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Retired Admiral
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navy admiral businessman
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air force general
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Retired Air Force General
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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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Former Millitary president, Peru
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(Born 1925) US Army WW2 Veteran. Was in the 87th Infantry. Battle of the Bulge. Has the Purple Heart and Bronze Star
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Army sniper vietnam- 53 kills
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WWII Fighter Ace - 6 Kills - US Navy
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (8 Kills) USAAF, 49 Fighter Group, 8 Fighter Squadron (5 victories w/this squadron), 1FG, 24PG - DSC, flew the p-38, p-39, p-51, p-80, and the f-86
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Jean Morel (2)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Navy
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José Moreno (3) Born: November 1918. Former POW, last veteran of the Basque army
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen; last Tuskegee Airmen from Louisiana
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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
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WWII: ETO. 16th Armored Division . Battle of the Bulge
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David Morgan (3)British fighter pilot, the most successful pilot of the 1982 Falklands War with 4 air victories, is living in Dorset
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Survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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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
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Survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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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
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Joe Morgan (4) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Aircraft Utility Squadron Two (VJ-2) , Ford Island
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ww 11 army air corps hero
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pilot memphis belle
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Marshall Islands, Saipan, Okinawa
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Comanding General US 2nd ID
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General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1986-1987), Chief of Staff, JASDF (1983?1986). Also a Veteran of the Japanese Army during WWII
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WWII. ETO. 8th Air Force, 100th Bomb Group
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team
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WWII: Pearl Harbor, Battle of Midway, Iwo Jima
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WWII: PTO. LSM 367 (landing ship medium). Philippines Campaign. His LSM was attacked by Kamikaze in the Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Utah
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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
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Soviet WWII Veteran
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WW2 Fighter Ace - 5 Kills - USAAF - POW - DSC
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Larry Morris (2)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
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Retired US Special Forces soldier; was left blinded in one eye in the firefight that killed Sgt. Christopher Speer on 7/27/02
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Received Medal of Honor on March 18th, 2014
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(Born 1932) US Army Korean War Veteran. Battle of Pork Chop Hill
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker
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WWII: PTO. US Army. Battles of Saipan, Guam
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Don Morrison (2)WWII Veteran, B-17 Gunner originally from Limon, CO
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Otolaryngologist, US WWII Army Air Corps, born 1925. Served at end of WWII, used GI Bill to get doctorate. While with the US Public Health Service, he delivered Alaska's first baby, 30 minutes after Eisenhower announced it was a new state
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. Saipan, Okinawa, Peleliu
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WWII: PTO. PBY Pilot. Battle of Midway
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Former US Army member turned personal trainer, corrective exercise specialist and Precision Nutrition coach, author and motivational speaker
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Commander 1st air force
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WWII: Veteran (2nd Marine Division) of the Battle of Tarawa
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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WWII: ETO. D-Day to occupation duty in Austria
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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
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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
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Chief of Staff US Air Force, 4 star general
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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SSgt, USA, 66th Infantry Regt., 71st Inf. Div., 3rd Army Combat Intantryman Battle of the Bulge veteran
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WWII: Last living survivor of the sinking of the HMS Parramatta, 27 November 1941
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WWII Flying Tigers (weatherman)
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Navy Admiral
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Neopagan priest, Finnish WWII Veteran. Fought in the Finnish Army during WWII
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Competed in the 'Battle of the Bands' on the USS Arizona the night before, later served at Midway
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, Remagen Bridge, Germany. 9th Armored Division
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WWII Flying Tiger Pilot
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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
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WWII Battle of Britain pilot, one of 7 remaining
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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
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WWII: D-Day, Sword Beach. Sapper in the 263 Field Company of the British Royal Engineers
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WWII: US Navy. Survived the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII: ETO. US Army. Battle of the Bulge
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Member of the legendary WWII Flying Tigers; not an original (AVG) Flying Tiger, but a successor in the 14th AIr Force
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Ex - marine, horror stories youtuber
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, Army Air Corps, Hickam Field
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the Battle of Jebsheim ('Colmar Pocket') in early 1945
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WWII. PTO. USMC. Combat action at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Peleliu Island, and Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, trapped inside USS Maryland, but escaped. Later Fighter Pilot USN VF-16 USS Randolph-Fighter Bomber 16
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WWII: PTO. 24th Infantry Division, 19th Infantry Regiment. 'Lost Battalion', which operated behind enemy lines for several weeks in the Philippines
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Navy Chief of Staff, Member of the Joint Chiefs
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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
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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Awarded 2 Silver Stars, 8 Air Medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and 2Purple Hearts, as well as the POW medal. Guest of Hanoi Hilton. Author/'The Hanoi Commitment'
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach (Carentan). C Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Glider Infantry (aka 'Bastogne Bulldogs'), 101st AB. Also Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, all the way to Hitler's Eagles Nest in Berchtesgaden and Austria
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WW2 vet, member of the Tuskegee Airmen, awarded Congressional Gold Medal; grandfather of basketball player Channing Frye. flew the pt-17, bt-13, at-10, c-47, c119, c-97, a-10
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101 Year old WW 2 Navy vet from the Normandy Landing and now resides in Washington Township, New Jersey
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WWII: Survivor of the Battle of Coral Sea (1942), USS Sims
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WWII: Sole survivor of the sinking of the UK steam passenger ship Ceramic, which sank on 7 December 1942, leading to 654 deaths
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marine corps general
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Centenarian (1902-2007). US Navy veteran of the WWI era. Did not enlist until 1919 (after the war's end), but fits into the post-war era of veterans
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Dam Busters World War 2 VeteranPilot: F/L John Leslie Munro ? Born 1919 New Zealand. . Retired as Wing Commander. Still living in Te Kuiti in New Zealand where he was Mayor for several years.
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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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Canadian WWII-Fighter Ace (Spitfire pilot)
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WWII: ETO. US Navy. USS Savannah
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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WW2 Fighter Ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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Most decorated American soldier during World War II; Author 'Recived the Medal of Honor' Actor/Westerns & war films
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WWII - WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)
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Executive Officer of USS Pueblo, held as a POW by the North Koreans for a year
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WWII Marine veteran, Peleliu and Okinawa
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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medal of honor marines korea
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WWII: 82nd Airborne Division, 505th PIR. It is confirmed by historians that Bob Murphy was the first guy out and on the ground on the 82nd's lift into Normandy
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Son of actor and Medal of Honor recipient Audie Murphy
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medal of honor army ww11
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Company A, 1st Separate Chemical Battalion, Schofield Barracks. Fought in Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge. Retired from the military in 1969 after 30 years of service
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Military, 14th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force
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WW2 Veteran with 82nd Airbourne Division/Author 'To Be As Brave'
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Canadian civil servant, retired Vice Admiral and former acting Chief of the Defence Staff
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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U.S. Army veteran, retired businessman, author and sought-after lecturer. In 1989, he was one of the most famous men in Panama, the leader of a plot to overthrow the dictatorship backed by Gen. Manuel Noriega
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OSS Operation HalyardLargest rescue of downed airmen in WWIIForgotten 500
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head of state pakistan, army general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Oglala
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WWII: ETO. Bombardier in the 445th Bomb Group
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navy admiral
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WWII veteran (born 1924) who served at the invasion of Anzio and was held as a POW at Stalag 7A
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Tanzanian WWII Veteran, General
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Retired USMC General
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WWII Veteran
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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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WWII: ETO. 445th Bomb Group; knew Jimmy Stewart
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WWII: 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The Ghost Army used inflatable rubber tanks, wooden guns, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy
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(Born 1941) US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, and 2 Purple Hearts
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NFL football player, born 10/8/1924, UCLA 1944-47, Eagles 1948-50, Rams 1952, served as an ensign during WWII
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Civilian worker, POW. Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941. POW:
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WWII: D-Day. 29th Infantry Division, 116th Regiment, Company F, in the first wave. Last surviving veteran of Company F
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 101st AB
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medal of honor marines korean war
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Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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(Born 1923) WW2 US Army Veteran. 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion as an anti-tank gunner. Legion of Honour and Bronze Star Recipient
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WWII. PTO. Served on the submarine USS Skipjack, SS-184 (famous for the 'Battle for Toilet Paper'), the USS Midway and the submarine Trumpetfish
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German WWII fighter Ace, shot down a B-17 that Lester Schrenk was in, and they later became friends
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: ETO. 306th Bomb Group (The Reich Wreckers), 8th Air Force. Silver Star
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Purple Heart. Korea. USMC
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Korean General in Vietnam war
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Israeli Flying Ace, retired Brigadier General, Israeli Air Force
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Lz xray Vietnam/Decorations include Silver Star, Legion of Merit (1 OLC), Soldier's Medal, Bronze Star (1 OLC), Meritorious Service Medal (3 OLC), Air Medal (3OLC), Purple Heart, & Distinguished Unit Citation/Served twice in Vietnam between 1962 and 1965
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa, Battle of North Borneo. US Navy, Landing Craft Support LCS(L)(3)-45
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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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US Army General
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WWII Veteran, U.S. Army, born 1920
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Pearl Harbor survivor (7 Dec 1941), USS Nevada
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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Afghanistan and Iraq War US Marine Corps Veteran. Received the Silver Star for actions during Operation Enduring Freedom. Silver Star and Purple Heart Recipient
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WWII vet. WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)Flew the at-10, uc-78, at-6, pt-17, C-47 sky train and B-24
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Retired General
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 75 kills
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Four-star general in the United States Army who currently serves as the Commander of United States Cyber Command
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US WWII veteran, born 1918, served in the 'Ghost Army' program
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WWII: ETO. 504th PIR, 82nd AB. Anzio, Battle of the Bulge. Bronze Star
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US Army General
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Italian WWII Veteran
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WWII - D-Day. US Navy shipfitter who landed with LST (Landing Ship Tank) 501 at Utah Beach, after being redirected while approaching Omaha Beach due to heavy resistence
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US WWII Army veteran, born 1916. Tank mechanic with 276th Armored Field Artillery in Patton's Third Army. Ardennes, Luxembourg, the Rhineland, Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Tarawa. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USS Topeka
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Crew member on the Memphis Belle. Birth name Casimer A. Nastal.
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Military - Survivor of Tuol Sleng (Pol Pot regime)
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navy admiral
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navy admiral
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507th p i r - ww 2
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Retired German general, most highly decorated general from Germany after World War 2
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Member of the WW2 761st Negro 'Black Panthers' Tank Battalion that worked with General George Patton. Recieved Silver Star & Purple Heart! Featured in book 'Brothers in Arms'!
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WWII: CBI Theater. 3rd Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit Provisional aka Merrill's Marauders, a long-range penetration special ops warfare unit. Fought in the jungles of Burma, witnessed massive casualties and endured machine gun wounds
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U.S. Brigadier General, Desert Storm
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 27th Marines. Severely wounded on the 6th day of the Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII Army 42nd Division - Wounded at The Battle Of The Bulge
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WWII: PTO. USS Birmingham
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WW2 Veteran 128th Armored Division Field Artillery (Born 1924)
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division
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WW2, Battle of Britain pilot and ace in the RAF.
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Member of the Band of Brothers, 506th Easy Company WWII
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WWII - D-Day: Navy corpsman on a landing ship during the D-Day invasion
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Schofield Barracks, 24th Infantry Division
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WWII: PTO. Navy, USS Ticonderoga CV-14
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US WWII Army veteran, born 1915. Campaigns included Sicily, Anzio, and Rome. At 107, oldest known Colorado WWII veteran
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(Born 1948) US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. Captured as a POW in 1966 until escaping in 1968. Purple Heart Recipient
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WWII: PTO. USMC. New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa
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WWII: Radio man in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. They deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there. Less than 30 of the 1100 Ghost Army men are still living as of 2017
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Swedish /Estonian SS officer wounded in battle with the russians
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Solace
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Playwright, Physician, Author, former IDF Soldier, and brother of Israeli Prime Minister Iddo Netanyahu
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Medal of Honor recipient, World War II
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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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Author, German WWII Veteran, Waffen-SS
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German politician & WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht
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Knights Cross Recipient WWII
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Hiroshima survivor. Japanese schoolgirl pressed into making combat boots for soldiers, she was on her way to work when the bomb hit. Mother died days later. Married an American soldier and moved to the US
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Women's Royal Naval Service veteran who witnessed the surrendering of Hitler's Atlantic fleet of U-boat's on the banks of the River Foyle in Londonderry at the end of WW2. (Born:1924) She lives in Derryhale, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
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Last veteran of the Battle of Kufra. The battle from 31 January - 1 March 1941, resulted in the capture of Kufra by Free French Forces and the British Long Range Desert Group from the Italian and Libyan garrison
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WWII: PTO. USS Yorktown CV-5, USS West Virginia
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marine corps general
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WW I Vet United Kingdom
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Oldest living West Point Graduee, class of 1939
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WWII Veteran-Battle of the Bulge
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Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
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WWII: Navajo Code Talker, 1st Battalion, 21st Marines, 3rd Marine Division. Saw action in the Battles of Bougainville, Guam, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, New Caledonia, Congressional Gold Medal
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Saipan, Battle of Tinian. 4th Marine Division, 23rd Regiment, 1st Battalion, B Company, 3rd Platoon. Purple Heart
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Recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II as a first lieutenant in the United States Army
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British WW One Veteran
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, Submarine Sqd!
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WWII: ETO, pilot of B-17 Chow-Hound (Serial # 42-31367), 91st Bomb Group, 322nd Squadron
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US Air Force 4 star general (retired). Flew F-4, F-15, F-16, F-117 Member of USAF Thunderbirds 1974-1978
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Last of the original WWII Navajo Code Talkers; he lives in Albuquerque NM. Born: May 25,1921
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First African-American Military Pilot
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North Vietnamese Fighter Ace, with 9 air-to-air combat victories, born 1943
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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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US Marine Sgt./Vietnam/Last out before the fall of Saigon/sent to attache office to guard millions of dollars before cash was burned & compound blown up by the Americans to keep the enemy from raiding it and obtaining classified documents
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WWII: D-Day paratropper, 101st AB, 502nd PIR
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII/PTO: Wake Island Defender: Battle of Wake Island, 8 Dec - 23 Dec 1941. POW until September 1945
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WWII - D-Day. Survivor of USS Corry (DD-463, the destroyer that led the armada into D-Day), which was sunk on June 6 near Utah Beach by German guns
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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USMC General
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Officer of the Waffen-SS during worldwar IITank Fighter
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Polish WWII Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Marine Corps
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Navigator Crew # 6, Doolittle Raiders
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Solace
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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WWII: Veteran of D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the Battle of Remagen
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Finnish homesteader and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland. He was born in Kemijärvi. He served in the Finnish Army during WWII
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US WWII WAAC/WAC, Army Air Corps ('Air WAC') veteran, born 1920. One of the first 200 US women to be selected for Officer candidate school
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Finnish WWII Veteran
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5-Star Fleet Admiral
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WWII submarine Skipper and Rear Admiral
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Retired Bolivian General and pilot of the helicopter that transported Che Guevara's body after his execution
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German ww2 pilot
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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WWII Imperial Japanese Navy Kamikaze pilot
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WWII: US Army. Landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day+3
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army general
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WWII - D-Day, C-47 pilot who flew paratroopers into Normandy
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WWII: 837th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 33 missions (22 in B-24,11 in B-17) from 9 May to 9 September 1944. One of the few pilots to fly both the B-17 and the B-24. DFC w/ 4 Oak Leaf Cluster
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 12th Defense Battalion. Battle of Peleliu
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: Tuskegee Airman
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WWII - 101st Airborne, 506th PIR, F Company. Paratrooper that landed in Normandy together with Easy Company. Fought at Carentan, Bastogne, Battle Of The Bulge. Completed his duty in Austria. Wounded twice. Pictured in a famous D-Day photo
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army general
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Yeoman aboard the USS Enterprise
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Peruvian born NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel
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WWII veteran of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian. Later served as a Presidential Honor Guard in the last days of FDR. FDR cancelled a dinner with the Guard members days before his death in Georgia
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Vietnam veteran that served from 1967 to 1969
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WWII: PTO. B-17 pilot. He was the last of MacArthur's personal pilots; among other flights, he flew Gen. MacArthur to the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
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(Born 1935) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1968 to 1973. Recipient of 4 Legion of Merits, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. First Marine Division
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British woman and first female to be awarded the Military Cross for of her actions in Iraq on 11 June 2006
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medal of honor navy vietnam
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Marham'
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American general officer U.S. Army &Air Force/assistant chief of staff for operations (A-3) of the Twelfth Air Force, going to England with it the following month in support of Operation Husky, and to Algiers, North Africa in October 1942
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4 Star General Born May 5, 1954
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WWII: Hobo in the 1930s, then 2 years at the CCC. In 1940, he was at the USS Oahu, a Yangtze River Patrol boat stationed at Shanghai, China. Departed for Corregidor end of 1941, was sunk by enemy gunfire 5 May 1942. POW, Hell Ship survivor
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ww 11 rhodesian army hero (vc)
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Retired General
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British Officer who was awarded the George Cross for his service in Iraq in 2005
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Rhine River crossing. 17th Airborne Division
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Fighter ace ww2 born 2/22/1920. 317th FS, 325th FG. He is credited with 8 confirmed victories. Awards include Distinguished Flying Cross and 15 Air Medals
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WWII: PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8); Doolittle Raid witness (Apr. 1942); Battle of Midway (June 1942); Battle of Santa Cruz (Oct. 1942) when the Hornet was sunk (part of the salvage team who were the last men to leave the ship)
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British air ace from WW2 with 16 victories
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(Born 1945) US Army Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1969 to 1973. Recipient of the Army Distinguished Service Cross
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Survived the sinking of his Landing Ship USS LSM(R)-190 by Kamikaze on 4 May 1945 while on the radar picket line
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(Born June 21, 1921) is an American former field hockey player and a pilot in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. Flew Stearman and AT-6 Planes
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WWII Vet, Mexican Air Force. Last surviving pilot of the Aztec Eagles
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Spanish veteran (Born 1904) and the last surviving veteran of The Rif War of the 1920's, and one of the last of the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. As of August 2017, he became the world's oldest living man, and the 21st longest living man in documented h
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WWII: 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'
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WW2 B-17 Flying Fortress (Royal Flush) Navigator
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army general
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 6th Marine Division
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US Air Force Major General. Combat Pilot World War 2
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marine corps general
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medal of honor marines korean war
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John O'Brien (6) WWII: Veteran of the Battle of Tarawa
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WWII: USMC. Crew chief at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. He took care of the famous Vought F4U Corsair 'Number 13' that was flown by aces KennetH Walsh and Pappy Boyington. He knew both men very well. Later served on Guam and Iwo Jima
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Phoenix (CL_46)
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WW 2 air ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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William O'Brien (2) D - Day landings veteran. Born: 1917. Also known as Admiral Sir William O'Brien
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battle of Okinawa
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Navy Admiral
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Worked at Bletchley Park during WWII as a code breaker
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Army, Heavy Machine Gunner
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army general
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Retired Brigadier General. Canadian Member of Parliament for Carleton-Mississippi Hills. Minister of Defence 2006-2007, Minister of National Revenue 2007-2008
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. UH-1 Huey pilot with Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 20th Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star, and 3 Purple Hearts
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Billy O'Dell (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII/ETO: B-17 ball turret gunner of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group)
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air force hero
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2/2/1911-2/16/1994 US Navy submarine commander WW2, Medal of Honor for service on Tang. Served Wahoo, as executive & approach officer. Participated more successful attacks on Japanese shipping than any other sub officer during war
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USMC Ace during WWII-[7 victories] Member of VMF-323
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(Born 1961) US Army Special Forces Veteran and Author. Participated in many operations during his career. He was in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Grenada. Bronze Star Recipient. Has written many books about the Revolutionary War
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The Major and the Minor (1942), Military Academy (1940) and Mountain Rhythm (1943)
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WWII: PTO. USMC. 4th Raider Battalion (personal radio operator for Col. James Roosevelt). Guam
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Former General & Commander Air Force Logistics Command
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medal of honor marines vietnam
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FBI Agent operative true story Robert Hanssen Russian spy case, movie Breach
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WWII: Arctic convoy duty on the HMS Sumba
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Professional Speaker, Swift boat commander in Vietnam during 1969 and 1970
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Ww2 fighter ace
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Ex-SEAL who revealed himself as bin Laden shooter
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WWII: Last surviving Akwesasne Mohawk Code Talker during WWII. Fought in the South Pacific, New Guinea and Philippines theatres as one of 33 Mohawk code talkers
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air force general businessman
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WWII: Serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, he was evacuated from Dunkirk (1940) on a ration boat filled with tins of pineapple, boxes and cigarettes
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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german pilot of second world war
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UK WW1 Veteran
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Romanian WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battles off Philippine Sea, New Guinea, Luzon
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Kamikaze pilot WW2/Book, 'Memoirs of a Kamikaze', born on 11 December, 1926 in village Kitano Kotesashi. Odachi's graduation from elementary school coincided with Japan's occupation of China
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U.S. General
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army general
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US Centenarian, WWII and Civilian Conservation Corps vet, born 1917. CCC New Deal Program 1934-36 in Massachusetts, then an Army officer in the South Pacific during WWII
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German ww2 pilot
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'F-16' & 'F-111' Test Pilot!
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. USS Neosho (AO-23)
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Hiroshima survivor, born in 1931 in Canada, moved to Japan when he was nine. Survived Hiroshima at 14, and then moved back to Canada
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WWII - Fighter Ace (6 aerial victories, 17 ground victories, 155 missions) of the 2nd Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Group; received a citation for his escort action during Operation Tidal Wave (aka 'Ploesti Raid) in 1943
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Japanese and American vet, born 1926 in the US. Raised in Japan, fought for Japan in the last days of WWII. Taken POW by Russia,18 months in a Siberian gulag. Released, later returned to the US, Served in the US Army during the Korean War
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president biafra/army general
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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Hiroshima bomb survivor
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
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Member of Pappy Boyington's VMF-214 ''Black Sheep Squadron''
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U.S. Army Air Corps 1939-1945
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Polish WWII Veteran, lives in Canada
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WWII Flying Tigers, Judge in the Charles Manson Case
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(Born 1925) WW2 and Korean War USAAF Veteran. Was in a B-24 Liberator and a tail gunner on a B-29. Witnessed the mushroom cloud from Nagasaki off in the distance in 1945. POW during the Korean War for 2 years
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WWII Ace[17 victories] and shot down four jets in Vietnam
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WWI era Veteran Lives in Chicago
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Military leader in Bay of Pigs invasion force
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One of three surviving WWII Navajo Code Talkers; he lives in Phoenix. Born: 1923
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Spain' Lives in Barbastro, Born: 1919
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co-pilot bockscar b-29 that dropped the bomb on nagasaki japan in ww2
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII: D-Day veteran, 505th PIR, 82nd AB
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Cold War: RB-47 reconnaissance pilot 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
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(Born 1931) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1953 to 1976 and retired as a Colonel. Recipient of an Air Force Cross and Silver Star
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WASP Pilot during WWII, flew the p-40, bt-13, at-6, at-11, uc-78, a-24, sbd, p-51, p-38, a-20, c-2, p-14, p-39
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; USS Arizona. survivor of USS Lexington as it was sinking during the Battle of the Coral Sea; took part in the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests after the war
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coast guard admiral educator
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(Born 1924) US Army WW2 Veteran
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USN Admiral
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WWII - Navy
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Part of the first generation of female military pilots, eventually accumulating nearly 4,000 hours of flying time/Iraq/Running for Congress in 2020/aviation leader, commander
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS Reid, 11 December 1944
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Italian flying ace of WWII
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Japanese WWII Veteran, chef and owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a Japanese sushi restaurant in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
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Japanese soldier from WW2 who hid in the jungle for 30 years refusing to surrender to the Allies; is now living in Brazil; author of 'No Surrender: My Thirty Year War'
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British WWII veteran. Served in the Women's Auxillary Corps in the Indian Air Force. Flew a glider at 99 years old for charity
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army general
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WWII: ETO. B-17 Bombardier in the 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
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U.S, Congressman (R) /Former Navy Seal from 1988 to 2014, small time actor/Drunk who gained coverage for verbally accosting & screaming profanities at several Senate Pages in the United States Capitol
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Author 'VIETNAM Marine Infantry - One Year in Vietnam'/Trained as a corpsman he was attached to a Marine unit and saw duty on the front lines of the war
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Military, Pearl harbour survivor, West Mifflin 98th Coast Art, Battery F, artillery
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FBI agent, responded to the assassination attempt on George Wallace and interviewed Wallace during his recovery. One of the figures who helped head the investigation into possible group effort
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Congressional Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
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Former Packers Defensive End. Played 1949-1951. Also is a World War 2 veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: D-Day. Ranger. Pointe du Hoc
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(Born 1986) US Army Iraq War Veteran. Distinguished Service Cross Recipient
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WWII - His B-24 was shot down on a bombing mission to Ploesti in July 1944 (not the famous Ploesti Raid). For five weeks, with the help of locals and Serbian Chetniks, he escaped Nazis soldiers and was saved during 'Operation Halyard'
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Guam, Battle of Iwo Jima
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US Army Afghanistan War Veteran and YouTuber
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Former Colonel of the United States Marine Corps who served from 1975 to 2005. He did 3 tours as a commanding officer and 1 tour in Iraq in 2004. He graduated college in 1996 with 5 degrees (3 master and 2 undergraduate)
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(Born 1945) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Company D, 229th Aviation Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division. POW from 1966 and then released in 1968. Recipient of a Purple Heart
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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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Commander Mid Atlantic Regional Maintance Center
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WWI veteran
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WWII Rosie the Riveter
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American (1915-2008), served in the Spanish Civil War's Lincoln Brigade. Had joined the Communist party in the 1930s, later hassled by the FBI and HUAC. Left the party when he saw Stalin's actions. Worked also in the civil rights movement
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Russian military pilot, downed Korean Air Lines (Korean Air) flight 007
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Captain Joellen Drag Oslund, USNR (Ret.) The U.S. Navy?s Fourth Woman Naval Aviator and First Woman Helicopter Pilot on April 19, 1974
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USCG Kukui, 7 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 575th Field Artillery, 7th Army
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WWII: Battle of Midway, USS Balch
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USN WWII Wave, in the communications department, she learned of the end of WWII several hours before it was announced
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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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German ww2 pilot
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navy admiral england
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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army general
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Retired General
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WWII: Served in the Pacific Theater
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Worked as a 'Rosie the Riveter' woman worker in airplane plants during WWII, starting in 1942. Still active and on the job in 2014 when in her 90's
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. PT boat cook
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Algerian WWII Veteran, 109 years old. During WWII he fought in the French Army and participated in the invasion of Italy and Germany
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hal moore rto in lz xray-ia drang valley battle-we were soldiers fame
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. B Battery 200th Coast Artillery
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Dutch WWII Resistance. As a teenager she and her sister Truus would flirt with Nazi Collaborators and lead them to their deaths
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Dutch WWII Resistance. As a teenager she and her sister Freddie would flirt with Nazi Collaborators and lead them to their deaths
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Fighter ace F-86 Sabre ace of the Korean War
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Mark Owen (2)Participated in the mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden
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Air Force General
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Ww2 Fighter ace3 war vet ww2/korea/nam
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navy admiral
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William A. Owens (2) (1905-1990) folklorist, author, & professor/Author; 'This Stubborn Soil' 'A Season of Weathering' 'Walking on Borrowed Land'/In 1942 joined the United States Army as a buck private & was assigned to the intelligence branch
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WWII: Australian veteran, 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion. Palestine, Libya, Greece, Crete, Syria, Tobruk
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Psychiatrist (Born: 1914) who served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven women Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II
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doolittle's radiers, crew #3 navigator
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Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
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JFK - Leading Honor Guard horse rider at the Kennedy funeral, 25 November 1963
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Former Romanian general and defector during the Cold War, probably living in the USA
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Army 9th Air Corps Pilot who flew the Martin B-26 Marauder during WWII. Lives in Botca Ridge, FL
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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US Army Afghanistan War Veteran. Recipient of the Purple Heart for being wounded by RPG shrapnel
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WWII British Fighter Pilot Ace.
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(Born 1946) US Navy Veteran. Survivor of the USS Liberty Incident in 1967. Purple Heart Recipient for injuries received during the attack
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army general
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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medal of honor marines ww11
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(Born 1933) US Navy Vietnam War Veteran. Did 2 tours in Vietnam and several in Taiwan
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Real life Rosie the Riveter; worked B-29 line in Wichita, KS. Volunteer on Doc restoration. Most of her original rivets from when she installed them at 18 years old were still sound
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WWII: Served on the destroyer USS Dale (DD-353) from 1942-45. Battle of Komandorski Islands (Aleutians Campaign, March 1943), Central Pacific 1943/44 (Makin, Kwajalein, Eniwetok), 1944/45 Saipan, Guam, Battle of the Philippine Sea
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army general
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WWII:_ PTO. Served on the submarine USS Finack. While on its 10th war patrol, the Finback -- with Andrew at the helm and the first man on deck -- rescued Lt. J.G. George Herbert Walker Bush
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Palermo was part of the 2nd wave at Omaha Beach. He piled out of a Higgins boat, into a storm of bullets and bombs. This was followed by an hour dug into the bloody sand, while 2,500 men died around him
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U.S. Air Force in 1966 and served as a Weapons Specialist on Phantom F-4D fighter aircraft at bases in West Germany, Italy, and Libya
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WWII Nazi War Criminal; was a guard at Trawniki labor camp; his US citizenship has been revoked but he originally couldn'tt be deported because no country would take him; has since been deported to Germany
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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 pilot - Battle of Britain
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Retired General
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David Palmer (4) WWII: B-17 pilot in the 351st Bomb Group
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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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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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(Born 1926) US Army WW2 Veteran. Silver Star and Bronze Star recipient
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII Veteran
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WW2 US Army Veteran, Malmedy Massacre Survivor!
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Romanian WW1 vet
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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US WWII vet, born 1921 in Italy. Through Ellis Island to the US in 1927. Sent to fight the Japanese in the Aleutians, Alaska
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Member of the Republic of China Air Force's 'Black Cat' Squadron, which operated U-2 surveillance from 1961-1974
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WWII: US Navy, carrier pilot. Survived the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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USCG Admiral
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US Air Force, Post-Korean war, born 1939. Stateside at Sampson, Walker Bases. 812th Crew Chief. Started July '53, as the Korean action stopped
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Born 1931, Military leader of Panama,1982-1983
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. 320th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Balloon Barrage Battalion (African-American unit), landed with 3rd wave at Omah Beach, spent 68 days there, raising hydrogen-filled barrage balloons to deny low-level airspace to enemy planes
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS T. Louis
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CEO of the Wyche Law Firm and former F16 fighter pilot who is running for lieutenant governor of South Carolina
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Military
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Lz xray 1965 nam was in bristow,ok but not now
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS McCawley (AP-10) off the coast of Guadalcanal Island, 30 June 1943
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WWII US Army D-Day veteran, born 1924. Led wire-cutting group in the first wave on Omaha Beach. Claims to be the first man to reach the beach the morning of the attack
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WWII: Eto. Battle of Normandy, Cherbourgh, Le Mans, Haguenau, Rhine. Not D - Day: Landed on Utah Beach on June 12, 1944. 314th Infantry 79th Infantry Division. Bronze Star. Reverend in Abingdon, Virginia
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WWII: ETO. 333rd Regiment, 84th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge (Bronze Star), Siegfried Line
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Retired Vice Admiral
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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WWII Rosie the Riveter, photographed working with her sister Naomi Parker Fraley in WWII. Revealed in 2015 that her sister's photo was the inspiration for the iconic We Can Do It WWII Rosie poster
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'Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Pilot'
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John Parkinson (2) Korean War: Battle of Chosin Reservoir, US Marine Corps
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Jim Parks (2)WW2 Canadian Veteran. Wounded several times and saw action at D-Day
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WWII: Guadalcanal campaign, Battle of Cape Gloucester. Korean War. Commended for his cour-age and coolness under fire by both his command-ing officers and the men that served with him, who dubbed him 'The Real John Wayne'. Silver Star
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Polish World War One Veteran
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Member of the Annex Security Team that fought the Battle of Benghazi, Libya, from September 11 to September 12, 2012. 13 Hours Movie Basis
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Fighter Ace USAF - Korea - 10 Kills - DSC Korea - AFC Viet Nam - Credited with last air to air kill in the Korean War
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal (AR-4, a repair ship moored alongside USS Arizona, at berth F 7, off Ford Island)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor Survivor, 7 December 1941; Army motor mechanic stationed on the island Oahu
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WWII: 327th Glider Regiment, 101st Airborne Div. Due to a shortage of gliders, he arrived in France only on D-Day+1, landed with his glider in Holland in Sept. 1945 (Operation Market Garden), also in the Battle of the Bulge near Bastogne
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Born March 1921 was a member (Navy WAVES) of an all-women's German code-breaking team during WW2
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WWII: One of the first WAC during the war. She wrote a book about her experience, titled 'First WAC'
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United States Navy - served from 1944 to 1975
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Filipino WWII Veteran, U.S. Army. In July 1942, his Filipino squad ambushed a train carrying Japanese troops, cutting off the officers' heads to present to their commanding officer; the Japanese captain on the train had brutalized Filipinos.
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WWII veteran, Schofield Barracks at Pearl Harbor
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WWII: Served as a medic in Europe, beginning with the Battle of Normandy, landing at Utah Beach a couple days after D-Day and spent his last days in Germany tending to the Jewish Holocaust survivors at Buchenwald
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: CBI. Member of HQ Company, White Combat Team, 1st Battalion of the Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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WWII: D-Day, 101st Airborne 401st Glider Infantry Regiment but went ashore on a landing craft at Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944
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Brazilian Military/Political Leader. Born: 01/11/1920
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WWII: Medical Detachment, 3d Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division. Battle of the Bulge
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Emergency room technician, HS English and drama teacher, health care administrator, marketing executive, former Air Force member, professional actor, comic, and musician, author and professional speaker
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UK WW1 Veteran (1998-2006). The last trench veteran of the war, and the world's fifth last living veteran of WWI. Wounded at Passchendaele
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Italian WWII Navy Veteran from Sicily (1923-2022). Served in Italy and Africa before the Allies took over. Got his high school diploma at 31, then added college degrees between the ages of 96 and 98
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WWII: ETO. 8th AF, Carpetbaggers Special Operations
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talkers'
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Brigadier GeneralChief Of Staff US Central Command
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WWII: Pacific Theater 1941-1945. 1st Platoon, G Company, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division. Battle of Guna-Bona, Sanananda , New Guinea, Leyte, Philippines, Luzon. Silver Star, 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII Veteran, Fox Company, D-Day veteran
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WWII - D-Day. Fox Company, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne, flanked the famous Easy Company (Band of Brothers); also jumped at OperatÃon Market Garden
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Greek military man and one of the masterminds of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/9/67 - 1/68 -- Cam Ranh Bay 1/68 - 7/68 An Khe (1st Air Cav and 173rd Airborne)
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII: PTO. USS New Orleans
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WWII - 486th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, 'Bluenosed Bastards of Bodney'. P-51 pilot with 5 air to ground victories (a 'strafing Ace'). Also Flew PT-17, BT-13, AT-6, P-40 and P-47. He flew with his twin brother, Maj. Gen. Cuthbert 'Bill' Pattill
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Maj. Gen. Cuthbert 'Bill' Pattillo was a P-51 pilot in WWII. Flew with his twin brother, Lt. Gen. Charles 'Buck' Pattillo. Bill shot down a ME-262 German Jet. 6 days later, Bill was shot down himself, and became a POW to the Germans
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American ww2 pilot
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in London, UK. He was a paratrooper from the 9th Battalion Parachute Regiment
