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German U-boat LI, Engineer U-96
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Currently serves as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Air Force B-2 Test Pilot and FedEx Pilot
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American WWII - Pilot, USAAC, Member of combat mission 'Yamamoto Mission' in October 1942
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Reverend to Rosa Park's Church; Secretary of the MIA aka Montgomery Improvement Association that helped support the boycott, appeared at meetings led by MLK
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WWII: Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), USS Enterprise
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President Trump's longtime secretary and a senior vice president at the Trump Organization, she has worked at Trump Tower for near 30 years, has acted as gatekeeper to Trump
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS South Dakota. Battle of Santa Cruz Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Youngest U.S. serviceman to serve and fight during World War II at the age of 12
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army general
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Military
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Whistleblower
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WWII veteran, Iwo Jima
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. D Battery 515th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft)
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USAF & NASA pilot - director for Safety and Mission Assurance at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards. For USAF - tested A-10, F-15, F-16
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air ace ww11
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American publisher Leader of Washington Post, more than 2 decades, overseeing famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to resignation of President Nixon. Her memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998
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Sr-71 test pilot
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One of the last two survivors of the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Born 1912. She was five years old in 1917 when the explosion took place. She is now 107 and lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Virginia Graham (2)
Former jail mate of one of Manson's followers. She was responsible for the big break in the case -
US WWII Navy tugboat veteran, born 1922. After the war, became an Atomic veteran when he was part of the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests. Became a writer and voice for Atomic veterans and their health problems
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WWII: PTO. USS HOrnet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid
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WWII: Grakovich worked with Soviet Belarus partisans, starting at 13 years old in 1942. Now 91 and living in Minsk, Belarus
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Controversial Commander - in - Cheif of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
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Caporegime with the Gambino crime family
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air force marshal england
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Retired General
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nobel economics laureate 2003
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Commander USS Donald Cook
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Author and Chairman and CEO of Centurion Holdings LLC, a company that advises private and public companies. Served in the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets). Served as the Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council under Bush, Jr
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Defected NKVD agent, author. Served in the Red Army during WWII
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American radio host. Veteran of broadcasting in NYC, Grant is considered a pioneer of the conservative talk radio format and was one of the early adopters of the 'combat talk' format
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David Grant (5)
JFK - Secret Service agent, assisted in the Dallas advance, was stationed at the Trade Mart at the time of the assassination; Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Vice Presidents, Rockefeller, and Mondale -
radio psychologist
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WWII US Army vet, 824th Tank Destroyer Battalion, fought in France, Germany, and Austria
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Survivor of 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Air Force General
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WWII: ETO. Army nurse at the 10th Station Hospital
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WWII Battle of the Bulge Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Battle of Midway
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Lady whose parents were killed in a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas resturant and that faced a congressional hearing on Gun control
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White student who sued the Univ. of Michagan,for denying her admittance. Affirmative Action supporter and worker for
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'German'
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Former Mafia Underboss of the Gambino Crime Family under John Gotti. Turned Government witness against Gambino Family Boss John Gotti who would later die in prison. Gravano is the highest ranking member of La Cosa Nostra to turn Government Witness
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Astronaut (NASA selection group 1965), he actually never flew into space, but earned his nickname 'Space Doc' due to his role as the Mercury Medical Flight Controller and through his space medicine research
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Iwo Jima survivor/USMC 1942-1946, flame thrower in the Second Battalion
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Public Affairs Officer
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Dallas detective who wrestled the gun away from Jack Ruby after he shot Lee Harvey Oswald
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army general
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army general born 1924
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Supercentenarian born 1900
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British born Canadian historian and author. The Winnipeg Free Press has called her 'one of Canada's best-loved writers of popular history and literary biography.'
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marine corps general
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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Civil rights lawyer, preacher (born 1930). Defended Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, and the MIA during the Montgomery bus boycott. Worked with Martin Luther King and defended him in court. Named National Bar Association president in 1985
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World War II RAF Eagle Squadron Pilot and 5 victory ace
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2012 Libertarian nominee for Vice President, 2020 Libertarian candidate for President, Judge on Superior Court of Orange County, 2004 Libertarian nominee for US Senate from California
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(WWII Pilot - Tuskegee Airmen)
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 4th Marine Raider Battalion. Distinguished Service Cross
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First Responder 9/11 Attack
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Marine corps general/29th Commandant of the Marine Corps
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (WWII-5.25 Kills) US Navy, VF-10. Flew Hellcats and Corsairs. Also Flew the Stearman
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WWII riveter
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Australian WW2 veteran and politician. He wrote about his experiences in Kokoda Lieutenant: The Triumph of the 21st Brigade 16th Battalion. He is the earliest Australian Member of Parliament alive
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Military royal air chief marshall
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One of the last survivors of the Dambusters raid in 1943
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US WWII vet, born 1923. Third Wave on D-Day,Omaha Beach, St. Lo, Bulge. Stayed with Eisenhower while installing phone lines in his personal quarters. Last known witness to German surrender ceremony in Reims, France on May 7, 1945
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New Zealand WWII Veteran
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inventor of pacemaker
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Cosmonaut
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Newspaper editor, politician and reformer. Encouraged readers to "Go West"
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driver of world land speed record- ssc thrust
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American solo vocalist with the United States Army Band. An accomplished performer, particularly of the US national anthem, Green is often called upon to sing at important sporting events, diplomatic functions and military ceremonies
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Donald Green (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pyro
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Member of the Little Rock Nine; group of African-American students who enrolled in all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Awarded Congressional Gold Medal in 1999
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Last living WWI Veteran (1901-2012). Member of the UK's Women's Royal Air Force during WWI, and it's very last veteran of any type when she died at 110
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Battery F, 2nd Battalion, 12 Marines, Third Marine Division. Bronze Star
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WWII - Ace Pilot (Europe and Africa, 1943-1944) 18 victories
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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21 year old student at Middlebury College in Vermont when he was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for his participation in a Freedom Ride from Nashville, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi on June 10, 1961
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa, Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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One of the oldest people in the world. Born 1895. Lives in New York.
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Wrote ' The Elegant Universe' And One Of The World's Foremost String Theorists
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Former felon who received a full pardon and now heads one of the largest prison ministries in the world, Good News Jail & Prison Ministry
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Flight (scientist), retired NASA engineer.
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WWII Flying Tiger Pilot
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WWII - Iwo Jima. Lives in Spartanburg, SC
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UK Tallest Man
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Navy Admiral
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Scientist & author. Presenter BBC2 Brain Story. Head of the Royal Institution.
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nobel med. laureate 2000
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Spy, Brother of Ethel Rosenberg
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Israeli Tank Ace, 20 Kills, Yom Kippur War
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Holocaust survivor; author
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noted Olympic historian/famed producer of Olympic films
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Vietnam War: Photographer of the famous photograph 'Help From Above'. Medivac helicopter 'Dustoff 65' was shot down by a rocket in April 1968 which led to the famous 'Rescue of Dustoff 65'
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American journalist associated with Edward Snowden (NSA leaks)
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Senior archivist at the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, Greenwell joined their staff in 1976. As a Dallas school girl, she saw President's motorcade on November 22, 1963/Saw him just minutes before the assassination
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Former Major General that served during WW2, Korea, and Vietnam
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Richard Greer (2) WWII: PTO. USMC. Served with John Basilone and featured in HBO's 'The Pacific':
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June 28, 1955 American ufologist and retired physician who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and the Disclosure Project
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JFK - Secret Service; driver of President Kennedy's car on November 22, 1963
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Retired General
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WW2 Veteran:Pilot at Battle of Midway
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WWII pilot, born 1920. First mission was as a dive bomber at the Battle of Midway, Battle of Guadacanal and Battle of Tokyo. Flew SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber
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Pilot and Ace, Medal of Honor (WWII-Army)
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WW2 veteran/author who fought in the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, 1942. Born: 1920. He was a rifleman during the conflict. He is now 96 and lives in Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, UK, 'Dresden: A Survivor's Story,' 'Rifleman: A Front-Line Life'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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WWII: Royal Air Force Air Gunner during the Battle of Britain, and was one of the men known as 'The Few'
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Member of the successful British team which made the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, he was in charge of stills photography. Now lives in Australia
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WWII: D-Day. Paratrooper with the 101st Airborne who dropped south of the Dove River, was wounded and captured, only to espace days later
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NASA astronaut (retired) three space shuttle missions. Bloodline/nephew of Charles Drew, inventor of blood bank; First African American to command a spaceflight
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Retired Air Force General
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Acquainted with Oswald's June 1962, spent significant amount of time with Oswalds providing transportation, going on excursions, taking Russian language lessons from Marina. Saw the Oswalds on November 22, 1962/Questioned by Secret Service
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astronaut
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marine corps general
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Nobel Prize 2009 of Medicine
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James 'Whitey' Bulger's girlfriend, currently incarcerated
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German ww2 pilot
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American physicist; group leader 'detonator group' at Project Manhattan (Trinity). Eyewitness to Trinity explosion
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French World War One Veteran
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WWII Arctic Convoy veteran, holds the highest German military honour, the Ehrenkreuz
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American centenarian (1914-2020). Survived the 1918 Flu, which killed her mother and sister. Died months after getting through Covid-19
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U.S. Marines 1936-1945
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British Inventor. Gtech founder
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Navy petty officer 3rd class, electrician's mate aboard the destroyer Phelps
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US Army General
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JFK/Kennedy - Counsel to the Warren Commission 1964
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Civil Rights Activist/Former Black Panther, While with them, was involved in a bank robbery & served 12 years in prison. /As teenager Griffin was outside of Hotel Texas to greet the Kennedy's when they arrived in Fort Worth on November 21
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Former lawyer and American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit. Her best known works are Something Borrowed, Heart of the Matter and The One and Only
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Frank Griffin (2)Working in Oak Cliff at time of assassination , heard shots and witnessed aftermath of Tippitt shooting
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Lead Flight Director Mission Control for 3 Lunar Landings
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Fighter ace
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11th Administrator of NASA, American physicist and aerospace engineer, Former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (2018 to 2020)
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Doolittles Raiders: Navigator on the #9 aircraft [POW for 2 years]
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army general
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nasa & x-15 broke the sound barrier'47
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WWII: B-17 crew member, 8th Air Force (35 mission in Europe)
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4-Star General
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Great-grandnephew of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly who was was hanged for murder in 1880. He lives in Wangaratta, north-east Victoria, Australia
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British judge and barrister, received the Military Cross for valor in WW2; also known as William Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths
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Great-grand-niece of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly who was was hanged for murder in 1880. She lives in Wangaratta, north-east Victoria, Australia
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Stanley David Griggs (September 7, 1939 ? June 17, 1989) was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D.
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Author/'No Case To Answer' a book about the JFK Assassination & is a JFK Assassination researcher
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne (AG-31)
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Col. Robert Grimes, an Army Air Forces pilot flew a B-17 bomber during World War II
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Spy/Former CIA officer who participated on a small team that investigated and uncovered the actions of Aldrich Ames, a counterintelligence officer who was subsequently convicted of spying for the Soviet Union
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Cummings
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Soviet WWII Veteran, 308 Rifles Division, Machine Gunner, Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Konigsberg. Lives in Canada, possibly Toronto
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WWII Soviet Veteran
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astronaut
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German Flying Ace Of World War II
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Army General
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Mercury astronaut
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Soccer mom madam
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Activist, Attempted POW rescues in conjunction with the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/born February 1, 1938 was elected the first female lieutenant governor of Connecticut in 1990
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2015 Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
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German medical and prof. of the University ofWitten/Herdeck - Brother of the singer Herbert Groenemeyer
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field
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Government
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 4th Marine Division
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Auschwitz Prison Camp
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WWII Fighter Ace, 354th Fighter Group, 6 victories - USAAF
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Nobel laureate physics 2004
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WWII: Battle of Midway (June 1942). Survivor of the sinking of USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady'). Assistant gunnery officer.. After being in the way of 3 torpedoes and 1 bomb, he floated 6 hours in the Pacific before being picked up
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Rocket Scientist, 'Dr. Werner Von Braun's Team'
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Professional boxer, fought Mike Tyson at the Madison Square Garden
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An ex-Luftwaffe fighter pilot and glider pilot who has established 50 world records approved by FAI Gliding Commission
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British solicitor, son of paranormal investigator Maurice Grosse. He helped his father interrogate the Enfield poltergeist and, as such, is probably the only member of the Law Society to have cross-examined a ghost. He lives in the UK
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Retired Navy Admiral
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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WWII - Fighter Ace - USAAF - 8 Kills
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division. Purple Heart
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Neurosurgeon at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963, was in Trauma Room One during the treatment of President and claims to have examined the president's head wound; however, he was not called to testify before the Warren Commission
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former editor/chairman of National Geographic, son of Melville Bell Grosvenor (NatGeo), great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell
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Mathematician in 20th century
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chairman ceo of intel. time's man of the year 1997
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JFK - The Old Guard, Honor Guard at the John F. Kennedy funeral
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2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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American computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur co-founded Siri Inc., which created the Siri intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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US Navy Admiral
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Astronaut
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Rafal Grupinski - Polish politician, historian and organizer of cultural, literary critic, essayist, publisher, entrepreneur, university lecturer
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Judge
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Presenter/Adventurer: Born Survivor, Man vs Wild. Chief Scout
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Nobel Prize Winner Physics
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WWII 'Rosie' worker, born 1926. Worked 1944-45 at an Air Force depot at the Buffalo Airport, while her mother worked at Bell Aircraft
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'Known as the 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz'/Former guard at the Auschwitz prison camp. Lives in Germany
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Having served as an in the US Army at Berlin Tempelhof airport in the late 1940s, Mr. Groetsch was a Berlin Airlift veteran working with the "Candy Bomber", Col. Gail Halvorsen
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One of the last living crewmembers (1917-2002) of the Hindenburg that survived the 1937 crash. Served as a ship cook, he jumped to safety through an opening in the ship and ran to safety as the ship fell behind him
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Commander Naval Air Training
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: US Veteran of the Battle of Remagen, March 1945
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WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, Original Band of Brothers; co-author of 'Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends'
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(March 1931 - 21 February 2015) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two space flights: Soyuz 17 and Soyuz 28
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WWII: PTO. Bronze Star. US Army. Battle of Leyte, Luzon and Hollandia, New Guinea, Okinawa
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Argentine-Cuban pediatrician, Che Guevara's daughter
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National Spelling Bee Champion - Has Topps Allen & Ginter Card
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Friday Night Bank Robber -robbed more then 50 banks. Released in 2017
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Attorney - L.A. Deputy D.A. (1996-2000), San Francisco Ass't. D.A. (2000-2004). Host & Contributor on the Fox News Channel - The Five, The O'Reilly Factor, Red Eye
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nobel med. laureate 1977
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Italian World War 2 Hero and Diplomat. Born: 02/07/1909
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Serving on Hickam Field, Guilliams was strafed and then fired upon Japanese planes. Later fought on Saipan. Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient
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Descendant of Jules Verne, the legendary French author of Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty-Thousand Leagues under the Sea
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Employed at a used-car lot at Patton Ave. and Jefferson Blvd. in Oak Cliff ,he heard gunshots and saw a man run south sticking a handgun in his belt . He positively identified the man as Lee Harvey Oswald
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WWII - D-Day: 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion and landed on Utah Beach during D-Day in the second wave
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Lawyer, Preacher, Assassin of Pres. James Garfield (1841-1882). Shot Garfield on July 2, 1881, was hanged on June 30, 1882 for it
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WWII - D-Day. Survivor of USS Corry (DD-463, the destroyer that led the armada into D-Day), which was sunk on June 6 near Utah Beach by German guns. In March 1944, he was part of the Corry crew who sank German submarine U-801
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Katharine Teresa Gun is a British translator who worked for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency. In 2003, she leaked top-secret information to The Observer
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WWII - Pearl Harbor; USS Arizona. Took a leave before the attack and was on board USS Henderson on 7 Dec 1941; didn't know about the fate of his ship until Dec. 12, 1941
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Phoenix
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Invented the modern photocopier; Inventor Hall of Fame inductee
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Former US Park Ranger who stood guard next to Martin Luther King Jr. during his 'I Have a Dream' March on Washington speech in 1963
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Sniper during WW2, lives in Memphis, Missouri
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Icelandic labour leader. Father of singer Bjork
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British developmental biologist.In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells
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Politician
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WWII: CBI Theater. B-24 Hump Flyer (19 round-trips 1944-1945)
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US Army WWII vet, born 1921. Served in the Signal Intelligence Service, through Africa and Italy. Later a career with Pan-Am Airlines, and close friends with the Monaco royal family. Married in Italy with actor Rex Harrison as a witness
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War hero, Victoria Cross recipient
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War hero, Victoria Cross receiver, now living in Nepal
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WWII: PTO. USS Lamson. Purple Heart
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Age 14 when JFK shot & was witness/skipped school to see him/Close enough to touch President
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US Marine Crops Afghanistan War Veteran. Navy Cross Recipient
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JFK: Doctor at the Parkland Memorial Hospital who treated Gov. Connally after the Kennedy assassination and two days later Lee Harvey Oswald
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Steven Gustafson (2)(Born 1947) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Was wounded 2 different times from shrapnel while sweeping for mines. Recipient of 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII vet (1925-2018), Communications officer on Adm. Halsey's staff on the USS Missouri (BB-63), witness to the Japanese surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri
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Author of 10 Louisiana French-Creole cuisine cookbooks & proprietor of New Orleans' Antoine's Restaurant, est. 1840. Noted Creole culinary historian & resident of French Quarter for more than 3 decades & studied at the Le Cordon Bleu
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Polish nurse who gained international recognition for aiding Polish Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during WWII. Author of In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
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Member Of Band Of Brothers, 506th Easy Company
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4). Last Pearl Harbor survivor in Nebraska
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US Navy Wave veteran of WWII, born 1917. Typed decoded messages sent on to Navy Intelligence
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Actress and whistleblower
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US Air Force Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Recipient of the Air Force Cross, 3 Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart
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Astronaut - STS-59
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Navy Corpsman WWII. Landed on Omaha Beach on D Day. PTO: Battle of Okinawa
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CPO, USN, Landing Ship Tank, USS LST-553 Coxswain on LST that supported Peleliu, Leyte, Mindoro, Lingayen Gulf, Subic Bay, and Okinawa Landings
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
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Fighter ace, MAR-151
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Tucker
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Nicknamed 'aloha' ronnie- was at lz-xray in 1965 with 1st cav
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Hungarian man who appeared in the famous faked photo of a tourist on top of the World Trade Center in NYC just before it was hit by a plane on September 11, 2001
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Mexican drug lord
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WW2 & KOREAN WAR VETERAN, 30th Div.Rangers. Born, june 1919, 100 years old.. Distinguished Service Cross, 3 Silver Stars, 2 Bronze Stars, 7 Purple Hearts, 2 POW Medals, Legion Of Honor (France, D-day Medal)
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Astronaut and first Mongolian in space (1981)
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Organizes 'Wiener Opernball'
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German WW2 soldier, escaped from his prison camp in the USA and led a live as Dennis Whiles, surrendered to the U.S.A. in 1985 on 'The Tonight Show', is now living in Boulder, Colorado
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Daughter of Hermann Göring, is living in Munich, Germany
