WWII: One of the few survivors of the Japanese Navy who were involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Survived the sinking of the Hiryu during the Battle of Midway in 1942, and almost starved on the Pacific Island Chuuk
Hiroshima survivor, born in 1926 in California, moved to Japan at age 6. Drafted into the Japanese army during WWII, he was helping to dig an air raid shelter into a hill about a mile and a half from Hiroshima's center when the bomb hit. He emerged to see
WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation. Interrogated numerous Nazi officials involved in art operations, incl. Albert Speer and Walter Hofer. At Berchtesgaden, he worked to recover the objects from Hermann Göring's collection
Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1917) was a volunteer of the Republican army, becoming an official. He fought in Madrid and the Battle of Teruel. One of the last surviving Republican officers. Now 99
WWII: PTO. USMC. Harold has been cited in several books and publications chronicling the history of the war for heroism in the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill on Okinawa. Purple Heart
WWII: Escaped the German Army in the 'Miracle of Dunkirk', May/June 1940. 13th Lysander Squadron RAF, but dispatched to the Royal Signals of the Army before Dunkirk as they were in need of wireless operators like him
American aviator, notable for being in the late summer and early fall of 1976 the first person in history to successfully fly a homebuilt aircraft around the world. World War II Veteran
Army Captain Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient. Was awarded by President Biden in September of 2023 for his actions Ap Go Cong, South Vietnam in 1968. (Born 1942)
TV/movie actress of the 1960s + 70s: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Peter Gunn, Dragnet (1958), Flight = 1 ep. 'Enemy Agent' of: 'Gen. Kenny that introduced the episodes was the commander of the 5th Air Force under MacArthur in WWII'; + 'Three Men in a Boat'
WWII Veteran from Kansas. He served in the 98th Infantry Division at the end of WWII as a replacement for the original infantry and trained for deployment in Japan. He was one of 15,000 replacements for the Division at the end of the war.
(Born 1950) US Marine Crops Vietnam Veteran. A combat engineer with Company D, 11th Engineer Battalion of the 3rd Marine Division. POW from 1968 to 1973
WWII - Bataan Death March Survivor/192nd Tank Battalion, U.S. Army,made to march for 8 days after his capture/Former professor of economics at Arizona State University
WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1919, he joined 615 RAuxAF in March 1938. Called up in 1939, he flew on Beaufighters throughout the Battle of Britain. He is now 96 and lives in Wheldrake near York, UK
WWII D-Day veteran, served on LCT transporting troops and supplies to the beaches under heavy fire. Also met Babe Ruth as a 5 year old in 1928 when his uncle played for the Red Sox
WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
Pearl Harbor Survivor; sight-setter on a battery gun of the USS Ward, the ship that fired the first American shots in WWII and sank a Japanese submarine on Dec. 7, 1941
WWII: B-24/B-17 bombardier in the 839th Squadron, 487th Bombt Group, 8th Air Force (Lavenham base). 30 missions (incl. D-Day) from 6 May to 5 November 1944. Wounded twice: 14 October 1944 at Cologne and 5 November 1944 at Ludwigshafen
WWII: Piloted B-4, B-17 and P-51 planes in the 839th Squadron, 487th Bombardment Group, 8th AF(Lavenham base). 30 missions (including D - Day) from 6 May to 5 November 1944. Wounded twice: 14 October 1944 at Cologne and 5 November 1944 at Ludwigshafen
Served on the USS Tennessee prior to WWII and the USS Missouri during WWII, ultimately witnessing the end of WWII/His story got 5 million views on facebook
JFK - Honor Guard in the State funeral of President Kennedy; also stood Death Watch and as such pictured in the famous photograph of Jackie and Caroline Kennedy kneeling at the coffin
F-86 Sabre pilot assigned to the 39thFighter Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter Interceptor Group during the Korean Conflict. Besides gaining 2 aerial victories over MiG-15s
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; Naval Housing, Ford Island. Thompson was 13 on Dec. 7, 1941. His father was stationed on the seaplane tender Curtiss, anchored in Pearl Harbor
American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973 from the 5th Congressional District of Georgia. World War II Veteran
(February 11, 1953 - May 24, 1986), (Lt Cmdr, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot and a NASA astronaut candidate.Thorne was killed in an aircraft accident of a stunt plane -in which he was a passenger- on May 24, 1986
WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMT Lancastria during Operation Ariel (17 June 1940). It is estimated that there were 6.500 fatalities, representing a greater loss of life than the Titanic and Lusitania disasters combined
(June 11, 1906 - September 23, 1992) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces
WWII Veteran, F Co, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division) Has a video on YouTube you can checkout 'The Day I Was Saved By A German Medic' December 2nd, 1944
WWII: ETO, tail gunner on B-17 42-31720 'The Blue Blazing Blizzard' (379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force). His B-17 was shot and exploded at 25.000 feet while on a raid to Ludwigshafen, Sept 8, 1944; survived, was taken POW
WW2/from Poole in Dorset, Wren in Bletchley Park Naval Section working on ?Allied Plot?. A chart of the world covering all 4 walls & Wrens plotted the movement of all the allied ships and their German, Italian and Japanese opposite numbers
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
Retired Israeli Air Force officer. During WWII he served in a group of Palestinian Jewis Royal Air Force pilots. Back in Israel he served in the Israeli Air Force
WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. Company A, 2nd Rangers Battalion; landed near to the heavily fortified village of Vierville where he was seriously wounded while getting ashore
WW2, Korean & Vietnam Wars/Medal of Honor Recipient & Awarded Purple Heart U.S. Army/Rank Colonel/1st lieutenant in Company I, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. At Saulx de Vesoul, France location for actions awarding him MOH
WWII: D-Day, USS Barnett (APA-5), Utah Beach. Wounded in Operation Husky (Sicily, July 1943). Later in the Invasion of Souther France (August 1944) and also in the Battle of Okinawa. Purple Heart, French Legion of Honor Medal
WWII: USMC fighter pilot of VMF-214 'The Swashbucklers'. Southwest Pacific and Guadalcanal to join Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 214, known as the 'Swashbucklers.' Guadalcanal, Solomon and Russell Islands
WWII. PTO: Fire Controlman 3rd Class on Escort Carrier USS Vella Gulf (CVE-111). Credited with shooting down 3 Japanes 'Zeros' in the last weeks of the war. Visited atom-bombed Nagasaki during occupation duty
One of three Marines that lowered the Embassy flag in Cuba the last time when the Embassy closed in 1961/ Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana 5+ decades raise the Stars and Stripes once again there
One of the last surviving 'Rats of Tobruk'. The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against the Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk in WW2. He is 96 and lives in Brassall, Australia
WWII: B-17 bomber pilot (B-17G Flying Fortress My Mary Myrtle 42-97827), 8th Air force, 1st Division, 457th Bomb Group, 751st Sqdn.; flew 20 missions to Berlin a.o. places between the end of 1944 and June 1945
Australian WWII veteran and one of the few surviving members of Z-Special unit, the group of Special Forces that assisted downed American airmen. Now lives in Clapham, South Australia. Sometimes known as Jonathan Tredrea
One of the last survivors of German battleship Bismarck that was sunk on 27 May 1941. He and Otto Peters are now the two last survivors. He is now 90 and lives in Germany
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tangier (AV-8); manned a machine gun to shoot at incoming Japanese planes. Later saw service in Guadalcanal, Battle of Midway, Wake Island, Battle of the Coral Sea, a.o. Also invasion of Inchon (Korean War)
WWII: ETO. 355th Bomb Squadron, 350th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Waist-gunner/Ball-turret gunner on B-17 'Heaven And Earth'. 35 combat missions, including the huge Berlin raid on Feb. 3, 1945
WWII: ETO. 17th Airborne Division. Fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and landed in a glider in Operation Varsity (24 March 1945, largest airborne operation in history to be conducted on a single day and in one location)
American writer, born 1947. Military family, descended from Thomas Jefferson. 'Dress Gray', novelist. Village Voice writer, stumbled upon the 1969 Stonewall uprising, and one of the first journalists to cover it
WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division. Was captured at the fourth day of the battle and spend the rest of the war as a POW in Czechoslovakia
WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
WWII: PTO/ETO. Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor and later a member of the Varsity Victory Volunteers, 442 Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service. He was the first Japanese American to graduate from Yale Law School
WWII - Contemporary witness of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion, July 17, 1944, Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, CA; 320 dead, 390 wounded, followed by mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.)
(Born 1939) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Flew the F-105. 12th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 18th Tactical Fighter Wing. Shot down in 1965 in Vietnam and recused
WWII: Aviation Machinist assigned to Torpedo Squadron (VT) 8 (USS Hornet): Doolittle Raid, Battle of Midway. Later on USS Kitkun Bay in the Battle of Leyte
WWII Pacific Marine vet (born 1924), featured in iconic WWII photo, covered in dirt after a fight in the Marshall Islands, and holding a cup of coffee in front of him
WWII: British Arctic Convoy Merchant Marine veteran; was in the disastrous PQ-17 convoy (27 June - 10 July 1942) when 24 out of 35 ships were sunk by Nazi - German forces
WWII: Pacific Theater, Battles of Buna-Gona (Papua), Sanananda and the Driniumor River and at the battles of the upper Ormoc Valley (Leyte) and Luzon in the Philippines.Company G, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division