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Army General
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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King of Donkey Kong, with a score of 1,090,400
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Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Cassin). Torpedo Squadron 3 (USS Yorktown) in Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942
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WWII: PTO. Invasion of Leyte Gulf, the Battle of Surigao Strait, Invasion of the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo Bay. USS West Virginia 1944-1946
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Doctor. was on scene at Parkland Memorial Hospital when President John F. Kennedy was brought in
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Flight aviator or test pilot on F-100/F-107/F-108/YF-12/XP-86/P-80/P-59/P-40/A-36/P-47/FW-190/ME-262/A6M - ZERO/KI-45
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4-star General in the USAF who was also a NASA astronaut
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Iraq War Veteran, pictured in famous photo holding the American Flag over the face of a Saddam Hussein statue
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American Female Scientist Paleontologist And Taphonomist. One Of The World's Leading Experts In Coprolites
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Chinese - Born American Former Male Centenarian World War 2 Veteran. He Was One Of Only Two Surviving CNAC Pilots. Moon died on 9 May 2023, at the age of 110
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Chinese American Female Former Nurse - U.S. Army Veteran World War 2 (1944 to 1946)
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WWII: ETO. D - Day. 5th Ranger Batallion (Rangers, lead the way)
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Historian of Birmingham
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Canadian Former Female History Personality. One Of The Last Known Survivors Of The Halifax Explosion(December 06, 1917)
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Dallas Police Patrolman in '63 , he was assigned to motorcade route and was later inside Trauma Room One
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JFK - Assassination eyewitness, Dallas, 22 November 1963; she with husband and kid stood the proverbial armlength away when the first shot was fired
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South African - Born Female Former Zimbabwean Politician - 'Minister of National Resources and Tourism' (1982-1990), 'Minister of Education', 'Minister of Information' (Both 1988-1990), 'Minister of Posts and Telecommunications ' (1990)
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Scientist
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Chief of the Daytona Beach police department
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Scientist
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WWII - Nurse during the siege of Bastogne. She and fellow nurse Renee Lemaire (who died Dec. 24, 1944) treated injured soldiers during Battle of the Bulge. Shortly portrayed as 'Anna' in 'Band of Brothers'. Honorary Member 101st Airborne
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Submarine base
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Politician
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Inventor
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Polish Former Female Sailor And Naval Engineer. First Woman To Sail Solo Around The World. She Sailed From The Canary Islands On 28 March 1976, And Returned 21 April 1978, Completing A Circumnavigation Of 31,166 Nautical Miles (57,719 km) In 401 days
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Renowned author, Linguistics Professor at MIT
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American contemporary theater director, choreographer, video and installation artist. Internationally recognized as a director, writer, and multi-disciplinary artist, and is considered a seminal figure in Asian American theatre
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Marine corps iraq war hero
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JFK - Honor Guard Kennedy funeral (Army)
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English Former Female Women's Royal Naval Service WWII. Worked At Code Cracking Centre Bletchley Park On The Worlds First Electronic Computer - Colossus
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Chinese Air Force WWII veteran, born 1920. Notoriety as a centenarian fitness buff
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UK WWI Navy vet (1901-2011). Last male veteran of WWI, and the last to see action. Moved to Australia, and served in their Navy in WWII. So also the last vet to serve in both wars. Death left Florence Green as the very last WWI vet
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Indian social scientist, historian, and Senior Academic Fellow at the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. Author of a number of books
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Last surviving revolutionary of the Chittagong armoury raid. The raid was an attempt on April 18, 1930 to raid the armoury of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armoury in Bengal, British India. He lives in Chittagong, India and is now 102
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French astronaut
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WWII Pilot Ace- Part of the famous ''Zemke's Wolfpack''--[21 victories]
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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danish WW2 fighter ace
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, 2 Silver Stars, 2 Bronze Stars, 7 Purple Hearts, and 2 Air Medals
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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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Former ranger
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US Centenarian, born 1913. She, her dad, 3 siblings contracted the 1918 Flu, nursed to health by her mother, who then also got it and died days later. Became a teacher, but said to be touched by the Flu and her lost mother every day since
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Brother of the man known as 'D.B. Cooper'
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American Female Red Cross Donut Dolly. Vietnam War. She Said; 'Whenever Anybody Was Going Back Home They'd Play Leaving On A Jet Plane'. They Listened To Soldiers. Played Games And Records At The Base Rec Centres. Their Job Was To Lift The Guys Spirits
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4th Baronet GBE CB DSO MC 1893-1993, British commander WW2. Sept, 1945 Christison deputised for Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten as commander of SEAC and took the surrender of the Japanese 7th Area Army & Japan's South Sea Fleet at Singapore
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WW2/Ghost Army Soldier
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German World War One survivor
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WWII: Christopher flew 49 missions (in the PBM-5 Seaplane in the Pacific Theatre (Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa) from 1944 to 1945. VPB-27 Squadron, plane 'Dina Might' (Crew E-2)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Company B, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Division, Schofield Barracks
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astronomer discovered pluto's moon, Charon
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Atomic physicist; worked on Manhattan Project
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American theoretical physicist and later astrophysicist and one of the last people alive to have worked on the Manhattan Project
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Nobel Laureate (Physics 1997); U.S. Secretary of Energy (2009-13)
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Chinese Australian aviation writer, photographer and vlogger
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Uzbekistan Male Jewish Soviet WWII Veteran - Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Order of the Red Star and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War
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WWII: ETO. Co B, 301st Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division: Northern France and Germany. Transferred to the 26th Reg., 1st Div., after Germany surrendered, assigned as guard for Lt. Gen. Roman Rudenko, the chief prosecutor for the USSR at Nuremberg
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Invented the three-dimensional version of the Sudoku puzzle in 2005
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Geneticist, molecular engineer/Successfully copied woolly mammoth genes into the genome of an Asian elephant/Will have reproduced the extinct Wooly Mammoth in the next three years
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Last Royal Navy veteran of Dunkirk
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(Born: 1920) The only remaining survivor of the 1944 escape from Stalag Luft III
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English Former Female Politian's Daughter. Daughter Of Winston Churchill (15 November 1918 - 23 August 1921)
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Jamaican - Born American Lawyer And Jurist. 'Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia' (2014- )Judge Over Criminal Trial Of Donald Trump Over Attempts To Overturn Result Of 2020 Presidential Election
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(Born 1925) US Army D-Day WW2 Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps fighter pilot
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Retired General
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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NJ Gambino crime family mobster
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Scientist, 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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WWII: ETO. 350th Bomb Sqdn, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Pilot of B-17 #42-3413 'Hard Luck'. POW
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Turkish archaeologist and Assyriologist who specializes in the study of Sumerian civilization
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DT1, USMM & USN Merchant Marine delivered supplies and ammunition at Iwo Jima, Midway and Guadalcanal Witnessed the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, 29th Infantry Division, in the fourth wave at Omaha Beach; also Battle of St. Lo (July 9-24, 1944)
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Guinea, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Okinawa
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Flight aviator 1978 group 8 astronaut candidate
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Romanian Male WWII Veteran. Born 1913 - Age As Of February 13, 2023: 109 years, 261 days
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville on Dec. 24, 1944
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WWII: PTO. He was the man who prepared the table for the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS MIssouri
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WWII: Veteran of the Battle of Tarawa
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A high ranking member of the Genovese crime family,currently imprisoned
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Was a member of the French Maquis in WW2
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Currently serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
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World War 2 historian and author
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WWII: ETO. Bomber pilot 786th squadron, of the 466th bomber group in the Eighth Air Force under Colonel James A. (Jimmy) Stewart
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(Born 1947) US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Bronze Star Recipient
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U.S. Attorney General (1979-81)
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Oncologist who developed the CD34 monoclonal antibody, which made it possible for the first time to identify, isolate and collect hematopoietic stem cells, the immature cells in the human body that grow into mature blood, marrow and immune cells
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD 4).
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WW2 Navy Gunner-Omaha Beach
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American Female Athlete - Marahon Runner, Bowling, Figure Skating, And Tennis (Born Blind And With Mental Retaration). 'Special Olympic Games' - Running - 4 Gold Medals, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze. Bowling - 2 Gold. Skating - Silver. Tennis - Gold, Bronze Medals
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Author and historian
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(Born 1924) US Army WW2 Veteran. Stormed Normandy Beach. Units included 29th Infantry Division, 30th Infantry Division, 84th Infantry Division, and Third Army. Bronze Star Recipient
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Retired Lt. Gen. US Air Force, Director of Nat. Intelligence. Served director of Defense Intel Agency from 92-95. 1st Director Defense Intel within Office of Director of National Intelligence & Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
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A Detective in the Dallas Police Force , Barnard was one of the policemen who guarded Jack Ruby immediately following the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald
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WWII: PTO. 25th Infantry Division. Col. Clark was awarded the Silver Star medal for gallantry in action at Guadalcanal. He later was wounded on Aug. 5, 1943, on New Georgia Island, and again in the Korean War. 2 Purple Hearts
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Brian Clark (4)Survivor of 9/11 - a volunteer firefighter for his floor and one of only four people in the South Tower to escape from a floor above the plane's impact
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Carl Clark, a veteran whose actions of wartime heroism deserved a medal for heroism but was denied the recognition for more than 60 years because he was African American. He was born in 1916
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American Female Historic Figure - On 11/22/1963 - Downtown Fort Worth - Aged 10. President Kennedy Stood Before Her, Her Sister and Mother. They Got To Shake His Hand, And The Hands Of The Governor And The Vice President Before He Went To Dallas
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12/9/1889-12/13/1963 US federal judge, sitting on the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit from 1939-1963/1/5/1939 was nominated by President Franklin D Roosevelt to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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Colin Clark (2)Scientist
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Inventor of cochlear implant
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Pallbearer JFK funeral, US Navy
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WWII veteran, B-17 bomber pilot, born 1923. Professor Emeritus, U of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering. Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame
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Director of the Goddard Space Flight Center from 1965-1976
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(Born 1940) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Keith Clark (2)
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Larry Clark (3)Flight astronaut, canadian arrow
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American Former Female Astronaut And Flight Surgeon. Died In The Space Shuttle 'Columbia' Disaster (2003)
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WW2 fighter ace - 7 Kills - US Navy - Navy Cross
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WW2/WASP Women Air Force Service Pilots/Class 44-1/Author Dear Mother & Daddy: WW2 Letters Home from a WASP/After training, stationed Las Vegas Army Air Base/Flew PT-19, BT-13, AT-11, AT-6, P-39, P-63 fighter & copilot B-17 & B-26 bombers
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Army General
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WWII: PTO. US Navy veteran. USS Balch (DD 363). Battle of Midway
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Member of the Band of Brothers, 506th Easy Company WWII
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WWII: Douglas Dauntless SBD gunner in VMSB-341 Squadron in the PAcific
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The world's oldest travelling preacher, born in 1903. He witnessed the 1921 race riot in Tulsa and worked for movie stars Clark Gable and Charlie Chaplin. He also worked at Joan Crawfords home as a butler. He is now 108 and lives in the USA
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Former U.S. Attorney General under President Lyndon Johnson
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A member of the Dallas Police Dept. , Richard participated in the police line-up at which Helen Markham identified Oswald as the man who shot Officer Tippitt . Clark was # 3 in the line-up
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WWII - Pacific; Fighter Ace (VBF-17), 6 victories
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Admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
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Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander; Candidate for President in 2004
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Met President John Kennedy 11/22/1963. Standing In Front Of Barricade, Aged 7, Downtown Fort Worth School With Her Sister And Mother. They Got To Shake His Hand, And Also The Governor And Vice President Before He Went To Dallas. May 1956 Fort Worth, Texas
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American Former Female Historic Person - On 11/22/1963 At Fort Worth. Stood In Front Of Barricade And President John Kennedy Shook Hands With Her And Her 2 Daughters. They Also Shook Hands Of The Governor And The Vice President Before He Went To Dallas
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Explorer
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American Female Internet Personality. Came Up With The Isis 'WASWAS' Meemee
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WWII: Arctic Convoy veteran (Convoy PQ-18); later served in the Far East on HMS Braganza
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Born. July 23, 1962, 4 Star General
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Ground crew for many early blimps including Akron and Hindenburg
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Author 'A Spy for All Seasons'/senior operations officer for USA's CIA. Best known in mid-1980s for role in the Contra end of Iran-Contra Affair. Reputed planner of the clandestine mining of Nicaragua's harbors during Nicaraguan Revolution
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(Born July 26, 1919) was a civilian employee for Army Intelligence and an American Red Cross volunteer stationed in India during World War II
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medal of honor marines vietnam war
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American theoretical and experimental physicist. He was awarded one third of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger
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Retired German general
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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American Former Female Historic Person. Billie Stood On The North Sidewalk Of Elm Street, In Front Of The Pergola, To Watch The Motorcade Of President John Kennedy And Just Shortly After Passing Her She Heard A Shot
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American Army General born 1897.Military Governor of West Germany following WW2.Member of the'Judgment at Nuernberg'(1948).
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High-Profile Attorney/Legal Pundit
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American Former Female Engineer And NASA Astronaut. ' NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate' (2005-2007). Missions In Space - 'STS-61-B Atlantis' (1985) And 'STS-30 on Space Shuttle Atlantis' (1989)
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American Female Law Professor, Author, And Former Activist - 'Black Panther Party' (1960's). Novel - 'Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party' (2001), 'Black Women's Autobiographies' (Editor)(2022). Movie - 'Zabriskie Point' (1970)
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WWII: Witness of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII, Warrant Officer, flew Spitfires with 607 Squadron
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WWII: Battle of Iwo Jima
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American Female Model, And Fitness Instructor. Celebrity Sex Tape With Hulk Hogan
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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British colonial administrator and soldier in World War 2, full name is Warren Frederick Martin Clemens
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Samuel Clemens (2)
Bloodline/Great Grand Nephew of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, AKA Mark Twain/Wisconsin Lutheran Minister -
Women Air force Service Pilot
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Canadian WW1 vet. One of the last 3 living Canadian vets at his death
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Retired Navy Admiral
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French engineer and a CNES and ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of three NASA Space Shuttle missions
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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US fortieth and last Fighter Jet Ace of the Korean War. Flew F-80s, F-84s, F-86s, F-100s, F-101s, F-4s and F-111s
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Grandson Of Grover Cleveland
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: ETO. Company C, 3103rd Signal Service Battalion
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Last surviving worker involved in the construction of Mount Rushmore during the years of 1927 to 1941
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Flight astronaut sts-53,59,76
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WWII pilot - Battle of Britain
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Navy Admiral
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German pilot
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Survivor of SF Earthquake of 1906. Born:10/09/ 1902.Rose Cliver is thought to be the last known San Francisco born survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. One of only three remaining from this historic event
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Air Force General
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Navy yard
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Secretary of the Smithsonian (2008-present)
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Human computer at the aberdeen Proving Ground. Engineer on B2 Stealth bomber
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Member of the Flying Tigers (AVG) WWII
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; US Army 19th Infantry, 24th & 25th Division, Schofield Barracks. Later in the war, he was sent to the Philippines.
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WWII: British Malta Convoy veteran
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As a model, Mr. Clune was one of the highest paid models of the 50s, making $1 per minute. He most famously modeled for Marlboro as a Marlboro Man, but also modeled for Winston, Vogue, That Man fragrance, and many others
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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American activist, press secretary, and writer. She was previously the press secretary for rapid response at the Human Rights Campaign and the director of communications and strategy at Catholics for Choice
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Former Alcatraz Inmate. He later retired to Colorado
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Centenarian
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Attorney and legal analyst for CNN
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Adventurer
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NASA astronaut (retired) STS 41D, 29, 39. Former director of Johnson Space Center
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WWII Fighter Ace (9.33 Victs)- US Navy - Navy Cross
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African-American supercentenarian, born September 8, 1900
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David Cobb (2)2004 Green nominee for President
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astronaut 1st woman 1960
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aviator
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Scientis
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Related to baseball great Ty Cobb/Lawyer hired to defend Donald Trump in Russian probe
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Author of the Other Side of the River, South Carolina Historian
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma, born 1920
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He and Ross Perot Jr. on 30 September 1982, completed the 1st around-the-world helicopter flight when they landed Spirit of Texas at their starting point at Dallas, Texas
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Retired General
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WWII: ETO. 2679th HQ Co, Psychological Warfare Branch (a precursor to the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency), Allied Force HQ Italy. In service since June 1941. Eyewitness to Mussolini's Death
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O.J. Simpson Defense Attorney, author of the best-selling book 'Journey To Justice'
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Irish'
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Spanish Civil War Veteran International Brigade. Lives in Dublin. Born:05/26/1913
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Worked at Bletchley Park during WWII as a code breaker
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NASA Astronaut (STS-56, 69, 80, 98, 111)
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WWII - Pilot of Carrier Air Group 11 (Bombing Squadron VB-11), flew the SBD Dauntless dive bomber
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WWII: 82nd Airborne in Europe, parachuting in over the Rhine River, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and receiving the Bronze Star
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Guadalcanal veteran
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Astrophysicist, worked on the Kepler and K2 projects searching for potential exo-planets
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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General
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world war 2 air ace
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Last survivor of a group of four teenage boys who discovered the Cave of Lascaux in 1940
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WWII - Pilot of the famous Sundowners squadron (VF-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater
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Professional Speaker/1966, while flying combat missions over N. Vietnam, Captain Gerald Coffees reconnaissance jet was downed by enemy fire. He parachuted but was captured immediately & spent the next 7 years as a Prisoner of War in the Hanio Hilton
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American lawyer, born 1942. Last surviving member of the Roe v Wade plaintiff team. When Norma McCorvey (Roe) was brought to her, she enlisted ex - schoolmate Sarah Weddington to join the case, ending with the Supreme Court decision in 1973
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World War One Veteran. Lives in Ohio.
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WWII: ETO. B-24 Liberator pilot. Distinguished Flying Cross
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British-Argentine WWII veteran. Joined the RAF during the War
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Scientist, teacher, naturalist, state park ranger, national park ranger, cruising sailor, photographer, and author
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WWII: WWII Fighter pilot who was in the crew that flew the last combat mission of the European Theater
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Landed on Omaha Beach with the 1st wave on D-Day, June 6th 1944
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Mary Cohen was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 23, 1923. WWII - WAC (Women's Air Corps); 'Rosie The Riveter'; repaired battle-worn B-29s in Tucson, later recruited young men for the Army
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Michael Cohen (5)Attorney- Current inmate of Otisville NY Prison
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Inventor Neutron Bomb
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2020 Libertarian Party nominee for Vice President
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nobel med. laureate 1986
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Born June 11, 1956 is an American hedge fund manager
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WWII: Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned in Auschwitz at age 12 and credits her survival to being on Schindler's list
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Nobel physics laureate 1997
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WWII: ETO. Holocaust survivor, Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland, guard for subsequent Nuremberg Trials. 87th Infantry Division
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US WWII veteran, born 1919. Part of the campaigns in Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, and St Lo. Served under Patton and Eisenhower, eventually serving as an aide under Eisenhower
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British Historian
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(Born 1943) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Navy Cross and Silver Star Recipient
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Congressional Medal of Honor
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WWII: D-Day. Utah Beach. 90th Infantry Division. Was in 5 major battles, including the Battle of the Falaise Pocket. In Czechoslovakia at the end of the war
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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WW2 Marine Corp 4th Signal Company H&S Battalion 4th Marine Division joined in 1942 and would go on to fight in Iwo Jima (B: August 15, 1924)
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01/04/1920-04/27/1996 Director of Central Intelligence (DCI/C.I.A.) from September 1973 to January 1976/During World War II Colby served with the Office of Strategic Services
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Attorney author
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WWII: ETO. 729th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. B-17 pilot. 30 combat missions. Met then-16year-old actress Jean Simmons while in London
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Scientist
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June 19, 1904 - August 15, 1985, American screenwriter/Joined the American Communist Party. He became one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted. Between 1932 & 1947 Cole wrote more than forty screenplays that were made into motion pictures
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Jimmy Doolittle's copilot in the first bomber to launch from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet on the famous Tokyo Raid/Doolittle Raiders
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WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942. Also aboard for the Doolittle Raid and the Battle of Midway (May 1942)
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(Born 1923) USAAF WW2 Veteran. Also know for being the 96 year old speeder on the show Caught in Providence with Frank Caprio
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astronaut
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Weather channel founder
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Irish'
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Ken Coleman (2)From Brooklyn, NY, he played center and end for the first OSU National Championship team. As with most of his teammates, his Buckeye career was disrupted by military service during WWII. He was awarded 3 Purple Hearts & 14 Battle Ribbons!
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World-Renowned Cryptozoologist And Author
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Hindenburg Survivor Born: 04/18/1914
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(Born 1970) US Army Gulf War Veteran. Was captured as a POW by Iraqi troops and was a POW for 35 days until being liberated
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WWII - D-Day. British veteran who landed at Gold Beach on D-Day; also fought in Sicily and Italy
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Fighter ace ww2 born 12/1/1921
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WWII Fighter pilot. Flew P-47s and P-51s. 4-kills, including a German ME 262 jet fighter on 31 March 1945. 78th Fighter Group, ETO
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WWII - US paratrooper on D-Day who became a POW during Operation Overlord and as a POW, survived the fire bombing of Dresden
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World war 2 fighter ace navy
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Doctor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Bagley (DD-386). He broke open the 50 caliber forward port ready service locker, opened fire and hit the first two Japanese Torpedo Bombers. Also in the Battle of the Coral Sea
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Made history on becoming the first colored woman to become President of California State Polytechnic University,
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Zane
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air force general
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navy admiral
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WWII - British Spitfire Ace of Squadron 403
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Andrew Collins (3)Author, Speaker, guest on Ancient Aliens
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Technical Sergeant in Vietnam and Korean War
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Astronaut, the first female U.S. astronaut to command a spaceflight
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scientist
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Test pilot
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(Born 1931) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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A-12 pilot, CIA pilot
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Washington, DC, police officer assigned to escort King onto the podium for the 'I have a dream' speech in Washington (March on Washington, August 1963), seen in the speech and in photographs behind Dr. King
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Command Module Pilot Apollo 11
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Phil Collins (2) 2020 Prohibition Party nominee for President
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coast gaurd admiral
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Civil Rights figure, the 'fifth' Birmingham 16th Street Church Bombing victim. The only one of the 5 girls to survive the blast in the basement. Her sister was one of the 4 killed. She sustained serious injuries, including losing an eye and carrying glass
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American WWII Fighter Ace (6 Victs.)- USAAF
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US WWI veteran, served in the US Army in France. (1898-2002)
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(b. 10 September 1917) was a Jamaican solicitor and magistrate who throughout her career broke many barriers for women. For her contributions, she was honored as a member of the Order of the British Empire and Jamaica's Order of Distinction
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'One of few Nurses to Tuskegee Airmen' 'Received Gold Medal from President Bush with Tuskegee Airmen'
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Admiral in Spanish navy.Decendent of The Christopher Columbus
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo jima
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invertor (enovid oral contraceptive)
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African Americans' rights activist, Pioneer of the African American civil rights movement; Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, 15-year-old Colvin refused a bus driver?s orders to relinquish her seat and was arrested
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Is the founder of the non-profit organization Literacy Volunteers of America, now called ProLiteracy Worldwide in Syracuse, New York, in 1962. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in December 2006
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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101st Airborne, Easy Company Band of Brothers - WWII
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WWII - Mine Platoon of the Anti-Tank Company, 69th Infantry Division, 271st Regiment. First combat at the 'Siegfried Line' in February 1945; crossed the Rhine on March 27, 1945; arrived at the KZ Buchenwald one day after its liberation
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American lawyer who served as the seventh Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from September 2013 until May 2017. Comey has been a registered Republican for most of his life, but is now independent/Fired by Donald Trump
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WWII - Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941; Kaneohe Bay NAS
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Former presidential candidate
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First person to the summit of K2
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Ironworker who helped build the St Louis Arch, and gave the radio signal to fit the last piece into place on October 28. 1965
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WW2-Ploesti Raid
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101st Airborne Band of Brothers in WW2 // Lead Prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. // California Appeals Court Judge
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P-47 Thunderbolt Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of the 56th Fighter Group
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WW2 US marine corp fighter pilot ace 6 victories VMF-215
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Retired General
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Army General
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WW2 Flying Ace - USAAF - 12 Kills - DSC
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US Army Vietnam Veteran. 9th Infantry Division. Served from 1969 to 1970. Purple Heart recipient
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A 48-year employee of the John Sexton Food Company, Conine worked in their warehouse at 411 Elm Street - later known as the Texas School Book Depository - for nine years. He shared his knowledge about the building's history and layout
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WWII: 362nd Fighter Squadron, 357th Fighter Group, 8th AF. 71 missions, 270 combat hours, 1 victory
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Flew P-51's with the 261FS/357FG Yoxford Boys. He flew 71 missions, 270 combat hours and had one enemy aircraft destroyed, on the ground, many box cars, engines, armored vehicles and trucks destroyed, crashed one P51 at Brussels, Belgium
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2022 Green Party candidate for US Senate from California
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Former Governor of Texas (1963-69), Secretary of the Treasury (1971-72), wounded during the assassination of President Kennedy
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Born 1950, was a specialist 5 in CMEC and MACV during his time in the Vietnam War which he served from 1969 to 1972
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WWII - US Army; aided in the defence of Bataan, Luzon Island, Philippines; after the US surrender on April 9, 1941, he evaded capture and organized a guerrilla force in the mountains west of Clark Field; subject of the book "Resolve"
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Founder of 'American Civil Rights Institute'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Purple Heart. 96th Infantry Division
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Former FBI Agent and Convicted Criminal associated with Whitey Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang of Boston
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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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(January 12, 1919 - July 27, 1994) was a sergeant in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor after leading a platoon of 36 men attached to the 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division against German positions, defended by snipers and ma
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Larry Connor (2)Member of crew for 1st all-private spaceflight AX-1,
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Navy Admiral
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inventor (tetracycline antibiotic)
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British writer, British historian, became one of the best-known writers on the Soviet Union
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WWII, Pearl Harbor Survivor
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Goodyear Blimp Pilot
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Apollo 12 moonwalker
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WWII: ETO. B-24 navigator in the 445th Bomber Group
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(Born 1937) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1958 to 1988
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Newcastle hard man
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As a Marine officer, Justin volunteered for deployment to Iraq in 2006, and served as a Civil Affairs Team Leader while attached to an infantry battalion. While on a routine combat patrol, Justin was shot in the head by a sniper. Although the original pro
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USAAF, 450th Bomb Group, 15th AF European Theater
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WWII: D-Day. USS Thompson (joined Task Group 124.7, Convoy O-1, bound for Omaha Beach), Conte was firing at German positions at Omaha Beach, including supporting the Rangers on Pointe-du-Hoc
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Flight scientist
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Born 1921 Pearl Harbor survivor who was on the USS Arizona during the Attacks
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Thermal Insulation Technician on the Apollo 11 Lunar Module
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Venezuelan epidemiologist specialist in tropical diseases. Born: 09/11/1913
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Commandant, United States Marine Corps
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Mathematician
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Computer Scientist and transgender activist
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C-47 pilot that dropped paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division off Normandy (Utah Beach) on D-Day, June 6th 1944
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Centenarian, US WWI vet (1895-2005). Wounded in France, at Argonne
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1923. He is now 91 and lives in Chester, UK. He was a former lieutenant with the 12th Yorkshire Parachute Battalion
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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air force general
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WWII: D-Day. A Screaming Eagle paratropper of A Company, 506th PIR
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; USS Arizona
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WWII: One of the last living Chaplain's Assistant, served in Europe at the Battle of the Bulge
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Biophysicist
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
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Is a centenarian and a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist, and Emeritus Professor at Dalhousie University. The author of several scientific books
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UK WWII D - Day veteran, born 1925. 7th Battalion The Green Howards, first wave on Gold Beach 6/6/44
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The sixth oldest verified person in the United Kingdom. Born in 1900
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One of the last known survivors of The Halifax Explosion, that occurred on December 06, 1917. She is now 98 years old and lives in Canada
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Famous Heart Surgeon
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U.S. Army; Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in World War II (France, Oct. 1944) born August 4, 1921
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Granddaughter of Calvin Coolidge
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Jack Coombe (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Left the mess hall to the sight of planes overhead. Injured during the Battle of Midway
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Attorney, Legal Commentator, Host - Final Appeal (Oxygen Network)
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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'Brigadier General'
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James 'Jimmy C' Coonan (born December 21, 1946) is an Irish-American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York who began serving a 75-year prison term in 1988
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Super Centenarian Born: 02/03/1897. One of the worlds oldest people
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US Marine, WWII, born 1920. Saw action in Okinawa
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marine corps general
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Pilot
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Tuskegee Airman; class of 44-H-SE, graduated 9/8/44
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navy admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tern (AM-31)
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Australian Vietnam War Veteran , flight-lieutenant
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George Cooper (2)X-4 test pilot
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Wwii: pto. uss helena
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John Cooper (5)Retired Lieutenant General with Royal millitary
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Jon Cooper (3)Chairman of The DemCoalition
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Doctor - Aerobics advocate
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Kevin Cooper (4)Serial killer
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Director/actor/writer 'Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story' 'Random Passage'/4 years Naval officer in WW2. Landing craft officer-Boat Group Commander for my ship-landing assault troops on the beaches of six Japanese island strongholds
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nobel physics laureate 1972
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Wren at Bletchley Park
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Antiques Expert & TV personality (Flog It, Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip, etc.)
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Inventor of Cell Phone
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USMC General
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marine corps general
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American immunologist, born 1933. 2019 Lasker Award recipient for his work identifying T cells and B cells
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American historian, author, and educator
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Mercury Astronaut, Colonel USAF
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American Inventor/Chemist (b: 1919)
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Received Congregational Medal of Honor 3/18/2014 for his actions in the Viet Nam War
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Fighter ace (six-kill)
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419th FLTS project pilot
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Parzival Copes, OC (born 22 January 1924) is a Canadian economist with a particular interest in regional science and specialization in fisheries economics and management
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US Marine Corps Gulf War Veteran. Pilot for helicopters in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Downes
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Jamye Flowers Coplin worked in the astronaut office during the Apollo program. As a secretary to the astronauts, Coplin wrote their frequent travel orders, ran interference when outsiders wanted access & traveled with them to the Cape for launches
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Scientist
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Holocaust Survivor/Adolf Hitler's birthday & first day of Passover arrived at Auschwitz
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Anthropologist
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WWII Rosie the Riveter, born 1923. One of 17 siblings, sent by her father to aid the war effort by working at the Curtiss-Wright aviation company in Buffalo, NY. Was a 'bucker', a final step in the riveting process
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British General born 1940, last Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin
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WWII Pilot, last of the 10 Fighter Boys
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Australian female convicted of Drug Smuggling in Indonesia in a high profile incident
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WW2 OSS Officer/Technical adviser to the film 'OSS' (1946)/He was trained at the famous 'Camp X' in Canada/As a spy he once lived with an Italian family just 450 yards from a German base
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in the UK. He was a torpedo man and drove one of the two cranes on HMS Belfast
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French resistant and historian
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Commander of British Forces in the first Gulf War 1990-91
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Historian and Author
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Flight scientist
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WWII: D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, Germany. 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles), 3rd Bat, 502nd PIR
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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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nobel chemistry laureate 1990
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WWII: PTO. Turret Gunner on the Avenger. Carrier Air Group 11. He flew combat missions at Guadalcanal and the USS Hornet (CV-12)
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Member of the famed ''Black Sheep Squadron''-VMF-214
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(Born 1934) US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of 3 Silver Stars
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Centenarian, born 1916. Veteran of the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps from 1934-35 in New York State
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David Cornell (4)Great-grandson of Jameson Boyd-Adams, who was one of Sir Ernest Shackleton's crew. Lives in Andover, Hampshire, UK
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nobel physics laureate 2001
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(Born 1921) US Army WW2 Veteran. fought along the Mussolini Canal in Italy. Wounded by Mortar fire out in Italy. Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient
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Nobel chem. laureate 1975. Born: 09/07/1917
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French resistance fighter during WWII Lives in retirement community in Loir-et-Cher France
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Retired BGEN, USAF. As a Major, she was captured and held as an Iraq War POW (1991)
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KCB, CBE, DSO, MC 5/27/1887-1985) British Army officer & linguist. Lieutenant-General in charge of air defense of Great Britain. 1940 he went to France to help evacuate British troops from Cherbourg, boarding the last ship to leave port
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Gay rights figure. Participant of the 1969 Stonewall Inn rebellion
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WWII: PTO, US Navy, USS Auburn: Was at Iwo Jima
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Mobster
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Italian ww2 bomber pi,lot
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WWII: 59th Coast Artillery Regiment. Escaped the infamous Bataan Death March by swimming, only to be captured again at Corregidor, Fort Mills, in the Philippines on May 6, 1942. POW at Camp Omori, Tokyo Bay
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nobel peace laureate 1976
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WWII: PTO. Navy corpsman in the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa
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US WWII Army vet, born 1926. Tank commander, Patton's 773rd Tank Destroyer Batt. On furlough, passed over to see Nuremburg Trial, as only an NCO. But Russian scientist showed him the evidence room, was his guest for 3 days of the Trials
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WWII: D-Day (Omaha Beach), Battle of St. Lo. 29th Infantry Division, 116th IR
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Retired General
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Director of NASA's Langley Research Center, and Chairman of the Apollo 13 Review Board which investigated the explosion that occurred during the Apollo 13 spaceflight in 1970.
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Navy Combat Demolition Unit on Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach
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WWII: He served with the First Marine Division in the Guadalcanal Campaign and was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in an enemy ambush during a jungle patrol following the Battle of Edson's Ridge
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USN Admiral
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Eastman Kodak engineer, worked on the camera team for NASA's Lunar Orbiters that photographed the moon, and mapped landing spots for the Apollo missions. Led to the first photo of the earth from the moon, a B&W grainy one, in 1966
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Australian Military
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World War One
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WWII: D-Day. H Company, 502nd PIR,101st Airborne
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Physicist; studies star formations
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WWII Marine, Author of The Brig Rat
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American Serial Killer
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US Air Force 4 Star General
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Test pilot! Named 1966 Pilot of the Year by the International Order of Characters, Cotton has been awarded a Legion of Merit, Air Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal and the Aerospace Walk of Honor (1997)
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Last witness to see 'The Humber Monster', the East Coast's answer to the Loch Ness Monster. He saw it himself as a small child before WW2. The last sighting of it was 80 years ago. Now 86 and lives in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, UK
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Navy SEAL, Vietnam hero, author
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Flew 193 miles in a lawn chair strapped to helium balloons (Bend, Oregon - 07/07/07)
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JFK - Honor Guard. Was positioned at the steps of the Capitol when President Kennedy's body was transferred to the Capitol. His spot was on the left, the 7th guard counted from the bottom of the steps upwards
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JFK - U.S. Secret Service agent from 1961 to 1977. Served on the details of President Kennedy, President Johnson and Vice President Hubert Humphrey. He was part of the advance team for San Antonio on President Kennedy?s trip to Texas
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One of the first black students admitted to Harry Harding HS in Charlotte, NC. Parents made her withdraw due to harassment; school has since been named in her honor
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Dallas Police patrolman , he escorted officials to Dallas Trade Mart the morning of Nov. 22 . Following assassination he was assigned guard duty at TSBD and police headquarters
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WWII - British D-Day veteran who landed at Sword Beach and saw heavy fighting at Caen
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British astronomer
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Scientist
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German-born, American physicist (1924- ). Built circuits for the Manhattan Project. One of the few surviving witnesses of the Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion
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DPD , one of two mid motorcade motorcycle officers in President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov.22 , 1963
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USS Downes
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Young man who ran on the field after Hank Aaron's 715th Home Run
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Attended the Chamber of Commerce Breakfast at Hotel Texas on the morning of Nov.22 , 1963
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navy admiral england
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French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. Co-invented the Aqua-Lung. Hosted the tv show The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. Created the Cousteau Society for the Protection of Ocean Life. Father of Jean-Michel Cousteau
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oceanographer
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Australian WW2 veteran born January 1, 1913
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Left man in prison for 26 years, because of attorney client privlidges. Only came to light when his client died
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NASA astronaut (retired) Four space shuttle missions; last person to speak to the astronauts on Challenger before it exploded
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American physical chemist, worked at ' Manhattan Project' (Trinity)
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Secretary in the JFK White House. Known as Faddle
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Vice Admiral (VADM) Michael L. Cowan, US Navy (USN) Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy (2001-2004)
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Intelligence Officer with the Texas Department of Public Safety, present at the tower during Charles Whitman's school shooting on August 1, 1966 at the University of Texas
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Was Winston Churchill's Head of Security at Chequers (British Prime Minister's country estate) during WW2, lives in Australia
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
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First known british male to female transexual
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Scientist, Physicist, host of 'Physics Girl' on YouTube
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WWII Veteran SPAR, Women's Coast Guard
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navy admiral
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Scientist
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British war hero born in 1919, received the Distinguished Conduct Medal in WW2
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WWII: USMC. Guadalcanal
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American artist (1896-1982). Muralist, apprenticed with his father Kenyan Cox, also a painter. Hired in 1953 to add new murals to the US Capitol, including ones of the Wright Brothers and the moon landing. Worked on them until his death
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Watergate Attorney
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TV Presenter, Author - Why Does E=mc2?
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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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British air ace from WW2 with 8 victories
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Attorney, Candidate for 2006 U.S. Senate in NY, President Nixon's Son-In-Law born 1946
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US Marine aviator, born 1936. Served as the recovery helicopter co-pilot for some early NASA Mercury flights, including first US man in space Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Ham the Chimp before the manned missions. Served in Vietnam also
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WWII: D-Day. Medic landing in the first wave with the 116th Reg 29 ID at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944; hit by a mortar at 12:30 PM
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James Cox (2)LCDR - US NAVY Blue Angels
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John Cox (3) WWII: Burma (flew parachute troopers and supplies into Burma). Bangladesh (Support of Claire Lee Chennault, The Flying Tigers). 27th Troop Carrier Squadron
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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Forensic Archaeologist, Channel 4's Time Team.
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WWII - British D-Day veteran (tank gunner) who landed at Gold Beach
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Cape Gloucester, 1943. Purple Heart
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Retired colonel
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Miss America 1936
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Canadian Lawyer
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Worked as an usher for the Pittsburgh Pirates till he was 99 years old. Also is a WWII Veteran
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established scouting for all
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Lived through the Dust Bowl featured in Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl
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Former United States Army general. His last military assignment was as Commander, United States European Command and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe from December 2006 to June 30, 2009
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Supreme Allied Commander Europe
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. PH Naval Base - 1010 Dock
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Governement
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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American cartoonist and children's book illustrator best known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip Mama's Boyz and his Newberry Award-winning graphic novel New Kid
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United States Air Aces
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RIBA Chartered Architect, Professional Wrestling Historian and Author
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David Craig (5) WWII: Merchant seaman in the 'Murmansk runs' of World War II
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air force marshal england
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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Prominent Attorney. Served as White House Counsel under Presidents Clinton and Obama. Represented John W. Hinckley, Jr, Elian Gonzalez' father, and many other high profile cases
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Woman from the famous photograph 'American Girl in Italy' by Ruth Orkin
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(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Wounded at Guadalcanal from the sinking of the USS Duncan in 1942
