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US Navy vet, born 1940. Assigned to the USS Lake Champlain in 1961, participated in the recovery of Alan Sheperd and Freedom 7. Helped make the bed that the recovered capsule was set upon
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navy admiral
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British ace from WW2
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US Navy 'Atomic Veteran', born 1928. Operation Crossroads atomic tests witness in 1946. Enlisted 1945, but recruiter held him off since he had four brothers serving. But ended up exposed to radiation, fighting skin cancers later in life
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Retied USMC General
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Swedish'
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astonaut air force general
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A British Royal Air Force meteorologist who notably persuaded General Dwight D. Eisenhower to change the date of the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II, from the 5th of June to the 6th of June 1944
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WWII - D-Day Utah Beach, 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. Also fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Before that, he was sent to the Pacific Theater, where he survived the sinking of the SS President Coolidge on 26 Oct 1942
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Charles 'Chuck' Ollin Stalnaker was a WW2 Veteran in the Navy from 1945 to 1946 as an anti - aircraft gun loader on the USS Boise. After he worked on building ships until 1947 (B: March 16, 1927)
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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German Flying Ace Of World War II
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British ace from WW2
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WWII: Fighter Pilot, 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF
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army field marshal england
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Retired U.S.-Marine General, USMC
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WWII: PTO. Bataan Death March survivor
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Director FOrce Structure J-8
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RAF ace from 'Battle of Britain', currently residing in the U.K., 7
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WWII: British Arctic convoy veteran
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Croatian World War II pilot, born 1916, lives in Pancevo, Serbia
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WWII: ETO. Nose Art artist of the 91st Bomb Group, also painted the 'Memphis Belle'
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World war 2 fighter ace- 7 kills
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WW2 POW 31st Infantry Regiment U.S. Army, was captured & shipped to Yokkaichi city in Japan where was forced to shovel coal at copper mill/suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, but recovered & held career as corrections officer in Conn
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WW1 Veteran (Royersford, Pa.)
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army general
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USN Admiral
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WWII - Navigaor and OOD (Officer of the Deck) of the USS Missouri. It was his job to greet US and Japanese military officials as they boarded to sign the papers of surrender, and his job to set up the ceremony
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world war 2 fighter ace (6 kills)- USAAF
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WWII: PTO. Normandy, Okinawa and Southern France. USS Harding
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USS Barnett
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navy admiral england
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U.S. Navy 4-Star Admiral; NATO Supreme Allied Commander (2009-2013); Commander, U.S. Southern Command (2006-2009)
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(Born 1947) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Served as a Hospital Corpsman with Marines. Recipient of a Silver Star and 4 Purple Hearts
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WWII - D-Day, Battle of The Bulge, Nuremberg Trails. 1st Infantry Div, 26th Infantry Regiment. 1st wave on Omaha Beach. Occupational duty of guarding the top 12 high ranking German officials, including Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Jamaica). Part of the bodyguard at Yalta, when Churchill met Roosevelt and Stalin
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Air Force General
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WWII - Pilot of the famous Sundowners squadron (VT-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater
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Former General (Generaloberst) of the German Democratic Republic (DDR)
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WWII Marine, born 1924, fought at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan. Went on to a career as a lawyer and circuit judge
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WWII Bataan Death March Survivor
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Michael Steele (2)Michael Dane Steele (born September 15, 1960) is a retired colonel of the United States Army. He was a company commander in the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment during the Somalia mission Operation Gothic Serpent
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, Guadalcanal, Battle of the Bloody Ridge
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Richard Steele (3)WW2 Marine Corps Veteran 1st Lieutenant VMSB-245
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WWII: Marine veteran of the Battles of Tawara, Saipan, Tinian
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army general
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Bataan Death March Survivor
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WW2 Veteran : Army 37th Infantry Division
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Centenarian (1901-2006). US vet of WWI and WWII. 4 WWI battles in France. Named Provost Marshal of Hawaii, living through Pearl Harbor. Oldest living West Point grad (1925) and only WWI vet still on (honorary) active duty at his death
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Veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad - WW2
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS Knapp. Witnessed the Japanese surrender at Tokyo Bay
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the c-45
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WWII: U.S.S. L.S.T. 1046, U.S. Navy. He saw combat at Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, and at the invasion of Okinawa
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WWII: D-Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion; was the third man to climb Pointe-du-Hoc on D-Day
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Soldier of Fortune anf French Foreign Legion Paratrooper veteran
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Current captain of the USS Illinois
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS John Penn on August 13, 1943
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(Born 1922) US Army WW2 Veteran. 423nd Infantry Regiment, 106 Infantry Division. Taken as a POW after the Battle of the Bulge
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British WW2 pilot, 'Battle of Britain'
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 246th Signal Operation Company
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WWII: USS Indianapolis (CA-35) survivor
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WW2/Battle of the Bulge/101st FA 26 Yankee Division
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
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US WWII Navy vet, born 11 Jan 1921. Served on the USS Wichita, part of the Murmansk Runs to Russia, incl. the disastrous Convoy PQ-17. Later in the Pacific
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WWII - Yeoman aboard the submarine USS Wahoo (SS-238); sole survivor of the sinking of the Wahoo (11 Oct 1943) as he was miraculously transferrd just 45 mins before Wahoo sailed on her last and fatal voyage. Author of 'Wake of the Wahoo'
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WW2/Member of Ritchie Boys, a military intelligence unit composed of German, Austrian, & Czech refugees & immigrants to the US, mostly Jewish. Member of (interrogators of prisoners of war) Team 37. For this he gained the Bronze Star Medal
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Member of The Ritchie Boys was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War II. Holocaust survivor born 1922
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(Born 1950) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of 2 Bronze Stars
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WWII: ETO. 345th Bomb Squadron, 98th Bomb Group, 9th AF. B-24 Liberator 'The Sandman' (#42-40402). Pilot & Squadron Commander. 50 Combat missions. DFC for Operation Tidal Wave (1 Aug 1943), the bombing of the oil refineries at Ploesti
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Medusa, 7 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. B-17 Bombardier, 509th Bomb Squadron, 351st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 34 missions over Germany, occupied France, Belgium and Holland (14 Jun - 22 Sep 1944), incl. Buchenwald, Munich, Stuttgart, Schweinfurt, St. Lo, Berlin. DFC
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13th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON), 2012-2016
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester and Peleliu. Headquarters, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, USMC. Silver Star
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Tuskegee Airman WWII, received Distinguished Flying Cross
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Author
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Brian Stewart (5)
MI6 officer who blew up Panzers in Normandy and was the service man in the Far East -
WWII: PTO. Battle of Bougainville
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WWII: Guadalcanal, New Guinea
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island
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John Stewart (4)Vietnam/Fall of Saigon/Drove bus through Saigon & pick up eligible to leave. Saw anger growing among those on the streets as people realized the end was near & U.S. was pulling out. A rocket hit near the bus & was shaken by shrapnel
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Actress born 12/14/1919 was in films from 1942 to 1945 usually as eye candy. is 88-89 now and has supported the troops since WWII
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(Born 1921) African American WW2 D - Day veteran
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NASA astronaut (retired); US Army brigadier general
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WWII B-24 pilot of the last plane to return from the Ploesti Refineries raid - DSC
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WW2 Tuskegee Airmen. One of The Last Voices of World War II in the June 2020 issues of National Geographic. Flew P-51 / P-47 / P-40
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WWII Dunkirk/D-Day: British soldier of the Green Howards; was blown up at Dunkirk (1940), had his ID tags taken off and left for dead, but then saved by the men around him. He was wounded again when his landing ship was blown up on D-Day+2
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German ww2 me262 pi,ot
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WWII - Flying Tigers, crew chief
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Tennessee
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US Army General (Ret). Co-authored 'Shadow Warriors' With Tom Clancy. Former Commander Of U.S. Special Operations Command.
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95 Year Old World War II Veteran. US Army
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WWII Pacific - Survivor of the sinking of the USS Quincy (CA-39) in the Battle of Savo Island , 9 August 1942
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One of the 591 American prisoners of war who were returned during Operation Homecoming, in 1973; featured in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph 'Burst of Joy' taken on March 17, 1973 at Travis Air Force Base in California
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WWII Veteran
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Cpl, USA, E Co., 2nd Bn., 33rd Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Div. M4 Sherman Tank Gun Loader Purple Heart First unit to pierce the Siegfried Line Normandy, Northern France and Rhineland Campaigns
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
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Admiral USN, retired Medal Of Honor recipient Vietnam
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WWII: Battle of Wake Island December 1941. US Marine Corps. POW until his liberation by U.S. forces on September 7, 1945
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII, 101st Airborne, Orig. Band of Brothers born 1922
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WW2 VF-14 Hellcat Fighter Ace - 8 Kills - US Navy
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Chief Electrician USS Darter (SS-227) in October 1944, during Ambush at Palawan Passage. Then, Bill was the Chief Electrician when the Menhaden was commissioned in June of 1945
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USN Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Was aboard USS Pyro (AE-1) (moored at West Loch in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked) and hardly survived being strafed; later served on submarine USS Bumper (SS-333)
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WW2 veteran and one of the escapers from German PoW camp 'Stalag Luft III' in 1944, which inspired the Hollywood movie 'The Great Escape'. He is now 89
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guam. Also witness to the surrender ceremony at Tokyo Bay. US Army
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medal of honor korean war
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U.S. Marines 1943-1951 in WWII and Korean War
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US Airman First Class who helped avert a massacre when an armed attacker began shooting on a train from Amsterdam to Paris; received the US Soldier's Medal and France's Legion of Honor
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British WW1 Veteran Born: 09/23/1900
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks, 65th Engineer Battalion, Company B, 25th Division. Later served in Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands), Luzon (Philippines), New Guinea a.o. places
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the 5th Army, Company F, 142nd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry 'Texas' Division. He fought in Naples and the battle of Monte Casino, where he was taken a POW on February 14th, 1944
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Member of the famous Doolittle Raiders -Surprise bombing of Tokyo during WWII 'Co-Pilot Crew #10'
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Pearl Harbor survivor, one of the last 6 living survivors of the USS Utah during the attack
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(Born 1944) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Got the Air Force Cross. Retired as a Brigadier General
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 78th Lightning Infantry Division, 311th Infantry Regiment, Timberwolf Company
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Oklahoma
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WWII: USS Augusta, messmate of President Harry Truman, pictured in an official 'All Hands' Naval Informantio Bulletin
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WWII - Bombing Squadron Pilot (VB-11, sister quadron to the famous Sundowners VF-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater; served on the USS Hornet and at Guadalcanal
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American WWII Fighter Ace (13.5 Victs.) - 356th Fighter Group - USAAF
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WWII: ETO. 506th PIR, 101st AB
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Fighter ace 40th Fighter Squadron of the 35th
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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WWII - Pilot of the B-17 'Big Yank', 483rd Bombardment Group, 840th Bombardment Sq. Base: Sterparone, Italy; on March 24, 1945, they flew the longest escorted European bombing mission to Berlin, credited for destroying 3 Me-262's
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Retired Admiral of the US Navy former President of the Naval War College
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(Born 1926) US Army WW2 Veteran. Was sent to Scotland, Belgium, and Germany during his service. Purple Heart Recipient
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Pearl Harbor Survivor - USS Arizona - suffered severe burns from ship explosion
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First Director Of WW2 Coast Guard Womens Reserve
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US Navy Vietnam POW
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Vietnam war veteran. Straub spent 14 months in Vietnam, taking part in the Tet offensive. Now 73, Straub is fighting in Ukraine, quite possibly the oldest of the foreign volunteers to join the resistance forces there
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Vice Admiral Bernard M. Strean executed the United States Navy's first circumnavigation of the world by nuclear-powered surface warships from July 31, 1964-October 3, 1964
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English mountaineer/army officer who took part in the 1953 American Karakoram Expedition. He is now living in retirement
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Centenarian (1895-2002). US Army WWI veteran. Wounded by shrapnel in France during battles there. Spent time also in Belgium and Germany
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WWII: WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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100 Year old World War II veteran and former prisoner of war. He lives in Bedford, N.H
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Former general of the German Democratic Republic's Army. Also a German WWII Veteran. Served in the Wehrmacht during the war
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WWII: USMC corpsman in the Battle of Guam 1944
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WWII: ETO. Dutch veteran. No. 320 Netherlands Squadron RAF
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. Company E, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He is the man Eisenhower talks to in the famous pre-D-Day photograph
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W.A.S.P/Women army Service Pilot ww2,flew the b-26, p-39, at-6, pt-19, b-17
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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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US Navy and participated in four invasions in the European Theater
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Tarawa, Tinian and Saipan. 2nd Marines Div, 6th Regimental Scouts and Snipers
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. US Navy
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Centenarian (1905-2008), witness of 2 major aviation events. In the 1909 crowd that watched O.Wright demonstrate his plane for the US military. Married to WWII Marine, lived on hill near Pearl Harbor in 1941, first bomb hit nearby house
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army general
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American author, pastor, and former US Army Ranger who was involved in the Battle of Mogadish. He was awarded a silver star for his actions. In the film based on the battle, Black Hawk Down, Struecker is portrayed by Brian Van Holt
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WWII: Chaplain with the USMC . He made four landings in the Pacific theatre, the Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, Underwater Demolition Team
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Hull
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WWII: PTO/ETO. Pearl Harbor survivor, Hickam Field. Flew B-17 known as 'Jack the Ripper' over Germany (1943-44) and was shot down close to Munster. He was a POW in STALAG LUFT 1
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII: 25th Infantry Division. Pearl Harbor survivor, sw action at Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Northern Solomons, Luzon, and the Philippines
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Navy Admiral
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Author veteran
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII: ETO. Top Turret Gunner of B-17 'Fifinella' (42-107030); 322nd Squadron, 91st Bomb Group. Flew 20 missions from June 17, 1944. Was shot down on the Aug. 13, 1944 south of Paris. Spent 314 days as a POW, mostly at Stalag Luft IV
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Retired German general
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Iran Hostage Crisis/444 days of captivity as a hostage in Iran/Staff Sgt./Military Police, US Army, Defense Attaché's Staff
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 8 victores. 357th Fighter Group ('The Yoxford Boys')
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Fighter ace
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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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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Son of Chiune Sugihara, the Chinese 'Oskar Schindler', living in Antwerp, Belgium
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Former U.S. -General, U.S. Air Force
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Army General And Former U.S. Army Chief Of Staff
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General Gordon Russell Sullivan-Retired Army general officer, who served as the 32nd Chief of Staff of the United States Army & member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff/Army Distinguished Service Medal, Bronze Star, Purple Heart & Legion of Merit
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Oakland from 1942 to 1946. Was in many battles in the Pacific incl. Coral Sea, Guam, Iwo Jima and Okinawa; near the USS BUnker HIll when she was hit by 2 Kamikaze; watched the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
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English former footballer, who played in the successful Manchester City side of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Starred in the WWII movie, ESCAPE TO VICTORY
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Mahan (DD-364) and survived the Kamikaze attack on Dec. 7, 1944 (Battle of Ormac Bay) between Leyte and Ponson Island, when 3 out of 7 Kamikaze hit the ship
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Retired General
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WW2/Sumwalt was aboard the light cruiser USS Phoenix CL-46 and also saw action in the Pacific
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First 4-star general in the history of ROK Armed Forces, fought in the Korea War
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WWII: British veteran of the Arctic convoys (Murmansk runs)
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Centenarian (1896-2004). One of the last US Navy veterans of WWI. Served on the USS Charleston transporting supplies/soldiers across the Atlantic, and played sax in the ship's band
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Tuskegee Airmen, '99th', 'Bronze Star', 'Mechanic'. April 1941-June 1946!
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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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Fighter ace world war 2
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WWII German Sniper with 209 kills
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WWII: PTO. Electrician's Mate, USS Enterprise
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Blue Angel pilot turned pro hockey player
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WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
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WWII: Fighter pilot of the VMF 451 ('Blue Devils') stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17). Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids. Survived Kamikaze attack at the Bunker Hill (11 May 1945). 3 victories, 2 assists. Flew F4U Corsair
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Pearl Harbor Attack Survivor; was at Hickam Field with the Army Air Corps. Later also survived the Battle Of Midway when his B-17E Flying Fortress was shot down on 5 June 1942 and he was one of three survivors
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B.1927 Former FBI Special Agent from 51-77, author FBI Secrets & To Kill a President/Served Navy during WW2/Began career doing "black bag jobs" on Communists in Chicago. In Kentucky & NYC, spent years doing serious criminal investigations
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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'Royal Air Force Seaplane Pilot'
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Pearl Harbor Survivior 'Crew Member U.S.S. Ward 139'
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United States Army Air Force pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Author of War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission
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Joe Sweeney (2) WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4)
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John Sweeney (3) WWII: PTO. USMC. Guadalcanal. First Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. Navy Cross
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Wwii: pto. us navy
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US Navy makes history as US Navy's 1st Black female fighter pilot LT. JG Madeline Swegle
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US WWII veteran, born 1914. Served as a cook for the Army?s 569th Field Artillery in Europe
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2013 Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient- saved 12 soldiers in Afghanistan in 2009
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Medal of Honor, USMC, World War II, Ace (15 kills)
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo; from Kansas City, MO
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Vietnam Army pilot with 118th Assault Helicopter Co. stationed Bien Hoa, Republic of Vietnam. During his flying combat missions, awarded 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, Bronze Star, 23 awards of The Air Medal, & Vietnam Cross of Gallantry
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U.S. Navy officer, Guantanamo Bay attorney
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JFK - pilot of Air Force One in the early 1960s; also flew Kennedy's body back to Washington in the hours after his assassination in Dallas
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Vietnam Marine/POW Hanoi Hilton/Shared prison cell with John McCain/Awarded two Silver Stars, 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts, Legion of Merit with Combat 'V' Prisoner of War Medal/Retired at rank of lieutenant colonel
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Medical Corpsman
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Former USMC that served in the US Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper Platoon during the Gulf War. He was apart of STA Platoon 2 Blatoon 7th Marines. Author of Jarhead and many novels
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German ww2 pilot
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Brampton'
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US WWII Army vet, born 1924. Through the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and meeting the Soviets at Elbe. After, served as a guard at the Nuremburg Trials
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air force general
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Dust bowl survivor and WWII veteran, born 1917. Fought in campaigns including Tunisia, Sicily, and Rome (where he met the Pope), and later helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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Commanding Officer, 101st Airborne Division
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US Navy Admrial
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WWII - South Pacific. Fighter Ace, 5 victories. VFM-112 Squadron
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Hungarian fighter ace from WW2
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WWII: ETO. HQ Co, 1st Battalion Rangers. Dieppe Raid, D-Day, North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
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Hungarian fighter ace from WW2
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WW II Marine, born 1924. Purple Heart in the Battle of Iwo Jima
