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WW2 Dunkirk veteran (Born:1919) who served with the Royal Army Service Corps and was rescued from the beach after two days under fire without food or water. Lives in Shoeburyness, southeast Essex, UK
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Last survivor from the sinking of HMS Royal Oak, that was torpedoed by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. He is now 94 and lives in the UK
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Ww2 fighter ace - 5 kills vf-14
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air force general
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Night fighter ace, flew P-61's with the 418th NFS
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, Machine Gunner. Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941. POW for 4 years
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Charles Smith (4)Served in the 3rd Infantry Division during the war. Mr. Smith was one of the first American soldiers to cross the Rhine River and begin the march towards Berlin
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, Schofield Barracks. Korea: Battle of Osan, 24th Infantry Division, Distinguished Service Cross
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David Smith (5)
Veteran of Spanish Civil War, Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Born: 1913 -
Retired General
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army general
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US Marine Corps 4 Star General. Fought in the Gulf War, Iraq War, and War in Afghanistan. Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Distinguished Service Cross, and Legion of Merit recipient
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Hump Pilot to China
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George Smith (3) USS Oklahoma survivor - Pearl Harbor attack
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Born 1922 WW2 veteran and Navajo Code Talker
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, glider pilot in Operation Varsity. 194th Regiment, 17th Airborne Division
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge. Machine Gunner. 291sth Infantry Regiment, 75th InfDiv (aka 'Bulgebusters')
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Jack Smith (4) Abc news correspondant- also at lz-xray in 1965 with 1/7 cav- he might have died?
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US WWII Navy veteran (1924-2021). One of 7 last USS Indianapolis survivors at the time of his death
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Lz xray 1965
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Ken Smith (2)B-58 Hustler Pilot of the Supersonic bomber aircraft
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air force general
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JFK - Honor Guard 'Casket team', one of Kennedy's pallbearers (Navy)
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WWII Fighter Ace (6 kills), 56th Fighter Group, 'Zemke's Wolfpack', flew the p-47
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. Recipient of a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, 8 Bronze Stars. and 4 Purple Hearts
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Civil war general railroad tycoon 1st vp of b & o railroad
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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Tuskegee Airman
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Vietnam: Fall of Saigon - US Marine Corps. Last Marine to stand duty at the US Embassy in Saigon and the Marine who took down the US flag during the evacuation of Saigon on April 29. 1975, for the very last time
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Retired USMC General
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Buffalo Soldier of WWII (1923-2021). Badly wounded in Italy alongside John Fox (one of the few Black MOH recipients of WWII), held POW by Germany. Teaching career, known as 'Doc Rock'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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William Smith (3) WWII: Battle of the Bulge. 75th Infantry Division
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navy admiral
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan
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Army general 'As Major in 1961 Airforce aide to the Military Representitive of the President'
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Aviator, WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) lives in San Antonio, TX
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker´
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Air Force General
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WWII - D-Day, Utah Beach. 29th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Infantry Division
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(Born 1935) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of 1 Silver Star and 7 Distinguished Flying Crosses
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Centenarian (1898-2004). One of the last living Australian WWI veterans
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Subject of the new WWII book 'Spearhead'
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WWII: ETO. RAF Battle of Britain pilot
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South African war hero, awarded Victoria Cross in June 1942
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WWII WASP Women Pilot
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African American WWI veteran of the 9th Calvary, born 1922. One of the last of the Buffalo Soldiers
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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WWII - LtGen Snowden (Fox Company, 2nd Bn, 23rd Marines, company commander) is the senior and highest-ranking surviving veteran of the Battle of Iwo Jima (Purple Heart); also in the battles at Saipan and Tinian; WWII, Korea, Vietnam
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Rosie The Riveter --- WWII War Effort at Aerospace Plants
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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US Army Vietnam Veteran
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Former Soviet Military Marshal (Soviet Army) and the last surviving veteran from The Battle of Lake Khasan in 1938
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, 4th Marine Division
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Polish WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. 163rd Regiment, 41st Infantry Division. New Guinea campaign (Battle of Buna 1942/1943)
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Russian World War One Veteran
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U.S. Army veteran, who was captured by the Nazis in 1944, after bombing a Nazi bunker
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army general
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German World War One survivor
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WWII: Marine Corps (2nd Marine division) veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa
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German ww2 pilot
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(Born 1943) Former Sergeant Major of the US Marine Corps from 1987 to 1981
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Jewish survivor of the Nazis and a WWII veteran. Born in turbulent post-war Germany and witnessed the rise of National Socialism/Managed to escape in January 1939 and immigrated to America. He fought in the Pacific Theater during WWII
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American author and inventor most notable for being the U.S. prosecution team's chief interpreter during the Nuremberg Trials. Fought at Battle of the Bulge. Part of the RCA team that invented color tv. Worked for NASA on the moon landings
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Member of the Norwegian Resistance during the German Occupation WWII. The most highly decorated person in Norway
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Aviation pioneer W/Fred Sigrist, others set up Sopwith Aviation Company which produced 18,000+ British WWI aircraft for allied forces, including 5747 of the famous Sopwith Camel single-seat fighter/awarded the CBE 1918
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Glenn Sorensen (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. US Army Air Corps
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Army General
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WWII - Employed at the Glenn L. Martin Company at Offutt Field (Fort Crook), she worked on the Enola Gay, did the cockpit wiring like the wiring for the special navigator table
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Danish WWII Veteran
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Congressional Medal of Honor, USMC, WWII
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army general
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Spanish Civil War Veteran, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Born: 12/20/1918
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (USS New Orleans), later USMC Guadalcanal
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, USS Utah
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WWII -Medic in Colonel Rudders's HQ company who climbed Pointe du Hoc on D-day
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WWII: North-Africa (Kasserine Pass), Sicily, Battle of Normandy. Sixth Armored Division (Patton)
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WWII: British soldier evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. He was abandoned on the beach by his commanding officer with the instruction 'every man for himself'. He then got himself on to a boat, alone
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WWII: D-Day. 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
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US Army Air Corps Pearl Harbor survivor (7 Dec 1941); caught in the open at Wheeler Field as the attack started
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US Navy vet, born 1940. Served on the USS Lake Champlain during recovery of Alan Shepard and Freedom 7 in 1962. Hearing Shepard call to the ship on headphones, got permission to call back 'You're almost home!'
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British Victoria Cross awardee for his actions in the Korea War
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Army General
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USS Pueblo
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Nazi officer
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WWII: Fighter Pilot , 334th Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, show down, became POW, escaped
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Former High-School/College Basketball coach for Arkansas State Univ. Played at the Arkansas State Univ. Also is a World War 2 Veteran
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101st airborne, band of brothers ww2
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WWII: US Navy; 20mm anti-aircraft gunner on the Liberty ship SS Julius Olson. Murmansk Run veteran
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Binbrook'
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WWII Ace (9.5 kills) 361st Fighter Group - USAAF - DSC
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC
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John Spencer (5) WWII: Original Montford Point Marine (first Black marines) who fought in the Battle of Guadalcanal and later on the battles of Operation Forager (Mariana and Palau Islands battles)
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Larry Spencer (2)Air Force General
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WWII: ETO. Bombardier with the 93rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force
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WWII: Belgian WWII veteran who was in the Belgian Resistance and joined the 512th MP Battalion of Patton's 3rd Army after the liberation of Antwerp, being in the Battle of the Bulge and also entering the Buchenwald concentration camp
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WWII: Infantryman machine gunner, H Company, 501st PIR, 101st AB. Battle of the Bulge (Siege of Bastogne), soldier who (unintentionally und unknowingly) created the 'Airborne Beer' in Belgium. Occupation duty in Austria
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WWII veteran with the 75th Division, 291st Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion. Went to the beaches of Normandy 5 months after D-Day
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Former British military officer, later employee of Sandline International, a private military company, wrote a book called 'An Unorthodox Soldier' about his life
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B-17 Pilot during WWII. Known for developing artificial/fake trees in the early 1970's. Lives in New York
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Retired German general
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Retired General
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WWII: N. Africa, Sicily, Normandy (Utah Beach, D-Day+4, Battle of Bulge, Battle of Remagen (1945), Rhine Crossing. 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
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WW2 Veteran/100th Infantry Division & 82nd Airborne Division/July 1944, reassigned to 82nd Airborne Division, 325th Infantry Glider Regiment, Company C/Remembers seeing smoke from guns below crossing the English Channel toward Holland
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US Army vet, born 1925. 'Undesirable' discharge for being gay, 1948. Hid the anguish from his family, until he married his partner of decades in 2009 and fought years for an honorable discharge, which came at the age of 91 in 2017
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WWII - Contemporary witness of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion, July 17, 1944, Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, CA; 320 dead, 390 wounded, followed by mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.)
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: British soldier of the 56th (Highland) Medium Regiment who survived 4 days under fire at the beaches of Dunkirk and was evacuated on board J86, the minesweeper HMS Salamander
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Is a former officer in the United States Marine Corps and the proprietor of The Globe and Laurel Restaurant in Stafford, Virginia. He served in the Marine Corps for over 29 years and is called 'the living historian of the Marine Corps'
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WWII: Gunner on the USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady') . Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942), Battle of Midway (June 1942), when he spent 10 hours in the Pacific before being picked up. Later served on submarine USS Jack
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WWII/ETO: B-17 ball turret gunner of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group)
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Patrol Squadron 23 (PBY Patrol plane), Kaneohe Bay
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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retired United States Army Colonel and former NASA astronaut
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US Navy vet, born 1940. Assigned to the USS Lake Champlain in 1961, participated in the recovery of Alan Sheperd and Freedom 7. Helped make the bed that the recovered capsule was set upon
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navy admiral
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British ace from WW2
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US Navy 'Atomic Veteran', born 1928. Operation Crossroads atomic tests witness in 1946. Enlisted 1945, but recruiter held him off since he had four brothers serving. But ended up exposed to radiation, fighting skin cancers later in life
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Retied USMC General
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Swedish'
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astonaut air force general
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A British Royal Air Force meteorologist who notably persuaded General Dwight D. Eisenhower to change the date of the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II, from the 5th of June to the 6th of June 1944
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WWII - D-Day Utah Beach, 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. Also fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Before that, he was sent to the Pacific Theater, where he survived the sinking of the SS President Coolidge on 26 Oct 1942
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Charles 'Chuck' Ollin Stalnaker was a WW2 Veteran in the Navy from 1945 to 1946 as an anti - aircraft gun loader on the USS Boise. After he worked on building ships until 1947 (B: March 16, 1927)
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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German Flying Ace Of World War II
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British ace from WW2
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WWII: Fighter Pilot, 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF
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army field marshal england
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Retired U.S.-Marine General, USMC
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WWII: PTO. Bataan Death March survivor
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Director FOrce Structure J-8
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RAF ace from 'Battle of Britain', currently residing in the U.K., 7
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WWII: British Arctic convoy veteran
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Croatian World War II pilot, born 1916, lives in Pancevo, Serbia
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WWII: ETO. Nose Art artist of the 91st Bomb Group, also painted the 'Memphis Belle'
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World war 2 fighter ace- 7 kills
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WW2 POW 31st Infantry Regiment U.S. Army, was captured & shipped to Yokkaichi city in Japan where was forced to shovel coal at copper mill/suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, but recovered & held career as corrections officer in Conn
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WW1 Veteran (Royersford, Pa.)
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army general
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USN Admiral
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WWII - Navigaor and OOD (Officer of the Deck) of the USS Missouri. It was his job to greet US and Japanese military officials as they boarded to sign the papers of surrender, and his job to set up the ceremony
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world war 2 fighter ace (6 kills)- USAAF
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WWII: PTO. Normandy, Okinawa and Southern France. USS Harding
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USS Barnett
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navy admiral england
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U.S. Navy 4-Star Admiral; NATO Supreme Allied Commander (2009-2013); Commander, U.S. Southern Command (2006-2009)
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(Born 1947) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Served as a Hospital Corpsman with Marines. Recipient of a Silver Star and 4 Purple Hearts
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WWII - D-Day, Battle of The Bulge, Nuremberg Trails. 1st Infantry Div, 26th Infantry Regiment. 1st wave on Omaha Beach. Occupational duty of guarding the top 12 high ranking German officials, including Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Jamaica). Part of the bodyguard at Yalta, when Churchill met Roosevelt and Stalin
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Air Force General
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WWII - Pilot of the famous Sundowners squadron (VT-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater
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Former General (Generaloberst) of the German Democratic Republic (DDR)
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WWII Marine, born 1924, fought at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan. Went on to a career as a lawyer and circuit judge
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WWII Bataan Death March Survivor
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Michael Steele (2)Michael Dane Steele (born September 15, 1960) is a retired colonel of the United States Army. He was a company commander in the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment during the Somalia mission Operation Gothic Serpent
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, Guadalcanal, Battle of the Bloody Ridge
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Richard Steele (3)WW2 Marine Corps Veteran 1st Lieutenant VMSB-245
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WWII: Marine veteran of the Battles of Tawara, Saipan, Tinian
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army general
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Bataan Death March Survivor
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WW2 Veteran : Army 37th Infantry Division
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Centenarian (1901-2006). US vet of WWI and WWII. 4 WWI battles in France. Named Provost Marshal of Hawaii, living through Pearl Harbor. Oldest living West Point grad (1925) and only WWI vet still on (honorary) active duty at his death
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Veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad - WW2
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS Knapp. Witnessed the Japanese surrender at Tokyo Bay
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the c-45
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WWII: U.S.S. L.S.T. 1046, U.S. Navy. He saw combat at Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, and at the invasion of Okinawa
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WWII: D-Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion; was the third man to climb Pointe-du-Hoc on D-Day
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Soldier of Fortune anf French Foreign Legion Paratrooper veteran
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Current captain of the USS Illinois
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS John Penn on August 13, 1943
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(Born 1922) US Army WW2 Veteran. 423nd Infantry Regiment, 106 Infantry Division. Taken as a POW after the Battle of the Bulge
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British WW2 pilot, 'Battle of Britain'
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 246th Signal Operation Company
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WWII: USS Indianapolis (CA-35) survivor
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WW2/Battle of the Bulge/101st FA 26 Yankee Division
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
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US WWII Navy vet, born 11 Jan 1921. Served on the USS Wichita, part of the Murmansk Runs to Russia, incl. the disastrous Convoy PQ-17. Later in the Pacific
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WWII - Yeoman aboard the submarine USS Wahoo (SS-238); sole survivor of the sinking of the Wahoo (11 Oct 1943) as he was miraculously transferrd just 45 mins before Wahoo sailed on her last and fatal voyage. Author of 'Wake of the Wahoo'
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WW2/Member of Ritchie Boys, a military intelligence unit composed of German, Austrian, & Czech refugees & immigrants to the US, mostly Jewish. Member of (interrogators of prisoners of war) Team 37. For this he gained the Bronze Star Medal
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Member of The Ritchie Boys was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War II. Holocaust survivor born 1922
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(Born 1950) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of 2 Bronze Stars
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WWII: ETO. 345th Bomb Squadron, 98th Bomb Group, 9th AF. B-24 Liberator 'The Sandman' (#42-40402). Pilot & Squadron Commander. 50 Combat missions. DFC for Operation Tidal Wave (1 Aug 1943), the bombing of the oil refineries at Ploesti
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Medusa, 7 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. B-17 Bombardier, 509th Bomb Squadron, 351st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 34 missions over Germany, occupied France, Belgium and Holland (14 Jun - 22 Sep 1944), incl. Buchenwald, Munich, Stuttgart, Schweinfurt, St. Lo, Berlin. DFC
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13th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON), 2012-2016
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester and Peleliu. Headquarters, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, USMC. Silver Star
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Tuskegee Airman WWII, received Distinguished Flying Cross
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Author
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Brian Stewart (5) MI6 officer who blew up Panzers in Normandy and was the service man in the Far East
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Bougainville
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WWII: Guadalcanal, New Guinea
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island
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John Stewart (4)Vietnam/Fall of Saigon/Drove bus through Saigon & pick up eligible to leave. Saw anger growing among those on the streets as people realized the end was near & U.S. was pulling out. A rocket hit near the bus & was shaken by shrapnel
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Actress born 12/14/1919 was in films from 1942 to 1945 usually as eye candy. is 88-89 now and has supported the troops since WWII
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(Born 1921) African American WW2 D - Day veteran
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NASA astronaut (retired); US Army brigadier general
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WWII B-24 pilot of the last plane to return from the Ploesti Refineries raid - DSC
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WW2 Tuskegee Airmen. One of The Last Voices of World War II in the June 2020 issues of National Geographic. Flew P-51 / P-47 / P-40
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WWII Dunkirk/D-Day: British soldier of the Green Howards; was blown up at Dunkirk (1940), had his ID tags taken off and left for dead, but then saved by the men around him. He was wounded again when his landing ship was blown up on D-Day+2
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German ww2 me262 pi,ot
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WWII - Flying Tigers, crew chief
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Tennessee
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US Army General (Ret). Co-authored 'Shadow Warriors' With Tom Clancy. Former Commander Of U.S. Special Operations Command.
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95 Year Old World War II Veteran. US Army
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WWII Pacific - Survivor of the sinking of the USS Quincy (CA-39) in the Battle of Savo Island , 9 August 1942
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One of the 591 American prisoners of war who were returned during Operation Homecoming, in 1973; featured in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph 'Burst of Joy' taken on March 17, 1973 at Travis Air Force Base in California
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WWII Veteran
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Cpl, USA, E Co., 2nd Bn., 33rd Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Div. M4 Sherman Tank Gun Loader Purple Heart First unit to pierce the Siegfried Line Normandy, Northern France and Rhineland Campaigns
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
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Admiral USN, retired Medal Of Honor recipient Vietnam
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WWII: Battle of Wake Island December 1941. US Marine Corps. POW until his liberation by U.S. forces on September 7, 1945
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII, 101st Airborne, Orig. Band of Brothers born 1922
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WW2 VF-14 Hellcat Fighter Ace - 8 Kills - US Navy
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Chief Electrician USS Darter (SS-227) in October 1944, during Ambush at Palawan Passage. Then, Bill was the Chief Electrician when the Menhaden was commissioned in June of 1945
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USN Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Was aboard USS Pyro (AE-1) (moored at West Loch in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked) and hardly survived being strafed; later served on submarine USS Bumper (SS-333)
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WW2 veteran and one of the escapers from German PoW camp 'Stalag Luft III' in 1944, which inspired the Hollywood movie 'The Great Escape'. He is now 89
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guam. Also witness to the surrender ceremony at Tokyo Bay. US Army
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medal of honor korean war
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U.S. Marines 1943-1951 in WWII and Korean War
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US Airman First Class who 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
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British WW1 Veteran Born: 09/23/1900
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks, 65th Engineer Battalion, Company B, 25th Division. Later served in Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands), Luzon (Philippines), New Guinea a.o. places
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the 5th Army, Company F, 142nd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry 'Texas' Division. He fought in Naples and the battle of Monte Casino, where he was taken a POW on February 14th, 1944
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Member of the famous Doolittle Raiders -Surprise bombing of Tokyo during WWII 'Co-Pilot Crew #10'
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Pearl Harbor survivor, one of the last 6 living survivors of the USS Utah during the attack
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(Born 1944) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Got the Air Force Cross. Retired as a Brigadier General
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 78th Lightning Infantry Division, 311th Infantry Regiment, Timberwolf Company
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Oklahoma
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WWII: USS Augusta, messmate of President Harry Truman, pictured in an official 'All Hands' Naval Informantio Bulletin
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WWII - Bombing Squadron Pilot (VB-11, sister quadron to the famous Sundowners VF-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater; served on the USS Hornet and at Guadalcanal
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American WWII Fighter Ace (13.5 Victs.) - 356th Fighter Group - USAAF
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WWII: ETO. 506th PIR, 101st AB
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Fighter ace 40th Fighter Squadron of the 35th
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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WWII - Pilot of the 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
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Retired Admiral of the US Navy former President of the Naval War College
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(Born 1926) US Army WW2 Veteran. Was sent to Scotland, Belgium, and Germany during his service. Purple Heart Recipient
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Pearl Harbor Survivor - USS Arizona - suffered severe burns from ship explosion
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First Director Of WW2 Coast Guard Womens Reserve
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US Navy Vietnam POW
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Vietnam war veteran. Straub spent 14 months in Vietnam, taking part in the Tet offensive. Now 73, Straub is fighting in Ukraine, quite possibly the oldest of the foreign volunteers to join the resistance forces there
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Vice Admiral Bernard M. Strean executed the United States Navy's first circumnavigation of the world by nuclear-powered surface warships from July 31, 1964-October 3, 1964
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English mountaineer/army officer who took part in the 1953 American Karakoram Expedition. He is now living in retirement
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Centenarian (1895-2002). US Army WWI veteran. Wounded by shrapnel in France during battles there. Spent time also in Belgium and Germany
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WWII: WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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100 Year old World War II veteran and former prisoner of war. He lives in Bedford, N.H
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Former general of the German Democratic Republic's Army. Also a German WWII Veteran. Served in the Wehrmacht during the war
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WWII: USMC corpsman in the Battle of Guam 1944
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WWII: ETO. Dutch veteran. No. 320 Netherlands Squadron RAF
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. Company E, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He is the man Eisenhower talks to in the famous pre-D-Day photograph
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W.A.S.P/Women army Service Pilot ww2,flew the b-26, p-39, at-6, pt-19, b-17
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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US Navy and participated in four invasions in the European Theater
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Tarawa, Tinian and Saipan. 2nd Marines Div, 6th Regimental Scouts and Snipers
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. US Navy
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Centenarian (1905-2008), witness of 2 major aviation events. In the 1909 crowd that watched O.Wright demonstrate his plane for the US military. Married to WWII Marine, lived on hill near Pearl Harbor in 1941, first bomb hit nearby house
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army general
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American author, pastor, and former US Army Ranger who was involved in the Battle of Mogadish. He was awarded a silver star for his actions. In the film based on the battle, Black Hawk Down, Struecker is portrayed by Brian Van Holt
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WWII: Chaplain with the USMC . He made four landings in the Pacific theatre, the Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, Underwater Demolition Team
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Hull
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WWII: PTO/ETO. Pearl Harbor survivor, Hickam Field. Flew B-17 known as 'Jack the Ripper' over Germany (1943-44) and was shot down close to Munster. He was a POW in STALAG LUFT 1
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII: 25th Infantry Division. Pearl Harbor survivor, sw action at Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Northern Solomons, Luzon, and the Philippines
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Navy Admiral
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Author veteran
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII: ETO. Top Turret Gunner of B-17 'Fifinella' (42-107030); 322nd Squadron, 91st Bomb Group. Flew 20 missions from June 17, 1944. Was shot down on the Aug. 13, 1944 south of Paris. Spent 314 days as a POW, mostly at Stalag Luft IV
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Retired German general
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Iran Hostage Crisis/444 days of captivity as a hostage in Iran/Staff Sgt./Military Police, US Army, Defense Attaché's Staff
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 8 victores. 357th Fighter Group ('The Yoxford Boys')
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Fighter ace
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Son of Chiune Sugihara, the Chinese 'Oskar Schindler', living in Antwerp, Belgium
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Former U.S. -General, U.S. Air Force
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Army General And Former U.S. Army Chief Of Staff
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General Gordon Russell Sullivan-Retired Army general officer, who served as the 32nd Chief of Staff of the United States Army & member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff/Army Distinguished Service Medal, Bronze Star, Purple Heart & Legion of Merit
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Oakland from 1942 to 1946. Was in many battles in the Pacific incl. Coral Sea, Guam, Iwo Jima and Okinawa; near the USS BUnker HIll when she was hit by 2 Kamikaze; watched the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
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English former footballer, who played in the successful Manchester City side of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Starred in the WWII movie, ESCAPE TO VICTORY
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Mahan (DD-364) and survived the Kamikaze attack on Dec. 7, 1944 (Battle of Ormac Bay) between Leyte and Ponson Island, when 3 out of 7 Kamikaze hit the ship
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Retired General
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WW2/Sumwalt was aboard the light cruiser USS Phoenix CL-46 and also saw action in the Pacific
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First 4-star general in the history of ROK Armed Forces, fought in the Korea War
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WWII: British veteran of the Arctic convoys (Murmansk runs)
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Centenarian (1896-2004). One of the last US Navy veterans of WWI. Served on the USS Charleston transporting supplies/soldiers across the Atlantic, and played sax in the ship's band
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Tuskegee Airmen, '99th', 'Bronze Star', 'Mechanic'. April 1941-June 1946!
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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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Fighter ace world war 2
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WWII German Sniper with 209 kills
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WWII: PTO. Electrician's Mate, USS Enterprise
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Blue Angel pilot turned pro hockey player
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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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WWII: Fighter pilot of the VMF 451 ('Blue Devils') stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17). Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo raids. Survived Kamikaze attack at the Bunker Hill (11 May 1945). 3 victories, 2 assists. Flew F4U Corsair
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Pearl Harbor Attack Survivor; was at Hickam Field with the Army Air Corps. Later also survived the Battle Of Midway when his B-17E Flying Fortress was shot down on 5 June 1942 and he was one of three survivors
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B.1927 Former FBI Special Agent from 51-77, author FBI Secrets & To Kill a President/Served Navy during WW2/Began career doing "black bag jobs" on Communists in Chicago. In Kentucky & NYC, spent years doing serious criminal investigations
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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'Royal Air Force Seaplane Pilot'
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Pearl Harbor Survivior 'Crew Member U.S.S. Ward 139'
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United States Army Air Force pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Author of War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission
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Joe Sweeney (2) WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4)
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John Sweeney (3) WWII: PTO. USMC. Guadalcanal. First Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. Navy Cross
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Wwii: pto. us navy
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US Navy makes history as US Navy's 1st Black female fighter pilot LT. JG Madeline Swegle
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US WWII veteran, born 1914. Served as a cook for the Army?s 569th Field Artillery in Europe
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2013 Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient- saved 12 soldiers in Afghanistan in 2009
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Medal of Honor, USMC, World War II, Ace (15 kills)
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo; from Kansas City, MO
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Vietnam Army pilot with 118th Assault Helicopter Co. stationed Bien Hoa, Republic of Vietnam. During his flying combat missions, awarded 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, Bronze Star, 23 awards of The Air Medal, & Vietnam Cross of Gallantry
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U.S. Navy officer, Guantanamo Bay attorney
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JFK - pilot of Air Force One in the early 1960s; also flew Kennedy's body back to Washington in the hours after his assassination in Dallas
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Vietnam Marine/POW Hanoi Hilton/Shared prison cell with John McCain/Awarded two Silver Stars, 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts, Legion of Merit with Combat 'V' Prisoner of War Medal/Retired at rank of lieutenant colonel
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Medical Corpsman
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Former USMC that served in the US Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper Platoon during the Gulf War. He was apart of STA Platoon 2 Blatoon 7th Marines. Author of Jarhead and many novels
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German ww2 pilot
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Brampton'
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US WWII Army vet, born 1924. Through the UK, France, Belgium, Germany and meeting the Soviets at Elbe. After, served as a guard at the Nuremburg Trials
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air force general
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Dust bowl survivor and WWII veteran, born 1917. Fought in campaigns including Tunisia, Sicily, and Rome (where he met the Pope), and later helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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Commanding Officer, 101st Airborne Division
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US Navy Admrial
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WWII - South Pacific. Fighter Ace, 5 victories. VFM-112 Squadron
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Hungarian fighter ace from WW2
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WWII: ETO. HQ Co, 1st Battalion Rangers. Dieppe Raid, D-Day, North Africa, Sicily, and Italy
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Hungarian fighter ace from WW2
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WW II Marine, born 1924. Purple Heart in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 96th Infantry Division
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Scotlands Oldest Living Man/WW1 Veteran(enlisted at end of War) Born: 06/28/1900
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Retired General
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USMC SGT being held prisoner in Mexico
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WWII Japanese Pilot
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WWII: One of the few survivors of the Japanese Navy who were involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Survived the sinking of the Hiryu during the Battle of Midway in 1942, and almost starved on the Pacific Island Chuuk
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Retired General
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Bloodline/Vietnam Vet/Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Eagle Scout/Great grandfather killed in battle of Little Big Horn/Genus IQ 245
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vietnam war air force hero
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JFK/Kennedy Honor Guard Death Watch/Death watch at White House & Capital Grounds
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Japanese aircraft and automotive engineer. Japanese WWII Veteran
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Wasp wwii pilot
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Lakeland Flying Tigers AAA
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Vietnamese Minister of Justice during the Vietnam War era, now living in Exile in France
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army general
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WWII: Finnish Fighter Ace
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Hiroshima survivor, born in 1926 in California, moved to Japan at age 6. Drafted into the Japanese army during WWII, he was helping to dig an air raid shelter into a hill about a mile and a half from Hiroshima's center when the bomb hit. He emerged to see
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge and other major battles. 740th Tank Battalion ('Daredevil Tankers')
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Coast guard author
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation. Interrogated numerous Nazi officials involved in art operations, incl. Albert Speer and Walter Hofer. At Berchtesgaden, he worked to recover the objects from Hermann Göring's collection
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Figher ace iwo jima p-51
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Former Soviet military leader, doctor of technical sciences, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
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WWII: ETO. Falaise Pocket, Battle of the Bulge, Maginot Line, 'West Wall', Rhine crossing, Nuremberg, Austria. 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Blue Ridge Infantry Division
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1917) was a volunteer of the Republican army, becoming an official. He fought in Madrid and the Battle of Teruel. One of the last surviving Republican officers. Now 99
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WWII: Nurse on hospital ship USS Solace
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Author/Retired Brigadier General
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Retired General
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Fought at Iwo Jima.Veteran featured on the HBO miniseries The Pacific
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Harold has been cited in several books and publications chronicling the history of the war for heroism in the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill on Okinawa. Purple Heart
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, Army Medical Department
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, 101st Airborne Division
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WWII: Escaped the German Army in the 'Miracle of Dunkirk', May/June 1940. 13th Lysander Squadron RAF, but dispatched to the Royal Signals of the Army before Dunkirk as they were in need of wireless operators like him
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WWII: Signalman on HMS Palomares in the ill-fated PQ17 arctic convoy in July 1942 when 25 of 36 ships were lost to enemy actions
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American aviator, notable for being in the late summer and early fall of 1976 the first person in history to successfully fly a homebuilt aircraft around the world. World War II Veteran
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Founder of Enterprise Rental cars, pilot aboard the USS Enterprise during WW2
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Medal of honor army vietnam, born 1937
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Pearl Harbor Suvivor 'Battleship California'
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Army Captain Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient. Was awarded by President Biden in September of 2023 for his actions Ap Go Cong, South Vietnam in 1968. (Born 1942)
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WW2 veteran who helped plan the D-Day landings in June 1944. Also the first woman to get the Legion d'Honneur. She is now 98 and lives in London, UK
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Army General
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TV/movie actress of the 1960s + 70s: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Peter Gunn, Dragnet (1958), Flight = 1 ep. 'Enemy Agent' of: 'Gen. Kenny that introduced the episodes was the commander of the 5th Air Force under MacArthur in WWII'; + 'Three Men in a Boat'
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WWII: Merchant Marine. Arctic convoys
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942; also a Malta convoys veteran
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Thomas Taylor (5)(Born 1923) US Coast Guard WW2 Veteran. Worked on a destroyer escort
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS California
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WWII: PTO. USS Bannon, USS West Virginia, USS Alabama
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French Freedom Fighter WW2 Born c. 1916
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Retired General
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WWII: PTO. USS Laurens APA-153, USS George K. MacKenzie DD-836
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WWII Veteran from Kansas. He served in the 98th Infantry Division at the end of WWII as a replacement for the original infantry and trained for deployment in Japan. He was one of 15,000 replacements for the Division at the end of the war.
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WWII: PTO. Bataan Death March
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Spanish soldier, tried a coup-etat in Spain in 1981 but failed
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(Born 1950) US Marine Crops Vietnam Veteran. A combat engineer with Company D, 11th Engineer Battalion of the 3rd Marine Division. POW from 1968 to 1973
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941; survived the sinking of 4 ships in WWII
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Navy radioman third class stationed at Ford Island
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WWII - Bataan Death March Survivor/192nd Tank Battalion, U.S. Army,made to march for 8 days after his capture/Former professor of economics at Arizona State University
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Soviet War Veteran (Red Army) Born: 07/12/1915
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1919, he joined 615 RAuxAF in March 1938. Called up in 1939, he flew on Beaufighters throughout the Battle of Britain. He is now 96 and lives in Wheldrake near York, UK
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US AF pilot during the Berlin Air Lift 1948
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Last survivng Tahitian WWII veteran
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British WWI soldier. Born: 06/23/1903
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Abingdon'
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WWII D-Day veteran, served on LCT transporting troops and supplies to the beaches under heavy fire. Also met Babe Ruth as a 5 year old in 1928 when his uncle played for the Red Sox
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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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Japanese WWII Veteran, born 1921, secretary general of the Chugoku Kikansha Renrakukai (Chukiren) until it was dissolved in 2002
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Vietnam war army hero 'Medal of Honor'
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa
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Doolittle's Raiders crew #7 Engineer/Gunner
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Fighter ace world war 2 6 1/2 kills
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US WWII Navy veteran, born 1927. USS Indianapolis survivor, one of the last 5 living as of 6/21
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Pearl Harbor Survivor; sight-setter on a battery gun of the USS Ward, the ship that fired the first American shots in WWII and sank a Japanese submarine on Dec. 7, 1941
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Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Flying Training School Cranwell
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 1st Marine Division. Battle of Peleliu
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US Air Force SR-71, U-2 and RB-57F Test Pilot
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army general
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Air force General
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US Marine Corps 4 Star General
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US WWII Navy vet, born 1925. Served on the USS Bush. Hit and sunk by kamikazes at Okinawa. Last living survivor of the sinking
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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WWII: MTO/ETO. US Navy. Sicily, Naples, Sardinia
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(Born 1943) US Army Band player during Vietnam. Played in the band for fallen soldiers funerals
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WWII ETO: D-Day. Operation Market Garden, Bastogne, Battle of the Bulge. 101st Airborne Division
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Tuskegee Airman
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Fighter ace
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US Navy Admiral
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WWII: CBI theater, Hump flyer
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of the USS Mannert Abele in the Battle of Okinawa
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Navy Admiral
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US Centenarian, born 1912. Lived through the 1918 Flu and COVID-19. WWII Navy veteran, patrolled the Aleutian Islands
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WWII: B-24/B-17 bombardier in the 839th Squadron, 487th Bombt Group, 8th Air Force (Lavenham base). 30 missions (incl. D-Day) from 6 May to 5 November 1944. Wounded twice: 14 October 1944 at Cologne and 5 November 1944 at Ludwigshafen
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WWII: Piloted B-4, B-17 and P-51 planes in the 839th Squadron, 487th Bombardment Group, 8th AF(Lavenham base). 30 missions (including D - Day) from 6 May to 5 November 1944. Wounded twice: 14 October 1944 at Cologne and 5 November 1944 at Ludwigshafen
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Served on the USS Tennessee prior to WWII and the USS Missouri during WWII, ultimately witnessing the end of WWII/His story got 5 million views on facebook
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JFK - Honor Guard in the State funeral of President Kennedy; also stood Death Watch and as such pictured in the famous photograph of Jackie and Caroline Kennedy kneeling at the coffin
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F-86 Sabre pilot assigned to the 39thFighter Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter Interceptor Group during the Korean Conflict. Besides gaining 2 aerial victories over MiG-15s
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; Naval Housing, Ford Island. Thompson was 13 on Dec. 7, 1941. His father was stationed on the seaplane tender Curtiss, anchored in Pearl Harbor
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John Thompson (6) WWII: Guadalcanal. Led an air attack on Japanese forces at Guadalcanal's Bloody Ridge
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Fighter ace 31st fighter group
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American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973 from the 5th Congressional District of Georgia. World War II Veteran
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air force general
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Former Governor of Nebraska (1979-1983)
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Remagen. 78th Infantry Division
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(February 11, 1953 - May 24, 1986), (Lt Cmdr, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot and a NASA astronaut candidate.Thorne was killed in an aircraft accident of a stunt plane -in which he was a passenger- on May 24, 1986
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen. Crew chief for the 332nd Fighter Group
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USAF General
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Medal of Honor, US Navy Vietnam, born 1949
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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Dep Asstiant Secretary of Defense
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Air Force Medal of Honor Recipeint - Vietnam
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Survivor of the Mai Lai Massacre
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navy admiral
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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US Army General
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air force general
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)
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WWII: PTO. One of the two Marines smoking in the famous photo from the Battle of Peleliu
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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Pilot of Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the A-Bomb on Hiroshima
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WWII: D-Day, etc., 82nD AB, 505th PIR
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US Admiral
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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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P-61 Pilot during WWII-(15 victories)
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation, in Japan
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Vietnam/UH-60 Medivac Pilot Huey Cobra Medical Ambulance
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Son of Charles Tigard, Founder of Tigard, Oregon Born 1909 WWII veteran
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Clerk/typist for the Nuremberg Trials after WWII. Subject of the documentary 'The Typist', as the trial's last living typist
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Tuskegee Airmen/477th Bomber Group/'LA Chapter'
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMT Lancastria during Operation Ariel (17 June 1940). It is estimated that there were 6.500 fatalities, representing a greater loss of life than the Titanic and Lusitania disasters combined
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(June 11, 1906 - September 23, 1992) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces
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La Drang Valley, LZ-Xray Vietnam Way
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WWII Veteran, F Co, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division) Has a video on YouTube you can checkout 'The Day I Was Saved By A German Medic' December 2nd, 1944
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Us airman, fighter ace in spanish was in 36-38
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CCC. WWII: PTO. 2nd Marine Division. Fought in the battles of Okinawa, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian and Tarawa
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Air Force General
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Former Prime Minister of Thailand, Army General
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Member of the Band of Brothers / 506th Easy Company
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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WWII: ETO, tail gunner on B-17 42-31720 'The Blue Blazing Blizzard' (379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force). His B-17 was shot and exploded at 25.000 feet while on a raid to Ludwigshafen, Sept 8, 1944; survived, was taken POW
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Lz xray nam 1965
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Battle of Remagen. 303rd Medical Battallion, 78th Infantry Division
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German WWII Veteran
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Desert Storm/Shield US Army Veteran. Served from 1979 to 2000
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WWII - D-Day, Ranger 5HQ, in the 1st Wave on Omaha Beach
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WW2/from Poole in Dorset, Wren in Bletchley Park Naval Section working on ?Allied Plot?. A chart of the world covering all 4 walls & Wrens plotted the movement of all the allied ships and their German, Italian and Japanese opposite numbers
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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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Supercentenarian (1889-2002), one of the last Italian WWI veterans, and at the time of his death, the world's oldest man
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WW II Japanese propogandist 'Tokyo Rose'
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WWII: ETO. 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Fought in the famous 'Battle of the Lost Battalion'
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Navajo Code Talker/3rd Battalion/9th Regiment
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker
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One of the first five African American F-4 Phantom II pilots to serve under the famed Tuskegee Airman Gen. Daniel 'Chappie' James
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Retired Israeli Air Force officer. During WWII he served in a group of Palestinian Jewis Royal Air Force pilots. Back in Israel he served in the Israeli Air Force
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. Company A, 2nd Rangers Battalion; landed near to the heavily fortified village of Vierville where he was seriously wounded while getting ashore
