2008)
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1921?-2008). survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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William Brown (4) WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining
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U.S. Army Four Star General, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
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US Navy Ace VF-27 10.5 Victories - WWII
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US Air Force four-star general who serves as the chief of staff of the Air Force
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WWII Navajo Code Talker, he lives in Navajo N.M
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WWII: US Marine Corps, Iwo Jima, Purple Heart
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (12.5 WWII, 2 Korea, total=14.5 Kills) USAAF, 354 Fighter Group, 355 Fighter Squadron, 9AF - DSC
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Korean War Vet/US Army 1951-1953/Bronze Star Awarded/19th Engineer Combat Group/Saw Nagasaki Japan six years after the atomic bomb & saw a leveled blast field, just rubble
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Shaw
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WWII: ETO. P-47 pilot. 390th Squ., 366th Fighter Group, 9th AF. Stationed near Omaha Beach just in time to participate in the Normandy beachhead breakout battle, 70 combat missions destroying trucks, trains, artillery, supplies, 1 victory
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WWII: US Navy. PTO. USS Reid (DD-369)
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USS Arizona survivor Pearl Harbor
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(Born 1969) US Army Gulf War Veteran. During the war his unit was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division was responsible for the initial breach of Iraqi defenses. Served in Operation Desert Sheild
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(Born 1940) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, a Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart
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WWII: 4th Marine Division, Iwo Jima
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French World War One Veteran, Deceased
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WWII veteran, born 1925, B-29 navigator in the Army Air Corps. Enlisted in 1943, trained for 2 years, sent to Guam in June of 1945, flew a couple bombing missions. He was also sent to Tinian as a backup crew for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions, though
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WW2 Ace - 15 Kills - USAAF - DSC
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WW2 British Submarine Commander
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Bill Bryant (3) D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1925. He is now 89 and lives in the UK
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Pilot, Hawker Hunter F Mk.5, Northolt, Middlesex'
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. 82nd Airborne
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Commander US Army Human Resources Commnand
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WW2 1943-1945 B-17 Tail Gunner/shot down by German Jets on 3rd mission, only survivor/POW captured by Hitler Youth/POW Medal & Purple Heart/Honored 70 years after service/2005 met the German fighter pilot who shot down his plane
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Former general in the German Democratic Republic's army
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS Squalus in 1939
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Soviet WWII Vet
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WWII veteran, Gunner's Mate 2nd class, USS LST-627, Pacific Theater
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WWII: Survivor of the Bataan Death March (Philippines) on April 9, 1942
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medal of honor army vietnam
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(Born 1941) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. He was a POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars
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Centenarian/World War 1 Veteran
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WWII German General & recipient of Knight's Cross
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captain of u.s.s. pueblo, captured by the north koreans
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WW2 Luftwaffe Ace and Me262 pilot.
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WWII: RAF squadron member that filmed the sinking of the Tirpitz
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WWII Veteran, 388th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force B17 Bombers ?Glory Girl? & ?Veni Vidi Vici? Tail Gunner
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Supercentenarian; Last surviving US World War 1 Veteran Born: 02/01/1901. Was one of 3 remaining WW1 Veterans. Deceased 2011
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Former U.S. Senator from New York (1971-1977), WWII Veteran
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WWII: witnessed the Warsaw Uprising of 1943. Lost all 7 siblings and parents in the Holocaust
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Jewish Soviet WWII veteran, probably living in Montreal, Canada
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WWII: PTO. Fighter Pilot. USS Yorktown, Saratoga, Enterprise and Hornet. Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern Solomons, Santa Cruz and the first battle of the Philippine Sea, plus a month with the 'Cactus Air Force' on Guadalcanal,
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Brazilian Historic Person - One Of The Last Surviving Veterans Of The Contestado War, Which Was A Guerrilla War For Land Between Settlers And Landowners. The Latter Supported By The Brazilian State's Police And Military Forces 1912 to 1916
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WWII: Aviation mechanic for the Dauntless dive bomber of Lt. Daniel Iverson, one of the pilots who sank the Japanese carrier Hiryu in the Battle of Midway
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WWII: PTO. U.S. Coast Guard; USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25)
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British U-Boat hunter of the costal command in WW2
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran, incl. Convoy PQ-16
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WW2 veteran born 1913. Claims to have been a stuntman in films before the war. Made news when the cadillac given to him by Rita Hayworth when she died, was stolen
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Lz xray 1965 1st ground battle of nam
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WWII: Last living survivor of the sinking of the troop transport Dorchester, 3 February 1943. Of the 904 people on board, only 230 survived
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army general
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US Merchant Marine WWII vet, born 1926. Last survivor of the SS Henry Bacon sinking, the last ship sunk by the Luftwaffe in WWII, coming back from a Murmansk Run to Russia
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Night fighter ace of WW2, is living in Great Britain
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army general
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII - 5th Marines, Iwo Jima. He is the soldier in the famous photograph at the base of Suribachi Yama with the kitten on his helmet
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WW2 sgt., turret gunner
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WW 2 air ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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Air Force General
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WWII - Fighter ace, AVG Flying Tigers
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World War II Veteran - Company A 506 pcht inf. Rgt. 101st airborne WWII. Wrote The Road to Arnhem, Currahee!, Beyond the Rhine.
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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WWII Veteran, mortar man in K-Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, the famous K-3-5 of HBO's The Pacific series. Bronze star recipient; fought in Peleliu and Okinawa. Wrote Islands Of The Damned with William Marvel
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Admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself during World War II and the Korean War, and who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower and Ke
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WWII: USS Enterprsie CV-6
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WWII: 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Remagen. In 1963, Burke began working for NASA, supervising development and construction of hazardous test facilities for Apollo hardware
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2000 Presidential Medl of Freedom
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WWII: Marines squad leader, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, the famous K-3-5 of HBO's The Pacific series. Bronze star recipient; fought in Peleliu and Okinawa
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Soldier in the United States Army during the Korean War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on October 28, 1951
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navy admiral
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Sheffield)
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Vietnam War/Fall of Saigon - Crew Chief of last US helicopter to leave Vietnam (Operation Frequent Wind) during the evacuation of Saigon on April 30, 1975
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US WWII Army Nurse, born 1925. Served 1944-45 on Tinian in the South Pacific
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WWII: 407th Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, Flew 31 missions as a B-17 ball turret gunner between April 20, 1944 and July 17, 1944
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WWII: D-Day. 2nd Rangers. Pointe du Hoc
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US Army Col. (1876-1940). Philippine front during the Spanish - American War; Mexican border, 1915-16; Adj. General in AEF HQ during WWI
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Deniz Melissa Burnham is a lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve and NASA astronaut candidate
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Brian Burns (2)Military
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Isham 'Rusty' Albert Burns Jr was born on July 24, 1925 and became a Tuskegee airman in the Second World War
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WWII: Battle of Britain, RAF. Blenheim mid-upper turret gunner
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (Gunner on SS Rathlin) of the ill-fated Convoy PQ-17
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Major 82nd Airborne Division, 504th PIR, I-Company WWII; Operation Market Garden; Battle of The Bulge. Author: 'Strike and Hold'. Portrayed by Robert Redford as Major Cook in 'A Bridge Too Far'. TV special 'Man & Moment: Moffatt Burriss & the Crossing.'
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WWII: PTO. Company B, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. Pearl Harbor survivor, Guadalcanal campaign
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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air force general
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient WWII
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Retired Royal military, current CEO of eWATERpay
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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US Marine Corps, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit
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German ww2 ME262 pilot born 1924. Was never in the Wehrmacht; author - The last of the few: An Me.262 Pilot remembers, flew the buckner 181, 131, fw 44, ar 66, f-13, w33, w34, ju86, ju88, ju52, me110, me210, me40, me262, klemm 35, sg38, kranich
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WWII German Major
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WWII/ETO: Waist Gunner, 100th Bomb Group, 350th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force ('Bloody 100th'). Shot down on his 34th mission on July 29, 1944, flying in B-17 42-31537 'Randie Lou' (aka 'Buffalo Gal'); became a POW until May 1, 1945
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USN Admiral
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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Medal of Honor recipient WWII
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Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) 7
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Author 'My Wars B-17s to F-4s WWII to Vietnam' Retired as Colonel in 1974, flew 43 types of airplanes during his military career, including 28 missions in B-17 during WWII. Flew B-24, B-25, B-26, B-29, B-57, RC-121, F-4
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa. He survived strafing attacks while serving aboard the USS Medusa at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941
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Centenarian/World War 1 Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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Colonel; U.S.A.F. Rt. (Cessna Pilot, flew 240 missions over Ho Chi Minh Trail during Vietnam War/Awarded Silver Star, The Distinguished Flying Cross & Air Medal with 16 Oak Clusters) Turnaround eight days
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge. Liberation of Buchenwald
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(Born 1938) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 2 Legion of Merits, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Korean War Ace, Pilot - USAF - 7 Kills - youngest ace in Korea (flew the f-80, f-86, f9f, f-100, and f-105)
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Chief Marine Superintendent Royal Fleet Auxiliary
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English Former Male Author, Soldier, Politician, And Television Executive - Novel - 'The King In His Country' (1955)
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WWII: USS Phoenix (post-Pearl-Harbor). From 1943 on, he was in several major battles/campaigns, like Surigao Straits, Cape Gloucester, Leyte Gulf, Mindoro Gulf, Lingayen Gulf, Corregidor
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WWII, Pearl Harbor Survivor USS St. Louis
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(born August 4, 1979) Retired US Navy SEAL who received the Medal of Honor on February 29, 2016, for rescue of a civilian in Afghanistan in 2012. Byers retired after 21 years of service on September 19, 2019, at the Washington Navy Yard
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Naval admiral (1888-1957), first to fly over the North Pole and South Pole; recipient of Medal of Honor;
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales on 10 December 1941
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army general
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World war 2 german fighter ace
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group
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WWII - Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 2, marched 350km by foot to support German defenses when the Allies landed in Normany; Battle of St. Lo, survivor of the Falaise Pocket
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Former WWII German Brigadier General
