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The oldest surviving member of the original Tuskegee Airmen who became legendary for their service in World War II. He was born in 1915
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WWII: D-Day, Juno Beach. Royal Engineers, British 21st Army group. Landed in support of the 3rd Canadian Army Div where he would spend over a month under almost constant artillery/machine gun fire, helping bring ashore vital supplies
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island, Rogo claims he waved at one of the pilots, who waved back. Unbeknownst to him, this pilot was Japanese
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guam. Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: ETO. Operation Market Garden. Hq Battery, 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division
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WWII: WASP pilot (Woman Air Force Service Pilot), WASP training class 44-W-4. Her great - grandmother sang in Queen Victoria's court
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German WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht
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Soviet Nurse, Word War II, WWII, Stalingrad
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air force general
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WWII Veteran Floyd Rolf enlisted in the Army Air Corps in December of 1942. He initially trained to fly P-38s but ultimately flew C-47 troop carriers. Before he left for Europe in October of 1944, Rolf proposed to Peg, his high- school sweetheart. Th
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WWII: Veteran of the Battles of Makin Island (1943), Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa. 165th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in columbus ga but not now
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WWII vet, born 1913. Served in the Philippines and Australia. In his life, saw Lou Gehrig's farewell speech, and met Martin Luther King Jr and Mother Teresa. At 24, drove himself to see a famous airship land, and ended up witnessing the Hindenburg explode
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dobbin
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Bataan Death March survivor. A Battery 200th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft
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Medal of Honor Recipient for action in the GWOT in Afghanistan and author of Red Platoon
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor; chief turret officer USS Oklahoma, calling the crew the General Quarters rather unceremoniously with the words 'All hands, man your battle stations! This is no shit, Goddamn it! Jap planes are bombing us!'
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USN Admiral
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 7th Infantry Division
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A Rosie the Riveter during WW2. She worked at a bomber plant in Kansas City, Mo
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Norwegian Army officer and broadcaster. He is known for his resistance work during World War II and his post-war war information work. He is also the last veteran of the legendary WW2 'Heroes of the Telemark' raid. He is now 96
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Black WWII Driver for Red Ball Express. Lives in Maple Heights
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CM Sgt. Ronald Roos 'Air Force Honor Guard/ Death Watch/'I was there when the presidents body was taken off Air Force one, I saw Mrs. Kennedy, still in the blood stained dress, standing in the doorway,' Roos said
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American politician (1882-1945). 32nd US President, 1933-45, NYS Governor, 1929-32 Asst Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20
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26th US President, statesman, writer, explorer, 1858-1919
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newest DDG
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US Lawyer, Minister (1736-1822) CT Militia and delegate to Continental Congress
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WWII: D-Day; in the third wave at Utah Beach with the first elements of the 90th ID
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New Zealand rugby player and WW2 veteran
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USS Pueblo
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WWII: USS Laffey. D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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WWII Flying Tiger Pilot 'Joe' Author Flying Tigers Joe Adventure Story Cookbook/(Pilot) (CNAC 1942 - 1945) (Captain - March 1943) (Hump Flights - ???)
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US WWII Navy WAVE, born 1923. Too young for service, she began as a munitions worker Rosie in 1941. Joined the WAVES a couple years later, and worked as a mechanic in the Navy's Blimp program
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Canadian WWII-Fighter Ace
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Explorer/Byrd: geographic, air reconnaissance and photogrammetric officer to Admiral Byrd on two antarctic expeditions and served as Byrd's scientific advisor
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Former United States Army officer and a Vietnam War veteran. For his actions during the war, Rose is scheduled to be presented the Medal of Honor on 23 October 2017 by United States President Donald Trump
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British Army General during the Falklands Conflict and the Yugoslav Wars; also known as General Sir Hugh 'Michael' Rose
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1920, he claimed three victories during the Battle of Britain and flew three or four sorties each day. He is now 96 and lives in the UK
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Rick Rose (2)CAPT - USMC, US NAVY Blue Angels C-130 'Fat Albert' Pilot
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10th Juror on Jack Ruby Trial to the JFK Assassination/WW2 fighter pilot
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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Fighter ace
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1950s Army Veteran and gay husband of Hubert Spires. He helped fight for a honorable discharge for Spires and they succeeded in 2017 when Spires got a honorable discharge from the US Military after over 60 years
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WWII: Veteran of the Battle of Remagen, March 1945. 9th Armored Division, Purple Heart
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Battle of Bataan
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American fighter pilot (Ret.)/As captain in the US Air Force, flew 30 missions in an F-16 Fighting Falcon during the Persian Gulf War. His book about his experiences in the war, titled Vipers in the Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot
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1896-1973 U.S. lawyer, judge, Democratic political figure, and presidential speechwriter/Was FDR Special Counsel upon FDR's death Truman asked him to stay on, initially through V-E Day, then through V-J Day, and finally into 1946
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Commander Of 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group In The WWII. Prosecutor In The Nuremberg Trial After The WWII.
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WWII - D-Day, 2nd Battalion, The Glostershire Regiment. Frank's regiment was tasked to take the French town of Bayeux, 12 miles from Gold Beach, and fought in the Battle of Tilly-sur-Seulles, where some of the toughest combat took place
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. USS Arkansas (BB-33)
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US WWII Merchant Marines (1928-2024). Joined the MM in 1942 at 14 years old, served in the S. Pacific and Atlantic. One of the last MM to attend the official Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for Merchant Marines in 2022
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Officer of the United States Navy who received the first Medal of Honor of World War II. This award was made for his actions during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
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WWII: PTO. Tech. Sergeant with Unit Co. A. 182nd Infantry
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WW2 fighter pilot ace 7 victories 82/48 PS 78/14PG 14FG - USAAF
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Retired General
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Australian World War 1 Veteran Born' 03/11/1899 One of 6 remaining World War 1 Veterans - Deceased 2009
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WWII: Highly decorated officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of Brigadier General. He is most noted for his service with the 1st Marine Division during the Battle of Okinawa. He placed the American flag at Mt. Shuri
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Tuskegee Airmen/332nd FG/302nd FS
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Medal of Honor recipient: World War II
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WWII: Survivor of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion 1944, 320 dead; mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.) Later on the USS Ancon where he rejected an order and was given right by the white Captain
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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medal of honor army korean war
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Was one of the last surviving French marine commandos who stormed ashore on Sword Beach, Normandy, on D-Day to initiate the liberation of their homeland
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Ww2 fighter ace -navy hellcat
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'Flying Tigers & WWII Ace (6.25 kills)'
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WWII - D-Day (Normandy)
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German WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht
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29th Navy Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
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WWII: Fighter Ace, 5 victories
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WWII: PTO. 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division. Battles of GUadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian. Air Force pilot in Korea. Purple Heart
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navy admiral
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(No Kum-Sok) Sept 1953 2 months after Korean War ended with an armistice, a 21-year-old North Korean fighter pilot defected to a South Korean airfield with a state-of-the-art Russian fighter plane
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa. The Lindsey was severely damaged by two kamikaze planes that crashed into her killing 57 sailors and wounding another 57
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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US Army Korean War Veteran. He was a POW from 1951 to 1953 in North Korea. 333 people of his battalion including him were taken as POWs and only 117 made it
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WW2 WASP/Airfield Assignments; Love Field & Selman Army Air Field
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army general
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WWII: USS Yorktown. Navy Photographer who photographed the Battle of Midway
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WWII WAVES veteran, born 1915. She worked coding and decoding ship movements while based in San Francisco. Later used the GI Bill to get an education and become a teacher
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Vietnam 1965 flew into Landing Zone X-Ray Ia Drang Valley on supply helicopter/Was supply officer for 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry Regiment 1st Cavalry Division Airmobile during 1st full-scale battle between American & North Vietnamese troops
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Ww2 veteran on the USS Alabama
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British Army officer who earned the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre for organising guerrilla resistance in France and Burma; full name is Richard Arthur Rubinstein
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks. During the attack, Rubien helped burn classified documents, then picked up a gun and ammo and began shooting. Later served at Saipan, Guam, and the Marshall Islands
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WWII: ETO. 743rd Bomb Squadron, 455th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force. 28 missions
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Korean War Medal of Honor Recipient
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of USS Helena (CL-50) in the Battle of Kula Gulf, July 1943. Also Night Battle of Guadalcanal Nov. 1942 and the Battle of Cape Esperance (Oct. 1942) where he saw the USS Juneau (Sullivan brothers) sink
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Female WWII veteran, snuck away from home to join the WAACs in 1942, becoming a WAC in 1943. Ran a night flight simulator for pilot training. Later in life had a nursing career
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P-47 Thunderbolt Ace of WWII, F-86 Sabre Ace of WWII, 10.5 victory Ace with 406th FG
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JFK - placed the Green Beret on President Kennedy?s grave on November 25, 1963.
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medal of honor army ww11
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WW 2 Luftwaffe Fighter Ace and Me262 Pilot 222 victories
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Spanish Civil War survivor (Born: 1929) is one of the last living survivors of the Italian air raid over Granollers on May 31, 1938. She is now 87
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German nurse (Born: 1929) who was stationed at Hitler's bunker during the final days of WW2. She was 15 at the time and met Joseph Goebbels and his family on the day Hitler committed suicide. She is now 88 and lives in Germany
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WWII Veteran, D-Day Invasion, D-Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion
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US Army Brig. Gen. (1869-1932). Spanish American War, WWI ordnance official/ammo expert
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Highly decorated Major in the Wehrmacht during WW2. Also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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WWII veteran and one of the first 13 female nurses of Puerto Rico's Women's Army Corps
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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WWII: Germany, Luftwaffe. Night fighter radio operator, Knights Cross
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WWII: U.S. Army Sergeant Technician, 7th Division, 17th Infantry. Attu, Marshall Islands, Okinawa
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WWII: Merchant Marine 1941-1945
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WWII: PTO. Motor machinist mate second class aboard U.S.S. L.S.M 485
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White House Chef
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Allan Russell (2)Last surviving member of Z Special Unit
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WWII: Navy fighter carrier pilot, flying in combat during World War II and the Korean War; including dive-bomber support for the First Marine Division during the battle of Guadalcanal, flying off the USS Saratoga
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma, born September 15, 1920
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; butcher stationed at the Army Air Corps' Wheeler Field
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USS Pueblo
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Fighter ace
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Jack Russell (3)Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo; became a psychologist in Whittier, CA
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navy admiral hero
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WWII: D-Day. Was in the Aviation Unit (Kingfisher reconnaissance plane) of the USS Arkansas. Also at Iwo Jima, A-bomb
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Steve Russell (2)
Oklahoma politician, retired Army LCOL who led the unit that captured Saddam Hussein -
Marine Guard of Honor, JFK funeral/ enlisted in 1960 Two years after enlisting, they found themselves on separate boats off coast of Cuba, part of a flotilla that was prepared to invade the island if Cuban missile crisis came to a head
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Tuskegee Airmen 99th Pursuit Squadron
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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WWII: D-Day, landing near Ste. Marie Eglise, captured on D-Day; POW at Stalag 4B near the Czech border. Earlier combat jump in Operation Husky (Sicily, July 1943) and combat in Salerno, Italy. 505th PIR, HQ Company, 82nd Airborne Division
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Decorated Australian Military - Now deceased
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Italian flying ace of WWII
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101st airborne division, ww2
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Author and WW2 veteran
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navy admiral educator
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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Thomas Ryan (3)
WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa -
navy admiral
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Retired General Born Dec 10,1928
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tern (AM-31)
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Fighter ace
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World War 1 Veteran (Finland) Born: 05/21/1905
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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USAF General
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS McCawley (AP-10) off the coast of Guadalcanal Island, 30 June 1943
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Military
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South African WWII Veteran
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23-year-old American student in his senior year at California State University, Sacramento, who helped avert a massacre when an armed attacker began shooting on a train from Amsterdam to Paris; received France's Legion of Honor
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Last survivor of SAS Squad during World War 2
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Luzon. 6th Infantry Division, 63rd Regimental Combat Team
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Former Turkish Air Force general born 1925, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 for his role in the 1980 Military Coup in Turkey
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4-Star General
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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WWII: 442nd Regimental Combat Team (all Japanese-American unit). Served from May 1944 until the end of the war, incl. the rescue of the Texas 'Lost Battalion'. Wounded 4 times, rcvd 2 Bronze stars.Served with Joe Sakato & Dan Inouye (MOH)
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Japanese Midget Sub Captain (Pearl Harbor Attack) US P.O.W. #1
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Congressional Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
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US WWII Army vet, born 1928. Joined the Texas Guard out of high school, then the Army. Sent to Japan at war's end. Engineer/Supply Sgt. at Sugamo Prison during the Tokyo Trials. Helped build the gallows used for war criminal executions
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Battle of the Bulge Veteran
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: D-Day. 20th Infantry Division
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Korean War Intelligence Officer in the US Air Force. Holocaust Survivor
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WWII Veteran, D-Day Veteran, Fox Company
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WWII - British D-Day veteran of the Pioneer Corps who had the job to clear the landing areas of obstructions, explosives and defences so that troops and armour could quickly get off the beaches
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Retired General
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Civilian underwater welder who barely survived the attack, rescued sailors from the USS Oklahoma and eventually was assigned to remove the main 16-inch diameter guns and three turrets
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Navy
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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WWII: PTO. Aboard the USS Missouri during the Japanese Surrender ceremony
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German WWII Army Guard, born 1923. Last living witness to the July 1944 'Operation Valkyrie' briefcase bombing suicide attempt on Hitler's life at the Wolf's Lair( Wolfsschanze)
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US Navy WW2 Veteran who fought on the the USS Maddox. He was in the Invasion of Sicily
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WWII: Highly decorated Azerbaijanian veteran of the war, who fought for the Soviets. He received the Order of Glory 3rd degree in 1942 for heroic actions, and went on to fight in other battles including the Battle of Berlin. Now 96
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Oberscharführer in the Waffen SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. WWII
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WWII: One of the last 4 Monuments Men, who rescued artwork and cultural pieces during and after WWII
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101st Airborne soldier who helped guard the Little Rock Nine students integrating their high school in 1957
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, USMC
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American WWII Marine, born 1926. Saw action at Peleliu
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WWII: USMC. Radio operator, saw active service in Kwajalein, Iwo Jima and Saipan, where he was wounded
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WWII: PTO. Philippines. Also Korea and Vietnam. Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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Spanish fighter ace from WW2
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WWII: 59th Coast Artillery Regiment. POW at Camp Omori, Tokyo Bay. Captured on Corregidor, Fort Mills, in the Philippines on May 6, 1942 after a Japanese artillery barrage knocked out his machine gun; 'hell ship' transport to Japan
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WW2 Veteran : 30th Infantry Division Sharpshooter at Omaha Beach
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Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy MCPON #5
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Anti-aircraft gunner, 251st Coastal Artillery (California National Guard) on Hospital Point, where the Nevada went aground. He shot down a Japanese Zero fighter plane headed toward the local hospital
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American WWII Merchant Marine veteran of WWII, born in 1925. Part of 'Murmansk Run' convoys bringing supplies to and from the Russian port by international forces challenged by arctic conditions
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WWII: ETO. 388th Bomb Group, 562nd Bomb Squadron, 8th Airforce. Shot down on April 29th, 1944. POW
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker, enlisted 1943, 2nd and 5th Marine Division
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining
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WWII: Navy veteran. Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway. USS Hammann
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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WWII Canadian Lieutenant General
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Italian WWII Biplane Ace, with 12 Victories
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Air Force General
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Puerto Rican criminal, shooter at Fort Lauderdale Airport on January 7, 2017
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Author of 1981 book nominated for National Book Award 'Everything we Had': an oral history of the Vietnam War by the men who fought it. Born 1949,founder Asia America Iniative, an Adjunct Professor in the Institute of World Politics
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US Marine vet, born 1931. Korean War vet saw action at Inchon, and one of the Chosin Few
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Decorated by Gen William Westmoreland, with Silver Star a company commander and Lt. in the US Army during the Vietnam War, graduate of OCS, author of the book 'Letters Home from Vietnam' insturmental in the construction of the NTC Vietnam Veterans Memoria
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WWII: PTO. Los Bańos Raid. Lead scout for the 11th Airborne's Reconnaissance Platoon
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Portuguese military officer and politician, was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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Ww2 womens army service pilot, Flew the pt-19, bt-13, bt-15, at-6, c-78, /SBO Dauntless, AT-9, at-11
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. 290th Infantry Regiment, 75th InfDiv (aka 'Bulgebusters') . Wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. Also joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) before the war
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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US Navy WWII veteran, born 1925. Motor Mechanist on LST-515, delivering supplies and troops to the beaches on D-Day, and picking up the wounded for transport back to England
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WWII: PTO. USS Alvin Cockrell (DE-366). Don?s ship was one of the first to respond to the aftermath of the sunken USS Indianapolis. Don was tasked with recovering bodies - floating in the ocean for days - collecting identification, burying them at sea
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US Air Corps 1942-1945
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII veteran of the Aleutian campaign, and the Battle of Attu in Alaska
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Member of a Band of Brothers
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Last Turkish Veteran of World War One. Born: 03/11/1898
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Former Surgeon General 1998-2002
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Japanese WWII Veteran born 1938
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WW2/Served in the 4th Armored Division of the United States Army, and participated in battles in Belgium, Germany and Czechoslovakia/Drove tank & loader/Worked with M4A1 Sherman Tank/Battle of the Bulge/Age 97 in 2020
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U.S. Army General
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WWII - 4th Marine Division; fought at Roi Namur, Tinian, Saipan, and Iwo Jima. His platoon leader was Henry Bellmon, former governor of and later United States Senator from Oklahoma
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Paul Saunders (2) Saboteur from the U.S.S. Barb WWII
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Author of 'Twin Platoons' and 1 of 100+ young men and women sworn into the Marine Corps at a Minnesota Twins baseball game on June 28, 1967
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1965 lx ray namwas in columbus,ga but not now
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WWII: Pacific Theater, Marine Corps
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WWII: last Polish pilot of the Battle of Britain
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '332nd Fighter Group, Overseas Pilot'
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Antares (AKS-3). The back then unarmed Antares detected a suspicious object near the harbour, informed the USS Ward which then identified it as a Japanese submarine and fired the first US shots of WWII
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WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941 survivor
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doolittle's raiders crew #15 engineer
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US army general
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach. Battle of St. Lo. 90th Infantry Division, 359th Infantry Regiment. 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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Pearl Harbor Survivor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Petty Officer 1st Class Schab, a sousaphone player in the admiral's band, served at the USS Dobbin, a destroyer tender. He saw the Utah capsizing and the USS Arizona explode
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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Ww2 german fighter ace 27 kills
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Paul Schaefer (2)Director for Strategy ECJ5/J-8HQ EUCOM
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Iran Hostage Crisis/444 days of captivity as a hostage in Iran/USAF Attaché
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WWII - Medic on D-Day
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor and a pilot in the first wave of planes in the Battle of Midway during World War II
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Centenarian (1896-2004). One of the last woman voters of the 1920 election, and campaigners for the right to vote beforehand. A WWII Goldstar mother, and a competitive ballroom dancer into her 100's who appeared with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran ( A-1-6, 2nd MarDiv ) of the Battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Arizona
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WW1 Balloonist/Deployed on land and sea for use in observing enemy troops, artillery spotting, & locating submarines. Importance as observation platforms, balloons were heavily defended by anti-aircraft guns and patrolling fighter aircraft
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US Army WWII vet. Fought in the Hurtgen Forest, the Bulge, and held as a POW by the Germans for 4 1/2 month in Stalag 9b
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WWII: USS Helena
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WWII - Navy corpsman at the Battle of Iwo Jima who piloted an LST (landing ship tank) ashore. Also fought at the Battle of Okinawa
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German WWII Interrogator
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Centenarian (1895-2001). US WWI veteran, served in France
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USAF General
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United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honor-'for his actions in World War II
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WWII Veteran, Pearl Harbor Survivor
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Debuted for Cubs in 1941 as right-handed-hitting catcher, but then served in military during WWII, finishing his career in 1951 with Cardinals. He managed Cubs 1957-59 and then managed the Tigers in 1961, 1962, and part of 1963
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German priest, Holocaust survivor and lecturer.Born 07/24/1913
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, Submarine Base, Torpedo Shop
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; later fought at Normandy
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Landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944/Combat Engineer, Mine Detector, 531st Amphib Eng Battalion, 279th, D-Day
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Ww2 german fighter ace 18 kills
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US Navy veteran of three wars: WWII, Korea, Vietnam
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Born 1935 Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. 3 Bronze and Silver Stars and a Legion of Merit
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WWII: Navy fighter pilot at Guadalcanal (VF-14). Distinguished Flying Cross
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Part of raid of WWII POW camp Cabanatuan
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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WWII Fighter Pilot, 357th Fighter Group
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. Radar Operator at Opana Radar Station where they detected the incoming Japanese planes on Dec. 7, 1941. Schimmel, did not see the planes coming, but was told by other operators thus was the 5th person to know of the attack
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WWII Manhattan Project 'Atomic Girl', born 1925. Unable to join the WAAFs, volunteered for a secret mission where she watched meters in Oak Ridge, not knowing why. After Hiroshima, she realized she'd helped produce uranium for the bomb
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia; USS Saratoga
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Veteran
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 508th PIR
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Army Private part of the 'Mountain Troops' caring for the horses and mules on the base. On the day of the attack at Pearl Harbor during WW2
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German economist and former President of the Bundesbank. He is also a German WWII Veteran
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Secretary to Wernher von Braun, from Pennemuende to Huntsville, from WWII and V2 to Apollo and Saturn V
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WWII: German fighter ace (8 victories)
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WWII German Knights Cross Recipient
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Ww2 ace-6 kills
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Canadian Ace of WWII, Pilot
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII, Korea, Vietnam War Veteran
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WWII: Battle of Okinawa. US Army
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WWII: 1st Marine Division, Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: Hitler Youth, Fallschirmjäger, Western Front, POW. After the war, he worked as an aerospace engineer with Wernher von Braun
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Ww2 tank ace- panzers
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Defended Hickam Air Field during the attack. Witnessed the first atomic bomb test from afar
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army general
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Retired German general
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WWII: Luftwaffe radio operator who risked his life to give a Channel Island family some rations. Made international news in 2017
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Tunnel Rat Vietnam War 25th Infantry Div./Author 'In There Own Words: Vietnam'/Wife named Gail, lives in maybe Colorado or Texas
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Chief of Staff of the Army (2003- )
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WWII Marine veteran of Guadalcanal and Peleliu
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Wwii: pto. us navy
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B. August 9th 1920/WW2 Colonel/Received Silver Star for actions in Okinawa/ Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, the young platoon leader would find himself leading a rifle platoon onto the beaches of Peleliu
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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medal of honor army karean war
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Henley
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air force general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Ash
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WWII - D-Day; Company F of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. First American soldier to come ashore from a landing craft at Utah Beach
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WW2 Luftwaffe Ace and Me262 pilot/Shot down by Joseph Peterburs & later became friends
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor (December 7, 1941) USS Phoenix (CL-46)
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WWII: D-Day. Omaha Beach. 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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Memoir, The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army. The ghost soldiers were members of the XX Corps, which earned the title Ghost Corps when, during combat/Typist for a Colonel in G-3
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German ww2 pilot
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Canadian Ace of WWII, Pilot
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Robert Schultz (2) WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Tinian
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WWII Veteran in General Patton's 3rd Army. Wrote a Book
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WWII: German bomber and fighter communications, pilot 1940-1945 (103 missions). 23 night bombing misions (DO-217) over England incl. London (1942/1943). Bf-109 pilot for JG 5 in 1944 in Finland. POW, 3 victories. Also flew ME-109G, ME-110C and JG51
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USS Pueblo
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vietnam war air force hero
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Medusa
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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WWII veteran, POW, born 1915. Captured by the Japanese 12/9/41 when they invaded Guam, he was held POW for 1367 days--the entire war!
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air force general
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WWII: Army Air Corps in the Phillippines. Surrendered and was part of the Bataan Death March (9 April 1942). Spent the rest of the war as a POW. After the war, he went on the be a jeweler and sold Elvis' the first of the famous TCB necklace
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army general
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Retired Army General
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(Born 1924) US Army WW2 Veteran. Company B, 2826th Engineer Battalion, 36th Combat Engineers. participated in the amphibious invasion of Southern France in August 1944. He was in many battles throughout France and Germany during the war
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U. S. General - Desert Storm Fame born 1934
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Non-commissioned officer who served in the German army during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
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WWII - German paratrooper of Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6 (6th Paratrooper Regiment); fought in the Battle of Carentan where his regiment had a direct frontline to the famous 'Band of Brothers' of Dick Winters
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Trever
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WWII: Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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US Army General
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Was a German Officer in WWII, was in the Fuhrerbunker with Hitler. Born: 07/24/1915
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One of the last crew members and survivors of MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which sank after being torpedoed by submarine in 1945 resulting in the greatest ship disaster in history. He is now 86 and recently wrote the book "The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff"
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German WWII Veteran, Waffen-SS
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German ww2 pilot
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air force general
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor. Radioman at 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division. He landed in the first 35 minutes of the battle. His duties also included protecting the Navajo Code Talkers
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RAF fighter ace 5 victorys test pilot
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Cape Gloucester ('Target Hill' aka 'Hill 450', 'Hill 150'), Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
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Air Force General
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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WWII: PTO. Assigned to the USS Lexington (CV-2) before Pearl Harbor, he served there until she was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea on 8 May 1942. Later at USS Suwannee (Operation Torch, North-Africa)
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Bataan Death March Survivor
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James Scott (4)Lz xray 1965 nam
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Author, The Iran Contradiction. Former Military Officer Vietnam 1967. 101st Airborne Divison. Wounded during North Vietnamese Army's Tet Offensive of 1968
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November 30, 1913 - February 5, 1999) was a soldier of the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for actions during World War II
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British-Argentine WWII veteran. Left Argentina as a volunteer for the 794 Naval Air Squadron, part of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Army. Last known Latin American pilot of Spitfire
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Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) 10, from 2002-2006
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Ace and member of the AVG-Flying Tigers
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army general educator
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British Major General, born in 1920, participated in the D-Day invasion
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Morgan Stanley employee working in Tower 2 of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He bravely led the evacuation of 276 fellow employees
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Spitfire Ace - North African desertand Italy
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleiu, Battle of Okinawa. Purple Heart. USMC
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in London, UK. Also a HMS Belfast crew member
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WWII: US Navy. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid. Aleutian Campaign. Philippines
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WWII: Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Exeter, 1 March 1942. Also served during the Battle of the River Plate (1939). Spent 3 years as a Japanese POW
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima
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army general
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German World War 1 (lives in USA)Veteran/Born:12/12/1899
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (Schofield Barracks); Guadalcanal; New Georgia. 25th ID
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Female French Resistance Fighter in WWII
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Pearl Harbor vet, USS Nevada, born 1923. Stayed on the Nevada through most of the war, supporting the landings of D-Day, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Robin in a long series of battles all over the Pacific
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WW2 POW, 'Bridge over the River Kwai' prisoner
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German World War One survivor
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German WWII-Pilot, Ju88 pilot, Mistel mission of WWII
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WW2/Japanese American/Go For Broke/US Army Units served 442nd regiment, 3rd battalion, Company L/Purple Heart; 2 Unit Citations; O'Connor Task Force; Bruyeres
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 7 kills
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Lz xray 1965
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US Navy Vietnam Veteran who served from 1968 to 1974. Fought along with his brother Herb Seller who was in the US Air Force. He was a RM2
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US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1968 to 1972 along with his brother Gary O. Seller who was in the US Navy
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B-17 bomber pilot, WWII, 8th Air Force. Shot down by a FW-109 over Ruhland, Germany, 12 September 1944. Sole survivor in a crew of ten. P.O.W. for 9 months. PH AM POW medals
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WWII: 4th Battalion, 29th Infantry. A communications specialist that served on D-Day (3rd or 4th wave, Omaha Beach), The Battle of the Bulge, Liberation of Dachau
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WWII: ETO. 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. The Ghost Army deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there
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Wwii: eto. d-day
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WWII: D-Day veteran
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Member of the French maquis in WW2
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WWII: PTO. 5th Air Force
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Hungarian fighter ace from WW2
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Russian/Soviet WWII Veteran
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Italian veteran from WW1
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98-years old British veteran of the Spanish Civil War; living in the United Kingdom, featured in the documentary, 'The First Will Be The Last' by Pasquale D'Aiello
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WWII: Coast Guard Yeoman Second Class of the United States Coast Guard (USCG) Women's Reserve, known as the SPARS (from the Latin Semper Paratus, meaning Always Ready.). She served in numerous non - combat roles from California to Alaska
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WWII: CBI. He flew 30 roundtrip missions in C-46s and C-47s over the Hump
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Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
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WWII - Iwo Jima. CO of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Div. His 3rd Platoon, led by 1st Lt Wells, is the most decorated Marines Platoon in history. He is the CO who selected the men who went up Mt. Suribachi
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(Born 1930) US Army Korean War Veteran. 2nd Infantry Division. hit with shrapnel on his helmet and received a severe head wound on October 24, 1952 which he would later get the Purple Heart for. Medically discharged in 1953
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Army General
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Female WWII veteran, WASP pilot (1917-2017). One of the 'Lucky Thirteen' WASP pilots to train and fly the B-17 'Flying Fortresses'
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WWII: US Navy veteran. Battle of Midway (June 1942), Battle of Santa Cruz (October 1942), Battle of Formosa (1944), a.o. Served on USS Russell (DD-414) and USS Houston (CL-81)
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Lz xray 1965
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WWII - D-Day U.S. Navy Seaman U.S. Navy 2nd Class Motor Machinist's Mate. Shaeff was USS LST-290 on D-Day to carry troops and equipment to the shore
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Ace (5 kills - 2 in WWII & 3 in Korean War)- USAAF/USAF, p-47, f-86, me 109
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WWII: Served on LST-474 in the Pacific
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Former Israeli soldier who was held captive by Hamas for five years
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WWII: One of the last 'Rats of Tobruk'. The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Rommel's Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk, Lybia
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'Band of Brothers' '101st Airbourne Division, 506th Parahute Infantry Regiment, Easy Company' 'Battlefield Commission- Normandy'
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Acting Secretary of Defense Jan 2019 -
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Medusa
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Tarawa. USMC. Pictured in a photograph of the battle transporting wounded through shallow water. 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division
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WWII veteran. At a retirement home in Florida, he discovered his good friend and neighbor was a German WWII veteran who'd fought against him at the Bridge at Remagen, and whose outfit had taken the neighbor POW
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Spitfire Pilot, one of the few female Air Transport Auxiliary pilots
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4 Star General
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Patterson. The Navy credited him with shooting down a Japanese plane during the attack on 7 December 1941
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air force general association executive
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Andy Shaw (3)
Member Sioux Tribe stationed Japan 24th Infantry Div./Survivor Korean Death March/29th Reg. Combat Team/Captured Oneui 7/26/1950 marched 40 miles south of Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW 3 months one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured -
Teen US Merchant Marine of WWII, born 1927. One of the last survivors to attend the 2022 Congressional Gold Medal award ceremony in Washington
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach. Battle of the Bulge
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Jack Shaw (2) 'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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John Shaw (2)Artist, Aviation Art, Band of Brothers paintings
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, first wave. A Penobscot Indian who was a medic in the 1st U.S. Infantry Division (16th Infantry Regiment). D-Day was his first day in combat
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former member of the British Security Service (MI5)
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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Jack Shearer (2) Member of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization
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WWII: Melvin served in the US Army in the 6th Ranger Battalion where participated in the Great Raid at Cabanatuan in the Phillipines and was awared the Bronze Star Medal for his actions
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. 5th Marines
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Oldest living Navy World War 2 Veteran. Born: May 17, 1906
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WWII - Ball-turret Gunner of 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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Lyle Shelton (2) (Born 1937) US Marine Corps Vietnam veteran who served from 1955 to 1963
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 99th Infantry Division
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4-Star General, Born Feb 25, 1954
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WWII: ETO. US Army Air Corps. B-17 'Jersey Mosquito', 774th Bomber Squadron, 463 Bomber Group. Shot down on April 6, 1944, over Yugoslavia. POW for 13 months
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper. Flew into Normandy aboard C-47 Skytrain 42-92841 'Turf & Sport Special' and dropped to St. Mere-Eglise on June 6, 1944.Normandy, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. E Co, 2nd Bn, 508th PIR, 82nd AB
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JFK - US Navy rear admiral; naval aide to President John F. Kennedy.
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Tuskegee airmen ww2, flew the curtiss p-40, p-39-q, p-47d, p-51 c, p-51 d
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Military figure
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Was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the Secretary of State (1950-1952) and Attorney General (1953-1957) for the U.S. state of Texas. Also served in the U.S. Army during WWII
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Navy Admiral, last skipper of USS Lexington,
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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air force general
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'Royal Air Force Crewman'
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Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941, USS Arizona
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Japanese politician (1887-1957). WWII Foreign Affairs Minister and post-war Deputy Prime Minister. Signed the WWII Instrument of Surrender, as Japan's representative
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(1916-2002) AVG Flying Tigers CNA & Captain/Hump Pilot with 700 flights Pre-WW2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tgiLSkcvN4
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WWII: 603rd Engineers Camouflage Division, 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. Long and prominent career as an illustrator after the war, working for National Geographic, Life, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian and NASA
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Pearl Harbor survivor (7 Dec 1941), USS Helena. Survived only as he had swiched shifts with a friend
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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009-present)
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Retired Navy SEAL. He investigates phony Navy SEALs, and puts the videos on YouTube
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Wrote under the name Lee Shippey, American author & journalist whose romance with a French woman during WWI caused a sensation in the US as a 'famous war triangle.' Shippey later wrote a popular column in the Los Angeles Times for 22 years
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu
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New Zealand WWII Veteran, Telegraphist in the Royal New Zealand Navy
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Commander of British Troops in Iraq
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. US Army
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WWII Soviet Veteran, Rifleman, Battle of Stalingrad Platoon Commander and Signal Officer, Baltic Region, Tashkent. Lives in Canada, possibly Calgary. Born 1924 Minsk, Belarus
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army general
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WWII: ETO. Pilot, 100th Bomb Group, 351st Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force ('Bloody 100th'). B-17 #42-31767 'Our Gal Sal', the only B-17 of the 351st Squadron returning from the murderous 6 March 1944 raid on Berlin
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Retired General
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Decorated general of the United States Marine Corps who was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, became the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Co C, 1st Bn, 23Marines, 4th Marine Division. His comnpany suffered a 94 percent casualty rate on Iwo Jima; only 16 were non-casualties and only 38 returned home
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WWII: Soviet partisan fighter, living in a retirement home in central Israel
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air force general
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WWII: 34th Field Artillery Battalion (9th Inf Div), operating a 155mm howitzer. North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium, Germany. D-Day (Utah Beach), Battle of Remagen 1945
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Centenarian (1902-2002). US WWI vet, lied about his age to enlist. Sent to France, fought in trenches
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor/ U.S. Marine Corps Guard
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Soviet sniper during World War Two. Credited with over five-hundred confirmed kills. Lives in the Republic of Dagestan, near the Caucasus
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Saipan, Battle of Okinawa. 27th Infantry Division
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Polish publicist and lawyer, former member of the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa (AK)
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(Born 1923) WW2 Bombraider Army Air Corps 384th Bombardment Group
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American Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Iwo Jima campaign
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army general finland
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Iraq US Army veteran who left as a sergeant
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Tuskegee Airmen, Author, WWII
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JFK related/Frogman at Bay of Pigs, lives in Caracas since 70's/Wounded & taken prisoner, Castro refers to these prisoners as 'yellow worms'
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JFK related/Frogman at the Bay of Pigs
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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JFK - Honor Guard at the funeral of John F. Kennedy, leading the naval troops at the procession; also serving the President in functions prior to the assassínation
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medal of honor marines korean war
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WWII: ETO/PTO. Transported troops to both Utah and Omaha beaches on D - Day on LST-501, later again in the Battle of Okinawa (April 1 ? June 22, 1945)
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, aboard U.S.S. Utah during attack!
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WWII: PTO. 96th Infantry Division of the Army, Headquarters Company. Battle of Leyte, Battle of Okinawa. Purple Heart
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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Officer who served in the German army during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
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WWII: ETO. German Luftwaffe pilot; flew the Fi 76, Fieseler 156, Fw 58, He 111, He 50, He 51, He 70, Ju 52, Ju 86, Ju 88, Me 109. As an adopted son of Jewish parents, he witnessed the Holocaust in person
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Ralph Simpson (2) 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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The oldest living woman Marine
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WWII: US Navy. PTO: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid
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WWII, Berlin Airlift (Chief of Navigation & Briefing), Korea, Master Navigator
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doolittles radiers
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2nd oldest man in Canada born 1911. WWII veteran
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(1901-1965) US Army WW2 Veteran. Served in the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. Recipient of 2 Bronze Stars
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Indian war hero, bearer of Param Vir Chakra
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Indian-Singaporean WWII veteran. Member of the Indian National Army boys' brigade. Later served for the Singapore Armed Forces
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Indian military - awarded the Victoria Cross in December 1944
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Spy/C.I.A./US Army General
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Navy veteran of 3 wars: WWII, Korea, Vietnam
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WWII: D-Day. USS Augusta (Admiral Kirk's flagship for D-Day, also carrying Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, providing fire support on D-Day and beyond)
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Sri Lankan WWII veteran and aviator
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US WWII Navy, born 1924. Sent as part of the occupying forces in Japan at the end of the war. Re-enlisted and served as part of the weather recon air squadron for the 1946 Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests in 1946
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Utah Beach. Battle of the Bulge. 915 Artillery Battalion, 90th Division, T.O. ? Tough Ombres
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Carl Leonard Sitter (December 2, 1922 - April 4, 2000) was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer and Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
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Former General of the Polish Army (retired)
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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WWII: Battle of Wake Island December 1941. US Marine Corps. Jack's artillery battery sank the first Japanese ship of the war. POW until his liberation by U.S. forces on September 7, 1945
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WWII: Merchant Marine, Arctic convoys
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Military air force general
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Bataan Death March survivor, born 1917
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WWII: Served on the USS Bunker Hill and saved sailors from the ship when she was hit by two Kamikaze on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa)
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Army National Guard Specialist; 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; Dancing With The Stars Season 21
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Former general in the German Democratic Republic's army
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army general
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WWII: PTO. A Chief Radioman of the VP44 Patrol Bombing Squadron 'Golden Pelicans', a seaplane squadron flying the PBY-5A Catalina. Battle of Midway. On June 5, 1942, his PYB, sighted the Japanese cruisers Mogami and Mikuma
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WWII - Flying Ace, 12 victories
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Military
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Vietnam War Navy Veteran. Served from 1969 to 1972. Was aboard the USS Milwaukee (AOR-2). Participated in the Christmas Bombing of 1972. SK3
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WWII: Last remaining Polish survivor of Westerplatte Peninsula, where roughly 200 Polish troops valiently fought off German troops for seven days in September 1939. POW 1939-1941. Considered the opening battle of WWII
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British expert on conflict, reconciliation and stability, who has worked mainly in the Middle East. She served in Iraq as the political advisor to US General Ray Odierno and General David Petraeus during the surge
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Former United States Navy SEAL/Medal of Honor Recipient
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WWII - WASP. Base assignment_ Love Field, Dallas. Flew B-26, B-39
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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WWII Manhattan Project
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1922-2009). survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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D-Day participant
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WWII - D-Day. D Company, 116th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. 4th wave at Omaha Beach
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WW2 veteran. Nose Gunner on the B17 Flying Fortress
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Retired General Born Nov. 11, 1924
