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WWII: PTO. Battles of Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. US Navy Higgins Boat Coxswain. Transported Joe Rosenthal and Ernie Pyle
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WWII - Nurse Recruiting Poster Girl of the most popular WWII Nurse Poster. President Franklin D Roosevelt took a liking of the poster and ordered to be a million copies printed. She is supposedly the last of the poster girls alive
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Mobster Married to Drita from Mob Wives
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Brazilian supercentenarian, last known surviving, validated person in born in 1905
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Chinese American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients
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Author and President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Was a staff member of the US National Security Council (NSC) under Bill Clinton and a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama
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Author / Veteran - wrote The Life of a Combat Medic, From the Ozarks to Korea...To Alaska
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Computer engineer, born 1937. Co-founder of Syzygy in 1969 and Atari in 1972. Co-creator of early video games Computer Space and Pong
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WWII: D-Day. Served in the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion ? the only all-black unit that took part in the World War II D-Day landings in Normandy
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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nobel peace laureat 2000
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Youngest Dutchman to space
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American video game designer, programmer, and producer. He is best known for being the creator of early games from several different genres, including pioneering simulation game Utopia for Intellivision in 1981
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Award-winning copywriter, entrepreneur and the inventor of the Pet Rock
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(Born 1923) US Army WW2 Veteran. Worked as an Anti-Taker
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WW2 air ace - 9 Kills - USAAF. Flew P-38, P-80 and P-84
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Political Scientist. Born: 12/17/1915
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WWII fighter Ace/ Watergate scandal figure - 15 Kills - USAAF - DSC
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Congressional Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
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WWII: PTO. USS Mississippi BB 41, 1943-1946
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Rocket Scientist, 'Dr. Wernher Von Braun's NASA Team'
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Serial Killer
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Mobster
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Flight attendant aboard US Airways flight 1549 that landed in the Hudson River
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Retired Air Force General
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World War II Criminal. Lives now in Kirchberg, Germany, Sachsen
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British Titanic Survivor
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Retired USMC General
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US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1963 to 1967
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DPD , one of two rear mid motorcycle officers in President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov.22 , 1963
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Along with his brother Johnny are the oldest living brothers that invaded Normandy on D-Day
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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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Along with his brother Ernie are the oldest living brothers that invaded Normandy on D-Day
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WWII Navajo Code Talker; he lives in West Valley City, Utah
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medal of honor army, ww11
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Former American Football Player. Also is a World War 2 Veteran. Born in 1919
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Last survivor of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre of coal mining families, which led to Congress enacting new labor laws and an 8 hour day. Born in 1914 and a baby during the event, her family was split up, and she was sent off to live in orphanages
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Served with the 506th PIR / 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge
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Canadian General and Senator
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WW2/WWII Womens Army Service Pilot (WASP); 44-W-4 Flew the uc-78, at-11, c-45
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Dalton KCB was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and latterly became Secretary General of MENCAP and National Chairman of The Royal British Legion
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air force general
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Royal millitary
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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inventor (mri scanner)
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Wwii: pto, usmc
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NASA Test Pilot/One of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA. He was also selected for participation in the X-20 Dyna - Soar program
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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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Author/Screenwriter/Playwright/Historian 'The Fallen Idols of Father Brown'
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pilot of the first liquid fuel rocket
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Grandson of President Harry Truman, born 1957
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Stood with 3 sons at west side of underpass at Dealey Plaza & filmed JFK motorcade as cars raced by with wounded President
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Inspiration for NBC's Miss Match
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Air Force pilot
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(born 9 July 1917), a Polish orphan from the town of Otwock, was awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1998, for saving the lives of Polish Jews during the Holocaust
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Adventurer - Australian presenter of 'Outback Adventures'
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Lord Dannatt, British Politician
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Original "Operation Paperclip" Wernhervon Braun rocket scientist team born August 5, 1912. Deputy Manager of Saturn rocket program, rec'd NASA Exceptional Service Medal for successfully initiating development of the Saturn V rocket
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. 81st Wildcat Division
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Nazi war criminal.Luise Danz (born December 11, 1917) is a former concentration camp guard. She was born in Walldorf (Werra), Thuringia
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Vietnam War 1975/Escaped during the Fall of Saigon/Was passenger violently forced without provocation from a United Airlines flight.and suffered a significant concussion, a broken nose, a sinus injury and lost two front teeth
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Joe Darby (2)
Sergeant Joseph M. Darby, former U.S. Army Reservist known whistleblower in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal -
Mathematician, data analyst, and aeronautical engineer who devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA researching supersonic flight and sonic booms. She is also featured in the book Hidden Figures
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Co-Prosecutor of the O.J. Simpson murder trial; Author of the New York Times Bestseller, 'In Contempt'
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. Only French GI to fight at Omaha Beach
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United Airlines pilot, flew United's last DC-8 flight in 1991
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James Darnell (2)
Cameraman for WBAP-TV in President Kennedy's motorcade -
Inventor of Monopoly
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Botanist and great-great grandaughter,of the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.
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Great grandson of Charles Darwin, the famous English naturalist
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WWII survivor of USS Tang
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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WWII: Signalman aboard the S.S. Hawkins Fudske, a cargo ship that made 2 round trips to Archangle and Murmansk, Russia.Rcvd the Medal of Ushakov from Russia for his wartime efforts
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Iran Hostage Crisis/3rd Secretary of U.S. Mission (CIA officer)/Ph.D., is a professor of government and foreign policy at Armstrong Atlantic State University
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CEO of the 2016 and 2008 Democratic National Convention Committees, and the chief of staff to Howard Dean, the former chairman of the DNC. Former Acting Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management at the US Department of Labor
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US WWII Army veteran, born 1924. 9th Infantry Division. Fought in the bitter Hurtgen Forest, until hit by shrapnel in the leg and foot
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French immunologist, Nobel medicine laureate 1980. Born: 10/19/1916
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Time Team Field Archaeologist
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor; later escaped and joined the guerillas. 33rd Infantry Regiment (PA), 31st Division, USAFFE
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British WWII Flying Ace credited with 17 victories
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Dennis David (2) A Petty Officer in the Medical Service Corps stationed at Bethesda Naval Med. Center on Nov.22/63 when President Kennedy was brought here for autopsy
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French Egyptologist and scientist who published a theory stating that the stones of the Great Pyramid where not carved stone but mostly a form of limestone concrete
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Granddaughter of Harley Davidson, Harley Davidson's Motorcycles. Author of 'Growing Up Harley-Davidson'
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Scientist
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WWII: Survivor (69th Medium Regt, Royal Artillery) of the Wormhoudt, France, massacre (May 1940). One of few survivors when German SS ambushed a convoy; most of the 50 men died, while he & 2 friends escaped. Later at El Alamein, Monte Cassino and France
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart
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Wren during WW2/spent World War II listening - spending hours at a time trying to pick voices from squealing static, spying on the Germans
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. Army Air Corps, Photo Reconnaissance
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Author, aviation specialist
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Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron FA-18 Flight Demonstration Pilot
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60's political activist educator
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American WWII Fighter Ace (6 Victs.)- USAAF, flew the p-47 and p-51
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air force general
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Manson killer
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Convicted Killer, Member Of Manson Family
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WWII: Battle of Midway, Battle of Santa Cruz
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Mathematician, writer. Wrote science fiction into the 60's
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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Tuskegee Airman
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Author military
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Dennis Davis (3) British mountaineer, the first man to climb the Mount Nuptse in 1961
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Nevada
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WWII veteran, Pearl Harbor Survivor at Schofield Barracks
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WWII: PTO. Leyte, Philippines, Okinawa. 96th Infantry, 763rd Tank Battalion
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First pilot in the USA to fly a turbo-prop-powered airplane - Convair?s experimental XP-81 fighter, developed for the United States Air Force in 1945. He also flight tested the following aircraft types:- BT-13,BT-15,P-66,XP-54,XP-81,XA-41,A-31 and A-35
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Civil Rights Movement/Freedom Rider/Veteran of state's sit-in movement to end lunch counter segregation/Attempted to use white restrooms, were arrested for disorderly conduct & sentenced within the hour to a $200 fine & 60-day jail term
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world war 2 air ace
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Glenn Davis (4) WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battle of Peleliu
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Vietnam Veteran in the Marine Corps
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Jack Davis (3)Was inside Texas Theatre when Oswald arrived ; believed Oswald sat next to him for a short time
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Born March 27th 1918, served in the US Navy during World War 2, survived attack on Pearl Harbor. Later became an attorney, and then a State Senator for Louisiana from 1956-1980
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air force general
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Nasa Space Shuttle Astronaut (retired) STS 47,60, and STS 85
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WWII veteran, born 1919, Tunisia and Sicily campaigns
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WWII: PTO. Battles of New Britain, New Guinea, Peleliu and Okinawa. Platoon sergeant of his unit, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Purple Heart, Sharp Shooter Medal
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Flight astronaut sts-47,60,85
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WWII: Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor
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US Diplomat (1878-1944). Asst Treasurer, Under-Sec. of State under Woodrow Wilson. Financial advisor at the WWI Paris Peace Conference. 1932 Time cover subject
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Colonel (born 13 May 1939) retired US Army officer received Medal of Honor 3 March 2023 for actions on 18 July 1965 during Vietnam War. Twice previously nominated for MOH, but both times the paperwork relating to his nomination disappeared
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medal of honor marines korea
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One of the famous'Chicago 7' war protesters
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (WWII-5.5 Kills) USN, VF-18/36
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WWII: African American/6888 Central Postal Battalion (Birmingham, UK) in US Army, known as Six Triple Eight. In just three months, Davis and her unit processed 17 million pieces of mail
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air force general
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Medal of honor vietnam war army, born 1946
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Emergency physician and NYT best selling author of The Pact (winner of 'The Books for Better Life' Award) and The Stuff. Appeared on numerous talk and radio shows including Oprah, Dr. Oz, The Today Show, The View, Anderson Cooper 360 & NPR
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Radio newsman, covered JFK White House. Riding in the Dallas motorcade when Kennedy shot, covered the press conference at Parkland Hospital, and picked as one of the few reporters to cover the LBJ oath on Air Force One. He is seen, head down, in the iconi
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Fort Worth millionaire whose life was dramatized in the made for TV movie 'Texas Justice'
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Jarvis (DD-393)
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Author or editor of thirty-five books on the civil war and southern history - A Way Through the Wilderness, A Government of Our Own
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Commanded the Tuskegee Airmen in WWII Born 1912
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WWII: Radio Operator, 505th Parachute Regiment (PIR), 82nd Airborne Division (AD). Wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, but rejoined the 505th on Rhine River. He met the Russians at Elbe River
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American Nobel Prize winning Physicist
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Rear admiral of carrier group 6
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US WWII Army vet, born 1923. Trained as electrical engineer and radio operator, attached to MacArthur's HQ for a time. Born in N. Dakota, raised in Minnesota, experienced Dust Bowl storms in his youth. Retired district judge
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Witnessed JFK assassination from the overpass directly ahead of Kennedy's limo
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Oklahoma dust bowl survivor, born 1924, interviewed for Ken Burns' documentary. WWII 'Rosie' at Boeing Aircraft working on B-29s. Career in journalism and teaching
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Miss America 2014, Miss New York 2013; born in Syracuse, NY she is the first Indian-American to be chosen as Miss America
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British Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist, Professor at Oxford University
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Author of 'PanAfrica: Across the Sahara in 1941 with Pan Am'
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navy admiral
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Air Force Medal of Honor Recipient - Vietnam, guadalcanan, flew the f-80, f-84, f-100, f-101, f-104, f-105, f-106, f-4, a-4, a-7, cf-5, f-45
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JFK - Dallas police investigator who was photographed lifting Oswald's rifle above his head
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Former Austin, TX police officer. One of three responsible for stopping Charles Whitman's mass killing at Univ Texas - Austin
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JFK - Dallas Police, involved in the Kennedy assassination investigations; officer in the rare photograph holding Oswald's rifle up and inspecting it
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Israeli activist and fashion designer. Ex wife of Moshe Dayan
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WWII: ETO. 66th Infantry Division. Survivor of the sinking of the troopship SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24. 1944. She was torpedoed and sunk by U-486. 763 soldiers died, together with 56 of her crew
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Author of A Garden of Thorns, a memoir about surviving Nazi occupation in France including becoming a junior agent performing reconnaissance missions for the French resistance at age 13
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German engineer and computer scientist. He is one of the pioneers of the first generation computers. Born: 04/04/1912 in Ascona
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French World War One Veteran
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World War One Veteran
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Former Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff / Former Ambassador to the United States / Current Head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning
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Heroic Australian pilot, QANTAS Airlines Flight 32
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Italian WW One Vet
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French soldier and politician, born 1921, former Colonial Administrator of the Comores (1962-1963), was awared the French Legion of Honor for his military service in 2015
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nobel med. laureate 1974
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French Air Force Nurse - The Angel of Dien Bien Phu, born 1925
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French politician and former general inspector of the French Navy, son of Charles de Gaulle
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nobel physics laureate 1991
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American Political Scientist, 'Public and Republic'. Born: 12/29/1919
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English author and biomedical gerontologist. He is the author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007)
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Puerto Rican world champion boxer, first man to defeat Roberto Duran, also fought Antonio Cervantes and Saoul Mamby for world titles, convicted of murderr 1981, P.R. jails all star baseball player and Christian preacher
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9/11 Survivor
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Oldest Person in the World. Born 09/10/1893 Deceased 2009
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Dutch Engelandvaader. Born: 09/21/1911
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British director of the United Kingdom Special Forces during the Iranian Embassy Siege and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the 1990 Gulf War
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WWII: French fighter pilot & ace
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Helped to capture serial killer Richard Ramirez
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Former Head of the IMF
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Primatologist. Known as the dean of Brazilian Primatology
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Actor, born: 1911. The Flying Tigers (1942); Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943); Tiger Woman (1944); Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
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Baloon driver
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Oldest Brazilian WWII veteran. ETO. Italy. Brazilian Expeditionary Force, 9th Engineering Battalion. Italy
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World War II fighter pilot, first commander of the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier (USS Enterprise CVN-65). Reached the rank of Vice Admiral with the Navy
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Former member of the Resistance and later military officer in the French army
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United States Marine, Went to her military ball with Justin Timberlake
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JFK Aid & alleged mistress/83-year-old psychotherapist and grandmother at 09/22/2021/Descriptions of their affair were previously published in Vanity Fair editor Sally Bedell Smith's 2004 book about the Kennedys, Grace and Power
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Belgian astronaute
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Air America Pilot
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Publisher Dallas Morning News/Harbored animosity against JFK, told JFK in White House he was not ?the man on horseback? the country was searching for rather a wimp ?on Caroline?s tricycle.? Plaza where JFK was shot named after his family
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JFK - Jerry Dealey, Dallas historian/assassination researcher, is of the Dealey family who gave the Plaza its name. Dealey Plaza was named after the founder of the Dallas Morning News, George B. Dealey, Jerry's great grandfather's brother
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marine corps general
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From Wooster, Ohio, Hal played guard for the first OSU National Championship team in 1942. Was named All-Western Conference that year. Served as a Captain in the 11th Airborne as a paratrooper during WWII. Played 3 seasons for the Rams
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Inventor Hall of Fame inductee; holds three of the nine original IBM patents upon which the IBM PC personal computers were based including bus control means for peripheral processing devices
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Last survivor of the Titanic sinking. Born: 02/02/1912 - Deceased 2009
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WW2 Hero served with the Grenadier Guards maninly in Italy and North Africa
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United States Army major general during World War II and the Korean War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on July 20 and 21, 1950, during the Battle of Taejon in South Kore
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Reired General
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Highly decorated British soldier from WW2 who later became a general, born in 1917
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WWII, US NAVY. Honorary 'Band of Brothers''E' - Company - 506th ParachuteInfantry Regiment
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Golden State Killer suspect
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu. Machine Gunner, 1st Combat Engr Bn
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Flight astronaut mse astronaut
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British and American economist. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare
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Retired Air Force Colonel/Vietnam Veteran
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Famed Heart Surgeon
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USMC Drill Team , JFK funeral
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Military
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(Born 1944) US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1966 to 1977 in between reserve and active duty. Silver Star Recipient
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WWII Fighter Ace (9 Victs.), Medal of Honor recipient, US Marines World War II
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Taiwanese WWII Veteran, 109 years old. During WWII, he served in the Imperial Japanese Army and was stationed in the Philippines
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Helena CL-50). Also served on the USS Helena in the Guadalcanal Campaign and survived the sinking of the USS Helena after she was hit by a torpedo in the Night Battle of Kula Gulf, 6 July 1943
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WWII, Sturmann 12th SS Panzer Division Normandy 1944 D-Day
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Centarian who survived both the spanish flu and COVID
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American Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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WWII: USMC, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Battle of Peleliu and Okinawa; earned a Purple Heart in the latter on Wana Ridge. JFK campaign 1960
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New Zealand fighter pilot and ace during WWII. Flew in the Battle of Britain. 17 confirmed victories. Died September 21, 1995
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tried and convicted for the 1974 killings of his father and mother, two brothers and two sisters. The case is notable for being the real life inspiration behind the book and film versions of The Amityville Horror
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1921-2016). survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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WWII: One of the last 3 Monuments Men, who saved artwork and cultural pieces during and after WWII
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9/11 survivor
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII: D-Day (second wave at Utah Beach), Battle of the Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge. 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion
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JFK - Secret Service; WHD (White House Detail) for Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Advance Agent for Houston (Nov. 21, 1963, not in Dallas (sent home after Houston)
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WWII - Pacific Theater; survivor of the sinking of the USS Colhoun (DD-801) after repeated Kamikaze attacks in the early stages of the Battle of Okinawa, 6 May 1945
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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US Navy veteran of the USS Nautilus' historic first underwater crossing of the North Pole on Aug 3, 1958. Born 1933
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Montgomery
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WWII: I Company, 3rd BN, 157th Infantry, 45th Division. One of the liberators od Dachau concentration camp, actually the very first sodier to enter the compund who shot open the lock of the gates
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Attorney for David Koresh
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Professor, author, and curator of Le Musée Fragonard in Maisons-Alfort
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Tail gunner, 'Bockscar' (plane that dropped bomb on Nagasaki..)
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WWII Ace
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WWII Veteran, Battle of Bataan, POW, 515th Coastal Artillery Regiment, Captured at Corregidor
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nobel physcis laureate 1989
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, Holland, Alsace. A Line Company and G Company, 501st PIR, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles). Bronze Star
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nobel chemistry laureate
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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. D-Day. Naval Combat Demolition 30, Utah Beach
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Former NASA mission controller
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John Dekker (2) Alcatraz Inmate 1953-58/Author 'The Ghost of Alcatraz'/As teenager to raise $1000 to bail father out of jail, he robbed corner grocery. was 1st heist in dramatic crime spree across the country & condemned him to Alcatra
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WWII: PTO. USMC 1940-1945. Silver Star
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WWI veteran. Oldest man in world. Born 1891. Lives in Puerto Rico
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Retired U.S. Air Force veteran who miraculously survived an IED in Afghanistan. He was awarded the Pat Tillman Award for Service at The Espy's in 2017
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Spanish centenarian, born 1913. One of the last known Spanish citizens to have had the 1918 'Spanish Flu'. In 2020, she survived Covid-19 at the age of 106
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Journalist, Film Historian
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Pilot
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Police officer shot by John Hinckley Jr. during the attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981
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Miss America 1927
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WWII D-Day veteran, also Battle of Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia. Showed Doris 'Dorie' Miller how to use the machine gun
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Tennessee
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Army Truck Driver, took part in D-Day Infantry invasion
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Supreme Court: One of the three officers on scene in the 4th amendment landmark case Mapp v. Ohio (1961), where he participated in the raid on Ms. Mapp's residence
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Radio Announcer, did KLFI 12 Noon newscast the hour describing the President's arrival at Love Field/among journalists in the police station basement when Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald
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(Mexican Revolution) Last Living Member of Pancho Villa's Division del Norte. Born:1900
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Carlos Delgado (2)Founder of Blue Lives Matter
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Hollywood Celebrity - A woman who used to walk around Hollywood with heavy make-up applied to her face. It was this look (and hair style) that Bette Davis chose to use for her make-up in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?; stage star born in Hodgenville, KY
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WW2 Veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division. while Returning Home Michael Brought A Albino Rabbit On July 11,1944
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WWII: US Veteran of the Battle of Remagen, March 1945
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Australian stunt pilot
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WWII: USMC veteran of the Guadalcanal campaign
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Invented the big mac for mcdonalds
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One of the famous war protesters from the the 1968 protests in Illonois
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Former FBI criminal profiler/Was lead profiler in San Francisco & worked on the Unabomber case/Currently hosts Investigation Discovery programs Deadly Women and Facing Evil. Often compared to Clarice Starling from The Silence of the Lambs
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Military
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, USS Oklahoma. Later fought at the Battle of Guadalcanal (November 1942)
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marine corps general
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WWII USMC Ace--[14 victories]
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DeLorean Motor Company
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WWII: CBI. Member of HQ Company, White Combat Team, 1st Battalion of the Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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astronaut
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Top turret gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress based at Hickam Field. Also saw action in the Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal
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WWII: Kurdish veteran. Fought with Iraq Levies, a minority scout force established by the British. Now 99 and living in Erbil, Kurdistan Region
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Astrobiologist
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navy admiral
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U.S. Army 1942-1945, Minor League Baseball player
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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Vincent 'Chickie' DeMartino - a Colombo soldier. In 1993, DeMartino was sentenced to four years in prison on weapons charges. In 1999, Alphonse Persico ordered DeMartino and Thomas Gioeli to murder William Cutolo.
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One of three to reach & rescue Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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WWII: PTO. Army Air Corp. Pilot. 460th Fighter Squadron, 5th Air Force. 124 combat missions in P47's and P51's in New Guinea, Philippines, and Luzon
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Saipan, Iwo Jima. US Army 7th Air Corps, 38th Bombardment Squadron, 30th Bomb Group. B-24 radio operator and right waist gunner
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Ringling Brothers Circus Fire/Age 3 (age 4 on July 25th) time of fire
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Ringling Brothers Circus Fire/Age six time of fire
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Age 7 Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire /got out safely through a slit in the tent
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Born Ivan Mykolayovych Demyanyuk; is a retired auto worker and former United States citizen, who gained notoriety after being accused of Holocaust-related war crimes.Born:04/03/1920
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Russian born women who claims to possess a special vision that allows her to look inside human bodies and see organs and tissues, and thereby make medical diagnoses. She has appeared on television shows and performed readings in Russia
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WWII - Captured during Battle of the Bulge, he became the most famous POW of WWII when LIFE featured a photo taken at prison camp Stalag 12-A in Limburg, Germany, on the day of his liberation. He became known as 'The Human Skeleton'
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Army General
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Flight scientist
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JFK - Secret Service, White House Detail secretary. The Miss Moneypenny of the US Secret Service!
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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Retired Captain of the Royal Air Force. The oldest surviving knight of the Military Order of William , and this the last of the Royal Air Force of World war 2. Born: 07/23/1914
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Renowned penguin expert, scientist TED speaker and award-winning author. AKA The Penguin Lady
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Considered Sicily's top Cosa Nostra boss, born 26 April 1962. Was on the run for 30 years, but apparently has just been arrested in Italy. AKA Diabolik
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WWI: ETO. RAF. Battle of Britain pilot
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WWII: PTO. Leyte, Philippines, Okinawa. Company L, 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division. Bronze Star
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WWII: ETO/PTO. Merchant Marine
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WWII: PTO. USMC. First Division,Third Armored Amphibian Battalion
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Discovered Petussis Vaccine Born: 02/01/1898. 4th Oldest person in the world
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inventor (delevoped ram in computers)
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An employee at a Dallas Stock Exchange Company , Denny watched the Kennedy motorcade on Main St. . Her office closed early when the stock exchange shut down following the assassination
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Former German Major during World War 2.Born: 06/30/1915
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WWII: 45th Fighter Squadron, 7th Fighter Command, 20th Air Force. Flew from airfields Bellow's field, Guam, Saipan, Iwo Jima. Pictured in a 1945 photo on Iwo Jima,
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Dave Dennis (2)
Civil Rights activist -
YouTuber and former US Army veteran
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First Lieutenant of the CMEC and MACV from 1967-68 during the Vietnam War (Born: 1943 Bethany, Missouri)
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US Politician, Maryland (1822-82) Medical doctor, then into politics as a Whig, then a Democrat. Senator, 1877-79. Gave stirring speech to re-open investigation of controversial R.B. Hayes election, but unsuccessful
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WW2/Normandy D-Day/Navy/After landing at Normandy on D-Day in 1944, he encountered a young French girl who waved him over and spoke to him in perfect English
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WW2 Vet. Survived the sinking of the USS Atlanta, and involved in Battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa. Knew and regularly saw JFK while working as a Navy radioman. During Japanese surrender ceremony, transmitted the news to the worl
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professor of biology at Stanford University
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Truck driver who was almost killed in the '92 Los Angeles riots
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Whistleblower
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Donna Dent (2) Flight attendant aboard US Airways flight 1549 that landed in the Hudson River
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Works for The Oxford Dictionary and is regularly seen on TV's 'Countdown' in 'Dictionary Corner' alongside the show's celebrity guest
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New Jersey mobster who is a former captain and consigliere for the Genovese crime family.
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WWII: Assistant to General Eisenhower who typed up the plans for Operation Overlord
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American actor, author, and former United States Navy SEALs commander. Denver is most known for his role as Lieutenant Rorke in the 2012 film Act of Valor and for his appearance as team leader in the Fox Television series, American Grit
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Unabomber defense attorney
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WWII army vet, assigned to clean-up/odd job duties at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos base. Witness to the first atomic explosion, the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale (DD-353)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Medical corpsman
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Air Force General
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WWII: D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. 501st PIR, 101st AB. Purple Heart
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Nevada. Served in the USS Nevada throughout the war
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WWII: PTO. Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Gilberts and Marshall Islands campaign, Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, Philippines campaign, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa; survived Typhoon Cobra (Halsey's Typhoon) in December 1944
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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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Former Tuskegee Airmen (Flew B-25 and T-6) & University Michigan football player; helped Michigan win 1948 Rose Bowl
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Trump's impeachment lawyer, Harvard Law Professor, appellate attorney, member of O. J. Simpson's 'Dream Team, author of 'The Abuse Excuse', 'Reversal of Fortune', 'Reasonable Doubts', 'The Advocate's Devil', 'The Genesis of Justice', 'Chutzpah'
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WWII: PTO. USS Teton. Surrender Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945
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WWII: USS Helena
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'Wife of Doolittle Raider Jacob Deshazer'
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Doolittle's Raiders 'Crew #16/Bat out of Hell' Bombadier' 'Missionary to Japan for 30 years after Doolittle Raid'
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Conyngham
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Great Biker Buildoff on Discovery Channel
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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French Egyptologist. Born: 11/17/1913, known for her role in the preservation of the Nubian temples (e.g. Abu Simbel) from flooding caused by the Aswan Dam
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French rock climber and mountaineer. In 1992 she became the first woman to complete a solo ascent of the Eiger's north face
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vietnam war air force hero
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Jim Garrison's Lawyer who investigated the JFK Assassination in the 60's
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: CBI. Flight Radio Operator, 1330th AAAF Base Unit, India China Division, Air Transport Command
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Supreme Court: One of the three officers present at the raid on Ms. Mapp's residence, which resulted in the landmark case Mapp v. Ohio (1961). Considered a 4th amendment victory
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JFK - Honor Guard at President Kennedy's funeral
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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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Former Correctional Officer Alcatraz Prison from 1950 to 1958. Guarding such noted prisoners as Robert the Birdman of Alcatraz Stroud, Machine - Gun Kelly, & former Public Enemy #1 Alvin Creepy Karpis
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WW2 Flying Ace, Age 92, '8 Victories' Silver Star-DFC with 3 Gold Stars, Air Medal with 4 Gold Stars!
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WWII: D-Day. Coast Guard assigned to attack transport USS Samuel Chase, ferrying troops of 1st Infantry, Big Red 1 1&2 wave to Omaha Beach on Higgins Boat. In invasions of North Africa; Sicily; Salerno/Made 11 or 12 trips back & forth from ship to beach
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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Lz ray 1965 namwas in valrico,fl but not now?
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Inventor
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WWII veteran, Bataan Death March survivor. Born 1919
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American billionaire, businesswoman, philanthropist from Michigan. Secretary of Education in Donald Trump's Administration
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Scientist
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US Marine, WWII veteran, born 1921. Saw action at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian. Beat Covid-19 at 99 years old
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medal of honor Korean war marines
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WWII Navy veteran. Witnessed the attack of Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Antares
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WWII: Medal of Honor nominee who served with the 41st Infantry Division in the Pacific
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US Navy veteran, born 1925. Witness to both Bikini atoll Operations Crossroads atomic bomb tests in 1946
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Sotoyomo
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Countess of Romanones, Grandee of Spain/OSS cipher clerk during World War II. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1962 (LIVES IN MADRID SPAIN)Author 'El fin de una era' (2010), published in Spain
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Ringling Brother's Circus Fire/Age six time of fire
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cosmonaut
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Father of the pentium computer chip
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Corporal Dhein was assisting the administrative tasks of the Berlin Air LIft 1948
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WW2 Navy Veteran. Delivered supplies to troops at D-Day
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Author;'Just A Kid, A Guard at the Nuremberg Trials' 18 years old when drafted in 1944, into infantry. Found himself standing guard over Nazi war criminals, & watched as atrocities were described in detail throughout the Nuremberg Trails
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Last survivor of the Raid of the Ghetto of Rome 16 October 1943
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American mathematician and former professional magician and poker player. He teaches statistics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness
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Author, businessman
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CEO & President of SETI
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Civil Rights Activist, 1961 Freedom Rider
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American economist. In October 2022, Diamond was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Ben Bernanke and Philip H. Dybvig
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Author Of Many Historical Books, Including The Pulitzer-Prize Winning 'Guns, Germs, And Steel'
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Pallbearer For JFK Funeral
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Nobel prize
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U.S. Virgin Islander businessman, CEO Four Star Cargo Airlines
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(Born 1948) Vietnam Veteran. Served in the Air Force from 1967 to 1973 and in the Marine Corps from 1973 to 1975
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Puerto Rican lawyer and business owner, Borinquen Air airlines
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WWII: ETO, 8th Air Force; served with Jimmy Stewart
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US WWII Army, born 1921. Action in Tunisia and the first wave in the Sicily attack. Wounded at Sicily, taken by Germans to Stalag 2B. POW/slave labor for 21 months. 1st Division, 26th Infantry
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WWII: MTO. North Africa, Italy. 34th Infantry Division. Purple Heart with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Bronze Star, Silver Star
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John Dick (2) WW2 USMC Iwo Jima I Company 3rd Battalion 24th Marine Regiment 4th Marine Division
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Canadian Scientist / Credited with first identifying cancer stem cells in certain types of human leukemia
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British actor and performer known in the United Kingdom and the United States for his one man shows based on the novels of his great great grandfather, Charles Dickens
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Activist
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII - 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division; 1st Marines, 1st Mar. Div. in Korea. Veteran of Saipan, Tinian and the entire Battle of Iwo Jima; radio operator, telecom lineman, and handling COMS for the storied Navajo Codetalkers
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Author
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British ace from WW2, Spit, Channel 41, Malta 42, Sicily 43.
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Former football player and coach. Also is a World War 2 veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Curtiss (AV-4). Being attacked by Japanese aircraft, he manned a small launch and was ordered to retrieve bodies from the water
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Retired General
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South Vietnam's ambassador to the US. After the Vietnam war he moved to the US
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Austrian mountaineer, member of the expeditions that first climbed the Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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WWII - Iwo Jima veteran, Army radioman
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World Famous Private Investigator and multi - millionaire security company CEO
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Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich is a pilot from the Black Aces of Lemoore, California
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Flight aviator
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WWII: North Africa/Italy. 36th Infantry Division, 141 Infantry Regiment, Company B
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Great Great Grandson of Ulysses S. Grant
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Inventor; 2011 Inductee National Inventor Hall of Fame
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Survivor of 9/11 World Trade Center attacks - was damaged by a huge fireball and the last known survivor of the South Tower, has since moved to Canada
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WWII: PTO. USS Ticonderoga (CV-14). Survived kamikaze attack and two kamikaze hitting his ship in January 1945
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Italian Super Centenarian (b. 1891)
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World war 2 fighter ace -6 kills
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Michael 'Mikey Scars' DiLeonardo (born June 18, 1955) is an Italian-American New York mobster who formerly belonged to the Gambino crime family and is now a government informant
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Chief photographer for the Dallas Morning News in 1963, Dillard was riding in a press car in the presidential motorcade and took photos of the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository immediately after the shooting
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John Dillinger (2) American mobster
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Vietnam (Army) -- 1965 LZ Xray We Were Soldiers born April 19, 1933
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC, of the famous K/3/5. Wrote a memoir, 'With the Marines in North China.'
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engineer of the memphis belle
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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US Army, Korean War, born 1929. 24th Division
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WWII Veteran
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII - Battle of the Normandy, landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day+1. 747th Tank Battalion
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. USMC
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Wwii: mto
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Algiers Motel; a black security guard, witnessed the murders of 3 black men at the motel in 1967
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. C Co. Third Armored Amphibian Bn
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Flight scientist
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9/11 Survivor
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American physicist, worked at 'Manhattan Project' (Trinity)
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Leon & Mike Donnet took a Stampe SV4 aircraft under the noses of the German enemy in WW2 Belgium, repaired the plane & excaped occupied enemy territory. This done July 4th 1941. Later joined British Royal Air Force
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII, Alaska's oldest WWII Veteran
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2022 Green party candidate for Governor of Illinois, also has ran for Belleville, IL mayor
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Recognized as the last surviving Buffalo Soldier at West Point. Born May. 1921
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air force general
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Artist and social activist, born 1969. Wrongfully convicted of murder after a trial with no evidence or motive, exonerated after serving 27 years. Acclaimed for his golf course artworks
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Chemist - The First Oral Contraceptive Pill
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Romanian Diplomat, Writer, Historian. Born: 08/18/1916
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WWII Romanian Ace with 11 Victories
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Test pilot
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Astronomer & telescope designer. Born: 09/14/1915
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WWII: British Arctic convoy veteran
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WWII - Served with the 4th Marine Division in the South Pacific; Iwo Jima survivor. Took a series of dramatic war photographs now housed at the U.S. Marine Corps museum in Quantico
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JFK - Honor Guard at Kennedy funeral 1963; was in charge of ushers at St. Matthew's Cathedral and in charge of Irish cadets at JFK funeral
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WWII: SM3 at Mount 52, the 2nd 5-inch gun forward of the USS Laffey (The Ship That Would Not Die). D - Day, Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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United States Army soldier and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War. He was awarded the medal for conspicuous leadership during the taking of a strongly defended hill as part of Opera
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WWII: 3rd Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th PIR, 82nd AB. Paratropper in Operation Market Garden; served in the 82nd until the end of the war; occupation duty in Berlin
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He was outside the Texas Theatre when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested
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WWII: CBI. Battle of Hong Kong 1941. Of D Company, Royal Rifles of Canada, who defended Hong Kong in December 1941. After the surrender, he was a POW until the end of the war
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Pelias
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WWII: ETO. C Company, 333rd Regiment, 84th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge
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Famous Sex Doctor and Author
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British flying ace from WW2
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Last Surviving Passenger from The Hindenburg Disaster of 1937. Born: 1929
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nobel med. laureate 1996
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay
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Anti Vietnam war activist in the 1960's was on the FBI's 10 most wanted list 1970 Member of the Weather Underground-attorney-wife of Bill Ayers
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astronaut
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JFK: Witness to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
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Medal Of Honor Recipient Vietnam
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US electrical engineer who devised the Dolby system used to reduce background noise in tape recording
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Former U.S. Senator from Kansas (1969-1996); unsuccessful Republican Presidential Candidate (1988, 1996)
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American former civil rights activist. She was president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter in Spokane, having resigned when it was revealed that she was Caucasian, not African-American
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WWII: One of two survivors of the Lezaky massacre, razed as a reprisal of Heydrich's assassination in 1942. She and her sister were the only survivors and were adopted. Maiden name Stulik. Lived in Vcelakov about a decade ago
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Wwii: wasp
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Scientist
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battles of Coral Sea and Midway. USS Yorktown, later USS West Virginia
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US Navy Test Pilot/NASA Astronaut
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WWII: Malmedy Massacre survivor, 17 December 1944
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Former United States Major Army General and is currently a Special Assistant to the Commanding general
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world war 2 air ace
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Talk Show Host, Political Activist, Husband of Actress Marlo Thomas
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JFK: A close aide to President John F. Kennedy, a prominent attorney, former president and CEO of Nike
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(Born 1967) US Navy SEAL Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Recipient of a Navy Cross, a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart
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WWII. PTO. Sonar Man First Class on the USS Melvin R. Newman participating in seven major engagements, including Okinawa and Iwo Jimo. Also in Korean War
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Recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia in 2009 for his duty in Afghanistan
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JFK - Witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy; worked at the Dallas Morning News, can be seen in the Zapruder movie
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WW2 USAAF fighter pilot ace 5 victories, 24/49FG deceased
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North Korean defector living in South Korea, the only person known to have successfully escaped from a 'total-control zone' grade internment camp in North Korea
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Emmett Till case. Carolyn Donham, the white woman at the center of the case, admitted she lied about the events leading up to the murder. Donham told police in 1955 that Till (14) whistled at her and tried to grab her inside a store in Money, Miss
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. 24th Material Squadron, 18th Air Base Group, Wheeler Field
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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medal of honor vietnam war army
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Ringling Brother's Circus Fire/Talked with her on phone, she said she was about six the time of the fire, has fear of tents
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Altar boy at John F Kennedy's funeral mass in Washington DC. Father was a doctor who was a Harvard classmate of JFK and treated John & Jackie before the Presidency
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Colonel Air Force One Pilot for President Clinton and Bush II
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Mike Donnet & Leon Divoy in occupied German Belgium Territory, discovered damaged Stampe SV4 aircraft, repaired it & flew it to safty under the German enemy's noses on July 4th 1941. Later both joined the British Royal Air Force
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge and other major battles. 740th Tank Battalion ('Daredevil Tankers')
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Actively serving US Marine Corps Major General
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navy admiral
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Actress Ashley Judd recited a poem by a Franklin teen Saturday at the Women's March on Washington./Nina wrote the poem 'Nasty Woman'
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Peleliu and Okinawa. E Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; nurse at Triple Army Hopsital
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CMOH recipient, Famed WWII Air Commander
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John Doolittle (2)
Son of General Jimmy Doolittle -
An American invertebrate paleontologist who became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada; Secretary of the Smithsonian (1907-1927)
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Flying Tigers-clerk
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Holocaust survivor of the Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Salzwedel concentration camps
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navy admiral
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(born 10 April 1918) is an Indian activist and journalist. He turned 100 in April 2018
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Italian WWII Veteran, Battle of Stalingrad, born 1921
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From November 25 to 26, 1981, Hélène Dorigny and Michel Arnould set a new hot-air balloon distance record of 717 miles (1154 km) while piloting their balloon, 'Semiramis.'
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Lz xray 1965 nammember of the lost platoon
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Richard Dormer (2)Suffolk County Police Commissioner during the long island serial killer investigations
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WW2 air ace - 6 Kills - USMC - Navy Cross