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Pilot
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serving US Army Colonel who served in the Iraq and Kosovo Wars
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WWII: British soldier evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. He was abandoned on the beach by his commanding officer with the instruction 'every man for himself'. He then got himself on to a boat, alone
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WWII: D-Day. Landed with LST-510 on Omaha Beach around noon of June 6, 1944. 90-millimeter artillery gunner of Battery B of the the 110th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. Battle of the Bulge
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US Army Air Corps Pearl Harbor survivor (7 Dec 1941); caught in the open at Wheeler Field as the attack started
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US Navy vet, born 1940. Served on the USS Lake Champlain during recovery of Alan Shepard and Freedom 7 in 1962. Hearing Shepard call to the ship on headphones, got permission to call back 'You're almost home!'
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On the morning of November 22, 1963, young John Sparks joined his fellow high school band members to play 'Hail to the Chief' for President John F. Kennedy. Hours later like the rest of the world, Sparks learned of Kennedy's assassination
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British Victoria Cross awardee for his actions in the Korea War
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Army General
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USS Pueblo
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United States Air Aces
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Nazi officer
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WWII: Fighter Pilot , 334th Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, show down, became POW, escaped
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Dr. Wernher von Braun rocket scientist team. Marshal Space Flight Center. Among other functions, he was chairman of Marshall's Saturn System Evaluation Working Group
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Architect, son of nazi officer Albert Speer
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Former High-School/College Basketball coach for Arkansas State Univ. Played at the Arkansas State Univ. Also is a World War 2 Veteran
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101st airborne, band of brothers ww2
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nobel economics laureate 2001
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Pioneer in underwater archaeology (Born: 1947) who studies shipwrecks and sunken treasure. He is also a published author. He was twelve years old when he found his first five shipwrecks. He discovered the SS Georgiana in 1965
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WWII: US Navy; 20mm anti-aircraft gunner on the Liberty ship SS Julius Olson. Murmansk Run veteran
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Famed Defense Attorney/Legal Commentator, best-selling author of the books, 'How To Argue and Win Every Time' and 'OJ: The Last Word'
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Binbrook'
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One of the last few survivors of the 1917 Halifax Explosion, born 1917. She lives in Canada
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American murderer who carried out a shooting spree from her home in San Diego, California on January 29, 1979. Spencer is best known for saying 'I don't like Mondays,' which inspired the song 'I Don't Like Mondays' by The Boomtown Rats
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WWII Ace (9.5 kills) 361st Fighter Group - USAAF - DSC
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC
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John Spencer (5)
WWII: Original Montford Point Marine (first Black marines) who fought in the Battle of Guadalcanal and later on the battles of Operation Forager (Mariana and Palau Islands battles) -
Larry Spencer (2)Air Force General
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WWII: ETO. Bombardier with the 93rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force
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WWII: Belgian WWII veteran who was in the Belgian Resistance and joined the 512th MP Battalion of Patton's 3rd Army after the liberation of Antwerp, being in the Battle of the Bulge and also entering the Buchenwald concentration camp
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WWII: Infantryman machine gunner, H Company, 501st PIR, 101st AB. Battle of the Bulge (Siege of Bastogne), soldier who (unintentionally und unknowingly) created the 'Airborne Beer' in Belgium. Occupation duty in Austria
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WWII veteran with the 75th Division, 291st Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion. Went to the beaches of Normandy 5 months after D-Day
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Former British military officer, later employee of Sandline International, a private military company, wrote a book called 'An Unorthodox Soldier' about his life
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B-17 Pilot during WWII. Known for developing artificial/fake trees in the early 1970's. Lives in New York
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Electrical engineer. Father of Steven Spielberg
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Retired German general
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Retired General
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American lawyer, historian, and lecturer
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WWII: N. Africa, Sicily, Normandy (Utah Beach, D-Day+4, Battle of Bulge, Battle of Remagen (1945), Rhine Crossing. 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
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Cassini Project Scientist Enceladus Moon around Saturn and its rings
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WW2 Veteran/100th Infantry Division & 82nd Airborne Division/July 1944, reassigned to 82nd Airborne Division, 325th Infantry Glider Regiment, Company C/Remembers seeing smoke from guns below crossing the English Channel toward Holland
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Inventor of the board game Operation
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Survived the Almonte Train Wreck, 27 December 1942
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US Army vet, born 1925. 'Undesirable' discharge for being gay, 1948. Hid the anguish from his family, until he married his partner of decades in 2009 and fought years for an honorable discharge, which came at the age of 91 in 2017
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Mobster
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WWII - Contemporary witness of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion, July 17, 1944, Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, CA; 320 dead, 390 wounded, followed by mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.)
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Forensic pathologist and author; worked on investigations of assassinations of John F. Kennedy & Martin Luther King Jr. Also testified at Phil Spector, OJ Simpson, and JonBenét Ramsey trials
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Radio operator, 'Bockscar,' plane that dropped bomb on Nagasaki
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Former Governor of New York (2007-2008), Former State Attorney General
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Norwegian psycologist specializing in sex
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Political activist and pediatrician
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German ww2 pilot
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astronaut
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WWII: British soldier of the 56th (Highland) Medium Regiment who survived 4 days under fire at the beaches of Dunkirk and was evacuated on board J86, the minesweeper HMS Salamander
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Member of the 3 original 1939 Little League teams
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Is a former officer in the United States Marine Corps and the proprietor of The Globe and Laurel Restaurant in Stafford, Virginia. He served in the Marine Corps for over 29 years and is called 'the living historian of the Marine Corps'
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WWII: Gunner on the USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady') . Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942), Battle of Midway (June 1942), when he spent 10 hours in the Pacific before being picked up. Later served on submarine USS Jack
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WWII/ETO: B-17 ball turret gunner of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group)
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Patrol Squadron 23 (PBY Patrol plane), Kaneohe Bay
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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Co-Designer of the F-16, founder of Mapleshade Records
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retired United States Army Colonel and former NASA astronaut
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US Navy vet, born 1940. Assigned to the USS Lake Champlain in 1961, participated in the recovery of Alan Sheperd and Freedom 7. Helped make the bed that the recovered capsule was set upon
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Astronaut Sts-29 Sts-38
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The last surviving woman to have flown on the Hindenburg, born in 1925. Her flight was in Sept. 1936, her mother named it's 1,000th passenger. She grew up to be one of South Carolina's leading environmentalists
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Currently the official underboss of the Gambino crime family.As of May 2008, Squitieri is still incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Massachusetts. His projected release date is November 12, 2011.
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flight scientist
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'Nobel Prize for Physics'
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One of the founders of, 'American Conservative Union,' right wing group
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navy admiral
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British ace from WW2
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Granddaughter of Alice Liddell (Alice in Wonderland)
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US Navy 'Atomic Veteran', born 1928. Operation Crossroads atomic tests witness in 1946. Enlisted 1945, but recruiter held him off since he had four brothers serving. But ended up exposed to radiation, fighting skin cancers later in life
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Retied USMC General
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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 for W
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World's tallest living man, from Ukraine, at 8' 5'
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Swedish'
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Reality star, Explorer, Naked and Marooned
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astonaut air force general
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American woman who was convicted in 1989 of murdering her husband, Russell Stager, in 1988
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A British Royal Air Force meteorologist who notably persuaded General Dwight D. Eisenhower to change the date of the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II, from the 5th of June to the 6th of June 1944
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Flight astronaut
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JFK: Witnessed the Kennedy motorcade in Dallas on Nov. 23, 1963
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WWII - D-Day Utah Beach, 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. Also fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Before that, he was sent to the Pacific Theater, where he survived the sinking of the SS President Coolidge on 26 Oct 1942
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Retired American police officer who infiltrated the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the late 1970s. He was the first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department.'
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Charles 'Chuck' Ollin Stalnaker was a WW2 Veteran in the Navy from 1945 to 1946 as an anti - aircraft gun loader on the USS Boise. After he worked on building ships until 1947 (B: March 16, 1927)
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Centenarian American scientist specializing in preventive cardiology and the study of the influence of various risk factors on coronary heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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German Flying Ace Of World War II
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WW2 air ace - 10 Kills - USAAF
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Head Nurse of emergency rooms at Parkland Memorial and assisted with care of Gov. Connolly in Trauma Room 2 on Nov. 22 , 1963
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British ace from WW2
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WWII: Fighter Pilot, 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF
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army field marshal england
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Retired U.S.-Marine General, USMC
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Planet of the Apes - 1968 as Astronaut Stewart (uncredited) Speedway - 1968, as 3rd Waitress (uncredited), Bad Girls for the Boys -1966
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WWII: PTO. Bataan Death March survivor
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Director FOrce Structure J-8
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RAF ace from 'Battle of Britain', currently residing in the U.K., 7
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WWII: British Arctic convoy veteran
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Croatian World War II pilot, born 1916, lives in Pancevo, Serbia
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WWII: ETO. Nose Art artist of the 91st Bomb Group, also painted the 'Memphis Belle'
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World war 2 fighter ace- 7 kills
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WW2 POW 31st Infantry Regiment U.S. Army, was captured & shipped to Yokkaichi city in Japan where was forced to shovel coal at copper mill/suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, but recovered & held career as corrections officer in Conn
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Historial and constitutional expert
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WW1 Veteran (Royersford, Pa.)
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army general
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USN Admiral
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WWII - Navigaor and OOD (Officer of the Deck) of the USS Missouri. It was his job to greet US and Japanese military officials as they boarded to sign the papers of surrender, and his job to set up the ceremony
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world war 2 fighter ace (6 kills)- USAAF
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Lawyer for Donald Trump's impeachment/White House Independent Counsel
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Classmate of John F. kennedy , waiting to have lunch with him on Nov.22 , 1963 , part of Dallas Citizen's Council
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Doctor/Pioneer in Organ Transplant. Performed the first human liver transplant. Called 'The Father of Modern Transplant'
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WWII: PTO. Normandy, Okinawa and Southern France. USS Harding
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Bismarck survivor
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Liechtenstein Scientist, memory training
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Son of World War II colonel and resistance leader Claus von Stauffenberg
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USS Barnett
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navy admiral england
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U.S. Navy 4-Star Admiral; NATO Supreme Allied Commander (2009-2013); Commander, U.S. Southern Command (2006-2009)
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(Born 1947) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Served as a Hospital Corpsman with Marines. Recipient of a Silver Star and 4 Purple Hearts
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WWII - D-Day, Battle of The Bulge, Nuremberg Trails. 1st Infantry Div, 26th Infantry Regiment. 1st wave on Omaha Beach. Occupational duty of guarding the top 12 high ranking German officials, including Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess
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American serial killer currently on death row for the 1999 murders of four women in Mariposa County near Yosemite, California
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Jamaica). Part of the bodyguard at Yalta, when Churchill met Roosevelt and Stalin
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American pilot, winner of many awards and races, one of the Mercury 13 female astronauts proposed in 1961
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(Born June 22, 1922) is an American government official, World War 2 Veteran, aviator and author
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skydiver
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Air Force General
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WWII - Pilot of the famous Sundowners squadron (VT-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater
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Italian World champion boxer and convicted criminal
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Former General (Generaloberst) of the German Democratic Republic (DDR)
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WWII Marine, born 1924, fought at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan. Went on to a career as a lawyer and circuit judge
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Astrophysicist, SETI
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WWII Bataan Death March Survivor
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British intelligence officer & founding director of Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-intelligence firm. Author of a controversial 2016 report calming Russia collected a file of compromising information on Donald Trump that was paid for by Democrats
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Michael Steele (2)Michael Dane Steele (born September 15, 1960) is a retired colonel of the United States Army. He was a company commander in the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment during the Somalia mission Operation Gothic Serpent
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, Guadalcanal, Battle of the Bloody Ridge
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Richard Steele (3)WW2 Marine Corps Veteran 1st Lieutenant VMSB-245
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WWII: Marine veteran of the Battles of Tawara, Saipan, Tinian
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army general
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Bataan Death March Survivor
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WW2 Veteran : Army 37th Infantry Division
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Centenarian (1901-2006). US vet of WWI and WWII. 4 WWI battles in France. Named Provost Marshal of Hawaii, living through Pearl Harbor. Oldest living West Point grad (1925) and only WWI vet still on (honorary) active duty at his death
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Born 1895. #42 oldest documented person in the world. Lives in Connecticut.
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Veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad - WW2
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astronaut
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American centenarian, born 1918. Survived the 1918 Flu as an 8 month old infant. Became an art teacher, and learned to fly a plane in the 1940s before she learned to drive
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Astronomer, planetary scientist. Co-discoverer of Pluto's moons Nix and Hydra in 2005
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS Knapp. Witnessed the Japanese surrender at Tokyo Bay
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the c-45
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WWII: U.S.S. L.S.T. 1046, U.S. Navy. He saw combat at Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, and at the invasion of Okinawa
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Polar explorer, author
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Head launch vehicle division project Was senior scientist NASA Administrator. In the mid 1960s, In 1971 he became a senior aerospace and technology advisor on undersea technology at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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WWII: D-Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion; was the third man to climb Pointe-du-Hoc on D-Day
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Physician, Politician. 2016 Green Party Canidate for president
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One of the last surviving members of The Manhattan Project. Chemical engineer. In 1945, transferred to Los Alamos (Manhattan Project) where he worked under Dr. Morris Kolodney to produce plutonium for the Gadget and Fat Man bombs
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Baseball historian. Author of The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the Yankees. Received the 2007 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award, honoring authors of the best articles or papers on baseball history or biography
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Author, speaker, professor and historian. Publications have focused on the intersection of environmental, social, and legal history. 2-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. Has appeared on numerous radio and television shows
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Jack Steinberger (2) Nobel physics laureate 1988
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Social Activist,Feminist Author,American Journalist,Founded Ms.Magazine,Playboy October 1984
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Last known holocaust survivor of the Nazi's Bratislava work group. Born in 1908 and lives in a retirement home in Illinois
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Soldier of Fortune anf French Foreign Legion Paratrooper veteran
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Former Surgeon General 1969-1973
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Current captain of the USS Illinois
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Worldwar II aircraft fighter - Writer
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German pilot
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS John Penn on August 13, 1943
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Scientist
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Nobel Prize 2009
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EDL (entry descent landing) engineer ofMars robot 'Curiosity' (MSL)
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North Dakota State Attorney General (2001-present)
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(Born 1922) US Army WW2 Veteran. 423nd Infantry Regiment, 106 Infantry Division. Taken as a POW after the Battle of the Bulge
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One of the pioneers of living under the sea. In 1962, he stayed for 26 hours at 200 feet, in 1964, for 49 hours at 432 feet
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American aviatrix who held the women's record for outside loops
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British WW2 pilot, 'Battle of Britain'
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 246th Signal Operation Company
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Dallas Policeman, at the Dallas Trademart when JFK shot. On the scene days later when Oswald was shot
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First British Woman to Conquer Everest
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WWII: USS Indianapolis (CA-35) survivor
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WW2/Battle of the Bulge/101st FA 26 Yankee Division
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
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Paul Stephenson (5)Born: 1937. Activist and long-time campaigner for civil rights for the British African-Caribbean community in Bristol, England. His campaigns were instrumental in paving the way for the first Race Relations Act, in 1965. He lives in the UK
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US WWII Navy vet, born 11 Jan 1921. Served on the USS Wichita, part of the Murmansk Runs to Russia, incl. the disastrous Convoy PQ-17. Later in the Pacific
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WWII - Yeoman aboard the submarine USS Wahoo (SS-238); sole survivor of the sinking of the Wahoo (11 Oct 1943) as he was miraculously transferrd just 45 mins before Wahoo sailed on her last and fatal voyage. Author of 'Wake of the Wahoo'
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Astrophysicist, planetary scientist. Leader of the New Horizons mission to the planet Pluto in 2015
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Goddaughter of President Kennedy. Her late father, James A. Reed, and John F. Kennedy were longtime friends, having met in the South Pacific during World War II. Reed served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 1962 to 1965
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American Woman Born 1910. One of the Oldest People in America
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WW2/Member of Ritchie Boys, a military intelligence unit composed of German, Austrian, & Czech refugees & immigrants to the US, mostly Jewish. Member of (interrogators of prisoners of war) Team 37. For this he gained the Bronze Star Medal
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Member of The Ritchie Boys was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War II. Holocaust survivor born 1922
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(Born 1950) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of 2 Bronze Stars
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WWII: ETO. 345th Bomb Squadron, 98th Bomb Group, 9th AF. B-24 Liberator 'The Sandman' (#42-40402). Pilot & Squadron Commander. 50 Combat missions. DFC for Operation Tidal Wave (1 Aug 1943), the bombing of the oil refineries at Ploesti
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Snakemaster
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Medusa, 7 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. B-17 Bombardier, 509th Bomb Squadron, 351st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 34 missions over Germany, occupied France, Belgium and Holland (14 Jun - 22 Sep 1944), incl. Buchenwald, Munich, Stuttgart, Schweinfurt, St. Lo, Berlin. DFC
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Invented magnetic computer disc drive
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13th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON), 2012-2016
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C-17 Test Pilot
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PhD, Historian of American medicine & health policy
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Lawyer, Libertarian political activist. Patron of the Stonewall Inn, participant in the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969
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Author of 'Just Mercy', Civil RIghts Leader
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester and Peleliu. Headquarters, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, USMC. Silver Star
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Tuskegee Airman WWII, received Distinguished Flying Cross
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Author
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Brian Stewart (5) MI6 officer who blew up Panzers in Normandy and was the service man in the Far East
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Bougainville
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WWII: Guadalcanal, New Guinea
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Scottish tv presenter of the BBC show 'Earth : The Power Of The Planet' Iain Stewart is also a lecturer in geology in the school of the Earth,Ocean and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island
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John Stewart (4)Vietnam/Fall of Saigon/Drove bus through Saigon & pick up eligible to leave. Saw anger growing among those on the streets as people realized the end was near & U.S. was pulling out. A rocket hit near the bus & was shaken by shrapnel
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Actress born 12/14/1919 was in films from 1942 to 1945 usually as eye candy. is 88-89 now and has supported the troops since WWII
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(Born 1921) African American WW2 D - Day veteran
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NASA astronaut (retired); US Army brigadier general
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sports guy now in jail..
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WWII B-24 pilot of the last plane to return from the Ploesti Refineries raid - DSC
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Former Surgeon General 1965-1969
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WW2 Tuskegee Airmen. One of The Last Voices of World War II in the June 2020 issues of National Geographic. Flew P-51 / P-47 / P-40
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Israel: Business man and pilot. Member of First all-private space flight crew AX-1
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WWII Dunkirk/D-Day: British soldier of the Green Howards; was blown up at Dunkirk (1940), had his ID tags taken off and left for dead, but then saved by the men around him. He was wounded again when his landing ship was blown up on D-Day+2
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German ww2 me262 pi,ot
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nobel enconomics laureate 2001
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WWII - Flying Tigers, crew chief
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Tennessee
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My Three Sons, The Munsters, The Reluctant Astronaut
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Black Sharecropper during the Depression Era/Author 'My RememberS: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression'
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US Army General (Ret). Co-authored 'Shadow Warriors' With Tom Clancy. Former Commander Of U.S. Special Operations Command.
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One of the last surviving construction workers who worked on The Shasta Dam which began construction in 1938. He is now 93 years old and lives in Anderson, California, U.S.A
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Was on the swing horse for the caisson for President Kennedy's funeral
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95 Year Old World War II Veteran. US Army
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WWII Pacific - Survivor of the sinking of the USS Quincy (CA-39) in the Battle of Savo Island , 9 August 1942
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One of the 591 American prisoners of war who were returned during Operation Homecoming, in 1973; featured in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph 'Burst of Joy' taken on March 17, 1973 at Travis Air Force Base in California
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WWII Veteran
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Cpl, USA, E Co., 2nd Bn., 33rd Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Div. M4 Sherman Tank Gun Loader Purple Heart First unit to pierce the Siegfried Line Normandy, Northern France and Rhineland Campaigns
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adult star world largest breasts/guinness
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Glamorous jet-setting model, mistress of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling who recorded his racist remarks
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
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Admiral USN, retired Medal Of Honor recipient Vietnam
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WWII: Battle of Wake Island December 1941. US Marine Corps. POW until his liberation by U.S. forces on September 7, 1945
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Serial killer
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Scottish chemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Whitney (AD-4)
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President and CEO Planned Parenthood, Minnesota
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Former Chief Scientist of NASA (2013-2016)
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Crusader For Disabled Rights,First Disabled Woman To Pose For Playboy July 1987/January 1989
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NASA Astronaut
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Author of 'Dracula the Un-dead' and the great-grand nephew of Bram Stoker
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WWII, 101st Airborne, Orig. Band of Brothers born 1922
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1950s black student protester at Robert Russo Moton High School, born 1931. Led to one of the five cases part of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Career as a teacher and principal
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WW2 VF-14 Hellcat Fighter Ace - 8 Kills - US Navy
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Chief Electrician USS Darter (SS-227) in October 1944, during Ambush at Palawan Passage. Then, Bill was the Chief Electrician when the Menhaden was commissioned in June of 1945
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Born October 30, 1922, in Kishinev, Romania is the sole survivor of the torpedo-sinking of the Holocaust refugee ship the Struma by a Soviet submarine, the Shchuka 213 in the Black Sea in the early morning of February 24, 1942
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Former gatekeeper at Graceland
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American journalist and magazine editor. He's most well known for his work at Time magazine, met with Abraham Zapruder to get the rights for the Zapruder film
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Flight scientist
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Member of the Tuskegee Airmen (Born 1924) Author
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USN Admiral
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Lawyer and runs the LegalEagle YouTube channel
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Ed Stone (2)Worked on the Voyager 1 and 2 that went into Space in 1977
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Was aboard USS Pyro (AE-1) (moored at West Loch in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked) and hardly survived being strafed; later served on submarine USS Bumper (SS-333)
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One of the last witnesses of The Battle of Cable Street, London. She is now 96 and lives in London, UK. Possibly deceased, needs confirming
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WW2 veteran and one of the escapers from German PoW camp 'Stalag Luft III' in 1944, which inspired the Hollywood movie 'The Great Escape'. He is now 89
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guam. Also witness to the surrender ceremony at Tokyo Bay. US Army
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medal of honor korean war
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U.S. Marines 1943-1951 in WWII and Korean War
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Michael Stone (3) Psychologist/doctor on the history televisions hit tv series 'Most Evil'
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Political consultant, lobbyist, and strategist, born 1952.Began in the Nixon administration, and became a major adviser to Donald Trump
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US Airman First Class who helped avert a massacre when an armed attacker began shooting on a train from Amsterdam to Paris; received the US Soldier's Medal and France's Legion of Honor
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British WW1 Veteran Born: 09/23/1900
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NASA Recovery Team leader for missions from John Glenn through Apollo 12. Briefed Nixon during his welcome home meeting with the Apollo 11 crew on the USS Hornet
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks, 65th Engineer Battalion, Company B, 25th Division. Later served in Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands), Luzon (Philippines), New Guinea a.o. places
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the 5th Army, Company F, 142nd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry 'Texas' Division. He fought in Naples and the battle of Monte Casino, where he was taken a POW on February 14th, 1944
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Member of the famous Doolittle Raiders -Surprise bombing of Tokyo during WWII 'Co-Pilot Crew #10'
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Alias Murad Storm & Murad Storm Ad-Denemarki, Danish former agent of Danish Security & Intelligence Service (PET) operated in Islamic militant circles. Identity became public knowledge 2012 when he came forward in newspaper Jyllands-Posten
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Astronaut: STS-128, Expedition 20, Expedition 21, STS-129, STS-133; astronaut who painted the first watercolor in space
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Took the only known photo of Marilyn Monroe and JFK together
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Pearl Harbor survivor, one of the last 6 living survivors of the USS Utah during the attack
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Noted aeronautical and hydrodynamics engineer and consultant. Stout was the designer of the world's first ever supersonic seaplane, the Navy F2Y-1 Sea Dart
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Born 1896 #61 oldest person in the world. Lives in Tennessee.
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(Born 1944) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Got the Air Force Cross. Retired as a Brigadier General
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 78th Lightning Infantry Division, 311th Infantry Regiment, Timberwolf Company
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Flight scientist, NASA Flight Director
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Oklahoma
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WWII: USS Augusta, messmate of President Harry Truman, pictured in an official 'All Hands' Naval Informantio Bulletin
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One of the Watergate Seven
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WWII - Bombing Squadron Pilot (VB-11, sister quadron to the famous Sundowners VF-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater; served on the USS Hornet and at Guadalcanal
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American WWII Fighter Ace (13.5 Victs.) - 356th Fighter Group - USAAF
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WWII: ETO. 506th PIR, 101st AB
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Fighter ace 40th Fighter Squadron of the 35th
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/An American Red Cross Donut Dollie with the 9th Infantry Division and Mobile Riverine Force in Vietnam
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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Youngest to climb world 7 summits at 17
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WWII - Pilot of the B-17 'Big Yank', 483rd Bombardment Group, 840th Bombardment Sq. Base: Sterparone, Italy; on March 24, 1945, they flew the longest escorted European bombing mission to Berlin, credited for destroying 3 Me-262's
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Retired Admiral of the US Navy former President of the Naval War College
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(Born June 12, 1919) is an American aviator.Last living ATAGIRL
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(Born 1926) US Army WW2 Veteran. Was sent to Scotland, Belgium, and Germany during his service. Purple Heart Recipient
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Pearl Harbor Survivor - USS Arizona - suffered severe burns from ship explosion
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First Director Of WW2 Coast Guard Womens Reserve
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US Navy Vietnam POW
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Vietnam war veteran. Straub spent 14 months in Vietnam, taking part in the Tet offensive. Now 73, Straub is fighting in Ukraine, quite possibly the oldest of the foreign volunteers to join the resistance forces there
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Vice Admiral Bernard M. Strean executed the United States Navy's first circumnavigation of the world by nuclear-powered surface warships from July 31, 1964-October 3, 1964
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English mountaineer/army officer who took part in the 1953 American Karakoram Expedition. He is now living in retirement
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(born 18 July 1917) is an economics professor. He was a professor at Boston University, US until his retirement. He has been a distinguished academic working on development economics since the 1950s. Published 7+ books
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Centenarian (1895-2002). US Army WWI veteran. Wounded by shrapnel in France during battles there. Spent time also in Belgium and Germany
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WWII: WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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100 Year old World War II veteran and former prisoner of war. He lives in Bedford, N.H
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Former general of the German Democratic Republic's Army. Also a German WWII Veteran. Served in the Wehrmacht during the war
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Canadian physicist, academic, and Nobel laureate, who is a pioneer in the field of lasers. She is the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with her former PhD adviser, Gérard Mourou of France
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WWII: USMC corpsman in the Battle of Guam 1944
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Autopsy on John F Kennedy
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WWII: ETO. Dutch veteran. No. 320 Netherlands Squadron RAF
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. Company E, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He is the man Eisenhower talks to in the famous pre-D-Day photograph
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W.A.S.P/Women army Service Pilot ww2,flew the b-26, p-39, at-6, pt-19, b-17
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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US Navy and participated in four invasions in the European Theater
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Kennedy campaign volunteer shot in the assassination of Robert Kennedy by Shirhan Sirhan in 1968
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Tarawa, Tinian and Saipan. 2nd Marines Div, 6th Regimental Scouts and Snipers
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. US Navy
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Austrian and Canadian businessman and politician. Founder of the Austrian political party Team Stronach
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attorney/association executive
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Centenarian (1905-2008), witness of 2 major aviation events. In the 1909 crowd that watched O.Wright demonstrate his plane for the US military. Married to WWII Marine, lived on hill near Pearl Harbor in 1941, first bomb hit nearby house
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Explorer
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army general
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Designed and implemented the C++ programming language. Professor of Computer Science in Columbia University in New York City
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'Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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American author, pastor, and former US Army Ranger who was involved in the Battle of Mogadish. He was awarded a silver star for his actions. In the film based on the battle, Black Hawk Down, Struecker is portrayed by Brian Van Holt
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One of the oldest women in Britain. She is now 109 and when she was a small girl, waved off the Titanic at Southampton. She now lives in Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK
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WWII: Chaplain with the USMC . He made four landings in the Pacific theatre, the Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima
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Politican
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, Underwater Demolition Team
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Hull
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WWII: PTO/ETO. Pearl Harbor survivor, Hickam Field. Flew B-17 known as 'Jack the Ripper' over Germany (1943-44) and was shot down close to Munster. He was a POW in STALAG LUFT 1
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII: 25th Infantry Division. Pearl Harbor survivor, sw action at Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Northern Solomons, Luzon, and the Philippines
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Navy Admiral
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Author veteran
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Physicist who played an important part in the development of rocket intrumentation
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Kentucky Speaker of the House (2009-present)
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medal of honor army vietnam
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astronaut
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WWII: ETO. Top Turret Gunner of B-17 'Fifinella' (42-107030); 322nd Squadron, 91st Bomb Group. Flew 20 missions from June 17, 1944. Was shot down on the Aug. 13, 1944 south of Paris. Spent 314 days as a POW, mostly at Stalag Luft IV
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Philanthropist, historian is a great-granddaughter of 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the granddaughter of Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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Witness to JFK assassination from a 4th story window in the Texas School Book Depository, close to Oswald's window. Figure in the controversial timing of Oswald's departure from the building
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Retired German general
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Nobel Prize winner: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998
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Iran Hostage Crisis/444 days of captivity as a hostage in Iran/Staff Sgt./Military Police, US Army, Defense Attaché's Staff
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 8 victores. 357th Fighter Group ('The Yoxford Boys')
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American professor, UCSD
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Fighter ace
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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American Serial Killer
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Flight scientist, ISS project manager
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Last performer at the 1st NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen 3 January 1951
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Son of Chiune Sugihara, the Chinese 'Oskar Schindler', living in Antwerp, Belgium
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'Rocketman' from the 1984 Olympic Opening Ceremonies
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The Octomom; California woman famous for having octuplets and a total of fourteen children via in vitro fertilisation,Starred in Adult Movie 'Home Alone'
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Pilot for US Airway Flight 1549 which was successfully landed in the Hudson River adjacent to Manhattan six minutes after departing from LaGuardia Airport
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JFK: Secret Service agent for Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ford, Carter as well as Vice Presidents Agnew and Rockefeller. Korean War veteran
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Invented the CPAP machine; essential to premie birth survival
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Former U.S. -General, U.S. Air Force
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Army General And Former U.S. Army Chief Of Staff
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General Gordon Russell Sullivan-Retired Army general officer, who served as the 32nd Chief of Staff of the United States Army & member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff/Army Distinguished Service Medal, Bronze Star, Purple Heart & Legion of Merit
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Flight aviator, pilot SR-71 Speed Run-New York to London
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2001/American electrician best known for operating a fully robotic limb through a nerve-muscle graft, making him one of the first non-fictional cyborgs
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astronaut
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Michael Sullivan (4)Detective/Creator of SAFEKIDS
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Lead prosecutor for the John Wayne Gacy case; author of the book 'Killer Clown'
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Oakland from 1942 to 1946. Was in many battles in the Pacific incl. Coral Sea, Guam, Iwo Jima and Okinawa; near the USS BUnker HIll when she was hit by 2 Kamikaze; watched the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
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2005 Disney Legend
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2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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English former footballer, who played in the successful Manchester City side of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Starred in the WWII movie, ESCAPE TO VICTORY
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Icthyologist for 'Finding Nemo'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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Writer, broadcaster and historian and great niece of Sandy Irvine, the most famous Everest mountaineer of the 1920s
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JFK - Assassination witness clearly seen in the Zapruder movie, just a few yards from the incident, as the man diving to the ground as the shots rang out
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Mahan (DD-364) and survived the Kamikaze attack on Dec. 7, 1944 (Battle of Ormac Bay) between Leyte and Ponson Island, when 3 out of 7 Kamikaze hit the ship
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Retired General
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American Science Populariser - Childrens Television
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Kiribati businessman, CEO of Coral Sun Airways
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WW2/Sumwalt was aboard the light cruiser USS Phoenix CL-46 and also saw action in the Pacific
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Businessman and Co-founder of Lime Bikes
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First 4-star general in the history of ROK Armed Forces, fought in the Korea War
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Former Alcatraz Inmate. He is currently free and lives somewhere in Pittsburg. He was a good friend of Whitey Bulger at Alcatraz. AZ-1431
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WWII: British veteran of the Arctic convoys (Murmansk runs)
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Centenarian (1896-2004). One of the last US Navy veterans of WWI. Served on the USS Charleston transporting supplies/soldiers across the Atlantic, and played sax in the ship's band
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American comedian, Paralympian, motivational speaker and author. He lost his left leg to Ewing's sarcoma at age nine and later became a Paralympic ski racer. Chosen as 1 of CNN's 2007 Heroes, in recognition of his work with amputees
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Politician, Comedian, and Presidential Canidate
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cosmonaut
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Retired Russian cosmonaut and politician
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Tuskegee Airmen, '99th', 'Bronze Star', 'Mechanic'. April 1941-June 1946!
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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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American theoretical physicist, Professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
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The Yorkshire Ripper, mass murderer
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Fighter ace world war 2
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Supercentenarian Born 1906 Oldest person living in Nebraska
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WWII - Gunner in the Dambusters Raid of 1943
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2016 Inductee of National Inventors Hall of Fame
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WWII German Sniper with 209 kills
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WWII: PTO. Electrician's Mate, USS Enterprise
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American born chief engineer for the development of the Boeing 747. Worked as an engineer for the Boeing Airplane Company. He is now 90 and resides in West Seattle
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Former District Attorney Of Bristol County MA. Was the Prosecuting Attorney for NFL football star Aaron Hernandez murder trial
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U.S. bank robber
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Blue Angel pilot turned pro hockey player
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Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl-halide catalyzed by a palladium(0) complex, in 1979
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Scientist, Environmentalist
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WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
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WWII: Fighter pilot of the VMF 451 ('Blue Devils') stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17). Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids. Survived Kamikaze attack at the Bunker Hill (11 May 1945). 3 victories, 2 assists. Flew F4U Corsair
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Politics
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Robert Swan (3)Polar Explorer and Environmental campaigner
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Born Jan. 28, 1954 Was A Honor Guard (?) and helped Betty Ford at Gerald Ford's funeral
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American serial killer and former licensed physician. It is estimated that Swango has been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues, though he admitted to only causing four deaths
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Psychic Spy for the CIA. From 1978-1991 worked as the head of the CIA's ''remote Viewing'' department, very covert.Info was declassified about five or six years ago.
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The second Disneyland Ambassador (1966)
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Pearl Harbor Attack Survivor; was at Hickam Field with the Army Air Corps. Later also survived the Battle Of Midway when his B-17E Flying Fortress was shot down on 5 June 1942 and he was one of three survivors
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astronaut
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Survivor and eyewitness to the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, the the highest recorded megatsunami and the largest known in modern times. She is the wife of William A. Swanson
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Survivor and eyewitness to the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami, the the highest recorded megatsunami and the largest known in modern times. Maybe still living, not sure
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B.1927 Former FBI Special Agent from 51-77, author FBI Secrets & To Kill a President/Served Navy during WW2/Began career doing "black bag jobs" on Communists in Chicago. In Kentucky & NYC, spent years doing serious criminal investigations
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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'Royal Air Force Seaplane Pilot'
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Pearl Harbor Survivior 'Crew Member U.S.S. Ward 139'
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United States Army Air Force pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Author of War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission
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Joe Sweeney (2) WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4)
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John Sweeney (3) WWII: PTO. USMC. Guadalcanal. First Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. Navy Cross
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Wwii: pto. us navy
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US Navy makes history as US Navy's 1st Black female fighter pilot LT. JG Madeline Swegle
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US WWII veteran, born 1914. Served as a cook for the Army?s 569th Field Artillery in Europe
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American former biathlete. In 1984, she was a member of the bronze medal-winning U.S. relay team at the first women's Biathlon World Championships. In July 1984 she was kidnapped by two 'Mountain Men' near Bozeman, Montana and held captive for 18 days.
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2013 Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient- saved 12 soldiers in Afghanistan in 2009
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9th Oldest Person in the World
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Medal of Honor, USMC, World War II, Ace (15 kills)
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Doctor
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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; from Kansas City, MO
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Vietnam Army pilot with 118th Assault Helicopter Co. stationed Bien Hoa, Republic of Vietnam. During his flying combat missions, awarded 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, Bronze Star, 23 awards of The Air Medal, & Vietnam Cross of Gallantry
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U.S. Navy officer, Guantanamo Bay attorney
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Astronaut on Apollo 13
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One of Anne Frank's friends lives in Amstelveen today
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JFK - pilot of Air Force One in the early 1960s; also flew Kennedy's body back to Washington in the hours after his assassination in Dallas
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Vietnam Marine/POW Hanoi Hilton/Shared prison cell with John McCain/Awarded two Silver Stars, 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts, Legion of Merit with Combat 'V' Prisoner of War Medal/Retired at rank of lieutenant colonel
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iditerod racing
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Medical Corpsman
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Former USMC that served in the US Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper Platoon during the Gulf War. He was apart of STA Platoon 2 Blatoon 7th Marines. Author of Jarhead and many novels
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German ww2 pilot
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German-American biochemist. He is the co-awardee of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with James Rothman and Randy Schekman) for work on vesicle trafficking.)
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Brampton'
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US WWII Army vet, born 1924. Through the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and meeting the Soviets at Elbe. After, served as a guard at the Nuremburg Trials
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air force general
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Dust bowl survivor and WWII veteran, born 1917. Fought in campaigns including Tunisia, Sicily, and Rome (where he met the Pope), and later helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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Commanding Officer, 101st Airborne Division
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US Navy Admrial
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WWII - South Pacific. Fighter Ace, 5 victories. VFM-112 Squadron
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Pilot
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Hungarian fighter ace from WW2
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WWII: ETO. HQ Co, 1st Battalion Rangers. Dieppe Raid, D-Day, North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
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Hungarian fighter ace from WW2
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Nobel Prize 2009 of Medicine
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WW II Marine, born 1924. Purple Heart in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Politician
