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Member of the U.S.N. he served as part of the Honor Guard during President Kennedy's funeral
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2004 Nobel laureate physics
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air force general
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WWII veteran, born in the Ukraine and served in the Soviet Army (1942-45)
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JFK/Kennedy/Served as a staff member on the President's Commission on the Assassination of JFK, unofficially known as the Warren Commission
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Former Arlington National Cemetery caretaker; the man who dug the grave of President John F. Kennedy
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Dallas policeman in '63 , he participated in the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theatre
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American poet, essayist and critic. Her writing focuses on political & social issues from a left-leaning perspective, including abortion, racism, welfare reform, feminism, & poverty. She writes the 'Subject to Debate' column for The Nation
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Lawyer, born 1928. Served as Supreme Court law clerk to Chief Justices Vinson and Warren. Wrote the final draft of the iconic Brown v. Board of Education case decision that the justices then unanimously voted for. Later, an attorney in the U.S. Department
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
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WWII: Royal Canadian Navy 1942-1945. Served on the destroyer HMCS Huron (G24) protecting four Arctic convoys to Murmansk, also supported the D-Day landings in June 1944. Also served on the HMCS Pictou and HMCS Poundmaker
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Granddaughter of General Dmitriy Fedorovich Polyakov 'crown jewel' of US counterintelligence efforts & who for decades during Cold War had clandestinely worked to help western countries fight the Soviet system/Betrayed by Aldrich Ames
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Cosmonaut
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German WWII awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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American sexologist. He was a frequent co-author with Alfred C. Kinsey
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Director of the CIA, US House Representaive for Kansas, US Army (retired), Tea Party activist
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Fought at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. WWII Veteran featured in the HBO Miniseries 'The Pacific'. Pictured in the iconic Peleliu photograph of a Marine resting exhausted after 36 hours of combnat, helmeted head in his hands
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Brunhilde Pomsel (born 11 January 1911) was a personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels. She worked for Goebbels from 1942 onwards, and is one of the last surviving eyewitnesses of the Nazi power apparatus. After the war, she was sentenced by the Soviets to 5
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Flying Tigers-engineering specialist
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Philippine former Senate President. Secretary of National Defense under Ferdinand Marcos. Guerilla fighter during WWII
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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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Vietnam US Army Vet 1970-1971, 1st Calvary Infantry, ran patrols in hills and mountains
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1922) who was one the last soldiers to be drafted up for the conflict. He is also one of more than 200 living soldiers of 'La Quinta del Biberon' (Draft of the Baby's bottle)
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astronaut
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The last verified French World War One Veteran.Born: 12/07/1897
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 28th Marines, 5th MarDiv
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'I'm Not A Cat' Meme. Tx Lawyer who joined court proceeding with a cat filter on Zoom
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WWII: Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Okinawa. USS Balch
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Son of Civil War Soldier Charles Parker Pool
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USAAF Fighter Ace, 8th FG, 35th FS - 5 Kills
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 6 victories, Pacific Theater. US Navy, VF-39, VF-17, flew the Hellcat
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First British soldier to land in France on D-Day
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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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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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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(Born 1967) US Marine Corps Gulf War and Iraq War Veteran. Was part of the unit that toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein. Recipient of a Silver Star and Purple Heart
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US Air Force pilot that was shot down in 1958 over Indonesia, was secretly working for the CIA helping the rebels to overthrow the Indonesian government
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Medal of Honor, USMC, World War II
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Roboticists James Pope of Shadow Robot Co. in England led the assembly of the bionic man from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world/First Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes
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American Chemist. Born: 08/22/1918
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Ronco, does a lot of infomercials
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1 of the 9 miners in the Pennsylvania mine
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Cosmonaut
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US Army 4 Star General
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Imaging team leader for cassini probe at the planet Saturn
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WWII: ETO. 66th Infantry Division. Survivor of the sinking of the troopship SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24. 1944. She was torpedoed and sunk by the U-486. 763 soldiers died, together with 56 of her crew
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JFK: Part of drill team that escorted President Kennedy's remains up the driveway to the North Portico when they arrived at the White House
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Served in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross
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Took the Pulitzer Prize winning photo of a fireman holding a child in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing
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George Porter (2)
Tuskegee Airman -
WWII: PTO. USS Bunker Hill 1943-1945, survivor of the Kamikaze attack on 11 May 1945
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Daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald
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WWII - 12th Armorded Division; led first squad across the Danube River via Dillingen Bridge
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American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes. He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and he was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group and FSG
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WWII: USMC fighter pilot, Began flying with VMF-121 and transfered to VMF-111 flying the F4F Wildcat. Moved once again to VMF-121 and flew the F4U Corsair. He scored 3 victories during this time. Later returned flying the F6F & scored 2 more victories
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Daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald who was implicated in the assassination of JFK John F. Kennedy
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Real life person for the movie 'Gridiron Gang'
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WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
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NASA pilot - Global Hawk high-altitude aircraft and small remotely piloted aircraft. He also flies NASA's B200 King Air mission support aircraft. And flew the MQ-9 Ikhana, which carried instruments for environmental Earth science studies
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Cuban exile militant and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent (Born: 1928). He is considered to be 'one of the most dangerous terrorists in recent history'. Age: 88. He now lives in Miami, U.S.A
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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Holocaust/Polish/1942 arrested by Gestapo on suspicion of distributing anti-Nazi leaflets/Survived Auschwitz& Birkenau concentration camps/Author of many including 1959 radio play The Passenger in Cabin 45 which was adapted into 1962 novel
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SS Commando, Peace activist
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Invented 'Pop - Tarts' for Kellogg's in 1964 (1927-2024)
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Postal called the police on November 22, 1963, to report that JFK-assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was in the cinema; 'Texas Theater'
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North Carolina police officer that arrested the Olympic Park Bomber, Eric Rudolph. He now works as an office at the Boston College
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Deadly recall detective retired NYPD
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WW2/served at the end of WWII in occuped Japan. On V-J Day, his ship was in the process of crossing the international dateline, and his witnessed historic celebrations among his fellow sailors
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US Marine/Fall of Saigon Vietnam/Guarded embassy and was on the 2nd to-last helicopter out/Presently a Lawyer
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Member of the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo--WWII
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'Royal Air Force Test Pilot for the Development Flights of the Man-Powered Aircraft Jupiter'
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Flight scientist NASA chairman of the Board of Directors of the Astronauts
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USS Arizona survivor, Pearl Harbor
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WW2 - Ploesti Raid
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma. (1920-2006)
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World War 2 veteran. Tuskegee Airman
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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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WWII - Fighter Ace born 12/31/1920, 6 victories. VF-16 (USS Lexington CV-16). Flew Hellcat and F4Wildcat
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Robert Pound, a Harvard physicist whose elegant experiments confirmed a key part of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and who helped lay the groundwork for the magnetic resonance imaging technology now widely used in medicine
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Internet scientist CYCLADES French Born April 20. 1931
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1922 with Army Air Service, where he was one of the 1st enlisted pilots. After a Miami air show in 1934, was invited to inspect Cuba?s air facilities & pilots, & became head of Cuban Air Force. Originated the Cuban Eight aerial maneuver
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Flight aviator air Force test pilot
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WWII: Pacific. Served on the USS John Penn (survived her sinking after a Japanese air attack on Aug. 13, 1943) and the USS President Hayes
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Police Officer Involved in The Rodney King beating
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Military
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Pulitzer Prize Winning Jazz Pianist/Composer. Big Band/Jazz HOF/During World War II, Powell was drafted into the U.S. Army, but fought his battles from a piano stool, having been assigned to Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band from 1943 to 1945
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American attorney, former federal prosecutor, and conspiracy theorist who attempted to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
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William Powell (3) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale
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WWII: ETO. Fighter pilot 328th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, 8th AF
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WWII: Served on the USS Balch from 1939-1943. Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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Blue Origin astronaut mission NS-18 (Shatner flight)
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Member of the Band of Brothers, Easy Company 506th PIR 101st. Airborne
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(August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident
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Last Female World War One Veteran (Canadian)Born: 05/10/1899
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Time Team
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WWII veteran, born 1925, served on the USS Bismarck Sea. Supported the Iwo Jima campaign, and survived the ship's sinking there by the Japanese
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US Navy SEAL, born 1947. UDT for Apollo 12 recovery team
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WWII - D-Day veteran, wounded during the landing at Omaha Beach, laid out on the beach all night
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astronaut
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Belarussian opposition journalist, jailed after his Ryanair plane was forced down while overflying Belarus
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WW2 air ace - 9 Kills - US Navy - Navy Cross
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US Navy WAVE of WWII, born 1923. Began wartime service as a 'Rosie' in an ammunitions depot, 1942. Joined the Navy, served 1943-1945. Trained as an airplane mechanic, but due to biases against women, was given bookkeeper/supply work to do
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WWII - Witness to the Japanese bombardment of coastal targets near Santa Barbara, CA on February 23, 1942, an event that was the inspiration for the John Belushi movie "1941"
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Korean War - Frank Praytor is the Seargent that adoped and looked after a two-week old kitten, he named 'Miss Hap', during the height of the Korean War, as is pictured in a famous War photograph, dated October 18, 1952
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Astronaut
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American environmental conservationist, mariner, writer and educator. He is the founder of Living Lands & Waters
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Played by Susan Sarandon in the film 'Dead man walking'
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Nobel Laureate Economics
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One of the developers of the KH-9 Hexagon's panoramic camera system
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WWII: Served on LST-474 in the Pacific
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WWII veteran, 45th Infantry Division. Part of the campaigns of Italy: Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio. Saw Mussolini's body hung in an Italian square, and one of the first groups to liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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Landed a helicopter on the White House lawn in 1974
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WWII vet. WAC 1943-1946 - Army Good Conduct medal, WAC Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Honorable Service Lapel Pin
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Ron 'Big Ron' Previte is a former federal witness, Philadelphia police officer and member of the Philadelphia crime family.[1] Previte was born in West Philadelphia and later grew up in Hammonton, New Jersey to a first-generation Sicilian-American fath
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One of the last survivors to have served in FDR's top-secret Map Room
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Employee of the Union Terminal Co . , J.C. witnessed the assassination of President Kennedy from the roof of the Terminal Annex Building
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group Manhattan Project Veteran Military Veteran
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A quarterback from West Jefferson, Ohio, he was the backup for Team Captain George Lynn on the 1942 Ohio State National Championship team. Paul completed Army Air Force pilot training and flew 64 combat missions in Europe during WWII
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Ww2 german fighter pilot, publisher author of thank you canada
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WWII Nazi War Criminal. Born: 07/29/1913. Responsible for killing 335 Italian civilists in May 1944 at the Fosse Ardeartine
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Mapmaker at Camp Malakole. Since he was familiar with the locations, he was called to pick up his skipper to drive him to Pearl Harbor where they arrived during the second wave of the attack and got strafed
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WWII: 9th Armored Division Headquarters Company, Reconnaissance Patrols. Among the first Americans to dash across the Luddendorf Bridge at Remagen, and one of those who painted the famous sign at the bridge
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French military officer who was involved in the sining of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985
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Former US Navy SEAL, founder and former CEO of security company Blackwater, USA
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Alamo Scout Leader of WWII raid on Cabanatuan POW Camp
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Also known as Kyril of Saxe-Coburg Bulgarian royalty
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guiness record holder for the world's largest natural breasts/model/actress
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WWII: Fighter Pilot, 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group
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Dutch woman who saved the lives of many Jews during the Holocaust
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Tom Pritchard (2)Australian WW2 veteran. Last living Rats of Tobruk, the first Allied troops to defeat German troops
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WWII: PTO. USS Nicholas
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A student at Cistercian Preparatory School in Dallas in '63 , he received parental permission to attend Pres. Kennedy's motorcade and kept the original permission slip which he donated to the Sixth floor Museum
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GM engineer, born 1929. Project Engineer for the Lunar Rover training model the astronauts trained with on earth
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, battle of Okinawa
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WWII: PTO. Poi-Namur, Kwajalein, Atoll, Marshall Island, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Tinian and Iwo Jima. USMC
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Montgomery
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Historian TCU Fort Worth/Held Cecil & Ida Green Emeritus Chair TCU History Department/ 1979 to 1980, President Texas Historical Association. Played football with the Los Angeles Rams
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SpaceX astronaut Inspiration4 crew. aka. Dr. Sian Proctor
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, 116th IR, 29th Division. DSC
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Ukrainian military officer
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Sergei Valeriyevich Prokopyev is a Russian cosmonaut. He is the commander of Soyuz MS-09, and flight engineer of Expedition 56/57 to the International space station
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mountaineer
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WWII: One of the last 'Rats of Tobruk'. The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Rommel's Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk, Lybia
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WWII: D-Day, first wave. Gunner on LST-515. One of the few men left of disastrous Exercise Tiger (D-Day landing practice, April 28, 1944), when German E-Boats attacked the practicing LSTs and sank 2 LSTs,damaging 2 others, killing 746 men
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Retired USN Admiral
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WW 2 pilot Tuskegee airmen
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Romanian cosmonaut
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Nobel medicine laureate 1997
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An award-winning developer and authority in polymer concrete, Richard Prusinski is known as the 'father' of the polymer concrete industry
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American Senior Research Scholar of Economics at Swarthmore College, widely known for his role in a noted Cold War Spy swap depicted in Steven Spielberg's 2015 film 'Bridge of Spies'
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Air Force General
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Holocaust Survivor portrayed in film 'Memoirs of Holocaust'
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia
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Born Dec. 8, 1926. One of the most decorated military figures in history.With the Medal of Honor, Puckett will now have the following military citations: Medal of Honor (Korea) Distinguished Service Cross (Vietnam) Silver Star with first Oak Leaf Clu
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astronaut
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Author of My Final Re-Spot: A young sailor's misfortune on the flight deck of the USS Forrestal CV-59; American Naval veteran
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WWII - D-Day Omaha Beach; 1st Infantry Division; of the 38 men of his platoon, only 9 survived by the end of the war
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Reptile specialist, starred on wildboys
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WWII: PTO. Edson's Raiders. Three Purple Hearts
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Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, is now living in Great Britain / England
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Test pilot
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WWII - Navy veteran, observed the first flag raising in Iwo Jima, Japan, while aboard the LSM 241
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Mountain climber who holds numerous world records. Fastest to climb all 14 'eight-thousander' mountains in the world, Ascended Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in 48 hours, was the first to do a winter ascent of K2
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Captain Vincent 'Bill' J. Purple 379th Bomb Group 8th Air Force Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
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Was the California Highway Patrol officer who arrested Charles Manson in Death Valley, Oct 1969
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Witness to the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee (1912-2007). Sat front row to the outdoor final arguments by Darrow and Jennings, as well as an indoor spectator at times. One of the last living witnesses, she was interviewed for many outlets
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WWII: Serving with the Royal Army Service Corps, he was evacuated from Dunkirk (1940) in a frigate
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WW1 Veteran/Oldest pensioner - Deceased 2006
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Subject of the film 'Walking Tall'
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Flight astronaut
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JFK - DFL activist who planned Kennedy's campaign trips to Minnesota in 1960 and traveled with him. 'Political' advance man for Dallas, working with Agent Lawson. Rode in the 'pilot car' in Dallas a couple of blocks ahead of the motorcade
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WWII veteran who was stationed in Spain during the Spanish Ciivil War, while in the Navy. He helped in the evacuation of Americans from Spain at the time. Belved to the be the last surviving American assocated with that war.. Born 5/31/1918
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Controversal philosopher
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A DPD inspector , Putnam was one of three drivers who drove LBJ , Lady Bird and their party from Parkland Hospital to Love Field after JFK's death
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Milt Putnam, a former U.S. Navy chief photographer, chronicled with his cameras the recovery of the astronauts of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 24, 1969, in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii
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American political scientist. Most famous (& controversial) work, Bowling Alone, argues that the US has undergone an unprecedented collapse in civic, social & political life (social capital) since the 1960s w/ serious negative consequences
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NASA Payload Specialist
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Bagley (DD-386)
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World Renowned Lepidopterist
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George Pyne (2) D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1920. He is now 94 and lives in Exeter, Devon, UK. He was on a landing craft when a mine exploded under it and survived. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
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Swedish geneticist specialising in the field of evolutionary genetics and a Nobel prize laureate
