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WWII Flying Tigers (clerk)
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Military Commander Ferdinand Foch was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders and Artois campaigns of 1914-1916, Foc
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Invented Embolectomy Catheter - industry standard that revolutionized cardiovascular surgery (balloon catheterization); inductee Inventor Hall of Fame
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air force general
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air force general
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Reputed Patriarca mobster
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Inventor and Game Designer who invented the game Twister
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Don Foley (2)
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US WWII vet, born in 1920. Served as a Navy WAVE in secret intelligence work involving Japanese merchant ships, though she refused to discuss details of her work even decades later
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Member of the Band of Brothers, 506th Easy Company WWII
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US Army Vietnam War Medal of Honor Recipient
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navy admiral
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Author; 'Visions from a Foxhole : A Rifleman in Patton's Ghost Corps'/WW2 Battle of the Bulge veteran
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cancer researcher
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Mayor of Dallas from 1976 to 1981, Folsom was a longtime real estate developer and served as president of the Dallas School Board during the racial integration of the 1960s
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps Fighter pilot (VMF-121) of the 'Cactus Air Force' at Guadalcanal 1942 who flew with J. Foss' 'Flying Circus'. In the mission that sank the Japanese battleship Hiei. Later Squadron Leader, VMF-533. Post-war test pilot
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WW2 US Navy Flying Ace, VF-15 - 5 Kills
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(Born 1980) US Navy Medical Corpsman Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran. Navy Cross Recipient
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Commander 21st Theatre Sustaintment Commandunit 23203APO AE 09263
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WWII. Holocaust survivor. Witness of 'Kristallnacht' and the burning of the synagogue at Fasanstrasse, Berlin, on Nov. 10/11, 1938
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Cuban native living in exile in Florida when he joined the Bay of Pigs invasion force as a Frogman/Worked with CIA
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Humanitarian: Retraced and completed Terry Fox's cross country cancer research fundraising marathon in 1984
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South African rape survivor, anti-rape activist, founded the Jes Foord Foundation
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historian
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historian
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Military, British recipient of the Victoria Cross
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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Larry Alt and Pete Forcelli, agents at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), helped expose Operation Fast and Furious scandal, that resulted in federally-monitored guns ending up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels
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Christine Ford (2)Accused Brett Kavanuagh Of Sexual Misconduct While He Was Being Voted In To The Supreme Court
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Fred Ford (4)Co-creator, with Paul Reiche III, of the Star Control universe. Ford did the programming, while Reiche was responsible for the game design and fiction. Ford was also the lead programmer on The Horde and Pandemonium
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American pilot in World War 2, completed 35 bombing raids on German Targets
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US physicist, teacher, author (b. 1926). Worked on developing the H-Bomb, under his mentor John Wheeler at Los Alamos, before completing his graduate studies
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astronaut
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Former Lorraine Motel worker, witness to the Martin Luther King assassination, and pictured in the iconic photo of the scene
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United States Under Secretary of the Army (2007-2009)
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Robert Ford (2) British Army Officer
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Military
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Freddie Foreman (born 5 March 1932 in Battersea, London) is a convicted English criminal involved in the disposal of the body of Jack 'the Hat' McVitie (killed by Reggie Kray) and for which he was sentenced to ten years in prison
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Astronaut Born March 29 1957
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Peace Activist and Author wrote several books including Praying with Icons and Ladder of the Beatitudes
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Lz X - ray Battle of la Drang/1965 1/5 Calvery/ Born April 13, 1938/African American part of Berlin Airlift/1st Cav Airmobile
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WWII: PTO. Last surviving veteran of iconic Kokoda Track campaign photo
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WWII: One of the few remaining 'lumberjills' of the war, a group in the Women's Land Army. Now 96 and possibly living in Glasgow
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Inventor random access memory; inductee to Inventor Hall of Fame. Born: 07/14/1918
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astronaut (STS-105)
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US Army General
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WWII: PTO. Leyte, Philippines, Okinawa. 96th Infantry, 763rd Tank Battalion
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American WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War Ace
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army general
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German WWII Soldier, born 1925 in Berlin. Drafted near war's end, soon taken POW by the US, shuttled to France & the USSR. Got medical degree, moved to the US. Radiology career. Medical officer in the US Air Force, later the Army Reserves
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/11/67-04/68 Lai Khe 1st Inf. Div. 04/68-06/68 Da Nang 3rd Marines 07/68-09/68 Chu Lai - Americal Div. 10/68 - 12/68 Lai Khe - 1st Inf. Div. http://www.donutdolly.com/id24.htm#patty__bright__fortenberry
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WWII author and Ace
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: ETO. 78th Infantry Division
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WWII Marine Ace- shot down 26 Japanese planes- LIFE cover June 7, 1943, awarded the congressional medal of honor
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United States Air Aces
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First solo balloonist to circumnavigate the earth..
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Monkey Woman of the World/Reseacher
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Astronaut
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Bob Foster (4) JFK - Secret Service, in the 'Kiddie detail', featured in many famous pictures with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Kennedy
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Korean war ace/15 mig kills
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Charles Foster (3) Charles Basil Foster (born January 17, 1923) is an English-born Canadian publicist, newspaper editor, author and songwriter. He was born in Cheshire, England. During World War II he was a pilot with the Royal Air Force
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Daniel Foster (2) November 22nd 1963/Parkland Hospital JFK's trauma room #1 attending doctors/John Fitzgerald Kennedy Assassination
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Author and historian
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Flying Tigers-Nurse;named Foster in 1941, Petach in 1942
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British ace from WW2, 6.5 victories, Battle of Britain
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WWII Tank Commander, Battle of the Bulge
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Born 26 July 1910 is a Breton nationalist. His name in French was Jean-Adolphe Fouéré. He is the father of the actress Olwen Fouéré. He was born in Aignan, département Gers, France.He was
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Aviation Radioman 2nd Class, USN, USS Hornet (CV-12) SB2C Helldiver Radio Operator/Gunner Distinguished Flying Cross Shot down while bombing the battleship Yamato during the Battle of Okinawa. Rescued by Destroyer
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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One of his Purples Hearts is pictured on the USPS Purple Heart stamp
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Superintendent US Naval Acadamy
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Aviation stunt pilot
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Dust Bowl survivor, born 1913. Lived through worst of Dust Bowl in Boise City, OK. Featured in Ken Burns' PBS documentary, The Dust Bowl
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Fowler is best known for his UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) investigations and books focusing primarily on UFO sightings and close encounters in the New England area of the U.S., including the Betty Andreasson Luca Alien Abduction case
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo; from Tampa, FL
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William Fowler (2)Author/historian
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RCAF Pilot, WWII, Wounded E. Rommell
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Mountaineer of the 1996 Mt. Everest tragedy
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, 23rd Provisional Company, 6th Defense Battalion. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Was assigned to Midway Islands in 1942 to defend the atoll. Later in the Iwo Jima invasion and the postwar occupation of Japan
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Part of raid of WWII POW camp Cabanatuan 'The Great Raid
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WWII: 1st Marine Division. Flamethrower in the Battle of Peleliu, 1944
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WWII: PTO. USS Kennabago
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Desert Storm Fighter Pilot -- shot down a MiG-21 from his F/A-18 on 17 Jan, 1991. His was the first Navy air-to-air kill of the war
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inventor of natural colored cotton
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JFK - chief of protocol and head of the social office at the White House 1960-1975
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Vietnam War Medal Of Honor Recipient - US Marines
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United States Air Aces
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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WWII: MTO/ETO. North Africa, Battle of Kasserine Pass (Tunisia), Sicily, D-Day (Omaha Beach, 3rd wave), Battle of the Bulge. 15th Engineer Combat Battalion, 9th Infantry Division
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Pasco county sheriff,s office florida
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Former Italian terrorist, living in Italy
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WWII veteran of the 3rd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, 36th Infantry Division. He fought throughout Europe from October of 1944 in Alsace-Lorraine, ending near the Austrian Alps when the war ended
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(Born 1909) Supercentenarian and oldest person alive to live in the United States that is verified
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Oldest man in the U.S. - Deceased 2008
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Mobster, Colombo Street Boss 2008-2009 - operated from New England, imprisoned December 2009
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The only child of Spain's Caudillo, dictator, General Francisco Franco
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American Serial Killer
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French Veteran of Spanish Civil War, International Brigade. Born: 1920
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German-born American biophysicist at Columbia University, New York City and a Nobel laureate. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson
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Father of Anne Frank, Concentration Camp Survivor
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NASA - Flight Director (Orange flight) Apollo 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17 and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
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American broadcast news executive. Created the groundbreaking Huntley-Brinkley Report, and was its producer until 1964. Served two tenures as president of NBC News. Mentored such journalists as Tom Brokaw, John Chancellor & Linda Ellerbee
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Uss yorktown & 1948 israel war of independence pilot
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British immunologist born 03/18/21912
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Retired General
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Engineer and a leading pioneer in Canada?s space programme. He played a leading role in the design, construction and application of Canada's first satellite, the Alouette
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Military
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Historian. Born: 01/02/1915
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Stunt Pilot
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Flight (aviator)
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American writer. Won a Pulitzer in 1971 for her reporting on the life of Diana Oughton, a member of Weather Underground. Became the first woman to win a Pulitzer for National Reporting, and the youngest person ever to win any Pulitzer
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U.S. Army General
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Retired general, Author
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Cuban writer and political activist Carlos Franqui, an important figure in the Cuban revolution
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Oklahoma Dust Bowl survivor of the 1930s. Interviewed by Ken Burns for his Dust Bowl documentary
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JFK - Honor Guard at President Kennedy's funeral
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Inductee of National Inventors Hall of Fame
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ww2 pilot
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Last Hindenburg Crewman Alive. Currently resides in Germany. Born: 05/22/1922
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Witness to the JFK murder and was 6 years old and is seen in background right after the shot to the head
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John 'Sonny' Franzese is a longtime member and the current Underboss of the Colombo crime family.
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Michael Franzese (born May 27, 1951) is a former New York mobster and captain of the Colombo crime family who was heavily involved in the gasoline tax rackets in the 1980s. Since then, he has publicly renounced organized crime, created a foundation for he
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Historian
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WWII: PTO. USS Randolph
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4 Star General Born April 16, 1953
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Francis Davidson Fraser (born 13 December 1923, and better known as 'Mad' Frankie Fraser) is a former British criminal and gang member who has spent more than half of his life in prison for numerous violent offences
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Gymnast who witnessed Hitler refusing to shake Jesse Owens' hand at 1936 Olympics Games. Lives in Forres, Morayshire, Scotland, UK.
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War hero, Victoria Cross receiver
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4 Star GeneralBorn Aug.17,1952
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Politician
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Retired USMC General
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Retired naval pilot and Commander of VFA-41 also known as 'The Black Aces'
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Commander US Alaskan Command
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JFK - The man who drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work on Nov. 22, 1963, when Oswald took that package with him in Frazier's car that is assumed to have been the rifle that killed Kennedy; he was a co-worker of Oswald at the TSBD
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Flight astronaut 1967 group 6 astronaut candidate
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WWII: Battle of Midway
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Bataan death march survivor- wrote book-hells guest
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Member of the 3 original 1939 Little League teams
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Centenarian (1901-2002). One of the last living US WWI Marine veterans. Lied about age to join, sent to combat in France. Re-enlisted in WWII, served in the battle of Okinawa. Wounded in the trenches by an exploding shell in WWI, and hit in the neck with
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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Chemist/Educator - created many self-testing systems for diabetes
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NASA - Associate Administrator for the Exploration Systems Development (ESD) Directorate. Involved in Artemis I
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British air ace from WW2 with 13 victories
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Last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in which 146 of her co-workers perished in 1911
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor. Also fought at Bougainville, where he served and spent time with later Iwo flag raiser Ira Hayes
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'Tuskegee Airmen'/332nd, WWII, Lawyer
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WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, 506th PIR, Easy Company - one of the original Band of Brothers
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Medal of Honor Vietnam at lz-xray 1965
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Civil Rights Attorney. Member of the US Commission on Civil Rights 1964-79
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DPD , one of lead motorcycle officers in President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov.22 , 1963
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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WWII: Ace, 6 victories. VMF-121, later VMF-115, William Freeman flew over 200 combat missions in the Pacific theater
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WW2/From Haddenham in Buckinghamshire, member of the Women?s Royal Naval Service, Wrens. Worked on Colossus, world?s first digital electronic computer, which was developed at Bletchley but the existence of which was kept secret for decades
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Highest ranking German officer to survive the sinking of the bismark
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WWII: B-17 Ball Turrett Gunner, 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group (Bloody 100th). Shot down on his last mission on April 28, 1944 in B-17 #42-107024 (unnamed). POW at Stalag XI, Nürnberg, Stalag 17B, Krems, Austria
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Soldier french revolution, knighted in uk, alot of stuff, a admiral of the royal navy
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WWII: UK veteran of the 'Kings? Royal Rifles' who landed on Juno Beach three days after D-Day and fought all the way to Hamburg
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Teen witness to JFK assassination. Standing on Houston Street as limo passed by, running across the street as the shots were fired. He and a friend ran up into the railway area (leading some to think they had thrown firecrackers at the motorcade), then ba
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German Nazi lives in Garbsen-Auf der Horst (near Hannover/Lower Saxony)
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Born March 13, 1916, American self-taught structural designer, architectural designer, concept artist, educator, and futurist
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British journalist, businessman and welfare adviser. He is a great grandson of Sigmund Freud, and son of Annette Krarup and Walter Freud. Sometimes known as Baron Freud
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German explorer & wolf scientist, lived amongst wolves for several years, opened a wolf park in germany
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Witness For The Prosecution Of Scott Peterson
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One of the fathers of the Ford Mustang
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US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1970 to 1981
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WWII: D-Day, electrician on the USS August; also helped serve the meal when President Truman was aboard
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WWII: Reconnaissance Photographer at NAS Honolulu, working at Admiral Nimitz' Office. Took countless photos in the Pacific, incl. celebrities visiting the base, like Rene Gagnon (flag-raiser at M t. Suribachi) or actress Betty Hutton
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Astronaut
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WWII: Army Scout Veteran. Arrived in Normandy on Aug. 5, 1944, with the 80th Division and fought all through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Austria
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Founder and CEO of Icelandic gaming company, Plain Vanilla. Created the bestselling app QuizUp. Thor sold QuizUp to Glu Games in 2016
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Army medic with the 16th Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division that treated soldiers on Omaha Beach, D-Day June 6th 1944
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Former heart surgeon who was jailed in 1975 for the murder of his wife and was the oldest prisoner in New York until his relase on parole in 2007
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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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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, taken in Times Square - 'Crossroads Of The World'
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An American Reform rabbi who served as the CEO of the United Jewish Appeal and was the founding president of the Wexner Foundation
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nobel physics laureate 1990
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Paul Friedman (2)Military
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COP/Most decorated detective in New York history/Author 'Street Justice: The Bronx' & 'Street Warrior'/Stationed at the South Bronx's notorious 41 Precinct, known by its nickname 'Fort Apache', Served during one of city?s most dire times: the 70s & 80s
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U.F.O Researcher
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Polish-American therapist, author, academic, born 1938. Auschwitz survivor, along with her mother
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NASA Ascent & Entry Flight Director - Artemis I
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(Born 1931) US Army Korean War Veteran. Heavy Vehicle Operator with the Combat Engineers in the 2nd Infantry Division from 1951-52
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WWII: Survivor of the Bataan Death March (Philippines) on April 9, 1942
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Buffalo Bill museum director and biographer
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Shaw
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Great-great-nephew of Frank Wild, the only explorer to accompany Sir Ernest Shackleton on all his missions. Lives in Billingshurst, West Sussex, UK
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Flight astronaut sts-45
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Military tuskegee airmen
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Gunner's Mate 1st Class, USN, USS LST 341 Pacific Theater of Operations
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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WWII: ETO. Ghost Army, 23rd Headquarters Special Troops
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One of the 'Chicago 7' war protesters..1968
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Survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp
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Manson Family Member who attempted to assassinate President Ford, nicknamed 'Squeaky'
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Sports historian who wrote extensively about the Yankees and collaborated with his wife on lively oral histories of Brooklyn, the Catskills and Broadway
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Collaborated with her husband on lively oral histories of Brooklyn, the Catskills and Broadway
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Navy
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Flight (scientist)
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Vintage Burlesque Dancer / Historian / writer
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941
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Retired USMC General
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Rudy Giuliani associate who is connected in Ukrainian scheme against Joe Biden
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inventor post-its
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Born 1893 14th oldest documented person in the world
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island Naval Air Station
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navy admiral
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Designer PZL 104 Wilga, PZL 130 Orlik, Flaris LAR01
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Detroit
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge and other major battles. 740th Tank Battalion ('Daredevil Tankers')
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German World War One survivor
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WWII: Justice Robert H. Jackson's bodyguard at the Nuremberg trials
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British Explorer who, along with Edmund Hillary, completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica
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One of the last witnesses to The Siege of Sidney Street in London on 2 January 1911. He was a a young teenager at the time and found himself caught up in the siege. Since he was a teenager in 1911, he's most likely deceased, 1970's or 1980's
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(Born 8 February 1909) is a Spanish supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). He has been the oldest living man in the world since the death of Dumitru Comanescu, on 27 June 2020
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9/11 first responder/fireman. Founder and director of the Patriot Group, a not-for-profit organization that specializes in assisting first responders in answering terrorism and disaster crisis emergencies
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WWII: D-Day. Tech Sgt., 8th AF, 390th Bomb Group, 568th Squadron, 8th Air Force. Radio operator in a B-17 that bombed targets in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Shot down July 1944, POW in Stalag Luft IV
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European Astronaut
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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Congressional Medal of Honor
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American chemist of Japanese descent. After studying at Harvard, he co-discovered the Fujimoto-Belleau reaction. Born 1 July 1920, if alive he'd be 99
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Judge on the O.J. Simpson Wrongful death lawsuit.
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Astronomer
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Polish historian specializing the the history of Polish Jews in Warsaw
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 9 victories
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 72 kills
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Microbiologist, Natural farmer
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Psychologist, Psychotherapist & political activist. She ran for NY Lt Governor, NY Governor, US President and Vice President under either the New Alliance Party of Independence Party of New York
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marine corps general
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USAF Colonel, Pilot, and War Hero
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Slovak cosmonaut, pilot and Colonel
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research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)
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American game programmer who created two of the Atari 2600's biggest hits: the port of arcade game Missile Command and 1982's Demon Attack, which won Electronic Games' Game of the Year award
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Research test pilot XB-60 & X-15 aircraft & other aircraft. Flew B-29 & B-50 which launched X-1 & X-2 rocket plane. 1966 became chief test pilot @ NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility where he tested X-15, 747 Shuttle Carri
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WWII Navy WAVE worked in Navy intelligence
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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vietnam war air force hero
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N LAPD criminologist, Dennis Fung's responsibilities related to the analysis of crime scene evidence. As DNA evidence became significant in the Simpson trial, Fung spent more time on the stand than any other trial witness, testifying for a total of 9 days
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SS-Sturmmann during WW2. Fought in France during the D-Day invasion. Is still alive as of 2011
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Flight (aviator)
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United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and one of the most decorated soldiers and paratroopers of World War II. He also received the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, and three Purple Hearts
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Aka 'Dagobert' Germany DJ, Cartoonish and Artist. Former blackmailer of the supermarket chain 'Karstadt'
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WWII: Marine Corps; Guadalcanal, Guam, Okinawa; hit by a mortar on the 41st day of the Balle of Okinawa, which he miracously survived
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1998 Nobel Laureate in Medicine. Born: 06/04/1916
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Creator of Pepe the Frog
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TV Writer/Producer, ABC News/Sports staff director, born 1943. ABC News intern in the NYC newsroom when the Kennedy Assassination broke
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Former Corporal of the Canadian Forces, once held the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at 2,430 metres (2,657 yd, 12.08 furlongs, or 1.51 miles)
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WWII: PTO. USMC fighter pilot. WIth Joe Foss at Guadalcanal (Cactus Air Force), later commanding the illustrious 'Black Sheep Squadron' and also serving in the Korean War
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Has the Most Guinness World Records Held By an Individual
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Mobster
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Dallas social worker in 1963, Furnish saw the Kennedys arrive at Dallas Love Field Airport. Throughout the 1960s, she was locally active in the civil rights movement
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German physicist, astronaut. Flew on Shuttle mission STS 61-A. In college, helped dig the 'Tunnel 57' escape route under the Berlin Wall. Killed in an airshow crash in 1995
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WWII: PTP. Pearl Harbor survivor, Ford Island
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WWII: 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Battalion, 'G' Company
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Astronaut
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Harry Futcher (born 21 April 1904) is the last known bandsman of World War I. Lives in Dorset, England
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French actor and war hero
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WWII and Korean War Ace-[28 victories - WWII and 6.5 victories -Korea]!
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WW2 Veteran:US Army's 29th Infantry Division; not a D - Day veteran; he arrived in Europe on September 19, 1944
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air force general
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. Paratrooper & Demolition Expert, 82nd Airborne Division
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Navigator on the 'Necessary Evil', the nickname of the B-29 Superfortress that accompanied the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Born: 03/23/1923
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
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Serial Killer Executed for the Murders 33 Men & Boys in Chicago, IL.
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(Born 1923) US Air Force WW2 and Vietnam Veteran. POW in Vietnam 1966 to 1973. Retired as a Brigadier General
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(Born 1975) US Army Iraq War amputee veteran. Retired as a LT Colonel. Recipient of a Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Army Air Corps. Battle of Midway. Battle of Guadalcanal
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Puerto Rican convicted drug dealer
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Navy Coxswain, Higgins Boat {LCVP}
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Aviatrix who won 5 Gold Medals during the World Aerobatic Championship in Salon-de-Provence, France
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Former Payload Specialist Astronaut
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Adapted her debut novel, 'The Resurrection of Alice', into a one-woman play that won the 2014 African-American Arts Alliance of Chicago Outstanding Actress Award, the 2014 Black Theater Alliance's Best Lead Actress Award (Chicago), etc
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(1934-1968)Was a Russian-Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Was tragically killed in a plane crash on 3/27/68
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Tennessee
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WWII: ETO. 222 Anti Tank Company, 42nd Infantry 'Rainbow' Division. Liberation of Dachau
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USAAF General WW2 fighter Ace, 357th FG 363rd FS, 7 Kills, POW
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One of the Tuskegee Airmen, Class: 44-G-SE, graduated 8/4/1944
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WWII: Original Montford Point Marine (first Black marines)
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US Army, D-Day paratrooper, born 1925. 82nd Airborne, taken POW days after D-Day, held for 11 months. Kept a secret journal of his time as POW
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Nobel medicine laureate 1976
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Astronomer
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US POW in Vietnam War.
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WWII: ETO. I Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment), 101st Airborne. Camp Toccoa, D-Day, Operation Market Garden (seriously wounded on Sept. 18, 1944 near Eindhoven which meant the end of the war for him)
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WWII: Chaplain in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Orangutan primatologist, Trimate, Leakey's Angel, Anthropologist, primatologist, scientist, conservationist, educator: for over four decades Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutans of Indonesian Borneo
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WWII: Veteran of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4-8 May 1942), served on the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle
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US physician and medical researcher, born 1945. Bone marrow/leukemia and nuclear specialist. Called by the Soviet Union to treat 1986 Chernobyl victims, and by Japan to Fukushima in 2011. Emmy for '60 Minutes' Chernobyl piece
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, 53rd Signal Corps. Lost his best friend John Horan that day
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medal of honor marines ww11
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Dobbin
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James 'Jimmy Frogs' Galione is a Lucchese soldier.In October 1996, Galione was indicted and charged with running a crack-cocaine ring that operated in Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn since 1992
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WWII: On board the USS Missouri (BB-63) during the Japanese surrender ceremonies, 2 September 1945, taking many photographs of the ceremony
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Jim Gallagher (4)Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class, USN, VTN-91, USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) TBF 'Avenger' Gunner Saipan, Mariana Islands
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Sergeant/ assistant flight engineer, Bocks Car Crew, WW II, Nagasaki
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USN Admiral
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Susan Gallagher (2)News Reporter in 1988 for Anchorage News that reported the story of the wales trapped in Alaska - made the movie Big Miracle about them
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World War II German fighter pilot
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WWII: Was on two ships that were sunk: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941 (USS Nevada BB-36) and USS Northampton (CA-26) which was sunk during the Battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942 (Born July 20 1921)
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1914) Last 'La quinta del biberón' fighter. Affiliated with PSOE. Second Spanish Republic. Age: 103. Lives in Spain
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Hostage during Iran Hostage crisis
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Holocaust survivor
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Former Prime Minister of Peru (1976-1978), Army General
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USMC General
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Inventor Hall of Fame inductee; first to show that HIV caused AIDS
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War Correspondent / Author - CO-Wrote We Were Soldiers was in 1st ground battle of nam in lz-xray-ia drang valley- only civilian to EVER get bronze star during vietnam war
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Iraq War vet, lost left leg and arm. Physical trainer, model, motivational speaker, contestant on 'Dancing with the Stars'
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Author and political activist; co-wrote An American Family with husband Michael Galluccio
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Author and political activist; co-wrote An American Family with his husband Jon Galluccio
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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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4 Star General
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WWII; USS Quincy (CA-39). Survivor of the Battle of Savo Island (9 August 1942) where USS Quincy and three other Allied ships were sunk by the Japanese in a disastrous battle for the US, suffering the loss of 379 men on the USS Quincy alone
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Air Force General
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Pfc army
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Received Congressional Medal of Honor 3/18/2014 for his actions in World War II
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Politician
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Born 1896. #70 oldest documented person. Lives in Italy.
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Medicinal chemist, integral part in development of cimetidine. Listed as inventor or co-inventor of 160+ US patents as well as authored & co-authored over 260 scientific papers. Was inducted into the National Inventor's HOF for his work on cimetidine
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WWII: PTO. One of the last Filipino Bataan Death March survivors. Purple Heart
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania (BB-38). Also aboard when a Japanese torpedo hit the Pennsylvania on August 12, 1945, while anchored at Buckner Bay in Okinawa killing 20 men
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A captain in the Dallas Police Dept . , Gangway was in charge of the DPD Special Service Bureau . He said that Oswald's description was broadcast following the shooting of JFK because he was missing from a ' cool call ' at the TSBD
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JFK - Served in the Army, broadcast a radio show to troops, and interviewed three future Presidents (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon) all while they were Senators
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Senior medical student at Methodist Hospital Dallas time of assassination. Participated in retrieval of bullet from body of Officer J.D. Tippit. Knew many of the doctors who treated both the President & Gov. Connally at Parkland Hospital
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Born 1943. First African American student to enter enter Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration. 'An early inspiration' to Barack Obama
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WWII - 3rd Battalion, 23 Marines Regiment, 4th Marine Division: Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Saipan
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Eddie 'Cousin Eddie' Garafola pronounced /d
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NASA Astronaut
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Spanish Civil war veteran (Born: 1918) Nationalist Army. Promoted to captain in 1942. Awarded four medals. Military historian, author, and teacher. Age: 98. Lives in Spain
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Dr. G: Medical Examiner on Discovery Health Channel
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Victor Garber (2)American politician in the state of Wyoming. Served in the Wyoming House of Representatives as a member of the Republican and Democratic Party
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WWII: 112th Cavalry RCT. Fought in the bloody battle of the Driniumor River in 1944. Also made landings at Leyte and Luzon, earning two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart before the war's end
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Italian World War 1 Veteran/ Born:03/30/1900/Lives in Civitanova Marche
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District Attorney of Los Angeles County from 1992 - 2000. s first term was dominated by his office's prosecution of the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial
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Received Congressional Medal of Honor 3/18/2014 for his actions in the Viet Nam war
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Leonard Garcia (2)Aurelio Rodriguez played a trick on the Topps photographer and 1969 baseball card #653 photo is actually of this California Angels batboy
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Professional basketball player, WBA Medical doctor
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Puerto Rican drug dealer
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Last member of the 'Blue Patrol', a group of fighter pilots who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Currently age 101 and living in the Bay of Santander, Spain
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WWII: D-Day, Battle of the Bulge; Buchenwald. Barely survived D-Day, and later became commander of the just-liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 110th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion
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astronaut
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WWII: ETO. 18th Infantry Regiment. Arrived in Germany after the war and guarded some of the top Nazis like Albert Speer during the Nuremberg Trials
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Pilot during World War 2 and a member of WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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NASA astronaut; two Space Shuttle missions, STS-27 (December 1988) and STS-35 (December 1990)
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Centenarian/WW1 Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Reid). Reid supported landings at Adak on 30 Aug 1942 (sank an enemy submarine 31 Aug 1942). Guadalcanal, New Guinea, New Britain. Got transferred off the ship in 44 and then served in the Battle of Okinawa
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(Born 1921) Flew over 34 combat missions in B-17s and B-24s during WW2 earning him the Distinguished Flying Cross and 6 Air Medals. Became an aviation racer for P-38s and P-51s
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ww 11 british army hero (vc)
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'Squadron Leader Royal Air Force Pilot'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Lawyer
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Flight aviator 1963 military astronaut candidate
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Marine Platoon Sergeant aboard the USS Tennessee, he got wounded while trying to keep the Tennessee safe from the burning oil coming from the Arizona. Also in Korea as one of the 'Chosin Few'
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Seán Garland (2)Member of the original Irish Republican Army before it changed to the Workers Party, which he became president of in 2000
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Former U.S. Senator from Utah (1974-1993)
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Astronaut // Former President of the Canadian Space Agency // Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa // Member of the Canadian Parliament
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Garner was on the fourth floor of the TSBD with co-workers Victoria Adams , Elsie Dorman and Sandra Styles . She claims the shots ' came from the west '
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(Born 1961) US Army Global War on Terror Veteran. 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division. Recipient of Legion of Merit, Air Medal, and Silver Star
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US Supercentenarian, born 1908
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Dean Garrett (2) WWII- Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Navy Hospital
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WWII: ETO/MTO. Escaped Dunkirk on a destroyer HMS The Wolsey. British gunner served with 142 Bty 52nd Regt Royal Artillery in GB and France, 1938-1940; NCO served with Royal Artillery 51st (Highland) Div in North Africa & Sicily, 1940-44
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Retired General in US Army. Former commanding general of US Army Forces Command (2019-2022)
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Congressional page of the 1940's, and one of the last few living witnesses to have seen FDR's Pearl Harbor 'Day of Infamy' speech before Congress on 12/8/41. Later in 1942, had lunch at the White House with the other pages and Eleanor Roosevelt, who then
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U.S. Coast Guard 1955/Kennedys Guard of Honor & death watch guard
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Astronaut' Skylab 3, STS-9, Spacelab 1, Brother to Space Traveler Richard Garriott de Cayeux
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Space Tourist, game designer, and programmer, Son to Astronaut Owen Garriott
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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Canadian pilot
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US General
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Flight (scientist)
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Scientist
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JFK - Flight attendant on Air Force One the day President Kennedy was assassinated. Served cookies and milk to the Kennedys on the flight to Dallas
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American counterculture Hippie icon best known for his presence in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s and for co-founding 'The Farm', a famous spiritual intentional community in Summertown, Tennessee
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WWII: PTO. 1st Marine Raiders Battalion (Edson's Raiders) 1942-1945. Tulagi, Guadalcanal and Guam
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US WWII army vet, born 1919. Saw action in the Battle of Coral Sea and Buna in New Guinea
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WWII: CCC. Pearl Harbor survivor. 21st Inf. Reg., Schofield Barracks. Atop a mountain when the raid began; was catapulted into a canyon when a bomb exploded near him and turned over his car during the first wave of attacks. 3 Bronze Stars
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Retired General
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Young man who ran on the field after Hank Aaron's 715th Home Run
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Fifth-Generation Grandson of President James Monroe
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Philanthropist
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard
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Theoretical physicist. Served on Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science & Tech. Black History Month 2017 Honoree. Featured in TurboTax and Verizon commercials and on NOVA PBS programs on physics, notably The Elegant Universe (2003)
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Historian, Author & Speaker/Founder of the Dallas County Assassination
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Crewmember USS Ward 139, the first American ship to engage the Japanese at Pearl Harbor when they sank thier mini-submarine
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Longtime Dallas businessman, Gatlin was working on the twelfth floor of the Mercantile Bank building in 1963 and provided vivid memories of the motorcade passing by on Main Street/Sixth Floor interviewee multiple times
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WWII veteran on the USS Missouri. Witness to the Japanese Surrender Ceremony onboard Sept 2, 1945
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Colourful Australian figure of some notoriety
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WWII: PTO. Served on sumarine SS-391 Pomphret
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WWII: USS Laffey. D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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Air Force veteran chosen to be one of the official pallbearers for President John F. Kennedy's funeral
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Pearl Harbor survivor - Chief Cook, USS Pompano (SS-181), In Sub-Barrack during Attack
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French politician who served in the Waffen-SS during World War 2, is living in France and was born in 1915
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WW II Navy Veteran; Survivor of the USS Indianapolis disaster. Believed to be the basis for the story Robert Shaw as QUINT in JAWS tells about the sinking of the Indianapolis
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Born Oct. 27, 1922. French WW2 Veteran and last living member of the Kieffer Commandos
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Military leader and ambassador
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Israeli General
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Author
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WWII: Battle of Britain, RAF pilot ('The Few')
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Commandant Navy District Washington
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John Gay (2) Past President of the Orlando chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc
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author historian (savage reprisals, freud)
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Writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Author of The NYT bestseller, Bad Feminist. Editor for Gay Mag. Co-wrote 6 issues of a spin-off of Black Panther making her the 1st black woman to be a lead writer for Marvel
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Douglas TBD Devastator pilot in US Navy Torpedo Squadron 8 operating in the World War II Pacific Theater of Operations. Of the 30 VT-8 aircrew from Hornet that participated in the pivotal Battle of Midway, Gay was the sole survivor
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Cape Gloucester, Battle of Peleliu. Navy Cross
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World War II flying ace, later U.S. Navy Admiral
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Military
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Decorated World War II fighter pilot and a former racing driver from Australia
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Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's peace movement. Co-Awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize 'for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work
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Time Team
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Served in World War II on the U.S.S. Borie (destroyer) and the U.S.S. Darter (submarine) Machinist in the engine room of this submarine, which played a pivotal role in the Battle of Leyte Gulf involving 32 Japanese warships
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Centenarian American physicist, emeritus professor of applied physics at Stanford. Known for his work on the synthesis of novel materials of interest to several areas of physics and many interdisciplinary sciences
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circus animal trainer
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Iranian-American programmer and video game designer usually credited in his games as simply Nasir. Gebelli wrote Apple II games for Sirius Software
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American anthropologist and sexologist. Gebhard was a close colleague to sex researcher Alfred Kinsey
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Early Gay Rights figure, born 1936. Joined the Mattachine Society of Denver in 1957
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American Serial Killer
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 101st Airborne, 501 PIR, G Company Trained at Camp Toccoa (Band of Brothers). Mission Albany at D-Day (drop at Sainte-MÚre-Ã-glise). Wounded on June 8, 1944
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Tramp arrested in 1963 in JFK Assassination investigation. Believe to live in Melbourne Florida, age 88
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Maggie Gee (2) WASP WWII Female Pilot
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WWII: Battle of Midway
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper who also fought in Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. 502nd Airborne Regiment HQ Co., 101st AB
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Administrative Assistant at Parkland Hospital, helped coordinate media relations and family arrangements during the JFK and Oswald shootings. Spent time with Jack Ruby during his stay at Parkland in 1966
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Dutch-Russian physicist was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene
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American (1910-2009), served in the Lincoln Brigade of the Spanish Civil War. Held as a POW from Jan 1938 to April 1939 in Spain. Had joined the Young Communist League in the early 1930s after a student trip to the Soviet Union
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Member of the Annex Security Team that fought the Battle of Benghazi, Libya, from September 11 to September 12, 2012. 13 Hours Movie Basis
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US WWII veteran, born 1918, served in the OSS in England, France, and behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany. Helped in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp
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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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Mathematician
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Former US Army Brig. General and Author
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Lz xray 1965 nam k.i.a. ia drang rip
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Nobel physics laureate 1969
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Political Activist, critical of radical Islam
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WWII: German soldier in the Battle of Moscow; escaped the Russians three times
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Italian financier, chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal
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NASA astronaut (retired). Three space shuttle missions
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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Jewish Soviet WWII veteran, probably living in Toronto, Canada
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Last surviving soldier of the '800 Heroes', better known as 'The Battle of Shanghai'. The military defensive took place from October 26 to November 1, 1937. He is now 90 and lives in Sichuan Province
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American neuroscientist and author. Self-published debut novel Still Alice, about a Harvard University professor who suffers early onset Alzheimer's disease. The book was adapted into a film & won the Best Actress Oscar for Julianne Moore
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WWII: ETO/PTO. USS Rodman. D-Day. Southern France. Yalta Conference. Battle of Okinawa (Kamikaze hit)
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German ww2 pilot
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WW2 Ace with 21 victories.
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Flight (aviator)
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, Liberation of Dachau.2nd Battalion, 232nd Infantry Regiment, Company E. 42. 'Rainbow' Division Seventh U.S. Army
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German astrophysicist. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for physics 'for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy', which he shared with Andrea Ghez and Roger Penrose
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. 324 Signal Company, 5th Air Force. Chief Radio Operator at Hickam Field Air Base
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Air Force 2nd Lt. & Miss Arkansas USA 2007 !
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model doctor
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US Army 4 Star General
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Australian landscape architect and TV presenter
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WWII - Pacific Theater; survivor of the sinking of the USS Colhoun (DD-801) after repeated Kamikaze attacks in the early stages of the Battle of Okinawa, 6 May 1945
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American criminal defense attorney best known for defending pop-star Michael Jackson
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WW2 air ace - 8 Kills - USAAF
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(Born 1972) US Army Iraq War Veteran. Purple Heart Recipient
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Last recipient of the Mannerheim Cross
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WW 2 air ace
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Fighter ace- 56th fg-61 sq
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Former East German politician, Head of state of East Germany from Dec. 1989-Apr. 1990
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Born August 6, 1920.He is the last survivor of the Companions of the Liberation
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Budget Officer
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(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and a Legion of Merit
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Oldest person in Germany born 1905
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astronaut
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Great-great grandson of geronimo
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WWII: CBI Theater. 3rd Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit Provisional aka Merrill's Marauders, a long-range penetration special ops warfare unit. Fought in the jungles of Burma, witnessed massive casualties and endured machine gun wounds
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WWII: CBI. Served with the RCCS in the Battle of Hong Kong (1941) and was a Hong Kong POW for over 3 1/2 years
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European Space Agency astronaut and geophysicist
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Is a centenarian and is a Canadian psychologist and educator. She was the first woman Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario from 1992 to 1996
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Seabee
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; USS Pennsylvania, quartermaster; was there for the invasion to Leyte Gulf (when MacArthur returned to the Philippines) as well as when the Pennsylvania was hit by a torpedo which barely missed him
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Belgian educator and philanthropist who, with others, rescued almost 1,000 Jewish children during the Holocaust
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War hero - received Victoria Cross in May 1943 for action in Burma
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Wells fargo heist
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Lz xray 1965 1/9 cavonondada,mi somewhere
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American astronomer and professor. In 2020, she became the fourth woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing one half of the prize with Reinhard Genzel (the other half of the prize being awarded to Roger Penrose)
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Retired USMC General
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Author/Essayist. Daughter of Refugees. Immigrant. Scientist. Cook. Immigration-Journeys Explorer. Conversation-Maker. Extroverted-Introvert (also, socially-awkward). Roots in New Delhi and San Diego
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Nobel laureate physics
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nobel physics laureate 1973
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Vadm. U.S. Navy, appointed Supreme Allied Commander
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Born 1949, served as a lieutenant colonel in CMEC and MACV during the Vietnam War. He would go on to serve after the war. He served from 1968 to 2010
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Italian WWII Veteran
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Greek Canadian war surgeon and served chief surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) until December 2006
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Võ Nguyên Giáp (2) Vietnamese General and member of the communist party of Vietnam
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US Admiral
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Notable Red Onion State Prison inmate
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WWII/ETO: B-17 pilot of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group), 350th Bomb Sqdn
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Dick Gibbs (2) WWII P-51 fighter pilot Dick Gibbs flew 43 combat missions during WWII. Sunday Dick shares the stories of shooting down four German aircraft. He explains that of all the medals and awards he received, he was most pleased to receive the Distinguished
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army field marshal england
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Born 1896 #70 oldest documented person. Lives in England
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Oldest living person in the United States at age 113, as of February 2017; living in Huntingdon County, PA
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former NASA astronaut
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Flight aviator 1967 group 6 astronaut candidate
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Child involved with the 1950's Briggs v. Elliott case incorporated as part of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education Decision. His mother was the last living adult defendant when she died.
