WWII:: PTO. B-29 flight engineer 398th Bomb Squadron, 504th Bomb Group, 20th AF. Flew firebombing mission against Japan (incl. Operation Meetinghouse, 9th March 1945) to targets like Tokoy, Nagoya, Kobe. Shot down March 27, 1945
D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1920. He is now 94 and lives in Exeter, Devon, UK. He was on a landing craft when a mine exploded under it and survived. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
American Actress - TV Series - 'Cheyenne' - Guest Role (1957), 'Alcoa Theatre' - Guest (1958), 'Have Gun - Will Travel' - Guest (1958). Movie - 'The Brothers Rico' (1957), 'No Time to Be Young' (1957), 'The Garment Jungle' (1957), 'Bundle of Joy' (1956)
WWII: D - Day, Omaha Beach; Battle of St. Lo; Battle of Brest; seriously wounded in each battle, he was sent home after Brest. Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division
JFK - After his famous visit to Berlin, JFK stopped in the UK for less than a day to meet with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at his country estate; Waters took his chance and made a few very rare photographs of Kennedy driving by
Actor: Cocoon, The Thing, The Natural, The Firm, The China Syndrome, Absence Of Malice, Tender Mercies, Country, Remo Williams, High Road To China, Harry & Son, The Stone Boy, Ewoks: Battle For Endor, Our House, The Waltons
former college/NFL defensive back; played for University of Oklahoma, Bengals and Raiders; All - American; 1987 Jim Thorpe Award winner; 1X National Champion; #5 pick overall 1988 NFL Draft
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
Film Director - Midnight Express (AA nom), Mississippi Burning (AA nom), Fame, Evita, Angel Heart, The Commitments, Bugsy Malone, The Road To Wellville, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Shoot The Moon, Come See The Paradise, Birdy, Angela's Ashes, ... David Gale
WWII: 603rd Engineers Camouflage Division, 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. Long and prominent career as an illustrator after the war, working for National Geographic, Life, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian and NASA
WWII: USS Killen (DD-593), Battle of Leyte Gulf: Killen provided a critical hit to battleship Yamashiro (flagship of Vice-Admiral Shoji Nishimura) leading to is sinking on Oct. 26, 1944. He also survived a Kamikaze attack on Nov. 1, 1944
WW2/Japanese American/Go For Broke/US Army
Units served 442nd regiment, 3rd battalion, Company L/Purple Heart; 2 Unit Citations; O'Connor Task Force; Bruyeres
WWII: Living in the Polish town Zdrowa, Bik witnessed the first attack on the Westerplatte peninsula. He escaped 2 forced labor camps, and was sent to the Gross-Rosen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps before his 1945 liberation
Actress & Wrestler known as Sally The Farmer's Daughter on GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling Movie Hard Hunted,The Bikini Carwash Company 2,Forbidden Games,Sinful Intrigue
British Actress born 1916.Sister of Actress Joan Fontaine.won 2 Oscars for 'To Each His Own'(1946) and 'The Heiress'(1949).'Gone With the Wind','Not as a Stranger','Snake Pit','Robin Hood','Hush Sweet Charlotte','Dodge City','Raffles','Cpt.Blood'
US Army WWII veteran, served under MacArthur in the Philippines. Press liaison for the trials of Generals Homma & Yamashita in Manilla after the war's end, and both their executions
Actor: The Appaloosa, A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Restless Years, Cry Tough, The Unforgiven, Portrait In Black, Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation, The Cardinal, Enter The Dragon, The Last Samurai, The Bees, The Bold Ones, Falcon Crest, Dynasty
American Former Female Newspaper Columnist And Local Television Host (Washington DC). Ex - Wife to Malcolm Scott Carpenter (Original Mercury 7 Astronaut). Support Group = Astronaut's Wives Club
Stunt Coordinator for friday The 13th Part 2 & Sleepaway Camp. Played Max in Friday The 13th Part 2. Also played Victor Flagler and Jiohn Hart on 'Dark Shadows' in 1970
Actress - The Fugitive (TV/Richard Kimble's sister), Duel, Firecreek, Death Of A Gunfighter, Telefon, TV guest appearances (including Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock, Bonanza, Route 66, 77 Sunset Strip), married to screenwriter Gene Lesser
WWII: One of the last surviving members of The Manhattan Project, he was Enrico Fermi's lab technician: helped create the world's first atomic bomb. Witness to the explosion of the first a-bomb ('Trinity', July 16, 1945)
He is the current indoor world record holder in the M95 and M100 60 metres. He also held the indoor world record for the triple jump and outdoor world records in M95 age group for long jump and triple jump
Former professional ice hockey right winger. He played 3 games for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL. His brothers, Pat and Gord, also played professional hockey
French Ballerina (b: 1924). Wife of the late French choreographer, Roland Petit. Actress - Hans Christian Andersen, Anything Goes, Folies Bergere. Singer
WWII:PTO. Served as a rifleman in the legendary K/3/5 (Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division) in the Battles of Peleliu and Okinawa with E.B. Sledge (HBO's The Pacific)
WWII: CBI. Member of the Merrill?s Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit. Bronze Star
WW2 Canadian airman and one of the escapers from German PoW camp 'Stalag Luft III' in 1944, which inspired the Hollywood movie 'The Great Escape'. He is now 91
Enrico Perucconi (born 4 January 1925) was an Italian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He won bronze medal at 1948 Summer Olympics in Relay 4x100m
Actress: America 3000, Malibu Bikini Shop, Living the Blues, The Wrong Guys, Robocop 2, Point Break, Storyville, Judgment Night, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Wrong Student, A Christmas Princess // Guest Star: Twin Peaks, Star Trek DS9 & Voyager, Stargate SG-1
Actor: The Last of the Mohicans, Judge Dredd, EastEnders, The Dark, Danger UXB, Days of our Lives, Ulysses, A Day at the Beach, The Eagle Has Landed, Magnum PI, Doctor Who, Hidden Agenda, Star Trek TNG, The Damned United
Finnish WWII Veteran. Featured in this article: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/in-a-haunting-video-finnish-veterans-recall-combat-with-the-red-army-c8e397466ce8
Actress: Jerry Maguire, From Dusk Till Dawn, Waiting To Exhale, The Experts, Christine, SpaceCamp, Twins, Mischief, Secret Admirer, The Cat In The Hat, For Love of The Game. Medium // Wife of John Travolta
JFK/LBJ - Presidential helicopter pilot from 1959 to 1967, Barney flew with Kennedy and later became a friend of LBJ; his wife, Libby, was curator at the LBJ National Park for 24 years. They maintained a close friendship with Lady Bird
English Former Male Soccer Player And Manager -Centre Back. 'Leeds United'(1952-73). England 35 Caps(1952-73). World Cup Winner(1966). Manager -'Middlesbrough'(1973-77,1984), 'Sheffield Wednesday'(1977-83), 'Newcastle United'(1984-85), 'Ireland'(1986-96)
Olga Lemhényi-Tass (born 29 March 1929 in Pécs) is a Hungarian former gymnast who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1956 Summer Olympics, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics
WWII: USS Breeman (DE-104) a destroyer escort of the USS Block Island in 1943 that left the Task Group in order to evacuate the gold of the Bank of Poland (30 tons) in March 1944 from Africa to NY to keep it out of the hands of the Nazis
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
Hungarian Female Holocaust Survivor/Imprisonment in Auschwitz - Birkenau Concentration camp August 1944. Was one of a thousand Jewish Hungarian women who were transported to Allendorf, Germany, a sub - camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp
Composer: The Good the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, A Fistful of Dollars, The Hills Run Red, Night Train Murders, The Exorcist 2, Orca, The Thing, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Wolf, U Turn, The Hateful Eight