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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII US Navy WAVE veteran, born 1921. Joined the Navy after her husband became a Flying Tiger in the war. Did clerical duties in DC through the war
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WWII: CBI. Lt. Col. bombardier on the bomber that destroyed the famous 'Bridge on the River Kwai'
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Gay Rights activist, present at the Stonewall rebellion in 1969. A founder, director of the Stonewall Veterans Association
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Retired U.S. Navy - former Commanding Officer of the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and the USS Juneau (LPD-10)
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WWII: USS Helena
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma
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WWII: PTO. SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber Pilot. USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)
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Retired USMC General
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American paleontologist known for the discovery of a Tyrannosaurus rex in South Dakota on August 12, 1990 largest specimen of a T. rex found and one of the most complete skeletons
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US Physicist, born 1925. Appointed Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by Jimmy Carter. Served during the Three Mile Island crisis
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Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
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army general
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Assassination witness , bookkeeper at Allyn and Bacon Publishers : said she heard three shots fired at JFK's motorcade
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(born 1950) is an American astronomer and ufologist. UFO historian Jerome Clark calls him 'one of the most skilled investigators in the history of UFO research.' He was the main investigator for the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)
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army general
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(17 October 1926 - 5 October 1993) was an astronomer, NASA astronaut, space scientist, and professor at Northwestern University. He flew on Space Shuttle Challenger in July 1985. He was in the astronaut support crew for Apollo 15 & Skylab 4
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Last survivor of the sinking of HM Submarine Truculent that sank in the Thames Estuary, with 64 men dead and only 15 survivors, in January 1950. Born: 1925. He lives in Chatham, Kent, UK
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WW2/79th Regiment, demolition squad, His company had 3 platoons that were involved with communications, ammunitions and engineering/Henley's regiment was headed to capture the seaport town of Cherbourg France when D-Day invasion had begun
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American Serial Killer
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Former Payload Specialist Astronaut
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German ww2 veteran and pow and author
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WW2 Fighter Pilot (B: 1922) in the United Kingdom Air Force from 1941 to 1945 and at age 100 ran 100 miles to support young men and women in service
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island
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WWiI: Battle of Attu veteran
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Former U.S. Astronaut
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Astronaut
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Teacher, stunt man, screenwriter, lab technician. Author of the Dragons and Tales series
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1/2 of Canada's longest married couple
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Age 89/American teacher most notable for teaching Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School, located in New Orleans
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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Joseph Henry (2)
1/2 of Canada's longest married couple -
Pierre Henry (2)Tuskegee Airmen
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Pearl Harbor survivor, born 1920. Served in the Navy on the USS Helena from 1939 to 1942. Became a Fire Chief Control Technician after the war
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WWII vet - served as part of a black/African American unit that didn't fight combat in battle of Iwo Jima but still saw the raising of the flag. Survived COVID-19 at the age of 100
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Black WWII US Army vet (1923-2020), spent decades fighting his biased 'blue discharge' release. Finally upgraded to an honorable discharge in 2019. Died of COVID-19 in 2020
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Former Guinness & Current ripley's world record holder for the longest non stop wheelie in a wheelchair
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Supervisor in the Dallas Police Radio Dispatchers office on Nov. 22 , 1963
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7 year old President expert She has been on ELLEN several times
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He was master electro-mechanic for Adolf Hitler's apartments in the Old Chancellery, and one of the survivors from the 'bunker'.
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Finish WWII Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Antares
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American WWI balloonist, Craig Herbert of the 2nd Balloon Company
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Fiona Herbert, 8th Countess of Carnarvon (also known as Lady Carnarvon) is the wife of George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (also known as Lord Carnarvon)
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George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (also known as Lord Carnarvon) is the great-grandson of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the man who, alongside Howard Carter, discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun
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WWII: Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge
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medal of honor army vietnam
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9th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON 9), from 1998-2002
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Susan N. HermanPresident ACLU
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Dutch politician
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Polish cosmonaut / astronaut and the first Pole in space (1978)
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Iran Hostage Crisis/U.S. Marine Corps Guard
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WWII: Germany, Wehrmacht, Knights Cross
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Angel Hernandez (2)Puerto Rican professional boxer, fought Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. for WBC world Junior Welterweight title; convicted drug trafficker
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Jose Hernandez (2)Flight astronaut sts-128
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Puerto Rican news reporter, was once jailed in the Dominican Republic for allegedly trafficking drugs
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medal of honor army korean war
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Doolittle's Raiders crew #8 Navigator/Bombadier/Nose Gunner
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Army 348th Engineer Combat Battalion
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WWII: PTO. Navy, USS Santee
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Vietnam War correspondent
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Lz xray 1965
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11 year old witness to the 1945 Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion. Helping his dad work on the car, he saw the mushroom cloud in the distance. Survived cancer, but lost many family and friends in the area downwind of the test site
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JFK - American attorney, activist, and leader in the Mexican American civil rights movement; met and introduced President John F. Kennedy at a speaking engagement before a LULAC assembly on November 21, 1963 In Houston
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medal of honor army ww11
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air force general businessman
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American photojournalist, born 1927. Covered the Korean War, presidents, Krushchev, sports, NASA, and more. Named one of AP's Top 10 Civil Rights photographers. Took iconic photos of Rosa Parks' and Martin Luther King's arrests
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Detroit (CL-8)
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WWII: PTO. Navy, USS Ancon. Witness to the surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945
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Talk Show Host, Philanthropy, Author, Adviser Julia Roberts played her in ?Charlie Wilson?s War?, but the real-life Texan is far more interesting than any movie could capture
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United States Naval Reserve officer and a recipient of America's highest military decorationâ-'the Medal of Honor-'for his actions in World War II
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First native American astronaut (Indian) in space
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Col, U.S. Army (Ret.) is an author and retired counterintelligence officer with extensive interrogation experience in three wars (Vietnam, Operation JUST CAUSE, and Operation DESERT STORM/Fall of Saigon evacuee
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WW2 Luftwaffe Ace. 'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'German'
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Pennsylvania
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WWII: 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, 8th AF ('Bloody Hundredth'). Homebase: Thorpe Abbots, UK. Tail gunner on 'Heaven Sent,' a B-17 Flying Fortress (43-38414); flew 33 missions including Merseburg and Hamburg
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Nobel chemistry laureate 1986
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USS Indianapolis survivor from De Leon Springs, Florida
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Army General
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Nobel prize winner - Chemistry - 2004
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(1909-1999) Philatelic writer, collector, and dealer. Known for books Nassau Street: a Quarter Century of Stamp Dealing (1960), Fun and Profit in Stamp Collecting (1962), Stories to Collect Stamps by (1968), and many more
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Retired Army General, author, speaker, CNN Analyst
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Romanian WWII Veteran
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December 25, 1904 - March 3, 1999/Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971 for contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure & geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals'. Herzberg's main work concerned atomic & molecular spectroscopy
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Holocaust survivor...Author/Poet
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French mountaineer, was member of the French Annapurma expedition in 1950; later became a politician
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One of the Original Rosie The Riveters
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Colonel USAF (ret) Koearn War fighter pilot, wrote the book and is the subject of the Rock Hudson movie, Battle Hymn
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JFK - Secret Service agent that was in the investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy; began his career under Eisenhower; also traveled to China with Nixon; pictured with LBJ
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Political scientist, Presidential advisor (born 1933). Speechwriter on Eisenhower's White House Staff, later served and advised Nixon, Ford, and Carter
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Former WWII German General
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French diplomat, former ambassador, and French resistance fighter and BCRA agent. He participated in the drafting of 'the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' of 1948 ; born in 1917
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Along with her husband , Charles , Beatrice was sitting on the grass on the north side of Elm St .on Nov. 22 , 1963 , in Dallas when they heard two shots . They thought the shots came from the TSBD
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He was the one who took the famous photo of the eagle nebula With the Hubble telescope
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U.S. Army National Guard soldier, Recipient of the Silver Star
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air force general
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President and CEO of Fair Food Network, a non-profit organization based in Ann Arbor Michigan, is a national leader in sustainable agriculture and food systems and the author of Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
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Vietnam Veteran. Was in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970
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One of six remaining survivors from the U.S.S. Arizona as a result of the Pearl Harbor attack. He is supposed to live in Las Vegas
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WWII Veteran, his Army Air Corps unit provided air cover for Army General George S. Patton. Hetzel was a part of five major battles in the war in Europe with the Battle of the Bulge being his last
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The last survivor of the Bismarck, WWII, former German Navy soldier, resides in Essen-Steele/Germany
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Former British Royal Air Force commander
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pelias. Went on to serve in both the Atlantic and Pacific campaigns, including seven successful round-trip escorts aboard the USS Hissem and the USS O?Reilly to Europe and North Africa
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Nobel laureate physics 1974
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WWII: ETO. 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group. 4 victories. Silver Star, 4 DFC's, 13 Air Medals
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American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company
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Son of Nazi Leader from WWII
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Former Norwegian explorer with Kon-Tiki
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Former Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley; Secretary of the Smithsonian (1994-1999)
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WW2/Korea/Vietnam Veteran Pilot
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Son of Rudolf Heß
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'Red Devil' paratrooper Major Tony Hibbert -WWII
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New York time's bestselling author. Author of Rocket Boys and October Sky. Father of Homer Hickam Jr
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US Marine Corps Sniper Vietnam Veteran. In 1966 he was wounded (and later got the Purple Heart) by mortar fire by the VietCong (Born 1945)
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air force general
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Tuskegee Airman born August 6, 1925
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Former baseball player for the 1956 Detroit Tigers. Also was a member of the US Armed Air Force
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Vietnam War: US employee who helped evacuate Vietnamese people who had worked for the USA in the last days of the war
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WWII US Army veteran, born 1917. Went through Africa, Italy, and in France worked with the French Resistance. Helped in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp
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Current United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
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One of the many survivors and eyewitnesses to the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. He treated survivors as a medical doctor and wrote about the effects of radiation on the human body. He is now 94
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 9 kills
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WWII: PTO. Luzon, Northern Solomons, New Guinea. Bronze Star, Purple Heart. 43rd ?Winged Victory? Division, 169th Infantry Regiment
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Whitney
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Flight astronaut sts-39,49,65
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WWII: PTO. Served in the USS Bennington (Iwo Jima, Okinawa)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Military Intelligence Service, 96th Division. Grew up on Okinawa and used his Okinawa dialect to convince local non-combatants hiding inside to surrender peacefully and without harm during the battle
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Flight aviator b52 bomber test pilot
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American conservative political activist, author, and former U.S. Navy SEAL. Regular commentator on Fox News, CNN, and Newsmax. Best known for promoting the birther conspiracy theory about Barack Obama
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Tuskegee Airmen 'LA Chapter'
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Retired USMC General
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Astronaut
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Tuskegee Airmen 'LA Chapter' B-25 Pilot with 477th Medium Bomber Group!
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WWII: MTO/ETO. Landed in North Africa, Sicily and southern France. 431st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 44th Anti-Aircraft Brigade
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Flight (aviator)
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Navy Captain; Part of the Blue Angels
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Pearl Harbor survivor at the Naval Air Station on Ford Island. Born in 1921 in Oklahoma, he also survived the dust bowl of the 1930s
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WWII: PTO. USS Washington
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British theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize 2013
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W.A.S.P. Pilot
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Andy Hildebrand (2)Inventor of Auto-Tune
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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Professor, former accuser of Justice Clarence Thomas
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UFO figure (1919-2004). Wife in the couple that claimed to have been abducted by aliens in 1961. The first widely reported alien abduction, it led to a popular book and TV movie
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Bill Hill (2) WWII Pearl Harbor survivor, Schofield Barracks
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Member of 'The Essex', a R&B group, the only active duty military personnel to record a number one hit while on active duty ('Easier Said Than Done', 9 July 1963)
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Born: 1932. Ex Secret Service Agent in President Kennedy's motorcade during the assassination. Hill is the last surviving passenger of the presidential limousine which arrived at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963
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Fighter ace- Flying Tigers
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WW2, and was stationed in Normandy, France
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USAF, (Ret) Original Tuskegee Airman/One key event took place while working in crash & rescue. During one aircraft incident, heroically helped remove, then Col B. O. Davis Jr, from his damaged plane upon landing at locbourne Air Force Base
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(born 12 December 1915) is a retired British Royal Air Force officer. From 1966 to 1969, she served as Director of the Women's Royal Air Force
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WW2 air ace - 8 Kills - USAAF
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Gerald Hill (2) JFK - Dallas police officer who went to the TSBD where he and 2 others found the shooter's perch and 3 spent shell casings; then assigned to the J.D. Tippit site, from there to Texas Theatre where he and other officers apprehended Oswald
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A member of the Dallas Police Dept.in 1963 he , ten minutes after the assassination , directed attention to the second upper-right-hand corner window of the TSBD from where he believed the shots came
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WW2 - US Navy Fighter Ace, VF-5 - 7 Kills
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ex-mobster, 'Goodfellas' was a film about his life
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Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
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army general
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Eye-Witness to Kennedy assassination/Woman in Red/Technical adviser to Oliver Stone film 'JFK'
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WWII: Merchant Marine. Murmansk Run, Pacific, Mediterranean, White Sea, Africa, Middle East
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Public Activist for Enviromental & People's Causes
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Rock climber
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WWII - WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)
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Resident at Parkland , one of physicians who treated Jack Ruby in late 1966 . Was with Ruby at the time of his death
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Civil Rights Attorney- One of the attorneys for the Prosecution in the Brown Vs. Board of Education Supreme Court Case- Born 1907
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British fighter ace from WW2
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Author and historian
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Mountaineer, Survivor Of The 1996 Mount Everest Tragedy
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Tuskegee Airmen
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navy admiral
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Barbara Hillary (2) First Black Woman to make it to the North Pole. She did this after surviving lung cancer at age 67 & traveling to the North Pole at age 75.
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Mountain climber; among the first to scale Mt. Everest (with Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa guide)
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Peter Hillary (2)
Mountain climber, son of Edmund Hillary -
Royal millitary
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British U-Boat hunter of the costal command in WW2
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Canadian Scientist and Inventor - Designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in 1938
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Former Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces, 2005 to 2008
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WW2 - Fighter Ace - USAAF - 365-FG - POW - 5 Kills
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Navy fighter ace ww2
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NASA astronaut - Four space shuttle missions
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German historian and publicist
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Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member
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Veterinarian at the Utica Zoo
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Attorney, senior advisor to former Sen. Bob Dole, filed lawsuit against US President and more
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The only known British survivor of the International Brigades who fought with left-wing forces against General Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. He now lives in Australia
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Blind International Adventurer
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WW2 Veteran:123rd Quartermaster Truck Company/After D - Day invasion 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division/Served D - Day, Normandy, Belgium, Germany & Rhine River
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Nurse For JFK After He was shot
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Born May 29, 1955. Tried shooting President Reagan
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German WWII Veteran, Battle of Stalingrad
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Age six time of fire
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Test pilot born 1939; first man to fly the Northrop B-2 Spirit
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'Patton Trooper member for mechanized calvary company WW2'
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Born: 1934. Jamaican-born writer, journalist and historian. He is best known for his work on the West Indian Gazette and his books portraying the West Indian community in Britain such as 'Journey to an Illusion'. He lives in the UK
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A co-worker of Lee Harvey Oswald , Geneva witnessed the motorcade from from one of the windows of the TSBD
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air force marshal england
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WWII Veteran
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Age five time of fire/holds veterinary position with the federal government in Florida
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WWII: ETO. 70th Infantry Division, C Company, 276th Regiment. Battle of the Bulge
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WWII/JFK - Iwo Jima survivor; also fought at Choiseul Island Raid (1943), serving directly under Charles Krulak, later Marine Corps commander), Land Battle of Vella Lavella (1943). During the Raid on Choiseu, he met John F. Kennedy
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criminal profiler
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Flight (scientist)
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David Hinson (2)Electrical Engineer - Global Mars Surveyor
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Hinton was falsely arrested and held on Alabama's Death Row for nearly 30 years. His 1985 conviction was thrown out in 2014 after the Supreme Court found his case to be lacking any proof and found the defense did not act properly
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Father of A I Formerly at Google
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New Zealand Military - awarded the Victoria Cross at Kalamai, Greece, on 28th/29th April 1941
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Pilot, Reno Air Race Pilot
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WWII combat veteran who served as a Quartermaster aboard the USS Blessman DE69/APD48 crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans numerous times. He participated in the landings at Normandy, Lingayen Gulf and Iwo Jima
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German filmmaker who ran the film department in the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich, under Joseph Goebbels. He is most famous as director of the propaganda film Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew)
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WWII - US Marines, Iwo Jima 1945. Purple Heart. Was hit by shrapnel as he stepped off the Higgins Boat onto Iwo, got his wounds patched by corpsman John Bradley, one of the famous flag-raisers. Hipps guarded both flag-raisings
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American mechanical engineer who worked for the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Apollo 11 mission
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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astronaut
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Former First Lady of Chile. Widow of Aguston Pinochet
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Japanese WWII Veteran, retired Japanese Naval Commander, CEO - Task Force Japan L.L.C
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Japanese WWII Veteran, Kamikaze Pilot
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Author, Chairman & former CEO of Stonyfield Farm, the world's leading organic yogurt producer. Chairman and founding Partner of Just Label It and Organic Voices. serve on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations under Obama
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Seattle construction equipment manager, born 1934. Worked on the construction of the Space Needle in 1961/1962
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.S. lawyer, civil servant, administrator, businessman, author, and lecturer
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Dutch WWII veteran. Last surving member of the No. 320 Netherlands Squadron RAF
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WWII Veteran, Who Was A Front-Line Bomber Against The Nazis, Royal Canadian Air Force
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One of the participants in the Up documentary film series, that follows participants every 7 years starting in 7 Up in 1964 when they were 7 years old. Latest installment was 63 Up in 2019
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Co-pilot of the 16th B-25 in the Doolittle Raid in WWII, spent three years as a POW. Born: 03/03/1920
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Retired General
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Politician
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WWII: PTO 132nd Infantry Regiment, 23rd Infantry Division. Battle of Guadalcanal, Bronze Star
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WWII: D-Day veteran from Norway
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WWII: ETO. 445th Bomb Group (Jimym Stewart's group), 701st and 703rd Bomb Squadrons
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Singaporean WWII vet, born 1920. Last surviving Singaporean pilot of the Flying Tigers. Served in the Chinese American Composite Wing, assigned to the 14th US Air Force. 18 B-25 missions. Career as Captain with Malaysia-Singapore Airlines
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test pilot
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former Marine Corps General
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Mercenary leader of 'The Wild Geese,' known for military battles in Africa and the Indian Ocean, full name is Thomas Michael Hoare
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British Scientist, best known for the development of Quicksort (or Hoaresort), the world's most widely used sorting algorithm
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astronaut
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air force general
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WWII - D-Day Omaha Beach. Co A, 115th Inf., 29th Div
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Dutch WWII veteran. Was in Dutch East Indies and Indonesian Revolution
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NASA Astronaut in Training
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WWII: Pearl Harbor Survivor, 7 December 1941
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Transmitter engineer and vision mixer. She was one of a number of women recruited at the BBC during the 1950's
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BBC engineer who worked in television in it's early years and was part of a production team who transmitted the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on TV screens in 1953
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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John Hodge (2)
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Charles Hodges (3)Took photos at Love Field , Stemmons Freeway and Parkland , sold film to Reporter
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Jerry T. Hodges Jr was born on June 29, 1925 in Tennessee. He became one of many Tuskegee Airmen. He went into WW2 from 1944 to 1945 and became a businessman after the war
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Born in Oklahoma in 1929, she became a Dust Bowl survivor of the 1930s. She became one of those interviewed by Ken Burns for his film on the Dust Bowl
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American politician, notable for being the titular defendant in the landmark civil rights case Obergefell v. Hodges, which he lost, resulting in the legalization of gay marriage everywhere in the United States.
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Supercentenarian (1888-2003), one of the last black US WWI veterans. Served as a stevedore in France and knew Gen. Pershing
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WWII - Contemporary witness "Operation Elster", a Nazi German mission to gather intelligence on and sabotage the Manhattan Project. Nazi agents landed in Maine on Nov. 30, 1944. Herbert's brother's vigilance led to their fast arrest
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He is a WWII veteran and currently resides in Ontario,
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American law enforcement agent who has served as Sheriff of Bristol County Massachusetts since 1997
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One of the two women who as teenagers were the focus of the activity during the Enfield Haunting. She is now 52 and lives in the UK. Now the subject of the film 'The Conjuring 2'
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American NYT bestselling author and the creator of the Mara Dyer Trilogy, consisting of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, The Evolution of Mara Dyer, and The Retribution of Mara Dyer. Formerly an attorney who worked in anti-terrorism litigation
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks/Wheeler Field
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'Rocket Scientest' with Wernher Von Braun NASA Team!
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Flight (astronaut)
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Co - Inventor of the microprocessor
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WWII: Battle of the Atlantic. He survived the sinking of the USS Block Island (CVE-21), the only US aircraft carrier sunk by Nazi Germany on 29 May 1944. Served on the next USS Block Island (CVE-106) until the end of the war
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Noted Astronomer
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One of the 'Chicago7' war protesters. 1968
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WWII: PTO. Serving as Quarter Master during WWII on the USS Alabama, he steered the battleship through 8 major battles and a typhoon
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US Realtor/Businessman, born 1943. Ambassador to Portugal (2005-2007), Republican operative. Met Eisenhower in the Oval Office while a military cadet in 1953
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Swiss scientist known best for being the first person to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
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Hoffman was Director of Nursing at Parkland Memorial Hospital when new their new facility opened on Harry Hines Boulevard in 1954. While attending a conference in San Antonio, she saw President Kennedy during his visit to the city on November 21, 1963
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(Born 1941) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1971 to 1973. Recipient of Defense Superior Service Medal, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, and 3 Purple Hearts
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Air Force General
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Eye-Witness to John F. Kennedy Assassination
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former NASA astronaut
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2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 'discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity,'
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Nobel chemistry lauteate 1981
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German ww2 pilot
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Swiss scientist that created LSD
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Activist
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navy admiral
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WWII: PTO. USS Navy. USS Bailey. Battle of the Komandorski Islands
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NARAL Pro-Choice America President
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2022 Green Party candidate for US Senate from North Carolina
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German politician
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American held hostage during the Iran Hostage crisis
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Four-star general in the US Army who currently serves as chief of the National Guard Bureau
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Centenarian and an American pianist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is noted for his recordings of Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Combat medic, Company C, 312th Medical Bn, 87th Infantry Division
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D-Day landings veteran. He lives in the UK. Also a Fleet Air Arm Veteran
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Time Team
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US supercentenarian (1889-2000). Born to a Union Civil War vet, named after the new President, lived most of his life as an Oklahoma farmer, working well past 100. Once the world's oldest living man, now listed as the 65th oldest man to have ever lived
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WWII: D-Day, USS Arkansas
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navy admiral
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor (PBY - Squadron VP23/ Ford Island), Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal, later B-24 flight engineer for anti - submarine patrols off the coast of France. Born December 13, 1921
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Flight (astronaut)
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Was Honor Guard for EX presidents FuneralLives in North Caroline
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Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest
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One of the last survivors from the sinking of The RMS Laconia in 1942. The RMS Laconia was struck and sunk by a torpedo from a U-boat off the coast of west Africa. He was a Merchant seaman at the time and is now 90
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devil dog defender (wake island) marines ww11
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal, the Northern Solomon Islands and Luzon. 35th Infantry
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining. He served duties on the island of Roi Namur, Kwajalien, Tinian, Saipan and Iwo Jima
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former Air Force General
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USN Test Pilot School Instructor/Chief, Human Systems Engineering Branch/USAF Test Pilot School Academic Instructor/Participated as a geophysicist on a remote field expedition to the Antarctic
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Military Attaché
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BFRO Researcher
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Witness JFK Assassination November 33nd 1963
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WWII: Captain of the 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group (England-based)
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Centenarian (1899-2004). US Army WWI veteran in France. Cannoneer on the Western front, later in the war rode a Harley motorcycle as a dispatcher
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Ex-criminal/Writer
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WWII: CBI. Member of the Merrill?s Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit. Bronze Star
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Member of O.J. Simpson's Dream Team
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Centenarian (1898-2004). One of the last living Canadian WWI vets and the last Canadian to see combat in WWI
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Phoenix
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News maker: Video taped the Rodney King Beating by LA Police Officers
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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WWII German officer
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JFK - Assassination witness on 22 November 1963; stood at her window at the Texas School Book Depository and watched the motorcade as the fatal shots rang out; can be seen in picture taken a few seconds after Kennedy was shot
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Retired Army General
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British Journalist WW2 reported on the outbreak of WWII. Lives in Hong Kong. Born: 10/10/1911
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, 6th Defense Battalion. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Mr. Hollis was assigned to Midway Islands in 1942 to defend the atoll
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WWII - Witness to the Japanese bombardment of coastal targets near Santa Barbara, CA on February 23, 1942, an event that was the inspiration for the John Belushi movie "1941"
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American WWII-Pilot, P-51, First black helicopter pilot in the U.S. Air Force
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The Inventor of Blu Tack, a versatile, reusable putty-like pressure-sensitive adhesive produced by Bostik
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WWII - West Point graduate, a World War II fighter ace, and the commander-in-chief of the Strategic Air Command (SAC)
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22 year old Morehouse College student,later a SNCC voter registration worker in the mid-1960s. Freedom Rider from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi as part of a May 24, 1961 Freedom Ride. He was arrested the following day in Jackson for his invo
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Flight scientist
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Former Chief of Navy Operations (1974-1978)& commander of 1st nuclear sub
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WWII: Tuskegee Airman
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Charitable ophthalmologist - Responsible for restoring sight to millions of third world peoples
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Lawyer and 'World's Oldest Living Male Porn Star'
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Former Drug Dealer the movie Alpha Dog is based on him
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air force general
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WWII: 11th Armored Division, 1943-1946. Advanced through Germany and overran both Mathausen and Gusen. A Finnish immigrant, Holma was preparing to leave for D-Day but was pulled off the loading ramp to avoid fighting his birth country
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One of the lead pilots on the Yamamoto Mission in WW2. Lives in the SF Bay Area.
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Space Scientist
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Elizabeth Holmes (2)Former biotechnology entrepreneur convicted of criminal fraud
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Public Relations Director at Sam Bloom Agency and co-ordinated media coverage for both JFK's visit to Dallas and the Jack Ruby trial
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Mass Murderer (2012 Aurora Theater Shooting)
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WWII - Pacific Theatre; last survivor of the sinking of the USS Juneau (sank at Battle of Guadalcanal)
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Flight astronaut no flight experience
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WWII airman, served in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, helping with various covert operations and missions in Europe
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Finnish economist. Together with Oliver Hart, he received the Central Bank of Sweden Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016
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2008 Inductee Inventor Hall of Fame; invented LED that worked in visible light spectrum
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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George 'Sonny' Holt has flown in B-25s, RB-57s, RB-66s, B-47s, and the B-58
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Astronaut
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The designer and creater of the1960's 'peace sign,' symbol
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Early experimental research test pilot for the X-1 aircraft and other aircraft. In 1952, Holtoner became the commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base
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Tuskegee Airmen, WWII
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A reporter for the ABC affiliate in San Antonio , Holtzman covered the President Kennedy visit on Nov. 21 for WBAP-TV in Fort Worth
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Rape victim who became an activist. She changed New Hampshire law.
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Australian WWII veteran
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'Jeopardy James' - Holds records, Internet celebrity
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WWII and Korea, 101st Airborne, C Company, 506th P.I.R. - POW during WWII
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Husband of Anna Mitchell-Hedges. In 1924, Anna Mitchell-Hedges was in southern Belize, Central America when she claims to have found 'The Crystal Skull'.
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101 Squadron Lancaster pilot and veteran of 32 operations, WWII pilot
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Japanese boxing promoter, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame since 2009
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Space Launch Systems Program Manager. Artemis I
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Block Recreation Center, Oahu
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Japanese immunologist. In 2018, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with James P. Allison
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American rock climber
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Lt. Gen. Commander Of 1st U.S. Army, Spearheaded Aid In New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina Clean-up
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Doctor and lecturer in General Medicine, Sex Doctor' in The Sunday Mirror
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First black student at the University of Alabama
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Invented DNA sequencing methond, invented process for synthesizing DNA, Inventor Hall of Fame inductee
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(born 31 January 1917), is an archaeologist and academic. He was Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens from 1954 to 1962, and led the excavations at Knossos from 1957 to 1961. He turned 100 in January 2017
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USAF General
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One of the last survivors of 'The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake'. Born in 1906, she is now 107 and lives in Santa Clara, California. She is one of three remaining survivors of the 1906 earthquake
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Tulsa race riot survivor and first African-American woman to enlist in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War 2. Dr. Olivia Hooker
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Hooks, a lawyer, minister and pioneering judge who revived a flagging NAACP after he became its executive director in the late 1970s
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The oldest person in Britain, now 112. Born in 1903 in Dulwich, London. She was a concert pianist and was close friends with Amy Johnson, the pioneering aviator. She lives in the coastal town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight
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(Born 1946) US Army Vietnam Veteran. 220th Aviation Company in South Vietnam from September 1968 to March 1969, when he was wounded in combat. Silver Star Recipient
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Was a Honor Guard At Ronald Reagan Funeral
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Andrew Hoover (2) Great Grandson Of Herbert hooverBorn in 1940
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Bob Hoover was Chuck Yeager's backup pilot in the Bell X-1 program, and he flew chase in a Lockheed P-80 when Yeager first exceeded Mach 1(broke the sound barrier)on October 14, 1947.
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FBI Director until 1972
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Leader and founder of the Chicago street gang called Gangster Disciples
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Flight aviator
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Great Grandson Of Herbert HooverBorn in 1943
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Political Commentator. Political Strategist. Frequent contributor to Fox News's O'Reilly Factor. Great-granddaughter of former President Herbert Hoover
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Daughter - in law of Herbert Hoover Born 1911
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Doolittle Raider, Pilot Crew #2
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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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Retired USMC General
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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WWII: Battle of Midway pilot
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Last Surviving Civil War Widow Born: 12/07/1914
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Astronaut
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air force general
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '99th Fighter Squadron' 'Class of 44-J'!
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, 24th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks. Later later fought in the jungles of New Guinea
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Vietnam War Veteran:Air Force
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American FBI agent who shot Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge in 1992
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Flight scientist
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WWII: MTO. Battle of Salerno, Battle of Monte Cassino. 36th Infantry Division
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WWII: CBI. Assiniboine code talker of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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American mountaineer
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air force general
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WWII: D-Day. 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He is the paratrooper on the famous Life cover dated August 14, 1944
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Air Force General, Co-Author with Tom Clancy
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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Dinosaur Hunter
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Flight scientist
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American chemist & explosives expert; group leader firing unit at Project Manhattan (Trinity)
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Young chemist when her husband, Don Hornig, was personally asked by George Kistiakowsky to come to Los Alamos to work on a secret project. At first she worked on plutonium chemistry, then the explosives group. A witness to the Trinity test
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Wwii: wasp
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Schindler's List survivor. Now goes as Niusia Karakulska
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American astronaut
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Former member of the SAS involved in the 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege
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WWII: Navy. Served in 5 ships, survived being torpedoed while on the USS Benham and survived the sinking of the USS Helena in the Battle of Kula Gulf
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Steve Horton (3)Military Air Force Thunderbirds, 52nd Fighter Wing Vice Commander (Spangdahlem Air Force Base in Germany)
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New Zealand RAF pilot in WWII
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Convicted muderer, who while serving a life sentence for murder, was given a weekend furlough pass. He did not return and committed assault, armed robbery and rape.Made famous through George Bush's 1988 campaign adds against Michael Dukakis
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doolittles raiders crew #10 gunner
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The Ohio State University police officer who took down the alleged assailant in Monday?s attack on the Columbus campus is being praised by authorities for his quick actions, he fatally shot suspect Abdul Razak Ali Artan
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Longest Raid of the Civil War. President of Farmcourt Publishing, Inc
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Author
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astronaut
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Air force general. Top graduate of the first Air Force Academy graduating class in 1959. Also the first USAFA graduate to come back as superintendent
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One of the oldest survivors of the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. He is now 87
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JFK - FBI agent that was blamed for JFK's death by Hoover as Hosty was responsible for handling the Oswald case *before* Kennedy was assassinated and saw no reason to detaon Oswald for that day
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WWII: Marine Corps chaplain in the Pacific
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Nazi general
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Retired NASA space engineer
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WWII: US NAvy Ace who led the attack at the Yamato (the largest battleship ever built) on April 7, 1945, that eventually sank her
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41st Judge Advocate General of The U.S. Navy
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#26 Oldest Person in the World. Lives in Canada Born 1894
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Invented the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed in 1958
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British - born scientist. He is the co - recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice
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Retired Royal military, current member of The House Of Lords
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British Army officer who was Commading General Officer in Northern Ireland during the 'Troubles'
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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Volunteered in 1937. Served as a Transport driver. Granted Spanish honorary citizenship on July 9, 2009. One of the fewer than 25 Americans still alive from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Born: 1916
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Marine Corps Staff Sergeant when he led an eighteen-man reconnaissance patrol in a fierce battle against a battalion of Viet Cong in June 1966. As a result of his heroic actions, Howard became the sixth U.S. Marine to be awarded the Nation?s highest
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Retired British military historian and former Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University; full name is Sir Michael Eliot Howard
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First four-star female Navy Admiral
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Secret Service/served the White House detail during John F. Kennedy and then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson's administration?
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American lawyer and best-selling writer. Written on the effects of modern law and bureaucracy on human behavior and the workings of society. Formed Common Good, a nonpartisan national coalition dedicated to restoring common sense to America
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Medal of Honor 'US Army Vietnam'
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Former Football player. Played 4 seasons for the New York Yankees, and Cleveland Browns as a running back. Also is a World War 2 veteran
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retired Navy admiral/deputy assistant of National Security Affairs under President George Bush Sr., PhD, NATO commander, author
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NASA pilot - remotely pilots the Global Hawk, X-56 and Resilient Autonomy unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and also flies missions for Armstrong's King Air research testbed and T-34 mission support aircraft
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WWII Veteran
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Retired General
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WWII: PTO. USMC 1943-1945. Battle of Peleliu. After the war, friend to actors like Roy Rogers, Michael Landon, Charles Ingalls, Jonathan Smith or George Lindsey
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1st female Captain of a scheduled US Jet airline
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Toy inventor; invented the Easy-Bake Oven, Play-Doh and Spirograph
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WW II Sailor; office/survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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WWII: CBI. Member of the Merrill's Marauders, aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long-range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Assistant Regional Security Officer, held at Iranian Foreign Ministry Office
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WWII served as commanders of 2nd Battalion/13th Armor Regiment (1943)/13th Armor Regiment (1943?44); 1st Armored Division, Italy (44?45)/ Bri. Gen. in 1952 Assistant Commanding Gen., 2nd Armored Div., European Command, until 1954
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Astronomer
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WWII American Merchant Marine Veteran World War 2
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Ukrainian Soldier, 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine. On the first day of the invasion, Snake Island was attacked. After a Russian Warship demanded that he surrender, he famously responded 'Russian Warship, Go F*** yourself. Taken POW
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WWII: Served with the 101st Medical Regiment attached to 52nd Field Hospital at Guadalcanal
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Scientist instrumental in the US and People's Republic space program lives in BeiJing
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NASA Orion Program Manager
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'Miracle at Cortez' U2 pilot
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ETO: 302nd Signal Operation Battalion
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WWII: CBI. Member of 475th Infantry Regiment of the MARS Task Force. His job was to block the Burma road so the Japanese could not use it
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WWII: D-Day. Landed with LST-510 on Omaha Beach around noon of June 6, 1944. 90-millimeter artillery gunner of Battery B of the 110th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. The 110th AAA would be credited as the first US unit to enter Paris
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker
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Author, Died on the RMS Lusitania
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WWII: CBI. US Army Air Corps, 10th AF. Radar operator and technician for the fighter planes P-40 and P-47
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nobel med. laureate 98
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Priest who gave JFK his last rights
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Nobel chemistry laureate 1988
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Belgian explorer
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Born July 1 1911, Assistant counsel to the warring commission on the assassination of John f Kennedy November 22nd 1963
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Retired USMC General
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American political aide, White House Press Secretary. She is the daughter of former governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and former Arkansas first lady Janet Huckabee
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CAPT - USMC, US NAVY Blue Angels C-130 'Fat Albert' Pilot
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Manhattan Project, at Oak Ridge as a cubicle operator or 'Calutron girl' at the Y-12 Plant
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WWII: Hudgins joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos after writing a letter to Dorothy McKibbin as a chemist and metallurgist with the Special Engineer Detachment. He was born in 1924
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Korea, Vietnam: Captain Hudner received the Medal of Honor for his actions in trying to save the life of his wingman, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War, by intentionally crash-landing his plane
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Witness to the shooting of President Kennedy . He was a groundskeeper in Dealey Plaza , said shots came from the TSBD
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Author and former driver/trainer who grew up in the harness racing industry. Official for the NBC Golf Channel's AM Tour in Washington D.C. and Baltimore. Spoken on Capitol Hill on representing the harness racing industry on equine welfare
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WWII, flew Lancaster bomber
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John Hudson (2)USAF General
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One of the last survivors of The Halifax Explosion, which occured on on Thursday, December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was devastated by the world's largest man-made explosion. She is 101 and lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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Shot down the first enemy aircraft in the korean war
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WWII - D-Day, Paratrooper of 507th PIR who, due to being dropped quite away from his dropzone, ended up fighting together with the famous Easy Company (Band of Brothers)
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WWII. ETO. D-Day, Omaha Beach. 5th Rangers Battalion
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WWII: PTO. USS Hancock, b. 1928
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WWII: 486th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Belonged to the crew of B-24 Liberator 42-52508 'Libra', one of the 'Zodiac Bombers'
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions in World War II
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KRLD radio TV newsman/broadcast television's 1st murder on CBS from police garage when Jack Ruby shot Lee Oswald, interviewed slain assassin's mother. Was Warren Commission witness, & covered Jack Ruby's murder trial & finally his death
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(Born 1935) US Marine Corps Aviator Vietnam Veteran. Flew UH-1E, VMO-6, VMO-1, OV-10, O-2B, and AH-1J throughout his service. Navy Cross Recipient
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Last survivor of the USS Panay Age 93
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WWII US Army Nurse
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WWII: ETO. 82nd Airborne Division, 505th PIR, 3rd Bn. Three combat jumps: Sicily, Salerno, and D-Day in Normandy. Battle of the Bulge
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Civil Rights activist, part of the Selma marches, including the infamous 'Bloody Sunday' of 1965
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Bill Hughes (2) One of the last crew members and survivors from the sinking of RMS Lancastria in 1940 during WW2. He is now 93 and lives in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, UK
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Women's and Civil Rights Leader
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Doug Hughes (2)The Florida mailman who flew a gyrocopter through restricted airspace and landed on the Capitol lawn
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Photographer that covered JFK's visit to Fort Worth, catching the eye of the President as Hughes tripped in front of him, and later one of the very few who covered Oswald's funeral
