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Test pilot
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Serial killer
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Malcolm X's sister
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BBC Light Entertainment Producer during the early years of television
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII - Honorary Member of the Doolittle Raiders; Chinese man who risked his life to help the Doolittle Raiders in China after the raid
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Navy Gunner, USS Nevada, Pearl Harbor Survivor!
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A Jr. at SMU , was asked to play Taps Nov. 22 as classes dismissed at local Elem. School
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JFK - Secret Service, White House starting 1963; protected LBJ's youngest daughter on the day of President Kennedy?s assassination. 35th Sgt. at Arms, House of Representatives; he announced 'Mr. Speaker, The President of the United States'
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WWII: Machine gunner in 'H' company, Second Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Division. Battle of Tulagi, Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Peleliu
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medal of honor marines vietnam
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Chinese Space Traveler- Shenzhou 5
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WWII: ETO. 262nd Regiment, 66th Infantry Division. Eyewitness to the sinking of the SS Leopoldville by torpedo as he was aboard the HMS Cheshire, which was right behind in the convoy. Bronze Star
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Female Russian sniper during WW2. Lives in Brno, Czech Republic. Born Dec. 3, 1920
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JFK related/Bay of Pigs Frogman/Stated; 'Ammunition was all we needed,' Chiqui Llama says. 'We blamed Kennedy. I think Kennedy was yellow.' Lives in Puerto Rico
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astronaut
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1926. He is now 88 and lives in the UK. He was a crew member aboard the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Ajax
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Worlds Oldest Mother
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Tongan protester
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USN Admiral
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Last surviving witness to 'The Sutton Hoo excavation' in 1939, considered to be one of the most important excavation's made in British archaeological history. She lives in Chester, UK and is now 84 years old
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UK WW1 Veteran
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Daughter of silent movie star Harold Lloyd
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'Squadron Leader Royal Air Force Abingdon' & 'Test Pilot'
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American architect and the grandson of the famed Frank Lloyd Wright
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Commander 19th Sustainment Command
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Sniper for the Red Army of the Soviet Union during World War II
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field
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Mobster
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memphis belle top gunner
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Flew a P-61A with the 421st NFS. Serial # 42-5512. He had 2 Japanese Ki-61 Tony?s destroyed
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Tank Ace (73 kills)
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WWII: ETO 351st BS, 100th BG, 8th AF ('Bloody Hundredth'). Flew 19 mission from February 25, 1945 (Munich) to April 19, 1945 (Oarnienburg). Also picking up French slave workers from Linz, Austria, after the war and flying them home
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Radar operator at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941
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WWII - D-Day, 116th AAA Gun Battalion, landed on Utah Beach. Also entered death camp at Gardelegan, Germany
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astronaut
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Navy Admiral
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4 Star General Born Oct 28, 1954
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Security Officer at Parkland Memorial when President Kennedy brought there after the assassination
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Pioneering female pilot. A WASP during WWII
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GySgt (Ret) Survivor of the USS Liberty Attack
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One of the doctors who tried to save JFK's life after being shot
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'The Dean of Deanabilia' - curator/archivist of the James Dean Gallery & Fairmount Museum in Fairmount, Indiana
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Peleliu. Company A, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, First Marine Division
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WWII: WWII Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) Pilot; one of only 6 'Attagirls' still alive. Joined the ATA in 1943, flew 100s of ferry missions in Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancaster Bombers
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American and former National Guard soldier who was a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions in World War II
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air force general
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WWII: ETO. B Company, 68th Armored Infantry Battalion, 14th Armored Divsion. France, Italy, Germany, Austria. Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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Ww2 veteran N. Africa and Italy
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1st female F14 Tomcat test poilet
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Author and former lieutenant in the U.S. Navy who was one of the first fully qualified female naval aviators to fly the F-14 Tomcat. Lohrenz has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, and NPR, and gives nationwide lectures on leadership
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French Resistance Fighter. Born: 08/29/1910
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Oldest French Person Born 1892 - Deceased 2006
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P-38 Lightning Pilot- fighter Ace during WWII [11 victories]
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Canadian wife of Ewric Lomax, worked on the Burma death railway while a Japanese POW. 'The Railway Man' movie is based on his life
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. LST-288. Later USS Augusta
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Vince Lombardi was born on January 26, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Little Orphan Annie (1938), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and Military Academy (1940)
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Mobster
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Worked on the gold record that is on Voyager 1 that went into Space in 1977
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WW II 2nd Ranger Battalion who scaled cliffs during the D-Day Invasion
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One the last surviving British veterans of The Spanish Civil War. He is now 93 and lives in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, UK
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cosmonaut
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Jack London (2)
British veteran of the Battle of the River Plate, served on HMS Exeter, born in 1921 -
US Marine, who was stationed at the US Embassy in Moscow, and became the first U.S. Marine to be convicted of spying against the United States
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Bob Long (4) Australian WWII veteran and a member of Semut 1, a group of undercover allied operatives lead by the eccentric English Major Tom Harrisson in Borneo in 1945. Now lives in Bayswater, West Australia with his wife Margery
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Kaneohe Bay, VP-12. Later served at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal in the famous 'Cactus Air Force' and ín the Battle of Midway
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Joe Long (4) The News Director of KLIF in Dallas , Joe reported on President Kennedy's arrival at Love Field
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US WWII vet, born 1927. Training stateside in the 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One) when the war ended. Sent with the occupying force to Germany, so the vets who fought there could come home. Used GI Bill to become a chiropractic doctor
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Air ace ww11 - 6 Kills - USAAF
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Serial Killer - Murdered at least 10 Woman in the Tampa Bay Area in 1984
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Night of the siver stars- battle of lang vei-nam duning tet offensive 1968-5th special forces is a ret army Colonel
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Theoretical chemist and a cognitive scientist
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WWII Navigator on a B-24 Liberator
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Flying tiger
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WWII: Navy; gunner's mate aboard the USS Tisdale DE-33, Pacific. In the battles of Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
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air force general
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German ww2 pilot
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He stumbled onto what has become known as chaos theory math in 1960.
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Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
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Courtroom Judge
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WWII: PTO. Served on submarines USS Atule and decorated USS Drum
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Spanish minister of justice (2004-2007)
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President of Honduras (1963-71, 1972-75), air force colonel
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Puerto Rican independence fighter, jailed in the United States, pardoned by President Barack Obama
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WWII Ace Pilot/ 23rd Fighter Group
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Astronaut
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Retired Air Force General
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A reporter for ABC News who reported from Dallas when President Kennedy was shot
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air force general
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Attorney and Youtube Celebrity
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Air Force General
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Member of staff at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Was an SS-Unterscharfuhrer. Born 1921
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American mathematician, coined the term 'butterfly effect:', pioneer of the chaos theory, invented the strange attractor notion
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Nobel prize in medicine 1973. deceased. 1989
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Commander Air University
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An employee of the Dallas Morning News , she and three of her co-workers stood ' in the grassy knoll area ' on Nov. 22 , '63 , and said that shots came from behind them and to the right , from direction of wooden fence
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astronaut
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division
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black sheep squadron
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WWII vet, born 1920. Last living member of the Flying Tigers pilot unit that worked in China, Burma, and Thailand
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WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941; USS Arizona survivor
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Italian politician of Communist Party, 1st President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for three consecutive legislatures from 1979 to 1992/In resistance movement against Nazi German invaders during WW2
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Retired Shuttle astronaut
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NASA astronaut (retired) flew on Skylab 3 and STS-3
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WWII: Ground crew (mechanic, nose art painter) of the 349th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, 8th AF ('The Bloody Hundredth') who painted the Nose Art of many B-17s of the 349th
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WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
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Airforce Lt Colonel & NASA Test Pilot: X-24B Lifting Body Plane
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Flight astronaut sts-122
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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Flight scientist
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Army General
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JFK - The famous 'Doorway Man'; he is the man in the Altgens photograph, standing in the doorway of the Texas Schoolbook Depository, watching the Kennedy motorcade on 22 November 1963 in Dallas
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Pioneer Of Radar/radio, Born: 08/31/1913
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Apollo 13 Astronaut, author of the best-selling book 'Lost Moon'
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Lovell was the director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII
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British born scientist, environmentalist and futurologist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis. He is now 92 and lives in Devon, UK
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Radar specialist for Lockheed Skunk Works; only person listed by name in declassified files of A-12 Oxcart program
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USAAF WWII Flying Ace, 31st FG, 309th FS - 5 Kills. Born August 7, 1923. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_G._Loving,_Jr
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'France'Born: 07/21/1915
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Astronaut - Flew on STS 32, STS 43 & STS 57
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Korean War fighter Ace (9 kills)- USAF - POW Viet Nam
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Creator of computer game Leisure Suit Larry
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British climber and last surviving member of the 1953 Everest Expedition. He now lives in Upper Holloway, near Matlock, Derbyshire
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Civilian Conservation Corps. WWII: PTO. Army Air Corps. Corregidor Island (Philippines). POW. 'Hell Ship' Noto Maru
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Neosho, 7 December 1941
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One of the children survivors of the 1963 Birmingham 16th Street Church bombing that killed 4 young girls during the civil rights era
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Founder of the Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis
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Minister and leader in the American civil rights movement
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Dallas Police Detective who witnessed the Lee Harvey Oswald shooting from a few feet away
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WWII: ETO. RAF Battle of Britain pilot
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WWII: ETO. Fighter pilot, 55th Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, flying P-51 Mustangs on 52 strafing, long-range-patrol and bomber-escort missions (Nov. 1944-Apr. 1945). Later flew 185 missions in Vietnam War. 271:55 combat hours
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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Member of Greenpeace who the Drew Barrymore character was modeled after on the movie Big Miracle
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5th Earl of Lonsdale and English nobleman
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Coast Guard Admiral and Secretary of Homeland Security
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Neosho, 7 December 1941
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Triage nurse at Parkland Memorial when President Kennedy brought in after shooting
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astronaut
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NASA research pilot, flies the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a modified Boeing 747SP with the world's largest airborne astronomical observatory, and the Gulfstream III (G-III) mission support aircraft
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Dutch boxer, fought Muhammad Ali in 1973, lasting 12 rounds. Convicted drug dealer
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A campaign worker with Robert Kennedy, he witnessed firsthand the assassination and testified at the trial of Sirhan Sirhan
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Drug dealer, subject of the 2007 biopic American Gangster
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medal of honor marines ww11
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Col. Lukas, 'Tuskegee Airmen', graduated at what is now Tuskegee University, Alabama. First African American woman in the Air Force to be promoted to the rank of colonel.Wiki:
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Born 15 January 1900 from Bude, Cornwall is a British supercentenarian who, at the age of 110, is the oldest living man in Europe
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Austrian World War One Veteran Born: 09/21/1900.One of only 10 remaining Veterans from World War 1
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Army sniper vietnam , 38 confirmied kills, 82nd Airborne Division
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Fourth Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (Born: 1922) He served as director from June 15, 1974 to July 3, 1986. He is now 95
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Scientist Emeritus at the Astrogeology Science Center at the USGS and one of the first women in the field of Astrogeology. She was one of the people responsible for making lunar maps for the Apollo 11 mission
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US WWII Army vet, born 1921. Bataan Death March survivor
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. G Battery 515th Coast Artillery
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Flight astronaut sts-51g,34,43,58,76/79
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor; Battle of Midway
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Retired General
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Flew the B-52 mothership for the X-1 flight. (The 'Mothership' is the aircraft from which the X-1 aircraft & Test Pilot is launched from) also commanded the t-34, t-37, t-33, b-57, t-38, f-104, kc-135, t-39, a-26, a-1, ec-137, c-5
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WWII: 350th/351st Bomb Sq, 100th BG, 8th AF. B-17 (co-)pilot, mostly on B-17s 'Sunny' (#42-30089) and 'Sunny II' (#42-30796). Survivor of Bremen raid (Oct. 8, 1943; only 6 of 18 came back, earning him his nickname 'Lucky'). D-Day missions
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Holds the World Record For Having the Most Tattoos
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WWII: 282d Engineer Combat Battalion, XII Corps. Arrived in Europe after D-Day, his job was to get the combat troops across the many rivers encountered during the advance across Europe, by building Pontoon Bridges, etc., Purple Heart
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World War II Veteran
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French Supercentenarian born 6/6/1912. WW2 veteran. Fought with the French Resistance. Prisoner of War
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Scientist
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F-22 test pilot
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WWII: PTO. LST 474. US Navy
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Daniel Lugo (2)Killer movie pain and gain based on
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WWI: D-Day, Omaha Beach, 2nd wave. Battle of the Bulge
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The little girl in the famous Daisy Ad commercial during the 1964 presidential campaign for LBJ
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Alcatraz inmate from 1954-1959
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American paleontologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University who is largely remembered now for championing a Pre-NeoDarwinian Synthesis view of evolution
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U.S. Air Force 1951-1955
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WWII Fighter Ace, only American Mosquito ace (5 victories)
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'Squadron Leader for Royal Air Force'
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(Born 1918) US WW2 Navy Veteran. On the gun crew of the USS Hailey
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Tuskegee Airmen 'LA Chapter'
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DPD , one of 5 lead motorcycle officers in President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov.22 , 1963
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(Born 1940) US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Politician, WWII Veteran
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Lz-xray nov 65 vietnam-we were soldiers1st ground battle in nam
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Naval Hospital
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Air ace ww11 - 6.5 Kills - US Navy
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Served on the USS Monaghan which sank a Japanese mini-submarine on Dec. 7, 1941. Later, Battle of the Coreal Sea, Battle of Midway
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Brig. General, was test pilot for the X-1
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(born 22 April 1916) is a French centenarian who was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. She provided the inspiration for the character of 'Mademoiselle Lise Lundi' in Tony Gatlif's 2009 film, Korkoro
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Flight scientist, flight director on STS-115
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NASA Apollo Program Flight Director & Flight scientist
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Michigan State Professor leads a team created this thing called a transparent luminescent solar concentrator (TLSC), which employs organic salts to absorb wavelengths of light that are already invisible to the human eye/Solar Collector
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Helena
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WWII: Technician fifth grade, headquarters company, 473rd Infantry, 5th Army; fought in North Africa and Italy; met General Patton, later as a medic met, shook hands with Charles De Gaulle
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S-3 Viking pilot Cmdr. John 'Skip' Lussier, who flew President Bush onto deck the of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft
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Great-grandson of cosmetics giant Max Factor, Sr. and an heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune who was convicted of a series of rapes in 2003
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Civil Rights Leader
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German ww2 pilot
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Stood directly underneath an exploding nuclear warhead on July 19th, 1957
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Author - Lone Survivor. Petty Office US Navy/Navy Seal/awarded the Navy Cross for combat heroism in 2006 by Pres. G. W. Bush
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Lived with his parents in the amityville house and was exposed to its terrors
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Grumman test engineer, born 1939. Worked on the Apollo program for Grumman in the 1960s, writing test and evaluation procedures for the Lunar Module systems
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Tennessee. Served on this ship until war's end, incl. Aleutian Campaign, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Guam, Tinian, Surigao Straight, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
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US Navy vet, born 1940. Served on the USS Donner during its recovery mission of Ham the Chimp in 1961 prior to launching the first US man in space months later
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Cosmonaut
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS San Francisco
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Flight astronaut
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JFK; US Army Corps Colonel that created and engineered the eternal flame that adorns the graveside of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetary
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilot. 3 victories
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air force general
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Vegetarian activist and cattle rancher
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Survivor of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Daughter of Frances Griffiths. Francis Griffiths and Elsie Wright where two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England in 1917 who took a series of five photographs showing 'The Cottingley Fairies'
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Retired General
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Rescued American P.O.W. in 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Attorney General of the United States (2015); first African American woman to hold that post
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Rhode Island State Attorney General (2003-present)
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navy admiral
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach. Co B, 1st Bn., 359 Regt, 90th Infantry Div. Also Exercise Tiger
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Scientist
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WWII: Navy Corpsman attached to the USMC in many battles from GUadalcanal to Okinawa. Bronze Star
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Gay activist. She and the late Del Martin were the first gay people to be married in California
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air force general businessman
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Writer best known for his books about parapsychology (Born: 1935) He also investigated the Enfield Poltergeist, as recorded in This House is Haunted (1980). He also collaborated with Uri Geller on The Geller Effect (1986)
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Tom Lyons (2) WWII: PTO. USMC. Guadalcanal. Battle of the Bloody Ridge
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navy admiral
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Chief of staff at the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic's National Academy of Sciences and 'The secret hero of Chernobyl' who saved thousands of lives stopping radioactive waste seeping into rivers. He is now 69 and lives in Russia
