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  1. WWII Veteran Floyd Rolf enlisted in the Army Air Corps in December of 1942. He initially trained to fly P-38s but ultimately flew C-47 troop carriers. Before he left for Europe in October of 1944, Rolf proposed to Peg, his high- school sweetheart. Th
  2. WWII: Veteran of the Battles of Makin Island (1943), Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa. 165th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division
  3. Lz xray 1965 namwas in columbus ga but not now
  4. WWII vet, born 1913. Served in the Philippines and Australia. In his life, saw Lou Gehrig's farewell speech, and met Martin Luther King Jr and Mother Teresa. At 24, drove himself to see a famous airship land, and ended up witnessing the Hindenburg explode
  5. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dobbin
  6. Bataan Death March survivor. A Battery 200th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft
  7. Medal of Honor Recipient for action in the GWOT in Afghanistan and author of Red Platoon
  8. WWII Pearl Harbor survivor; chief turret officer USS Oklahoma, calling the crew the General Quarters rather unceremoniously with the words 'All hands, man your battle stations! This is no shit, Goddamn it! Jap planes are bombing us!'
  9. USN Admiral
  10. WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 7th Infantry Division
  11. A Rosie the Riveter during WW2. She worked at a bomber plant in Kansas City, Mo
  12. Norwegian Army officer and broadcaster. He is known for his resistance work during World War II and his post-war war information work. He is also the last veteran of the legendary WW2 'Heroes of the Telemark' raid. He is now 96
  13. Black WWII Driver for Red Ball Express. Lives in Maple Heights
  14. CM Sgt. Ronald Roos 'Air Force Honor Guard/ Death Watch/'I was there when the presidents body was taken off Air Force one, I saw Mrs. Kennedy, still in the blood stained dress, standing in the doorway,' Roos said
  15. American politician (1882-1945). 32nd US President, 1933-45, NYS Governor, 1929-32 Asst Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20
  16. 26th US President, statesman, writer, explorer, 1858-1919
  17. newest DDG
  18. US Lawyer, Minister (1736-1822) CT Militia and delegate to Continental Congress
  19. WWII: D-Day; in the third wave at Utah Beach with the first elements of the 90th ID
  20. New Zealand rugby player and WW2 veteran
  21. USS Pueblo
  22. 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)
  23. WWII Flying Tiger Pilot 'Joe' Author Flying Tigers Joe Adventure Story Cookbook/(Pilot) (CNAC 1942 - 1945) (Captain - March 1943) (Hump Flights - ???)
  24. US WWII Navy WAVE, born 1923. Too young for service, she began as a munitions worker Rosie in 1941. Joined the WAVES a couple years later, and worked as a mechanic in the Navy's Blimp program
  25. Canadian WWII-Fighter Ace
  26. Explorer/Byrd: geographic, air reconnaissance and photogrammetric officer to Admiral Byrd on two antarctic expeditions and served as Byrd's scientific advisor
  27. Former United States Army officer and a Vietnam War veteran. For his actions during the war, Rose is scheduled to be presented the Medal of Honor on 23 October 2017 by United States President Donald Trump
  28. British Army General during the Falklands Conflict and the Yugoslav Wars; also known as General Sir Hugh 'Michael' Rose
  29. WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1920, he claimed three victories during the Battle of Britain and flew three or four sorties each day. He is now 96 and lives in the UK
  30. Rick Rose  (2)
    CAPT - USMC, US NAVY Blue Angels C-130 'Fat Albert' Pilot
  31. 10th Juror on Jack Ruby Trial to the JFK Assassination/WW2 fighter pilot
  32. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
  33. Fighter ace
  34. 1950s Army Veteran and gay husband of Hubert Spires. He helped fight for a honorable discharge for Spires and they succeeded in 2017 when Spires got a honorable discharge from the US Military after over 60 years
  35. WWII: Veteran of the Battle of Remagen, March 1945. 9th Armored Division, Purple Heart
  36. Battle of Bataan
  37. American fighter pilot (Ret.)/As captain in the US Air Force, flew 30 missions in an F-16 Fighting Falcon during the Persian Gulf War. His book about his experiences in the war, titled Vipers in the Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot
  38. 1896-1973 U.S. lawyer, judge, Democratic political figure, and presidential speechwriter/Was FDR Special Counsel upon FDR's death Truman asked him to stay on, initially through V-E Day, then through V-J Day, and finally into 1946
  39. Commander Of 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group In The WWII. Prosecutor In The Nuremberg Trial After The WWII.
  40. WWII - D-Day, 2nd Battalion, The Glostershire Regiment. Frank's regiment was tasked to take the French town of Bayeux, 12 miles from Gold Beach, and fought in the Battle of Tilly-sur-Seulles, where some of the toughest combat took place
  41. WWII: ETO. D-Day. USS Arkansas (BB-33)
  42. US WWII Merchant Marines (1928-2024). Joined the MM in 1942 at 14 years old, served in the S. Pacific and Atlantic. One of the last MM to attend the official Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for Merchant Marines in 2022
  43. Officer of the United States Navy who received the first Medal of Honor of World War II. This award was made for his actions during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
  44. WWII: PTO. Tech. Sergeant with Unit Co. A. 182nd Infantry
  45. WW2 fighter pilot ace 7 victories 82/48 PS 78/14PG 14FG - USAAF
  46. Retired General
  47. Australian World War 1 Veteran Born' 03/11/1899 One of 6 remaining World War 1 Veterans - Deceased 2009
  48. WWII: Highly decorated officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of Brigadier General. He is most noted for his service with the 1st Marine Division during the Battle of Okinawa. He placed the American flag at Mt. Shuri
  49. Tuskegee Airmen/332nd FG/302nd FS
  50. Medal of Honor recipient: World War II
  51. WWII: Survivor of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion 1944, 320 dead; mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.) Later on the USS Ancon where he rejected an order and was given right by the white Captain
  52. 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
  53. medal of honor army korean war
  54. Was one of the last surviving French marine commandos who stormed ashore on Sword Beach, Normandy, on D-Day to initiate the liberation of their homeland
  55. Ww2 fighter ace -navy hellcat
  56. 'Flying Tigers & WWII Ace (6.25 kills)'
  57. WWII - D-Day (Normandy)
  58. German WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht
  59. 29th Navy Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
  60. WWII: Fighter Ace, 5 victories
  61. WWII: PTO. 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division. Battles of GUadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian. Air Force pilot in Korea. Purple Heart
  62. navy admiral
  63. (No Kum-Sok) Sept 1953 2 months after Korean War ended with an armistice, a 21-year-old North Korean fighter pilot defected to a South Korean airfield with a state-of-the-art Russian fighter plane
  64. WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa. The Lindsey was severely damaged by two kamikaze planes that crashed into her killing 57 sailors and wounding another 57
  65. 'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
  66. US Army Korean War Veteran. He was a POW from 1951 to 1953 in North Korea. 333 people of his battalion including him were taken as POWs and only 117 made it
  67. WW2 WASP/Airfield Assignments; Love Field & Selman Army Air Field
  68. army general
  69. WWII: USS Yorktown. Navy Photographer who photographed the Battle of Midway
  70. WWII WAVES veteran, born 1915. She worked coding and decoding ship movements while based in San Francisco. Later used the GI Bill to get an education and become a teacher
  71. Vietnam 1965 flew into Landing Zone X-Ray Ia Drang Valley on supply helicopter/Was supply officer for 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry Regiment 1st Cavalry Division Airmobile during 1st full-scale battle between American & North Vietnamese troops
  72. Ww2 veteran on the USS Alabama
  73. British Army officer who earned the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre for organising guerrilla resistance in France and Burma; full name is Richard Arthur Rubinstein
  74. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks. During the attack, Rubien helped burn classified documents, then picked up a gun and ammo and began shooting. Later served at Saipan, Guam, and the Marshall Islands
  75. WWII: ETO. 743rd Bomb Squadron, 455th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force. 28 missions
  76. Korean War Medal of Honor Recipient
  77. WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of USS Helena (CL-50) in the Battle of Kula Gulf, July 1943. Also Night Battle of Guadalcanal Nov. 1942 and the Battle of Cape Esperance (Oct. 1942) where he saw the USS Juneau (Sullivan brothers) sink
  78. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
  79. Female WWII veteran, snuck away from home to join the WAACs in 1942, becoming a WAC in 1943. Ran a night flight simulator for pilot training. Later in life had a nursing career
  80. P-47 Thunderbolt Ace of WWII, F-86 Sabre Ace of WWII, 10.5 victory Ace with 406th FG
  81. JFK - placed the Green Beret on President Kennedy?s grave on November 25, 1963.
  82. medal of honor army ww11
  83. WW 2 Luftwaffe Fighter Ace and Me262 Pilot 222 victories
  84. Spanish Civil War survivor (Born: 1929) is one of the last living survivors of the Italian air raid over Granollers on May 31, 1938. She is now 87
  85. German nurse (Born: 1929) who was stationed at Hitler's bunker during the final days of WW2. She was 15 at the time and met Joseph Goebbels and his family on the day Hitler committed suicide. She is now 88 and lives in Germany
  86. WWII Veteran, D-Day Invasion, D-Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion
  87. US Army Brig. Gen. (1869-1932). Spanish American War, WWI ordnance official/ammo expert
  88. Highly decorated Major in the Wehrmacht during WW2. Also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  89. Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
  90. WWII veteran and one of the first 13 female nurses of Puerto Rico's Women's Army Corps
  91. Flying Tigers-armorer
  92. WWII: Germany, Luftwaffe. Night fighter radio operator, Knights Cross
  93. WWII: U.S. Army Sergeant Technician, 7th Division, 17th Infantry. Attu, Marshall Islands, Okinawa
  94. WWII: Merchant Marine 1941-1945
  95. WWII: PTO. Motor machinist mate second class aboard U.S.S. L.S.M 485
  96. White House Chef
  97. Allan Russell  (2)
    Last surviving member of Z Special Unit
  98. WWII: Navy fighter carrier pilot, flying in combat during World War II and the Korean War; including dive-bomber support for the First Marine Division during the battle of Guadalcanal, flying off the USS Saratoga
  99. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
  100. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma, born September 15, 1920
  101. Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; butcher stationed at the Army Air Corps' Wheeler Field
  102. Fighter ace
  103. Jack Russell  (3)
    Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo; became a psychologist in Whittier, CA
  104. navy admiral hero
  105. WWII: D-Day. Was in the Aviation Unit (Kingfisher reconnaissance plane) of the USS Arkansas. Also at Iwo Jima, A-bomb
  106. Steve Russell  (2)
    Oklahoma politician, retired Army LCOL who led the unit that captured Saddam Hussein
  107. Marine Guard of Honor, JFK funeral/ enlisted in 1960 Two years after enlisting, they found themselves on separate boats off coast of Cuba, part of a flotilla that was prepared to invade the island if Cuban missile crisis came to a head
  108. Tuskegee Airmen 99th Pursuit Squadron
  109. WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
  110. WWII: D-Day, landing near Ste. Marie Eglise, captured on D-Day; POW at Stalag 4B near the Czech border. Earlier combat jump in Operation Husky (Sicily, July 1943) and combat in Salerno, Italy. 505th PIR, HQ Company, 82nd Airborne Division
  111. Decorated Australian Military - Now deceased
  112. Italian flying ace of WWII
  113. 101st airborne division, ww2
  114. Author and WW2 veteran
  115. navy admiral educator
  116. 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
  117. Thomas Ryan  (3)
    WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa
  118. navy admiral
  119. Retired General Born Dec 10,1928
  120. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tern (AM-31)
  121. Fighter ace
  122. World War 1 Veteran (Finland) Born: 05/21/1905
  123. WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
  124. USAF General
  125. WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS McCawley (AP-10) off the coast of Guadalcanal Island, 30 June 1943
  126. Military
  127. South African WWII Veteran
  128. 23-year-old American student in his senior year at California State University, Sacramento, who helped avert a massacre when an armed attacker began shooting on a train from Amsterdam to Paris; received France's Legion of Honor
  129. Last survivor of SAS Squad during World War 2
  130. WWII Veteran
  131. WWII: PTO. Battle of Luzon. 6th Infantry Division, 63rd Regimental Combat Team
  132. Former Turkish Air Force general born 1925, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 for his role in the 1980 Military Coup in Turkey
  133. 4-Star General
  134. Japanese WWII Veteran
  135. WWII: 442nd Regimental Combat Team (all Japanese-American unit). Served from May 1944 until the end of the war, incl. the rescue of the Texas 'Lost Battalion'. Wounded 4 times, rcvd 2 Bronze stars.Served with Joe Sakato & Dan Inouye (MOH)
  136. Japanese Midget Sub Captain (Pearl Harbor Attack) US P.O.W. #1
  137. Congressional Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
  138. US WWII Army vet, born 1928. Joined the Texas Guard out of high school, then the Army. Sent to Japan at war's end. Engineer/Supply Sgt. at Sugamo Prison during the Tokyo Trials. Helped build the gallows used for war criminal executions
  139. Battle of the Bulge Veteran
  140. WWII Veteran
  141. WWII: D-Day. 20th Infantry Division
  142. Korean War Intelligence Officer in the US Air Force. Holocaust Survivor
  143. WWII Veteran, D-Day Veteran, Fox Company
  144. WWII - British D-Day veteran of the Pioneer Corps who had the job to clear the landing areas of obstructions, explosives and defences so that troops and armour could quickly get off the beaches
  145. Retired General
  146. WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Civilian underwater welder who barely survived the attack, rescued sailors from the USS Oklahoma and eventually was assigned to remove the main 16-inch diameter guns and three turrets
  147. WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Navy
  148. WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
  149. WWII: PTO. Aboard the USS Missouri during the Japanese Surrender ceremony
  150. German WWII Army Guard, born 1923. Last living witness to the July 1944 'Operation Valkyrie' briefcase bombing suicide attempt on Hitler's life at the Wolf's Lair( Wolfsschanze)
  151. US Navy WW2 Veteran who fought on the the USS Maddox. He was in the Invasion of Sicily
  152. WWII: Highly decorated Azerbaijanian veteran of the war, who fought for the Soviets. He received the Order of Glory 3rd degree in 1942 for heroic actions, and went on to fight in other battles including the Battle of Berlin. Now 96
  153. Oberscharführer in the Waffen SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. WWII
  154. WWII: One of the last 4 Monuments Men, who rescued artwork and cultural pieces during and after WWII
  155. 101st Airborne soldier who helped guard the Little Rock Nine students integrating their high school in 1957
  156. WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, USMC
  157. American WWII Marine, born 1926. Saw action at Peleliu
  158. WWII: USMC. Radio operator, saw active service in Kwajalein, Iwo Jima and Saipan, where he was wounded
  159. WWII: PTO. Philippines. Also Korea and Vietnam. Bronze Star, Purple Heart
  160. Spanish fighter ace from WW2
  161. WWII: 59th Coast Artillery Regiment. POW at Camp Omori, Tokyo Bay. Captured on Corregidor, Fort Mills, in the Philippines on May 6, 1942 after a Japanese artillery barrage knocked out his machine gun; 'hell ship' transport to Japan
  162. WW2 Veteran : 30th Infantry Division Sharpshooter at Omaha Beach
  163. Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy MCPON #5
  164. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Anti-aircraft gunner, 251st Coastal Artillery (California National Guard) on Hospital Point, where the Nevada went aground. He shot down a Japanese Zero fighter plane headed toward the local hospital
  165. American WWII Merchant Marine veteran of WWII, born in 1925. Part of 'Murmansk Run' convoys bringing supplies to and from the Russian port by international forces challenged by arctic conditions
  166. WWII: ETO. 388th Bomb Group, 562nd Bomb Squadron, 8th Airforce. Shot down on April 29th, 1944. POW
  167. WWII - Navajo Code Talker, enlisted 1943, 2nd and 5th Marine Division
  168. WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining
  169. WWII: Navy veteran. Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway. USS Hammann
  170. WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
  171. WWII Canadian Lieutenant General
  172. Italian WWII Biplane Ace, with 12 Victories
  173. Air Force General
  174. Puerto Rican criminal, shooter at Fort Lauderdale Airport on January 7, 2017
  175. Author of 1981 book nominated for National Book Award 'Everything we Had': an oral history of the Vietnam War by the men who fought it. Born 1949,founder Asia America Iniative, an Adjunct Professor in the Institute of World Politics
  176. US Marine vet, born 1931. Korean War vet saw action at Inchon, and one of the Chosin Few
  177. Decorated by Gen William Westmoreland, with Silver Star a company commander and Lt. in the US Army during the Vietnam War, graduate of OCS, author of the book 'Letters Home from Vietnam' insturmental in the construction of the NTC Vietnam Veterans Memoria
  178. WWII: PTO. Los Bańos Raid. Lead scout for the 11th Airborne's Reconnaissance Platoon
  179. Portuguese military officer and politician, was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal
  180. Italian World War One Veteran.
  181. Ww2 womens army service pilot, Flew the pt-19, bt-13, bt-15, at-6, c-78, /SBO Dauntless, AT-9, at-11
  182. WWII: Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. 290th Infantry Regiment, 75th InfDiv (aka 'Bulgebusters') . Wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. Also joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) before the war
  183. Italian World War One Veteran.
  184. US Navy WWII veteran, born 1925. Motor Mechanist on LST-515, delivering supplies and troops to the beaches on D-Day, and picking up the wounded for transport back to England
  185. WWII: PTO. USS Alvin Cockrell (DE-366). Don?s ship was one of the first to respond to the aftermath of the sunken USS Indianapolis. Don was tasked with recovering bodies - floating in the ocean for days - collecting identification, burying them at sea
  186. US Air Corps 1942-1945
  187. medal of honor army vietnam
  188. WWII veteran of the Aleutian campaign, and the Battle of Attu in Alaska
  189. Member of a Band of Brothers
  190. Last Turkish Veteran of World War One. Born: 03/11/1898
  191. Former Surgeon General 1998-2002
  192. Japanese WWII Veteran born 1938
  193. WW2/Served in the 4th Armored Division of the United States Army, and participated in battles in Belgium, Germany and Czechoslovakia/Drove tank & loader/Worked with M4A1 Sherman Tank/Battle of the Bulge/Age 97 in 2020
  194. U.S. Army General
  195. WWII - 4th Marine Division; fought at Roi Namur, Tinian, Saipan, and Iwo Jima. His platoon leader was Henry Bellmon, former governor of and later United States Senator from Oklahoma
  196. Tuskegee Airmen
  197. Paul Saunders  (2)
    Saboteur from the U.S.S. Barb WWII
  198. WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
  199. Author of 'Twin Platoons' and 1 of 100+ young men and women sworn into the Marine Corps at a Minnesota Twins baseball game on June 28, 1967
  200. 1965 lx ray namwas in columbus,ga but not now
  201. WWII: Pacific Theater, Marine Corps
  202. WWII: last Polish pilot of the Battle of Britain
  203. 'Tuskegee Airmen' '332nd Fighter Group, Overseas Pilot'
  204. WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
  205. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Antares (AKS-3). The back then unarmed Antares detected a suspicious object near the harbour, informed the USS Ward which then identified it as a Japanese submarine and fired the first US shots of WWII
  206. WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941 survivor
  207. doolittle's raiders crew #15 engineer
  208. US army general
  209. WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach. Battle of St. Lo. 90th Infantry Division, 359th Infantry Regiment. 2 Purple Hearts
  210. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
  211. Pearl Harbor Survivor
  212. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Petty Officer 1st Class Schab, a sousaphone player in the admiral's band, served at the USS Dobbin, a destroyer tender. He saw the Utah capsizing and the USS Arizona explode
  213. Ww2 luftwaffe ace
  214. Ww2 german fighter ace 27 kills
  215. Paul Schaefer  (2)
    Director for Strategy ECJ5/J-8HQ EUCOM
  216. Iran Hostage Crisis/444 days of captivity as a hostage in Iran/USAF Attaché
  217. WWII - Medic on D-Day
  218. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor and a pilot in the first wave of planes in the Battle of Midway during World War II
  219. Centenarian (1896-2004). One of the last woman voters of the 1920 election, and campaigners for the right to vote beforehand. A WWII Goldstar mother, and a competitive ballroom dancer into her 100's who appeared with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show
  220. WWII: Marine Corps veteran ( A-1-6, 2nd MarDiv ) of the Battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan
  221. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Arizona
  222. WW1 Balloonist/Deployed on land and sea for use in observing enemy troops, artillery spotting, & locating submarines. Importance as observation platforms, balloons were heavily defended by anti-aircraft guns and patrolling fighter aircraft
  223. US Army WWII vet. Fought in the Hurtgen Forest, the Bulge, and held as a POW by the Germans for 4 1/2 month in Stalag 9b
  224. WWII: USS Helena
  225. WWII - Navy corpsman at the Battle of Iwo Jima who piloted an LST (landing ship tank) ashore. Also fought at the Battle of Okinawa
  226. German WWII Interrogator
  227. Centenarian (1895-2001). US WWI veteran, served in France
  228. USAF General
  229. United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honor-'for his actions in World War II
  230. WWII Veteran, Pearl Harbor Survivor
  231. Debuted for Cubs in 1941 as right-handed-hitting catcher, but then served in military during WWII, finishing his career in 1951 with Cardinals. He managed Cubs 1957-59 and then managed the Tigers in 1961, 1962, and part of 1963
  232. German priest, Holocaust survivor and lecturer.Born 07/24/1913
  233. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, Submarine Base, Torpedo Shop
  234. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; later fought at Normandy
  235. Landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944/Combat Engineer, Mine Detector, 531st Amphib Eng Battalion, 279th, D-Day
  236. Ww2 german fighter ace 18 kills
  237. US Navy veteran of three wars: WWII, Korea, Vietnam
  238. Born 1935 Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. 3 Bronze and Silver Stars and a Legion of Merit
  239. WWII: Navy fighter pilot at Guadalcanal (VF-14). Distinguished Flying Cross
  240. Part of raid of WWII POW camp Cabanatuan
  241. WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
  242. WWII Fighter Pilot, 357th Fighter Group
  243. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. Radar Operator at Opana Radar Station where they detected the incoming Japanese planes on Dec. 7, 1941. Schimmel, did not see the planes coming, but was told by other operators thus was the 5th person to know of the attack
  244. WWII Manhattan Project 'Atomic Girl', born 1925. Unable to join the WAAFs, volunteered for a secret mission where she watched meters in Oak Ridge, not knowing why. After Hiroshima, she realized she'd helped produce uranium for the bomb
  245. WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia; USS Saratoga
  246. Veteran
  247. WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 508th PIR
  248. Army Private part of the 'Mountain Troops' caring for the horses and mules on the base. On the day of the attack at Pearl Harbor during WW2
  249. German economist and former President of the Bundesbank. He is also a German WWII Veteran
  250. Secretary to Wernher von Braun, from Pennemuende to Huntsville, from WWII and V2 to Apollo and Saturn V
  251. WWII: German fighter ace (8 victories)
  252. WWII German Knights Cross Recipient
  253. Ww2 ace-6 kills
  254. Canadian Ace of WWII, Pilot
  255. German ww2 pilot
  256. WWII, Korea, Vietnam War Veteran
  257. WWII: Battle of Okinawa. US Army
  258. WWII: 1st Marine Division, Battle of Okinawa
  259. WWII: Hitler Youth, Fallschirmjäger, Western Front, POW. After the war, he worked as an aerospace engineer with Wernher von Braun
  260. Ww2 tank ace- panzers
  261. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Defended Hickam Air Field during the attack. Witnessed the first atomic bomb test from afar
  262. army general
  263. Retired German general
  264. WWII: Luftwaffe radio operator who risked his life to give a Channel Island family some rations. Made international news in 2017
  265. Tunnel Rat Vietnam War 25th Infantry Div./Author 'In There Own Words: Vietnam'/Wife named Gail, lives in maybe Colorado or Texas
  266. Chief of Staff of the Army (2003- )
  267. WWII Marine veteran of Guadalcanal and Peleliu
  268. Wwii: pto. us navy
  269. B. August 9th 1920/WW2 Colonel/Received Silver Star for actions in Okinawa/ Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, the young platoon leader would find himself leading a rifle platoon onto the beaches of Peleliu
  270. WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
  271. medal of honor army karean war
  272. Flying Tigers-crew chief
  273. WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Henley
  274. air force general
  275. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Ash
  276. WWII - D-Day; Company F of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. First American soldier to come ashore from a landing craft at Utah Beach
  277. WW2 Luftwaffe Ace and Me262 pilot/Shot down by Joseph Peterburs & later became friends
  278. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor (December 7, 1941) USS Phoenix (CL-46)
  279. WWII: D-Day. Omaha Beach. Landed with LST-510 on Omaha Beach around noon of June 6, 1944. 90-millimeter artillery gunner of Battery B of the the 110th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. Battle of the Bulge
  280. Memoir, The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army. The ghost soldiers were members of the XX Corps, which earned the title Ghost Corps when, during combat/Typist for a Colonel in G-3
  281. German ww2 pilot
  282. Canadian Ace of WWII, Pilot
  283. WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Tinian
  284. WWII Veteran in General Patton's 3rd Army. Wrote a Book
  285. WWII: German bomber and fighter communications, pilot 1940-1945 (103 missions). 23 night bombing misions (DO-217) over England incl. London (1942/1943). Bf-109 pilot for JG 5 in 1944 in Finland. POW, 3 victories. Also flew ME-109G, ME-110C and JG51
  286. USS Pueblo
  287. vietnam war air force hero
  288. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Medusa
  289. 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
  290. WWII veteran, POW, born 1915. Captured by the Japanese 12/9/41 when they invaded Guam, he was held POW for 1367 days--the entire war!
  291. air force general
  292. WWII: Army Air Corps in the Phillippines. Surrendered and was part of the Bataan Death March (9 April 1942). Spent the rest of the war as a POW. After the war, he went on the be a jeweler and sold Elvis' the first of the famous TCB necklace
  293. army general
  294. Retired Army General
  295. (Born 1924) US Army WW2 Veteran. Company B, 2826th Engineer Battalion, 36th Combat Engineers. participated in the amphibious invasion of Southern France in August 1944. He was in many battles throughout France and Germany during the war
  296. U. S. General - Desert Storm Fame born 1934
  297. Non-commissioned officer who served in the German army during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  298. WWII - German paratrooper of Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6 (6th Paratrooper Regiment); fought in the Battle of Carentan where his regiment had a direct frontline to the famous 'Band of Brothers' of Dick Winters
  299. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Trever
  300. WWII: Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
  301. US Army General
  302. Was a German Officer in WWII, was in the Fuhrerbunker with Hitler. Born: 07/24/1915
  303. One of the last crew members and survivors of MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which sank after being torpedoed by submarine in 1945 resulting in the greatest ship disaster in history. He is now 86 and recently wrote the book "The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff"
  304. German WWII Veteran, Waffen-SS
  305. German ww2 pilot
  306. air force general
  307. WWII - Iwo Jima survivor. Radioman at 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division. He landed in the first 35 minutes of the battle. His duties also included protecting the Navajo Code Talkers
  308. RAF fighter ace 5 victorys test pilot
  309. Carl Scott  (2)
    WWII: PTO. Battle of Cape Gloucester ('Target Hill' aka 'Hill 450', 'Hill 150'), Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
  310. Air Force General
  311. 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
  312. WWII: PTO. Assigned to the USS Lexington (CV-2) before Pearl Harbor, he served there until she was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea on 8 May 1942. Later at USS Suwannee (Operation Torch, North-Africa)
  313. Bataan Death March Survivor
  314. James Scott  (4)
    Lz xray 1965 nam
  315. Author, The Iran Contradiction. Former Military Officer Vietnam 1967. 101st Airborne Divison. Wounded during North Vietnamese Army's Tet Offensive of 1968
  316. November 30, 1913 - February 5, 1999) was a soldier of the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for actions during World War II
  317. British-Argentine WWII veteran. Left Argentina as a volunteer for the 794 Naval Air Squadron, part of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Army. Last known Latin American pilot of Spitfire
  318. Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) 10, from 2002-2006
  319. Ace and member of the AVG-Flying Tigers
  320. army general educator
  321. British Major General, born in 1920, participated in the D-Day invasion
  322. Morgan Stanley employee working in Tower 2 of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He bravely led the evacuation of 276 fellow employees
  323. Spitfire Ace - North African desertand Italy
  324. D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in London, UK. Also a HMS Belfast crew member
  325. WWII: US Navy. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid. Aleutian Campaign. Philippines
  326. WWII: Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Exeter, 1 March 1942. Also served during the Battle of the River Plate (1939). Spent 3 years as a Japanese POW
  327. WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima
  328. army general
  329. German World War 1 (lives in USA)Veteran/Born:12/12/1899
  330. WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu
  331. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (Schofield Barracks); Guadalcanal; New Georgia. 25th ID
  332. Female French Resistance Fighter in WWII
  333. Pearl Harbor vet, USS Nevada, born 1923. Stayed on the Nevada through most of the war, supporting the landings of D-Day, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
  334. WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
  335. WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Robin in a long series of battles all over the Pacific
  336. WW2 POW, 'Bridge over the River Kwai' prisoner
  337. German World War One survivor
  338. German WWII-Pilot, Ju88 pilot, Mistel mission of WWII
  339. WW2/Japanese American/Go For Broke/US Army Units served 442nd regiment, 3rd battalion, Company L/Purple Heart; 2 Unit Citations; O'Connor Task Force; Bruyeres
  340. Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 7 kills
  341. Lz xray 1965
  342. US Navy Vietnam Veteran who served from 1968 to 1974. Fought along with his brother Herb Seller who was in the US Air Force. He was a RM2
  343. US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1968 to 1972 along with his brother Gary O. Seller who was in the US Navy
  344. B-17 bomber pilot, WWII, 8th Air Force. Shot down by a FW-109 over Ruhland, Germany, 12 September 1944. Sole survivor in a crew of ten. P.O.W. for 9 months. PH AM POW medals
  345. WWII: 4th Battalion, 29th Infantry. A communications specialist that served on D-Day (3rd or 4th wave, Omaha Beach), The Battle of the Bulge, Liberation of Dachau
  346. WWII: ETO. 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. The Ghost Army deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there
  347. Wwii: eto. d-day
  348. WWII: D-Day veteran
  349. Member of the French maquis in WW2
  350. WWII: PTO. 5th Air Force
  351. Hungarian fighter ace from WW2
  352. Russian/Soviet WWII Veteran
  353. Italian veteran from WW1
  354. 98-years old British veteran of the Spanish Civil War; living in the United Kingdom, featured in the documentary, 'The First Will Be The Last' by Pasquale D'Aiello
  355. WWII: Coast Guard Yeoman Second Class of the United States Coast Guard (USCG) Women's Reserve, known as the SPARS (from the Latin Semper Paratus, meaning Always Ready.). She served in numerous non - combat roles from California to Alaska
  356. WWII: CBI. He flew 30 roundtrip missions in C-46s and C-47s over the Hump
  357. Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
  358. WWII - Iwo Jima. CO of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Div. His 3rd Platoon, led by 1st Lt Wells, is the most decorated Marines Platoon in history. He is the CO who selected the men who went up Mt. Suribachi
  359. (Born 1930) US Army Korean War Veteran. 2nd Infantry Division. hit with shrapnel on his helmet and received a severe head wound on October 24, 1952 which he would later get the Purple Heart for. Medically discharged in 1953
  360. Army General
  361. Female WWII veteran, WASP pilot (1917-2017). One of the 'Lucky Thirteen' WASP pilots to train and fly the B-17 'Flying Fortresses'
  362. WWII: US Navy veteran. Battle of Midway (June 1942), Battle of Santa Cruz (October 1942), Battle of Formosa (1944), a.o. Served on USS Russell (DD-414) and USS Houston (CL-81)
  363. Lz xray 1965
  364. WWII - D-Day U.S. Navy Seaman U.S. Navy 2nd Class Motor Machinist's Mate. Shaeff was USS LST-290 on D-Day to carry troops and equipment to the shore
  365. Ace (5 kills - 2 in WWII & 3 in Korean War)- USAAF/USAF, p-47, f-86, me 109
  366. WWII: Served on LST-474 in the Pacific
  367. Former Israeli soldier who was held captive by Hamas for five years
  368. WWII: One of the last 'Rats of Tobruk'. The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Rommel's Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk, Lybia
  369. 'Band of Brothers' '101st Airbourne Division, 506th Parahute Infantry Regiment, Easy Company' 'Battlefield Commission- Normandy'
  370. Retired Navy Admiral
  371. Acting Secretary of Defense Jan 2019 -
  372. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Medusa
  373. WWII: PTO. Battle of Tarawa. USMC. Pictured in a photograph of the battle transporting wounded through shallow water. 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division
  374. WWII veteran. At a retirement home in Florida, he discovered his good friend and neighbor was a German WWII veteran who'd fought against him at the Bridge at Remagen, and whose outfit had taken the neighbor POW
  375. Spitfire Pilot, one of the few female Air Transport Auxiliary pilots
  376. 4 Star General
  377. USS Indianapolis survivor
  378. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Patterson. The Navy credited him with shooting down a Japanese plane during the attack on 7 December 1941
  379. air force general association executive
  380. Andy Shaw  (3)
    Member Sioux Tribe stationed Japan 24th Infantry Div./Survivor Korean Death March/29th Reg. Combat Team/Captured Oneui 7/26/1950 marched 40 miles south of Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW 3 months one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured
  381. Teen US Merchant Marine of WWII, born 1927. One of the last survivors to attend the 2022 Congressional Gold Medal award ceremony in Washington
  382. WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach. Battle of the Bulge
  383. Jack Shaw  (2)
    'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
  384. John Shaw  (2)
    Artist, Aviation Art, Band of Brothers paintings
  385. WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, first wave. A Penobscot Indian who was a medic in the 1st U.S. Infantry Division (16th Infantry Regiment). D-Day was his first day in combat
  386. former member of the British Security Service (MI5)
  387. USS Indianapolis survivor
  388. Jack Shearer  (2)
    Member of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization
  389. WWII: Melvin served in the US Army in the 6th Ranger Battalion where participated in the Great Raid at Cabanatuan in the Phillipines and was awared the Bronze Star Medal for his actions
  390. WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. 5th Marines
  391. Oldest living Navy World War 2 Veteran. Born: May 17, 1906
  392. WWII - Ball-turret Gunner of B-17 "Big Yank", 483rd Bombardment Group, 840th Bombardment Sq. Base: Sterparone, Italy; on March 24, 1945, they flew the longest escorted European bombing mission to Berlin, credited for destroying 3 Me-262's
  393. Lyle Shelton  (2)
    (Born 1937) US Marine Corps Vietnam veteran who served from 1955 to 1963
  394. WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 99th Infantry Division
  395. 4-Star General, Born Feb 25, 1954
  396. WWII: ETO. US Army Air Corps. B-17 'Jersey Mosquito', 774th Bomber Squadron, 463 Bomber Group. Shot down on April 6, 1944, over Yugoslavia. POW for 13 months
  397. 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, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. E Co, 2nd Bn, 508th PIR, 82nd AB
  398. JFK - US Navy rear admiral; naval aide to President John F. Kennedy.
  399. Tuskegee airmen ww2, flew the curtiss p-40, p-39-q, p-47d, p-51 c, p-51 d
  400. Military figure
  401. Was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the Secretary of State (1950-1952) and Attorney General (1953-1957) for the U.S. state of Texas. Also served in the U.S. Army during WWII
  402. Navy Admiral, last skipper of USS Lexington,
  403. 'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
  404. air force general
  405. 'Royal Air Force Crewman'
  406. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941, USS Arizona
  407. Japanese politician (1887-1957). WWII Foreign Affairs Minister and post-war Deputy Prime Minister. Signed the WWII Instrument of Surrender, as Japan's representative
  408. (1916-2002) AVG Flying Tigers CNA & Captain/Hump Pilot with 700 flights Pre-WW2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tgiLSkcvN4
  409. WWII: 603rd Engineers Camouflage Division, 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. Long and prominent career as an illustrator after the war, working for National Geographic, Life, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian and NASA
  410. Pearl Harbor survivor (7 Dec 1941), USS Helena. Survived only as he had swiched shifts with a friend
  411. U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009-present)
  412. Retired Navy SEAL. He investigates phony Navy SEALs, and puts the videos on YouTube
  413. Wrote under the name Lee Shippey, American author & journalist whose romance with a French woman during WWI caused a sensation in the US as a 'famous war triangle.' Shippey later wrote a popular column in the Los Angeles Times for 22 years
  414. WWII: USMC. Battle of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu
  415. New Zealand WWII Veteran, Telegraphist in the Royal New Zealand Navy
  416. Commander of British Troops in Iraq
  417. WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. US Army
  418. WWII Soviet Veteran, Rifleman, Battle of Stalingrad Platoon Commander and Signal Officer, Baltic Region, Tashkent. Lives in Canada, possibly Calgary. Born 1924 Minsk, Belarus
  419. army general
  420. WWII: ETO. Pilot, 100th Bomb Group, 351st Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force ('Bloody 100th'). B-17 #42-31767 'Our Gal Sal', the only B-17 of the 351st Squadron returning from the murderous 6 March 1944 raid on Berlin
  421. Retired General
  422. Decorated general of the United States Marine Corps who was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, became the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps
  423. WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Co C, 1st Bn, 23Marines, 4th Marine Division. His comnpany suffered a 94 percent casualty rate on Iwo Jima; only 16 were non-casualties and only 38 returned home
  424. WWII: Soviet partisan fighter, living in a retirement home in central Israel
  425. air force general
  426. WWII: 34th Field Artillery Battalion (9th Inf Div), operating a 155mm howitzer. North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium, Germany. D-Day (Utah Beach), Battle of Remagen 1945
  427. Centenarian (1902-2002). US WWI vet, lied about his age to enlist. Sent to France, fought in trenches
  428. Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor/ U.S. Marine Corps Guard
  429. Soviet sniper during World War Two. Credited with over five-hundred confirmed kills. Lives in the Republic of Dagestan, near the Caucasus
  430. WWII: PTO. Battle of Saipan, Battle of Okinawa. 27th Infantry Division
  431. Polish publicist and lawyer, former member of the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa (AK)
  432. (Born 1923) WW2 Bombraider Army Air Corps 384th Bombardment Group
  433. American Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Iwo Jima campaign
  434. army general finland
  435. Iraq US Army veteran who left as a sergeant
  436. Tuskegee Airmen, Author, WWII
  437. JFK related/Frogman at Bay of Pigs, lives in Caracas since 70's/Wounded & taken prisoner, Castro refers to these prisoners as 'yellow worms'
  438. JFK related/Frogman at the Bay of Pigs
  439. WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
  440. JFK - Honor Guard at the funeral of John F. Kennedy, leading the naval troops at the procession; also serving the President in functions prior to the assassínation
  441. medal of honor marines korean war
  442. WWII: ETO/PTO. Transported troops to both Utah and Omaha beaches on D - Day on LST-501, later again in the Battle of Okinawa (April 1 ? June 22, 1945)
  443. Pearl Harbor Survivor, aboard U.S.S. Utah during attack!
  444. WWII: PTO. 96th Infantry Division of the Army, Headquarters Company. Battle of Leyte, Battle of Okinawa. Purple Heart
  445. WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Okinawa. USMC
  446. Officer who served in the German army during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  447. WWII: ETO. German Luftwaffe pilot; flew the Fi 76, Fieseler 156, Fw 58, He 111, He 50, He 51, He 70, Ju 52, Ju 86, Ju 88, Me 109. As an adopted son of Jewish parents, he witnessed the Holocaust in person
  448. Ralph Simpson  (2)
    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
  449. The oldest living woman Marine
  450. WWII: US Navy. PTO: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid
  451. WWII, Berlin Airlift (Chief of Navigation & Briefing), Korea, Master Navigator
  452. doolittles radiers
  453. 2nd oldest man in Canada born 1911. WWII veteran
  454. Indian war hero, bearer of Param Vir Chakra
  455. Indian-Singaporean WWII veteran. Member of the Indian National Army boys' brigade. Later served for the Singapore Armed Forces
  456. Indian military - awarded the Victoria Cross in December 1944
  457. Spy/C.I.A./US Army General
  458. Navy veteran of 3 wars: WWII, Korea, Vietnam
  459. WWII: D-Day. USS Augusta (Admiral Kirk's flagship for D-Day, also carrying Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, providing fire support on D-Day and beyond)
  460. Sri Lankan WWII veteran and aviator
  461. US WWII Navy, born 1924. Sent as part of the occupying forces in Japan at the end of the war. Re-enlisted and served as part of the weather recon air squadron for the 1946 Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests in 1946
  462. WWII: ETO. D-Day, Utah Beach. Battle of the Bulge. 915 Artillery Battalion, 90th Division, T.O. ? Tough Ombres
  463. Carl Leonard Sitter (December 2, 1922 - April 4, 2000) was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer and Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
  464. Former General of the Polish Army (retired)
  465. 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
  466. WWII: Battle of Wake Island December 1941. US Marine Corps. Jack's artillery battery sank the first Japanese ship of the war. POW until his liberation by U.S. forces on September 7, 1945
  467. WWII: Merchant Marine, Arctic convoys
  468. Military air force general
  469. Bataan Death March survivor, born 1917
  470. WWII: Served on the USS Bunker Hill and saved sailors from the ship when she was hit by two Kamikaze on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa)
  471. Army National Guard Specialist; helped avert a massacre when an armed attacker began shooting on a train from Amsterdam to Paris; received the US Soldier's Medal and France's Legion of Honor; Dancing With The Stars Season 21
  472. Former general in the German Democratic Republic's army
  473. army general
  474. WWII: PTO. A Chief Radioman of the VP44 Patrol Bombing Squadron 'Golden Pelicans', a seaplane squadron flying the PBY-5A Catalina. Battle of Midway. On June 5, 1942, his PYB, sighted the Japanese cruisers Mogami and Mikuma
  475. WWII - Flying Ace, 12 victories
  476. Military
  477. Vietnam War Navy Veteran. Served from 1969 to 1972. Was aboard the USS Milwaukee (AOR-2). Participated in the Christmas Bombing of 1972. SK3
  478. WWII: Last remaining Polish survivor of Westerplatte Peninsula, where roughly 200 Polish troops valiently fought off German troops for seven days in September 1939. POW 1939-1941. Considered the opening battle of WWII
  479. British expert on conflict, reconciliation and stability, who has worked mainly in the Middle East. She served in Iraq as the political advisor to US General Ray Odierno and General David Petraeus during the surge
  480. Former United States Navy SEAL/Medal of Honor Recipient
  481. WWII - WASP. Base assignment_ Love Field, Dallas. Flew B-26, B-39
  482. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
  483. WWII Manhattan Project
  484. Pearl Harbor Survivor (1922-2009). survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
  485. Bob Slaughter  (2)
    D-Day participant
  486. WWII - D-Day. D Company, 116th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. 4th wave at Omaha Beach
  487. WW2 veteran. Nose Gunner on the B17 Flying Fortress
  488. Retired General Born Nov. 11, 1924
  489. WWII: Navy veteran. USS Yorktown, USS West Virginia
  490. WWII: Royal Navy, HMS Anson. Escorting merchant ships on their 'Murmansk runs' in the Arctic convoys. Later served on the HMS Duncan, the HMS Pennywort and the HMS Taff and was involved in patrols along the Burma coast behind enemy lines
  491. WWII: ETO. 101st Airborne Division
  492. Military
  493. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, 18th Fighter Group at Wheeler Field
  494. navy admiral
  495. WWII - VJ-Day 14 August 1945. In the famous scene of a sailor kissing a nurse, Mr. Smalley can be seen as a bystander
  496. United States Navy, first captain of the USS Indianapolis. Captain from 15 November 1932 - 10 December 1934
  497. WWII - Civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Worked as a civilian employer of the Navy in a big hangar, building and repairing aircraft wings
  498. First blind active duty officer in the Army. Speaker, Veteran, IronMan, Purple Heart recipient and author of Beat Feet: Scotty Smiley's Blind Journey to Ironman (2015) and Fox and Friends (1998)
  499. Albert Smith  (2)
    Navajo Code Talker during WWII