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astronaut
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USS WWII Merchant Marine, born 1928. Part of a Murmansk Run in Nov/Dec of 1944
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WWII. ETO: Battle of Normandy. On Aug. 11th, 1944, he was shot through the neck while engaged in heavy combat, then taken POW and eventually sent back in an soldiers exchange. Company F, 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division
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Flight scientist
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Aylwin
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German-Peruvian biologist, born in Peru to German emigrants, who was the only survivor of 92 passengers and crew in the 24 December 1971 crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rainforest
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NASA Flight director, STS-115
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Artic Explorer. Member of Walter Willaim Herbert 1969 artic team
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, 5th Marines, Tank Batallion
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Forensic anthropologist, Author - The Bone Woman: Among the Dead in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo
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WWII Kogawa was born in Masuda City, Shimane in 1923. During World War II, he was stationed in Malay as a platoon leader for the 3rd Division of the Imperial Japanese Army. He was in an internment camp in Thailand before returning to Japan
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American technical wreck diver and shipwreck historian who has been diving and exploring shipwrecks since 1980. Together with John Chatterton, Kohler was a co-hosts of the television series Deep Sea Detectives on the History Channel
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NASA scientist and leader in the design of several robotic deep-space planetary missions.He is also an author, game developer, lecturer,photographer and environmentalist
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Serial Killer
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Austrian-born American physicist
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One of the many survivors of the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. She is now 84
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Dutch Economist, Diplomat, Historian. Born: 05/22/1914
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(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam and Desert Storm Veteran. Went to Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Iraq and many other places during his 24 year long career
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The most injured airman in US history due to injuries fighting in Kuwait
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Invented the kidney dialysis machine
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Survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
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Lawyer and author
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Supercentenarian. Born: 10/31/1897. 7th Oldest Person in the World. One of only 5 living people left born in the year 1897
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ABMA/NASA. Joined the Werner von Braun rocket team in 1959. Worked on Mercury, Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Manning a console in the Firing Room for most of the Apollo launches, including Apollo 7 through 13
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German pilot
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Former Soviet cosmonaut (Born: 1930) Although he retired in 1983 without flying in space, he served non-flying assignments on several spaceflights
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WWII: 486th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Belonged to the crew of B-24 Liberator 42-52508 'Libra', one of the 'Zodiac Bombers'. Tail gunner, 36 missions
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Russian cosmonaut. Voskhod-1 & Soyuz-1. Died in the landing of Soyuz 1
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Lz-xray nam 1965
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Russian female cosmonaut who was the third woman to travel to space and the first to make a long-duration spaceflight.She is now a member of the Russian parliament
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One of the survivors of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. He now promotes world peace
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 13 kills
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Military Interpreter (Red Army) Spanish Civil War Veteran. Born: 02/12/1920
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cosmonaut
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(Born 1926) US Army WW2 Veteran ETO. 89th Division, 354th Anti-Tank Unit. Helped in the liberation of concentration camp Ohrdruf. Bronze Star recipient
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Seaman 1st Class, USS St. Louis. Last Staten Island Pearl Harbor survivor
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cosmonaut
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Iwo Jima. Saw the flag raising
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astronaut
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Juliana C. Young Koo is a Chinese American diplomat who served as first head of the UN Protocol Department, supercentenarian and third wife of diplomat and politician Wellington Koo
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Former U.S. Surgeon General
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Vietnam veteran who fought in the navy for 33 and a half years and retired as a colonel
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Speaker, 21 year marine officer and author of From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava. Client success executive at AirStrip. Has appeared frequently on both network (Fox, NBC) and local television news
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Convicted in 2003 for the 1998 sniper-style murder of abortion Dr. Barnett Slepian. Prior to his capture, Kopp was on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
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Physicist - NASA
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Palynologist, author
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astronaut
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Polish-born American virologist and immunologist12/05/1916
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Holocaust Survivor/Nazis stormed into the Latvian city where he lived with his family, and penned the Jewish population into a ghetto/Deported to the Stutthof work camp/Escaped 1945/Husband of Eva Moses Kor
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WWII - 6th Naval Beach Battalion, Navy corpsman at Omaha Beach (D-Day), also in the Battle of Okinawa. His memories are incorporated into Max Hasting's epic book 'Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944'
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Operation Varsity. 17th Airborne Division
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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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nobel med. laureate 1959
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006
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WWII: The only surviving Polish squadron commander in the UK; served in the Polish Air Force in Poland (defense of Poland 1939), France (starting July 1941) and Britain and later served in the Royal Air Force.
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cosmonaut
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WWII: German D-Day veteran, wireless operator in the 22nd Regiment, 21st Panzerdivision, stationed near Caen at time of D-Day
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Flight Director at NASA
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cosmonaut
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Polish World War One Veteran Lives in Sierakowice Poland
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Buccaneers General Counsel
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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 German soldier in the 24th Panzer Division in World War II and the author of several books
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Elizabeth Koshy (2)Famous Indian Shooter who's team placed 6th worldwide in 2011 in Germany
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WWII: D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne Operation Market Garden. 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles), he was General Maxwell Taylor's radioman and later an accomplished WWII Author '(Hell's Highway', 'D-Day With The Screaming Eagles' a.o.)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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Professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics
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Flight astronaut backup ps spacelab
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Japanese WWII Veteran, born 1927
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Donut Dolly in Vietnam
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cosmonaut
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German WWII-Pilot, Rammjager Ace, flew with 4/JG-3 and 3/JG-4 Sturmgruppe
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Former roommate/friend of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, one of the first employees of Apple Computer
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Employed by McGraw-Hill Publishing at TSBD in November of 1963 , Dolores was a witness to Pres. Kennedy's assassination
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Greek Cypriot WWII veteran. Part of Cypriot Regiment
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Cosmonaut
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American anti-war activist, United States Marine Corp veteran and writer who was paralyzed in the Vietnam War. Author of the memoir Born on the Fourth of July
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Maurice L. Kowal was part of Lt/JG John F. Kennedy's orginal PT-109 crew, but, due to earlier injury, not aboard when PT-109 was sunk
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Last Polish World War 1 Veteran/Born:02/02/1900 Lives in Tursk, near Sulecin (Poland)
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Husband of Annette Kowalski and former CIA
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Japanese WWII Veteran, was 87 in 2007
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American supercentenarian and the world's oldest Jewish person. Born in 1899
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cosmonaut
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WWII: US Navy. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid. Aleutian Campaign,
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A retired Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-33/TM-32)
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Russian tank ace and veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad during WW2
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Polish daredevil , Parachute jumper
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Serial Killer
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space administrative
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Producer, entertainment lawyer, manager and activist; organized Hands Across America in 1986
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Author. Into the Wild, Iceland, Eiger Dreams, and Under the Banner of Heaven, and Into Thin Air, his personal account of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Buna-Gona, Battle of Luzon. 32nd Infantry Division
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Russian/Soviet Union Ace, 12 Kills during WW2 & 13 Kills during the Korean War!
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
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WWII: Served on the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) which sank the largest aircraft carrier ever built, the HIJMS Shinano, on 29 November 1944. This marks also the largest ship wver sunk by a submarine
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WWII: First worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yards and helped built the USS Iowa, then served with the 763rd Railway Shop Battalion in Europe
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WWII: Navy. Survived both the sinking of the USS Lexington and the USS Block Island
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USMC Sniper in Vietnam
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Inventor of the Digital Audio Player
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Engineer with the 5th Transportation Company in Vietnam from March 1968 until he was captured in Cambodia and taken as a POW while serving aboard a landing craft
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Puerto Rican political analyst, former husband of Governor Sila Maria Calderon, married her from 1978 to 2001
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NASA flight director during first Moon landing and Apollo 13 explosion (Played by Ed Harris in 'Apollo 13')
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WWII German officer
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German ww2 pilot
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Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Team Scientist
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Theoretical physicist, advocate of scientific skepticism, science education, and the science of morality
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Hungarian-Austrian physicist working in attosecond science. In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
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Author, Enviromental activist
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One of the notorious gangsters the Kray twins
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WWII: ETO. B-17 bomber pilot in the 100th Bomb Group
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Scientist
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1992 Nobel Winner in Medicine
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NASA astronaut (retired) Four space shuttle flights STS -70, 78, 87, 99
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Canadian author, journalist, political activist and real estate developer
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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US Navy vet on the USS Randolph, born 1940. Participated in the Mercury mission recoveries of Gus Grissom and John Glenn. Served to escort and guide members of the onboard press onboard during the recoveries
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Survivor of the Hartford Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus fire, which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States
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American development economist. In 2019 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, together with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.'
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Assigned to a port anti-aircraft battery and was blown into the water when a torpedo hit. He swam around the damaged USS West Virginia and made it to safety on Ford Island
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Convicted Killer/Member of the 'Manson Family'
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Survivor Korean Death March/29th Regimental Combat Team/Captured at Oneui on July 26, 1950, marched 40 miles south of the Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW for 3 months & was one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured men
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Air Force General
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World War 1 veteran from the Ukraine, Born:02/25/1897
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research pilot
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'Rosie the Riveter' Worked on B-17 and B-29 bombers
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Russian cosmonaut / astronaut
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Unmanned space exploration
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Discovered link between asteroid and mass extinction of dinosaurs; named crater Chicxulub
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Formerly on FBI Ten Most Wanted list, with partner Ruth Eisemann-Schier, for the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Mackle
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Israeli supercentenarian and recognized as the oldest man alive (Born: 1903) A confectioner by profession, he experienced World War I as a child, and World War II as an adult. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to Israel. Now 112
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 3rd Marine Division
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nobel physics laureate 2000
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Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron FA-18 Flight Demonstration Pilot
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US Army veteran (4-star general) of 3 wars: WWII ('Colmar Pocket', Battle of Jebsheim 1945, 254th Regiment, 63rd Infantry Division, Korea (187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team), Vietnam (23rd Inf.Div). On Sept. 15, 1981, he was injured in an RAF attack
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German ww2 pilot
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East German Political Official. German WWII Veteran
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Flight scientist
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, was at 1010 docks when the attack began, in charge of delivering ammunition for the Navy
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German Journalist/Author, Russia Expert
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Swedish adventurer, rode his bicykle from sweden to mt Everest and climed to the top and then rode his bike back to sweden
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Air Force General
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nobel chem. laureate 1996
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2008 Nobel Prize in Economics; NY Times columnist
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Commandant of the Marine Corps (1995-99)
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Test pilot, 43rd Fighter Squadron commander
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German pilot
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Retired USMC General
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Born March 21 1909 - Master of engineering chemistry , captain of the cavalry of Polish Army .
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WWII female veteran, born 1922, WASP pilot
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WWII: As a boy, lived through the Nazi occupation of his country of origin, Holland. Later served America for many years in the Army
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WWII - Germany; paratrooper of the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment ('Green Devils'), fought at the Normany and many battles. Direct line of combat to the US 502nd and 506th PIR (Easy Company)
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Last crew member of Self-propelled barge T-36
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(1935-2014) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme
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Polish soccer player. He played soccer in the Polish army during WWII. Said to have emigrated to Germany
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WWII: ETO. B-24 pilot with 8th Air Force. DFC
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WWII veteran, born August 21, 1914. Believed to be the oldest living survivor of Iwo Jima by his 100th birthday. Wounded by shrapnel at Iwo, hospitalized and sent back to the states
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Russian Attorney. Not famous, but he represents Edward Snowden
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WWII: Mr. Kudzik completed 14 war patrols, 8 aboard Nautilus 168 (WWII sub), 6 aboard USS Gar (SS-206). Battle of Midway (the Nautilus was co-credited sinking a Japanese ship), Makin Island Raid (they transported Marine Raiders to and back from the raid)
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Commander Of USS Abraham Lincoln
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Helped hide Anne Frank
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Flight engineer,of the 'Bockscar,' plane that dropped bomb on Nagasaki
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Respondent in Supreme Court case Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier(1988), that held public school student newspapers are subject to a lower level of 1A protection
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island
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Submarine duty during WWII
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Flight astronaut
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Retired German general
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Retired USMC General
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Born 1947 US Air Force Vietnam and Iraq Veteran. POW in Vietnam from 1972 to 1973. 2 Legion of Merits, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, a Purple Heart, and 1 Bronze Star
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Last surviving culprit of the Beslan School Hostage Crisis 09/01/2004
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Vietnam war combat veteran. Served from 1966 to 1967 as a heavy door machine gunner on a helicopter
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Daughter of Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, best known for his expedition to investigate the Tunguska event, the largest impact event in history, which had occurred on June 30, 1908
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Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief from 1977 to 1989
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Youtuber, lawyer, tiktoker
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Author of Dad Or Alive and entertainment lawyer
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One of oldest people in the world. Born 1895. Lives in Japan
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Born 1938, son of actress Brigitte Helm, who played Maria in the 1927 Sci-Fi movie 'Metropolis'
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USCG Admiral
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WWII: PTO. Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Philippines. USS Dickens APA-161
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Broadcaster at KBOX Radio in '63 , he reported from Parkland Hospital and police headquarters . Had a brief exchange with Oswald during press showing
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WWII P-38 Lightning Fighter Pilot. 2 aerial victories before being shot down over Aachen Germany on 16 September 1944. Also flex B17, B-24, B-25, B-26, P-39, P-47, P-51, P-59A, P-63, Wildcat, Hellcat, P80 and P-84
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Lead Prosecutor at the trial of serial killer John Wayne Gacy
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(Born July 16, 1939) is the first person independently verified to have walked around the Earth
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Red Army veteran during WW2. Lives in Minsk
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 8 victories
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The 26 year secret.. It was that long for an innocent man to be freed from prison, because of attorney cliet ethics. Upon clients death. Kunz/Coventry law firm
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Communications Officer and Electronics Specialist
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US Army General. Participated in the Iraq, Gulf, and Afghanistan wars and operations Just Cause and Inherent Resolve. Recipient of Army Distinguished Service Medal (2), Legion of Merit (2), Bronze Star (5), Purple Heart (2)
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Cultural Anthropologist, museum official, author
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 51 kills
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World War II Aerial Gunner, The only Japanese American to fly combat in the Pacific Theater. Awarded two distingished flying crosses
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Japanese fighter ace, 16 kills
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Turkish Air Force Lieutenant, best known for his 1960 aerial photograph of an outline of a ship on the peak of Mount Ararat, which is thought to be the site of Noah's Ark
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Historian/Southeastern Louisiana University professor emeritus of history/known for research into assassination of JFK in which Kurtz theory Oswald did not act alone/'Crime Of Century: Kennedy Assassination From A Historian's Perspective'
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII - Navy radio man on LSM (Landing Ship Medium) 241 during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Today he is (along with Joe Demler) one of the 'ambassadors' of the original Honor Flight
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Invented optical character recognition (OCR), author, futurist, Inventor Hall of Fame inductee
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Astronaut
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Veteran of WW2 - both Soviet and US Armies
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army general businessman
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Estonian soldier and radio operator, a veteran of the Battle of Raua Street
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Flight aviator x-15 pilot
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WWII: Joined the Army Air Corps and served in the 9th Air Force as a radar plotter; being a very talented artist, she painted the nose art many of the 9th AF B-26 Bombers
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field
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Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. Co-authored the 10 part Showtime documentary film series and book both titled 'The Untold History of the United States' with Oliver Stone
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WWII: USMC veteran of the Guadalcanal campaign
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Discoverer of Kevlar
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Nobel Laureate Economics
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Ugandan politician, Health Minister under the dictator Idi Amin. Also an author, 'State of Blood.' Born December 1939
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Former Navy SEAL, author
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WWI veteran
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '617th Bomber Squadron, Navigator, Bombardier'
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German World War One Veteran (Served in Italian Army)Born: 07/24/1900
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, Seabee
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German World War 1 and 2 Veteran,Born: 03/10/1900
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Cosmonaut from Eastern Germany, was the backup astronaut for Sigmund Jähn
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Turkish farmer who is the world's tallest living man, standing at 8'3" (2.51m)
