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Scientist and Nobel Prize Winner
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WWII - Crew member of the USS Saratoga ('Sister Sara') from 1941 until the end of WWII, survivor of the Kamikaze attack on 21 February 1945. when the Sara was hit by 6 Kamikaze in 3 minutes
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Retired General
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Brazilian Biologist and Geneticist. Born: 12/01/1919
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Romanian politician, president of the Christian Democratic National Peasant's Party
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A Hungarian-born mechanical engineer, developer for Nasa Apollo Lunar Rover Vehicle
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astronaut
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Canadian engineer and astronaut. Payette has completed two spaceflights, STS-96 and STS-127, logging more than 25 days in space. She served as Chief Astronaut for the CSA, and has served in other roles for both NASA and CSA, such as CAPCOM
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Madame Cyn, 1970s ex-brothel owner, who's lifestory was made into the films Personal Services [1987] and Wish You Were Here [1987]
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WWII: USS Drexler survivor, which was sunk after attacks from a kamikaze on May 28, 1945
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Civil Rights: Lttle girl pictured in an iconic photograph that became to represent the March on Washington. 'Accidental civil rights icon'
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Victorian cross, army aust. vietnam war hero. Also awarded the DSC and Silver Star from the United States
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Song of the humpback whale conservationist
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Sergeant Major Delta Force Operation Inherent Resolve
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98 year old fighter ace WWII, Pacific theatre
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astronaut
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WWII vet of the Tarawa battle. Seen being carried off wounded in the 1945 Best Oscar Documentary Short 'With the Marines at Tarawa'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 4th Division, 24th Marines
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales on 10 December 1941
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British Ace w/six Vic's in WW2
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Royal military
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker.One of two surviving WWII Navajo Code Talkers. Born 04/28/1925
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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2007-09)
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Major Timothy Nigel 'Tim' Peake CMG born 7th April 1972 is a British Army Corps Officer, European Space Agency astronaut and a former ISS member
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British supercentenarian and one of the oldest living people born in the 20th century
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WWII Fighter Ace (6 Victs.)- US Navy
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Robert Pearce (2)Aerographer's Mate 1st Class, USN, Fleet Air Wing 10 Weather Observer, flying through the eye of typhoons and participating in 50 missions in the South China Sea searching for downed aircraft. Pacific Theater of Operations
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'Gimli Glider' Pilot who glided passenger plane to safety
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Conservative Activist
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physicist
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Engineer & space scientist known for work on space elevators/Developed aircraft & spacecraft technology for Air Force, DARPA, NASA. Holds patents & author nearly 100 publications in aircraft, spacecraft, tethers & global climate control
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Highly decorated British navy officer from WW2
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Peter Pearson (2)Royal millitary
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Test pilot USAF F-15, only pilot to ever shoot down a satellite
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WWII: New Zealand fighter pilot and flying ace. Europe/No. 610 Squadron; North Africa, Malta, Sicily, Italy, Far East/No. 81 Squadron. 6 victories. Notable for having shot down aircraft from all 3 main Axis powers'ermany, Italy and Japan
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Former Army General
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Air Force General
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WWII: PTO. USS Enterprise (CV-6) 1942-1945
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Peace Activist. Associated with the Chicago 8
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found 1st civil war submarine 1 31 years after it sunk
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WWII US Marines veteran, born 1925. Aboard the USS Missouri, he was part of the Japanese Surrender ceremony's honor guard on September 2, 1945
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WW2/B-17 'Miss Carriage' bombardier/306th BG/POW Stalag Luft 3 Sagan Silesia Bavaria Move/forced to march 300 miles and held for a year at the Nazi prison Stalag Luff 7 until liberated by troops under Gen. George Patton's in April 1945
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Canadian - American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist. Peebles was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 shared with Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sun - like star
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(Born 1939) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, 3 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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'Tuskegee Airmen', Mechanic, WWII
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Flight Lt., 'Royal Air Force Captain'
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Retired Admiral
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 6th Marine Division
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WWII - 9th Army Air Corps, 434 Troop Carrier Group, 71st Troop Carrier Squadron; Radio operator on C-47 42-24022 'Butch' , 3 trips on D-Day incl. first dropping 101st Airborne Pathfinders. Operation Market, Bastogne, Operation Varsity
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Nurse at Parkland on Nov. 22 and briefly saw Jackie Kennedy following assassination
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One of four surviving farmers who discovered the Terra Cotta Army in 1974
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(born November 2, 1943) Czech cosmonaut and engineer. He graduated from Gagarin Air Force Military Academy. In 1976, Pel
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WWII - D-Day. Pathfinder paratrooper for the 101St Airborne (Screaming Eagles), one of the first men to jump into Normany
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WWII: PTO. 307th Bomb Group, 13th Air Force
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Has worked on the Hubble telescope
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Super Centenarian Born June 10, 1897. Lives in Italy
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WWII: US Navy. Survied the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Author, playwright, actress & animal activist. Invented cat anti-scratch deterrent, Sticky Paws® for Furniture to prevent declawing/Acted in one hundred television and radio commercials
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WWII: 5th Army, 91st Infantry Division, 362 Regiment, 1st Battalion, Company C, 2nd Platoon, 2nd Squad. Battle of Rome
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DEA agent that hunted down Pablo Escobar, Pedro Pascal portrayed him on Netflix's Narcos
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Libertarian candidate running against Marjorie Taylor Greene in GA-14 (2022)
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'JFK John F. Kennedy Assassination Witness' Author/'My Story as the Youngest Photographer at the Kennedy Assassination'
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WWII: British Murmansk run veteran
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Mahan (DD-364) from April to December 1944 and survived the Kamikaze attack on Dec. 7, 1944 (Battle of Ormoc Bay) between Leyte and Ponson Island, when 3 out of 7 Kamikaze hit the ship
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WWII: Guadalcanal (Battle of the Tenaru) August 1942, Cape Gloucester, Pavuvu. 1st Marine Division
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Wwii navy
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Geophysicist who discovered the Chicxulub crater
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Member of The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)a work relief program for young men from unemployed families, started on 03/21/1933, by Pres. F.D.R. As part of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, designed to combat unemployment during the Great Depression
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Non-fiction author and artificial intelligence researcher. Creator of the MTV documentary series The Buried Life and co-author of the book 'What Do You Want To Do Before You Die?', which became a No. 1 New York Times Best Seller
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English writer and former Football hooligan
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US Air Force Major. Fighter Pilot. Volunteered to knock United 93 out of the sky, which would have been a suicide mission
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British Major General, in charge of the Royal Artillery forces in the Falklands War and as a witness signed the Argentine surrender document
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Flight scientist
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WWII: PTO. Iwo Jima survivor
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American physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics (1978) who is co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped establish the Big Bang theory of cosmology
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Spanish Activist and Writer. Considered to be the last Spanish socialist militiawoman. Fought against the Franco government
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Capt.Texas Rangers/Worked cases involving Billie Sol Estes, Maceo broth gambling syndicate in Galveston, La Grange Chicken Ranch/Appointed Special Texas Ranger by Governor Miriam 'Ma' Ferguson to police state's 4 horse racing tracks
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One of the first girls to play Little League; triggered historic court case opening up Little League to girls in 1974; featured in 2020 Topps Allen & Ginter set
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Crewman USS Ward 139, the first American Ship to engage the Japanese in WW2 at Pearl Harbor, sinking their mini-submarine
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WWII: ETO. B-24 navigator at the end of the war in the same squadron as later senator and Democratic Party presidential nominee George Stanley McGovern: 741st Bomb Squadron, 455th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. Bombing missions to Austria
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USS Pueblo survivor, Korean POW
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Peppermint (2)Transgender drag queen, singer, actress; first drag queen to compete on RuPaul's Drag Race as an openly trans woman; first woman who openly identifies as trans to originate a principal role on Broadway in 2018's Head Over Heels
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WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, Original Band of Brothers; co-author of 'Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends'
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WWII: ETO. B-17G 'Angel in Di-Skies' aka 'Angel in Disguise' (#42-37906). 568th Bomb Squadron, 390th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 16 missions as a B-17 ball turret gunner. Shot down on Aug. 2, 1944, POW at Stalag Luft IV
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Member Of Band Of Brothers, 506th Easy Company WWII
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Navy USS Joseph T Hickman
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US Army Afghanistan War Veteran. Received the Army Distinguished Service Cross for actions on Nov. 1, 2010 when he was wounded by a suicide bomber while on patrol and refused medical treatment and went back into the line of fire
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U.S. Army 1942-1946
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(Born 1931) US Marine Corps Korean War Veteran. Served from 1950 to 1953. Wounded twice in combat and earned 2 Purple Hearts
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French writer and former leader of the OAS, born in 1928 and living in France
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Nobel peace lauteate 1980
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Former Wall Street litigator. Has appeared on NPR, Marketplace, Bill Moyer's Journal, and CNBC. Author of the leading treatise on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Securities Litigation After the Reform Act
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Zoologist with Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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Software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the 'Mother of the Internet.' She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges and the internet
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American astrophysicist, 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Soviet WWII Veteran, Infantry And Paratrooper ? Stalingrad, Caucuses, Crimea. Lives in Canada, possibly in Montreal, Born 1927 Malin, Ukraine
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Retired United States Army four-star general who last served as the chief operating officer of the federal COVID-19 response for vaccine and therapeutic
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Michael J. Perna is a soldier in the New Jersey faction. His brother Ralph is also a member in the New Jersey faction. During the 1980s, Perna was a member of Michael Taccetta's inner circle and controlled operations from the Hole in the Wall, a luncheone
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, landing near to the town of Sainte-Mère-Église. 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Division, 82nd Airborne Division
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JFK - Honor Guard at the State funeral of President John F. Kennedy
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Air Force General
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Wwii: pto. us navy
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French astronaut
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WWII: ETO. Ball-turret gunner. 533th Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group
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Retired General
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'Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Pilot'
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2016 presidential candidate, libertarian nominee for NH Governor in 2020
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2004 found Oswald's ring in Fort Worth Law Office/Provided research materials to numerous authors including John McAdams for JFK Assassination Logic, Hugh Aynesworth for JFK Breaking the News and Vincent Bugliosi for Reclaiming History
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2004 Libertarian nominee for WA Secretary of State
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Centenarian (1896-2002). US WWI veteran, served in France
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Scott Perry (3)Representative from Pennsylvania
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A member of the Dallas Police Department , he took part in two showups with Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 22/63
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Secretary of Defense (1994-1997), born 1927
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JFK - another of the doctors who worked on JFK at Parkland
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A Dallas Police Detective in '63 , William was one of several men who appeared in a line-up with Lee Harvey Oswald
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Ass't News Director at WFAA Radio , he covered the Kennedys at Fort Worth and later the happenings at Police Headquarters
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America's first six star General. Led U.S. forces in the first World War
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American mobster and former acting boss of the Colombo crime family
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The current boss of the Columbo crime family
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Theodore N. Persico, Jr. - the son of Theodore Persico. Worked with his cousins Michael Persico and Lawrence Persico
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Freedom Rider
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Scientist
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U.K. Nurse that gave first Corona vaccine shot 2020
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Professor famous for his work on Crime-reality program 'Efterlyst', also succesful author
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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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100 Year old WW 2 Codebreaker,
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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French spationaut (ESA)
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NASA: Huntsville, Centaur, Saturn, Apollo, Space Shuttle, Chief Engineer of the External Tank at Marshall Space Flight Center
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Former general of the German Democratic Republic's army
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Enlisted US Air Force in 1942 during World War II. Peterburs served in 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, & he piloted a P-51 Mustang; on 10 April 1945, he shot down Walter Schuck's Me 262
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German ww2 pilot
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As a 15-year-old girl in post-war Britain Dorothy Peters (Born: 1931) joined newly-formed Land Rover to work on the very first off-roaders to be built. She is now 87 and lives in the UK
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US WWII Marine, born 1924. 4th Marine Division, action at the Marshall Islands (Kwajalein), Iwo Jima, Saipan, and Tinian
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British Tornado pilot, was the first POW of the Gulf War in 1991
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John Peters (4)US Army Gulf War Veteran. Father to Andrew John Peters who was an Afghanistan War veteran and killed in action in Ukrainian War. Bronze Star Recipient
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One of the last five survivor's of the Sinking of the Bismarck, that sunk on 27 May 1941. He is now 93 years old and lives in Reinbek, Germany
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Nuse at ww2 nazi camp dascha
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Retired USMC General
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Rear Admiral Petersen was involved with the Soviet Ice breakers coming to free 3 whales stuck in Alaskan ice
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Test pilot/Assigned as one of the project pilots on the Rogallo paraglider research vehicle (Paresev) program. He made his first Paresev research flight on March 14, 1962
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Astronaut; STS-6
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Convicted murderer, former Bolingbrook, IL police sergeant
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Women's Rights Activist
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WWII: CBI. Of 1st Bn, 915 Winnipeg Grenadiers, who defended Hong Kong in December 1941. After the surrender, he was a POW until the end of the war. He is the last of the so-called 'Arden Seven'
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WWII: USS Augusta; Roosevelt and Churchill met aboard the Augusta on 9 Aug 1941. Peterson was assigned to the president's personal guard detail. He left the USS Augusta before D-Day and joined the Marines for Guam and Iwo Jima
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American radio host, pastor, and broadcaster
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Canadian lawyer, politician, and university chancellor
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Michael Peterson (2)
American novelist who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife -
WW1 Veteran/Born 1900/Lives in Spokane,Wa.
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale (DD-353). Later served on the USS Kalk (DD-611) from the Aleutians to Okinawa
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C.G. US Army Combined Arms Command; Director of the CIA (2011-)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4). Petretti hauled dead or horribly wounded young sailors into a motor launch
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Ohio State Attorney General (2003-07)
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NASA: Director of launch operations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) from 1966 to 1969, Apollo program director at NASA Headquarters from 1969 to 1973
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WWII Italian Ace with 5 Victories
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Retired Russian Colonel who prevented a Worldwide Nuclear War in 1983 by not responding to a false alarm that the United States had launched a nuclear missile
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Russian military officer. Former Marshall of the Soviet Union
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One of the few surviving firemen from The Chernobyl disaster, that occured on 26th April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine
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WWII: ETO. 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. The Ghost Army deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there
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Congessional medal of honor in afghanastan- only 2nd one in 40+ years alive that got it
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Wife of George Mendonsa; woman in the background of Victor Jorgensen's famous photo of the sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Times Square 1945, also visible in Alfred Eisenstadt's version of the photo that appeared in Life Magazine
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. 24th Infantry Division, Wheeler Field
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WWII: B-29 tail gunner in the Pacific- and China-Burma-India-Theater. He was assigned to a B-29 crew stationed in Guam. His plane 'The Uninvited' was called 'the last plane to bomb Japan.'
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Vietnam Veteran Pilot
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WW2 veteran
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(Born 1927) US Army WW2 Veteran. 313 Combat Engineer Battalion in Italy. Saw Eisenhower twice
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Astronaut
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World war 2 german fighter ace
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Italian WWII-Fighter Ace
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Crewmember USS Ward 139, the first American ship to engage the Japanese at Pearl Harbor when it sank thier mini-submarine
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 912th Field Artillery Battalion
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
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WWII: Merchant Marine veteran. Traveling the Atlantic and Pacific, his service includes D-Day (his ship was grounded as part of one of the Mulberry harbous) and one Murmansk run
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FDNY Chief Joseph Pfeifer was the first FDNY chief on the scene as the first plane hit the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001
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WWII D-Day veteran, Utah Beach in the second wave . 4th Division, 8th Infantry
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. helicopter gunner with the 71st Aviation Company in South Vietnam. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Bronze Star and Purple Heart
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Born in Germany in 1934, at age 9 he became a member of the â-œDeutsches Jungvolk,â- (DJ) a Hitler Youth Group mandatory for boys aged 10 to 14
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Maryland. He was on the Maryland until March 1944 and also in the Battle of Tarawa since the Maryland was the flagship there
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Named The Planet Pluto In 1930
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2006 Nobel Prize in Economics
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu. Also Korean War
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Scientist
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge; liberation of Mauthausen camp (Austria). 11th Armored Div.. Phelps, as photographed sewings his pants with a sewing machine after the Battle of the Bulge, made it on the cover of the Yank magazine on Feb. 18, 1945
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Filmed Lee Harvey Oswalds murder, the Parkland and Love Field scenes, and the Ruby murder trial/Co-author 'When the News Went Live: Dallas, 1963' a book about events surrounding the JFK John F. Kennedy Assassination
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Cardiologist who wrote a great book on his WWII experiences called The Other Side of Time (1987) which was reissued in 2002 as Our War For the World
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Father of Jacob who in the iconic photo of him touch President Obama's hair
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WWII German Major General
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WWII: 486th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force (Sudbury, England). He was a Nose Art artist who painted what became known as the 'Zodiac Bombers' because the aircraft featured (often frivolous) painting themed to the signs of the zodiac
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Distinguished Flying Cross for successful missions in the Raid on Rabaul
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps. Guadalcanal Campaign
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astronaut (STS-100)
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Son of Sun record producer Sam Phillips
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American ship captain seized by Somali pirates and rescued by US Navy Seals
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USN Admiral
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astronaut
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Ryan Phillips (4)Transported President George W. Bush to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, California on 1 May 2003. The flight officer was Lieutenant Ryan Phillips
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World War II Marine Corp veteran portrayed in the new mini-series 'The Pacific'. Also interviewed for Ken Burn's The War
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'1997 Nobel Physics Prize'
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WWII Artist
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Aviator, WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) lives in Austin, TX
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2022 Libertarian candidate for IL Lt. Governor, 2020 Libertarian candidate for VP
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WWII: Quartermaster, USS Laffey (DD-724), 'the ship that would not die'. D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action), surviving four bombs, six kamikaze crashes, and strafing
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WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941 survivor; USS Arizona. Read his story at http://my.execpc.com/-dschaaf/phraner.html
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little girl burnt by napalm bomb in vietnam
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Famed psychologist
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French World War 1 Veteran. Born: 02/27/1899, Lives in Bou Loiret
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Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist
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Best Friend of Anne Frank survivor of concentration camp
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WWII, 101st Airborne, Orig. Band of Brothers
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Born 1922, WWII: Royal Canadian Navy 1942-1945, ammunition loader on a four - inch anti aircraft gun. Served on the Tribal Class destroyer HMCS Iroquois on several Arctic Convoys to Murmansk
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WWII: PTO. USS Reid (DD-369)
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WWII: Battle of Britain pilot
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Scientist- worked on early U.S. Space Program rockets
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WWII: D - Day, Omaha Beach; Battle of St. Lo; Battle of Brest; seriously wounded in each battle, he was sent home after Brest. Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division
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air force general
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WWII: ETO. Survivor of the sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville on Dec. 24, 1944
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army general
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Biblical historian,author
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Canadian serial killer murdered 27 women
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WWII - Battle of Saipan
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WWII: Veteran of the USS Yorktown. Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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First responding Police Officer to Rosa Parks' bus arrest in 1955, born 1926. A motorcycle cop who was blocks away when the call came in, he knew he could get there quicker than the police car could. He arrived first, and helped in taking Parks off the bu
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Pierce was the Dallas Police Lieutenant who was mentioned by Jack Ruby during his deathbed interview as being the Dallas Police officer he passed in his patrol car as he entered the ramp and, only seconds later, killed Lee Harvey Oswald
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 17th Airborne Division. Silver Star
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An American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation; Secretary of the Smithsonian (1887-1906)
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Centenarian (110) WW1 Veteran
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American Tea Party activist, communications consultant, national spokesperson for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
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WWII: ETO. OSS: 'Jedburgh' espionage and guerrilla operation in Nazi-occupied France
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Great-great-great-great-niece of Horatio Nelson, the famous naval commander who was shot and killed at The Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
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British glider pilot, born 1922
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Pan Am stewardess aboard the White House press plane in the early 1960s and had met President Kennedy several times. She was at Dallas Love Field at the time of the assassination
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Youngest woman to receive the death penalty in U.S. for the murder of classmate at the age of 20
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British General, former C.O.of 3 Para during the Falklands War, knighted by the Queen
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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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(Born 1926) US Army WW2 Veteran. He served as a minesweeper with the 290th Anti-Tank Company. Bronze Star Recipient
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daughter of Polish Marshal and Naczelnik Józef Pilsudski, is living in Warsaw, Poland
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WWII: CBI. 1 Bn (White Combat Team) of the Merrillâ-™s Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit. Purple Heart. Bronze Star
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Books for children include If All the Animals Came Inside and How to Share with a Bear, and he also has written several books about mountains and weather for adults
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American professor, University of Vermont. Served as witness on various famous environmental court cases including the Love Canal case
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: US Navy. Survived the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay which was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tarawa (November 1943)
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French WWII Veteran, taken POW by the Germans
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Is a Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church. He was born in Paris, France. At the age of 101, he is the oldest living Catholic bishop in the world
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Last living member of the Flying Tigers
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French was married 80+ years
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Worlds shortest living person, at 2' 5'
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Repulse on 10 December 1941 off Malaya, an event in the war that often is named 'Britain's Pearl Harbor'. Survived the sinking of his next ship, HMS Spartan, in 1944. Also recused troops at Dunkirk
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Part of Pan Am crew for Press plane for President Kennedy's trip o Texas in 1963
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Is an American writer, journalist, and historian. He was presented with the Polish American Historical Society's Haiman Award in 1989
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WWII: Medical Detachment, 3d Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Hürtgen Forest
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JFK - FBI agent, Dallas 1963; major part in the local assassination investigation: linked Oswald to the rifle used to kill President Kennedy as he tracked the weapon to a Chicago company that sold it to Oswald under the alias Alek Hidell
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Spanish Civil War veteran who served in the International Brigades (Born: 1915) Age: 101. Lives in France
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining. While Pinto trained to be a Navajo Code Talker with the U.S. Marines, World War II ended before he would be sent overseas
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Portugese army officer and politician, Military Governor of the Azores from 1974 - 1976
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Latvian WW2 hero, last living 'Forrest Brother', probably living in Riga, also known as J?nis P?nups
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AIDS researcher, and Co-Discoverer of the Ebola Virus
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Witness to JFK Assissination November 22 1963
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Mr. Piper admitted in April 2018 that he was not a D-Day veteran
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WWII: D-Day veteran, 505th PIR
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Author: Ike's Final Battle/Biographer & Historian/Served President George W. Bush 5 years. 1999, wrote speeches for Bush Campaign. 2001-03 wrote speeches for Bush White House/Speech Writer for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
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WWII Veteran, Pacific Theater
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WWII: Battle of Attu veteran
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Italian American Woman Born 1910. 2nd oldest person living in Florida
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American WWII Fighter Ace (10 Victs.)
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Nobel prize
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Real Life Person from the movie 'Donnie Brasco'
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First person in history to be convicted by DNA in a murder case (England)
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Former Mafia hitman
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WWII: PTO. Radioman/gunner in a Curtis Helldiver (SB2C), participated in many battles and also helped sink the Yamato
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Marine Supertintendent Royal Fleet Auxiliary
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WW2 /From Monmouth in Gwent, was a Foreign Office civilian & member of legendary Dilly?s Girls, a group of young women who worked alongside the great Bletchley Codebreaker Dilly Knox breaking Italian & German secret service Enigma messages
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Author/'Inside the Third House'/Pacific Theater WW2/Commissioned in military intelligence/2 governors named him the Master of Ceremonies for State Texas/Served inaugural committees for Governors Shivers, Connally, Daniel, Smith & Briscoe
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Soldier in the United States Army during the Korean War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on November 26, 1950
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medal of honor marines vietnam
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Former FBI special agent who, in 1996, was arrested at the FBI Academy. Pitts was charged with spying for the Soviet Union and Russia. On April 30, 1997, he pled guilty
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2014 Medal of Honor recipient
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Brazilian WWII Vet, survived Covid-19
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Author, survivor of Holocaust & Auschwitz
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(Born 1982) US Army Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran. Recipient of a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart
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Defense Attorney, Guest Stars on Larry King Live
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WWII. Italian Fighter Ace
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Supercentenarian Born: 11/23/1896 Lives in Verona Italy. 3rd Oldest person in the world. One of three people living born in the year 1896
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Dominick 'Skinny Dom' Pizzonia (born November 19, 1941) is a New York mobster and captain with the Gambino crime family who was a hitman and loanshark. Pizzonia allegedly participated in several high profile murders
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Jamaican centenarian, born 1916. Saw Marcus Garvey in 1928; one of the last living 'Garveyite' followers. In 2023, became the oldest living Jamaican, and the longest living Jamaican man ever
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Phelps
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One of the oldest people in the UK. Born: 1905. During WW1, she remembers German Zeppelin airships flying over London, during one of the first ever air bombing raids. She lives in Bristol, UK
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6th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON)
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Supercentenarian,one of the last woman voters of the first open election of 1920. (1893-2004)
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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WWII: PTO. USS Astoria
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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Fmr commissioner of the IRS and former Civil War General
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Last living WWII veteran from French Guiana
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WWII Veteran, Tiger Tank
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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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Former Campaign Manager for President Obama; Political Commentator for MSNBC
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Navy Fighter Pilot & POW Vietnam
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Medal of Honor Recipient
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3 war vet-ww2/korea/nam-Retired COMMAND SGT. MAJOR- LZ X-RAY 1965. Depicted in the movie We Were Soldiers starring Mel Gibson and his character played by Sam Elliot
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WWII Veteran
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Played a crucial role in the development of Fort Drum in Northern New York
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air force general
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WWII: PTO. USS HOrnet (CV-8). Witness to the Doolittle Raiders taking off for Tokyo. He was on the Hornet from its initial launch in Norfolk, Virginia until its ultimate sinking on October 26, 1942 in the Battle of Santa Cruz
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WWII: USMC. GUadalcanal, Peleliu
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Survivor of the of HMS Royal Oak which was sunk by a German U-Boat at Scapa Flow in 1939
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Descendant of Edgar Allen Poe, the famous author and poet. He is professor of faith and culture at Union University in Jackson, Tenn
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A member of the Dallas Police Department on Nov. 22/63 and on Radio Car Duty , he went first to the TSBD and then to the location of the Tippet shooting
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WWII. PTO. Served on the submarine USS Skipjack, SS-184 (famous for the 'Battle for Toilet Paper')
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British Army officer best known for commanding the 5th Parachute Brigade, British 6th Airborne Division during the Battle of Normandy
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Member of Bundestag - Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery and a Federal Minister for Special Affairs
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astronaut
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astronaut
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Former National Security Advisor (1985-1986)
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WWII US Navy WAVES veteran, born 1919. Worked in Washington, DC as one of the Navy's code-breaking 'Code Girls'
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astronaut, STS-98 pilot
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nobel chem. laureate 1986
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cosmonaut
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(Born 1921) USAAF WW2 Veteran. Served from 1942 to 1945. B-17 Pilot with the 365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group. He was shot down and was a POW from 1944 to 1945. Recipient of 1 Distinguished Flying Service Cross and a Purple Heart
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(Born 1924) USAAF WW2 Veteran. 18th Weather Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group
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Mafia gangster
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Member of the U.S.N. he served as part of the Honor Guard during President Kennedy's funeral
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2004 Nobel laureate physics
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air force general
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WWII veteran, born in the Ukraine and served in the Soviet Army (1942-45)
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JFK/Kennedy/Served as a staff member on the President's Commission on the Assassination of JFK, unofficially known as the Warren Commission
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Former Arlington National Cemetery caretaker; the man who dug the grave of President John F. Kennedy
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Dallas policeman in '63 , he participated in the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theatre
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American poet, essayist and critic. Her writing focuses on political & social issues from a left-leaning perspective, including abortion, racism, welfare reform, feminism, & poverty. She writes the 'Subject to Debate' column for The Nation
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Lawyer, born 1928. Served as Supreme Court law clerk to Chief Justices Vinson and Warren. Wrote the final draft of the iconic Brown v. Board of Education case decision that the justices then unanimously voted for. Later, an attorney in the U.S. Department
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
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WWII: Royal Canadian Navy 1942-1945. Served on the destroyer HMCS Huron (G24) protecting four Arctic convoys to Murmansk, also supported the D-Day landings in June 1944. Also served on the HMCS Pictou and HMCS Poundmaker
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Granddaughter of General Dmitriy Fedorovich Polyakov 'crown jewel' of US counterintelligence efforts & who for decades during Cold War had clandestinely worked to help western countries fight the Soviet system/Betrayed by Aldrich Ames
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Cosmonaut
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German WWII awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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American sexologist. He was a frequent co-author with Alfred C. Kinsey
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Director of the CIA, US House Representaive for Kansas, US Army (retired), Tea Party activist
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Fought at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. WWII Veteran featured in the HBO Miniseries 'The Pacific'. Pictured in the iconic Peleliu photograph of a Marine resting exhausted after 36 hours of combnat, helmeted head in his hands
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Brunhilde Pomsel (born 11 January 1911) was a personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels. She worked for Goebbels from 1942 onwards, and is one of the last surviving eyewitnesses of the Nazi power apparatus. After the war, she was sentenced by the Soviets to 5
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Flying Tigers-engineering specialist
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Philippine former Senate President. Secretary of National Defense under Ferdinand Marcos. Guerilla fighter during WWII
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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
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Vietnam US Army Vet 1970-1971, 1st Calvary Infantry, ran patrols in hills and mountains
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1922) who was one the last soldiers to be drafted up for the conflict. He is also one of more than 200 living soldiers of 'La Quinta del Biberon' (Draft of the Baby's bottle)
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astronaut
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The last verified French World War One Veteran.Born: 12/07/1897
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 28th Marines, 5th MarDiv
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'I'm Not A Cat' Meme. Tx Lawyer who joined court proceeding with a cat filter on Zoom
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WWII: Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Okinawa. USS Balch
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Son of Civil War Soldier Charles Parker Pool
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USAAF Fighter Ace, 8th FG, 35th FS - 5 Kills
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 6 victories, Pacific Theater. US Navy, VF-39, VF-17, flew the Hellcat
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First British soldier to land in France on D-Day
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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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
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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(Born 1967) US Marine Corps Gulf War and Iraq War Veteran. Was part of the unit that toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein. Recipient of a Silver Star and Purple Heart
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US Air Force pilot that was shot down in 1958 over Indonesia, was secretly working for the CIA helping the rebels to overthrow the Indonesian government
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Medal of Honor, USMC, World War II
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Roboticists James Pope of Shadow Robot Co. in England led the assembly of the bionic man from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world/First Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes
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American Chemist. Born: 08/22/1918
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Ronco, does a lot of infomercials
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1 of the 9 miners in the Pennsylvania mine
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Cosmonaut
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US Army 4 Star General
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Imaging team leader for cassini probe at the planet Saturn
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WWII: ETO. 66th Infantry Division. Survivor of the sinking of the troopship SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24. 1944. She was torpedoed and sunk by the U-486. 763 soldiers died, together with 56 of her crew
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JFK: Part of drill team that escorted President Kennedy's remains up the driveway to the North Portico when they arrived at the White House
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Served in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross
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Took the Pulitzer Prize winning photo of a fireman holding a child in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing
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George Porter (2)
Tuskegee Airman -
WWII: PTO. USS Bunker Hill 1943-1945, survivor of the Kamikaze attack on 11 May 1945
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Daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald
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WWII - 12th Armorded Division; led first squad across the Danube River via Dillingen Bridge
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American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes. He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and he was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group and FSG
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WWII: USMC fighter pilot, Began flying with VMF-121 and transfered to VMF-111 flying the F4F Wildcat. Moved once again to VMF-121 and flew the F4U Corsair. He scored 3 victories during this time. Later returned flying the F6F & scored 2 more victories
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Daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald who was implicated in the assassination of JFK John F. Kennedy
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Real life person for the movie 'Gridiron Gang'
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WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
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NASA pilot - Global Hawk high-altitude aircraft and small remotely piloted aircraft. He also flies NASA's B200 King Air mission support aircraft. And flew the MQ-9 Ikhana, which carried instruments for environmental Earth science studies
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Cuban exile militant and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent (Born: 1928). He is considered to be 'one of the most dangerous terrorists in recent history'. Age: 88. He now lives in Miami, U.S.A
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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Holocaust/Polish/1942 arrested by Gestapo on suspicion of distributing anti-Nazi leaflets/Survived Auschwitz& Birkenau concentration camps/Author of many including 1959 radio play The Passenger in Cabin 45 which was adapted into 1962 novel
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SS Commando, Peace activist
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Invented 'Pop - Tarts' for Kellogg's in 1964 (1927-2024)
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Postal called the police on November 22, 1963, to report that JFK-assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was in the cinema; 'Texas Theater'
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North Carolina police officer that arrested the Olympic Park Bomber, Eric Rudolph. He now works as an office at the Boston College
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Deadly recall detective retired NYPD
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WW2/served at the end of WWII in occuped Japan. On V-J Day, his ship was in the process of crossing the international dateline, and his witnessed historic celebrations among his fellow sailors
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US Marine/Fall of Saigon Vietnam/Guarded embassy and was on the 2nd to-last helicopter out/Presently a Lawyer
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Member of the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo--WWII
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'Royal Air Force Test Pilot for the Development Flights of the Man-Powered Aircraft Jupiter'
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Flight scientist NASA chairman of the Board of Directors of the Astronauts
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USS Arizona survivor, Pearl Harbor
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WW2 - Ploesti Raid
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma. (1920-2006)
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World War 2 veteran. Tuskegee Airman
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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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WWII - Fighter Ace born 12/31/1920, 6 victories. VF-16 (USS Lexington CV-16). Flew Hellcat and F4Wildcat
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Robert Pound, a Harvard physicist whose elegant experiments confirmed a key part of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and who helped lay the groundwork for the magnetic resonance imaging technology now widely used in medicine
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Internet scientist CYCLADES French Born April 20. 1931
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1922 with Army Air Service, where he was one of the 1st enlisted pilots. After a Miami air show in 1934, was invited to inspect Cuba?s air facilities & pilots, & became head of Cuban Air Force. Originated the Cuban Eight aerial maneuver
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Flight aviator air Force test pilot
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WWII: Pacific. Served on the USS John Penn (survived her sinking after a Japanese air attack on Aug. 13, 1943) and the USS President Hayes
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Police Officer Involved in The Rodney King beating
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Military
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Pulitzer Prize Winning Jazz Pianist/Composer. Big Band/Jazz HOF/During World War II, Powell was drafted into the U.S. Army, but fought his battles from a piano stool, having been assigned to Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band from 1943 to 1945
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American attorney, former federal prosecutor, and conspiracy theorist who attempted to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
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William Powell (3) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale
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WWII: ETO. Fighter pilot 328th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, 8th AF
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WWII: Served on the USS Balch from 1939-1943. Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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Blue Origin astronaut mission NS-18 (Shatner flight)
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Member of the Band of Brothers, Easy Company 506th PIR 101st. Airborne
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(August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident
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Last Female World War One Veteran (Canadian)Born: 05/10/1899
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Time Team
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WWII veteran, born 1925, served on the USS Bismarck Sea. Supported the Iwo Jima campaign, and survived the ship's sinking there by the Japanese
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US Navy SEAL, born 1947. UDT for Apollo 12 recovery team
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WWII - D-Day veteran, wounded during the landing at Omaha Beach, laid out on the beach all night
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astronaut
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Belarussian opposition journalist, jailed after his Ryanair plane was forced down while overflying Belarus
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WW2 air ace - 9 Kills - US Navy - Navy Cross
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US Navy WAVE of WWII, born 1923. Began wartime service as a 'Rosie' in an ammunitions depot, 1942. Joined the Navy, served 1943-1945. Trained as an airplane mechanic, but due to biases against women, was given bookkeeper/supply work to do
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WWII - Witness to the Japanese bombardment of coastal targets near Santa Barbara, CA on February 23, 1942, an event that was the inspiration for the John Belushi movie "1941"
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Korean War - Frank Praytor is the Seargent that adoped and looked after a two-week old kitten, he named 'Miss Hap', during the height of the Korean War, as is pictured in a famous War photograph, dated October 18, 1952
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Astronaut
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American environmental conservationist, mariner, writer and educator. He is the founder of Living Lands & Waters
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Played by Susan Sarandon in the film 'Dead man walking'
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Nobel Laureate Economics
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One of the developers of the KH-9 Hexagon's panoramic camera system
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WWII: Served on LST-474 in the Pacific
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WWII veteran, 45th Infantry Division. Part of the campaigns of Italy: Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio. Saw Mussolini's body hung in an Italian square, and one of the first groups to liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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Landed a helicopter on the White House lawn in 1974
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WWII vet. WAC 1943-1946 - Army Good Conduct medal, WAC Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Honorable Service Lapel Pin
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Ron 'Big Ron' Previte is a former federal witness, Philadelphia police officer and member of the Philadelphia crime family.[1] Previte was born in West Philadelphia and later grew up in Hammonton, New Jersey to a first-generation Sicilian-American fath
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One of the last survivors to have served in FDR's top-secret Map Room
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Employee of the Union Terminal Co . , J.C. witnessed the assassination of President Kennedy from the roof of the Terminal Annex Building
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group Manhattan Project Veteran Military Veteran
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A quarterback from West Jefferson, Ohio, he was the backup for Team Captain George Lynn on the 1942 Ohio State National Championship team. Paul completed Army Air Force pilot training and flew 64 combat missions in Europe during WWII
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Ww2 german fighter pilot, publisher author of thank you canada
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WWII Nazi War Criminal. Born: 07/29/1913. Responsible for killing 335 Italian civilists in May 1944 at the Fosse Ardeartine
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Mapmaker at Camp Malakole. Since he was familiar with the locations, he was called to pick up his skipper to drive him to Pearl Harbor where they arrived during the second wave of the attack and got strafed
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WWII: 9th Armored Division Headquarters Company, Reconnaissance Patrols. Among the first Americans to dash across the Luddendorf Bridge at Remagen, and one of those who painted the famous sign at the bridge
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French military officer who was involved in the sining of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985
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Former US Navy SEAL, founder and former CEO of security company Blackwater, USA
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Alamo Scout Leader of WWII raid on Cabanatuan POW Camp
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Also known as Kyril of Saxe-Coburg Bulgarian royalty
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guiness record holder for the world's largest natural breasts/model/actress
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WWII: Fighter Pilot, 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group
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Dutch woman who saved the lives of many Jews during the Holocaust
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Tom Pritchard (2)Australian WW2 veteran. Last living Rats of Tobruk, the first Allied troops to defeat German troops
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WWII: PTO. USS Nicholas
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A student at Cistercian Preparatory School in Dallas in '63 , he received parental permission to attend Pres. Kennedy's motorcade and kept the original permission slip which he donated to the Sixth floor Museum
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GM engineer, born 1929. Project Engineer for the Lunar Rover training model the astronauts trained with on earth
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, battle of Okinawa
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WWII: PTO. Poi-Namur, Kwajalein, Atoll, Marshall Island, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Tinian and Iwo Jima. USMC
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Montgomery
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Historian TCU Fort Worth/Held Cecil & Ida Green Emeritus Chair TCU History Department/ 1979 to 1980, President Texas Historical Association. Played football with the Los Angeles Rams
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SpaceX astronaut Inspiration4 crew. aka. Dr. Sian Proctor
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, 116th IR, 29th Division. DSC
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Ukrainian military officer
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Sergei Valeriyevich Prokopyev is a Russian cosmonaut. He is the commander of Soyuz MS-09, and flight engineer of Expedition 56/57 to the International space station
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mountaineer
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WWII: One of the last '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 Rommel's Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk, Lybia
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WWII: D-Day, first wave. Gunner on LST-515. One of the few men left of disastrous Exercise Tiger (D-Day landing practice, April 28, 1944), when German E-Boats attacked the practicing LSTs and sank 2 LSTs,damaging 2 others, killing 746 men
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Retired USN Admiral
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WW 2 pilot Tuskegee airmen
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Romanian cosmonaut
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Nobel medicine laureate 1997
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An award-winning developer and authority in polymer concrete, Richard Prusinski is known as the 'father' of the polymer concrete industry
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American Senior Research Scholar of Economics at Swarthmore College, widely known for his role in a noted Cold War Spy swap depicted in Steven Spielberg's 2015 film 'Bridge of Spies'
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Air Force General
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Holocaust Survivor portrayed in film 'Memoirs of Holocaust'
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia
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Born Dec. 8, 1926. One of the most decorated military figures in history.With the Medal of Honor, Puckett will now have the following military citations: Medal of Honor (Korea) Distinguished Service Cross (Vietnam) Silver Star with first Oak Leaf Clu
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astronaut
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Author of My Final Re-Spot: A young sailor's misfortune on the flight deck of the USS Forrestal CV-59; American Naval veteran
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WWII - D-Day Omaha Beach; 1st Infantry Division; of the 38 men of his platoon, only 9 survived by the end of the war
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Reptile specialist, starred on wildboys
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WWII: PTO. Edson's Raiders. Three Purple Hearts
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Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, is now living in Great Britain / England
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Test pilot
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WWII - Navy veteran, observed the first flag raising in Iwo Jima, Japan, while aboard the LSM 241
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Mountain climber who holds numerous world records. Fastest to climb all 14 'eight-thousander' mountains in the world, Ascended Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in 48 hours, was the first to do a winter ascent of K2
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Captain Vincent 'Bill' J. Purple 379th Bomb Group 8th Air Force Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
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Was the California Highway Patrol officer who arrested Charles Manson in Death Valley, Oct 1969
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Witness to the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee (1912-2007). Sat front row to the outdoor final arguments by Darrow and Jennings, as well as an indoor spectator at times. One of the last living witnesses, she was interviewed for many outlets
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WWII: Serving with the Royal Army Service Corps, he was evacuated from Dunkirk (1940) in a frigate
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WW1 Veteran/Oldest pensioner - Deceased 2006
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Subject of the film 'Walking Tall'
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Flight astronaut
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JFK - DFL activist who planned Kennedy's campaign trips to Minnesota in 1960 and traveled with him. 'Political' advance man for Dallas, working with Agent Lawson. Rode in the 'pilot car' in Dallas a couple of blocks ahead of the motorcade
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WWII veteran who was stationed in Spain during the Spanish Ciivil War, while in the Navy. He helped in the evacuation of Americans from Spain at the time. Belved to the be the last surviving American assocated with that war.. Born 5/31/1918
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Controversal philosopher
