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Survivor of the sinking of the S.S. Andrea Doria in 1956 (Born: 1947) She was 9 at the time and was one of 1,706 passengers and crew on the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Now aged 69, she lives in the USA
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One of the oldest persons in the United Kingdom, born in 1904. She was one of the survivors of The 1918 flu pandemic aka Spanish Flu, which lasted from June 1918 to December 1920and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million people
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Ralph Simpson (2)
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 -
Meteorologist, hurricane specialist, first director of the National Hurricane Research Project (1955-1959), and a former director (1967-1974) of the National Hurricane Center.
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Freedom Rider
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The oldest living woman Marine
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WWII: US Navy. PTO: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid
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American econometrician and macroeconomist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011
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WWII, Berlin Airlift (Chief of Navigation & Briefing), Korea, Master Navigator
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doolittles radiers
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On November 22, 1963, the day of her wedding shower, Sims saw the President's motorcade on Main Street. Previously she had met Ruby when he tried to convince her to audition at the Carousel Club
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Dallas Police Detective in 1963 , on the 22nd was at the Trade Mart , Parkland Memorial and later at the TSBd
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British entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s
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2nd oldest man in Canada born 1911. WWII veteran
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(1901-1965) US Army WW2 Veteran. Served in the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. Recipient of 2 Bronze Stars
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Harold Joseph Singer (born October 8, 1919), also known as Hal 'Cornbread' Singer, is an American R&B and jazz bandleader and saxophonist. Lives in France
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Indian war hero, bearer of Param Vir Chakra
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Chief hangman of Singapore
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Indian-Singaporean WWII veteran. Member of the Indian National Army boys' brigade. Later served for the Singapore Armed Forces
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Indian military - awarded the Victoria Cross in December 1944
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Spy/C.I.A./US Army General
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Firefighter, 9/11
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Navy veteran of 3 wars: WWII, Korea, Vietnam
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WWII: D-Day. USS Augusta (Admiral Kirk's flagship for D-Day, also carrying Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, providing fire support on D-Day and beyond)
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He is known for saving the life of United States President Gerald Ford during an assassination attempt
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Assasinated Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968; currently serving a life sentence at the California State Prison, Corcoran.
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Chief Judge US District Court for District of Columbia, famous for role in Watergate scandal. He rose to national prominence during the Watergate scandal when he ordered President Nixon to turn over recordings of White House conversations
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Sri Lankan WWII veteran and aviator
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US WWII Navy, born 1924. Sent as part of the occupying forces in Japan at the end of the war. Re-enlisted and served as part of the weather recon air squadron for the 1946 Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests in 1946
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Utah Beach. Battle of the Bulge. 915 Artillery Battalion, 90th Division, T.O. ? Tough Ombres
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Republican elector who resigned as an elector rather than vote for Donald Trump
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The world's second-oldest man. Born 1900
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Supercentenarian. Born 1904. French nun
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JFK//At age 16 Sittel saw President and Mrs. Kennedy arrive at Dallas Love Field
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Carl Leonard Sitter (December 2, 1922 - April 4, 2000) was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer and Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
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She helped steady Abraham Zapruder as he stood on a concrete pedestal making his famous film of the Kennedy assassination
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Mall of America's first Asian-American Santa Claus
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Former General of the Polish Army (retired)
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Flight aviator WASP
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Flew last F-14 combat mission
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Last survivor of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster. 09/07/2011
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Attorney and Author
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Flight aviator
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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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WWII: Battle of Wake Island December 1941. US Marine Corps. Jack's artillery battery sank the first Japanese ship of the war. POW until his liberation by U.S. forces on September 7, 1945
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Convicted in 2002 of the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley, his 15-year-old neighbor in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was sentenced to 20 years to life. Skakel is the nephew of Ethel Skakel Kennedy, the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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Film Historian and Writer
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WWII: Merchant Marine, Arctic convoys
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Military air force general
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Bataan Death March survivor, born 1917
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WWII: Served on the USS Bunker Hill and saved sailors from the ship when she was hit by two Kamikaze on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa)
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Army National Guard Specialist; 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; Dancing With The Stars Season 21
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Fugitive Australian business tycoon
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Former general in the German Democratic Republic's army
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army general
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WWII: PTO. A Chief Radioman of the VP44 Patrol Bombing Squadron 'Golden Pelicans', a seaplane squadron flying the PBY-5A Catalina. Battle of Midway. On June 5, 1942, his PYB, sighted the Japanese cruisers Mogami and Mikuma
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Secret Service Agent/Guarded 7 presidents, including JFK, LBJ, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter and Nixon, duty at the White House on Nov 22
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Sully's heroic co-pilot from Flight 1549
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Boy witness to Hindenburg crash in 1937
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Girl who was born inside of the Statue of Liberty in 1982
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WWII - Flying Ace, 12 victories
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Military
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Vietnam War Navy Veteran. Served from 1969 to 1972. Was aboard the USS Milwaukee (AOR-2). Participated in the Christmas Bombing of 1972. SK3
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Born October 8, 1918 is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate
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WWII: Last remaining Polish survivor of Westerplatte Peninsula, where roughly 200 Polish troops valiently fought off German troops for seven days in September 1939. POW 1939-1941. Considered the opening battle of WWII
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First person to ever let loose a personal computer virus (1982)
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cosmonaut
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Russian cosmonaut. He has had two spaceflights, which were long - duration missions aboard the International Space Station
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Veteran of Polish-Soviet War. Born: 1906. (1920 Battle of Warsaw)
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British expert on conflict, reconciliation and stability, who has worked mainly in the Middle East. She served in Iraq as the political advisor to US General Ray Odierno and General David Petraeus during the surge
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Former United States Navy SEAL/Medal of Honor Recipient
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Double for Queen Elizabeth
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WWII - WASP. Base assignment_ Love Field, Dallas. Flew B-26, B-39
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Crewman on USS Indianapolis/Survivor
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Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who creates technological solutions to global problems. He is the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup; a Dutch foundation which develops advanced systems to rid world's oceans of plastic
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JFK Assassination/Age 16 & school let out, above Kennedy's motorcade when he was shot. She 1st mistook the shots fired for a car backfiring. She thinks back to the moment when she returned to school less than an hour after Kennedy was shot
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JetBlue fight attendant who dramatically quit his job by opening the E-chute on his plane and sliding down
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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WWII Manhattan Project
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1922-2009). survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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D-Day participant
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WWII - D-Day. D Company, 116th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. 4th wave at Omaha Beach
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WW2 veteran. Nose Gunner on the B17 Flying Fortress
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Warren Commission Assistant Counsel/for the investigation of the JFK Assassination/Author 'Binding Promises'
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Retired General Born Nov. 11, 1924
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Mercury 7 Astronaut
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WWII: Navy veteran. USS Yorktown, USS West Virginia
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WWII: Royal Navy, HMS Anson. Escorting merchant ships on their 'Murmansk runs' in the Arctic convoys. Later served on the HMS Duncan, the HMS Pennywort and the HMS Taff and was involved in patrols along the Burma coast behind enemy lines
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NASA photographer. First person to touch moon dust
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Author, film historian
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WWII: ETO. 101st Airborne Division
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Military
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, 18th Fighter Group at Wheeler Field
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JFK - Secret Service; not in motorcade, but arrived in Dallas in the afternoon of the 22nd November 1963 to support the investigations; examined TSBD Sixth Floor among other things; began his career under Eisenhower
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Former President and Chief Operating Officer of the Federal National Mortage Association; Secretary of the Smithsonian (2000-2007)
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navy admiral
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chemnist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Price in Chemistry
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WWII - VJ-Day 14 August 1945. In the famous scene of a sailor kissing a nurse, Mr. Smalley can be seen as a bystander
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Miss America 1926
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Author, speaker and American child safety activist and commentator for ABC News. She gained national attention at the age of 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell. Founded Elizabeth Smart Foundation
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Convicted Murderer. Teacher That Seduced Her Student And Had Him Kill Her Husband.
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women's activist
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United States Navy, first captain of the USS Indianapolis. Captain from 15 November 1932 - 10 December 1934
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WWII - Civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Worked as a civilian employer of the Navy in a big hangar, building and repairing aircraft wings
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First blind active duty officer in the Army. Speaker, Veteran, IronMan, Purple Heart recipient and author of Beat Feet: Scotty Smiley's Blind Journey to Ironman (2015) and Fox and Friends (1998)
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Navajo Code Talker during WWII
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WW2 Dunkirk veteran (Born:1919) who served with the Royal Army Service Corps and was rescued from the beach after two days under fire without food or water. Lives in Shoeburyness, southeast Essex, UK
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Last survivor from the sinking of HMS Royal Oak, that was torpedoed by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. He is now 94 and lives in the UK
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She attended Beauregard Junior High at the same time as Lee Harvey Oswald
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Battle of Britain pilot
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Ww2 fighter ace - 5 kills vf-14
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air force general
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Night fighter ace, flew P-61's with the 418th NFS
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, Machine Gunner. Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941. POW for 4 years
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Charles Smith (4)Served in the 3rd Infantry Division during the war. Mr. Smith was one of the first American soldiers to cross the Rhine River and begin the march towards Berlin
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, Schofield Barracks. Korea: Battle of Osan, 24th Infantry Division, Distinguished Service Cross
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Charlie Smith (5) Member of the 3 original 1939 Little League teams
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Daniel Smith (6)Living son of an American Slave
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Comedian and potential 2024 Libertarian presidential candidate
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David Smith (5) Veteran of Spanish Civil War, Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Born: 1913
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Retired General
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Born July 14, 1914) was the first African American woman to graduate from Grinnell College, in Grinnell, Iowa
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One of the last surviving witnesses of Germany's Zeppelin raids in the UK, from 1914-1918.Age 104 in 2015 and lived in the West Midlands of England
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army general
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President of Joseph Smith Senior and Lucy Mack Smith Foundation/ born 1907
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US Marine Corps 4 Star General. Fought in the Gulf War, Iraq War, and War in Afghanistan. Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Distinguished Service Cross, and Legion of Merit recipient
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Hump Pilot to China
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George Smith (3) USS Oklahoma survivor - Pearl Harbor attack
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Born 1922 WW2 veteran and Navajo Code Talker
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Scientist - CHarge-Coupled Device (CCD) with Willard Boyle
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American chemist and Nobel laureate. He is the Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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nobel medicine laureate
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, glider pilot in Operation Varsity. 194th Regiment, 17th Airborne Division
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge. Machine Gunner. 291sth Infantry Regiment, 75th InfDiv (aka 'Bulgebusters')
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Jack Smith (4) Abc news correspondant- also at lz-xray in 1965 with 1/7 cav- he might have died?
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US WWII Navy veteran (1924-2021). One of 7 last USS Indianapolis survivors at the time of his death
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US centenarian, born 1918. Survived the 1918 Flu as an infant, contracted from her mother who died of it when she was a few months old. At 102, one of the first to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in her Florida area
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Former CIA Agent, Married to Barbara Hearn
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Lz xray 1965
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Dallas policeman , standing at the corner of Elm and Houston , in front of the TSBD at the time of President Kennedy's assassination
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Ken Smith (2)B-58 Hustler Pilot of the Supersonic bomber aircraft
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air force general
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JFK - Honor Guard 'Casket team', one of Kennedy's pallbearers (Navy)
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Convicted serial killer and rapist from Upstate New York who was the first convict ever to kill an on-duty female corrections officer.
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WWII Fighter Ace (6 kills), 56th Fighter Group, 'Zemke's Wolfpack', flew the p-47
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judge
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. Recipient of a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, 8 Bronze Stars. and 4 Purple Hearts
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13th oldest Person in the World Born 1893.
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Witness to Rosa Parks' bus ride in 1955. Standing bus behind Parks, she eventually got off the bus with a group of people and walked home. She was an elevator operator where Parks worked as a seamstress
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Civil war general railroad tycoon 1st vp of b & o railroad
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Patricia Smith (3)Mother of Sean Smith who was killed in Benghazi
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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Tuskegee Airman
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Vietnam: Fall of Saigon - US Marine Corps. Last Marine to stand duty at the US Embassy in Saigon and the Marine who took down the US flag during the evacuation of Saigon on April 29. 1975, for the very last time
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Retired USMC General
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Writer and Historian
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Former NASA test pilot
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Buffalo Soldier of WWII (1923-2021). Badly wounded in Italy alongside John Fox (one of the few Black MOH recipients of WWII), held POW by Germany. Teaching career, known as 'Doc Rock'
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Samantha Smith (2) Pacifist, wrote to Yuri Andropov
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NASA astronaut (retired). Four space shuttle flights
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Susan Smith (2)Convicted of killing her two sons in 1995
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Tracey Smith (2)Time Team
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Was one of the first Swing female drummers. Born: 11/28/1912 In 2016, she was reportedly still actively drumming at the age of 105 in a Costa Mesa band called Forever Young Band, as one of the oldest mainstream musicians still alive
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Walter Smith (3)Flight aviator
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oceanographer cartologist
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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William Smith (3) WWII: Battle of the Bulge. 75th Infantry Division
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William Smith (4)A News Photographer for the Dallas Times Herald , he was one of three photographers to take photos of three ' tramps 'as they were led away from a railroad car to be questioned on Nov. 22 , 1963
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navy admiral
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan
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newsmaker
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Retired from NASA after 34 years as an engineering technician
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Army general 'As Major in 1961 Airforce aide to the Military Representitive of the President'
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Aviator, WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) lives in San Antonio, TX
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At 19, she beat out Amelia Earhart to be named the best female pilot in the country. The 'intrepid birdwoman' was also featured on a Wheaties box.
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker´
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Nobel medicine laureate 2007
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97 year old artist and Cabaret performer born in Poland
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(born July 8, 1916) is a former Republican South Carolina State Senator who also served as United States Chief of Protocol under President Richard M. Nixon from 1969-74 and was a member of the presidential campaign staff and Transition Team
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Air Force General
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WWII - D-Day, Utah Beach. 29th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Infantry Division
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American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo
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Test pilot
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Author and First Amendment scholar and lawyer. Currently the dean of the Widener University Delaware Law School
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2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
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MIT alumnus who was Chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) from 2001 to 2002 and President of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) from 2003 to 2004
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(Born 1935) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of 1 Silver Star and 7 Distinguished Flying Crosses
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Centenarian (1898-2004). One of the last living Australian WWI veterans
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Subject of the new WWII book 'Spearhead'
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NASA; Chief of the Crew Systems Division at NASA during the Apollo years. Ed Smylie is the man who concocted a plan using plastic bags, cardboard and duct tape to save Apollo 13's astronauts
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Test pilot
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WWII: ETO. RAF Battle of Britain pilot
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South African war hero, awarded Victoria Cross in June 1942
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One of the last known survivors of The Halifax Explosion, that occurred on December 06, 1917. He is now 100 years old and lives at Island View Suites in Arnprior, Ontario, Canada. Also a survivor of the the Almonte Train Wreck of 1942
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WWII WASP Women Pilot
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African American WWI veteran of the 9th Calvary, born 1922. One of the last of the Buffalo Soldiers
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Vietnam/Fall of Saigon/Senior CIA strategy analyst in Saigon and one of the last CIA men to be airlifted off the embassy roof amidst the chaos/Peabody-Award winning investigative journalist and broadcaster http://franksnepp.com/
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Retired rocket engineer, born 1937, hired to work with Von Braun's team in 1958. Worked on the recently launched Explorer I satellite project, and then a career at NASA, with contributions to the Apollo and Skylab missions
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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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One of the many survivors of the Blitz, a series of heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. She lived in London at the time. She is now in her eighties and lives in London
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An American computer professional, former CIA employee, and government contractor who leaked classified information from the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013
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WWII - LtGen Snowden (Fox Company, 2nd Bn, 23rd Marines, company commander) is the senior and highest-ranking surviving veteran of the Battle of Iwo Jima (Purple Heart); also in the battles at Saipan and Tinian; WWII, Korea, Vietnam
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The last lighthouse keeper in the United States. also an author
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Rosie The Riveter --- WWII War Effort at Aerospace Plants
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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Pittsburgh Attorney
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Professor, Author/ 'On Tyranny'
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Astronaut from South Korea
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Yi So-Yeon (2)Astronaut
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach
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Co-Defendant charged with Treason/ Espianoge with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Born: 04/11/1917
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French serial killer, who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s; probably in prison in Nepal or India
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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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Japanese WWII Veteran
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US Army Vietnam Veteran
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Along with his girlfriend Elizabeth Haysom, Jens Soering both killed Haysom's parents In March 1985, Haysom's parents Derek and Nancy were murdered and Jens Soering and Elizabeth Haysom were arrested in England the following year
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American lawyer, co-founder (with Laurie Racine and David Bollier) of Public Knowledge
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Woman who claims to be the nurse being kissed by the sailor in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous VJ Day 1945 photo on the cover of Life Magazine
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Former Soviet Military Marshal (Soviet Army) and the last surviving veteran from The Battle of Lake Khasan in 1938
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, 4th Marine Division
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Survivor of 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Polish WWII Veteran
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Husband Robert was head advertising department at Dallas Times Herald in 1963. She vice president of Dallas chapter of League of Women Voters/Both attended Adlai Stevenson event on U.N. Day & at Trade Mart luncheon day of the assassination
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Member of the 'Clinton 12', where a dozen students became the first to integrate a school in the South in the fall of 1956
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WWII: PTO. 163rd Regiment, 41st Infantry Division. New Guinea campaign (Battle of Buna 1942/1943)
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#4 oldest person in the world lives in France. Born: Sept.7,1894
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Russian World War One Veteran
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U.S. Army veteran, who was captured by the Nazis in 1944, after bombing a Nazi bunker
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HRC leader; gay rights activist
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army general
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2022 Libertarian candidate for PA Governor
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Born 11 November 1946) is a former Soviet cosmonaut. He was selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-10 and Soyuz T-15, spending a total of 361 days, 22 hours, 49 minutes in space
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Nobel economics laureate 1987
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German World War One survivor
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WWII: Marine Corps (2nd Marine division) veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa
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German ww2 pilot
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Author of Journey to the Golden Door and a Holocaust survivor. Won 1981 National Teacher of the Year, an honor bestowed at the White House, after which he served on President Reagan?s National Commission on Excellence in Education
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(Born 1943) Former Sergeant Major of the US Marine Corps from 1987 to 1981
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Jewish survivor of the Nazis and a WWII veteran. Born in turbulent post-war Germany and witnessed the rise of National Socialism/Managed to escape in January 1939 and immigrated to America. He fought in the Pacific Theater during WWII
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American author and inventor most notable for being the U.S. prosecution team's chief interpreter during the Nuremberg Trials. Fought at Battle of the Bulge. Part of the RCA team that invented color tv. Worked for NASA on the moon landings
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Survivor of the crash and last living adult crewman of the Hindenburg. Died in 2005
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Member of the Norwegian Resistance during the German Occupation WWII. The most highly decorated person in Norway
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Aviation pioneer W/Fred Sigrist, others set up Sopwith Aviation Company which produced 18,000+ British WWI aircraft for allied forces, including 5747 of the famous Sopwith Camel single-seat fighter/awarded the CBE 1918
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Thai world champion boxer, IBF world Minimumweight champion, beat Manny Melchor for world title, lost to Ricardo Lopez, politician and political activist
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Survivor of the Holocaust (Auschwitz concentration camp). Also a lecturer and author
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Glenn Sorensen (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. US Army Air Corps
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Army General
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WWII - Employed at the Glenn L. Martin Company at Offutt Field (Fort Crook), she worked on the Enola Gay, did the cockpit wiring like the wiring for the special navigator table
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Danish WWII Veteran
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Congressional Medal of Honor, USMC, WWII
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army general
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Flight aviator American test pilot m2-f1, m2-f2
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Also known as Anna Delvey, is a con artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy heiress to access upper-class New York social and art scenes from 2013 to 2017
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Vermont State Attorney General (1997-present)
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JFK - SAIC of the Dallas Secret Service office, was in the lead car ahead of Kennedy when the president was shot on Nov. 22, 1963
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JFK - The "baby in the picture", as the press called her: On November 22, 1963, at Love Field, Dallas, the Kennedys shook hands with the crowd, and as it happened, Jackie touched baby Peggy - a moment was immortalized in photographs
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JFK: DPD officer after Oswald's shooting, at guard duty at Parkland Hospital while the autopsy on Oswald was performed
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Spanish Civil War Veteran, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Born: 12/20/1918
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Astrophysicist, co-wrote Carl Sagan's monumental 1980 astronomy documentary series Cosmos. Since then, he has also acted as advisor on a number of science documentaries, such as the IMAX films Blue Planet and Cosmic Voyage
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (USS New Orleans), later USMC Guadalcanal
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Puerto Rican drug dealer
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, USS Utah
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WWII -Medic in Colonel Rudders's HQ company who climbed Pointe du Hoc on D-day
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UK Supercentenarian. 67th Oldest Living Person in the World. Born: 05/24/1900
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Canadian libertarian and conservative activist, political commentator and writer for The Rebel Media, a Canadian online media company
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Survived the Almonte Train Wreck, 27 December 1942. Reportedly living in Carleton Place, Ontario
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WWII: North-Africa (Kasserine Pass), Sicily, Battle of Normandy. Sixth Armored Division (Patton)
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Cleveland serial killer
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Spanish Flu & COVID-19 survivor. 1918-2021
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Pilot
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serving US Army Colonel who served in the Iraq and Kosovo Wars
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WWII: British soldier evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. He was abandoned on the beach by his commanding officer with the instruction 'every man for himself'. He then got himself on to a boat, alone
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WWII: D-Day. Landed with LST-510 on Omaha Beach around noon of June 6, 1944. 90-millimeter artillery gunner of Battery B of the the 110th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. Battle of the Bulge
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US Army Air Corps Pearl Harbor survivor (7 Dec 1941); caught in the open at Wheeler Field as the attack started
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US Navy vet, born 1940. Served on the USS Lake Champlain during recovery of Alan Shepard and Freedom 7 in 1962. Hearing Shepard call to the ship on headphones, got permission to call back 'You're almost home!'
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On the morning of November 22, 1963, young John Sparks joined his fellow high school band members to play 'Hail to the Chief' for President John F. Kennedy. Hours later like the rest of the world, Sparks learned of Kennedy's assassination
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British Victoria Cross awardee for his actions in the Korea War
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Army General
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USS Pueblo
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United States Air Aces
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Nazi officer
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WWII: Fighter Pilot , 334th Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, show down, became POW, escaped
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Dr. Wernher von Braun rocket scientist team. Marshal Space Flight Center. Among other functions, he was chairman of Marshall's Saturn System Evaluation Working Group
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Architect, son of nazi officer Albert Speer
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Former High-School/College Basketball coach for Arkansas State Univ. Played at the Arkansas State Univ. Also is a World War 2 Veteran
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101st airborne, band of brothers ww2
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nobel economics laureate 2001
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Pioneer in underwater archaeology (Born: 1947) who studies shipwrecks and sunken treasure. He is also a published author. He was twelve years old when he found his first five shipwrecks. He discovered the SS Georgiana in 1965
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WWII: US Navy; 20mm anti-aircraft gunner on the Liberty ship SS Julius Olson. Murmansk Run veteran
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Famed Defense Attorney/Legal Commentator, best-selling author of the books, 'How To Argue and Win Every Time' and 'OJ: The Last Word'
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Binbrook'
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One of the last few survivors of the 1917 Halifax Explosion, born 1917. She lives in Canada
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American murderer who carried out a shooting spree from her home in San Diego, California on January 29, 1979. Spencer is best known for saying 'I don't like Mondays,' which inspired the song 'I Don't Like Mondays' by The Boomtown Rats
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WWII Ace (9.5 kills) 361st Fighter Group - USAAF - DSC
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC
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John Spencer (5) WWII: Original Montford Point Marine (first Black marines) who fought in the Battle of Guadalcanal and later on the battles of Operation Forager (Mariana and Palau Islands battles)
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Larry Spencer (2)Air Force General
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WWII: ETO. Bombardier with the 93rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force
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WWII: Belgian WWII veteran who was in the Belgian Resistance and joined the 512th MP Battalion of Patton's 3rd Army after the liberation of Antwerp, being in the Battle of the Bulge and also entering the Buchenwald concentration camp
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WWII: Infantryman machine gunner, H Company, 501st PIR, 101st AB. Battle of the Bulge (Siege of Bastogne), soldier who (unintentionally und unknowingly) created the 'Airborne Beer' in Belgium. Occupation duty in Austria
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WWII veteran with the 75th Division, 291st Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion. Went to the beaches of Normandy 5 months after D-Day
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Former British military officer, later employee of Sandline International, a private military company, wrote a book called 'An Unorthodox Soldier' about his life
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B-17 Pilot during WWII. Known for developing artificial/fake trees in the early 1970's. Lives in New York
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Electrical engineer. Father of Steven Spielberg
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Retired German general
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Retired General
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American lawyer, historian, and lecturer
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WWII: N. Africa, Sicily, Normandy (Utah Beach, D-Day+4, Battle of Bulge, Battle of Remagen (1945), Rhine Crossing. 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
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Cassini Project Scientist Enceladus Moon around Saturn and its rings
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WW2 Veteran/100th Infantry Division & 82nd Airborne Division/July 1944, reassigned to 82nd Airborne Division, 325th Infantry Glider Regiment, Company C/Remembers seeing smoke from guns below crossing the English Channel toward Holland
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Inventor of the board game Operation
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Survived the Almonte Train Wreck, 27 December 1942
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US Army vet, born 1925. 'Undesirable' discharge for being gay, 1948. Hid the anguish from his family, until he married his partner of decades in 2009 and fought years for an honorable discharge, which came at the age of 91 in 2017
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Mobster
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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.)
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Forensic pathologist and author; worked on investigations of assassinations of John F. Kennedy & Martin Luther King Jr. Also testified at Phil Spector, OJ Simpson, and JonBenét Ramsey trials
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Radio operator, 'Bockscar,' plane that dropped bomb on Nagasaki
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Former Governor of New York (2007-2008), Former State Attorney General
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Norwegian psycologist specializing in sex
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Political activist and pediatrician
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German ww2 pilot
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astronaut
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WWII: British soldier of the 56th (Highland) Medium Regiment who survived 4 days under fire at the beaches of Dunkirk and was evacuated on board J86, the minesweeper HMS Salamander
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Member of the 3 original 1939 Little League teams
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Is a former officer in the United States Marine Corps and the proprietor of The Globe and Laurel Restaurant in Stafford, Virginia. He served in the Marine Corps for over 29 years and is called 'the living historian of the Marine Corps'
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WWII: Gunner on the USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady') . Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942), Battle of Midway (June 1942), when he spent 10 hours in the Pacific before being picked up. Later served on submarine USS Jack
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WWII/ETO: B-17 ball turret gunner of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group)
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Patrol Squadron 23 (PBY Patrol plane), Kaneohe Bay
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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Co-Designer of the F-16, founder of Mapleshade Records
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retired United States Army Colonel and former NASA astronaut
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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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Astronaut Sts-29 Sts-38
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The last surviving woman to have flown on the Hindenburg, born in 1925. Her flight was in Sept. 1936, her mother named it's 1,000th passenger. She grew up to be one of South Carolina's leading environmentalists
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Currently the official underboss of the Gambino crime family.As of May 2008, Squitieri is still incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Massachusetts. His projected release date is November 12, 2011.
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flight scientist
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'Nobel Prize for Physics'
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One of the founders of, 'American Conservative Union,' right wing group
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navy admiral
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British ace from WW2
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Granddaughter of Alice Liddell (Alice in Wonderland)
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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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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 for W
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World's tallest living man, from Ukraine, at 8' 5'
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Swedish'
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Reality star, Explorer, Naked and Marooned
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astonaut air force general
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American woman who was convicted in 1989 of murdering her husband, Russell Stager, in 1988
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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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Flight astronaut
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JFK: Witnessed the Kennedy motorcade in Dallas on Nov. 23, 1963
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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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Retired American police officer who infiltrated the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the late 1970s. He was the first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department.'
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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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Centenarian American scientist specializing in preventive cardiology and the study of the influence of various risk factors on coronary heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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German Flying Ace Of World War II
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WW2 air ace - 10 Kills - USAAF
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Head Nurse of emergency rooms at Parkland Memorial and assisted with care of Gov. Connolly in Trauma Room 2 on Nov. 22 , 1963
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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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Planet of the Apes - 1968 as Astronaut Stewart (uncredited) Speedway - 1968, as 3rd Waitress (uncredited), Bad Girls for the Boys -1966
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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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Historial and constitutional expert
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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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Lawyer for Donald Trump's impeachment/White House Independent Counsel
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Classmate of John F. kennedy , waiting to have lunch with him on Nov.22 , 1963 , part of Dallas Citizen's Council
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Doctor/Pioneer in Organ Transplant. Performed the first human liver transplant. Called 'The Father of Modern Transplant'
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WWII: PTO. Normandy, Okinawa and Southern France. USS Harding
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Bismarck survivor
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Liechtenstein Scientist, memory training
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Son of World War II colonel and resistance leader Claus von Stauffenberg
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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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American serial killer currently on death row for the 1999 murders of four women in Mariposa County near Yosemite, California
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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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American pilot, winner of many awards and races, one of the Mercury 13 female astronauts proposed in 1961
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(Born June 22, 1922) is an American government official, World War 2 Veteran, aviator and author
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skydiver
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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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Italian World champion boxer and convicted criminal
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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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Astrophysicist, SETI
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WWII Bataan Death March Survivor
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British intelligence officer & founding director of Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-intelligence firm. Author of a controversial 2016 report calming Russia collected a file of compromising information on Donald Trump that was paid for by Democrats
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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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Born 1895. #42 oldest documented person in the world. Lives in Connecticut.
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Veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad - WW2
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astronaut
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American centenarian, born 1918. Survived the 1918 Flu as an 8 month old infant. Became an art teacher, and learned to fly a plane in the 1940s before she learned to drive
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Astronomer, planetary scientist. Co-discoverer of Pluto's moons Nix and Hydra in 2005
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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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Polar explorer, author
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Head launch vehicle division project Was senior scientist NASA Administrator. In the mid 1960s, In 1971 he became a senior aerospace and technology advisor on undersea technology at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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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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Physician, Politician. 2016 Green Party Canidate for president
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One of the last surviving members of The Manhattan Project. Chemical engineer. In 1945, transferred to Los Alamos (Manhattan Project) where he worked under Dr. Morris Kolodney to produce plutonium for the Gadget and Fat Man bombs
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Baseball historian. Author of The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the Yankees. Received the 2007 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award, honoring authors of the best articles or papers on baseball history or biography
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Author, speaker, professor and historian. Publications have focused on the intersection of environmental, social, and legal history. 2-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. Has appeared on numerous radio and television shows
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Jack Steinberger (2) Nobel physics laureate 1988
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Social Activist,Feminist Author,American Journalist,Founded Ms.Magazine,Playboy October 1984
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Last known holocaust survivor of the Nazi's Bratislava work group. Born in 1908 and lives in a retirement home in Illinois
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Soldier of Fortune anf French Foreign Legion Paratrooper veteran
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Former Surgeon General 1969-1973
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Current captain of the USS Illinois
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Worldwar II aircraft fighter - Writer
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German pilot
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS John Penn on August 13, 1943
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Scientist
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Nobel Prize 2009
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EDL (entry descent landing) engineer ofMars robot 'Curiosity' (MSL)
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North Dakota State Attorney General (2001-present)
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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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One of the pioneers of living under the sea. In 1962, he stayed for 26 hours at 200 feet, in 1964, for 49 hours at 432 feet
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American aviatrix who held the women's record for outside loops
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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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Dallas Policeman, at the Dallas Trademart when JFK shot. On the scene days later when Oswald was shot
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First British Woman to Conquer Everest
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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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Paul Stephenson (5)Born: 1937. Activist and long-time campaigner for civil rights for the British African-Caribbean community in Bristol, England. His campaigns were instrumental in paving the way for the first Race Relations Act, in 1965. He lives in the UK
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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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Astrophysicist, planetary scientist. Leader of the New Horizons mission to the planet Pluto in 2015
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Goddaughter of President Kennedy. Her late father, James A. Reed, and John F. Kennedy were longtime friends, having met in the South Pacific during World War II. Reed served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 1962 to 1965
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American Woman Born 1910. One of the Oldest People in America
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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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Snakemaster
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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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Invented magnetic computer disc drive
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13th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON), 2012-2016
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C-17 Test Pilot
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PhD, Historian of American medicine & health policy
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Lawyer, Libertarian political activist. Patron of the Stonewall Inn, participant in the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969
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Author of 'Just Mercy', Civil RIghts Leader
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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
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Bougainville
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WWII: Guadalcanal, New Guinea
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Scottish tv presenter of the BBC show 'Earth : The Power Of The Planet' Iain Stewart is also a lecturer in geology in the school of the Earth,Ocean and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth
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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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sports guy now in jail..
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WWII B-24 pilot of the last plane to return from the Ploesti Refineries raid - DSC
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Former Surgeon General 1965-1969
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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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Israel: Business man and pilot. Member of First all-private space flight crew AX-1
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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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nobel enconomics laureate 2001
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WWII - Flying Tigers, crew chief
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Tennessee
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My Three Sons, The Munsters, The Reluctant Astronaut
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Black Sharecropper during the Depression Era/Author 'My RememberS: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression'
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US Army General (Ret). Co-authored 'Shadow Warriors' With Tom Clancy. Former Commander Of U.S. Special Operations Command.
