Served in 88th 'Cloverleaf' Infantry Division during the war as medical officer fought in the Rome-Arno, North Apennines, and Po Valley campaigns throughout Italy and worked as a doctor at his Battalion Aid Station
WWII: 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles), 506th PIR, D Company. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Berchtesgaden (Eagles' Nest), occupation duty in Austria
WWII: ETO/PTO. US Navy Bell Diver/Combat Swimmer/Frogman of Underwater Demolition Team #3 (UDT-3), forefathers of the Navy Seals. He carried 100 lbs of dynamite up the beaches for the Marines to retrieve and use in battle
(Born 1949) US Army Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1970 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, 3 Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart
WWII: 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The Ghost Army used inflatable rubber tanks, wooden guns, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy
Donald Francis Mason was a U.S. Navy pilot with Patrol Squadron Eight-Two (VP-82), stationed at Argentia, Newfoundland.Responsible for the saying 'Sighted Sub, Sank Same.
Cultural diplomat, editor, radio dance critic and writer for more than 50 years. Furthered the careers of many famous dance figures, notably George Balanchine and Martha Graham. Participated in D-Day while serving in the Navy
WWII: D-Day. UK veteran. Landed (second wave) with the Royal Army Medical Corps at Gold Beach. Also El Alamein, Sicily, a.o. battles in the MTO (Mediterranean Theater of Operations)
Former MLB scout - New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Arizona Diamondbacks. Former NCAA baseball coach - Auburn Montgomery Warhawks. Vietnam War veteran - US Navy
WWII: ETO. Tail Gunner, B-24 Liberator 'B.T.O.' (Big Time Operator, #42-7627). 702nd Bomb Squadron, 445th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force (Dec. 1943 to Dec. 1944). Became a POW in Sweden. DFC
Last survivor of the final Royal Naval vessel to be sunk in WW2. He was a sailor on HMS Vestal, an Algerine-class minesweeper and part of the East Indies Fleet. Vestal was sunk on July 26, 1945. Now age 92 and lives in Newark-on-Trent, UK
US brewer, politician, Revolutionary War officer, Second Continental Congress member (1736-1829). Perfect penmanship led to writing Washington's Army General commission and the original Declaration of Independence signed by the delegates
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
WWII - fought with the legendary K/3/5. Fought at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Cape Gloucester, Borgen Bay, Talasea and Peleliu as a Marine. Also received a Purple Heart
American veteran (1916-2011). Served in the Spanish Civil War's Lincoln Brigade, and in the US Army during WWII. Joined the Young Communist League in the 1930s
WWII: ETO. 6th Armored Division, Company B. Battle at Han-sur-Nied, Battle of the Bulge. Unregistered POW believed to be the last living American Nazi slave laborer
WWII: ETO. Tail gunner in B-24 'Wild Pussy' (B-24H-15-FO #42-52529). 786th Squadron, 466th Bomb Group, 8th AF. 31 combat missions (Feb. 6 1944-Aug. 16, 1944), incl. 2 to Berlin and 2 on D-Day, almost being killed on his last one to Hamburg
WWII veteran (Born 1925), shrapnel broke thorough his thigh during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest in Nov. 1944. During 40 months of difficult recovery, often near death, he met with a visiting Helen Keller, which left him awed and inspired
WWII: British D-Day (Sword Beach) vet, 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Later injured while fighting in the Netherlands. He is the last living knight from WWII of the exclusive Military William Order, the highest honour of the Netherlands
Pearl Harbor Survivor, Kaneohe NAS. On guard watch at Hangar 3, he emptied the Colt 45 he'd been issued at a Japanese Zero plane that strafed the ground around him, though he didn't hit the grinning pilot
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, Navy Hospital Ship USS Solace (AH-5); later, serving on the USS Samaritan (AH-10), in the Battles of Midway and Iwo Jima
WWII: D-Day. Navy gunner on the USS Augusta (Admiral Kirk's flagship for D-Day, also carrying Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, providing fire support on D-Day and beyond)
On February 21, 1945, as a captain, he earned the Medal of Honor on Iwo Jima, while leading an assault team across exposed ground to wipe out positions holding up the advance of his company
WWII Army - Battle of the Bulge, D-Day and was one of the first troops to reach and liberate an estimated 21,000 emaciated prisoners at Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. Lives in Lancaster, Ohio
WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Helena CL-50). Also served on the USS Helena in the Guadalcanal Campaign and survived the sinking of the USS Helena after she was hit by a torpedo in the Night Battle of Kula Gulf, 6 July 1943
US Army Air Corps WWII veteran. Bombadier on a B-29 crew based in Saipan, flew 13 missions over Japan. Part of the fly-over during the Japanese Surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
WWII/ETO: Staff Seargent at the 3393 Quartermaster Truck Co of the Red Ball Express, a famed truck convoy system (and one of the biggest logitics operations of the war) that supplied the Allied forces on their way through Europe
Born 3/5/2021, flew P-51 Mustang fighters in Europe throughout WW II until was shot down in 1945 and taken prisoner, awarded Purple Heart & Distinguished Flying Cross/Renaissance Marquisâ-? favorite residents still has a few stories to tell
WWII: USS Gridley (DD-380 ). Entered Pearl Harbor on 8 December 1941, the morning after the attack, together with the USS Enterprise. Also served in the Aleutian Campaign in 1942
Retired Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. He served in the Medical Corps and from 1992-1995 was Commander of the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia. Appeared on the US reality show Mole 2: The Next Betrayal
Master Sergeant Bob McDonald is a member of the US Army Chorus and an anthem singer for the Washington Capitals and Washington Nationals. During his free time, McDonald also performs concerts
Vietnam infantry platoon leader in the legendary 173d Airborne Brigade, military theorist who has helped shape the post-Cold War army?s thinking, author of Platoon Leader, The Defense of Hill 781, and The Limits of Glory
WWII: Tail gunner in B-17 'Hell's Belle', shot down over Germany in 1943, where he was subsequently captured and interned in Stalag 17B in Austria. Wrote 'A Tail Gunner's Tale' about his experience. 1923-2002
WWII: ETO. 405th Fighter Squadron, 371st Fighter Group, 9th Air Force. P-47 Thunderbolt pilot shot down on 20 Sept 1944 near Cobern, Germany. POW at Stalag Luft 1 (of Hub Zemke fame) where he was the last man to leave when it was liberated
WWII: B-17 bomber pilot in the Pacific. Bomber Barons, 5th BG, 13th AF. 58 missions. Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon
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
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
(November 19, 1925 - March 3, 1999) was a United States Naval officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions while in command of the USS Liberty when it was attacked by Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean on June 8, 1967 during the Six-Day War
WWII: PTO. Last survivor of the sinking of the HMAS Perth in the Battle of Sunda Strait, 1 March 1942. 2 years POW in Thailand/ Burma, then the unmarked POW transport Rakuyo Maru was sunk on 12 Sept. 1942. POW again; Kawasaki camp, Tokyo
POW of War - VietnamAuthor of 'Prisoner of War: 6 years in Hanoi'which give a graphic account of the terribl punishments endured by the US Soldiers (and Heroes!!)
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
Tornado on 'Gladiators (UK 2008), Royal Marines Commando since the age of 16, having served in Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Somalia and the Gulf.member of the Commando Display Team and is a Marines middleweight boxing champion.
WWII/JFK - US Air Force General who started as a test pilot flying well over 100 different airplanes, served in Europe starting January 1944; leading 40 P-38 fighter planes on D-Day, 370th Fighter Group; met JFK in 1962 at Vandenberg Air Force Base
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. Radar Operator at Opana Radar Station; they detected the incoming Japanese planes on Dec. 7, 1941, but were told by their superiors to disregard the sighting. He was at the station at the time of the attack
American WWII Marine veteran of Guadalcanal and Tulagi, born in 1922. Pictured in a popular photo being carried on a stretcher after being injured at Guadalcanal
Four-star USAF veteran General Craig Richard McKinley (b:1952) Chairman of ANSER Board & National Chair of ESGR, with a distinguished career in leadership and service
Cold War: RB-47 navigator flying over the Barents Sea in July 1960, shot down by a Soviet MiG. He was held as prisoner and came home Jan. 27, 1961, greeted by President Kennedy
WWII: 92nd Bomb Group, 8th AF. Decorated combat pilot. Lead bomber on the Second Raid on Schweinfurt, 14 October 1943. Founded the West Virginia Air National Guard
WWII: CBI. Last surviving officer 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. Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Herbert Raymond McMaster ) is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General who served as the 26th United States National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018. He is also known for his roles in the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi
(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Squad Leader with Company B, 3rd Battalion of the 21st Infantry Regiment in South Vietnam. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Bronze Star and Purple Heart
WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when nearly 400 sailors and airmen were killed and more than 260 wounded
Sergeant, USA, Pathfinders, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne, 'Filthy 13' member
SGT McNiece was 1 of 2 members of the 101st that made all 4 jumps, Normandy (D-Day), Holland, Bastogne, & Germany
(Born 1922) US Army WW2 Veteran. Company D, 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Divsion. Utah Beach, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe.
Recipient of a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
WWII: ETO. Normandy (his first battle was St. Lo), Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, Central Europe. HQ Company, 3rd Battalion, 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division. Honor Guard for Pres. Truman, Antwerp, Belgium, 1945
United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II
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
WW2 veteran and the last survivor of the sinking of HMS Saracen, a British submarine sunk on 13 August 1943. He is now 91 and lives in a care home in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England
US WWII Navy vet (1921-2023). Served on the USS Hopewell, as a Fire Controlman. Saw action in the S. Pacific, including Leyte, Luzon, and the Marshall Islands
WWII: C Co, 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry, 29th Division. D-Day+1 Omaha Beach, Battle of St. Lo (June 16, 1944 - Hill 108 'Purple Heart Hill'). Fought in Normandy, Holland, Belgium, Germany
20 years US Navy/earned 3 Silver Stars, Bronze Star, Navy Commendation & 13 battle stars/Retired Rear Admiral WW2/author of two World War II submarine history books http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/cgmendenhalljr.htm
WWII - Iwo Jima conqueror, C Company, 24th Regiment, 4th Marine Division. Also fought in the Battles of Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian, after WWII in Korean War and Vietnam War
WWII: ETO. 508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division. Wounded in Operation Market Garden near Nijmegen, Netherlands, he was left for dead. Captured by the SS, he became a POW (Stalag XII-A, Stalag VII-A), was interrogated by Heinrich Himmler
One of only twelve known survivors of the Khmer Rouge imprisonment in the S-21 Tuol Sleng camp, where more than 16,000 Cambodians were sent for execution
USS. Utah survivor (Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941); served later on USS Detroit CL-8 and watched the surrender ceremony onboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Also Battles at Attu, Kiska, Iwo Jima and Okinawa
WWII veteran and car designer, born 1926. Served on the USS Bunker Hill, surviving 2 kamikaze attacks, once jumping off board to avoid a fire that killed hundreds. Later gained fame as the designer of the classic dune buggy car, named the Meyers Manx, rid
WWII/JFK: Served in the Marine Corps in the Pacific, 2 Purple Hearts. Invited and chaired the famous meeting of the Houston Ministerial Association for Sen. John F. Kennedy to allay fears about a Catholic president
Edward Stanley Michael (May 2, 1918 â-' May 10, 1994) was a United States Army Air Forces officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions in World War II
WW2 Battle of Britain pilot and Spitfire pilot in the RAF. Born in 1920, he joined 234 Squadron at St Eval in September 1940. He was taken POW and interned in various camps including Stalag Luft III. He is now 96 and lives in the UK
Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941. Served on USS San Francisco. Was also involved in Battle of Midway, Battle of Wake Island, raids on Gilbert and Marshalls islands, Battle of Cape Esperance, Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, landed at Peleliu
WWII - WASP pilot. Commanding Officer of the WASP stationed at Love Field, Dallas; flew every type of aircraft, training, cargo, fighter, and twin and four-engine bombers, experimental
General Mark A. Milley is the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation's highest-ranking military officer, and the principal military advisor to the President, Secretary of Defense, and National Security Council
WWII - Bill Millin who was the Piper of the 1st Special Service Commando Brigade, and was amongst the more noticeable men to land on D-Day as he played the Brigade ashore with his bagpipes under enemy fire. Pictured in 'The Longest Day'
WWII: ETO. D - Day paratrooper, 502nd Parachute Regt, 101st Airborne. Witnessed Eisenhower's D - Day talk to the group. Also Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge
WWII: ETO. Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge (taken POW Dec. 18, 1944 in Fouhren, Luxembourg; first at Stalag II-A, then a 5-month-death march across Germany from one POW camp to another). 109th Infantry, 28th Div
WWII: Marine PFC on Sand Island during the Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942. His battle station was the wooden searchlight control tower from where he witnessed the Japanese attack on the island
WWII: D-Day, Carentan, Operation Market Garden. Dog Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR (Screaming Eagles). Jumped into Normany in Stick 60 (C-47 42-100874), wounded at Carentan, returned and seriously wounded during Operation Market Garden
American reporter covered the Civil Rights Movement and who was a WWII veteran on the USS Stephen Potter; he saw the Kamikaze attack on the Bunker Hill and his ship tried to rescue survivors
WWII: PTO. He served in seven major battles in the Pacific Theater. He was the last crew member standing from the USS Hoel DD-533 which was sank in the Battle of Samar, 25 October 1944
World War 2 Vet, 98, said he can remember what he saw when he was among the first Marines to enter Nagasaki in Sept 1945. A few weeks before they arrived, the U.S. had dropped an atomic bomb on the city, which led to Japan's surrender
WWII: ETO/'Mighty Eight'. Copilot on B-17 #42-3413 'Hard Luck!'. 350th Bomb Sqdn, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 'Hard Luck' crashed, after tanks ran dry, on 14 Aug 1944. Captured on 17 Aug. POW at Stalag Luft 4 for the rest of the war
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
(Born 1919) US Navy WW2 and Korean War Veteran. Join the Navy in 1937 and was on the USS Boise for the entirety of WW2. Kept a diary about his time. Served as a doctor in Korea
WWII/Apollo: PTO, Fighter Pilot, 22 mission, Distinguished Flying Cross. Later Vice-President of Rocketdyne (built the rockets, incl. the Saturn V, for NASA)
1051st Quartermaster Company, provided food & clothing to Tuskegee Airmen. Recieved Gold Medal from President Bush with Tuskegee Airmen. Chaplin to Tuskegee Airmen East Coast Chapter. 'Bodyguard to Martin Luther King from Selma Alabama to Montgomery'
British war hero born 1920 who raised more than 30 million dollars to Corona charity by walking in his yard. 2020 fundraising walk..Also the oldest person to have a number 1 hit in the UK With song you will never walk alone
WWII: No. 138 (Special Duties) Squadron; dropping secret agents into occupied Europe, picking folks up, dropping supplies, cooperating with the French Maquis. Later bombing raids all over Europe
WWII: D-Day paratrooper. Flew into Normandy aboard C-47 Skytrain 42-92841 'Turf & Sport Special' and dropped to St. Mere-Eglise on June 6, 1944; Normandy (Hill 195), Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. 508th PIR, 82nd AB
WWII - Medic 82nd AB, 505th PIR made four combat jumps (Sicily, Italy, D-Day LaFiere Bridge, Holland), participated in six battle campaigns in the European Theatre of Operations. Bronze Star, Purple Heart
WWII - Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor, Navy Base, 11y; his father David Jay Morgan was serving on the USS Ward (fired 1st US shots in WWII), survived the attack and his name is engraved on the crew list by the gun memorial today
One of the survivors from Pearl Harbor; together with his brother, Albert, among the last living sets of brothers to serve in the United States Navy and survive the attack on Pearl Harbor aboard the same ship
Cpl. /One of three Marines that lowered the Embassy flag in Cuba the last time when the Embassy closed in 1961/ Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana 5+ decades raise the Stars and Stripes once again there
WW2/From Bramble Edge in Dorset, Wren working in Newmanry Registration Room receiving German messages from intercept site at Knockholt, near Sevenoaks in Kent on punched paper teleprinter tapes, prepared for Colossus and logging the results
WWII: D-Day veteran from Norway. Served on the HNoMS Svenner which was sunk off Sword Beach, Normandy, at dawn on 6 June 1944, while supporting the British Army landings
Born 1942 US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. 1 Bronze Star, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, 1 Legion of Merit, and 1 Defense Superior Service Medal
WWII: PTO. Battle of Midway (June 1942), USS Hammann, DD-412. Survived the sinking of his ship when she was hit by a torpedo. He jumped overboard and would remain in the water for nearly 6 hours before being rescued. Also Korea/Vietnam
Born April 7, 1917 is a retired American soldier who served during World War II in the United States Army with the 11th Airborne Division between 1944 and 1945