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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC. Purple Heart
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WWII: P-51 Mustang fighter pilot in the 487th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, 8th Air Force
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Navy, LST 823
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Operation HalyardLargest rescue of downed airmen in WWIIThe Forgotten 500
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941; recovering aboard a hospital ship in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, already in the water aboard a small shuttle boat as the attack began, Johann rescued men from the oil-slicked and burning waters
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Wwii: wasp
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Retired U.S. Navy - former Commanding Officer of the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), the USS Denver (LPD-9), and the Dragonfires (VS-29)
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92 Year old nose gunner on a B-24 bomber during WW2 & POW. Now lives in Montville, NJ
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Army General
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Centenarian (1896-2001). US WWI veteran. Drove a hospital truck in France during his service, and contracted/survived the 1918 Flu epidemic
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black sheep squadron
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Andrew Johnson (5)
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Arthur Johnson (2) Military
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Top Gun Crew Chief/Tuskegee Airmen?/99th PS & 332nd
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WWII Veteran, Tuskegee Airmen
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Charles Johnson (3)USAF General
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US WWII vet, born 1922. Served in the OSS, disrupting supply chains by parachuting into enemy areas in France and Germany, then into China
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, aboard U.S.S. Maryland when the attack took place. Also fought in the Korean War
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Tuskegee Airmen, Bomber/Navigator!
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Bomb Aimer, 617 Squadron (Dambusters)
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WW1 Veteran. Awarded Distinguished Service Cross for actions in Flexville, France
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Fighter Pilot Ace during WWII.(18 victories)
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Retired Navy Admiral
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air force general
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Pearl Harbor survivor (7 Dec 1941), USS Oklahoma
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WWII: Combat Information Center, USS Killen, DD-593. Battle of Surigao Strait (25 October 1944). Johnson's job was to figure out the torpedo trajectory for the attack that eventually sank the Japanese battleship Yamashiro
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4 Star General
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Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
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Manhattan Project/Oak Ridge worker, born in 1925. Worked as a 'Calutron Girl' during WWII, unknowingly helping to produce Uranium for the Hiroshima bomb
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ww 11 air force hero england
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British ace from WW2
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Former Chief of Naval Operations
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navy admiral
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WW2 Flying Ace
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Jonathan Johnson (3)Member of rescue Ship USS Bassett to the aid of the USS Indianapolis Survivors
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'Hidden Figure' African-American physicist and mathematician who made contributions to the US aeronautics and space programs with early application of digital electronic computers at NASA
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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US Army Veteran
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WWII SPAR, a female veteran in the US Coast Guard. Born in 1914
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Civilian worker, POW. Bronze Star with 'V' (awarded in combat). Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Journalist and Vegas PR career, born 1933. Korean War vet, guarded MacArthur. Raced cars, friends with James Dean. Danced in 'Jailhouse Rock' title number with Elvis, who became a friend since they shared an interest in martial arts
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medal of honor army ww11
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941
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USAF Desert Storm War Hero.Flew A-10
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WWII US Fighter Pilot, 56th FG, Zemke's Wolfpack
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Tuskegee Airman WWII
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WW2 vet, born 1921, and the last surviving member of Richard Byrd'sThird Antarctic Expedition in 1939. Also returned with Byrd on his 1946 and 1947 expeditions
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Robert Johnson (5) 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; 'gidi gidi boom boom'/S/Sgt. Turret Gunner 15th Air Force, 449th Bomb Group WW2/One of Ploesti raiders, shot down on a mission to Romania
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack). Read his story at http://leftfieldperspectives.blogspot.co.at/2006/11/meet-doc-johnson.html
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USMC General
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Iraq War POW
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Tuskegee Airmen, b. 1924
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World War II veteran. Was a North American Aviation test pilot during the Apollo Program. After the Apollo 1 fire, Mr. Johnson was asked by his employer North American Aviation to enter another module and try to figure out what happened Born 18.4.1925
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WWII - First Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) to qualify as instructors on electrically-operated .50-calibre machine gun turrets
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Retired USMC General born 1937
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WWII: ETO. P-51 Mustang pilot. 336th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group. 4.5 victories
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'Easy Company' 'Member ofa Band of Brothers'
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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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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Headquarters Squadron, 11th Bombardment Group, Hickam Field
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WWII: On board the USS Emmons on 6 June 1944 during D-Day. He also survived the 5 kamikaze planes that flew into the plane on 6 April 1945
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WWII veteran, participated in D-Day (748th Tank Battalion). Also a participant in FDR's New Deal Programs, the CCC and the WPA
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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WWII - Tuskegee Air(wo)man
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World war 2 fighter ace
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Doolittle Raiders 'Pilot Crew #5'
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Apollo 11: Pilot of the helicopter (#66) that recovered Neil Armstrong after Apollo 11 returned successfully
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Doug Jones (9)WW2 veteran (born: 1919). He was one of the last soldiers to get off the beach at Dunkirk. He also witnessed the last eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1944. He lives in Bolton, UK and recently celebrated his 100th birthday
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British ace from WW2
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Tuskegee Airmen WW2 '99th FS'
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; NAS Kanoehe Bay. He is the man working on and bending over a rope in the famous photograph of December 7, 1941, with wreckage and burning planes all around, trying to save a PYB
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British Union Leader. Born: 03/29/1913
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USMC Commander James Logan Jones Jr (b: December 19, 1943) is a retired Marine 4 star general who served from 1967 to 2007
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Born 1919 WW2 US Army Veteran
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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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Johnnie Jones (2) WWII D-Day Veteran, Civil Rights attorney, Louisiana State Legislator
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Rosie The Riveter - Built WWII Airplanes
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US WWII Navy Pilot, born 1922. Flew off the USS Guadalcanal
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Royal millitary
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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Robert Jones (8)D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1925. He is now 89 and lives in the UK. He was a former machine gunner with the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry. Also known as Robert
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WWII: PTO. 1st Marine Division. Saw action saw action in New Guinea, Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa, and the Ryukyu Islands. 2 Bronze Stars
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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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(October 23, 1916 - April 15, 1998) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general and a highly decorated veteran of three wars, receiving the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart. He was a battalion commander in World W
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WWII: 7th Infantry Division; fought in the battles of Attu Island, Kwajelein, Leyte and Okinawa
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, E Company, 19th Infantry 24th Division, Schofield Barracks
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WWII Royal Navy veteran who famously absconded from his UK nursing home to attend the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings (2014)
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army general
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Cuban exile of the 1960's (Born: 1936), anti-Castro, and Bay of Pigs Invasion participant who is co-founder and president of the Cuban American National Foundation. Age: 80
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The oldest living female World War II Veteran and a former Army Nurse. She nursed soldiers who had been wounded on Iwo Jima during the brutal and bloody battle to capture the island. She is now 109 and lives in Buffalo, New York, U.S.A
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WWII - Navy. Served on the USS Hornet (CV-8) from her first to her last day, supporting the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and surviving the sinking in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 27 October 1942
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coast guard admiral
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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army general
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WWII: US Navy. Survived the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay which was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tarawa (November 1943)
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Also known as Al JuchheimP-47 Thunderbolt Ace of WWII, 9 victories83rd Squadron/78th Fighter Group
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WWII: PTO. Navy. Battles/Campaigns: Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Peleliu, Angaur, Leyte, Lingayen, Wake and Okinawa. USS Pennsylvania
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100 year old World War II Navy veteran
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air force general
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German Panzer Granadier WWII
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Vice Admiral, Royal Navy Officer
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WWII veteran of Buna, Letye, Luzon campaigns. Born 1919
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Danish WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal Campaign, Battle of Peleliu
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WWII (Navy) - Pearl Harbor and Okinawa
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Highly respected parasitologist, veteran of the Polish Armia Krajowa during World War II, poet, fisherman, translator and scientific administrator
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President Congo (2001-present), Army General
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Flying Tigers-clerk
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WWII veteran, Iwo Jima
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8th Armored Division
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American Spanish Civil War Veteran (1914-2009)- in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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German WWII Awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients
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German ww2 pilot
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26-year Navy career in the Cold War, Master Bomb Disposal Technician; he helped disarm an errant U.S. nuclear bomb off the coast of Spain from a B-52 bomber that crashed there after a mid-air collision in 1966
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US Navy. Last Battleship Captain in History (USS Missouri)
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WWII: PTO. Quartermaster on the USS Missouri; he steered the Mighty Mo into Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender
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vietnam war air force hero
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Female Soviet sniper during WW2. At 17 years old, she was one of the youngest to ever fight in the war
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(born Argentina on 1 October 1925) former French Resistance, specializing in forgery of identity documents, who later went on to assist Jewish emigration to Israel and then to forge identity documents for the National Liberation Front
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WW2 Veteran, Private that belonged to the 1st Infantry Division 26th Infantry Regiment. Fought in Belgium in 1944
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Worden. Survived her capsizing in January of 1943
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Air Force General
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WWII: D-Day, C-47 pilot 100th TCS, 441st TCG; flew 82nd AB into Ste. Mere-Eglise on D-Day. Also in Operation Market Garden
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WW2 Navy Seaman/Guam
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WWII: PTO. 457th Field Artillery Battalion, 11th Airborne Division
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Doolittle Raiders: Navigator on the #11 aircraft
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Retired USMC General
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII Fighter Ace (7.5 Victs)
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Finnish ace in WW2, 32 victories
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WWII: Medic in Company B, 169th Infantry, 43rd Division, who was shot in the head by a Japanese sniper at New Georgia and barely survived
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Indian army generel (retired), served in the Indo-Pakistani-War in 1971
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German Child, WWI Survivor
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USS Pueblo
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Surviving POW of the Colditz camp, is living in Great Britain
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Officer US Army Reserve (RET.) Notable for having commanded forces that operated Abu Ghraib & other prisons in Iraq in 2003 & 2004, at time of scandal related to torture & prisoner abuse. Commanded 3 prisons in Iraq & forces that ran them
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WWII - Fighter ace, U.S. Army Air Corps. Flew P51s over North Africa and Italy. 6 victories
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(born in 1920 in Oran, Algeria), was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. He was a leader of the Algiers putsch of 1942
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WWII: Reserve kamikaze pilot for the Japanese military. Now 92 and reportedly living in Osaka, Japan
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Marine Sergeant Major, recipient of the Navy Cross (second battle of Fallujah) Author of the book 'My Men Are My Heroes'
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Korean War Ace (6 kills) - USAF - POW Viet Nam - Air Force Cross recipient three times (flew the f-105 thunderchief)
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Retired New York State Assemblyman, a retired judge of the New York State Courts at every level, and a World War II veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Tern
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Author '395 Days'/Vietnam 3rd Marines Division called 'E' Echo Company & 1st Battalion 9th Marines, Charlie Company 2nd Platoon
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Wrote the book Why is Dad So Mad? (now a series) to help kids understand the PTSD he suffers following serving in the armed forces
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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WWII: US Navy. Survied the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Morton Katz was born on May 15, 1919. He became a lawyer in 1951, after serving in World War II. He is still active in Connecticut
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Retired USN Vice Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941 (coastal artillery battery)
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Last living American officer at the Surrender of Japan on board the USS Missouri on 2 September 1945. Born:1919. He is now 99
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa
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Finnish WW2 veteran. An Estonian volunteer who participated in the Finnish Continuation War. Lived in Chicago
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WWII: US Navy. PTO, USS Reid & USS Lowndes
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US Navy Sailor, survivor of the Israeli attack on USS Liberty in 1967
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Polish WWII Veteran
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941. USS Cassin
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Canadian centenarian war veteran
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WWII Air Force Veteran from Arizona. Just turned 97, was covered on a GMA episode for carrying 100lbs of weights and vigorously working out to stay healthy
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army general
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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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John Kearney (3) WWII: PTO. USMC, 12th Defense Battalion. Battle of Peleliu
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Commander US Northern Command
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WWII - U.S. Marine Corps. Fought at Roi-Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, Iwo Jima, Saipan and Tinian
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WWII: Pear Harbor survivor (USS Nevada), Battle of Coral Sea survivor (USS Lexington)
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WWII: Tuskegee Airman, Trained to be a bomber pilot for the 477th Bombardment Group, he never saw combat as the war ended before he was deployed. Trained in T-6. B-25
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Military
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US WWII Marine, born 1924. Served in the Battles of Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Worked under Werner von Braun in the 50s, absorbed into the newly formed NASA. Knew and worked with astronauts back to the original 7. Retired in 1985
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Retired General
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Member of the famous Flying Tigers Squadron during WWII.
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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WWII: German pilot. Leader of the IV. NJG 101 (Night fighters), in 1945 transferred to Oskar-Heinrich Bär's Jagdverband 44 (JV 44) (Air fighter unit flying the Me-262 - the world's first fighter jet). One of the last Me-262 pilots alive
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Holocaust Survivor, MS St. Louis
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Australian soldier born 1983, was awarded the Victoria Cross for actions in the Afghanistan War, the highest award in the Australian honours system
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US WWII Army Air Corps, born 1921. Groundcrew for B-17s flying out of England
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WWII: PTO. US Fleet Marine on the USS Enterprise;
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US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1953 to 1979. Went to Vietnam in 1970
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US Army Officer Ret (LTC). Deputy Provost Marshal during Operation Just Cause, Panama
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Weathergirl vietnam armed forces radio 1967-69
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Spingham 1974, publisher,Russum award
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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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Pearl Harbor veteran, born 1922, served on the USS West Virginia
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Chief Petty Officer (CTTC) on USS Pueblo when it was captured by the North Koreans in 1968, POW for 11 months
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WWII veteran, Iwo Jima
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Among the six men who raised the flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, recently identified by Marines
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Vietnam war army hero 'Medal of Honor Recipient'
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Military author
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Tank driver in the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa
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lz xray 1965 nam
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(Born 1925) US Army WW2 Veteran. Company D, 1st Battalion, 315th Infantry Regiment. Became a POW until he escaped on foot 600 miles. Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, born 1918,. Onboard the USS West Virginia during teh attack
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(Born 1925) US Marine Corps WW2 Veteran. 22nd Marines, 6th Marine Division, Company C. Battle of Okinawa and Guam
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marine corps general
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medal of honor navy vietnam war
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Lz xray 1965
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Medal of Honor Recipient-USMC-(Mar.11th,1970) Vietnam War
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WWII: Navajo Code Talker
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WW2 Veteran:1st Seabee to Storm Beaches of Guam
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Tuskegee Airmen
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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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John F. Kelly (2)
Marine Corps General (retired), Secretary of Homeland Security for Donald Trump -
Margaret Kelly (2)Worked at Bletchley Park during WWII as a code breaker
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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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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: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Major General John Kelsey was the Director of Military Survey from 1972 to 1977
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navy admiral
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WWII: PTO. USS Doherty ( DE 14) and USS Dyson (DD572)
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Royal millitary
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navy admiral
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US WWII Merchant Marine, born 1927. Atlantic convoy to Murmansk, Russia in 1944. Switched to the Army, hit Italy by war's end, but saw no combat there
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WWII - She made history on 3 March 1945 she became the first US Navy flight nurse to fly an evacuation mission to an active battlefield: Iwo Jima
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WWII - C-47 Squadron Commander who flew paratroopers into their dropzones. Operation Husky (Sicily 1943); D-Day Normandy; CO of the 44th Troop Carrier Squadron after D-day; for Market Garden, General Gavin selected Kendig to be his pilot for the jump
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WWII: ETO. 351st Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Tailgunner on B-17 'The Brass Hat'. Flew at the end of the war (December 1944 to April 1945, incl. Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dortmund)
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Argonne
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war hero, Victoria Cross receiver, now living in Australia
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(April 18, 1913, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - November 1, 2003, Austin, Texas) was an American composer, author, educator, and professor/World War II, when he served as a bandmaster for the United States Army
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air force general
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Victoria Cross Recipient
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u.s. army deputy chief of state
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1980 Damascus, Arkansas incident a missile equipped with a nuclear warhead exploded in Damascus, Arkansas, in 1980. The silo was part of the 374th Strategic Missile Sq./He entered launch complex that day for readings of fuel concentrations
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Kevin Kennedy (3)Commander Afc21scr
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Sacramento
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WWII: Royal Canadian Navy. Escorted Arctic Murmansk convoys. With HMS Naiad, he was in the evacuation of Greece, the Battle of Crete, in Malta convoys, eventually torpedoed on 11 March 1942. Later HMNZS Gambia (Battle of Okinawa, Tokyo Bay)
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WWII - D-Day Utah Beach (4th Infantry Division, Battery B, 44th Field Artillery Battalion); also survivor of 'Exercise Tiger', the D-Day dress rehearsal, April 28, 1945, that turned into disaster as being attacked by German forces
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British' Born: 09/01/1908
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Lawyer, Judge, South African WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. First Battalion, 147th Infantry
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WWII: D-Day. Ranger. Pointe du Hoc
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WWII Bataan Death March Survivor, (1920-2022) Enlisted in the US Army in 1938, taken POW after the Death March. Then served 21 years in the US Air Force after WWII
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American former soldier, police officer, consultant, 40th Commissioner of the New York Police Department, author and convicted felon for which he obtained the presidential pardon in 2020
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WWII: PTO. Bougainville, Iwo Jima. 27th Marines, 5th Marine Division
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army general
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WWII: Drafted into the German Wehrmacht late in 1944, he was bombed out of two homes, strafed by British fighter planes, shot at and shelled on the European battlefields and eventually held as a POW - all before his 18th birthday
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WWII: Hump Flyer
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Joseph Kernan (2)USN Admiral
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4-Star General Born Sept 22, 1942 and served from 1968 to 2002
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Former under Secretary of Air Force
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. Battle of The Bulge. 78th Infantry Division
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medal of honor navy vietnam
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Former U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1989-2001)
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WWII German Tank Ace 100+ Kills
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Hulbert
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Commander, US NAVY Blue Angels
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Former General in the National People's Army (NVA) and Minister of Defense of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
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John Kessler (2) World War II veteran and purple heart recipient, fought on D-Day. Two bronze stars for valor, two purple hearts, 5 combat stars, presidential citation, the French croix du guerre, the Belgian croix du guerre
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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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To receive MOH/Led several helicopter trips to help evacuate wounded soldiers near Duc Pho & returned to LZ without additional aerial support to rescue stranded soldiers pinned down by enemy fire. Helped save the lives of 40 soldiers
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US Army WWII vet, born 1921. Member of the segregated 761st Tank Battalion under Patton, known as the Black Panthers
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air force general
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Soviet canoeist, Olympic champion. Siege of Leningrad survivor which he joined the Red Army after the battle
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army general
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George Kidd (2) Served 26 years as a U.S. Marine - was a drill sergeant in WWII at Montford Point, served with the 11th Marines in the Korean War, and survived being in the 1st Battalion 9th Marines - nicknamed 'The Walking Dead' during the Vietnam War
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WWII: Marine Corps. Guadalcanal Campaign
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Born 17 March 1913 was a highly decorated Major in the Luftwaffe during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves during World War II
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WWII: Battle of Midway (USS Yorktown)
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navy admiral
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Finnish WWII Veteran. Trained with the Panzerfaust, a German anti-tank weapon. He ambushed a Soviet Tank, which took a hit and caught fire. His story is featured in this article: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/in-a-haunting-video-finnish-veterans-recall
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navy admiral
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Australian author, strategist, and counterinsurgency expert who is currently the non-executive Chairman of Caerus Associates. 2005-2006: was Chief Strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the US State Department
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tennessee; also Battle of Saipan, Iwo Jima
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WWII: Guam, Iwo Jima
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1915-1967 Folklorist/professor at SMU Dallas. Kilpatrick interviewed Cherokee folk healers in 60s, collected manuscripts of traditional medicine. Books including Friends of Thunder 1964 Walk in Your Soul 1965 Run Toward the Nightland 1967
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Served in the Navy Radar Man in WWII, also served in the Korean War. USS Hornet (CV-12), USS President Hayes (APA-20), USS Laning (APD-55), USS Cronin (DEC-704)
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WWII - Capt Kimball was the Lead Navigator of the 100th Momb Group ('The Bloody 100th') of the 8th Air Force in Europe; receiving Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with Three Oak Clusters, the Croix de Guerre. Also served in Korea
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group
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Military
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WWII: Radio operator on a B-24 Liberator as part of the 455th Bombardment Group stationed in Italy and was part of 29 bombing missions to various sites in the European Theatre of WWII
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WWII: D-Day. UK veteran. Wireless operator in a Sherman tank; B Company, East Riding Yeomanry, 27 Armoured Division. Landed on Juno Beach on LST 3204. Saw combat in France (incl. Pegasus Bridge and Caen) and later Belgium, Holland, Germany
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, at Kaneohe Bay
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Military historian and author
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WW2 USAAF fighter pilot ace 7 victories 347/359 FG
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII: PTO. USS Tennessee
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen
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army general
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African American/WW2 6888 Central Postal Battalion in US Army, know as Six Triple Eight
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Newscaster KBOX radio 1963, went live on the air moments after assassination & fired for it/Witnessed Oswald's shooting. Later, he covered the Jack Ruby trial/WW2 POW Corregidor/Wrote 'Alamo of the Pacific'
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WW2 Canadian airman and one of the escapers from German PoW camp 'Stalag Luft III' in 1944, which inspired the Hollywood movie 'The Great Escape'. He is now 91
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Flew the Hump during WWII, Author
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WWII ship Reuben James survivor
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WWII: ETO. Fighter Pilot. POW. 75 missions. 406th Fighter Group
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P-51 Mustang Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of the 354 Fighter Group
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British pilot from WW2
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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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4-Star General
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air force general
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101st airborne division, ww2also 1st cav at lz ray nam in 1965
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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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Veteran of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4-8 May 1942), served on the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 3 remaining (as of 2022)
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Medal of Honor Vietnam
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Pearl Harbor Survivor
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WW2 Army Vet/Bronze Star/Member of Company K, 143 Infantry Regiment, 36th Division/Battle of Cassino, Blood River picked by Gen. Mark Clark/National Guard Texas/National Commander DAV/Injured arm in battle/finished out war in Texas
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Admiral
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WWII: PTO. Reconnaissance scout in the Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. Battles of Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima
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Ww2 fighter ace - 5 Kills - USAAF
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Wwii: eto. pow
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WWII: ETO. 66th Infantry Division. Survivor of the sinking of the troopship SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24. 1944. She was torpedoed and sunk by the U-486. 763 soldiers died, together with 56 of her crew
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WW2 POW who built a pinhole camera from cardboard scraps & used smuggled-in photo supplies to take photographs of fellow malnourished Marines/risked death from Japanese captors to build the camera, to document the horrors the POW's endured
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WWII - Nurse in the Battle of The Bulge; served with the 16th General Hospital
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in belle vernon,pa but not now?
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JFK - USAF Pipe Band; played at various events in the Kennedy presidency, including the visit of the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Sean Lemass in October 1963 (where Kirkpatrick met JFK) and the funeral of JFK
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Fighter ace 11 1/2 kills
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German WW2 veteran (Born: 1925) and last survivor of a little-known wartime prison camp on Merseyside, UK. Now 91 and lives in Huyton, Merseyside, UK
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS St. Louis
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D-Day Veteran, WWII
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Retired General
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British army officer who fought in Malaysia and the Falkland War, later was Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen from 1983 to 1985
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One of the pilots who took part in the mission to shoot down Admiral Yamamoto's airplane during WWII
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Set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest freefall and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere.
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. He was wounded by a RPG in a firefight losing his leg. He was saved by Dale Edge who he finally got to meet him again in 2021 after over 53 years since the incident
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US Marine Corps veteran who did 4 tours in Iraq and was deployed in Afghanistan once. Escorted General George Casey on board base
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WWII: ETO. Last survivor of B-24 bomber 'Arsenic & Lace' that was shot down on December 17, 1944, over Olomouc (now Czech Republic). He was taken POW until end of the war (Stalag Luft 1)
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Survivor of the wreck of the USS Indianapolis
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: 46th Field Artillery Battalion in Northern Ireland on June 6, 1944 (he was NOT a Ranger at Point-du-Hoc and NO D-Day veteran as he admitted in late 2017). Earned Bronze Star/Purple Heart; seriously wounded in combat near Moselle on 17 Nov 1944
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WWII: HQ Co, 3rd Bn, 501st PIR, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles).. D - Day, Operation Market Garden. Battle of the Bulge
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German WWII Veteran, Waffen - SS
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(Born 1922) US Army WW2 Medic. 90th Infantry Medic. Was at the Battle of the Bulge, Utah Beach, Belgium, and Germany. Purple Heart and Bronze Star Recipient
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WWII: CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Dobbin. Barely survived being bombed, later helped to pull men from the USS Arizona a.o. ships out of the water. Transferred to USS Mugford in 1943
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 17th Airborne Division. Purple Heart
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Wake island pilot ww2 vmf-211
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Polish WW2 veteran
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Retired USMC General
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BM3, USN, USS Wasatch (AGC-9) Crewmember on General MacArthur's Command Ship
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Major, USAAF, 454th Sqdn, 323rd Bomb Group, 9th AF B-26 Bombardier, 65 Combat Missions, including the Normandy Invasion. Shot down twice in one week
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Centenarian (1896-2000). US WWI veteran, served in France
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Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
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WWII: Flew his F4U Corsair with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 in support of the Battle of Okinawa. During operations he flew into Marine Corps history when he used his propellor to chop off the tail of Japanese aircraft
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Pearl Harbor/WWII Researcher & Author (Not USS Ward Vet!): 'Pearl Harbor: Awakening A Sleeping Giant'
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Retired General
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US WWII vet, born 1916. Horse cavalry in 1934, called back for WWII in the 331st Infantry regiment in the 83rd division as a Master Sergeant. Landed in Normandy couple weeks after D-Day, fought through Europe. Rode a horse in FDR's 1937 Inaugural Parade
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Grebe
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Soviet WWII Veteran
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Soviet WWII Veteran, Liberator of Mariupol
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Kaneohe Bay
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Noted German ecologist, pacifist, civil servant, politician and a co-founder of the Green Party in Germany. Served in the Luftwaffe during WWII
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa (AR-1)
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German officer in WWII, made daily briefings in the Führerbunker with Hitler
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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WWII: PTO. 11th Airborne Division. Wounded Leyte, Philippine Islands. Purple Heart
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Doolittle Raiders Co-Pilot Crew #13
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JFK: Military Academy at West Point Cadet representative at a White House reception in early 1961
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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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British WWII frogman
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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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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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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 95th Infantry Division
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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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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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Aylwin
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, 5th Marines, Tank Batallion
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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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(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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Survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
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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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Lz-xray nam 1965
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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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(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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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Iwo Jima. Saw the flag raising
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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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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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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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Polish World War One Veteran Lives in Sierakowice Poland
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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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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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Japanese WWII Veteran, born 1927
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Donut Dolly in Vietnam
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German WWII-Pilot, Rammjager Ace, flew with 4/JG-3 and 3/JG-4 Sturmgruppe
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Greek Cypriot WWII veteran. Part of Cypriot Regiment
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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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Japanese WWII Veteran, was 87 in 2007
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WWII: US Navy. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid. Aleutian Campaign,
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Russian tank ace and veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad during WW2
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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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(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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WWII German officer
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: ETO. B-17 bomber pilot in the 100th Bomb Group
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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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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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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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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 3rd Marine Division
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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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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, was at 1010 docks when the attack began, in charge of delivering ammunition for the Navy
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Air Force General
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Commandant of the Marine Corps (1995-99)
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Retired USMC General
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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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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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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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Flight engineer,of the 'Bockscar,' plane that dropped bomb on Nagasaki
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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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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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Vietnam war combat veteran. Served from 1966 to 1967 as a heavy door machine gunner on a helicopter
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Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief from 1977 to 1989
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USCG Admiral
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WWII: PTO. Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Philippines. USS Dickens APA-161
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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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Red Army veteran during WW2. Lives in Minsk
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 8 victories
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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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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 51 kills
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Japanese fighter ace, 16 kills
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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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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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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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WWII: USMC veteran of the Guadalcanal campaign
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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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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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Military
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WWII Veteran
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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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British ace from WW2
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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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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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
