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USDA agent who took part in the Michael Vick investigation
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World War II veteran
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WWII: PFC Knowles was in the troops that liberated Reims, France, and guarded SHAEF (the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force) where Dwight Eisenhower was located, and witnessed the end of the war there
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Lz xray 1965
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Fmr First Lady of Alaska
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British WWII frogman
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Chemist. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001
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army general
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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An American classicist, author, and critic born in England. He was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Spanish Civil War veteran
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Secretary of the Texas Air National Guard. At the center of the George Bush service controversy
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Scientist
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One of the six men who were first chosen to fly the U-2 Spy plane.
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US Army Air Force WWII vet (1926-2021). B-29 Tail Gunner in the South Pacific. HIs plane escorted the Enola Gay, and he witnessed Hiroshima from about a mile away in the air. Days later, he had the same role, witnessing Nagaski's bombing
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(Born 1938) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 4 Legion of Merits, Distinguished Flying Cross, 4 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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marine corps general
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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Nobel laureate physics 2008
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Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest - 53 3/4 Hotdogs, Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Contest; in 2004 he ate 69 Krystal hamburgers, and in 2005, ate 67 hamburgers in eight minutes. Speed-eating contest in Hong Kong in August 2005, Kobayashi consume
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American Nobel Prize chemistry winning (with Robert Lefkowitz), professor in the departments of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
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One of Atari's early coin-op designers. later co-founded Polygames
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 95th Infantry Division
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Astronaut
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astronaut
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USS WWII Merchant Marine, born 1928. Part of a Murmansk Run in Nov/Dec of 1944
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WWII. ETO: Battle of Normandy. On Aug. 11th, 1944, he was shot through the neck while engaged in heavy combat, then taken POW and eventually sent back in an soldiers exchange. Company F, 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division
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Flight scientist
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Aylwin
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German-Peruvian biologist, born in Peru to German emigrants, who was the only survivor of 92 passengers and crew in the 24 December 1971 crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rainforest
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NASA Flight director, STS-115
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Artic Explorer. Member of Walter Willaim Herbert 1969 artic team
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, 5th Marines, Tank Batallion
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Forensic anthropologist, Author - The Bone Woman: Among the Dead in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo
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WWII Kogawa was born in Masuda City, Shimane in 1923. During World War II, he was stationed in Malay as a platoon leader for the 3rd Division of the Imperial Japanese Army. He was in an internment camp in Thailand before returning to Japan
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American technical wreck diver and shipwreck historian who has been diving and exploring shipwrecks since 1980. Together with John Chatterton, Kohler was a co-hosts of the television series Deep Sea Detectives on the History Channel
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NASA scientist and leader in the design of several robotic deep-space planetary missions.He is also an author, game developer, lecturer,photographer and environmentalist
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Serial Killer
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Austrian-born American physicist
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One of the many survivors of the dropping of the first Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay on 6 August 1945. She is now 84
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Dutch Economist, Diplomat, Historian. Born: 05/22/1914
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(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam and Desert Storm Veteran. Went to Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Iraq and many other places during his 24 year long career
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The most injured airman in US history due to injuries fighting in Kuwait
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Invented the kidney dialysis machine
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Survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
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Lawyer and author
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Supercentenarian. Born: 10/31/1897. 7th Oldest Person in the World. One of only 5 living people left born in the year 1897
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ABMA/NASA. Joined the Werner von Braun rocket team in 1959. Worked on Mercury, Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Manning a console in the Firing Room for most of the Apollo launches, including Apollo 7 through 13
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German pilot
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Former Soviet cosmonaut (Born: 1930) Although he retired in 1983 without flying in space, he served non-flying assignments on several spaceflights
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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'. Tail gunner, 36 missions
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Russian cosmonaut. Voskhod-1 & Soyuz-1. Died in the landing of Soyuz 1
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Lz-xray nam 1965
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Russian female cosmonaut who was the third woman to travel to space and the first to make a long-duration spaceflight.She is now a member of the Russian parliament
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One of the survivors of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. He now promotes world peace
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 13 kills
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Military Interpreter (Red Army) Spanish Civil War Veteran. Born: 02/12/1920
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cosmonaut
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(Born 1926) US Army WW2 Veteran ETO. 89th Division, 354th Anti-Tank Unit. Helped in the liberation of concentration camp Ohrdruf. Bronze Star recipient
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Seaman 1st Class, USS St. Louis. Last Staten Island Pearl Harbor survivor
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cosmonaut
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Iwo Jima. Saw the flag raising
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astronaut
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Juliana C. Young Koo is a Chinese American diplomat who served as first head of the UN Protocol Department, supercentenarian and third wife of diplomat and politician Wellington Koo
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Former U.S. Surgeon General
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Vietnam veteran who fought in the navy for 33 and a half years and retired as a colonel
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Speaker, 21 year marine officer and author of From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava. Client success executive at AirStrip. Has appeared frequently on both network (Fox, NBC) and local television news
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Convicted in 2003 for the 1998 sniper-style murder of abortion Dr. Barnett Slepian. Prior to his capture, Kopp was on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
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Physicist - NASA
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Palynologist, author
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astronaut
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Polish-born American virologist and immunologist12/05/1916
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Holocaust Survivor/Nazis stormed into the Latvian city where he lived with his family, and penned the Jewish population into a ghetto/Deported to the Stutthof work camp/Escaped 1945/Husband of Eva Moses Kor
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WWII - 6th Naval Beach Battalion, Navy corpsman at Omaha Beach (D-Day), also in the Battle of Okinawa. His memories are incorporated into Max Hasting's epic book 'Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944'
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Operation Varsity. 17th Airborne Division
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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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nobel med. laureate 1959
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006
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WWII: The only surviving Polish squadron commander in the UK; served in the Polish Air Force in Poland (defense of Poland 1939), France (starting July 1941) and Britain and later served in the Royal Air Force.
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cosmonaut
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WWII: German D-Day veteran, wireless operator in the 22nd Regiment, 21st Panzerdivision, stationed near Caen at time of D-Day
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Flight Director at NASA
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cosmonaut
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Polish World War One Veteran Lives in Sierakowice Poland
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Buccaneers General Counsel
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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Former German soldier in the 24th Panzer Division in World War II and the author of several books
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Elizabeth Koshy (2)Famous Indian Shooter who's team placed 6th worldwide in 2011 in Germany
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WWII: D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne Operation Market Garden. 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles), he was General Maxwell Taylor's radioman and later an accomplished WWII Author '(Hell's Highway', 'D-Day With The Screaming Eagles' a.o.)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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Professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics
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Flight astronaut backup ps spacelab
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Japanese WWII Veteran, born 1927
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Donut Dolly in Vietnam
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cosmonaut
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German WWII-Pilot, Rammjager Ace, flew with 4/JG-3 and 3/JG-4 Sturmgruppe
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Former roommate/friend of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, one of the first employees of Apple Computer
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Employed by McGraw-Hill Publishing at TSBD in November of 1963 , Dolores was a witness to Pres. Kennedy's assassination
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Greek Cypriot WWII veteran. Part of Cypriot Regiment
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Cosmonaut
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American anti-war activist, United States Marine Corp veteran and writer who was paralyzed in the Vietnam War. Author of the memoir Born on the Fourth of July
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Maurice L. Kowal was part of Lt/JG John F. Kennedy's orginal PT-109 crew, but, due to earlier injury, not aboard when PT-109 was sunk
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Last Polish World War 1 Veteran/Born:02/02/1900 Lives in Tursk, near Sulecin (Poland)
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Husband of Annette Kowalski and former CIA
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Japanese WWII Veteran, was 87 in 2007
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American supercentenarian and the world's oldest Jewish person. Born in 1899
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cosmonaut
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WWII: US Navy. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid. Aleutian Campaign,
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A retired Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-33/TM-32)
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Russian tank ace and veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad during WW2
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Polish daredevil , Parachute jumper
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Serial Killer
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space administrative
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Producer, entertainment lawyer, manager and activist; organized Hands Across America in 1986
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Author. Into the Wild, Iceland, Eiger Dreams, and Under the Banner of Heaven, and Into Thin Air, his personal account of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Buna-Gona, Battle of Luzon. 32nd Infantry Division
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Russian/Soviet Union Ace, 12 Kills during WW2 & 13 Kills during the Korean War!
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
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WWII: Served on the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) which sank the largest aircraft carrier ever built, the HIJMS Shinano, on 29 November 1944. This marks also the largest ship wver sunk by a submarine
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WWII: First worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yards and helped built the USS Iowa, then served with the 763rd Railway Shop Battalion in Europe
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WWII: Navy. Survived both the sinking of the USS Lexington and the USS Block Island
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USMC Sniper in Vietnam
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Inventor of the Digital Audio Player
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Engineer with the 5th Transportation Company in Vietnam from March 1968 until he was captured in Cambodia and taken as a POW while serving aboard a landing craft
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Puerto Rican political analyst, former husband of Governor Sila Maria Calderon, married her from 1978 to 2001
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NASA flight director during first Moon landing and Apollo 13 explosion (Played by Ed Harris in 'Apollo 13')
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WWII German officer
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German ww2 pilot
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Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Team Scientist
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Theoretical physicist, advocate of scientific skepticism, science education, and the science of morality
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Hungarian-Austrian physicist working in attosecond science. In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
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Author, Enviromental activist
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One of the notorious gangsters the Kray twins
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WWII: ETO. B-17 bomber pilot in the 100th Bomb Group
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Scientist
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1992 Nobel Winner in Medicine
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NASA astronaut (retired) Four space shuttle flights STS -70, 78, 87, 99
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Canadian author, journalist, political activist and real estate developer
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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US Navy vet on the USS Randolph, born 1940. Participated in the Mercury mission recoveries of Gus Grissom and John Glenn. Served to escort and guide members of the onboard press onboard during the recoveries
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Survivor of the Hartford Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus fire, which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States
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American development economist. In 2019 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, together with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.'
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Assigned to a port anti-aircraft battery and was blown into the water when a torpedo hit. He swam around the damaged USS West Virginia and made it to safety on Ford Island
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Convicted Killer/Member of the 'Manson Family'
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Survivor Korean Death March/29th Regimental Combat Team/Captured at Oneui on July 26, 1950, marched 40 miles south of the Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW for 3 months & was one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured men
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Air Force General
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World War 1 veteran from the Ukraine, Born:02/25/1897
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research pilot
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'Rosie the Riveter' Worked on B-17 and B-29 bombers
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Russian cosmonaut / astronaut
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Unmanned space exploration
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Discovered link between asteroid and mass extinction of dinosaurs; named crater Chicxulub
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Formerly on FBI Ten Most Wanted list, with partner Ruth Eisemann-Schier, for the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Mackle
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Israeli supercentenarian and recognized as the oldest man alive (Born: 1903) A confectioner by profession, he experienced World War I as a child, and World War II as an adult. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to Israel. Now 112
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 3rd Marine Division
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nobel physics laureate 2000
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Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron FA-18 Flight Demonstration Pilot
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US Army veteran (4-star general) of 3 wars: WWII ('Colmar Pocket', Battle of Jebsheim 1945, 254th Regiment, 63rd Infantry Division, Korea (187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team), Vietnam (23rd Inf.Div). On Sept. 15, 1981, he was injured in an RAF attack
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German ww2 pilot
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East German Political Official. German WWII Veteran
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Flight scientist
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, was at 1010 docks when the attack began, in charge of delivering ammunition for the Navy
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German Journalist/Author, Russia Expert
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Swedish adventurer, rode his bicykle from sweden to mt Everest and climed to the top and then rode his bike back to sweden
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Air Force General
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nobel chem. laureate 1996
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2008 Nobel Prize in Economics; NY Times columnist
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Commandant of the Marine Corps (1995-99)
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Test pilot, 43rd Fighter Squadron commander
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German pilot
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Retired USMC General
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Born March 21 1909 - Master of engineering chemistry , captain of the cavalry of Polish Army .
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WWII female veteran, born 1922, WASP pilot
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WWII: As a boy, lived through the Nazi occupation of his country of origin, Holland. Later served America for many years in the Army
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WWII - Germany; paratrooper of the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment ('Green Devils'), fought at the Normany and many battles. Direct line of combat to the US 502nd and 506th PIR (Easy Company)
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Last crew member of Self-propelled barge T-36
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(1935-2014) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme
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Polish soccer player. He played soccer in the Polish army during WWII. Said to have emigrated to Germany
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WWII: ETO. B-24 pilot with 8th Air Force. DFC
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WWII veteran, born August 21, 1914. Believed to be the oldest living survivor of Iwo Jima by his 100th birthday. Wounded by shrapnel at Iwo, hospitalized and sent back to the states
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Russian Attorney. Not famous, but he represents Edward Snowden
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WWII: Mr. Kudzik completed 14 war patrols, 8 aboard Nautilus 168 (WWII sub), 6 aboard USS Gar (SS-206). Battle of Midway (the Nautilus was co-credited sinking a Japanese ship), Makin Island Raid (they transported Marine Raiders to and back from the raid)
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Commander Of USS Abraham Lincoln
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Helped hide Anne Frank
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Flight engineer,of the 'Bockscar,' plane that dropped bomb on Nagasaki
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Respondent in Supreme Court case Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier(1988), that held public school student newspapers are subject to a lower level of 1A protection
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island
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Submarine duty during WWII
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Flight astronaut
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Retired German general
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Retired USMC General
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Born 1947 US Air Force Vietnam and Iraq Veteran. POW in Vietnam from 1972 to 1973. 2 Legion of Merits, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, a Purple Heart, and 1 Bronze Star
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Last surviving culprit of the Beslan School Hostage Crisis 09/01/2004
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Vietnam war combat veteran. Served from 1966 to 1967 as a heavy door machine gunner on a helicopter
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Daughter of Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, best known for his expedition to investigate the Tunguska event, the largest impact event in history, which had occurred on June 30, 1908
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Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief from 1977 to 1989
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Youtuber, lawyer, tiktoker
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Author of Dad Or Alive and entertainment lawyer
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One of oldest people in the world. Born 1895. Lives in Japan
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Born 1938, son of actress Brigitte Helm, who played Maria in the 1927 Sci-Fi movie 'Metropolis'
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USCG Admiral
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WWII: PTO. Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Philippines. USS Dickens APA-161
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Broadcaster at KBOX Radio in '63 , he reported from Parkland Hospital and police headquarters . Had a brief exchange with Oswald during press showing
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WWII P-38 Lightning Fighter Pilot. 2 aerial victories before being shot down over Aachen Germany on 16 September 1944. Also flex B17, B-24, B-25, B-26, P-39, P-47, P-51, P-59A, P-63, Wildcat, Hellcat, P80 and P-84
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Lead Prosecutor at the trial of serial killer John Wayne Gacy
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(Born July 16, 1939) is the first person independently verified to have walked around the Earth
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Red Army veteran during WW2. Lives in Minsk
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 8 victories
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The 26 year secret.. It was that long for an innocent man to be freed from prison, because of attorney cliet ethics. Upon clients death. Kunz/Coventry law firm
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Communications Officer and Electronics Specialist
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US Army General. Participated in the Iraq, Gulf, and Afghanistan wars and operations Just Cause and Inherent Resolve. Recipient of Army Distinguished Service Medal (2), Legion of Merit (2), Bronze Star (5), Purple Heart (2)
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Cultural Anthropologist, museum official, author
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 51 kills
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World War II Aerial Gunner, The only Japanese American to fly combat in the Pacific Theater. Awarded two distingished flying crosses
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Japanese fighter ace, 16 kills
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Turkish Air Force Lieutenant, best known for his 1960 aerial photograph of an outline of a ship on the peak of Mount Ararat, which is thought to be the site of Noah's Ark
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Historian/Southeastern Louisiana University professor emeritus of history/known for research into assassination of JFK in which Kurtz theory Oswald did not act alone/'Crime Of Century: Kennedy Assassination From A Historian's Perspective'
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII - Navy radio man on LSM (Landing Ship Medium) 241 during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Today he is (along with Joe Demler) one of the 'ambassadors' of the original Honor Flight
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Invented optical character recognition (OCR), author, futurist, Inventor Hall of Fame inductee
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Astronaut
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Veteran of WW2 - both Soviet and US Armies
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army general businessman
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Estonian soldier and radio operator, a veteran of the Battle of Raua Street
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Flight aviator x-15 pilot
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WWII: Joined the Army Air Corps and served in the 9th Air Force as a radar plotter; being a very talented artist, she painted the nose art many of the 9th AF B-26 Bombers
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field
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Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. Co-authored the 10 part Showtime documentary film series and book both titled 'The Untold History of the United States' with Oliver Stone
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WWII: USMC veteran of the Guadalcanal campaign
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Discoverer of Kevlar
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Nobel Laureate Economics
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Ugandan politician, Health Minister under the dictator Idi Amin. Also an author, 'State of Blood.' Born December 1939
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Former Navy SEAL, author
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WWI veteran
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '617th Bomber Squadron, Navigator, Bombardier'
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German World War One Veteran (Served in Italian Army)Born: 07/24/1900
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, Seabee
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German World War 1 and 2 Veteran,Born: 03/10/1900
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Cosmonaut from Eastern Germany, was the backup astronaut for Sigmund Jähn
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Turkish farmer who is the world's tallest living man, standing at 8'3" (2.51m)
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U.S. Marine Corps in 1980, in 91, joined HMX1 flying George H. W. Bush & Clinton. In 2006 became Commanding Officer flying Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Retired 2011
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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Born 1895 One of oldest people in the world. Lives in Fance
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French physicist, and professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden. In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz, she won the Nobel Prize in Physics
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One of the last surviving scientists of the Manhattan project 31 December 1946
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Flight scientist, ISS flight director
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political and social activist
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Military
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WWII Veteran
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Author. Daughter of Pierre & Marie Curie
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NASA Lead Flight Director - Artemis I
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Former East-German Politician, Member of the Central Committee of the East-German party SED, lives in Leegebruch
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US Army 4 Star General
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WWII: ETO. B-17 pilot, 8th Air Force, 548th Bomb Group. 35 missions
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Italian mountaineer, 1st Person to reach K2
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Flight scientist
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British ace from WW2
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Civil rights figure, Montgomery bus boycott. Her mother was a lifelong childhood friend of Rosa Parks, and Lacey as a young woman worked as an assistant to the MIA, led by Martin Luther King to organize the bus boycott after Parks' arrest
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Member of the French maquis in WW2
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Vietnam/Army/Dust Off Medic/1968-1971/Unit of Service254th Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance), 44th Medical Brigade Location of Service II Corps; Nha Trang, Phan Thiet, Vietnam Tuy Hoa Air Base, Vietnam; Ban Me Thuot/Highest Rank E-5
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Inductee of National Inventors Hall of Fame
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US WWII Navy electrician, born 1927. Roamed Nagasaki 6 weeks after being bombed while his transport ship unloaded. 'Atomic vet' in 1946, witnessing Operation Crossroad atomic tests in the Bikini Atoll from his ship
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Civil Rights figure (1926-2016). Montgomery Police Department (1948-70), Officer and Police Chief. Pictured in iconic photo of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Also seen in a photo booking Martin Luther King Jr. the follow
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in wayne,in but not now?
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. USS Tennessee
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Seal Team 3, Author The Last Punisher
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Israeli world-record-holding Olympic racewalker, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, and Professor of Industrial Engineering; born April 2, 1936 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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WWII: Veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian. B-1-8, 2nd MarDiv. First Lieutenant Dean Ladd was shot in the stomach shortly after jumping into the water from his boat
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WWII: CBI theater. Distinguished Flying Cross. C-87 pilot, 30 'Hump' round-trips
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Former Ralph Nader running mate
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, Navy Hospital Ship USS Solace (AH-5). Also participated in the invasions of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, also Guam and Saipan
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infamous teacher caught in scandal
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Civil Rights Activist
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Worked for Ronald Reagan, best known for the Laffer Curve
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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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Member of The White Rose anti-Nazi resistance in WWII
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French World War One Veteran
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Son of Alcatraz Island corrections officer, Author of Battle at Alcatraz, Alcatraz Justice, The Other Alcatraz, and Guarding the Rock
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, Operation Varsity. 17th Airborne Division, 513th PIR
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Scientist
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Diplomat. was the senior American official held hostage during the Iran hostage crisis
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WW2/Radio & Radar Operator on Avenger Torpedo Bomber, which carried a crew of three
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WWII - 6 victories; 8,285 Total Flight Hours; the only known U.S. Navy ace to shoot down both German and Japanese planes during World War II. Flew Hellcat, F4U Corsair,, Banshee and Phantom
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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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Dallas Morning News photographer who, among other pics, took the photo of Jackie Kennedy leaving Parkland Hospital to ride in the hearse carrying President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's body to Love Field
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 6 victories; VF-2 (Pacific); flew the Hellcat off of the USS Hornet Mar 1944. Got his first victory during what is called the 'Great Marianas Turkey Shoot'
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Centenarian (1895-2002). One of the last US WWI veterans. Served as Army Infantryman in France
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Centenarian (1899-2005). One of the last living Canadian WWI veterans
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Holocaust Survivor deported to Auschwitz concentration camp from hometown of Lodz Poland in 1944, aged 14 on arrival at camp, was originally separated her from twin sister Miriam by camp physician Josef Mengele and sent to the crematorium
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WWII: Last living survivor from the sinking of the HMS Barham, 25 November 1941. Second-highest loss of life from a U-boat attack, behind troop transport Laconia
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Creator of Cirque De Soleil, Astronaut
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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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Mountaineer
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(22 July 1924 - 1 July 2000) was a Sikkimese Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces
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Bank of Commerce (Savannah, GA)August 15 1860Gazaway Bugg Lamar (G.B. Lamar) (bottom right)Lamar (1798-1874) was simultaneously President of the NYC based Bank of the Republic and Georgia based Bank of Commerce but most of his investments were in the
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Officer and pilot of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during WWII. (Born 1918). Buchenwald concentration camp survivor
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WWII Fighter pilot. Shot down a German ME 262 jet figher and a German Arado AR 234 jet bomber. Flew with the 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group (1944/1945) to April 1945) 61 combat missions (167:40 combat hours in a P-47, 107:50 in a P-51)
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Aerobatics pilot
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US WWII vet, 511th Paratooper, born 1923. New Guinea, Philippines. Witness to the Japanese Surrender. Swim records in high school and college before drafted. Picked up again after retiring, and holds many records for 80/90 year olds
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Nobel Prize for Physics 1955
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Aviation History!
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Historian, author, genealogist. Appeared on the History Detectives on PBS twice. And a national speaker on the topics of genealogy
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SSgt, US Army, Co D, 339th Engineers Cook Luzon, New Guinea and Southern Philippines Campaign veteran
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D-Day veteran and author of 'Every Man A Hero'
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Ryan Lambert (2)Astronomer
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Mobster, cleaned up after the Kray Twins
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Cryptologic Technician Chief on the USS Liberty when it was attacked by the Israelis in 1967
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Pearl Harbor survivor from Wisconsin born 1922; served on USS Nevada on Dec. 7, 1941
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Flight scientist, Flight Director at NASA
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air force general
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father of the navy's f-14 tomcat
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Computer scientist, author, hardware engineer, and game programmer, known for writing books about game development. Author of multiple books on computer programming and game design, including Windows Game Programming for Dummies
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Retired Air Force member, worked as an VIP Air Force Crew Member, served various times on Air Force One, Air Force Two, and First Lady Missions. Lead Usher for President George H W Bush Funeral. Traveled w/several Presidents, First Ladies and other distin
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hypnotist
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Film historian, author of the 'Whatever Became of....?' series of books regarding past celebrities
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Swedish chemist , battery inventor & entrepreneur/PhD in inorganic chemistry , founded battery company Boston Power, Founder & owner of the company until 2012. Now she & her husband Per started a new business together, it's called Cloteam
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Astronaut
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Arizona
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Pilot, first pilot to eject from a British aircraft
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British airway pilot that survived crash
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Spent a decade working as a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse in both hospitals and schools in the UK and Australia after graduating from university with a degree in Mental Health. Now a full-time writer living in West London
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Austria'Born: 04.19.1921
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WWII Veteran, paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. Drafted in June of 1942. Jumped into Normandy on D-Day. Texas A & M Student
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One of only two known surviving US World War I veterans
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JFK Secret Service
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WWII: Later General Landon led one of the two unfortunate groups of B-17s to Pearl Harbor to arrive in the midst of the attack on Dec. 7, 1941
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Poet/Writer/Holocaust Survivor/'Threads : Poetry of a Survivor of Auschwitz' by Maria Landowska (1985)
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Former Assistant Administrator of Parkland Hospital, on duty at time of JFK and Oswald shootings. Coordinated the hospital's response. Gave his jacket to bloodied Clint hill, who had put his over Kennedy on arrival. Made calls to get a priest and a casket
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Was photographed in the Pulitzer Prize Photo The Soiling of Old Glory Taken by Stanley Forman. 1977
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Flight scientist, Systems Dynamics Laboratory. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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WWII Pearl Harbour 7 December 1941. Survivor of both the USS Arizona and later USS Nevada
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Lz xray 1965
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(Born 1941) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Legion of Merits, a Distinguished Flying Cross, and a Purple Heart
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Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
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Meet Kennedy in Fort Worth on the 22nd, 1963 & shook his hand/Arlington Heights student
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Author and collabor with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Art historian, essayist, curator, and performer. Research Associate at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC
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The fifth oldest verified person in the United Kingdom. Born in 1900
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Worlds smartest man.
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Author and youngest police officer ever hired on the Omaha Police Department at age 18. He worked as a uniformed officer and as a detective in the Burglary, Vice, and Narcotics Units retired after a twenty-six-year career
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Ensign US Navy, USS Arizona Survivor, last survivng Battleship officer from Pearl Harbor
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Flight scientist, NASA
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WWII German Naval Officer Born 1916
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German World War II Luftwaffe 70-victory flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He held the position of Geschwaderkommodore of fighter wing Jagdgeschwader 51
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det. o.j. simpson case
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Survivor of the Sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff
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Inducted for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Inductee Inventor Hall of Fame; revolutionized biomedical technology through the development of a controlled drug delivery system; one of history's most prolific inventors in medicine
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Gunner's mate aboard the USS Shaw
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German 1968 student leader
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Television journalist, anchor, & author/Became friends with Muhammad Ali & F. Lee Bailey, & considered Martin Luther King, Jr. to be a personal mentor/Roomed with Mahalia Jackson/wrote Anne and Emmett/1st black 'weathergirl' for WBBM-TV
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Lt. Gen. Michael Langley is set to become the first Black four-star general in the Marines' 246-year history
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WWII: D-Day. 82nd AB, 505th PIR; landed in St. Mere-Eglise, featured in the movie 'The Longest Day'; wounded and captured June 30th, 1944, forced to work in a coalmine in today's Czech Republic by the SS, from where he escaped after months
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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WWII: Iwo Jima. Seabee
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Ohio native, age 119 (born 1892); cannot be verified as a world record due to no birth certificate
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Alien encounter participant, born 1943. Hidden under a bed with his siblings while adult family and friends fought off unusual beings outside their house during the 'Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter' of 1955
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USS Bunker Hill
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Vietnam War - Flew helicopters for Air America in Vietnam from 1970 to 1975; he is the helicopter pilot whose advice saved the famous 'Last Flight From Da-Nang' (see Kenneth Healy)
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Miss America 1925
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Wife of former mobster Meyer Lansky
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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Current Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Partner of Pablo Picasso, born in 1926
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army general
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army general
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Whistleblower..reported plutoniun handling, won 250,000 lawsuit
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Scottish-Australian WWII veteran. Last living survivor of Battle of Hong Kong
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JFK - US Secret Service 1959-1983; Kennedy detail 1961-1963, after that assigned to Jacqueline Kennedy detail
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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Author
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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During the Vietnam War' David Larsen Took On 50 Enemy Troops With Just An M60 Machine Gun and was awarded the Navy Cross
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Bataan Death March Survivor, wrote 'Footprints of Courage'!
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O.f.c tempe police dept. arizona
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Retired Navy Admiral
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NASA test pilot - X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, and is assigned to Armstrong's F/A-18, F-15, T-34 research and mission support aircraft and DC-8 airborne science aircraft
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Jack Larson (2)WW2 D-Day veteran and was given the Legion of Honor and Bronze Star. Also has be featured on many YouTube channels such as MrBeast (born 1923)
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WW2 Veteran in the G3 V Corps and TikTok Sensation from sharing his stories. Also author of book The Luckiest Man Alive: Stories from the Life of Papa Jake (Born 1922) D - Day Veteran
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Founder of GOProud
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Project manager (following Richard Fimmel) of NASA's legendary Pioneer 10, the first Jupiter and Deep Space mission (1972-2003)
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WWII: USS Yorktown, Battle of Midway
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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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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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Holocaust/Classmate of Anne Frank/Carson Productions executive served as executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Late Night with David Letterman, Late Show with David Letterman & Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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Native of Fort Myers, Florida, was a retired Commander in the United States Navy and a Naval Aviator. As a Lieutenant, he received the Medal of Honor for his rescue of two downed Naval Aviators while piloting a search and rescue helicopter in Vietnam
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The tenth of the 10 Aces of the Deep and the only one still living. He sank 26 ships for 156,082 tons. Born: 05/12/1915
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Born 1943 US Navy Vietnam and Gulf War Veteran. POW in Vietnam from May 1972 to March 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, 3 Legion of Merit's, and Distinguished Flying Cross
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US Marine Corps Afghanistan and Iraq War veteran. Purple Heart Recipient
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WWII:Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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British SOE Agent in occupied France 1944
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Korean war ace - USAF - 5 Kills
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Centenarian (1895-2000). US WWI veteran. Army engineer, built camps in France
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German ww2 pilot
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941; was a pharmacist mate at the Naval hospital at the time of the attack
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Lieutenant General Donald Currie Laubman, AOE, DFC & Bar, CD (born 16 October 1921) began his military career in December 1939. In 1942 he was posted to 133 Squadron in Boundary Bay, British Columbia, Canada. In 1943 he was sent to Red Hill/Staplehurs
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American billionaire, author, philanthropist, art collector. He and his brother, Ronald Lauder, are the sole heirs to the Estee Lauder Companies cosmetics fortune. Co - founder and chairman of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
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Former president of Guatemala (1974 - 1978)
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flying tiger
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University
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COO and formerly Vice - President of security, Delta Airlines
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Worked closely with the Navajo Code Talkers. 5th Marine Division, 27th Regiment
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Army captain helped plan invasion of Normandy
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Wisconsin State Attorney General (2003-07)
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Medicine Nobel Prize 2003 (IRM inventor)
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Former C.I.A. Case Officer/Author 'Left of Boom'
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Lz xray 1965 nam somewhere in murphysboro,illinois
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Youngest survivor on Schindler's List. Currently known as Eva Rac-Levi and lives in Givatayim, Israel
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Spanish Civil War Veteran. Bomber Pilot. (Red Army) Born: 1914
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Holds the Record Speed for the Fastest on a Mini Bike
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Australian explorer
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Centenarian (1898-2005). US WWI veteran, last WWI vet in Nevada. Barely survived the 1918 Flu on shipride to France, but recovered. Drove a truck in France transporting sick/injured to hospitals
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WWII: At age 19, staff sergeant Don Lawhorn was an experienced B-17 tail gunner flying more than two-dozen sorties over occupied Europe for the 12th/15th F, 99th Bombardment Group , 346th Bombardment Squadron. Mission to Southern Germany and Austria
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa, Battle of Peleliu. First Marine Division K/3/5 ('The Old Breed')
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WW2 fighter ace - 11 Kills - USAAF
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Army Air Corp Medal of Honor Recipient, WWIIPassed away in 1999
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WWII - RAF pilot, one of the surviving members of 'The Few' (termed by Winston Churchill, using a Shakespeare quote, bestowed on the pilots that fought the Battle of Britain)
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army general
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British Army officer who fought and was severely wounded in the Falklands War, wrote a book called 'When the Fighting Is Over: A Personal Story of the Battle for Tumbledown Mountain and Its Aftermath' about his experiences
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Flight astronaut sts-67,86,91,114
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navy admiral
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (Murmansk Run); HMS Mermaid, HMS Lapwing
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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James Lawson (2)
United Methodist pastor and civil rights activist -
WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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British Army officer, who served as General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and later as Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe
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air force general
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Tuskegee Airmen original pilot
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Secret Service agent for Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. Planned advance details for JFK trips to Ireland, Berlin, and Dallas. Drove the lead motorcade car ahead of Kennedy's limo when shooting occurred
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Last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania Born: 02/1915 Lives in Northamptonshire, England
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JFK - Secret Service 1962-1982. In Dallas when Kennedy was assassinated
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British WW1 Veteran
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WWII - Survivor of the Bataan Death March; spent three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea before liberation in 1945. Author of WWI book "Some survived"
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WWII Veteran, Tuskegee Airmen. Wilkerson completed his training after the end of the war, so he did not have the chance to fly in combat
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Mathematician, born 1926. Knew Einstein, worked on the Manhattan Project (WWII). Awarded the National Medal of Science in 1986
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WWII: PTO. Coxswain 3rd Class, US Navy. Helming a Higgins Boat in the Battle of Peleliu, landing members of the 1st Marine Division on Peleliu Island
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Member of the famed ''Flying Tigers'' before and during WWII.
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Flying Tiger Pilot
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Jonestown survivor, author of the book 'Seductive Poison'
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, LSM 208. Battle of Okinawa
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USS Pueblo
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SR-71 test pilot
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UFO scientist who claims to have worked in Area 51
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 96th Infantry Division. 2 Purple Hearts
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Paul Calder Le Roux (born 24 December 1972) is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss, and informant
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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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Illustrator, war correspondent, portraitist, novelist, historian and easel painter
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 5th Marines
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navy admiral england
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WWii: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS California
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '301st Fighter Squadron & 332nd Fighter Group' flew the pt-17, bt-13, at-6, p-39, p-40, p-47, p-51, at-11, b-25
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen. Flew missions in Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia. Protected at least twice bomber pilot Herbert Heilbrun, also listed her on Startiger
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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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Anthropologist
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WWII: Scouting Squadron Six, USS En'terprise CV-6. POW
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Former american pilot,flown over 150 types of Aircraft,has had 18 world speed records--his father was bill lear invented the lear jet
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British bomber pilot awarded the Victoria Cross in August 1940
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Author/'Flyers of Barron Field'
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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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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the Battle of the Bulge and Operation Varsity. 17th Airborne Division
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WWII - Tuskegee Airman
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Dallas Police Detective who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald at the moment he was shot by Jack Ruby, Pearl Harbor Veteran on the USS Whitney on December 7,1941
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Miss America 1935
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Marine police dog handler and the subject of the Megan Leavey story
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, Hickam Fiel, 7 December 1941
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United States Air Force general officer. She became the United States Air Force's first female fighter pilot in 1993, and was the first woman to command a USAF combat fighter wing
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Sergeant, USA, Co. I, 398th Inf. Regt. 100th Infantry Div. Motor Messenger - Combat Infantryman European Theater
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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, participating in the infamous 'Icecream Incident' while the ship was abandoned
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WWII: U.S. Army nurse (Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge)
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Soviet WWII Veteran, Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kursk. Lives in Canada, possibly Toronto, born May 1, 1923 in Vitebsk
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NASA: Design Engineer Apollo era, designing the Propulsion Servicing Systems for the 2ndStage of the 3-stage Saturn V Rocket who put men on the moon eventually. Later Lead Design of Main Propulsion Systems of the Space Shuttle
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US WWII Navy veteran, born 1924. USS Indianapolis Survivor, one of the last 5 living as of 6/21
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Puerto Rican nationalist took part in the assault on the US House of Representatives in 1954
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JFK - Filmed JFK on Main Street in Dallas, 22 Nov 1963; you still can see Clint Hill riding the presidential car
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WW2 Iwo Jima Marine/Combat engineer, had the job of sneaking up and hurling satchels loaded with explosives into Japanese machine-gun nests and caves
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US WWII era veteran, born 1928. Enlisted at 18 in 1946, served as a guard at Sugamo prison during the Tokyo Trials (the Nuremburg counterpart for Japanese war criminals), became the Chief Jailer there
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Women's equality activist; inspiration of President Obama's Fair Pay Act
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Nobel medicine laureate 1958
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Nobel physics laureate 1988
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Invented the CT scan; Natl Inventor Hall of Fame inductee
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Amanda Lee (2)Lee became the first female demonstration pilot for the Navy's famed Blue Angels team
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Former drug dealer convicted of espianoge against the USA for the Soviet Union-friend of Chris Boyce
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Civil rights figure, born 1937. First integrated class of a Tennessee public school, 1955. Later, did local sit-ins. Career developing lasers, semiconductors and fiber optics. Saw Eisenhower at Union Station during a DC trip in the 1950s
