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German WWII Veteran
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Desert Storm/Shield US Army Veteran. Served from 1979 to 2000
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WWII - D-Day, Ranger 5HQ, in the 1st Wave on Omaha Beach
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WW2/from Poole in Dorset, Wren in Bletchley Park Naval Section working on ?Allied Plot?. A chart of the world covering all 4 walls & Wrens plotted the movement of all the allied ships and their German, Italian and Japanese opposite numbers
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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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Supercentenarian (1889-2002), one of the last Italian WWI veterans, and at the time of his death, the world's oldest man
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WW II Japanese propogandist 'Tokyo Rose'
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WWII: ETO. 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Fought in the famous 'Battle of the Lost Battalion'
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Navajo Code Talker/3rd Battalion/9th Regiment
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker
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One of the first five African American F-4 Phantom II pilots to serve under the famed Tuskegee Airman Gen. Daniel 'Chappie' James
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Retired Israeli Air Force officer. During WWII he served in a group of Palestinian Jewis Royal Air Force pilots. Back in Israel he served in the Israeli Air Force
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. Company A, 2nd Rangers Battalion; landed near to the heavily fortified village of Vierville where he was seriously wounded while getting ashore
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WWII: PTO. B-24 Liberator nose gunner, 40 missions
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WW2, Korean & Vietnam Wars/Medal of Honor Recipient & Awarded Purple Heart U.S. Army/Rank Colonel/1st lieutenant in Company I, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. At Saulx de Vesoul, France location for actions awarding him MOH
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WWII: D-Day, USS Barnett (APA-5), Utah Beach. Wounded in Operation Husky (Sicily, July 1943). Later in the Invasion of Souther France (August 1944) and also in the Battle of Okinawa. Purple Heart, French Legion of Honor Medal
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WWII: USMC fighter pilot of VMF-214 'The Swashbucklers'. Southwest Pacific and Guadalcanal to join Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 214, known as the 'Swashbucklers.' Guadalcanal, Solomon and Russell Islands
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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WWII Vet, lives in Wisconsin
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Czech who took part in The Great Escape from Stalag Luft POW camp
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USMC General
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WWII: PTO. US Navy Flight Nurse in the Pacific
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Survivor of the of HMS Royal Oak which was sunk by a German U-Boat at Scapa Flow in 1939
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3rd Most Successful German U-Boot Commander WWII
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Finnish World War 2 Hero. Birth Name: Lauri Allan Torni. aka. Larry Thorne Born: 05/28/1919
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(Born 1924) US Mairne Corps WW2 and Korean War Veteran. In Guam, Major General Graves Erskine, head of the 3rd Division, presented the Purple Heart
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Artist and veteran of the Spanish Civil War
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WWII: 4th Marine Division. Iwo Jima. Bronze Star. Purple Heart
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navy admiral
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WWII: ETO. 8th Air Force Fighter Pilot
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WWII: USS Yorktown, Battle of Midway
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Lz xray 1965 nam was in windham,oh but not now
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WWII, Berlin Air Lift 1948. He was a radio operator and Assistant Chief of Operations for the Berlin Air Lift
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Tuskegee Airman born May 1919
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WWII: ETO. Nose Art artist for the 32nd Bomb Squadron
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Cavaly officer civil war, lawyer, us ghose of reprsenatives, colorado
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navy admiral
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WWII. PTO: Fire Controlman 3rd Class on Escort Carrier USS Vella Gulf (CVE-111). Credited with shooting down 3 Japanes 'Zeros' in the last weeks of the war. Visited atom-bombed Nagasaki during occupation duty
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One of three Marines that lowered the Embassy flag in Cuba the last time when the Embassy closed in 1961/ Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana 5+ decades raise the Stars and Stripes once again there
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navy admiral
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marine corps general
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Rcaf fighter ace world war 2 -401 sq
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Founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of Sriracha sauce/Vietnamese businessman and former Major in the army of South Vietnam
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One of the last surviving '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 the Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk in WW2. He is 96 and lives in Brassall, Australia
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. B Battery 515th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft)
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Original Rosie the Riviter in wwii posters saying ' we can do it' over 100 yrs old lives in Pennsylvania
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WWII: PTO. SBD Bomber Pilot. U.S.S. Yorktown, U.S.S. Enterprise and the U.S.S. Saratoga
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WWII: B-17 bomber pilot (B-17G Flying Fortress My Mary Myrtle 42-97827), 8th Air force, 1st Division, 457th Bomb Group, 751st Sqdn.; flew 20 missions to Berlin a.o. places between the end of 1944 and June 1945
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Australian WWII veteran and one of the few surviving members of Z-Special unit, the group of Special Forces that assisted downed American airmen. Now lives in Clapham, South Australia. Sometimes known as Jonathan Tredrea
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Retired General
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One of the last survivors of German battleship Bismarck that was sunk on 27 May 1941. He and Otto Peters are now the two last survivors. He is now 90 and lives in Germany
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US Marine, born 1928. WWII (Okinawa) and the Korean War (Chosin Reservoir)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tangier (AV-8); manned a machine gun to shoot at incoming Japanese planes. Later saw service in Guadalcanal, Battle of Midway, Wake Island, Battle of the Coral Sea, a.o. Also invasion of Inchon (Korean War)
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(Born 1932) US Korean War Navy Veteran. Served on the USS Gayuga Count. Was put on a operation and helped save over 3400 Korean refugees
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. In the 2nd wave as part of 6th Engineer Special Brigade
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WWII: ETO. 355th Bomb Squadron, 350th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Waist-gunner/Ball-turret gunner on B-17 'Heaven And Earth'. 35 combat missions, including the huge Berlin raid on Feb. 3, 1945
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navy admiral
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WWII - Iwo Jima, 5th Marine Division, Headquarters Company; radio operator working with the Navajo Code Talkers. Later occupation duty in Japan
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WW2 Navy fighter Ace, VF-29 - 7 Kills
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Ralph Talbot
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WWII: ETO. 17th Airborne Division. Fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and landed in a glider in Operation Varsity (24 March 1945, largest airborne operation in history to be conducted on a single day and in one location)
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Fighter ace 63rd FS, Halesworth
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Former President of the US
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WWII German Knights Cross Recipient
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American writer, born 1947. Military family, descended from Thomas Jefferson. 'Dress Gray', novelist. Village Voice writer, stumbled upon the 1969 Stonewall uprising, and one of the first journalists to cover it
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USMC General
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division. Was captured at the fourth day of the battle and spend the rest of the war as a POW in Czechoslovakia
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US Vietnam POW, born 1935. Held for 7 1/2 years, from July 1965 to February 1973. Photo featured on Time 12/7/70 cover on POWs
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WWII: PTO. Navajo code Talker
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO/ETO. Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor and later a member of the Varsity Victory Volunteers, 442 Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service. He was the first Japanese American to graduate from Yale Law School
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 306th Headquarters Intelligence Detachment, XXIV Corps
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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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WWII: ETO. P-47 Thunderbolt pilot. OOer 100 missions. Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross
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Dutch officer of the Royal Army and Knights of the Military Order of William, the highest order of chivalry of the Netherlands
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Tuskegee Airmen, WWII
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(Born 1939) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Flew the F-105. 12th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 18th Tactical Fighter Wing. Shot down in 1965 in Vietnam and recused
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Lz xray 1965 nam, k.i.a. 1969 nam
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WWII: D-Day veteran, Omaha Beach, POW (escaped)
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor; 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division
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WWII: Aviation Machinist assigned to Torpedo Squadron (VT) 8 (USS Hornet): Doolittle Raid, Battle of Midway. Later on USS Kitkun Bay in the Battle of Leyte
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WWII Pacific Marine vet (born 1924), featured in iconic WWII photo, covered in dirt after a fight in the Marshall Islands, and holding a cup of coffee in front of him
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Finnish WWII Veteran
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Nigerian WWII Veteran
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US Navy vet, born 1927. Witness to Operation Crossroads atomic tests in 1946
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy Merchant Marine veteran; was in the disastrous PQ-17 convoy (27 June - 10 July 1942) when 24 out of 35 ships were sunk by Nazi - German forces
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WWII: ETO/PTO: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Tennessee. Later D-Day veteran
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Army General
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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WWII: Pacific Theater, Battles of Buna-Gona (Papua), Sanananda and the Driniumor River and at the battles of the upper Ormoc Valley (Leyte) and Luzon in the Philippines.Company G, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division
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army general
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World War 1 veteran
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WWII: D-Day. 29th Division of the 115th Infantry
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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Naval Officer who wrote a book on the Kennedy Assasination Bloody Treason: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1997)
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WW2 air ace - 7 Kills - USAAF
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa (Sugar Hill Loaf). C Company, 1st Battalion, 29th Regiment, 6th Marine Division
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Radio Operator at Pearl Harbor December 7th 1941 (Responded to Radar observations of Japanise Planes with 'Don't worry about it')
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu & Okinawa
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Member of Flying Tigers, WWII
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Navy Admiral
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Ueda worked for the Wakayama Prefectural Office. He served in the Japanese navy during the World War II. He also witnessed Hiroshima bombing
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USS Indianapolis Survivor/PFC
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Helena
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, Navy Hospital Ship USS Solace (AH-5), medical corpsman
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Navy medical corpsman, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. D-Day (Utah Beach). Navy signalman second class who carried members of the 4th Infantry Division to Utah Beach
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WWII Rosie (1924-2024). Literally a WWII Riveter, on B-26 bombers, until Navy boyfriend married her on leave. Also, catcher on the company softball team. Born in Swedesburg, Iowa, she ran the Swedish American Museum for decades
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Pearl Harbor survivor (born 1919), one of the last from the USS Utah
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. 25th Infantry Division. Later saw combat in Guadalcanal, Vella Lavella and Luzon
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Witold Urbanowicz (30 March 1908 17 August 1996) was a Polish fighter ace of the Second World War. According to the official record, Witold Urbanowicz was the second highest-scoring Polish fighter ace, with 17 confirmed wartime kills and 1 probable, not
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Japanese pow worked on the bridge over river kwai,death railway and survived bombing at Nagasaki; author of the book 'The Forgotten Highlander'
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Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, veteran of The Battle of Arnhem
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USN Vessel
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USN Vessel
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WWII: 11 war patrols as an officer on submarines USS Drum and USS Runner II
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WWII: D-Day+1; 175th Reg., 29th Infantry Division, Omaha Beach. Also in the Battles of St. Lo and Brest
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WWII: ETO. 793rd Military Police Battalion, Company B. Landed at Utah Beach 3 weeks after D-Day. His battalion mainly was responsible to guard the supply lines of the Red Ball Express. Also guarded Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill
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Former soldier in the Japanese Imperial Army and a prisoner of war in the Soviet labour camps, who came to media prominence in April 2006 after it was found that he had been living voluntarily in Ukraine for six decades after the end of World War II. He h
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American Photographer and WW2 Veteran
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WWII - Navy's youngest beachmaster at Omaha Beach in Normandy during the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion
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Russian survivor of Auschwitz. Lives in the Russian city of Ryazan
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Vietnam/U.S. Marines Master Gunnery Sgt./On-board last helicopter leaving the U.S. Embassy at fall of Saigon/Lives Vista, CA
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Ace(ww2)
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Finnish WWII Veteran, served in the army in a unit with the specialized task of stringing telephone wire behind the Finnish lines, so the different units could communicate with each other. Lives in Canada
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World War 2 Veteran Aged: 100
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Worked at Bletchley Park during WWII as a code breaker
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SSgt, USAAF, 757th Bomb Sqdn. 459th Bomb Group, 15th AF B-24 Gunner European Theater
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS California, Korean War
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Finnish general. He is the former Chief of Defence of the Finnish Defence Forces from 1983 to 1990. He was the last Finnish Chief of Defence to have served in the Continuation War(War against Soviets during WWII)
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WWII Veteran, 100 Years old
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Eighth President 1837-1841
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: D-Day veteran, 5th Ranger Battalion
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Vietnamese General, later minister of Defense, might be living in the USA, in Vietnamese Tran is the lastname and Van Don the first names
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Aylwin
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland. Later served on different ships in many battles, including Guadalcanal, Russell Islands, Peleliu, Midway Atoll, Solomon Islands and Tarawa
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Petty Officer Third Class/Navy Cross/Book written about Nguyen's heroism was later adapted into 1988 movie named 'Bat 21'. In 1999, after classified information released, second book, 'The Rescue of Bat 21' published. Nguyen later emigrated to the U.S.
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Navigator of the Enola Gay Crew. Born: 02/27/1921
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Bocks Car Crew, Navigator, WW II, Nagasaki
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Retired Major General of the Air Force. Born 7/8/1915 was deputy inspector general at US Air Force Headquarters in DC
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WW2 fighter ace from South Africa
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Navy Admiral
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{1887-1973}Was a general in the U.S. Marine Corps. He Commanded the 1st Marine to victory in its first ground offensive of WWII. For his actions during the Solomon Island campaign, he received the MEDAL OF HONOR. Served as the marines18th Commandant
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British Army officer during the Second World War, fought in Operation Market Garden, is portrayed by Michael Byrne in 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977), was born in 1911
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WWII: PTO. 34th Infantry Regiment (the 'Leyte Dragons'), 24th Infantry Division (the 'Victory Division'). New Guinea, Philippines. Saw MacArthur return to the Philippines
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WWII Navy veteran, Battle of Attu, PTO until the end of the war
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining
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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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World War 2 veteran. Served aboard the USS Seahorse, that was headed to Pearl Harbor when it was bombed
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Retired USMC General
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WWII: PTO. Witnesses the Surrender of Japan on the Missouri from the USS Sirona
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WWII veteran, born 1924. Served in the Merchant Marines on the SS James Woodrow, including a Murmansk Run convoy mission
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medal of honor marines vietnam
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Former Director of the White House Military Office (2021-2022)
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WW2/Received the Victory Medal, the American Theater Ribbon, the Women?s Army Auxiliary Corps Service Ribbon and a Good Conduct Medal/Age 102
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United States Navy rear admiral, a Navy SEAL officer and former member of SEAL Team ON
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WWII veteran (born 1918), Army Air Corps (1939-46), flew 117 combat missions in Asia and the Pacific. Commander of the 'Show of Force' B-29 fly-over of planes at the Japanese Surrender Ceremony on the USS Missouri in 1945. Flew B-10, B-15,B-17, B-18, B-19
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Tuskegee Airmen mechanic Born July 7, 1920.He is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal (in 2007) and of the National Defense Service Medal in 2019, for his service in the Korean War
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She was the first woman to deploy with an Air Force bomber unit, and the first woman to reach the rank of brigadier general from the comptroller field. In 2000, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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Director of Air Force Recruiting
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Member Of The Flying Tigers (AVG) During WWII
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Veteran of the Mexican Revolution. Poncho Villa's driver
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WWII: Royal Navy veteran of the HMS Glasgow. Operation Stonewall, D-Day, Battle of Cherbourg
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WWII Fighter Ace (11 Victs.), Dive Bomber Pilot at Coral Sea awarded 3 Navy Cross medals during WWII
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United States Navy rear admiral and surface warfare officer who serves as the commander of Navy Recruiting Command since April 3, 2020. He previously served as the senior military assistant to the 76th United States Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spence
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German World War One survivor
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'Vietnam War'/Air Force & Army/Joined 1966/Worked support to bombers/Chaplin Army Reserve Desert Storm
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Detroit
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co-pilot memphis belle
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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WWII: PTO. 5th Air Force, 90th Bomb Group, 320th Squadron
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Tinian, Saipan and Iwo Jima. 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion 25th Marines, 4th Division. 3 Purple Hearts
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D-Day. 101st Airborne, 501st PIR. 2nd combat jump at Operation Market Garden (September 1944), also in the Battle of The Bulge. Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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army general
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army general
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WWII: Survivor of the Battle of Coral Sea (1942), USS Sims
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Diplomat and WWII veteran. Was Ambassador to the European Union during the Reagan administration
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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USS Oklahoma survivor - Pearl Harbor attack
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Retired United States Army four-star general who last served as the 18th commanding general of the United States Army Materiel Command
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US Army Vietnam Veteran. Air Cavalry
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WWII Navy vet, born Nov 11, 1915. Participated in Okinawa, Ie Shima, Iwo Jima, New Guinea campaigns. Served as the ship's Chaplain while on the USS Ganymede, possibly the last to work as a full Chaplain in WWII
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Spy/Serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in US Department of Defense/Served Army Special Forces as non & commissioned officer & Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary operations officer elite Special Activities Division
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Member of the French Maquis in WW2
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Former President of Argentina 1976-1981, Army General, is under house-arrest
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(Born 1980) US Marine Corps Afghanistan and Iraq War Veteran. Navy Cross Recipient
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WWII: ETO. Ammunition chief of the 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion 9th Armored Division. Battle of the Bulge
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South African general born in 1933, last Boer general alive
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WW2/RdM2/C, USS Chatelain that captured the U-505
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the AT-10, BT-13
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Military
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Centenarian (1901-2001). US WWI veteran, enlisted underage. Served in France with the Heavy Artillery/Howitzers
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge and other major battles. 740th Tank Battalion ('Daredevil Tankers')
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American attorney
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WWII: CBI theater, 'Hump Flyer' (5th Ferry Group ATC Air Transport Command). Completed 174 crossings of the Hump in 650 hours, stationed at Sookerating AFB in India
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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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Italian fighter ace from WW2
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Fighter ace
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WWII: PTO. USS Shangri-la. He was a tail gunner on a Helldiver. His squadron flew over the battleship Missouri during the signing of the Peace treaty at the end of WWII
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WWII: among a handful of youth from the Hashomer Hatzair. She escaped just as the Nazis stormed the Warsaw Ghetto and executed everyone left. Currently living is Israel
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Last surviving participant of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Iwo Jima. Later fought in Korea (Chosin Reservoir) and Vietnam
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WWWII - Iwo Jima. 23rd Marines, 4th Division. Also fought in the Marshall Islands, Saipan and Tinian
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, France, Belgium, Germany. 35th Infantry Division, 134th Infantry Regiment, Company L
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US Army WAAC/WAC vet of WWII, born 1921. Served stateside, ended up at Lubbock Army Airfield in Texas. Posed for a recruitment poster, but it was unused due to the war ending
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WWII: 17th Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group. Joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. Survivor of the Bataan Death March. Hell ship survivor (Tottori Maru ), POW (Cabanatuan; Mukden, China; Kamioka, Japan)
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Military
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Fomer U.S. General and Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe
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Wwii: pto. usmc
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WWII veteran, born 1917. A Navy seabee, he survived being buried in an avalanche while on Attu Island in Alaska, and later served in the Philippines and construction on Tarawa. His career as a surveyor into his late 90s led to fame as Indiana's oldest act
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Attempted to assassinate Hitler.
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German Ambassador in London 1970-77. WWII received Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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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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Last survivor of the July 20 Plot that attempted to assassinate Hitler
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German WWII veteran who was taken POW at the fight for the Remagen Bridge,later to escape in the last days of the war. Years later, he immigrated to the US. At a retirement home in Florida, he discovered his friend and neighbor was a US Army vet who fough
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German WWII Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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German ww2 pilot
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Joachim von Ribbentrop's daughter
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German tank ace of WWII (14 victs), Awarded the Knight's Cross - Son of former foreign minister of Nazi-Germany Von Ribbentrop
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Joachim von Ribbentrop's daughter
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The oldest son of Claus von Stauffenberg, a conpirator that attempted to kill Hitler in the July 20 plot
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WWII: PTO. Navy: USS Bataan. Battles of Iwo Jima, Guam and the of the Philippine Sea
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German WW2 Resistance Fighter/ Born: 1904
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WWII: PTO. USS Kline APD 120, Underwater Demolition Team 11 (UDT-11)
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battle of Tarawa
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navy aviator (blue angels) hero
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WWII: ETO. Bomber pilot, 100th Bomb Group, 8th AF
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Born Feb.14, 1958, 4 Star General
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WWII Fighter Navy Ace (19 Victs.)
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WWII: PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8). Witness to the Doolittle Raiders taking off of the Hornet for Tokyo
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army general
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Czech pilot ace who fought for France in the Battle of France and for Britian in the Battle of Britain
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U.S. Army
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WWII: Marines (E-2-6, 2nd MarDiv), Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania; later in the battles of Guadalcanal and Tarawa and Bariki (last part of Battle of Tarawa)
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Senior commander in Royal Australian Air Force. Wackett introduced parachutes to the Australian Air Force and made the country?s first free fall parachute descent from a military aircraft in Australia on May 27, 1926
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WW2 Veteran:442nd Regimental Combat Team,'E' Company
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Longest Living Buffalo Soldier. Born: 1908
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Devonshire)
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(November 1, 1955-August 31, 1991), pilot of 'Boston', involved in the U.S. Army's first round-the-world flight
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103 Walmart worker & meet Sam Walton, Served in the Air Force during World War II serving in India and China/Flew the Hump, Himalaias/After landing a job with Walmart back in 1983, he still works five day a week at a the location in his hometown
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Centenarian (1899-2007), one of the last US WWI veterans, and the last living US Marine of WWI
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WWII: Dunkirk/D-Day. British Royal Engineers soldier, who, during the Dunkirk evacuation, helped to construct a pier made of abandoned lorries on the beach at La Panne. On June 6, 1944, he returned to France, landing at Sword Beach
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army general
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Congressional Medal of Honor, US Navy, WWII
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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Australia's most decorated WW2 War hero. Code name: The White Mouse. Born: 08/12/1912
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WWII: PTO. USS South Dakota
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air force general
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Overcame massive claustrophobia/ fear of heights to become a fighter pilot. Flew missions in Iraq, SE Asia, & Kosovo during Operation Allied Force. Awarded numerous prestigious medals. Author and professional speaker
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WWII: PTO. Army Air Corps. 307th Bomb Group, 13th Air Force
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Burke Waldron began his military service in July 1943 in Pearl Harbor and was part of both the Makin Island and Saipan invasions
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) #3
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British George Cross recipient
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Edwin Walker (3)
11/10/1909-10/31/1993 US Army officer fought in WW2 & Korean. Known for ultra-conservative political views & criticized by Ike for promoting a personal political stand while in uniform/Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to kill him 4/10/1963 -
'Tuskegee Airmen'
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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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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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Jim Walker (3)272nd Military Police Co.Vietnam
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach (Ranger); wounded in Carentan
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british army comm.-in-chief
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Oldest WWII veteran. Born 2/5/1909. Served in the Women's Voluntary Service. Lives in Kingwood, Oxfordshire, England
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Retired United States Army four star general who served as Commander, Allied Land Forces South East Europe (COMLANDSOUTHEAST) from 1977 to 1978
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William Walker (2)Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
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American photographer (1905-97) Made iconic D-Day photos, until shrapnel destroyed his left leg which had to be amputated. Post-war career as illustrative photographer for Life, Sat. Evening Post, Time, and others
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army general
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Royal millitary
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WWII - Paratrooper of Fox Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne (Screamin' Eagles). Combat jumps at D-Day and Market Garden. Was in the Battle of the Bulge, helped capture Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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Georgia centenarian, born 1911. Born in Oklahoma and a Dust Bowl survivor. Believed to be the US' oldest living Eagle Scout. Army Captain in WWII, commanded 4416th Quartermaster Company.in Europe and on their way to the Pacific when the war ended
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WWII - 82nd Airborne, 507th PIR. Combat jump into Normandy(D-Day), fought for 21 days, then captured, escaped near Paris, joined the French Resistance, captured again until the end of the war (Stalag 12A and at a camp near Leipzig)
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Lz xray & lz albany 1965 nam 2/7th cav
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WW2 US Navy serving from 1943 to 1965 as a E5 Air Traffic Controller. Was in battles Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. (Born 1927)
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor; Chief Petty Officer USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor December 7, 1941, USS Pennsylvania; was with 'Communication Force'. Was in 6 Pacific landings including Iwo Jima
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Full name is George Peter Walls, Lieutenant General who served as the Commander of the Military of Rhodesia, and later Zimbabwe, is living in exile in Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Staff Sgt. James Harley Wallwork DFM (21 October 1919 - 24 January 2013) British soldier, member Glider Pilot Regiment achieved notability as pilot of 1st Horsa glider to land at Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944 WW2
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First Responder 9/11 Terrorist Attack September 11, 2001
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Joe Walsh (5) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. A 3rd Defense Battalion Marine, Walsh manned anti-aircraft guns during the attack. Later served on Johnston Atoll
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WWII American Fighter Pilot Ace
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WWII: 2nd Ranger Bn, D-Day, Pointe du Hoc
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USMC four-star general who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. 2 Navy Crosses for extraordinary heroism during World War II. ('Walt's Ridge')
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Lives in the UK or New Zealand
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air force general
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Veteran, WWII Korea and Vietnam, 31 years of active duty
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British U-Boat hunter of the costal command in WW2
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, USS Pennsylvania. born 1918
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 6 victories (and 12 probables); flew the P-38 and P-47. Wingman to America's highest-scoring air ace Richard Bong
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Curtiss (AV-4)
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Veteran of WWII and the Korean War. Participated in the five European Campaigns of WW II, including Normandy, the Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge. Memoir 'Country Boy Gone Soldiering' was published in 1999
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Wheeler Field
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WWII: Served aboard the USS San Francisco from Pearl Harbor until 'The 3rd Battle of Savo Island' off Guadalcanal in 1942. During the encounter he was seriously wounded
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Usmc sniper vietnam - confimed killed 63author DEAR MOM- A SNIPERS WAR
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Peter Ward (3) WWII: British Arctic Convoy and D-Day veteran
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WWII: B-17 ground crewman in the 100th Bomb Group ('The Bloody Hundredth')
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WWII submarine Skipper and Admiral last known to be living in FL
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WWII, Pearl Harbor Survivor
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Downed by enemy fire on mission, badly injured endured 3 week's hell In hellish Vietnam Jungles. When his captain revealed his membership in the Ku Klux Klan, their situation that took a roll putting him on the road to becoming a general
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(Born 1990) US Army Afghanistan War Veteran. Recipient of the Army Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during Operation Enduring Freedom
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French survivor of Auschwitz and heroine of the French Resistance. She moved to Manchester, England
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Special Agent in charge, Norfolk Field Office, NCIS
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(Born 1941) US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. As a Marine aviator flew over 100 combat missions in Southeast Asia. POW 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/Lai Khe - First Infantry Division - July 1969-October 1969. An Khe - Fourth Infantry Division - October 1969-January 1970, Program Director. Da Nang - Third Marine Division/24th Corps - January 1970-August 1970, Unit Director
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Army paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division and Author
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WWII veteran, born 1924, one of the last few living vets to have served as an Assistant Chaplain in the war
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Retired General
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WWII: Canadian air force pilot who participated as a pilot in the Dieppe Raid
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Tuskegee Airmen ww2
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WWII: Served on the USS. Enterprise CV-6 (a.k.a. 'The Big E' and 'The Galloping Ghost') from 1942 to 1945
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; USS MacDonough (DD-351). Well-known Southern Utah public figure nicknamed 'The Flag Man'
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WWII. Worked at Bletchley Park as a code breaker of the enigma
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Navy Seal with Seal Team Six, Silver Star (Somalia), author, chiropractor
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WWII: He saw action in the South Pacific from 1942-46, piloting massive PBY and PBM seaplanes, hunting submarines, rescuing sailors and downed airmen, almost losing his own life in a kamikaze attack. Later Assistant Secretary of Commerce
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Buffalo Soldier, one of a few still alive
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Tuskegee Airman
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air force general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Was stationed with the 98th Coast Artillery at Schofield Barracks, but had traveled to the Navy yard that morning, where he witnessed the attack
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WWII: Pearl Harbor suvivor, US Navy Pearl Harbor firefighting group
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC Platoon Leader. Silver Star, Gold Star
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war hero, Victoria Cross receiver; later became a High Court judge and was knighted in 1971
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WWII: PTO. Fighter Pilot (USS Yorktown)
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Canadian World War 2 Veteran (Canadian Forces 1929-1953. Born: 07/13/1912
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Soccer player for Bristol Rovers 1945-1963. Served in the Royal Navy during WWII
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WWII - British sailor on HMS Vindex; several trips to Murmansk, Russia, during the Arctic Convoys of WWII; occupation duty in Hiroshima starting only weeks after the a-bomb
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. 6th Naval Battalion
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'Tuskegee Airmen' 'The Fighting 99th Squadron' the original Tuskegee group!
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United States Marine Corps private who received the Medal of Honor for his actions on Iwo Jima during World War II. He single-handedly killed 90 enemy soldiers, thus enabling his plat
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tangier
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battle of Tarawa
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Served time in the British Army before pursuing a career in corporate technology. Author of the Awakened Trilogy, Don't Move, First Activation, and the Invasion series
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WWII: Air Force pilot; flew the 101st Airborne on D-Day
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Pearl Harbor Survivor 'Was on weekend pass & headed to Scholfield Barracks where he was stationed with the 289th Regiment when the attacks started'
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US Army Vietnam Veteran
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WWII. PTO. Served on the submarine USS Skipjack, SS-184 (famous for the 'Battle for Toilet Paper')
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WW2/From Wythall Worcestershire, member of Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Worked on German police messages in Mansion @ Bletchley Park. Messages revealed beginning of the Holocaust with the massacres of 1,000s of Jews on eastern front
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
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John Webb (3) D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in London, UK. He was with the 5th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment
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US Air Force brigadier general. Photographed with Obama in White House Situation Room during raid on bin Laden's compound
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma, born 1918
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WW2 Veteran-Combat Infantryman 54th Armored Infantry Battalion Of The 10th Armored Division
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WWII: Marine Corps fighter pilot in the South Pacific
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WWII Naval Pilot (Born 1915). Pearl Harbor survivor, stationed at Kaneohe Bay Air Station. Witness to MOH John Finn's actions. Later served across the Pacific for the remainder of the war
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United States Army commander who served in Asia during World War II from October 1943 to the end of the war. Previously, he helped plan the Normandy Invasion
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WWII: PTO. US Army Air Corps. Guam
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Founding member of the German counter-terrorist force GSG 9
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WWII: PTO. Served aboard the USS South Dakota (BB-57). Luzon, Leyte, Philippines in general, Formosa, Okinawa
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WWII: PTO. Served in the United States Army in the South Pacific during World War II from November 29, 1944 to October 25, 1946
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WWII: Marine Corps flamethrower 'Flaming Joe' in the Battle of Iwo Jima, fought there for all 36 days of the battle. 5th Marine Division, 28th Marines, 3rd Battalion Headquarters Demolition Platoon. Flagraiser Ira Hayes was his friend
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army general
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS Columbia
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(Born 1929) US Marine Corps Vietnam War Veteran. 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines. During Operation Napoleon/Saline and at the Battle of Dai Do where he was seriously injured. For his actions at Dai Do Weise was awarded the Navy Cross
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army general
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navy admiral
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WWII: PTO. 228th Signal Operations Company. Philippines 1940, POW
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Daughter of Otto Skorzeny, famed nazi commando
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WWII: PTO. Gunner on escort carrier USS Anzio
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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
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German ww2 pilot
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Fighter ace world war 2- 5 kills flew the p-38
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Pearl Harbor survivor, served on the USS Maryland. Helped to drill through the hull of the next-door capsized USS Oklahoma to save men on board
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Retired General And Former U.S. Air Force Chief
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 4th Marines Division
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WWII - survived the Battle of Kohima, 1944
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Navy veteran, author, and candidate for Congress from NJ
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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WWII. Merchant Marine. Trips to the Mediterranean, Suez Canal, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf
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Fighter ace world war 2 vmf-323 death rattlers- 5 kills
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Landing Ship, Tank (LST) 1035
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WWII Marine vet at Iwo Jima (1922-2016). Led the platoon attack on Mt. Suribachi that planted the first flag on the summit. His platoon became one of the most decorated in US history
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1922, he was the youngest Spitfire pilot
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Air Force Chief of Staff (2012-Present)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. USS Arizona survivor
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WWII Battle of the Bulge veteran, Nuremberg Trials guard for Field Marshal Hermann Goering
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-6 victories, US Navy, VF-16
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Former Navy SEAL, wrote novel, Men In Green Faces.
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U.S.S. Arizona survivor (Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941)
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WWII: USS Helena
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WWII: Merchant seaman in the 'Murmansk runs' of World War II
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Known in WWII as the One man army or the Ghost of Bataan
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Fighter Ace - Korean War - USAF - 5 Kills
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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medal of honor army korean war
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A 99-year-old war heroine who worked on the top secret preparations for the D-Day landings, has followed in Captain Tom's footsteps by walking 100 laps of her Dedham garden
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WWII Pilot Ace- Flew the P-38 & P-40--[14 victories]- DSC
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Rick West (2)
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) 12 -
WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1998-2000)
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USS Arizona Survivor - Pearl Harbor
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Tuskegee airman
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WWII: PTO. USS Balch (DD-363). Saw Pearl Harbor arriving on Dec. 8, 1941; his ship was in Task Force 18 (Doolittle Raid), saved nearly 600 sailors of the USS Yorktown when she sank in the Battle of Midway; supported the Guadalcanal campaign
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WW 2 vet/USN/Mechanic in Navy, stationed in the South Pacific and the Philippines
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Naval Air Station Kaneohe
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Retired US Army General
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falklands war hero
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Medal of Honor Army Vietnam
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army general
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Army General, Chief of Staff of the USA army (1974-1976) Born: 09/15/1916
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WWII: USS Intrepid. On the flight deck aboard the USS Intrepid when she was hit by 2 kamikazes
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WW2 veteran. A decorated soldier whose military career lasted through the Vietnam War. He became an anti-nuclear activist. Father of former bassist of the Talking Heads Tina Weymouth
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Centenarian (1895-2001). US WWI veteran. Sent to France, marched to the front just as the war ended
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WWII: Battle of Midway
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Army general
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Women's Army Corps
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, New Guinea campaign, Battle of Saipan
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Company G, 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division
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WWII: ETO. Truck driver in the Red Ball Express, 104th Infantry, 3rd Battalion, 26th Yankee Division. Taken POW while supplying the front lines in November 1944
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WWII Veteran, wounded in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Battle of the Bulge. Glider pilot
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WWII: Medic, 1st Infantry Batallion, 10th Armored Division, 3rd Army. Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 6th Marine Division
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63rd Inspector General of the Army. Served as Chief of Staff, CENTCOM during OIF and OEF
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WW2 US Army Veteran. 97th Infantry Division
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US WWII Marine vet, born 1915, wounded by a grenade at Iwo Jima. One of the last living workers who built the Hoover Dam in the 1930s
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Major US Army Ret - Buffalo Soldier during WWII. Author - Give Me My Spirit Back; The Last of the Buffalo Soldier
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OSU end from River Rouge, MI, Played on Ohio State's first National Championship team in 1942. After military service, finished his career with Michigan and became the only player to win national championships with 2 different schools when they won in '48
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(Born 1980) Afghanistan War Veteran. Squad Leader with Company A, 1st Battalion, 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173d Airborne Brigade. Distinguished Service Cross recipient for actions in Khost Province, Afghanistan in 2008
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Pearl Harbor Veteran, USS Schley
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Kenneth White (3) Ww2 veteran
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Former Army Sgt, to recieved the Congressional Medal of Honor on May 13, 2014, for his actions during a dismounted movement in mountainous terrain in Aranas, Afghanistan, on Nov. 9, 2007
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Phillip White (3)Vietnam veteran who was in the 23rd Americal Division. Purple Heart recipient for being injured by a NVA grenade
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WWII: USS Balch (DD-363), USS Boston (CA-69), USS Bladen (APA-63). Naval engagements include Marshall-Gilbert and Wake Islands, Midway, Guadalcanal-Tulagi, Eastern Solomons, Marshall Island, Kwajalein, Majuro, Eniwetok, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
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test pilot air force general
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, Operation Varsity. 507th Parachute Infantry, 17th Airborne Division
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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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
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navy admiral businessman
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Returned to the United State/New York in 1965
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navy admiral
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WW2 Dunkirk Veteran (Born:1920) was a medic with the Royal Army Medical Corps and tended the wounded as the troops of the British Expeditionary Force withdrew towards the coast. Now 96 and lives in Laindon, Essex
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Born March of 1945. Australian Vietnam Veteran that was with the Australian SAS,7RAR, and 3RAR
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1965 lz-xray
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Tuskegee Airmen (Would have to be 83 years old or older if lied about age & entered at age 16 to become an Airmen)
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WWII: Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. An electrician, Whitney was on break from his job when he saw the last plane fly over the mountain. He worked salvage duty on the electrical portions of various ships for the next month
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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WW2 POW forced to work on the bridge at Burma Siam Railroad that was featured in the film 'Bridge Over the River Kwai'
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WWII: Battle of Midway pilot
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WWII/UK: In the rear guard at the Battle of Dunkirk, he was left on the beach and eventually managed to jump on board a Dutch fishing boat back to England. Later as a paratrooper, he was in Operation Market Garden (Battle of Arnhem)
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers',
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Spy/Hot wars/cold wars & a few sub-war dust-ups/Served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense, the CIA, and the White House
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army general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland
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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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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
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US Army WWII veteran, born 1919. CCC member, 1938-40, and made an Army supply sargeant thanks to his CCC experience for WWII's Saipan battle
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German ww2 pilot JG 11
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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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Born in 1922 in Bloomfield, Nebraska. Served in the US Army during WWII. Fred was assigned to the Station Hospital at Fort Des Moines without going through typical basic training
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Lufftwaffe ace 133 victories in wwII
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WWII German Knights Cross Recipient
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Savo Island (USS Vincennes)
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WWII: Fighter Ace, 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF
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Lz xray 1965 nam 1st cav
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
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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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WWII: Bataan Death March
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WWII: Sailor B.C. Wilborn manned an anti-aircraft gun during the attack upon Pearl Harbor; later surviving amultiple Kamikate attack at the USS Columbia on 6 January 1945 when he earned a Purple Heart; Race Horse Owner
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII - D-Day, in the first wave at Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division, 115th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, E Company, First Scout of the 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WWII: Torpedo Bomber pilot, Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, USS Yorktown (CV-5), USS Enterprise
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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British soldier involved in the Bloody Sunday massacre, living with his wife Linda somewhere in rural Belgium
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German U-boat commander (Born: 1914) in the Atlantic during WW2 (Submarine U-704) Lives in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany. Now 103
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WWII: Served on the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) which sank the Japanese aircraft carrier HIJMS Shinano, on 29 November 1944
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WWII: ETO. B-17 co-pilot, 351st Bomb Group. Shot down, Dutch Undeground, POW
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Former U.S. Naval officer, first Commanding Officer of the USS Nautilus
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WWII: British pilot of the Battle of Britain, flew with the Duxford Wing (served with inspirational Second World War flying ace Sir Douglas Bader) and joined No 19 Squadron in October 1940 and later joined 234 and 165 Squadrons
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WWII: ETO. 745th Squadron, 456 Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. B-24 pilot. Distinguished Flying Cross, European-Asian Eastern Ribbon, Air Medal with 2 Oakleaf Cluster. 51 Combat missions incl, missions to Ploesti
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Neil Wilkinson (2)HMS Intrepid crew member during Falkland Islands War, his actions are the base for the play 'San Carlos Hilton'
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(Born 1957) US Air Force Veteran. Was in Cold War, Invasion of Panama 1989-1990, Somalia 1993, and Haiti 1994. Air Force Cross Recipient
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navy admiral
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Biographical Information Name: Conrad J. Will State of Birth: PA Home State: NJ Gender Male War or Conflict World War, 1939-1945 Military Status Veteran Dates of Service 1943-1945 Entrance into Service Enlisted Branch of Serv
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Served as a guard for Pope John Paul in 1987 Persian Gulf War, 1991 with Army in Saudi Arabia Operation Desert Storm, Operation Desert Shield
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia 1944-1946
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US Army WWII vet, born 1917. Served in the 738th Artillery of Patton's Third Army, through France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. Toured Buchenwald concentration camp after its liberation. Career as a dentist
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Commander US Pacific Fleet
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Last surviving veteran of the Second Battle of El Alamein during WW2. He is now 95 and lives in Rotherwick, Hampshire, England
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WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
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WWII Veteran; Marine - Tank Driver; Iwo Jima
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WWII: PTO. USS Teton. Surrender Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945
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Served in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve during WW2 born 3/1/1921
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WWII: PTO. US Army Air Corps. Gunner, B-29 Flying Fortress
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Fighter ace ww2 1/19/1919
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Charles Williams (2) Tuskegee Airmen
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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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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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Tuskegee Airmen
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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
