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WWII Veteran, D-Day, Omaha Beach Normandy, France. 5th Rangers Battalion. Has an article about him on D-DAY Eyewitness Accounts Of WW2
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Born in Neustadt-Glewe on 2 October 1923, was a guard at two concentration camps from November 1944 until April 1945
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Co-inventor of games, including Twister. Also an author and illustrator
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Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate born 29 July 1898. Worked on the 'Manhattan Project' (Trinity). Nobel laureate 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance.
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Born Williamsburgh, Brooklyn c. 1934, is an Italian-American Bonnano crime family mobster and reputed acting boss or consigliere of the Bonanno family
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WWII: US Navy. Scotland; Russia; Caribbean
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Vice Admiral within the United States Navy and leader of the project to develop the Polaris missile system. Vice Admiral Raborn was also the 7th Director of Central Intelligence and the 5th Director of CIA
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Former Prime Minister of Fiji after leading a series of military coups
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German political activist and ship captain (Sea-Watch), born 1988
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WWII: PT boat gunner (PT-81) who saw action in the Aleutian Campaign and later in the Pacific, where he was severely wounded while defending a U.S. ammunition supply ship during a Japanese kamikaze attack, nearly losing an arm and a leg
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JFK Assassination/Texas School Book Depository Clerk employee bookkeeping department for six months in 1963 Virgie Rackley a.k.a. Mrs. Donald Sam Baker, says she never meet or knew Lee Harvey Oswald
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Robert Rackstraw (2)
Private investigative team believe D.B. Cooper is an individual named Robert Rackstraw who flew helicopters in the Vietnam War and is now 73 and living in the San Diego area -
Holocaust survivor
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American serial killer who murdered 10 people in and around Wichita, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. He was known as the BTK killer
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British folk-singer/songwriter, youngest known participant in D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1928. He is now 88 and lives in the UK
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WWII: Pearl Harbor Survivor, 7 December 1941, served on the USS California
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WWII, German Fighter pilot, Jagdgeschwader 51 (JG 51)
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WWII: B-24 bomber pilot of the 53rd Bomb Group, 753rd Squadron, 8th Air Force, who was instructed by none other than Jimmy Stewart himself
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air force general
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TWA PILOT/Race and Test Pilot
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Born 1938 US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. 2 Bronze Stars, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, 1 Legion of Merit, and 1 Defense Superior Service Medal
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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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WW2 Pilot
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Retired General
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June 15, 1919 - January 23, 2011 Texas lawyer for more than fifty years. She was the first female prosecutor in Dallas County, Texas. She spearheaded a coalition to establish the Marital Property Act of 1967, and the Texas Family Code
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American economist, syndicated columnist, and entrepreneur
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Nepalese Gurkha awarded the Victoria Cross in June 1944
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Unverified World War 1-Era Veteran from Nepal served in Gurkha Regiment. Lives in United States (New Hampshire) Born: 01/01/1900
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United States Congress from 1967-1983 for Illinois's 19th congressional district/last surviving members of the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Richard M. Nixon
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Member of the AVG-Flying Tigers WWII--[3.5 victories]
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Spy/March 8, 1971 with her Husband John, took a lock pick and a crowbar and broke into a Federal Bureau of Investigation office in a suburb of Philadelphia, making off with nearly every document inside
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Spy/March 8, 1971 with his wife Bonnie, took a lock pick and a crowbar and broke into a Federal Bureau of Investigation office in a suburb of Philadelphia, making off with nearly every document inside
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Survivor of the 1970 Kent State shooting. Went to the demonstrations with friend Dean Kahler, who was shot and paralyzed. In the moments after the attack, he cradled the bloodied Sand Sheuer as she lay dying
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United States Army general, serves as the commanding general of United States Army Futures Command
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, aboard the USS Maryland. Fought the rest of the war in the Pacific front, witnessed the surrender of the Japanese from the deck of the USS Wilkes Barre (CL-103)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII air force hero & Ace (275 victories)
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51st Oldest Living Person in the World. Born: 10/17/1899
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Ringling Brother?s Circus Fire
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Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (1996-2000); Supreme Allied Commander Europe NATO (2000-03)
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Military
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WWII Pilot aboard the USS Enterprise - Took part in the 'Marianas Turkey Shoot), Commander of USS Independence, RADM, Navy Cross Recipient
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(born 1952, Indian-born American and British structural biologist, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, 'for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome'
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Engineer
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Member of the Munich branch of the student resistance group White Rose. Born: 10/11/1913
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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WWII: 91st Coast Artillery, Philippine Scouts. POW. Bronze Star
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Serial Killer- 'Night Stalker'
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'The Jackal' (assassin)
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WWII German Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot Ace with 46 victories
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Author, historian - Unbroken Will
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American Physicist.Born:05/13/1913
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Nobel peace laureate 1996
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British Army officer, served in the Indonesia?Malaysia confrontation and Northern Ireland
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World War One Veteran
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1989 Nobel Prize Winning Physicist. Born:08/27/1915
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WWII: ETO/PTO. USS Nevada (BB-36). D-Day, Southern France, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. Survived a Kamikaze hit and a bombardment from a shore battery that struck the ship on starboard side; one shell passed directly through his bunk on the 2nd deck
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navy admiral
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navy
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Randall has been variously described as a 'serial killer', despite only having two convictions for murder, and as a 'notorious criminal'.
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American theoretical physicist and leading expert on particle physics and cosmology
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WWII: ETO. Radio Operator, 297th Combat Engineering Battalion. Normandy, northern France, Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. Bronze Star
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International Brigade Rakosi Battalion, XIII Brigade
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One of two last survivors, and the last female, of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. Born: 1915. She recently celebrated her 105th birthday. She lives in the USA
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Sister of Buell Wesley Fraizer JFK November 22 1963
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WWII - Local Californian baseball icon; contemporary witness of the Port Chicago, CA, disaster in July 1944
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'Royal Air Force Group Captain Battle of Britain Museum Hendon'
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Civil Rights Activist (1889-1979). Founder of Pullman Car Porter union, 1925. Led push to have FDR and Truman end military discrimination and segregation. Official head of the 1963 March on Washington. Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1964
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Retired Air Force General
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, aboard the USS Sacramento
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WWII Ace (10 Kills) 56th Fighter Group - USAAF - DSC
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Inventor, TIME's First-Ever Kid of the Year (2020)
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Scientist
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Flight scientist NASA Flight Director
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Veteran of both World War 1 and World War 2
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1918-2010) , survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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Human rights activist and advocate of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in America
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Danish WWII Veteran
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WWII Army electrical engineer (b.1920) assigned to the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site. One of the last surviving witnesses of the first atomic explosion, the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945
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first officer on the D.B. Cooper flight in 1971
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British Nobel Laureate physician-scientist. He is best known for his work on cellular reactions to hypoxia, for which he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William Kaelin Jr. and Gregg L. Semenza
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Norwegian WWII resistance fighter and politician
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WWII: PTO. 5th Air Force, 43rd Bomb Group, 63 Squadron
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Estonian-Swedish art historian, editor, and journalist.
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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Scientist
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American historian of education and educational policy analyst. Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. In 2013, she joined forces with writer and former teacher, Anthony Cody, to create the The Network for Public Education
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Iban Scout from Johore in Malaya, who won the British George Cross for gallantry
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WW II Sailor; survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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David Ray (3)
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(Born 1954) US Marine Corps Gulf War Veteran. 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion, 1st Marine Division. Received the Navy Cross. Retired as a Colonel
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American criminal convicted of the assassination of civil rights and anti-war activist Martin Luther King, Jr
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One of oldest people in the world. Born:05/17/1895 Lives in New Hampshire. 2nd Oldest Person in the World One of only three people living today born in the year 1895
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. First Marine Division
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Owner of the Venice Beach Freakshow that was once a sideshow attraction located on the historic Venice Beach in California. Had own reality series known as 'FreakShow' on AMC
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WWII. PTO. USS John C. Butler. Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Leyte Gulf, a.o
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Tuskegee Airmen pilot
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WWII - Pearl Harbor. US Navy. The first diver to enter the sunken USS Arizona. Author of the book 'Descent into Darkness'. Born Oct. 18, 1920
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4-Star General: first Chief of Space Operations - United States Space Force. Currently oversees organizational stand-up & transfer of officers/enlisted personnel into the newest service branch. Previously was commander of US Space Command
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WWII: ETO. 333rd Squadron, 944th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. DFC
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One of six teens that went to JFK Airport to see the Beatles in 1964 and Ringo Starr took a picture of them. Pictured in Starr's book 'Photograph'
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Survived both collapses of the twin towers of the WTC while in the Marriot Hotel on the WTC complex
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WWII: 1st Bn, 27th Marine Regiment. Served in North Afric and the Pacific Theater
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Parachuted into Normandy France as part of the Normandy Invasion 6 June 1944 as well as a 95 year ols 75 years later
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(Born 1922) US Coast Guard WW2 Veteran. Utah Beach D-Day
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Connally's press rep., delivered one of 1st eyewitness reports FK's assassination to media, nationally prominent Texan corporate communications & public affairs counselor part of state's business & political scene for 1/2+ a century
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Was the arresting officer of the Kray brothers
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Eric Bana played his life story in 'Chopper'
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USN Flier. During World War II, he saw action in 11 battles in the Pacific theater and was awarded the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. He became a vice admiral in the Reserve in 1960
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Donut Dolly in Vietnam. Author
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Flight astronaut sts-42,51,79
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JFK - Secret Service 1960-1981, on the right front running board of the follow-up car in the Dallas motorcade, pictured in a series of famous Kennedy assassination photographs
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Typhoon of 3 June 1945. US Navy, LST-1122
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WWII: PTO. Defense of Corregidor 1942. POW. Camp Cabantuan. Hellship Totori Maru. Osaka Camp #1, slave labor. Osaka Sakai Prison. 60th Coast Artillery
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American supercentenarian and currently the oldest black person in the world. Born in 1898
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US centenarian, born 2020. Served in the Civilian Conservation Corps (1938-39), then in the Air Force in Germany at the end of WWII (1945-46)
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Burned but not taken to Hartford Hospital for 4 days. Then taken to hospital run by Army doctors - so could be given penicillin for the infections. It had not yet been released for use by civilians
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WWII: Montford Point Marine (first African-American Marines), served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam
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Dick Reavis was the reporter who asked a Branch Davidian member where Mt. Carmel was, tipping off the group of the impending ATF raid. Helped transport wounded ATF Agent to EMS on hood of his truck
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Air evacuation nurse for the U.S. Army Air Force
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Veteran of Polish-Soviet War. Born: 1907 (1920 Battle of Warsaw)
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The owner and occupier of the Palmer family home, seen in Twin Peaks. She appears onscreen in the final episode of the series
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WWII: US Navy. Aviation machinist mate aboard the escort carrier USS Petrof Bay in the Pacific ; his carrier was engaged in various battles, including Iwo Jima and Okinawa
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Battle of Stalingrad survivor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS San Faancisco
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United Airlines Flight 232 co-pilot
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WWII - Flying Tiger Ace, 10.5 victories
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US WWII Army veteran, born 1923. 45th Infantry, saw action at Anzio and Operation Dragoon in South France. Later, a Phys Ed teacher and member of NYS Wrestling Hall of Fame
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WWII: D-Day. 24th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized). Landed on Utah Beach on June 6, 1944, advanced from Normandy to Cape de la Hague, then to Cherbourg, where he was wounded by an 88mm shell that blew his jeep into the air
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Born in 1898. Claims to have fought in the Mexican Revolution. Lives in Illinois, U.S.A
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(Born 1975) US Navy SEAL Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Severely wounded in Fallujah, Iraq by heavy fire in 2007. Author of books like The Trident and Overcome
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Political campaigner
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) who knew Richard Bong, Top American Ace of WWII
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney
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101st airborne, c co- not band of brothers
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Co - founder of the music group The Dramatics. He witnessed the events at the Algiers Motel in 1967 and was harassed and beaten brutally by the police. The movie Detroit was based on these events
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Sam Reed (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Former Secretary of the Air Force
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German Author/Publicist, Victim of the Reemtsma-Kidnapping in 1996
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Last man out of the tunnel in the Great Escape during WWII
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Scientist
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air force general
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Futurist, historian, author, keynote speaker, businessman. Books include the award-winning 'Infinite Progress: How Technology and the Internet Will End Ignorance, Disease, Hunger, Poverty, and War.'
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Civil rights activist, educator (born 1929). One of the 'Courageous Eight' who helped organize the Selma Marches in 1965, and the man who extended an invitation to Martin Luther King to join them
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Ward, , which is credited with firing the first U.S. shots of World War II
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air ace usaf 475th squadron satan's angels
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Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science
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World war 2 fighter ace- 6 kills - 530th FS, p-51, pt-22, p-40, c-45, bt-13, c-47, at-6, b-25,pq-13, b-26
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Archaeologist and social historian.
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Young schoolgirl who was at the 1963 Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed 5 others
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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German tank ace in World War 2, at least 17 tank kills (was awared the Ritterkreut after his 17th victory)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Utah. Later served on the USS St. Louis in the Battles of Kula Gulf and Kolombangara
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII French Resistance double agent and composer/lyricist (1922-2002). Co-wrote the Christmas classic 'Do You Hear What I Hear' with his wife in 1962
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Born 1942 US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. 2 Bronze Stars and Legion of Merit
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Pitcher for West Point he then pitched in 17 games for the U.S.A. in the 1993 World games. He pitched a couple of minor league games in 1996 for the Orioles but was recalled to military duty. He died in Afhanistan while serving
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Former general in the German Democratic Republic's army
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Captured Green River Killer; US Representative-Wash.;
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WWII - Pearl Harbor veteran. B-17 copilot arriving at Pearl Harbor by chance during the attack. Shot down by Japanese, landed at Hickam Field, the plane broke apart, shown in an iconic photo of the day
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Harry Reid (3) Retired rocket engineer, hired to work with Von Braun's team in 1958. Worked on the recently launched Explorer I satellite project, and then a career at NASA, with contributions to the Apollo and Skylab missions
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Scottish Flight Lieutenant WW II was awarded the Victoria Cross for action during air combat over Dusseldorf, Germany on November 3, 1943
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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. As of 2018, she is the oldest National Park Ranger in the United States, born Sept. 22, 1921
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
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astronaut
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First Disneyland Ambassador (1965) and 2015 Disney Legend. She hosted along with Walt Disney the 'Disneyland 10th Anniversary' episode of 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.'
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Raleigh
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Deemed the 'mother of comfort food,' Dorcas Reilly led the team that created the Green Bean Casserole in 1955, while working as a staff member in the Home Economics department of the Campbell Soup Company
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Flight astronaut sts-89,104
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WWII veteran. Honored by the President during the 2019 State of the Union Address
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Commnader Military Sealift Command
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JFK: Military Academy at West Point Cadet representative at a White House reception in early 1961
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army general chief of staff
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Air Force General
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JFK - Member of The Old Guard, serving the Kennedy family and also Honor Guard at the funeral of John F. Kennedy
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WWII: PTO. 1st Marines Division. Battle of Cape Gloucester , Battle of Peleliu.Wounded twice
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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Survivor of the sinking of the S.S. Andrea Doria in 1956 (Born: 1935) He was 21 at the time and was one of 1,706 passengers and crew on the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria . He lives in Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Former general of the German Democratic Republic's army
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Korean War: Battle of Chosin Reservoir, US Marine Corps
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WWII Fighter Ace, F4F Wildcat Pilot - US Navy - 9 Kills - Navy Cross
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Israeli Professor of Chemistry and D.H.C. Enrique Berman Professor of Solar Energy at Institute of Chemistry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, author of 532 scientific papers cited more than 30,000 times
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Niece of Greta Garbo
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Astronaut; spent three months in space in 2008, including a seven hour spacewalk
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Astronaut
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Journalist and author who survived Jonestown
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Known as 'Hitler's Favorite Test Pilot'. Hanna was a German Nazi test pilot who tested many different types of German planes throughout World War 2. She is also the author of The Sky My Kingdom
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Neosho (AO-23). Born July 8, 1919.
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Former cosmonaut from Czechoslovakia, the first Czechoslovak in space (the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States)
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Firearm manufacturer and designer. Founder of the Remington Arms Company
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commander 18th wing
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Gun Entrepreneur Died 1892
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WWII PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid
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American polymer chemist, inventor, and professor emeritus. He is noted for his contribution to the development of Teflon. Born: 10/12/1910
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Flight scientist NASA Human Space Flight
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Military
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U.S. Attorney General (1993-2001)
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army general
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Air Force General
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WII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Trained for the Marine Air Corps, he never flew but had to endure sniper attacks at Okinawa where his CO was killed
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WWII: Soviet pilot during the Second World War, flew 307 missions and was named a 'Hero of the Soviet Union' in 1943. Now age 98 and reportedly lives in Russia
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Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 ? January 28, 1986) was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died when the Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed during the launch of mission STS-51-L
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Filipino-American journalist and author, the co-founder and CEO of Rappler, and a Nobel Peace Prize 2021 laureate
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Colombian American Supercentenarian born 1906
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Author/Editor at Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security
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Adventurer, fist swede to climb Mt Everest
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British engineer (Born: 1912) who worked as personal assistant to the creator of TV John Logie Baird in the 1930's. He is one of the great pioneering engineers of British television in the 1930's. He is now 104 and lives in East Anglia, UK
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Former FBI Associate Deputy Director/Noted Homeland Security Advisor, Appointed to SuperCom Advisory Board
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WWII: Arctic convoy (Murmansk) veteran, D-Day veteran (HMCS Algonquin)
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Russian cosmonaut that was selected in 1996, and completed spaceflight training in 1998. He served as a crew member aboard the International Space Station, having launched on his first spaceflight on 15 May 2012 and returned
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Russian cosmonaut. Flew on Soyuz TMA-04M / ISS-31 / ISS-32. Graduated from Moscow Institute of electronical technics, 1989 with an engineering degree; worked until 1993 for NPO IT, Korolyov, then for the GKB within the RKKE; was selected as cosmonaut on
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Thornton
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor at Schofield Barracks, 7 December 1941
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Centenarian - World War I Vet Born: 05/04/1901
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) called 'Sexy Rexy'. Last WASP of South Dakota and as an Oglala Lakota, she is the only female Native American to serve in the WASPs
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma, Navy Seaman First Class
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Air Force General
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Mastermind of the Great Train Robbery, Author of 'The Autobiography of a Thief'
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WWII - Iwo Jima. Corporal in the Baker Co. 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of the 4th Marine Division, Also Roi-Namur, Saipan, and Tinian
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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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Retired Navy Admiral
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Jim Reynolds (2)Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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air force general
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WWII: Veteran (2nd Marine Division) of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian
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Civil rights lawyer and jurist
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Served in Pearl Harbor, Luzon, Guadalcanal, the Northern Solomons, and Manila. Us Army
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Went to Oran, Africa, Sicily, Italy, and the Philippines during the war. USS Boise
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Former Executive Director of the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum and now serves as the Cincinnati Reds team historian
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American writer and historian. Won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for non-fiction in 2006 and has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She won a 2012 Whiting Award
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(Born 1986) US Air Force Afghanistan and Iraq War Veteran. Recipient of an Air Force Cross and 3 Purple Hearts
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Scientist, founder 'Community of Sant'Egidio'
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII: ETO D-Day, Utah Beach, D Company, 359th Regiment (Heavy Weapons Unit), 90th Infantry Division. Also in Hill 122 (the Battle of Mont Castre and Le Plessis-Lastelle, July 3-12, 1944), and The Battle of Chamois (Falaise Pocket)
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Labor and consumer rights activist known as the 'Ralph Nader of Harlem' Born 1919,
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C-47 pilot that dropped paratroopers near the town of St. Mere Eglise as part of the D-Day invasion of France; later also flew paratroopers into Operation Market Garden
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Author and historian
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He was the first helicopter pilot to fly Lyndon Johnson as President on the evening of Nov.22/63
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Wounded in the hip and later got the Purple Heart
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U.S. World War II D-Day veteran Tom Rice, from Coronado, California, parachutes in a tandem jump into a field in Carentan, Normandy, France, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. WWII: ETO. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, Eagles Nest
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Air Force General
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Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11). Later on transport USS Kittson in the Battle of Okinawa
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President of Planned Parenthood
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Dave Richards (2)Retired Royal millitary
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Centenarian. She and her sister Marjorie Ruddles were recognized as the oldest living sisters until her died in December 2012
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Archaeologist Presenter, BBC2 Meet the Ancestors, Blood of the Vikings. Mapping the Town, Radio Four.
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WWII: MTO. Anzio. Darby's Ranger
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astronaut
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Flight astronaut sts-28,41,50,64
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WWII US Navy (b. 1923) Served on USS Valve and USS Hitchiti. Marshall Islands, Leyte, Luzon, and Okinawa campaigns
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Retired 4 Star General
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2020 Alliance Party nominee for Vice President
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Ex gangster, former rival of the Kray Twins, part of the Richardson gang
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Was Attorney General under President Nixon. Resigned, rather than fire Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox.
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Civil Rights activist, born 1922. led the Cambridge Movement. One of the few women honored at the 1963 March on Washington, tho the mike was taken from her as she started to speak, due to efforts to keep women in the background at the time
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Jack Richardson (3) WWII: PTO. Edson's 1st Marine Raider Battalion. Tulagi, New Georgia, and Guadalcanal (Battle of Bloody Ridge, first and second Matanikau, Tasimboko Raid)
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Retired United States Army lieutenant general
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Fluconzaole ,anti-fungal drug inventor
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Four-star general in the United States Army who is the commander of United States Southern Command
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Nobel physics laureate 1996
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British Army officer during the Troubles, before becoming General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland
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Member of the Flying Tigers (AVG) WWII
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Flew three sorties over the coast of Normandy on D-Day--the Allied invasion of German-occupied France. About 600 feet below his P-38 Lightning, more than 180,000 Allied troops came ashore in what became known as the ?Longest Day.?
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Retired General
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Tuskegee Airman, flew P-40 and P-47 aircraft
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Was one of the Greensboro Four. On February 1, 1960, they sat down at a segregated lunch counter in the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's store, challenging the store's policy on segregation. This event was a major milestone in the African-American
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Former Surgeon General 1977-1981
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma
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Nobel physics laureate 1976
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1900-1985. Seismologist and physicist, known in particular for creating the Richter magnitude scale of measuring earthquakes
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American Engineer, born 1927. JPL/NASA Project manager for first US satellite, Explorer I. First person to get it's communication that it was in orbit. Left for private career in engineering and consultation
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII & Korean War: Navy corpsman
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Son of WWI Hero Eddie Rickenbacker
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LCDR - US NAVY Blue Angels
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FBI: Main Spokesman during the Waco / Branch Davidian Standoff
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Civil Rights activist, born 1943. Worked with SNCC, the Selma march, and the Black Panthers. In Mississippi after James Meredith was shot, he coined the term 'Black Power!' which his friend Stokely Carmichael then helped popularized
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President of USA Track and Field, the sport's governing body in this country, from 1996 to 2000competed in discus in the 1960 U.S. Olympic Trials
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in johns island,sc but not now
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Lz xray 1965
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Iditarod Champion 1985 // First Woman to Win
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TCU Professor & Author/'Lone Star Leaders: Power and Personality in the Texas Congressional Delegation' (TCU Press, 2011), 'The Austin-Boston Connection: Five Decades of Democratic House Leadership, 1937-1989'
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Sally Ride's mom and advocate for death row inmates to be exonerated
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First American Woman in space
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Leyte, Battle for Cebu City, 182nd IR, Americal Division
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WWII: PTO. USS Yorktown
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(Born 1949) US Marine Corps Vietnam War Veteran. Company B, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. POW from 1968 to 1973. Recipient of a Bronze Star and 3 Purple Hearts
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American serial killer known as the Green River Killer, is one of the most prolific serial killers in American history
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U.S. Army General (World War II, The Korean War)
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Pioneer in dolphin behavior and medicine research. Author
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Holly Ridings (2)Flight scientist, NASA flight director
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American educator, historian, and editor
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PFC, USA, H Co., 301st Inf., 94th Infantry Division, 3rd Army Combat Infantryman Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland & Central Germany campaigns
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WW2 fighter ace - 5 Kills - US Navy
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Pilot of the shuttle carrier aircraft that carried the Endeavour on its last flight
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Professor of Astronomy & is the principal investigator for the near-infrared camera (NIRCam) on the James Webb Space Telescope
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Sergeant U.S. Armty Silver Star Recipient
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Retired U.S. Navy Master Chief Boatswain's Mate - WWII and Atomic veteran, served from 1940-1966, skipper of LCU-974, participated in four nuclear weapon test operations: Castle, Wigwam, Redwing, and Hardtack I
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American astrophysicist, 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt
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German WWII Veteran, Kriegsmarine
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Tunnel Rat/Vietnam War
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Veteran, born 1943, of the 101st Airborne, 327th Division that was called into service by President Eisenhower to protect the Little Rock Nine students integrating the high school in 1957
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World War One Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 1st Platoon, I Company, 106th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division
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Serial killer
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WWII - D-Day paratrooper. 82nd Airborne, 505th PIR, General Gavin's staff. His responsibilities included determining the drop zones for the Normandy invasion. 2nd combat jump (Operation Market Garden), also in the Battle of the Bulge
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-5 victories, USAAF, 352 Fighter Group, 487 Fighter Squadron
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Has worked on the Hubble telescope
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army general
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WWII: Battles of Midway, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinian. NASA: Explorer I (first US satellite 1958), Alan Shepard (Mercury-Redstone 3), Chief Engineer/Deputy Director for Apollo Space Program, Skylab, director Launch Operations Apollo-Soyuz '75
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WWII: PTO. Seabee (carpenter's mate) of the 301st Naval Construction Battalion on Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima
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Longtime member of the New jersey mafia and the reputed boss of the Decavalcante crime family
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Survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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WWII: ETO, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. Featured in a famous Robert Capa photograph that appeared in Life magazine on May 14, 1945, taken on April 18, 1945, during fighting in Leipzig
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WWII: D-Day. 29th Infantry Division. Severely wounded in the Battle of St. Lo (July 1944); returned to combat in the Battle of the Bulge and was Goering's MP at the Nuremberg Trials
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Became part of the Texas Rangers in 1947 and was assigned with Company B in Gainesville/After 30 years of service Rigler retired, and lived to be the second oldest living retired-Ranger/His Book; 'In The Line of Duty'
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Born 5/1925.Oldest working nurse in the country
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Mafia Boss
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Retired Astronaut
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Was there with JFK after he was shot, transported body to airport via ambulance
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
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1973 Spingham award
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Supercentenarian born 1896. Oldest person in Australia
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal (AR-4). Later served at Italy, France, the Battle of Casablanca, and also was a witness to the a-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll
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WWII: Marine Corps fighter pilot; Korea: napalm runs at the Chosin Reservoir; Vietnam: flying for the CIA (Air America); stunt flights for the 2001 movie 'Pearl Harbor'
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American soldier in one of Robert Capa's 11 D-Day invasion photos. Private First Class, Company F, 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
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Jack Riley (3)Agent that helped capture El Chapo
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army general
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Flight Attendant , was a Pan Am stewardess aboard the White House Press Plane during the Kennedy Years , was at Love Field the day of the assassination
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne. 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division
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Inventor - High resolution radar & sonar. Inducted into the National Inventors Hall Of Fame in 1994. Composer for Broadway & Off-Broadway productions. Retired lecturer from M.I.T
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(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Served on the USS West Virginia. Went to Leyte Gulf, Sulu Sea, Lingayen Gulf, Surigao Strait, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Witnessed the Kamikaze attack on the West Virginia. At Tokyo Bay for the Surrender of Japan
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal secretary
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Author, 'A Game of their Own-Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball', college professor
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NASA pilot - X-57 Maxwell, NASA's first all-electric experimental aircraft, DC-8 flying science lab, (SOFIA) Boeing 747SP, the F/A-18, the Beechcraft B200 Super King Air and the remotely piloted X-56 multi-utility technology testbed
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W.a.s.p. ww2 womens army service pilot
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WWII Nazi war criminal; worked as guard with an SS-trained attack dog at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for women; deported from US to Germany in 2006; only female Nazi war criminal to be caught & deported; now living with her sister in Viersen, Germany
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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 German Knights Cross Recipient born Sep 14 1924
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(Born 1931) US Navy Korean War and Vietnam War veteran. Corpsman during Korea getting 2 Purple Hearts. Was a Navy Seal during Vietnam. 2 Bronze stars and 5 Purple Hearts
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Asst Mgr Citibank in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) April 1975- the month that Americans evacuated (then) South Vietnam. Realizing that his co-workers at Citibank would likely face death after a Communist take over-he figured out how to get all 105 of them
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An American ornithologist and wildlife conservationalist; Secretary of the Smithsonian (1964-1984)
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WWII Luftwaffe Ace 28 victories e.g. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Spanish writer and linguist. 8th Count of Casa Dávalos and Grandee of Spain. President of the 'Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona' since 1965 and one of the last surviving veterans of The Spanish Civil War. He is now 98 and lives in Spain
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Born 1925. WW2 Veteran. Navy Guard Veteran. Enlisted at age of 17. Was on Armed Ships And Mercant Vessels. 91st Birthday August 16, 2016
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WWII: Merchant Marine. Murmansk Run
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JFK - Doctor on that team that worked to save Lee Harvey Oswald at Parkland Hospital after Jack Ruby shot him
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in mt juliet ,tn but not now
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Korean War Ace (8 kills) and a long-time POW in Vietnam - AFC x2
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Mountain climber
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One of only three US Air Force fighter aces of the Vietnam War, and one of only five in total
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Navy Seal's Team dog trainer & author
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WWII: PTO. USMC Diver Bomber Pilot, VMA-331
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coast guard admiral
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WWII: PTO. Alpha Company, 1st battalion, 1st Marine Regiment. Solomon Islands, New Britain, Peleliu and Okinawa
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Lz xray 1965 nam-was in benito, tx but not now
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WWII: USS Bunker Hill. Survivor of the Kamikaze attack in May 1945. Also served in the Korean War
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WWII Soviet Veteran, fought in the Battle of Stalingrad. Lives in Canada, possibly Toronto
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Military
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Banika Island, Russell Islands, Okinawa
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WWII: Roi-Namur, Tinian, Saipan, Iwo Jima. 4th Marine Division
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WWII: PTO. USS Fieberling. Shot down a Japanese fighter plane
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nobel med. laureate 1954
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WW II ace with 22 victories
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WWII WAVES vet, born 1921. Raised pigeons as a girl, accepted into the Navy's pigeon program. Pigeons used mainly to communicate with blimps used for scouting enemy subs and more, avoiding the possible detection of radio messages
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WWII: ETO. 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division
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American archaeologist, author, and historian who is known for discovering the site of Henry David Thoreau's house at Walden Pond
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Dallas Policeman assigned crowd control on Main St. during Presidential Motorcade and , after Oswald's shooting , guard duty at Parkland Hospital
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Youtuber, former NASA and Apple engineer
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World War II ace
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WWII: USMC. Guam, Iwo Jima
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French bare-handed urban climber; AKA 'Spiderman'
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Canadian D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1923. He was in the first landing craft ashore and was the second man to hit the beach. He is now 91 and lives in Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
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JFK - Secret Service; in front of Presidential Secret Service follow-up car in the Dallas motorcade when Kennedy was assassinated
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WWII US Fighter Ace (9 Victs.)
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Larry Roberts (3) Roberts and his team created packet switching and the ARPANET, which was the predecessor to the modern Internet
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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One of the last Spanish Flu survivors. As of April 2020, she is 103 and living in Australia
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Last surviving Bletchley Park codebreaker who cracked a German cipher machine in WW2. He was among four members of the Testery section tasked with breaking the German Tunny code. Also known as 'Raymond 'Jerry' Roberts'
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1993 Winner for Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Real Life Cop portrayed in movie 'American Gangster'
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Member of the Little Rock Nine; group of African-American students who enrolled in all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Awarded Congressional Gold Medal in 1999
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WWII veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Maryland
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Australian Victoria Cross (VC)recipient
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American ww2 B-29 Superfortress Pilot
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Green Beret presumed dead after his helicopter was shot down in a 1968 secret mission over Laos, has been found more than four decades later in south-central Vietnam/Can only speak Vietnamese
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A reporter for WFAA in 1963 , he was present at the Texas Theatre when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested
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WWII: St. Lo. One of the two French kids sitting at the top of the destroyed St. Lo watching an US patrol driving through the rubble on June 15, 1944, in a very famous war photograph
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WWII: St. Lo. One of the two French kids sitting at the top of the destroyed St. Lo watching an US patrol driving through the rubble on June 15, 1944, in a very famous war photograph
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Born December 25, 1951, designed interactive computer graphics software and developed Adventure, the first graphical adventure video game for Atari 2600
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1st Lt. US Army Air Corps WW2 veteran who flew a P38. (Born 1924)
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Navy Surgeon General
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Saipan, Battle of Okinawa. 27th Infantry Division: Headquarters Company, 3rd Batallion, 105th Infantry Regiment:
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WWII Veteran, longest serving Enlisted Man
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Author, Major General
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First African American to become Chancellor of University of Arkansas
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Tuskegee Pilot
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WWII veteran, born 1922. Pearl Harbor survivor, Schofield Barracks
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Ret Colpresent at lz-xay in 1965 vc slapdoawn
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WWII: British Arctic convoys veteran ('Murmansk Runs')
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Author of the memoir Look Me in the Eye, detailing his life with undiagnosed Asperger syndrome and savant abilities. Created the signature special effects guitars played by the band KISS. Brother of memoirist Augusten Burroughs
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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world war 2 fighter ace vf-2 - 5 Kills - US Navy
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Air Force General
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Claims to be Oprah Winfrey's father
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Engineer/Scientist during World War 2 and work on The Manhattan Project. Born 2/1924
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Astronaut
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Army General
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Vietnam US Army Airborne Infantry Vet/deployed 1969/Bronze Star for valor, Combat Infantry Badge, National Defense Service Medal, Sharpshooter Medal with auto rifle & rifle bars, Marksman Medal with machine gun bar & Parachutist's Badge
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American Chemist who studied the effect of temperature on a baseball. In 2017 Rocks conducted an experiment studying the effect temperature has on a baseball, with Paul DeJong as his laboratory assistant.
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Flight scientist, Director of the European Space Agency
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British WW2 veteran who was captured at the Fall of Singapore, he was sentenced to 15 years at Sakai Prison in Osaka and faced the the firing squad, only to be saved at the last second. Born: 1916. Recently turned 100. Lives in Canada
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94 laureate, medical with Alfred G.Gillman
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WW2 fighter ace - USAAF - 8 Kills
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Received Medal of Honor 3/18/2014 for his actions in the Vietnam war
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WW2 Flying Ace & Flying Tigers Pilot
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WW2 Veteran-Anti Tank Gunner 27th Infantry Division On Saipan
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WW2 Veteran-4th Marine Reconnaissance Company
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Author/Speaker/Widow of Challenger Space Shuttle Commander Richard 'Dick' Scobee
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Wireless operator in the WRNS who intercepted enemy signals
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Pearl Harbor survivor - Section Base, Bishop's Point
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David Rodrigues (2)United States Army General who served as the Commander, United States Africa Command
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(Born 1959) US Air Force Gulf and Kosovo War Veteran. With three air-to-air combat victories, he joined 3 other USAF pilots as the closest to becoming a flying ace of any U.S. pilot since the Vietnam War. Flew F-15 Eagle's
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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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C.G. 82nd Airborne Division
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Félix Ismael Rodríguez Mendigutia b.5/31/1941 former CIA officer known for involvement in Bay of Pigs Invasion, in interrogation & execution of Marxist guerilla Che Guevara & his ties to George H. W. Bush during Iran-Contra affair
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medal of honor army korean war
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Author/illustrator, dancer/choreographer, rapper, environmentalist, teaching artist. Themes range from anti-bullying to understanding children with autism to environmental awareness
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Navy Admiral
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Former janitor at the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001, attacks and was in the basement of the North Tower when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the building.
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. 515th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft) Medical Detachment
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Polish seargeant world war II
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Is an Irish clergyman known both for his work as an army chaplain and as a rugby union player, played for London-Irish
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Music producer and filmmaker and descendant of Washington and Emily Roebling who built The Brooklyn Bridge. He is now 46 and lives in Brooklyn, U.S.A
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WWII Stuka Ace/Roell is credited with 83 victories during the war and is a German Knights Cross Recipient
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Scientist
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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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USN Admiral
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WWII: Homefront. Rosie The Riveter at Glenn L Martin factory in Bellview, NE, making B26's
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field
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Lieutenant, USAAF, 15th AF B-24 Pilot, Ploesti Oil Fields Raid Veteran
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USS Pueblo survivor, Korean War POW
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army general
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Retired General
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WWII: Marine Corps, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8?23 December 1941
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Military
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Guidence and Control system leader on the New Horizon mission to the dwarf planet Pluto
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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Mike Rogers (5)Eyewitness to the UFO case where his friend and co-worker Travis Walton was abducted by aliens in the forest near Snowflake Arizona in 1975.
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98-Year-Old nonagenarian athlete born 11/1917 who set the World Indoor 1500 Meter Record. He now owns every age group world indoor track record from the 800 meters up
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company ('Band of Brothers')
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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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Lawyer represented the Catholic Church in Sex Scandal case that became the movie Spotlight. Played by Laurie Murdoch in that film
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infamous teacher caught in scandal
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Former US Mint sculptor; Designer of the reverse side of the United States Golden Sacagawea dollar; also made four of the State Quarter designs
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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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Former detective sergeant of the New South Wales Police Force, and a convicted murderer
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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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World War II veteran pilot who attained the rank of LGen and was the person credited with effectively removing Rommel from the war. Address is Park Place Corporate Centre 15 Wertheim Court, Suite 503 Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 3H7
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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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Nobel physics laureate 1986
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German WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht
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PSL nominee for NYC Mayor 2021
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Soviet Nurse, Word War II, WWII, Stalingrad
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air force general
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Historian. Wrote about the Confederacy and Civil War
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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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German born psychologist and parapsychologist who in 1958, alongside J.G Pratt defined a 'poltergeist' as a paranormal phenomenon which consists of events alluding to the manifestation of an imperceptible entity. He is now 85 and lives in Georgia, USA
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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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American astronomer who was one of the first female executives at NASA. She is known to many as the 'Mother of Hubble' for her role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope. First Chief of Astronomy in NASA's Office of Space Science
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(born August 1, 1944) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, spening a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space and 18 hours in space walks. His son, Roman Romanenko is also a cosmonaut
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(born August 1, 1944) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, spending a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space and 18 hours in space walks. His son, Roman Romanenko is also a cosmonaut
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One of the richest gangsters in mob history, a crooked Wall Street broker
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Egyptologist, regular guest on TV programmes such as Ancient Aliens
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American economist, a pioneer of endogenous growth theory, and a co-recipient with William D. Nordhaus of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
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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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American boy who at age 13 became the youngest climber ever to reach the top of Mt Everest in 2010
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Busboy at the Ambassador Hotel who was shaking hands with Robert Kennedy as he was assasinated by Sirhan Sirhan
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Puerto Rican politician, born 1932. Fifth Governor of Puerto Rico (1977-85)
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Medal of Honor Recipient for action in the GWOT in Afghanistan and author of Red Platoon
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Activist daughter of British Aristocrat Jessica Mitford, Mother of James Forman Jr
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astronaut
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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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Philippines Ambassador to United States
