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Former underboss in the Colombo crime family
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American physicist (Born: 1914) in the early days of nuclear physics and elementary particle research. In the fall of 1940 he was hired to help on adapting and using the cyclotron to separate isotopes of uranium for the atomic bomb project
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Serial killer killed 10 people between 1974 and 1991
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German ww2 pilot
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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JFK - the Texas state trooper who guarded and drove Vice President Lyndon Johnson in the presidintial motercade on November 22, 1963 the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
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CBS Radio News Anchor announced on radio the death of President Kennedy
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US Army, statesman, politician (1767-1845). 7th US President (1829-37)
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Medal of honor marines ww2
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WWII: Iwo Jima, 5th Marines, F Company
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WWII: ETO. 92nd Infantry Division. 'Buffalo Soldier'
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Civil Rights Activist
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Armed Forces Expert
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge; Battle of Bastogne (he is one of the Battered Bastards). B Company, 326th Airborne Engineering Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles)
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Former Law Officer/Texas Ranger/Author 'One Ranger Returns'
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Reverand, Civil Rights Leader, founder of 'Rainbow Push Coalition', author and lecturer
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medal of honor air force vietnam war
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Attorney/Host/Legal Analyst for CNN & HLN
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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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Detroit's First Female Deputy Police Chief during 1967 Detroit Rebellion/Lives in Detroit
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran of the HMS Savage & HMS Cassandra, which was torpedoed on 11 Dec 1944 by U-boat U-365. 62 men died in the attack and she was towed, first by the frigate Bahamas, then by a Soviet Navy tugboat to Murmansk
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WWII Fighter Pilot, 56th Fighter Group, 'Zemke's Wolfpack'
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Mike Jackson (6)Retired Royal millitary
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He took the photo of lee harvey oswald being shot by jack ruby
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American jurist,(1892 - 1954): United States Solicitor General (1938-1940), United States Attorney General (1940?1941) and an Associate Justice of Supreme Court (1941?1954). Only person to have held all three offices. Also chief United States prosecutor a
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Author and scientist; noted conservationist for the snow leopard
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Rose Jackson (2)
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(Born 1982) US Army Iraq War Veteran. Distinguished Service Cross Recipient
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'Tuskegee Airmen' & fighter ace of ww2
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Great Granddaughter Of Theodore Roosevelt
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nobel med. laureate 1965
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GBE, CB, (27 September 1899 - 24 April 1993), Military Assistant Secretary to Winston Churchill's war cabinet and later a distinguished broadcasting executive, serving as the Director-General of the BBC from 1952-1960
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Rocket scientist
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Born in 1924. He served in both the European and Pacific theaters during World War II, earning a Purple Heart and Bronze Star
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(born August 10, 1942) is an American historian and retired Associate Professor of History at Temple University specializing in 20th-century American history. Jacobs is a prominent figure in ufology
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Retired American Colonel and author of If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Holocaust Survivor/Lecturer/Author/Was sent to the camp Ostroweic and subsequently transported to Auschwitz (Poland), Birkenau (Poland) & Mathausen-Gusen II (Austria). Americans liberated him from Mathausen-Gusen II on May 5, 1945
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Radio Operator (Iwo Jima)Born:1924
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A retired mechanical engineer. In 1965, Mr. Jacobs helped design a camera system that captured the rocket separations for the unmanned Apollo 6 launch, and it was the first time video captured the curvature of Earth from outer space
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Danish WWII Veteran
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Co I, 330th Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division
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United States Marine who earned the United States' highest military honor ' the Medal of Honor -' for his heroic actions on Iwo Jima during World War II. 'Private First Class Jacobson destroyed a total of sixteen enemy positions and annihilated appro
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American WWII - Pilot, USAAC, Member of combat mission 'Yamamoto Mission' in October 1942
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Author, actor, Hollywood historian and wife of Jon Provost, the original Timmy from Lassie. Former stand-up comic. Writer/producer of documentaries, tv series and specials, including the 20th Anniversary of the Mary Tyler Moore Show
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US Army General
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Military
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Belgian Roman Catholic Biship Born 1909
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS Reuben James on October 31, 1941. Last known survivor of the disaster
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WWII: Served with the Afrikakorps and ended the war as a Company Commander in the Stabskompanie. Now 92
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1960's Political activist. Member of the, 'The Weatherman' group
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French World War One Veteran
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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US Navy vet, born 1943. Two tours of Vietnam. Navy Seal UDT recovery teams for Apollo 12 and Apollo 13
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. 508th PIR, H Company, 82nd Airborne. 4 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts and the French Legion of Merit
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Age four time of fire
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Ukrainian singer (Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova), born 1983. Won Eurovision Song Contest 2016, with song '1944' about the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
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Jeffrey Jamar: retired Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge (SAC), who was in charge of an FBI squad in the 1993 Waco siege. Jamar retired from the FBI in December 1994 after 25 years in service
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air force general
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Former British RAF Pilot Officer, WW II, Suvivor of 'The Great Escape'
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WWII veteran. 641 Ordinance Company. Black soldier who was court martialed during the war for questioning his superior. After he was honorably discharged in 1947 he became a mathematician and worked in the aerospace industry
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The real Great Escape artist from WWII, not the actor
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Inventor Of Slinky
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Chuck James (2)Great Grandson of Jesse James
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Tuskegee Airman, 1st Black 4-Star General
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Jeremiah James (2)Great Great Grandson Of Jesse James
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Discovery Channel Motorcycle Mania
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John James (5)Republican candidate from Michigan
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Larry D. James (2)Astronaut
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WW2 veteran. Aviator
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Tosh.o (Teacher/model who posed in Hustler magazine)
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Survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis;
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Military - awarded Victoria Cross re holding a bridgehead on 7/8th August 1944, in Normandy, France
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Canadian lawyer and First Nations activist. She was the first Aboriginal woman ever to earn a law degree in Canada
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Tuskegee Airman Pilot
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Gunnery Sergeant U.S. Marine Corps. Retired, Was featured on Making Money
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WWII WAC Corporal, born 1922. Rare Chinese-American woman WWII. Stationed at a NY hospital caring for injured servicemen, sometimes taking them to B'way shows or dancing to cheer them up. Widow of Chinese-American Army Air Corp navigator
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Last surviving member of 1st Battalion, Gambia Regiment
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WWII: Chief of Pharmacy Service with the Flying Tigers, 14th U.S. Army Air Forces. 95th Stationary Field Hospital in Kunming, the capital of the Hunan Province
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma
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Co-author of 'The Power of Nice' and 'Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible' with famed attorney, Ronald M. Shapiro. Co-founder of the Shapiro Negotiations Institute. Has worked with some of America?s leading businesses, including Gillette and Black & Decker
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Retired Polish pilot, Colonel of the Polish Army and Cosmonaut Backup Cosmonaut of Miros?aw Hermaszewski
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Flying Tigers-propeller specialist
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Vietnam/Fall of Saigon/Had been working in sales for several American businesses and some government interests as a translator. Two days after his escape with just the clothes on his back, the Communists took over
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WWII: Fighter Ace, 5.5 victories
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Retired General
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Bioarchaeologist and field archaeologist, guest on 'The UnXplained with William Shatner'
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WW2 Veteran
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Invented The First Artificial Heart, The Jarvik-7; married to Marilyn vos Savant
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WWII - D-Day. Virginia National Guard's 111th Field Artillery Battalion, 29th Infantry Division; landed in the first wave at Omaha Beach
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Astronaut
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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Adventurer
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International Space Station Flight Director
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Scientist
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Born in Reunion on July 25 , 1917, is a retired schoolteacher who was a volunteer paramedic during World War II
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Inventor
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Second special prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal. He was appointed to that position on November 1, 1973, soon after the Saturday Night Massacre of October 19-20, 1973, that resulted in the dismissal of his predecessor, Archibald Cox
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field
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Pilot in World War I and as an operations officer in World War II as well as commanding Officer of the 446th Bomb Group at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth/Participated in drafting the original Civil Air regulations
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(Born 1932) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars
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Civil Rights Movement/Political and civic leader and the former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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Politics/Activist
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Professor of earth and planetary science and of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his work on the composition of the Earth and the behavior of materials under high temperatures and pressures
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French Politician/Economist. Born: 11/13/1910
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Descendant of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the famous British civil engineer who built bridges and dockyards. He is a direct descendant of Brunel and president of The Brunel Museum
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JFK - Jefferies filmed 39 seconds of the Dallas motorcade in (at that time) great quality, his film stopping ca. 90 seconds before the assassination
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Curtiss (AV-4). Breakfasting when the attack began, Jeffers mounted a .50-caliber gun and fired throughout the attack; the USS Curtiss was hit by a bomb and a downed Japanese aircraft
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in bellingham,wa but not now?
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Watergate/Nixon Lawyer, received a Supreme Court ruling for former President Richard Nixon involving public access to the Watergate tapes
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Fighter ace
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WWII: ETO. Rhineland, Huertgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge, Remagen Bridge, Germany. Army Air Corps
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Inventor of DNA fingerprinting
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Former professor know for his Pan-African Afrocentrist views
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One of the last known survivors of The Halifax Explosion, that occurred on December 06, 1917. She is now 99 years old and lives in a care center in Gananoque, Ontario, Canada
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1st woman of color in space
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South African Anti-Apartheid activist. Escaped from Pretoria Local Prison in 1979. Writer. Wrote Escape from Pretoria which was made into a film with Daniel Radcliffe playing him
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US Army deserter, held in North Korea from 1965-2004
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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JFK - Born 1943; one of the two Navy corps man present at the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy at the Bethesda Navy Hospital
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CEO of AARP. Former senior adviser, chief of staff, and chief operating officer of the Library of Congress. Was special assistant to Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole at the U.S. Department of Transportation
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WWII - Commander of the 510th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, flying P-47s. Called Jenkins' Jerry Junkers, it was part of the 405th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force. D-Day and beyond; Silver Star
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Lawyer
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Ron Jenkins (2) Working under the name ' Ron McAlister ' , he was a reporter for KBOX Radio in ' 63 . He covered the scene at Parkland Hospital and in '64 the Ruby trial
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A news editor for KBOX radio in Dallas , Ronald saw Jack Ruby just outside Capt. Fritz's office where Oswald was being interrogated on Nov.23 , 1963
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 251st C/A Artillery, Camp Malakole; later in the Battle of Bougainville
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Lz xray 1965 nam1/7 cav a cowas in anglletion,tx but not now?
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Witness of first hydrogen bomb test: 'Ivy Mike' (Operation Ivy, 10.4 megatonnes of TNT) - October 31, 1952 19:14:59
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(born 28 February 1917 in Hackney, London, England) was the founder of the company that produced the first Vox Guitar amplifier
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WWII: PTO. US Navy Flight Nurse in the Pacific
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Astronomer, SETI, studies meteor showers
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
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WWII: D-Day. Helmsman on the USS Augusta during the D-Day invasion
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Danish WWII Veteran
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WWII Veteran from Colorado Springs, Colorado. News story done on him ABC 13 KRDC July 31st 2023
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WW2 at D-Day/Enlisting Army on 4/1/1943/Sergeant 626th Engineer Light Equip. Co., JOB moving, bulldozing or rebuilding anything & everything, from small pillboxes to entire towns/Meritorious Unit Award/ Philippine Liberation Service Ribbon
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Real-life story inspired the film North Country
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weapons officer on the Enola Gay during the Hiroshima Mission
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Danish WWII Veteran
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Former Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Former Vice Chairman
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Military
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WWII Army Air Corps, 393rd Bomb Squad, 509th Composite Group, born 1925. Clerk in the Intelligence Office on Tinian during Hiroshima/Nagasaki missions, worked with Paul Tibbets Responsible for preparation of information required for bombing missions
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Former NASA Astronaut
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Chief psychologist at Dallas Veterans Hospital in 1963, Filmed JFK motorcade at exit of Dallas Love Field & later captured rare color scenes of the Trade Mart building and marquee from Stemmons Freeway. Donated film to Sixth Floor Museum
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Member of the Flying Tigers (AVG) & Fighter Ace (10.5 Vict) WWII.
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Doctor / Author
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American serial killer who embarked on a murderous spree in the United States during the early 1990s. Known as the 'Happy Face Killer' for the smiley face he drew on his many letters to the media and prosecutors
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Aviator/member Mercury 13, flight instructor, demonstration pilot, advisor to (FAA). President of Ninety-Nines. Written about flying and history of women in flight. Together with Wally Funk, Jessen is one of the last two surviving members of Mercury 13
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC. Purple Heart
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WWII: P-51 Mustang fighter pilot in the 487th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, 8th Air Force
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Navy, LST 823
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Co-author of 'The Stuff: Unlock Your Power to Overcome Challenges, Soar, and Succeed' with Dr. Sampson Davis. Derek Jeter's sister. Founder of The Stuff Movement foundation
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NASA astronaut (retired) flew on STS-72,81,97,115
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Centgenarian from Loma Linda Ca.on CNN
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David Clifford Jewitt (born 1958) is a British-American astronomer who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies.He is best known for being the first person (along with Jane Luu) to discover a body beyond Pluto in the Kuiper belt
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Chinese biochemist. Born: 05/15/1900
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Operation HalyardLargest rescue of downed airmen in WWIIThe Forgotten 500
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American journalist, TV producer and author of The Book of Matt. Marched in the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979. Won 2006 Writers Guild Award for Analysis, Feature or Commentary
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New York Port Authority Police Officer, World Trade Center Attack / 9-11 Survivor. Subject of the movie World Trade Center
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Orderly who helped transport Governor Connolly to the OR on Nov.22 , 1963
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In 1974, the orthopedic surgeon pioneered a method of replacing the damaged ulnar collateral ligament of a pitcher Also known as Tommy John surgery
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2008 Inductee Inventor Hall of Fame; invented system that made mobile phone communications possible
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Major General Eldon W. Joersz is an American pilot, who currently holds the World Air Speed Record
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One of two women awarded the Order of the Cross of the Eagle
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941; recovering aboard a hospital ship in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, already in the water aboard a small shuttle boat as the attack began, Johann rescued men from the oil-slicked and burning waters
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Wwii: wasp
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Retired U.S. Navy - former Commanding Officer of the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), the USS Denver (LPD-9), and the Dragonfires (VS-29)
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Anthropologist and author, discoverer of the 'Lucy' skeleton
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92 Year old nose gunner on a B-24 bomber during WW2 & POW. Now lives in Montville, NJ
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Attended the grand opening of the De La Warr Pavilion building in 1935. The Art Deco building is located on the seafront at Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, UK. Designed by architect Erich Mendelsohn. He is now 87 and lives in the UK
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Drove follow-up car during the JFK assassination
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Army General
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Centenarian (1896-2001). US WWI veteran. Drove a hospital truck in France during his service, and contracted/survived the 1918 Flu epidemic
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black sheep squadron
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Andrew Johnson (5) 17th president of the United States
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Arthur Johnson (2) Military
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Bill Johnson (5)Member of the DPD Bill was among the first to greet Pres. Kennedy on his arrival at Dallas Love Field on Nov. 22 , 1963 . His assignment was to secure perimeter of Air Force One
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Bruce Johnson (3)JFK US Army/marched in the funeral procession for President John F. Kennedy on Monday, November 25, 1963. An employee of the Internal Revenue Service during the Eisenhower to Clinton administrations
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Apollo 11 recovery: Co-pilot of the helicopter that recovered Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins after their splashdown in the Pacific
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Top Gun Crew Chief/Tuskegee Airmen?/99th PS & 332nd
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A northern Illinois resident recognized as the oldest man in the U.S. 1904-2014
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Designer Of Early NASA Space ProgramBorn in 1919
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WWII Veteran, Tuskegee Airmen
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Charles Johnson (3)USAF General
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Son of Bluesman Robert Johnson
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Capt. Clinton B. Johnson shot down a Mig-17 while flying a propeller driven A-1H Skyraider
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Speaker, author of 'Believing in Magic' and wife of Magic Johnson. Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Magic Johnson Foundation. Founder of CJ by Cookie Johnson, a premium denim line
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US WWII vet, born 1922. Served in the OSS, disrupting supply chains by parachuting into enemy areas in France and Germany, then into China
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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Oldest felmale pilot ,aka 'Mama Bird'Born: 11/04/1909
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, aboard U.S.S. Maryland when the attack took place. Also fought in the Korean War
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Tuskegee Airmen, Bomber/Navigator!
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One of the 3 NY Firefighters who raised the flag at Ground Zero
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Bomb Aimer, 617 Squadron (Dambusters)
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WW1 Veteran. Awarded Distinguished Service Cross for actions in Flexville, France
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Fighter Pilot Ace during WWII.(18 victories)
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Astronaut
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Astronaut
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air force general
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Pearl Harbor survivor (7 Dec 1941), USS Oklahoma
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WWII: Combat Information Center, USS Killen, DD-593. Battle of Surigao Strait (25 October 1944). Johnson's job was to figure out the torpedo trajectory for the attack that eventually sank the Japanese battleship Yamashiro
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4 Star General
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Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
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Author, historian
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Born 1896 #72 oldest documented person in the world. Lives in Oregon.
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Manhattan Project/Oak Ridge worker, born in 1925. Worked as a 'Calutron Girl' during WWII, unknowingly helping to produce Uranium for the Hiroshima bomb
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Henry Johnson (3) English World War 1-Era Veteran served in Merchant Navy. Lives in England. Born: 11/19/1902
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World Altitude Record Holder, Test Pilot
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Test pilot. Set the world altitude record in 1958 by flying to 91,249 feet in an F-104 Starfighter. He?s clocked 7,000 hours in 15 fighter planes, trained pilots in World War II, and flew fighter planes in Korea and Vietnam
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ww 11 air force hero england
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British ace from WW2
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Former Chief of Naval Operations
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Lawyer, became Secretary of Homeland Security in 2013
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navy admiral
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WW2 Flying Ace
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Jonathan Johnson (3)Member of rescue Ship USS Bassett to the aid of the USS Indianapolis Survivors
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'Hidden Figure' African-American physicist and mathematician who made contributions to the US aeronautics and space programs with early application of digital electronic computers at NASA
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Part of Pan Am Press Plane crew for President Kennedy's trip to Texas in 1963
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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US Army Veteran
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(born October 6, 1949) is an American inventor and engineer who holds more than 120 patents. He is the inventor of the Super Soaker water gun
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Daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson
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WWII SPAR, a female veteran in the US Coast Guard. Born in 1914
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Civilian worker, POW. Bronze Star with 'V' (awarded in combat). Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Journalist and Vegas PR career, born 1933. Korean War vet, guarded MacArthur. Raced cars, friends with James Dean. Danced in 'Jailhouse Rock' title number with Elvis, who became a friend since they shared an interest in martial arts
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medal of honor army ww11
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941
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USAF Desert Storm War Hero.Flew A-10
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Last surviving inhabitant of St Kildan Island, Scotland that was evacuated in 1930, 84 years ago. She is now 91 and lives in a nursing home in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
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WWII US Fighter Pilot, 56th FG, Zemke's Wolfpack
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Tuskegee Airman WWII
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WW2 vet, born 1921, and the last surviving member of Richard Byrd'sThird Antarctic Expedition in 1939. Also returned with Byrd on his 1946 and 1947 expeditions
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Robert Johnson (5) 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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Author; 'gidi gidi boom boom'/S/Sgt. Turret Gunner 15th Air Force, 449th Bomb Group WW2/One of Ploesti raiders, shot down on a mission to Romania
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack). Read his story at http://leftfieldperspectives.blogspot.co.at/2006/11/meet-doc-johnson.html
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United States Air Aces
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USMC General
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Iraq War POW
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Tuskegee Airmen, b. 1924
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Travis Johnson (3)2022 Libertarian candidate for MN-7
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sex therapist
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World War II veteran. Was a North American Aviation test pilot during the Apollo Program. After the Apollo 1 fire, Mr. Johnson was asked by his employer North American Aviation to enter another module and try to figure out what happened Born 18.4.1925
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Presidential advisor, pastor, theologian, author, activist, speaker and academic who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from April 2011 to October 2013
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First Miss Alaska (1958) in the Miss America Pageant, born 1939. First Alaska contestant after Alaska became a state
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Dan Johnston (2) Landmark Case: Johnston won the US Landmark Case Tinker v Des Moines (1969) as a 30 year old lawyer, just one year out of law school
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Oldest US Citizen
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WWII - First Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) to qualify as instructors on electrically-operated .50-calibre machine gun turrets
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Photographer Washington Post, Johnston was working for Austin bureau of United Press International in 1963. In basement of Dallas police headquarters, captured image of Lee Harvey Oswald approximately one second before he was fatally shot
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Scientist
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One of the last scientist's to work on the Manhattan Project during the years of 1942 to 1946. He now lives in Moscow, Russia
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Retired USMC General born 1937
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WWII: ETO. P-51 Mustang pilot. 336th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group. 4.5 victories
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'Easy Company' 'Member ofa Band of Brothers'
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NASA Apollo Engineer, born 1942. Flight Controller for the EMU (Space Suit) through Apollo 13. Helped design, analyze, and test the suits. NASA medical requirements led to his doctorate and career as a Seattle OB-GYN
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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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French scientist and grandson of Marie Curie, born 1932
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Headquarters Squadron, 11th Bombardment Group, Hickam Field
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WWII: On board the USS Emmons on 6 June 1944 during D-Day. He also survived the 5 kamikaze planes that flew into the plane on 6 April 1945
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WWII veteran, participated in D-Day (748th Tank Battalion). Also a participant in FDR's New Deal Programs, the CCC and the WPA
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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Only surviving firefighter from his battalion on 9/11. Pulled from rubble in the aftermath
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One of the survivors on Schindler's List. Known as Helena Hirsch Rosenzwerg
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WWII - Tuskegee Air(wo)man
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Balloonist
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World war 2 fighter ace
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American held hostage during the Iran Hostage crisis 1979
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Auction Hunters show
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Inventor and President of 'Dippin Dot' ice cream
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Doolittle Raiders 'Pilot Crew #5'
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Apollo 11: Pilot of the helicopter (#66) that recovered Neil Armstrong after Apollo 11 returned successfully
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Former Alabama Democratic Senator
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Doug Jones (9)WW2 veteran (born: 1919). He was one of the last soldiers to get off the beach at Dunkirk. He also witnessed the last eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1944. He lives in Bolton, UK and recently celebrated his 100th birthday
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British ace from WW2
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One of the last survivors of The Tri-State Tornado (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana), the deadliest tornado in American history, which occurred on March 18, 1925
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Tuskegee Airmen WW2 '99th FS'
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; NAS Kanoehe Bay. He is the man working on and bending over a rope in the famous photograph of December 7, 1941, with wreckage and burning planes all around, trying to save a PYB
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Grace Jones (2) English supercentenarian and the second oldest person in the United Kingdom. Born in 1899
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Supercentenarian 26th Oldest person in the world. Born: 10/17/1898. Lives in Tenn
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British Union Leader. Born: 03/29/1913
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USMC Commander James Logan Jones Jr (b: December 19, 1943) is a retired Marine 4 star general who served from 1967 to 2007
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Born 1919 WW2 US Army Veteran
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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Johnnie Jones (2) WWII D-Day Veteran, Civil Rights attorney, Louisiana State Legislator
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Ken Jones (4)First canadian born mountain guide
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-5 victories, USAAF, 23 Fighter Group, 74 Fighter Squadron 'Flying Tigers'
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JFK - Met Kennedy on April 29, 1960 while he was campaigning in Jackson and Bartholomew counties and shook his hand
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Melissa Jones (4)Recovery Director - Artemis I
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Rosie The Riveter - Built WWII Airplanes
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US WWII Navy Pilot, born 1922. Flew off the USS Guadalcanal
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Tryst with Bill Clinton during Presidency
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Royal millitary
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U.S. Secret Service agent assigned White House detail during Kennedy years/Guarded Kennedys at Hyannis Port during the summer of 1963. At the time of the assassination, he was guarding young John F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington, D.C. In 1964
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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Robert Jones (8)D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1925. He is now 89 and lives in the UK. He was a former machine gunner with the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry. Also known as Robert
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Robert Jones (10) Has worked on the Hubble telescope
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WWII: PTO. 1st Marine Division. Saw action saw action in New Guinea, Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa, and the Ryukyu Islands. 2 Bronze Stars
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Doctor who treated John F. Kennedy in his final moments at Parkland Hospital
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Born in 1960 Lives in Carmel,Indiana Inventor of Voice Mail
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Survivor Korean Death March/29th Regimental Combat Team/Captured at Oneui on July 26, 1950, marched 40 miles south of the Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW for 3 months & was one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured men
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Stephan Jones (2)Son of Jim Jones, Jonestown Masacre
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Stephen Jones (5)
Prominent attorney, has represented many notorious defendents, including Timothy McVeigh -
was a United States astronaut
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(October 23, 1916 - April 15, 1998) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general and a highly decorated veteran of three wars, receiving the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart. He was a battalion commander in World W
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WWII: 7th Infantry Division; fought in the battles of Attu Island, Kwajelein, Leyte and Okinawa
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Botanist
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, E Company, 19th Infantry 24th Division, Schofield Barracks
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Politician & leader of the Civil Rights movement. 1st African American elected to Senate & 1st southern black female elected to the US House of Representatives. Received Presidential Medal of Freedom
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WWII Royal Navy veteran who famously absconded from his UK nursing home to attend the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings (2014)
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Anthropology consultant on 'Bones'
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army general
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Author, american business executive & civil rights activist who worked for various civil rights organizations & law firms before becoming a close advisor to President Bill Clinton. Former executive director of the United Negro College Fund
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Worlds First Sex Change in 1952.
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2020 Libertarian Party nominee for President, 1996 LP nominee for VP
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Cuban exile of the 1960's (Born: 1936), anti-Castro, and Bay of Pigs Invasion participant who is co-founder and president of the Cuban American National Foundation. Age: 80
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astronaut
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One of the last witnesses to The Battle of Cable Street, London in 1936. (Born: 1922) She is now 94 and lives in Loughton, Essex
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The oldest living female World War II Veteran and a former Army Nurse. She nursed soldiers who had been wounded on Iwo Jima during the brutal and bloody battle to capture the island. She is now 109 and lives in Buffalo, New York, U.S.A
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Nobel laureate physics 1973
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WWII - Navy. Served on the USS Hornet (CV-8) from her first to her last day, supporting the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and surviving the sinking in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 27 October 1942
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coast guard admiral
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Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II. Born March 11, 1923
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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army general
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Owner of a restaurant (Jim's Grill) near the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
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Stephen Joyce (2) Grandson of James Joyce, the famous Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. He lives in the French town of La Flotte, on the Île de Ré, off the Atla
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WWII: US Navy. Survived the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay which was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tarawa (November 1943)
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Current Board President of the Utica Zoo, PhD
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Also known as Al JuchheimP-47 Thunderbolt Ace of WWII, 9 victories83rd Squadron/78th Fighter Group
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WWII: PTO. Navy. Battles/Campaigns: Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Peleliu, Angaur, Leyte, Lingayen, Wake and Okinawa. USS Pennsylvania
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100 year old World War II Navy veteran
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Won the 2010 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine and the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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air force general
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World record holder for world's smallest waist line
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German Panzer Granadier WWII
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Convicted drug dealer; basis for Johhny Depp movie 'Blow'
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Flight aviator
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hitlers last secretary
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Vice Admiral, Royal Navy Officer
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WWII veteran of Buna, Letye, Luzon campaigns. Born 1919
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Supercentenarian, born on 10 June 1906. Longest-lived validated person in the history of Poland, currently the 28th oldest validated person of all time, 3rd oldest living person, and the last known person born in 1906
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Apollo structural engineer who began work on the program in 1963. He was one of five engineers in charge of constructing the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), which still holds the record for largest single story building
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Danish WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal Campaign, Battle of Peleliu
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WWII (Navy) - Pearl Harbor and Okinawa
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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1st German in Space
