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French actor and war hero
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WWII and Korean War Ace-[28 victories - WWII and 6.5 victories -Korea]!
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WW2 Veteran:US Army's 29th Infantry Division; not a D - Day veteran; he arrived in Europe on September 19, 1944
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air force general
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. Paratrooper & Demolition Expert, 82nd Airborne Division
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Navigator on the 'Necessary Evil', the nickname of the B-29 Superfortress that accompanied the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Born: 03/23/1923
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
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Serial Killer Executed for the Murders 33 Men & Boys in Chicago, IL.
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(Born 1923) US Air Force WW2 and Vietnam Veteran. POW in Vietnam 1966 to 1973. Retired as a Brigadier General
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(Born 1975) US Army Iraq War amputee veteran. Retired as a LT Colonel. Recipient of a Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Army Air Corps. Battle of Midway. Battle of Guadalcanal
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Puerto Rican convicted drug dealer
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Navy Coxswain, Higgins Boat {LCVP}
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Aviatrix who won 5 Gold Medals during the World Aerobatic Championship in Salon-de-Provence, France
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Former Payload Specialist Astronaut
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Adapted her debut novel, 'The Resurrection of Alice', into a one-woman play that won the 2014 African-American Arts Alliance of Chicago Outstanding Actress Award, the 2014 Black Theater Alliance's Best Lead Actress Award (Chicago), etc
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(1934-1968)Was a Russian-Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Was tragically killed in a plane crash on 3/27/68
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Tennessee
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WWII: ETO. 222 Anti Tank Company, 42nd Infantry 'Rainbow' Division. Liberation of Dachau
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USAAF General WW2 fighter Ace, 357th FG 363rd FS, 7 Kills, POW
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One of the Tuskegee Airmen, Class: 44-G-SE, graduated 8/4/1944
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WWII: Original Montford Point Marine (first Black marines)
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US Army, D-Day paratrooper, born 1925. 82nd Airborne, taken POW days after D-Day, held for 11 months. Kept a secret journal of his time as POW
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Nobel medicine laureate 1976
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Astronomer
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US POW in Vietnam War.
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WWII: ETO. I Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment), 101st Airborne. Camp Toccoa, D-Day, Operation Market Garden (seriously wounded on Sept. 18, 1944 near Eindhoven which meant the end of the war for him)
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WWII: Chaplain in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Orangutan primatologist, Trimate, Leakey's Angel, Anthropologist, primatologist, scientist, conservationist, educator: for over four decades Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutans of Indonesian Borneo
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WWII: Veteran of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4-8 May 1942), served on the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle
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US physician and medical researcher, born 1945. Bone marrow/leukemia and nuclear specialist. Called by the Soviet Union to treat 1986 Chernobyl victims, and by Japan to Fukushima in 2011. Emmy for '60 Minutes' Chernobyl piece
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, 53rd Signal Corps. Lost his best friend John Horan that day
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medal of honor marines ww11
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Dobbin
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James 'Jimmy Frogs' Galione is a Lucchese soldier.In October 1996, Galione was indicted and charged with running a crack-cocaine ring that operated in Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn since 1992
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WWII: On board the USS Missouri (BB-63) during the Japanese surrender ceremonies, 2 September 1945, taking many photographs of the ceremony
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Jim Gallagher (4)Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class, USN, VTN-91, USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) TBF 'Avenger' Gunner Saipan, Mariana Islands
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Sergeant/ assistant flight engineer, Bocks Car Crew, WW II, Nagasaki
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USN Admiral
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Susan Gallagher (2)News Reporter in 1988 for Anchorage News that reported the story of the wales trapped in Alaska - made the movie Big Miracle about them
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World War II German fighter pilot
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WWII: Was on two ships that were sunk: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941 (USS Nevada BB-36) and USS Northampton (CA-26) which was sunk during the Battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942 (Born July 20 1921)
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1914) Last 'La quinta del biberón' fighter. Affiliated with PSOE. Second Spanish Republic. Age: 103. Lives in Spain
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Hostage during Iran Hostage crisis
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Holocaust survivor
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Former Prime Minister of Peru (1976-1978), Army General
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USMC General
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Inventor Hall of Fame inductee; first to show that HIV caused AIDS
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War Correspondent / Author - CO-Wrote We Were Soldiers was in 1st ground battle of nam in lz-xray-ia drang valley- only civilian to EVER get bronze star during vietnam war
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Iraq War vet, lost left leg and arm. Physical trainer, model, motivational speaker, contestant on 'Dancing with the Stars'
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Author and political activist; co-wrote An American Family with husband Michael Galluccio
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Author and political activist; co-wrote An American Family with his husband Jon Galluccio
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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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4 Star General
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WWII; USS Quincy (CA-39). Survivor of the Battle of Savo Island (9 August 1942) where USS Quincy and three other Allied ships were sunk by the Japanese in a disastrous battle for the US, suffering the loss of 379 men on the USS Quincy alone
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Air Force General
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Pfc army
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Received Congressional Medal of Honor 3/18/2014 for his actions in World War II
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Politician
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Born 1896. #70 oldest documented person. Lives in Italy.
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Medicinal chemist, integral part in development of cimetidine. Listed as inventor or co-inventor of 160+ US patents as well as authored & co-authored over 260 scientific papers. Was inducted into the National Inventor's HOF for his work on cimetidine
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WWII: PTO. One of the last Filipino Bataan Death March survivors. Purple Heart
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania (BB-38). Also aboard when a Japanese torpedo hit the Pennsylvania on August 12, 1945, while anchored at Buckner Bay in Okinawa killing 20 men
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A captain in the Dallas Police Dept . , Gangway was in charge of the DPD Special Service Bureau . He said that Oswald's description was broadcast following the shooting of JFK because he was missing from a ' cool call ' at the TSBD
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JFK - Served in the Army, broadcast a radio show to troops, and interviewed three future Presidents (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon) all while they were Senators
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Senior medical student at Methodist Hospital Dallas time of assassination. Participated in retrieval of bullet from body of Officer J.D. Tippit. Knew many of the doctors who treated both the President & Gov. Connally at Parkland Hospital
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Born 1943. First African American student to enter enter Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration. 'An early inspiration' to Barack Obama
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WWII - 3rd Battalion, 23 Marines Regiment, 4th Marine Division: Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Saipan
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Eddie 'Cousin Eddie' Garafola pronounced /d
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NASA Astronaut
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Spanish Civil war veteran (Born: 1918) Nationalist Army. Promoted to captain in 1942. Awarded four medals. Military historian, author, and teacher. Age: 98. Lives in Spain
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Dr. G: Medical Examiner on Discovery Health Channel
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Victor Garber (2)American politician in the state of Wyoming. Served in the Wyoming House of Representatives as a member of the Republican and Democratic Party
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WWII: 112th Cavalry RCT. Fought in the bloody battle of the Driniumor River in 1944. Also made landings at Leyte and Luzon, earning two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart before the war's end
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Italian World War 1 Veteran/ Born:03/30/1900/Lives in Civitanova Marche
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District Attorney of Los Angeles County from 1992 - 2000. s first term was dominated by his office's prosecution of the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial
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Received Congressional Medal of Honor 3/18/2014 for his actions in the Viet Nam war
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Leonard Garcia (2)Aurelio Rodriguez played a trick on the Topps photographer and 1969 baseball card #653 photo is actually of this California Angels batboy
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Professional basketball player, WBA Medical doctor
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Puerto Rican drug dealer
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Last member of the 'Blue Patrol', a group of fighter pilots who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Currently age 101 and living in the Bay of Santander, Spain
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WWII: D-Day, Battle of the Bulge; Buchenwald. Barely survived D-Day, and later became commander of the just-liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 110th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion
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astronaut
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WWII: ETO. 18th Infantry Regiment. Arrived in Germany after the war and guarded some of the top Nazis like Albert Speer during the Nuremberg Trials
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Pilot during World War 2 and a member of WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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NASA astronaut; two Space Shuttle missions, STS-27 (December 1988) and STS-35 (December 1990)
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Centenarian/WW1 Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Reid). Reid supported landings at Adak on 30 Aug 1942 (sank an enemy submarine 31 Aug 1942). Guadalcanal, New Guinea, New Britain. Got transferred off the ship in 44 and then served in the Battle of Okinawa
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(Born 1921) Flew over 34 combat missions in B-17s and B-24s during WW2 earning him the Distinguished Flying Cross and 6 Air Medals. Became an aviation racer for P-38s and P-51s
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ww 11 british army hero (vc)
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'Squadron Leader Royal Air Force Pilot'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Lawyer
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Flight aviator 1963 military astronaut candidate
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Marine Platoon Sergeant aboard the USS Tennessee, he got wounded while trying to keep the Tennessee safe from the burning oil coming from the Arizona. Also in Korea as one of the 'Chosin Few'
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Seán Garland (2)Member of the original Irish Republican Army before it changed to the Workers Party, which he became president of in 2000
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Former U.S. Senator from Utah (1974-1993)
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Astronaut // Former President of the Canadian Space Agency // Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa // Member of the Canadian Parliament
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Garner was on the fourth floor of the TSBD with co-workers Victoria Adams , Elsie Dorman and Sandra Styles . She claims the shots ' came from the west '
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(Born 1961) US Army Global War on Terror Veteran. 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division. Recipient of Legion of Merit, Air Medal, and Silver Star
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US Supercentenarian, born 1908
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Dean Garrett (2)
WWII- Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Navy Hospital -
WWII: ETO/MTO. Escaped Dunkirk on a destroyer HMS The Wolsey. British gunner served with 142 Bty 52nd Regt Royal Artillery in GB and France, 1938-1940; NCO served with Royal Artillery 51st (Highland) Div in North Africa & Sicily, 1940-44
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Retired General in US Army. Former commanding general of US Army Forces Command (2019-2022)
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Congressional page of the 1940's, and one of the last few living witnesses to have seen FDR's Pearl Harbor 'Day of Infamy' speech before Congress on 12/8/41. Later in 1942, had lunch at the White House with the other pages and Eleanor Roosevelt, who then
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U.S. Coast Guard 1955/Kennedys Guard of Honor & death watch guard
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Astronaut' Skylab 3, STS-9, Spacelab 1, Brother to Space Traveler Richard Garriott de Cayeux
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Space Tourist, game designer, and programmer, Son to Astronaut Owen Garriott
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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Canadian pilot
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US General
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Flight (scientist)
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Scientist
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JFK - Flight attendant on Air Force One the day President Kennedy was assassinated. Served cookies and milk to the Kennedys on the flight to Dallas
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American counterculture Hippie icon best known for his presence in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s and for co-founding 'The Farm', a famous spiritual intentional community in Summertown, Tennessee
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WWII: PTO. 1st Marine Raiders Battalion (Edson's Raiders) 1942-1945. Tulagi, Guadalcanal and Guam
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US WWII army vet, born 1919. Saw action in the Battle of Coral Sea and Buna in New Guinea
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WWII: CCC. Pearl Harbor survivor. 21st Inf. Reg., Schofield Barracks. Atop a mountain when the raid began; was catapulted into a canyon when a bomb exploded near him and turned over his car during the first wave of attacks. 3 Bronze Stars
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Retired General
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Young man who ran on the field after Hank Aaron's 715th Home Run
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Fifth-Generation Grandson of President James Monroe
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Philanthropist
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard
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Theoretical physicist. Served on Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science & Tech. Black History Month 2017 Honoree. Featured in TurboTax and Verizon commercials and on NOVA PBS programs on physics, notably The Elegant Universe (2003)
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Historian, Author & Speaker/Founder of the Dallas County Assassination
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Crewmember USS Ward 139, the first American ship to engage the Japanese at Pearl Harbor when they sank thier mini-submarine
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Longtime Dallas businessman, Gatlin was working on the twelfth floor of the Mercantile Bank building in 1963 and provided vivid memories of the motorcade passing by on Main Street/Sixth Floor interviewee multiple times
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WWII veteran on the USS Missouri. Witness to the Japanese Surrender Ceremony onboard Sept 2, 1945
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Colourful Australian figure of some notoriety
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WWII: PTO. Served on sumarine SS-391 Pomphret
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WWII: USS Laffey. D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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Air Force veteran chosen to be one of the official pallbearers for President John F. Kennedy's funeral
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Pearl Harbor survivor - Chief Cook, USS Pompano (SS-181), In Sub-Barrack during Attack
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French politician who served in the Waffen-SS during World War 2, is living in France and was born in 1915
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WW II Navy Veteran; Survivor of the USS Indianapolis disaster. Believed to be the basis for the story Robert Shaw as QUINT in JAWS tells about the sinking of the Indianapolis
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Born Oct. 27, 1922. French WW2 Veteran and last living member of the Kieffer Commandos
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Military leader and ambassador
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Israeli General
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Author
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WWII: Battle of Britain, RAF pilot ('The Few')
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Commandant Navy District Washington
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John Gay (2) Past President of the Orlando chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc
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author historian (savage reprisals, freud)
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Writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Author of The NYT bestseller, Bad Feminist. Editor for Gay Mag. Co-wrote 6 issues of a spin-off of Black Panther making her the 1st black woman to be a lead writer for Marvel
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Douglas TBD Devastator pilot in US Navy Torpedo Squadron 8 operating in the World War II Pacific Theater of Operations. Of the 30 VT-8 aircrew from Hornet that participated in the pivotal Battle of Midway, Gay was the sole survivor
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Cape Gloucester, Battle of Peleliu. Navy Cross
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World War II flying ace, later U.S. Navy Admiral
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Military
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Decorated World War II fighter pilot and a former racing driver from Australia
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Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's peace movement. Co-Awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize 'for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work
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Time Team
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Served in World War II on the U.S.S. Borie (destroyer) and the U.S.S. Darter (submarine) Machinist in the engine room of this submarine, which played a pivotal role in the Battle of Leyte Gulf involving 32 Japanese warships
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Centenarian American physicist, emeritus professor of applied physics at Stanford. Known for his work on the synthesis of novel materials of interest to several areas of physics and many interdisciplinary sciences
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circus animal trainer
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Iranian-American programmer and video game designer usually credited in his games as simply Nasir. Gebelli wrote Apple II games for Sirius Software
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American anthropologist and sexologist. Gebhard was a close colleague to sex researcher Alfred Kinsey
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Early Gay Rights figure, born 1936. Joined the Mattachine Society of Denver in 1957
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American Serial Killer
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 101st Airborne, 501 PIR, G Company Trained at Camp Toccoa (Band of Brothers). Mission Albany at D-Day (drop at Sainte-MÚre-Ã-glise). Wounded on June 8, 1944
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Tramp arrested in 1963 in JFK Assassination investigation. Believe to live in Melbourne Florida, age 88
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Maggie Gee (2) WASP WWII Female Pilot
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WWII: Battle of Midway
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper who also fought in Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. 502nd Airborne Regiment HQ Co., 101st AB
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Administrative Assistant at Parkland Hospital, helped coordinate media relations and family arrangements during the JFK and Oswald shootings. Spent time with Jack Ruby during his stay at Parkland in 1966
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Dutch-Russian physicist was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene
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American (1910-2009), served in the Lincoln Brigade of the Spanish Civil War. Held as a POW from Jan 1938 to April 1939 in Spain. Had joined the Young Communist League in the early 1930s after a student trip to the Soviet Union
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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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US WWII veteran, born 1918, served in the OSS in England, France, and behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany. Helped in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp
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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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Mathematician
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Former US Army Brig. General and Author
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Lz xray 1965 nam k.i.a. ia drang rip
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Nobel physics laureate 1969
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Political Activist, critical of radical Islam
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WWII: German soldier in the Battle of Moscow; escaped the Russians three times
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Italian financier, chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal
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NASA astronaut (retired). Three space shuttle missions
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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Jewish Soviet WWII veteran, probably living in Toronto, Canada
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Last surviving soldier of the '800 Heroes', better known as 'The Battle of Shanghai'. The military defensive took place from October 26 to November 1, 1937. He is now 90 and lives in Sichuan Province
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American neuroscientist and author. Self-published debut novel Still Alice, about a Harvard University professor who suffers early onset Alzheimer's disease. The book was adapted into a film & won the Best Actress Oscar for Julianne Moore
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WWII: ETO/PTO. USS Rodman. D-Day. Southern France. Yalta Conference. Battle of Okinawa (Kamikaze hit)
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German ww2 pilot
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WW2 Ace with 21 victories.
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Flight (aviator)
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, Liberation of Dachau.2nd Battalion, 232nd Infantry Regiment, Company E. 42. 'Rainbow' Division Seventh U.S. Army
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German astrophysicist. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for physics 'for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy', which he shared with Andrea Ghez and Roger Penrose
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. 324 Signal Company, 5th Air Force. Chief Radio Operator at Hickam Field Air Base
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Air Force 2nd Lt. & Miss Arkansas USA 2007 !
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model doctor
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US Army 4 Star General
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Australian landscape architect and TV presenter
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WWII - Pacific Theater; survivor of the sinking of the USS Colhoun (DD-801) after repeated Kamikaze attacks in the early stages of the Battle of Okinawa, 6 May 1945
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American criminal defense attorney best known for defending pop-star Michael Jackson
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WW2 air ace - 8 Kills - USAAF
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(Born 1972) US Army Iraq War Veteran. Purple Heart Recipient
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Last recipient of the Mannerheim Cross
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WW 2 air ace
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Fighter ace- 56th fg-61 sq
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Former East German politician, Head of state of East Germany from Dec. 1989-Apr. 1990
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Born August 6, 1920.He is the last survivor of the Companions of the Liberation
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Budget Officer
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(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and a Legion of Merit
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Oldest person in Germany born 1905
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astronaut
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Great-great grandson of geronimo
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WWII: CBI Theater. 3rd Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit Provisional aka Merrill's Marauders, a long-range penetration special ops warfare unit. Fought in the jungles of Burma, witnessed massive casualties and endured machine gun wounds
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WWII: CBI. Served with the RCCS in the Battle of Hong Kong (1941) and was a Hong Kong POW for over 3 1/2 years
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European Space Agency astronaut and geophysicist
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Is a centenarian and is a Canadian psychologist and educator. She was the first woman Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario from 1992 to 1996
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Seabee
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; USS Pennsylvania, quartermaster; was there for the invasion to Leyte Gulf (when MacArthur returned to the Philippines) as well as when the Pennsylvania was hit by a torpedo which barely missed him
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Belgian educator and philanthropist who, with others, rescued almost 1,000 Jewish children during the Holocaust
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War hero - received Victoria Cross in May 1943 for action in Burma
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Wells fargo heist
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Lz xray 1965 1/9 cavonondada,mi somewhere
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American astronomer and professor. In 2020, she became the fourth woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing one half of the prize with Reinhard Genzel (the other half of the prize being awarded to Roger Penrose)
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Retired USMC General
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Author/Essayist. Daughter of Refugees. Immigrant. Scientist. Cook. Immigration-Journeys Explorer. Conversation-Maker. Extroverted-Introvert (also, socially-awkward). Roots in New Delhi and San Diego
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Nobel laureate physics
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nobel physics laureate 1973
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Vadm. U.S. Navy, appointed Supreme Allied Commander
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Born 1949, served as a lieutenant colonel in CMEC and MACV during the Vietnam War. He would go on to serve after the war. He served from 1968 to 2010
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Italian WWII Veteran
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Greek Canadian war surgeon and served chief surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) until December 2006
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Võ Nguyên Giáp (2) Vietnamese General and member of the communist party of Vietnam
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US Admiral
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Notable Red Onion State Prison inmate
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WWII/ETO: B-17 pilot of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group), 350th Bomb Sqdn
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Dick Gibbs (2) WWII P-51 fighter pilot Dick Gibbs flew 43 combat missions during WWII. Sunday Dick shares the stories of shooting down four German aircraft. He explains that of all the medals and awards he received, he was most pleased to receive the Distinguished
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army field marshal england
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Born 1896 #70 oldest documented person. Lives in England
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Oldest living person in the United States at age 113, as of February 2017; living in Huntingdon County, PA
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former NASA astronaut
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Flight aviator 1967 group 6 astronaut candidate
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Child involved with the 1950's Briggs v. Elliott case incorporated as part of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education Decision. His mother was the last living adult defendant when she died.
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Mel Gibson's father. Also is a World War 2 veteran
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John Gibson (6)A patron in the Texas Theatre who witnessed the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald
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Marine Corp Attack pilot - flew two tours of combat duty during WWII
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British' Born: 1913
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Fighter ace
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NASA astronaut (retired), five space shuttle flights
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US WWII Army vet, born 1923. part of the second wave on D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. Returned home to a career as a firefighter
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British Scientist Born in 1924, first Chief of the European Space Agency ESA 1975 - 1983
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Formerly 3rd Oldest Person in the World/Born: 1890 - Deceased 2006
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Wife of Rev. Joseph Lowery, close friend and worker with MLK... Founder of SCLC
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Eighteen years old in 1963, Giddens saw President speak in front of the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth
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WWII: Pearl Harbor Survivor, 7 December 1941
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cosmonaut
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Swedish inventor who loves to build robots on Youtube
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Involved with hiding Anne Frank and her family. Born: 02/15/1909
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Anesthesiologist who attached the heart monitor to President John F. Kennedy in a Parkland's hospital emergency room and interviewed wounded Texas Gov. John Connally for surgery
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Centenarian, probably the last living woman to have marched in a suffragette parade and one of the last early Girl Scouts (in 1914). Voted in the first open election of 1920, plus later became a charter member, and President of the Republican National Wom
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Son of Mobster Vincent Louis Gigante also know as the Chin
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Venezuelan Air Force director, president of Conviasa Airlines
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Israeli Flying Ace, retired Brigadier General, Israeli Air Force
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Schofield Barracks
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David Gilbert (2)1960's Radical. Activist, was member of 'The Weatherman,' group
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Historian of over 70 books, official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill
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Last survivor of the Ambon Island POW camp
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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 - XO of F Company of the 38th Infantry of the famous 2nd Infantry Division ('Indian Heads). His unit liberated what today is the Czech Republic
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nobel chem. laureate 1980
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WWII: I Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR). D-Day, Carentan, Operation Market Garden (wounded by 7 bullets after 3 weeks)
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WWII: Headquarters Company, 2nd Bn, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles). Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne. Wounded in the chest on Jan. 15, 1945 in the Battle of Noville
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WWII: PTO. USS Laurens APA-153
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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Author, former speechwriter to Reagan, Assistant Secretary of State under GHW Bush
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An American military officer who helped develop strategic bombing theory and practice. Giles was named commanding general of the Army Air Forces in the Pacific Ocean Area in April 1945 and was in charge of planning the final B-29 Superfortress air attacks
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Tuskegee Airman; Class of 45-D-SE, graduated 6/27/1945
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US WWII Army Air Corps vet, born 1921. B-24 Navigator, 43 Pacific missions, 307th Bomb Group
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WWII - D-Day: Crew member of minesweeper YMS-348, reached Normandy at 03:30 AM at D-Day and exploded Gernan shallow-water mines so Allied forces could land on the beachheads
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JFK - Honor Guard Kennedy funeral
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Born 1949, was in the Vietnam War from 1970 to 1974 in the army's CMEC and MACV
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WWII: P-38J Lightning and P-51D Mustang fighter pilot with the 343d Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group
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Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Gillespie attended Brentwood College School, McGill University and then Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. After receiving a business degree from the University of Toronto, he went on to a senior role in the educati
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WW2 soldier from 42nd Rainbow Division which liberated Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945
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One of only nine survivors from the sinking of The SS Athenia, that was the first casualty of WW2. The unarmed passenger liner was torpedoed by a U-boat just eight hours after war broke out. He is now 84 and lives in Canada
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Oldest living Navy Seal/WW2 & Korean War/Frogman/Performed missions during Pacific Campaign/Yale Champion Swimmer
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Iran Hostage Crisis/U.S. Navy Communications and Intelligence Specialist
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Center Director 1978-1981/Acting Director-1977-1978 NASA Photo Director of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration's Dryden Flight Research Center, NASA's major field Center for flight testing of high speed aircraft and experimental vehicles.
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Guadalcanal
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New Zealand WWII Veteran
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Last surviving inhabitant of St Kildan Island, Scotland that was evacuated in 1930, 81 years ago. He now lives in Scotland
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First man to fly the SR-71 Spy plane. Lives in Palmdale, CA.
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Director of LASER SETI
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nobel med. laureate 1994
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American author and High Priest of the Church of Satan
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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British WWII Veteran. Royal Engineer, cleared landmines. Served in Egypt, Libya, Burma as part of the Chindits, an Anglo-Indian special operations unit working behind Japanese lines. He fought in Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Japanese Language Specialist/308th Intelligence Service Organization in the Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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One of the two men who shot the controversial Patterson-Gimlin film in 1967 that allegedly shows Bigfoot
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German spy of World War II
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American paleontologist (born: 1946) whose research focuses on vertebrate paleontology, especially the Paleocene-Eocene eras. He is an expert on the evolution of primates and whales
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Lt. General, USAF, Retired; President, InternationalConsulting Asspciates; MBA w/Distinction; CPA, PSIA
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attorney for monica lewinsky case
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JFK - Secret Service agent
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Azerbaijani WWII Veteran, fought for the Soviet Union during the war. Fought in the Red Army. Now lives in Israel
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Russian Physicist won Nobel in 2003.Born: 10/4/1916
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High-ranking member of the Colombo crime family
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Noted jazz critic, music historian, composer & jazz pianist. Wrote books The History of Jazz and Delta Blues
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14th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (2016-current)
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WWII Veteran, Pearl Harbor Survivor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, Ford Island. Flight engineer on a PBY Catalina Squadron VP-24 at Hangar 54
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Founder, Women Influencing the Nation
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Sister of french president Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Born in 1935
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German diplomat and intelligence officer during World War II, Author
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WWII - 101st AB, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment; Bronze Star. Operation Market Garden, Bastogne/Battle of the Bulge, Germany, Berchtesgaden, liberated Landsberg Concentration Camp, finished the war in Austria
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Author Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight. In 1965, as a college freshman, Answered MLK, Jr.'s call for students to come to the South after the attack on voting rights marchers in Selma on Bloody Sunday
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1960's Political activist. 'The Weatherman,' group
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WWII: First Jewish chaplain the Marine Corps ever appointed (5th Marine Division)
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Was A Secret Service For The Kennedys in the 1960's
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Staff Sergeant, U.S Army, first living person since the Vietnam War to receive the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor
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DUP Member of British Parliament
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Known for raising the most famous monkey in norway Julius in the early 80s
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Known for raising in the early 80s the most famous monkey in norway,Julius
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Polish fighter ace from WW2, now living in the USA (Seattle, WA area). Fought with the Polish Air Force, the RAF, and the 56th Fighter Group in WW2. 18+ victory 'ace'
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Colonel and Historian
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Comic book artist, born: 1924, aboard the U.S.S. Stevens during WWII, and so to his 'Savage Tales' comics, plus: Carlton's 'Hercules', 'Flying Saucers', 'Outdoor Life' Magazine, and 'Adirondack Stories' I + II
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Provost Marshal General of the U.S. Army
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nobel phy. laureate inv. the bubble chamber
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nobel phy. laureate 1979
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WWII: USMC fighter pilot in the Pacific (USS Enterprise). Marshall Islands, Wake Island, the battle of the Solomons, battle of Santa Cruz and the battle of Guadalcanal. Distinguished Flying
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WWII veteran (Pacific)
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Nobel Laureate Physics 2005
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Cosmonaut
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Napoleoninc war
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Centenarian American advocate for people with disabilities and communication disorders. Widow of former astronaut and Senator John Glenn
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Youtuber
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Former U.S. Senator from Ohio (1973-1999); First American to Orbit the Earth
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WW2 Veteran, Iwo jima, Fox Company
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WWII Veteran. Served in Okinawa
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WWII-Pilot from USA, flew P-47s on 50 combat missions during World War II, Author of 'P-47 Pilots: The Fighter-Bomber Boys'
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Army veteran post-WWII who served as a prisoner guard at the Nuremberg Trials
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Greek left-wing activist, and Greek Resistance fighter in WW2
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Las Vegas casino owner and front-man for various organized crime families in the Las Vegas 'Skim operation'. Argent Corp. 'Portrayed by Kevin Pollak as (Phillip Green) in Martin Scorcese's 1995 film (Casino)'
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American radio announcer famous for broadcasting the Knicks, Giants & Jets. Member of the US track & field team at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. Basketball HOFer
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Scientist
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Author 'The Doolittle Raid'; one of the few Honorary Members of the Doolittle Raiders
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Retired General
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Born March 14, 1942 General
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WWII: USS Breeman (DE-104) a destroyer escort of the USS Block Island in 1943 that left the Task Group in order to evacuate the gold of the Bank of Poland (30 tons) in March 1944 from Africa to NY to keep it out of the hands of the Nazis
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'Girl in Blue'/Standing on a concrete pedestal at the corner of Houston & Elm Streets in Dealey Plaza, eleven-year-old Toni Glover witnessed 1963 assassination
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WWII - D-Day, 9th Parachute Battalion (UK). On D-Day his glider was hit by flak and he was wounded in both legs, became a POW, later escaped with help of the French Resistance
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astronaut
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WWII: Served on the USS Balch (DD-363) from late 1943 to 1945 at Guadalcanal and in several trans-Atlantic convoy escort crossings to various North African ports
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German Luftwaffe ace of WWII, 71 victories
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(1908-1989) Was a Soviet engineer, and the principal Soviet designer of rocket engines during the Soviet/American Space Race
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WWII - Pacific Theater; survivor of the sinking of the USS Colhoun (DD-801) after repeated Kamikaze attacks in the early stages of the Battle of Okinawa, 6 May 1945
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Survivor of Hartford Circus Fire 1944
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Polish ace from WWII
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Nona M. Goard was an aviatrix who was an early parachute jumper, pilot, and wing-walker
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USN Admiral
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2010 Candidate for Governor of Arizona; Arizona State Attorney General (2002-present); Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona (1983-90)
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'Royal Navy & Royal Navy Air Service' 'Commander RNZAF South Pacific 1941-1943'
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Roboticists Matthew Godden of Shadow Robot Co. in England led the assembly of the bionic man from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world/First Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes
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Charles Godfrey (2) (born 24 September 1917), is a physician, professor and politician in Durham Region. He served as an Ontario New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament for two years in the Ontario legislature
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United States Air Aces
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Military
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astronaut
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WWII: Godwin joined the Navy in 1935. In 1937, he was on the USS Lexington as she searched for the remainder of Earhart's missing plane. He then transferred to the Air Corps, flying 34 missions with the 567th Squadron, 389th Bomb Group
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma. (1917-2007)
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WW 2 fighter Ace--[11 victories]
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Military
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Used genetic engineering to create synthetic insulin
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Member of The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)a work relief program for young men from unemployed families, started on 03/21/1933, by Pres. F.D.R. As part of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, designed to combat unemployment during the Great Depression
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Original 1996 Green nominee for Vice President
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WWII - 339th Fighter Squadron; Yamamoto Mission April 18th 1943
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1980s New York Subway Vigilante
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1967 Pulitzer Winner for 'Exploration and Empire'! Also wrote 'The West of the Imagination' & 'Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863!
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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Anthropology and Biology consultant on Bones
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Replacement for fallen Reverend from the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in CHARLESTON, S.C. where shootings lead to Confederate Flag reform
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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An armored car driver for Armored Car Service Co. , he drove one of the two cars sent to move Lee Harvey Oswald from the City Jail to the County Jail on Nov. 24 , 1963
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Croatian-born US WWII Army vet, born 1924. Wounded 3x -Anzio, Vosges Mtns, and near the Rhine. South France invasion. Spent night under dead buddies in a foxhole, tumbled down a hill in the morning under hail of German bullets to escape
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Chief of Embassy Security, Regional Security Officer
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Harry Gold (2) Witness in Rosenberg Spy Trial
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astronomer
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WWII veteran that was one of the first to enter the Buchenwald Death Camp during its liberation. Was also a machine gunner at the Battle of the Bulge
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Mel Goldberg (2)
TV / Radio Lawyer Specialising in Sports Law -
WW I vet. Born 3/19/1900 USA - Army
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Theoretical physicist; worked at Manhattan Project; friend of Robert Oppenheimer; then working at Caltech (whose president he became) with Enrico Fermi + Edward Teller; spearheaded development of the 10-m-telescope at Keck Observatory, HI
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Former president of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) & CEO of United Paramount Theatres. Turned ABC into a media conglomerate. His innovations/media synergy w/ ABC had lasting implications on the American television industry
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Air Force General
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Physicist former director f Brookhaven National Laboratory. Born: 04/18/1911
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author
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American economist historian and labor economist. 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
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Flight (scientist)
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of a Bronze Star and Purple Heart
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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WWII: ETO. B-17 (42-40017 Miasses Dragon) waist gunner, 535th Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group. 25 missions over Germany from December 1944 to May 1945
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One of the doctors who tried to save JFK's life after being shot
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Lieutenant General Harry Edgar Goldsworthy (born April 3, 1914) is a centenarian and was an American Air Force lieutenant general who was deputy chief of staff for systems and logistics, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C
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'Nominee for the Cowgirl Hall of Fame', 'Country Singer', Writer','Theater Actress'
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German WWII Veteran, Waffen-SS
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JFK - Chaplain at Bishop Dunne High School in 1963, he took a photograph of President Kennedy's Dallas motorcade approaching the Adolphus Hotel just 4 blocks from Dealey Plaza
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Video game pioneer whose credits include Ms. Pac-Man, Food Fight, and the graphics chips for the Atari 7800 Pro System
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WWII: ETO: D - Day Nazi - Germany, Wehrmacht Ammunition runner, Grenadier - Regiment 1057, 91. Luftlandedivision
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Mountain climber
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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Nuno Gomes (2)South African SCUBA diver, holder of the Guinness World Record deep dive. He is also a renowned cave diver and holds the current world record for the deepest cave dive, done in Boesmansgat cave ,South Africa in 1996
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US Navy WWII veteran, born 1915. One of the last people to have worked on the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s
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Birth name Gabriel Ramos Gomez, and better known by his showman name as 'Larry the Wolf Boy', a native of Mexico, is a sideshow performer and TV celebrity that has appeared in sideshows across the world, including the Mexican National Circus.
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Spanish Civil War veteran and and liberator of Paris during WW2. Born: 1921. Age: 95
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German World War 2 Knight's Cross Recipient. Born: 10/15/1913
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Retired General
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Former United States Attorney General (2005-2007)
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Lz ray 1965 nam
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. 7 Dec 1941
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Cuban boy who became famous during 1999-2000 when custody battle arose between his Cuban-American relatives in Miami and his Cuban dad in Cuba. He was repatriated to his dad and later became friends with Cuban President Fidel Castro
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Florida High School Student & Activist for Gun Control/Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student, quickly become one of the country?s most visible gun violence prevention activists at just 18 years old
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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Mexican boxer, 4 time world title challenger, jailed for alleged murder
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U.S. Secret Service agent in 1963, Gonzalez was assigned to guard duty for President Kennedy's limousine after its arrival in Washington, D.C., on the evening of the assassination
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Watergate Burglar
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1920) who served in the International Brigades. Volunteered in 1936. Was captured on 2 November 1938 in 'Puebla de Masaluca' and was a prisoner of war until 1 April 1939. Born 1920. Lives in the UK
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Uruguayan professor, Director of Education and Minister of Defense under President Luis Lacalle. Writer, 'Women and Politics in Uruguay'
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One of nine surviving veterans of Spanish Civil War. Born' October 3, 1910..Served in Valencia, Teruel, Jaén, and Granada
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One of 1st inductees to Black Aviation Hall of Fame/Became a part-time stunt flyer with the legendary airshow impresario Bill Sweet/Member of the Kansas Senate
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astronaut
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Long-time member of the Manson Family
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Sculptor who designed the obverse of the Sacagawea dollar that entered circulation in the United States in 2000. Also designed the Vietnam Women's Memorial located in Washington, DC
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Retired General
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Primatologist/Anthropologist - study of chimpanzee social life
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Laker Skytrain MacDonnell DC10 G-Belo 'Southern Belle' Pilot
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Tuskegee Airmen, Involved in the Freeman Field mutiny where a racist commander not allowing blacks & whites to talk to each other, & not allowing the black officer into the officer club. Also led to 162 black officers walked into the club and arrested
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A U.S. Secret Service Agent who did advance work on the Houston leg of President Kennedy's trip to Texas in 1963
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American materials scientist and solid-state physicist. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and, at 97 years old, became the oldest Nobel laureate in history
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Former British test pilot and Royal Navy officer. Pilot during WWII. Inventor of the mirror-sight deck landing system for aircraft carriers
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David Goodman (2) 'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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United States Capitol Police Officer. During the 2021 Capitol Riot, he diverted rioters from the United States Senate Chamber. Goodman is also a veteran of the 101st airborne who fought in the Iraq War
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American woman from Chicago who is in the Guinness Book of World Records as Furthest Eyeball Popper; can pop her eyeballs to a protrusion of 12 mm (0.47 in) beyond her eye sockets
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cmdr.-in-chief, sup. allied command/europe)
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WWII - Guadalcanal (2nd Marines), Tarawa (6th Marines), Iwo Jima (5th Marines). Was severely wounded in the Battle of Iwo Jima on March 10, 1945, by a machine gun
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Wwii: wasp
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WWII Pilot-fighter Ace-- Flew the P-47 & 51--30 kills- 15 air- 15 gound USAAF - POW - DSC
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guam. 3rd Marine Division. Purple Heart
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Supercentenarian born 1907 2nd oldest person living in Michigan
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A Jr. at Jesuit High School in Dallas , Miles was at Dallas Love Field and Parkland Memorial on Nov. 22 , and for several hours that day he assisted a CBS cameraman covering the assassination
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USS Oklahoma survivor - Pearl Harbor attack
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WWII Australian Ace-5.5 victories, RAF 607 Squadron
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Belgian supercentenarian and the oldest living man in Europe. Born in 1900
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Soviet cosmonaut who was the research engineer on Soyuz 7
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1938. KGB double agent who provided information to the British Intelligence Service. Exfiltrated from the Soviet Union in 1985 and currently lives in an undisclosed location in London
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Bruce Gordon (2)Former president of the NAACP
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gemini 11, apollo 12 astronaut
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World war 2 fighter ace- 7 kills vf-10
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WW2 began to find his religious faith in squalor of 1942 & forced with thousands of other captives to build a railroad through the jungles of Burma & Siam (now Myanmar and Thailand) along the famous Kwai River/'Author Through the Valley of
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Pilot of X20 Dynasour
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Joyce Gordon (2) AKA/Joy Dale Burlesque Stripper who worked at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club in Dallas, Texas
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Sociologist. Devised the theory on the Seven States of Assimilation
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, US Navy, WWII
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Sergeant, USAAF, 327th Bomb Squadron, 92d Bomb Group, B-17 ball turret gunner
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WWII: PTO. Naval Aviator. DFC. Torpedoed and sank the underwater Japanese freighter I-52 in 1944 in the Atlantic, which was to carry German radioactive uranium oxide that would eventually be used to target San Francisco and the Panama Canal
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Inductee in National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Hero of the Soviet Union during WW2. Lives in Missouri
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Flight astronaut sts-91,99,108
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Flight aviator mercury 13 astronaut candidate 1960
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941; USS Hulbert
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army general
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US WWII WAC (1920-2020). Aircraft radio mechanic, then trained to decode msgs, sent to Europe to work in a US military court. Flew to bring back a secretary of Hitler's to face military charges, made a trip to view Dachau alone, toured of Hitler's bunker
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor Navy corpsman (USS Sandoval) attached to a Marine platoon
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Italian flying ace of WWII
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Don Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin is an American world record holder and 'Big Mac enthusiast'
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US WWII Marine Raider, 2nd Battalion, born 1923. 'Carlson's Raiders'. Bougainville, Guam, Okinawa battles
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Pan Am World Airways flight attendant, saved Iranian passenger at JFK
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air force general
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Serial killer
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WWII - Stormed Utah Beach, Normandy on D-Day with the 531st Special Brigade. Later fought in the Battle of the Rheinland, Ruhr River, and Battle of the Bulge
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British journalist and historian who was working as as a freelance journalist in Cuba in 1963 and interviewed revolutionary Che Guevara and later confirmed his body in 1967. He was the only witness in Bolivia who had actually met Che Guevara
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John Gotti's younger Brother
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Italian-American mafioso
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son of john gotti
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Brother of John Gotti and a member of the Gambino crime family currently imprisoned
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Physician who co-authored first report printed regarding AIDS
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German WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht.He fought throughout Europe, initially in the Soviet Union. In 1942 he joined the Afrika Korps and fought across North Africa. In 1943 he returned to Europe. He was captured by American soldiers in Bavaria in 1945.
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Test pilot - Jetstar prototype airplane
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Well Known Temperance Speaker
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Special Consultant to Sol Wachtler, former Chief Judge of the NY State Court of Appeals. Former Chairman of the NY State Courts Ethics Commission. Co-author of Blood Brothers. Son of Morton Gould, composer of scores for Broadway shows, ballet, films, TV
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran of the HMS Howe; before that, he served on the HMS Fiji which was sunk in the Battle of Crete
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American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation/Winner of numerous awards
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Military
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Red Bull Air Race Pilot. Airshow performer
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WWII Hump Pilot (680 Flights), Author (Himalayan Rogue: A Pilot's Odessey - 1994), CNAC 1942-1947
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Recently verified French WWI Veteran Born: 12/31/1899 and called to service on April 19, 1918. Was not officially recognized by the French government as he served less than 90 days
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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Descendant of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer. Lives in Ashford, Kent, UK
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Former U.S. Astronaut
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WWII: PTO. Invasion of Lingayan Gulf (Philippines); Battle of Okinawa. USS Laurens APA-153, Navy Yeoman 2nd Class, 1944-1946
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Participated in the 1963 Selma civil rights campaign as a 16 year old boy, including the 'Bloody Sunday' march
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Survivor of the 1970 Kent State shootings. Shot in the ankle during the attack on students, he rode in the ambulance alongside one of the victims killed, Sandy Sheuer, as she was pronounced dead
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German U-boat LI, Engineer U-96
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Currently serves as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
