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Fighter ace ww2 1/19/1919
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Charles Williams (2)
Tuskegee Airmen -
US Army WW2 Veteran. Was in Holland, Germany, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and France. A recipient of 2 Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star
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Clayton 'Claytie' Williams, Jr. (b. 10/8/1931), businessman from Midland, Texas, was unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee 1990 against Democratic State Treasurer Ann Richards even though Williams initially led in opinion polls by 20 points
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WW II 27 May 1944 - Missing in Action Shot down by flak in northern France, east of St. Leger.Belly-landed plane in sugar-beet field and evaded capture with the help of the French Resistance. Born: 10/17/1921
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Flight astronaut sts-90,118
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Canadian Astronaut
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Tuskegee Airmen
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astronaut
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WWII Perl Harbor veteran. B-17 flight member flying over Pearl Harbor by chance during the attack. Shot down by Japanese, landed at Hickam Field. Plane broke apart, shown in an iconic photo of the day
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Survivor of the Winecoff hotel fire on December 7, 1946
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Born in 1917, historian & conservationist; the daughter of Edith Roosevelt Derby; granddaugther of President Theodore Roosevelt
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Tuskegee Airmen, In 1948, Williams was recalled to military service during the Berlin Airlift. President Harry Truman integrated military service in 1949 & Eldridge Williams departed for his first integrated assignment on the island of Okinawa
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British ace from WW2
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doolittle's radiers crew #15 co-pilot
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Congressional Medal of Honor, USMC, WWII
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Wwii army sgt
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Centenarian (1895-2002). British WWI veteran, last living pilot of the Royal Flying Corps. Bombed German trenches in France, later had his Sopwith Camel shot down over Greece. Second last living pilot to have been in WWI dogfights
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medal of honor navy vietnam
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James Williams (6)Last of the Buffalo Soldiers, before they were disbanded in 1951
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army general
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Sailor of the United States Navy during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the most highly decorated enlisted man in the history of the United States Navy
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STS-101, Soyuz TMA-8 (Expedition 13), Soyuz TMA-16 (Expedition 21/22), Soyuz TMA-20M (Expedition 47/48)
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Nobel peace laureate 1997
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'B-25 Tuskegee Airmen' 'Class of 43-J'
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Louis Williams (3) Medal Of Honor
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Time Team Field Archaeologist
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Matthew Williams (3)United States Army Master Sergeant-Medal of Honor
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USN Admiral
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marine corps general
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Former Alcatraz Inmate (1915-2001), Author of 'From Alcatraz To The White House', 122. recipient of the President's Volunteer Action Award
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Peter Williams (2)Navy Admiral
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An intern at Parkland Hospital in '63 , Williams had contact with Jackie Kennedy outside Trauma Room One and two days later assisted in the surgery of Lee Harvey Oswald
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Ray Williams (3)Australian politician, New South Wales minister for multiculturalism
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WWII - Medic at the 7th Fighter Command ambulance on Iwo Jima
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Woman accused of stealing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop during the Jan 6, 2021 Capitol Building attack
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F9 Pilot in both Korean and Vietnam War
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Criminal: convicted murderer, rapist, and former Colonel in the Canadian Forces stalked and killed woman around tweed ontario canada
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Inventor
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astronaut
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NASA pilot - NASAs first all-electric experimental aircraft, the X-57 Maxwell, and flies the ER-2 high-altitude science aircraft, C-20A environmental science research aircraft, F/A-18, T-34C and TG-14 research motorglider
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Serial Killer, Convicted Of Killing Over 5 Young Boys in the Atlanta Child Murders case
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Willie Williams (2)usmc general
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Jonestown massacre survivor who fled the The People's Temple Agricultural Project a year before the massacre took place in 1978/Former member of Jim Jones Cult In Guyana
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WWII: ETO. B-24 'Liberator' in the 453rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Distinguished Flying Cross. First mission on D-Day. Flew 35 combat missions incl. 3 to Berlin. His operations officer was Jimmy Stewart
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2009 Nobel Prize winner for Economics
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pyro
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
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Man who climbed the World Trade Center in 1977
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Author/Inventor/U.S. Air Force Cold War spy, nearly getting shot down by Russian MIGs, and landing in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis/makes his fortune working for computer software magnate Bill Gates
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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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'Royal Air Force 2nd Pilot Flight Lt.'
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Military seal team 3 charlie platoon
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WWII: ETO. B-17 Tail Gunner, 303rd Bomb Group
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Bill Willis (2) Drummer for Tami True AKA Nancy Myers at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club along the time of the JFK assassination/Willis was interviewed by two FBI agents Rawling and Hardin shortly after the assassination
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District attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, first woman to hold the office
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Eyewitness & Photographer at JFK Shooting
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Born 1953, was a close witness during the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1965 to 1968
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Former Army Ranger and pararescueman,host of Military Channel show Triggers & Special Ops
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WWII - Pilot of the famous Sundowners squadron (VF-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater; one of the rare 'Silver Eagles' (which was an Enlisted Pilot)
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WWII veteran, army medic at Guam and Okinawa. Worked with MOH Desmond Doss, of 'Hacksaw Ridge' note, at Okinawa
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan
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2013 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee
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Peace Activist
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astronaut
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps fighter pilot of squadron VFM-451 (USS Bunker Hill). Flew 52 mission from January to May 1945 in the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the defense of the Bunker Hill and raids to Tokyo. 1 victory. DFC
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X-ray tech. school intern at Parkland on Nov. 22 , 1963 and saw Pres. Kennedy admitted to the hospital
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WWII: US WWII veteran who captured Japan's Tojo
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2nd Oldest Person in the World/Born :1890 Deceased 2006
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Mac Donough
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Author,
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Ferguson, MO Police Dept Officer
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David Wilson (11)Great-nephew of Robert Falcon Scott's chief of scientific staff, Dr Edward Wilson
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Diane Wilson (2)Environmental activist/fisherwoman from Seadrift, Texas, won Goldman Environmental Prize 2023. Goldman Environmental Prize is a award that honors grassroots environmental activists from around the world for their work to protect the planet
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Canadian WW One Veteran
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Scientist/Entomologist - Known for his work in myrmecology born 1929/Pulitzer Prize Winner
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Supercentenarian (1898-2009). One of the last surviving woman voters of the 1920 open election
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British war hero, Victoria Cross receiver
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Freedom Rider
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Frank Wilson (3) Actor/'Breaker Morant' 'Black Robe'/Australian Army in 1943, to escape the wartime Manpower Directorite and being placed in a 'useful' job, becoming a signalman in the 7th Division, 2nd AIF. Serving in Papua New Guinea & Borneo
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D-Day Survivor
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United States Marine who earned the United States-? military highest award, the Medal of Honor, for heroism as a platoon sergeant of a rifle platoon in Korea on the night of 23-April 24, 1951
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Jonestown Massacre Survivor//Son of Leslie Wagner Wilson
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Signer of the declation of independence/ the us constitution, appoint on the 1st supreme court by george washington, died in 1798
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Tuskegee Airman
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navy admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941. USS Dale (DD-353), among the first ships to leave the harbor and one of those who remained undamaged. Mr. Wilson was at a machine gun firing at the Japanese planes. The USS Dale shot down 1 enemy
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British WWI And WWII Veteran
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General Johnnie Edward Wilson retired United States Army four-star general who served as Commanding General, United States Army Materiel Command from 1996 to 1999
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Retired Army General
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Former US Diplomat involved with the Iraqi "Yellow Cake" uranium scandal. Married to Valerie Plame, who was outed as a CIA agent
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(Born 1978) US Navy Afghanistan War Veteran. Served as a corpsman with Marines. Recipient of the Navy Cross for actions during Operation Enduring Freedom
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Nobel physics laureate 1982
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Jonestown Massacre Survivor/Author Slavery of Faith: The untold story of the Peoples Temple from the eyes of a thirteen year old, her escape from Jonestown at 20 and life 30 years later
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medal of honor marines ww11
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WWII: ETO. 17th Airborne Division, 193rd Glider Infantry Regiment. Battle of the Bulge
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Robert Wilson (3)Decorated former US Army General, Cmdr usa installation management command, CEO Robert Wilson Consulting
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American economist and the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together with his Stanford colleague Paul R. Milgrom
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American physicist; head of the Cyclotron Group (R-1) at 'Project Manhattan' (Trinity); director of Fermi National Laboratory (Fermilab) 1967-1978
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Nobel physics laureate 1978
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WWII: CBI. Merrill's Marauders. Later Army general educator
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Tuskegee Airman
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Award-winning filmmaker (Cabaret of the Dead, Psycho Therapy, The Night Plays Tricks) and an Amazon #1 bestselling author (So L.A. - A Hollywood Memoir).
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astronaut
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Tuskegee Airman
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William Wilson (2) Medal Of Honor
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1905-1990. Lafayette halfback in the College Football HOF, before becoming a Brigadier General in the Marine Corps
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One of the last WW2 Arctic convoy veterans. He is now 91 and lives in Biggin, Derbyshire, England
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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Activist
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LAPD Officer involved in the Rodney King beating
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Flight scientist. Began his work with NASA (then NACA) on Project Mercury in 1959. NASA Maroon Flight Director Apollo 8, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15; Space Shuttle Project Office 1973-1978
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Last witness to the world record breaking run of steam locomotive Mallard that was achieved on 3 July 1938. He lives in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire, England. A.K.A Bill Windsor or William Windsor
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Woman whose lawsuit, United States v. Windsor, caused the US Supreme Court to find Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to be unconstitutional, thereby granting federal benefits to legally married gay couples; lesbian activist
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American Nobel Prize-winning physicist 2012 with Serge Haroche
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JFK - Member of the Fort Worth Polytechnic High School Marching 100 Band that can be seen in photographs of the Kennedy motorcade through Fort Worth, 22 November 1963. The President stopped the motorcade to salute Jerry and the band
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English psychiatrist and physician, famous for her work on the Asperger's Syndrome, living in the East Sussex, UK with her husband John
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WWII - Member of the 101 airbourne div. company E 506 parachute regiment (Band of Brothers); was with the 'Easy' from D-Day to Eagle's Nest. It was him who cut the German flag off the wall of the German Army barracks at the Eagle's Nest, Berchtesgaden
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Author
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Lz xray 1965
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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In 2004, the Winklevoss brothers sued Mark Zuckerberg for $65 million, claiming he stole their ConnectU idea to create the much more popular social networking service site Facebook
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WW2 air ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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4 Star General, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; CO of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) which was on her way back home during the September 11 attacks who, without authorization, did a 180 degree turn to take station in the Arabian Sea
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Historian, guest on 'The UnXplained with William Shatner'
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Pennsylvania machine gunner
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Helm, 7 December 1941
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A Nobel Prize winning British biochemist best known for his pioneering work on the therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies
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One of the two women who as teenagers were the focus of the activity during the Enfield Haunting. She is now 49 and lives in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, UK. Formerly known as Janet Hodgson. Now the subject of the film 'The Conjuring 2'
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US Meteorologist (1931-2023) Creator of the 'Heat index' and HIndenburg witness. Heard the explosion near his house as a 5 year old boy, drove with his grandfather to find the smoking ship in flames on the ground
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Carlson's Raider, Company 'E' 2nd Raider Bn., later 2nd Battalion, Company 'E' 28th Marines. Makin Island, Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Iwo Jima
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Centenarian (1897-2007). Last female US veteran of WWI. Served as a Navy 'Yeomanette' stateside from 1917-1919
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World War II Major of the 101st Airborne during the D-Day Invasion
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NASA Shuttle Weather Officer
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Former United States Army officer, original Band of Brothers. Born: 01/21/1918
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British Stockbroker Who Was Britains Version Of Schindler Of Schindler's List Born: 05/19/1909
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Participated in the Great Train Robbery of 1963
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Wwii:wasp
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American jurist (1905 - 99). Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit during the 1950s and 1960s, deciding many landmark civil rights cases
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. 3 Bronze Stars
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On April 15, 1964, Gail Wise a 22 year old third grade teacher purchased the first Ford Mustang 2 days before it was supposed to be sold to the public
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Holocaust Survivor ill & emaciated when heard Soldiers marching toward Auschwitz. 10-year-old Slovakian Jew assumed German troops coming to get her but it was Russian Soldiers coming to free her/May live in JERUSALEM/guide at Yad Vashem
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WWII: ETO. Sniper in the 40 Royal Marine Commando, 3 Commando Brigade, in Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania, Italy, an expert at picking off German machine-gunners, not killing but wounding them which was the order
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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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Former Dallas Mayor/helped federal agents prepare JFK's Dallas security for the next month's visit. Covered the presidential motorcade, played a double role at the president's aborted luncheon, encountered Jack Ruby day before Oswald shot
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Navy Rear Admiral (ret.)
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astronaut
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Flight astronaut Ascan 2009
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John Wiseman (2)A Deputy Sheriff in the Dallas Co. Sheriff's Dept . , John was standing on Main St. when President Kennedy's motorcade went by and after shots were fired he helped search the TSBD
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army general
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WW2 Veteran:Crew Chief On Douglas C-47 Dakota Aircraft
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Holocaust Survivor Auschwitz incarcerated for 3 years, saved life by singing to Nazi SS. Composed 2 songs 1 song in Polish, ?Oswiecim? (Auschwitz) other Yiddish, Dos Vaise Haizele (Little White House In Woods) on display Holocaust Museum DC
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astronaut
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USMC General
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WWII: Survivor of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4-8 May 1942) from the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle. Later served on the USS Card in the North-Atlantic
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WWII: Royal Navy veteran of the Arctic convoys (HMS Martin)
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Pilot of Vulcan that bombed Port Stanley operation black buck
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Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest ranking position in the Canadian Forces 1980-1983
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WWII: ETO. Fighter pilot, 4 victories, 106 missions. Distinguished Flying Cross with cluster, Silver Star
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Helped with the rescue of the 2 whales in the movie The Big Miracle
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC, First Tank Battalion
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Known as the 'Umbrella Man'. Was present at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 11-22-63
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WWII: ETO. B-25 pilot
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Researcher In String Theory (as The Founder Of M-theory) And Quantum Field Theory
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JFK - Honor Guard in President Kennedy's funeral; served at official functions for JFK and even got to talk to him once
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US Supercentenarian, born Sept 27, 1908
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Former Head of the IMF
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WWII: C-47 pilot D-Day (101st AB, later 82nd AB); also flew support missions until the end of the war in the rest of France, Holland and Germany
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Hitler's Food Taster. Lives in West Berlin Born: 1917
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4-Star General
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Professor of Microbiology
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Tuskegee Airmen
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(Born 1934) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of the Air Force Cross and Distinguished Service Cross
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WWII German Stuka Pilot - 405 missions Eastern Front 1943-45 born 1923
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One of the last survivors of MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which sank after being torpedoed by the Soviet submarine in 1945 resulting in the greatest ship disaster in history
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WWII USS Hornet (CV-8) plankowner (original crewmember), participant in the Doolittle Raid, and a survivor of the sinking of the Hornet at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC
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US Army Afghanistan War Veteran. Awarded the German Medal of Honor for saving a wounded German soldier
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Wwii: wasp
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Attorney and author
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astronaut
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WWII: ETO. Army Air Corps. Tech Sgt. B-17 Top Turret Gunner. 390th Bomb Group, 570th Bomb Squadron. Shot down on 28 May 1944 in B-17 #4232089 'Mountaineer' on a mission to Berlin, Germany, crashing at Holzhausen, 16 miles east of Magdeburg. POW
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WWII - Fighter Ace, Hellcat F4F, born 2/4/1921; VF-2, 7 victories. Flew 7 different types of military airplanes (N-25-3 Stearman, F4 Wildcat
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Korean War: Battle of Chosin Reservoir, US Army
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Last Lakota Code-Talker, WWII
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Perennial political candidate. Challenged president Obama for the 2012 Democratic Party nomination
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WWII: US Marine Corps, Guadalcanal
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 251st Coastal Artillery
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air force general
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USAF General
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First Woman 4-Star General Born in 1958
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Scientist
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Navy Seal recovery team, first to grab the Apollo 11 capsule and attach anchor cables and a flotation device before the astronauts emerged. Later served in Vietnam, battled addictions, and became a preacher
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British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and in theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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Flight aviator
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WWII: Marine of the famous K-3-5, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Battles of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu
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State Trooper with the Texas Highway Patrol , Max was stationed at Dallas Trade Mart for Pres. Luncheon . Later assigned guard duty for Gov. Connolly at Parkland
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WWII: ' Filthy Thirteen'. D-Day
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WWII: Homefront/Atlantic: USS Moberly (PF-63). On May 6, 1945, the Coast Guard-manned frigate USS Moberly, sank the German U-853 in the Atlantic off Block Island, R.I, as the last U-boat sunk in the European War. There were no survivors
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WWII: Operation Oblivion, the last of the 13 Chinese Canadian veterans who signed up for the covert mission to land in Japan-occupied China. Trained for 4 months but never entered combat as the war ended before they could be used
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Flight astronaut canadian arrow
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WWII Flying Tigers lives in Quincy, Massachusetts
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Works with Cloning
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air force general
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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Wwii: pto. usmc. iwo jima
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Historian, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
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Lucian Lincoln 'Lin' Wood Jr. - American attorney, political commentator and Social media personality
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; mess hall, Pearl Harbor
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Vietnam Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 96th Infantry Division
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astronaut
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Terry Wood (2)Was at Dallas Love Field for President, Kennedy's arrival in 1963 and then was near TSBD at time of shooting . Later anchor at KUTV
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The oldest person in the United Kingdom, born in 1899
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Shop 51 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, but dispatched to the USS Shaw (DD-373) and onboard at the time of the attack. Later an USAAF B-29 pilot
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WW2 Wasp. Author of We Were Wasps
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Greenbay Packers 1974 17th round, pick #428. also known as the I-5 killer
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US Army WWII era vet, born 1927. Army officer school in 1944, became Paymaster for the Tuskegee Airmen in 1946. Became a Boston lawyer and social activist. Appointed a Brig. General in 2022 by Massachusetts Governor
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One of the early developer's of barcode technology and inductee of the National Inventors' Hall of Fame. He is now 90
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army general
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Father of professional golfers Tiger Woods and Cheyenne Woods. Served 2 tours of duty in Vietnam & retired w/ the rank of lieutenant colonel. Broke the Big Eight Conference (then the Big Seven Conference) 'color barrier' in baseball in 1951
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1/27/1909-3/18/2001 American aviatrix along with husband Jimmie Woods, formed longest-lasting air circus, the Flying Aces Air Circus. Served with the Civil Air Patrol during WW2 later becoming an aircraft mechanic and piloting teacher
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American POW, was captured by the Germans after the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and escaped from POW camp in April 1945
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Historian, authorUniversity of ArkansasHistory DepartmentFayettville, Arkansas 72701
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WWII Bomber pilot,Navigator, 90th Bomb Group, 320 Bomb Squadron
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Civil Rights activist... 1960's
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist for Washington Post, uncovered Watergate scandal with fellow Post journalist Carl Bernstein
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WWII: Marines veteran of the Battes of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa. Also in the Korean War. Later duty for Truman and Eisenhower
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British Admiral, Royal Navy, Commander of the South Atlantic Task Groups in the Falklands War
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navy admiral england
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USAF General
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Roger Woodward (2)Roger Woodward is the only person to go over Niagara Falls without a barrel and survive. After a boat he was in capsized, the seven year old, wearing only a life jacket and a bathing suit, went over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls and lived
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astronaut
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Military
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Last living (confirmed and verified) Civil War veteran (1850-1956). Served in the Union Army as a drummer boy in a Minnesota regiment. 3 others claiming to be Confederate vets who lived passed him were later found to most likely be false claims
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: D-Day. USS Arkansas at Omaha Beach. Responsible for the radar at the ship's combat information center. The USS Arkansas engaged German shore batteries off Omaha Beach
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Astronaut
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Pioneer in the Commercial Aviation Industry/ Wordlaw is one of approximately 25 black female pilots flying for a major airline in the U.S. today/Featured in the film, 'The Women's List'
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(Born 1983) US Marine Corps Iraq War veteran. Received the Navy Cross for actions during Operation Iraqi Freedom
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Vietnam War Veteran-Forward Air Controller At Dak Seang Special Forces Camp
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(Born 1946) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Air Force Cross and Silver Star Recipient
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British born Army officer and descendant of Sir Ernest Shackleton's skipper Frank Worsley. Lives in Hereford, UK
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NASA pilot - Gulfstream G-III. Flew combat search and rescue in USAF
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Last survivor of the "General Slocum" ship disaster of June 15, 1904
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Helm
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WWII: Spitfire Fighter Pilot in WWII, seeing much action, particularly at the Dieppe Raid
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Apple computers co-founder, built first personal computer
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WWII: US home front; WASP
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Air Force General
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German game inventor - Carcassonne, Pompeji
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Repulse on 10 December 1941 off Malaya when also HMS Prince of Wales was sunk, an event in the war that often is named 'Britain's Pearl Harbor'
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Member of rescue Ship USS Bassett to the aid of the USS Indianapolis Survivors
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Navy Admiral
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British ace from WW2, 12.25 victories
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air force general
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WWII Marine, Iwo Jima, Guam
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WWII: 153 Battalion, Tavistock, 51st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery. Phoney War 1939/1940; Dunkirk, Operation Torch (French North Africa), Tunisia (Kasserine Pass), Italy (Monte Cassino); ended the war in Klagenfurt, Austria
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(Born 1935) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Air Force Cross and Bronze Star Recipient. Retired as a lieutenant colonel
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Jack Wright (3) Helped build the St. Louis gateway arch
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John Wright (8) WWII: PTO. Army Air Corps. 13th Air Force, 307th Bomb Group, 424th Squadron
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WWII Veteran, won a centenarian racing competition
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Texas Ranger, drove Mayor's car in JFK's Dallas motorcade. Helped remove the President's body from the limo on arrival at Parkland Hospital. Later served 16 years as a county sheriff
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Member of the Flying Tigers (AVG) WWII
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII - Medic of the 501st PIR, 101st Airborne Division. Combat jumps into D-Day and Operation market Garden, also at Bastogne
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WWII flew a P-51 Mustang (three confirmed aerial victories, one of which was against a Me-262 ? the eighth to have ever been shot down). Brigadier General. AKA: 'Mormon Mustang'
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WWII: Anti-aircraft gunner on the USS Enterprise (CV-6) from 1944 to 1945, survived multiple Kamikaze attacks
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The cousin of Emmett Till who witnessed his kidnapping and the last one to see him alive
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Wilbur Wright (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Oglala
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2000 Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Wrongfully convicted As Drug Kingpin. Inspiration for 50 Cent-Produced Drama 'For Life' based on Wright's life
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Current Director of NASA's Wallops Flight Center in Wallops Island, Virginia (Since 1/1/2010)
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Glider Pilot, World champion 1965
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Professor at Columbia Law School, director of the Poliak Center at Columbia Journalism School and a contributing writer at NewYorker.com. He is best known for his work on Net Neutrality theory
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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: Pacific Theater. USS Killen, DD-593. USS Selfridge
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Secret Service Agent who did advance work in Ft. Worth for President Kennedy's visit and later provided security for Marina Oswald
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WWII - 82nd Airborne, 505th PIR. Combat jumps: Salerno, Normandy (D-Day, St. Mere Eglise), Operation Market Garden
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German Lesbian Activist
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Flight aviator 1965 group 4 astronaut candidate
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Polish World War One Veteran
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Co-Pilot on first 747 test flight
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa (AR-1)
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//francine marie stepp//(stillwater oklahoma murder)
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Kodak Engineer, born 1945. Part of the team that worked on the mid-60s Lunar Orbiter missions that mapped the moon prior to the Apollo landings
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Won 2014 West Virginia Golden Horseshoe Award
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Inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS John Penn on August 13, 1943, also took part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
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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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Politician
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002
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Private first class. dates of service: november 1959 - february 1960. ger. occupation into berlin during russian blockade
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Former general of the German Democratic Republic's army
