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Doolittle's Raiders 'Navigator Crew #4'
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Medal of Honor, US Navy, World War II
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astronaut
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Currently is the, Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer
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B.7/26/1924 Former CIA agent, later involved, as electronics expert, in Watergate burglaries which precipitated the Watergate scandal. Arrested during the second break-in to DNC Headquarters. Wrote; 'A piece of tape; the Watergate story: fact and fiction'
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WW2 Fighter Ace - 11 Kills - USAAF
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Retired USMC General
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Captain of AA96, also known as the Windsor incident
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newsmaker - Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Decision
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Juror in the Jack Ruby Murder Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald from the assassination of JFK/Should be about 90 years old is still alive
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US Army General
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US Army Air Corps WWII veteran. Bombadier on a B-29 crew based in Saipan, flew 13 missions over Japan. Part of the fly-over during the Japanese Surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Former Austin, TX police officer. One of three responsible for stopping Charles Whitman's mass killing at Univ Texas - Austin
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Military, Marine Staff Sgt
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Navy Admiral
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US centenarian (1903-2011), contracted and survived the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. Entire family delirious with fever, nursed by healthy family boarders. Became a banker, dealt with the 1929 Stock Market crash and the Great Depression
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Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at The New York Times. Author of Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
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WWII/ETO: Staff Seargent at the 3393 Quartermaster Truck Co of the Red Ball Express, a famed truck convoy system (and one of the biggest logitics operations of the war) that supplied the Allied forces on their way through Europe
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African-American author of Freedom's Child: The Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter which describes her return to VA to learn her family history, as well as stories of her grandfather, CSA General John R. Jones
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '100th Fighter Squadron; Overseas Pilot, POW'
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Born 3/5/2021, flew P-51 Mustang fighters in Europe throughout WW II until was shot down in 1945 and taken prisoner, awarded Purple Heart & Distinguished Flying Cross/Renaissance Marquisâ-? favorite residents still has a few stories to tell
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WWII Veteran. Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1961-94) Was Speaker of the Arkkansas House of Representations (1981-83)
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former NASA astronaut - Astronaut STS- 34
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Canadian Scientist best known for demonstrating with James Till the existence of stem cells
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Navy Admiral
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Historian & Author of 'Truman' & 'John Adams'
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Tech Sgt. USAAF, 391st Bomb Sqdn., 34th Bombardment Group, 8th AF B-17 Engineer/Top Turret Gunner 30 Missions over Europe Distinguished Flying Cross
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WWII OSS veteran, born 1925. Piloted a submersible boat to spy on the Japanese coast for the planned invasion, before Japan surrendered
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Flight scientist, NASA
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Pearl harbor survivor
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USS Arizona veteran of Pearl Harbor
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A Deputy-Sheriff with the Dallas County Sheriff's office in '63 , he helped to search the 6th floor of the TSBD after the assassination
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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(Born 1931) US Navy Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Navy Cross Recipient
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WWII: USS Gridley (DD-380 ). Entered Pearl Harbor on 8 December 1941, the morning after the attack, together with the USS Enterprise. Also served in the Aleutian Campaign in 1942
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(Born 1937) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Silver Star recipient
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Retired Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. He served in the Medical Corps and from 1992-1995 was Commander of the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia. Appeared on the US reality show Mole 2: The Next Betrayal
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. USS Indiana
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Survivor from The Lusitania
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John McDermott (3)
WWII Army veteran. Now lives in Denville, NJ -
Longtime attorney for WWE
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US Air Force General
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nobel chem.laureate 2000
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Apollo astronaut, Commander of Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions
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Canadian physicist. He was jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Takaaki Kajita
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Master Sergeant Bob McDonald is a member of the US Army Chorus and an anthem singer for the Washington Capitals and Washington Nationals. During his free time, McDonald also performs concerts
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navy admiral
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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One of the pioneers of underwater swimming in Britain and author of many books on diving
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Police Captor of Lee Harvey Oswald
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navy admiral
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Vietnam infantry platoon leader in the legendary 173d Airborne Brigade, military theorist who has helped shape the post-Cold War army?s thinking, author of Platoon Leader, The Defense of Hill 781, and The Limits of Glory
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Served prison time for Whitewater controversy. Her refusal to answer '3 questions' for grand jury about whether President Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial led her to receive a jail sentence of 18 months for contempt of court
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WWII: Tail gunner in B-17 'Hell's Belle', shot down over Germany in 1943, where he was subsequently captured and interned in Stalag 17B in Austria. Wrote 'A Tail Gunner's Tale' about his experience. 1923-2002
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WWII: ETO. 405th Fighter Squadron, 371st Fighter Group, 9th Air Force. P-47 Thunderbolt pilot shot down on 20 Sept 1944 near Cobern, Germany. POW at Stalag Luft 1 (of Hub Zemke fame) where he was the last man to leave when it was liberated
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Man who claims to be the sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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army general
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Ensign, USN, Landing Ship Tank, USS LST-981 Purple Heart, D-Day Veteran
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Dallas historian/Was recent graduate of Southern Methodist University and working at university when she decided to go see the presidential motorcade. Years later, as Dallas historian, she worked on photographic research for The Sixth Floor
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In 1963, McElroy was a funeral director and embalmer at Oneal Funeral Home in Dallas. He was at Parkland Memorial Hospital when the presidential limousine arrived, and he later helped carry President Kennedy's casket into the hospital
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Member of the famous Doolittle Raiders-Surprise bombing of Tokyo during WWII 'Pilot Crew #13'
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WWII - of the legendary K/3/5 marines, fought at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu; author of 'Hell in the Pacific'
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WWII: B-17 bomber pilot in the Pacific. Bomber Barons, 5th BG, 13th AF. 58 missions. Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon
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WWII: PTO. Dive bomber pilot in combat from Guadalcanal through the Philippines campaign. 113 mission. Korean War
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Centenarian
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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: 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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Co-inventor of popular drugs in tetrahydropyridimine family such as pyrantel, morantel & oxantel. Drugs commonly used for the treatment of intestinal parasitic worms, most popularly in veterinary fields for pin, round, and heart worms
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WWII: CBI theater. C-46 Pilot, 26 'Hump' round?trips
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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US WWII vet, born 1921. Army Air Corps, 54th Fighter Squadron mechanic. Worked in the Alaska Aleutian Islands for 28 months, 9 of them in Attu
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Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
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WW II pilot tuskegee airmen. Flew P-40, P-39, P-47, P-51 (WWII), F-51(Korea) and RF4-c (Vietnam)
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WW2 Air ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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F-22 Raptor Pilot
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navy admiral
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Former Ghost Hunters Academy star
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WWII: US Navy veteran, USS Balch. Battle of Midway
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Military uss nevada surivor
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Medal of honor marines Vietnam
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(November 19, 1925 - March 3, 1999) was a United States Naval officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions while in command of the USS Liberty when it was attacked by Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean on June 8, 1967 during the Six-Day War
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WWII: PTO. Last survivor of the sinking of the HMAS Perth in the Battle of Sunda Strait, 1 March 1942. 2 years POW in Thailand/ Burma, then the unmarked POW transport Rakuyo Maru was sunk on 12 Sept. 1942. POW again; Kawasaki camp, Tokyo
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Marine Aviator. First female Marine to fly an F/A-18 on a combat mission. She flew 89 combat missions
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John McGrath (2) Member of the 101 airbourne div. company E 506 parachute regiment
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POW of War - VietnamAuthor of 'Prisoner of War: 6 years in Hanoi'which give a graphic account of the terribl punishments endured by the US Soldiers (and Heroes!!)
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Navy.Deck, Second Division - Assault Boat Coxswain May 1976 - January 1978
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world war 2 fighter ace -5 victories, US Navy, VC-10 - Navy Cross
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Convicted American drug trafficker and organized crime figure
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1 of 3 People who in 2006 went on expedition to the river Nile to find its Source (where it really starts) and found it and becouse of this the river Nile became the longest river in the world
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Irish'
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Spanish Civil War Veteran, Irish Brigade, Lives in Bandera
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Ambulance driver for O'Neal's Funeral Home in Dallas and helped bring President Kennedy's body to Air Force One
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United States Air Aces
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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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JFK- Marine Honor Guard in the funeral of President Kennedy; also met JFK at Camp David
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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James McIlroy (2)
WWII: 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge -
Tuskegee Airmen ww2
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WWII Battle of Britain pilot, one of only 6 remaining
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Tornado on 'Gladiators (UK 2008), Royal Marines Commando since the age of 16, having served in Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Somalia and the Gulf.member of the Commando Display Team and is a Marines middleweight boxing champion.
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Girl featured in Dorothea Lange's famous photo 'Migrant Mother' with her mother and two of her siblings; taken in 1936 during the Great Depression
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Flight aviator
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WWII: Served on LST-474 in the Pacific
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Patrick McIntyre (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. Ghost Army
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WWII: CBI (China-Burma-India) theater. C-46 pilot, 90 round trips over the 'Hump'
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Flight scientist, Chief Scientist for Astrobiology at the Johnson Space Center
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Michael McKay (2)Astronaut
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navy admiral
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII/JFK - US Air Force General who started as a test pilot flying well over 100 different airplanes, served in Europe starting January 1944; leading 40 P-38 fighter planes on D-Day, 370th Fighter Group; met JFK in 1962 at Vandenberg Air Force Base
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'Tuskegee Airmen' (both Maintenance Chief & Pilot)
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. Radar Operator at Opana Radar Station; they detected the incoming Japanese planes on Dec. 7, 1941, but were told by their superiors to disregard the sighting. He was at the station at the time of the attack
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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Military ace WW1
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JFK/Jackie Kennedy's Former Assistant/Her new book, Jackie's Girl: My Life With The Kennedy Family, the former first lady?s assistant, Kathy McKeon, revealed details of the 13 years she spent with the Kennedy clan
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American WWII Marine veteran of Guadalcanal and Tulagi, born in 1922. Pictured in a popular photo being carried on a stretcher after being injured at Guadalcanal
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He pressed the button that started the The Trinity Test, July 16, 1945; born 1912
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Retired Army General
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Four-star USAF veteran General Craig Richard McKinley (b:1952) Chairman of ANSER Board & National Chair of ESGR, with a distinguished career in leadership and service
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WWII - Ace, 5 victories. Pacific Theater. Flew the Hellcat
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Time team
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Military, 15th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. 1st Platoon, L Co., 16th Inf. Regt., 1st Infantry Division. First man to step on Omaha Beach
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Civil Rights Leader/Vice president of Washington, D.C. chapter of NAACP, position held until 1969/co-founded the American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE)
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Computer hacker
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marine corps general
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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army general
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Cold War: RB-47 navigator flying over the Barents Sea in July 1960, shot down by a Soviet MiG. He was held as prisoner and came home Jan. 27, 1961, greeted by President Kennedy
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DPD , one of two forward mid motorcade motorcycle officers in President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov.22 , 1963
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WWII: 92nd Bomb Group, 8th AF. Decorated combat pilot. Lead bomber on the Second Raid on Schweinfurt, 14 October 1943. Founded the West Virginia Air National Guard
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Mark McLaughlin (2)Author of western train adventures and local historian
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Centenarian and community volunteer (b. 1909) who became known for her joyous dancing as a then-106 year old with the Obamas during a White House meeting
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1 of 3 People who in 2006 went on expedition to the river Nile to find its Source (where it really starts) and found it and becouse of this the river Nile became the longest river in the world
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS Squalus in 1939
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WWII: CBI. Last surviving officer 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. Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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Sgt. New York PAPD, World Trade Center attack Survivor, subject of movie World Trade Center
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Former member of the Black Panther Party, who was found guilty of murder of New York Panther Alex Rackley in 1970 and released in the 1980's
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Vietnam Veteran who made bombs for aircraft carriers. He was a Aviation Ordanceman PO2 (AO2) from 1968 to 1972
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Navy Admiral
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American WWII-Pilot, Sole Surviving Pilot Of The 'Lost Squadron'
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Herbert Raymond McMaster ) is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General who served as the 26th United States National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018. He is also known for his roles in the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi
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Flight sicentist nasa flight director tranquility flight
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1960s civil rights activist/organized a boycott against a chain of stores (OK Supermarkets) that was exploiting and disrespecting the community where it relied on its profits
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Squad Leader with Company B, 3rd Battalion of the 21st Infantry Regiment in South Vietnam. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Bronze Star and Purple Heart
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Police Detective in Dallas 0n Nov. 22 , 1963 when President Kennedy was assassinated
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astronaut
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Last surviving members of the WWII Flying Tigers
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WWII: ETO. D - Day (Utah Beach, 2nd wave), Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge. Trained with 519th Ordnance, served in combat with 546th Ordnance
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Born 1940 US Army Vietnam War Veteran. POW 1967 to 1973. 1 Legion of Merit and 2 Bronze Stars
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Test pilot
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Author - Bravo Two Zero, Immediate Action
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air force general
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Served on U.S.S. Pennsylvania
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(October 21, 1950 - January 28, 1986) was a physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L
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Dallas high-school student & Dallas Times Herald employee 1963, saw motorcade on Stemmons Freeway & gave an official a ride to Parkland Memorial Hospital. He graphically recalled the condition of the backseat of the presidential limousine
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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 nearly 400 sailors and airmen were killed and more than 260 wounded
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JFK - Staff Assistant for Congressional Liaisons in the Kennedy administation; started workinf for Kennedy in the 1950s; also oversaw the arrangements for President Kennedy?s funeral in 1963
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Entertainment Attorney
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WWII: PTO. War criminals guard in the Japanese trials, guarding the 'Beat of Bataan', General Masaharu Homma
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Former Australian General, Chief of Defence Force Staff 1982-1984
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Sheriff: McLennan County, TX. Waco siege
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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Was one of the Greensboro Four. On February 1, 1960, they sat down at a segregated lunch counter in the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's store, challenging the store's policy on segregation. This event was a major milestone in the African-American
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army general
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Historian
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Sergeant, USA, Pathfinders, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne, 'Filthy 13' member SGT McNiece was 1 of 2 members of the 101st that made all 4 jumps, Normandy (D-Day), Holland, Bastogne, & Germany
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Co-Investigator on the New horizon flight to the dwarf planet Pluto
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Monaghan
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air force chief of staff
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WWII: PTO. Fighter Pilot, 2 victories. VMF-441 Blackjacks (Wildcat), VMF-323 Death Rattlers (F4U Corsair). Korea: VMF-214 the Black Sheep F4U Corsair)
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WWII US Navy veteran and Eisenhower White House aide, born 1925. One of the last living Eisenhower White House staff members
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Tuskegee Airmen & 761st Tank Battalion Member
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WWII - Pacific. Fighter Ace, 5 victories; US Navy (USS Essex). F6F-5 Hellcat 'Death & Destruction'
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Historian
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Test pilot
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Recognized as the founder of National Grandparents Day
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor; USS Oklahoma
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(Born 1922) US Army WW2 Veteran. Company D, 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Divsion. Utah Beach, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe. Recipient of a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Former Commander of the United States Special Operations Command (2011-2014)
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Flight aviator, pilot
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Attorney, author and retired FBI Special Agent undercover art expert who teamed up with Joe Pistone - the real 'Donnie Brasco' - to recover millions in stolen art
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Member of the 'Clinton 12', where a dozen students became the first to integrate a school in the South in the fall of 1956
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Oklahoma City Bomber (1968-2001), tried and executed for the 1995 terror attack
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Testified to Warren Commission that as a Bus Driver for the City of Dallas, about 12:40pm when he picked up a man, who told him that the President had been shot, and then a woman. The woman did not believe that the President had been shot
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WWII: ETO. Normandy (his first battle was St. Lo), Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, Central Europe. HQ Company, 3rd Battalion, 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division. Honor Guard for Pres. Truman, Antwerp, Belgium, 1945
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One of 3 New York Firefighters who raised the flag at Ground Zero
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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Novelist, travel writer, and adventurer
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Female pilot during WWII
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astronaut
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Test pilot
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Capt. U.S. Navy & Author of The Sixth Fleet
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battles of Saipan, Tarawa, Tinian and Okinawa
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United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II
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Former president and COO and a director of Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold. Member of the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, the American Mining Congress, and the Montana Tech Foundation
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WWII: Survivor of the Malmedy massacre(17 December 1944)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Saipan. US Navy
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WW2 engineer who worked at the BBC during the early years of television during the 1950's
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American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of though
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clergyman/army general
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One of the last surviving veterans of The Contestado War, which was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners that lasted from 1912 to 1916. She is now 102 and lives in Caçador, Saint Catarina, Brazil
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One of the last British lighthouse keepers before automation took over. He serviced 22 lighthouses across the British Isles from the 1950's to 1998. He is now 70 and lives in the UK
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physicist, entrepreneur, and trained astronaut
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Former Skinhead, now anti-racism activist
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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attoney general reagan
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Most decorated Officer in the 82nd. Airborne
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WWII: US Figher Ace, 4th Fighter Group, 334th Fighter Squadron (England-based)
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WW2 Veteran-Battle Of The Bulge/Tank Gunner & Medic For General Patton's Tank Corps
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World War One Veteran & oldest man in Germany
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Fighter ace 6th Night Fighter Sqd
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army general
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German Flying Ace Of World War 2
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U.S. Astronaut, Selected in NASA Astronaut Group 21 in 2013
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American chemist, born 1933. Served as the Launch and Flight Weather Officer for the first US satellite, Explorer I in 1958. Made the call to it for two days to avoid high upper winds. Worked on the 1st Intercontinental ballistic missile. Also a champion
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German ww2 pilot
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(Mexician Revolution) Last Living Member of Emiliano Zapata's Ejercito Libertador del Sur. Born: 1899
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LA City Controller. Also ran for Congress 3 times
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Danish chemist was awarded one third of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Karl Barry Sharpless, 'for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry'
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Former director of Keweenah Research Center
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2021 Libertarian nominee for NJ Governor
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WWII soldier who announced the war in Europe had ended
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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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WW2 veteran and the last survivor of the sinking of HMS Saracen, a British submarine sunk on 13 August 1943. He is now 91 and lives in a care home in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England
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Harry Melling (2) Ww2 veteran
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20 military awards and decorations including the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Meritorious Citation
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2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
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US WWII Navy vet (1921-2023). Served on the USS Hopewell, as a Fire Controlman. Saw action in the S. Pacific, including Leyte, Luzon, and the Marshall Islands
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Historian, Faculty Associate, German, Nordic, and Slavic Studies at University of Wisconsin - Madison, guest on 'The UnXplained with William Shatner'
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NASA astronaut (retired); flew on STS-41 and STS-49
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WWII: C Co, 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry, 29th Division. D-Day+1 Omaha Beach, Battle of St. Lo (June 16, 1944 - Hill 108 'Purple Heart Hill'). Fought in Normandy, Holland, Belgium, Germany
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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impact scientist
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astronaut
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu
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Test Pilot of Space Ship One, first private venture spacecraft to reach space
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Media lawyer and columnist.
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NASA Astronaut of STS-129
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Scientist
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Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1992
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Samar. USS Heermann
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20 years US Navy/earned 3 Silver Stars, Bronze Star, Navy Commendation & 13 battle stars/Retired Rear Admiral WW2/author of two World War II submarine history books http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/cgmendenhalljr.htm
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Flight aviator
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US WWII veteran, born 1926. Survivor of the USS Bismarck Sea's sinking at Iwo Jima
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Spy/Former CIA chief of disguise and specialist in clandestine photography/Living under cover and serving tours in Europe, South Asia and the Far East. She has been a practicing fine art photographer
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Subject of the film Argo
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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'Member of a Band of Brothers' '101st Airborne Division, 506th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Easy Company'
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Tuskegee Airmen, fighter aircraft maintenance
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The Menendez Brothers: Convicted of Murdering their parents
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Murder parents
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The Melendez Brothers: Convicted of Murdering their parents
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Retired General
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Retired General
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JFK - Filmed the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, 22 November 1963, incl. the Texas Schoolbook Depository and the police in front of it
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Mentzel saw the Kennedy motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Her late husband, Dallas police patrolman W.D. Mentzel, was assigned to the area in Oak Cliff where Officer J.D. Tippit was killed
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WWII: USMC, featured in the HBO series 'The Pacific'
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German Astronaut; first foreign citizen to fly on a space shuttle
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Miss America 1949; the only Miss America to marry and divorce during her reign
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JFK Related witness Nov. 22 1963
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Pilot
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Civil Rights Mississippi
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JFK - Secret Service agent in the 'Kiddie Detail'; taught John Jr. how to salute at Kennedy's funeral. Also served Eisenhower, Humphrey, Nixon
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WWII: PTO. Escort carrier - USS Attu (CVE-102). Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa; saw the USS Bunker Hill burn. 2 Bronze Stars
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Vietnam veteran; US Secret Service serving for Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton (SAIC); 19th Director of the United States Secret Service
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American soldier, and recipient of the Medal of Honor during World War II
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American mafioso,member of the US Cosa Nostra and former head of the Philadelphia Crime Family which controls organized crime as far as Southern New Jersey
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Mafiosa, high ranking solider in the Gambino family
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WW2/Seaman USS Submarine USS Dace
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WWII: Marine Raider of Co H, 1st Raider Battalion, later 4th Marines 6th Division. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Guam, Battle of Okinawa
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nobel chemistry laureate 1984
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Canadian Infantry, awarded the Victoria Cross on 19th August 1942 for gallantry at Dieppe, France
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army general
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WWII: D-Day. 82nd AB, 508th PIR, HQ Company, 1st Battalion. Also Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge.Silver Star
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Former Marine, Porn star, author,' Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star'
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Developed artificial surfactant which has saved the lives of tens of thousands premies (premature birth babies) since the 1980s;
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WWII - Iwo Jima conqueror, C Company, 24th Regiment, 4th Marine Division. Also fought in the Battles of Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian, after WWII in Korean War and Vietnam War
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Last surviving witness to the German surrender of WWII
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Retired White House ChefBorn July 8, 1944
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WWII: PTO. Fighter Pilot. Battle of Okinawa. Distinguished Flying Cross
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Royal millitary
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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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Former Payload Specialist Astronaut
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German historian who specializes in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. He is also a German WWII Veteran, as from May 1944 till the end of World War II he served in anti-aircraft auxiliary forces in the engineering corps
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Holocaust Survivor, MS St. Louis
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antarctic explorer / author / lecturer
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Former Navy SEAL, speaker, and author
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NASA Astronaut
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WWII: ETO. 508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division. Wounded in Operation Market Garden near Nijmegen, Netherlands, he was left for dead. Captured by the SS, he became a POW (Stalag XII-A, Stalag VII-A), was interrogated by Heinrich Himmler
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Inventors hall of fame
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Iran Hostage Crisis/444 days of captivity as a hostage in Iran/Political Officer
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group Manhattan Project Veteran Military Veteran
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Flight aviator
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F-22 test pilot
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navy admiral
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German painter and graphic artist. He is also a German WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid
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Conductor of The USAF Band that played at JFK's funeral, also met Kennedy on Apr. 23, 1963
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Supercentenarian and the oldest verified living person born in Mexico and the oldest person in California. Now lives in San Diego
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One of only twelve known survivors of the Khmer Rouge imprisonment in the S-21 Tuol Sleng camp, where more than 16,000 Cambodians were sent for execution
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Social psychologist University of Zurich, Recognized as Frank, the world's first real bionic man and star of the popular documentary 'The Incredible Bionic Man,' which premiered on the Smithsonian channel in October, 2013
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Bob Meyer (3)NASA's SOFIA program manager
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Test pilot
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Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Afghanistan
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Lz-xray-idarag valley-we were soldier- is a ret general
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One of the founders of, 'The American Conservative Union.'
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George Meyer (2) WWI balloonist, George Meyer part of the 14th Observation Balloon Company within the 5th Balloon Squadron
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USS. Utah survivor (Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941); served later on USS Detroit CL-8 and watched the surrender ceremony onboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Also Battles at Attu, Kiska, Iwo Jima and Okinawa
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Mountaineer
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United States Air Aces
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US Army Col. (1869-1955). Wounded in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, served on the Mexican border, then WWI
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POW Camp: Stalag 7A Prisoner
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII veteran and car designer, born 1926. Served on the USS Bunker Hill, surviving 2 kamikaze attacks, once jumping off board to avoid a fire that killed hundreds. Later gained fame as the designer of the classic dune buggy car, named the Meyers Manx, rid
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Medal of Honor Recipient-(29,Nov.1950)-Korean War
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; Fort Kamehameha
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Bulgarian beauty queen, suspected in the death of her boyfriend Nikolai Dimov
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WWII/JFK: Served in the Marine Corps in the Pacific, 2 Purple Hearts. Invited and chaired the famous meeting of the Houston Ministerial Association for Sen. John F. Kennedy to allay fears about a Catholic president
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former NAACP president
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South African WWII Veteran
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WWII: 82nd Airborne, made all 4 combat jumps (Sicily, D-Day, Market Garden, Varsity)
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Baseball / 1954-55 / Shortstop that Appeared in 17 Games / Carrer Cut Short When he Joined the Service. WWII Veteran
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Edward Stanley Michael (May 2, 1918 â-' May 10, 1994) was a United States Army Air Forces officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions in World War II
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot and Spitfire pilot in the RAF. Born in 1920, he joined 234 Squadron at St Eval in September 1940. He was taken POW and interned in various camps including Stalag Luft III. He is now 96 and lives in the UK
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Vestal
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Owner of radio station WRAJ in Anna , Ill , in '63 , Don reported news of JFK's assassination and was one of the earliest to broadcast the name of suspect Oswald
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astronaut
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Nobel laureate 1988 in Chemistry
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Nazi during WW2. As of 2010 resides in Kiel in Germany
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French General, fought in the French maquis
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2011 inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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(Born September 22, 1918) is an American entomologist born in Pasadena, California. He is a leading expert on bees, his magnus opus being The Bees of the World
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WW2 Veteran-Battle of The Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Chicago (CA-29), which was sunk by air attack during the Battle of Rennell Island, 30 January 1943
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Military, Secretary of the Navy
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United States diplomat and secretary of the Navy
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WWII Missouri veteran who took a knee to show solidarity with football players
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Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941. Served on USS San Francisco. Was also involved in Battle of Midway, Battle of Wake Island, raids on Gilbert and Marshalls islands, Battle of Cape Esperance, Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, landed at Peleliu
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Geographer. Going to Extremes Channel 4.
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Recalls seeing the fire from inside the tent in the bleachers as the high wire act was in progress. Escaped from the bleachers where grandfather tossed each of kids to the ground & father caught them
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Dallas OBGYN on staff at Parkland Hospital when JFK arrived after shooting. One of the first doctors to see Kennedy, he was told to bring a stretcher to the emergency bay, and there was shocked to find the limo scene. Helped remove Kennedy from the limo,
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: PTO. USMC: Guadalcanal. Defended Henderson Field. First Marine Raider Battalion
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Aircraft Designer known for creating the Flying Flea
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Korean War pilot and one time curator of National Air and Space Museum
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army general
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Also Korea, Vietnam
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Co-Founder of the Champion Tree Project, work to preserve and propagate the genetic heritage of the world's last old growth forest trees
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots). Flew a variety of other aircraft, including co-piloting the B-17 Bomber and flying the P-40
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Retired General
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Australian WWII Veteran
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American economist, winner of the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, together with Robert B. Wilson, 'for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats
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Judge on Peoples Court
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Gay rights activist; murdered in 1978; his life was the basis for the movie 'Milk'
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Is a centenarian and was a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California from 1960 to 1978
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Aviation/JFK - First female pilot to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean (7,415 miles). Flying a Piper Apache, left April 25, 1963 from Oakland, CA, arriving in Brisbane, Australia, on May 13, 1963. Met JFK at the White House
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Crew member of B-29 'City of Virginia Beach'
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Autho, flew with the minute men 56-58
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(6 July 1874-23 Feb. 1970), Democratic partyactivist and feminist
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world war 2 fighter ace- 5 Kills - USAAF
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division (K-3-5). Friend of E.B. Sledge, featured in 'The Pacific'
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air force general
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Tuskegee Pilot
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WWII: PTO. USS New Mexico (BB-40). OS2N-1 'Kingfisher' observation/scout float plane Radio Man. Distinguished Flying Cross
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 740th Tank Battalion ('Daredevil Tankers')
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French research scientist. He is known for having discovered the function of the thymus and for the identification, in mammalian species of the two major subsets of lymphocytes (T cells and B cells) and their function
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US WWII vet, born 1924. 34th Infantry Division, 168th Regiment, Company B, took part in Anzio and Po Valley campaigns in Italy
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Veteran of WWII, Korean War & Vietnam War born 4/16/1925. He is a highly decorated retired lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps
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Aviation Pioneer, (1905-2008). 1920s Barnstormer, saw Lindbergh's take-off, 1st Transcontinental Autogyro Flight (beat Earhardt by days), first rooftop landing (as an Aurtogyro airmail pilot), Eastern Airlines Captain, and oldest active pilot at 101
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Rear Admiral Commander Carrier Strike Group 11
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Controversial Model
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A detective with the Dallas Police Department , Louis was in the basement at the time of Oswald's shooting and helped to arrest Jack Ruby
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A member of the DPD in '63 , Louis grabbed ahold of Jack Ruby after he shot Oswald and helped to take him to the jail office
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us navy admiral
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WWII: PTO. Pharmacist Mate 3rd Class and Medic on the USS Cavalier. Seven invasions including Saipan, Tinian, Philippines
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WWII: US Navy. Survied the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea in the Iwo Jima campaign
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Robert Miller (3) Ass't City Editor at Dallas Morning News , he attended the Trade Mart Luncheon and was on duty morning of Oswald shooting
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JFK - Motorcycle cop that was assigned to President Kennedy for his motorcade in San Antonio, Nov. 21, 1963
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US Army General
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WWII: D-Day. USS Arkansas. Later at Iwo Jima
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WWII - WASP pilot. Commanding Officer of the WASP stationed at Love Field, Dallas; flew every type of aircraft, training, cargo, fighter, and twin and four-engine bombers, experimental
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medal of honor army korean war
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General Mark A. Milley is the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation's highest-ranking military officer, and the principal military advisor to the President, Secretary of Defense, and National Security Council
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Apollo 11: He worked on life-support systems and trained the astronauts in putting on and taking off their spacesuits. He developed the Lunar Surface Checklist
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WWII Ace, P-38, 5 Victories - USAAF
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WWII - Bill Millin who was the Piper of the 1st Special Service Commando Brigade, and was amongst the more noticeable men to land on D-Day as he played the Brigade ashore with his bagpipes under enemy fire. Pictured in 'The Longest Day'
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German expert in guided missiles during WW2, member of the Wernher von Braun Rocket Team in the United States thereafter. Born: 1920.05.07.
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WWII Veteran, born June 1920
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WWII - Chief Steward onboard the USS Yorktown (CV-5), Battle of Midway survivor
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Catalina pilot archie mills battle of midway
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(Born 1920) US Merchant Marine WW2 Veteran. Received the congressional gold medal in 2022
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WWII: ETO. D - Day paratrooper, 502nd Parachute Regt, 101st Airborne. Witnessed Eisenhower's D - Day talk to the group. Also Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge
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Frank Mills (2) 'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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WWII: ETO. Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge (taken POW Dec. 18, 1944 in Fouhren, Luxembourg; first at Stalag II-A, then a 5-month-death march across Germany from one POW camp to another). 109th Infantry, 28th Div
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Engineer, Chief of vehicles for Manned Lunar Expedition Studies in the Apollo program during the 1960s and 70s. Helped design the Lunar Rover
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Welsh Professor who was a tutor to a 20 year old Prince Charles. It was portrayed in the tv show the 'Tywysog Cymru' episode of The Crown. He was vice president of Plaid Cymru, a political party advocating Welsh independence from the United Kingdom
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British RAF pilot of the 19th Squadron
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British ace from WW2
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(born July 15, 1918, née Brenda Langford) is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed to the research on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology, sometimes referred to as 'the founder of neuropsychology'
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WWII: ETO. Italy. 133rd Infantry, 34th Division
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nobel literature laureate 1980
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WW2 Air ace - 5 Kills - US Navy
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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World's Oldest Person; Japan, Born 1893 - Deceased 2007
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Maitre d' who was helped subdue Sirhan Sirhan in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel after he shot Robert Kennedy
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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U.S.S. Indianapolis Survivor
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The third Disneyland Ambassador (1967). She also guest hosted the 'Wonderful World of Disney' episode 'From Pirates of the Caribbean to the World of Tomorrow.'
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One of the last surviving veterans of Mao's Long March (1933-1935). He is now 98 and lives in either Jiangxi or Yudu, China
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Was a Security guard at Area 51
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WWII: Marine PFC on Sand Island during the Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942. His battle station was the wooden searchlight control tower from where he witnessed the Japanese attack on the island
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WWII: D-Day, Carentan, Operation Market Garden. Dog Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR (Screaming Eagles). Jumped into Normany in Stick 60 (C-47 42-100874), wounded at Carentan, returned and seriously wounded during Operation Market Garden
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American reporter covered the Civil Rights Movement and who was a WWII veteran on the USS Stephen Potter; he saw the Kamikaze attack on the Bunker Hill and his ship tried to rescue survivors
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English video game designer and programmer who often goes by the name Yak. He is the founder of software house Llamasoft and has created dozens of games during his career, which began in 1981 with games for the ZX80
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Flight aviator
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Author and American historian at the University of Texas at Austin
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WWII: PTO. He served in seven major battles in the Pacific Theater. He was the last crew member standing from the USS Hoel DD-533 which was sank in the Battle of Samar, 25 October 1944
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Alcatraz Inmate/Political activist, member Puerto Rican Nationalist Party/advocate Puerto Rican independence. 3/11/54, Rafael with fellow Nationalists entered US Capitol building armed with auto-pistols, fired 30 shots. 5 congressmen hit, all survived
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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nobel economics laureate 1996
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Was Hitler's bodyguard in the bunker until Hitler committed suicide, he's living in Berlin Born: 07/29/1917
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2022 Libertarian candidate for FL US Senate
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Cosmonaut
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Former street preacher convicted in United States Federal District Court in Utah for the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping following six years in psychiatric custody.[2] He was sentenced to life in prison on May 25, 2011.
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Apollo 14 astronaut, 6th man on the Moon/Moonwalker
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Journalist and the author of three nonfiction books: Three Strides Before the Wire: The Dark and Beautiful World of Horse Racing, W.: Revenge of the Bush Dynasty, and Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
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Memorist and thirty-five yeas Member of Parliament of the Grenadines. Longest serving Prime Minister in the Caribbean, Only leader who founded a political party, and retired from office after winning four consecutive general elections
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Attorney General 1969-1972 under President Nixon. NY municipal bond lawyer, director of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, served director of Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign. His involvement in Watergate affair, sentenced him to prison
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WWII American Fighter Pilot Ace.
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US Navy Vietnam Veteran who served from 1972 to 1975. He was a AT2 when he got out
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, USS Jarvis
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Civil rights activist and was the chief lobbyist for the NAACP for nearly 30 years. Worked with Dr. Martin Luther King
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Author and historian
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FOX news legal analyst, criminal attorney
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Computer Hacker For Hacking Cell Phone Companys
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Adolf Hitler's maid. Lives in Munich
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Japanese alpinist born in 1932, became the first person to ski on Mount Everest on May 6, 1970 and reach the summit again in 2013 at the age of 80
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Japanese-American Hiroshima survivor (1931-2023). American born, family moved to Hiroshima when he was five. Returned to the US after the war
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Author, political strategist, civil rights activist and public affairs adviser; best known for his work in anti-war and gay rights advocacy
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII and Korean War Veteran, was taken POW during the Korean War and Received the MOH (Medal of Honor) for going above and beyond the call of duty
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vietnam war air force hero
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medal of honor army korean war
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Convicted war criminal
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WWII fighter Ace (8.5 kills) & Lt. General - USAAF - DSC flew the p-51
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Retired Navy Admiral
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First woman to do solo flight around world
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World War 2 Vet, 98, said he can remember what he saw when he was among the first Marines to enter Nagasaki in Sept 1945. A few weeks before they arrived, the U.S. had dropped an atomic bomb on the city, which led to Japan's surrender
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Test pilot
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 jointly with Aziz Sancar and Tomas Lindahl
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Medal of honor marines vietnam
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Veteran of Polish-Soviet War. Born: 1903.(1920 Battle of Warsaw)
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Vietnam war crew chief/door gunner on a Huey Helicopter. Served from 1967 to 1968
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WWII: ETO. US Army (England, France and Germany). Guard at the Nuremberg War Trials
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Dennis Moeller (2)Inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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army general
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WWII: ETO/'Mighty Eight'. Copilot on B-17 #42-3413 'Hard Luck!'. 350th Bomb Sqdn, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 'Hard Luck' crashed, after tanks ran dry, on 14 Aug 1944. Captured on 17 Aug. POW at Stalag Luft 4 for the rest of the war
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American physical chemist and chemical physicist. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stefan Hell and Eric Betzig
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British mountaineer and writer. First female British certificated mountain guide. Author of Miss Pink series of novels
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British pilot who torpedoed the German battleship Bismarck in 1941
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He and some of his co-workers were outside Texas Theatre when police brought Lee Harvey Oswald outside
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Internationally acclaimed author
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JFK - Marine Color Guard serving in official functions for the Kennedy adminstration as well as at JFK's funeral
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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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Astronaut
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NASA Astronaut
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2020 constitution party nominee for Vice President. Died in 2022
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Japanese Astronaut
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German pilot
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Stripper at Jack Ruby's night club; known as 'Jada'
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American mountaineer, author and artist from Burley, Washington. He is best known as the author of The Challenge of Rainier, first published in 1971 and considered the definitive work on the climbing history of Mount Rainier
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German ww2 pilot
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Ben Molina (2) Ben was the station manager of KRLD-TV in '63 and was assigned to Dallas City Hall the weekend of the assassination
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nobel chem. laureate 1995
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Longtime owner of the Keddie Resort where the Keddie Murders took place
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Inventor
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German Reformed theologian. Also a German WWII Veteran, Taken POW by the British
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former cosmonaut from Afghanistan, now living in Stuttgart, Germany as a political refugee
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American WWII-Fighter Ace & Lt. General - USAAF - 8 Kills - DSC
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Wine maker
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Produced & directed films for Sixth Floor Museum, joined Peace Corps immediately after President Kennedy announced the launch of the program in 1961 serving as a member of the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone at the time of the assassination
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Author of several bestselling works of fiction and nonfiction for both children and adults. He is a contributing editor at Popular Science and an award-winning science writer
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astronaut
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(Born 1919) US Navy WW2 and Korean War Veteran. Join the Navy in 1937 and was on the USS Boise for the entirety of WW2. Kept a diary about his time. Served as a doctor in Korea
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BFRO Researcher
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English aeronautical engineer who was part of the team that designed the Supermarine Spitfire during WW2. Born: 1926. Lives in the UK
