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  1. American astronomer and Proffesor of astrophysical and planetary sciences. He is best known for discovering Saturn's elusive F ring
  2. U.S. Army
  3. WWII: Marines (E-2-6, 2nd MarDiv), Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania; later in the battles of Guadalcanal and Tarawa and Bariki (last part of Battle of Tarawa)
  4. American Lawyer and New York State politician. He was Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals from 1985 to 1992, when he was forced to resign following a scandal.
  5. Senior commander in Royal Australian Air Force. Wackett introduced parachutes to the Australian Air Force and made the country?s first free fall parachute descent from a military aircraft in Australia on May 27, 1926
  6. Former Secret Service Special Agent/COO of Teneo Risk and serves as the Global Head of Security for Teneo/ CNN Law Enforcement Analyst/News Media Contributor
  7. WW2 Veteran:442nd Regimental Combat Team,'E' Company
  8. Longest Living Buffalo Soldier. Born: 1908
  9. WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Devonshire)
  10. Actor/River Biologist/Extreme Fisherman - River Monsters
  11. United States Air Aces
  12. (November 1, 1955-August 31, 1991), pilot of 'Boston', involved in the U.S. Army's first round-the-world flight
  13. 103 Walmart worker & meet Sam Walton, Served in the Air Force during World War II serving in India and China/Flew the Hump, Himalaias/After landing a job with Walmart back in 1983, he still works five day a week at a the location in his hometown
  14. History's Tallest Man
  15. Former Dallas Policeman and Texas Ranger, drove the Congressional Car with James Wright in the JFK Dallas motorcade
  16. Dallas attorney in 1963, Waggoner saw the President's motorcade on Main Street. In March 1964, as the guest of an assistant district attorney, he observed closing arguments in the Ruby trial
  17. Centenarian (1899-2007), one of the last US WWI veterans, and the last living US Marine of WWI
  18. George Wagner  (2)
    WWII: Dunkirk/D-Day. British Royal Engineers soldier, who, during the Dunkirk evacuation, helped to construct a pier made of abandoned lorries on the beach at La Panne. On June 6, 1944, he returned to France, landing at Sword Beach
  19. Honor Guard For Ex Presidents\Lives in Miami Fla
  20. army general
  21. World Champion female stunt pilot
  22. Norwegian physicist and tv host--contestant on norways dancing with the stars 2020
  23. Congressional Medal of Honor, US Navy, WWII
  24. Quest for Antonia winner
  25. 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
  26. Flight astronaut, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
  27. Australia's most decorated WW2 War hero. Code name: The White Mouse. Born: 08/12/1912
  28. Inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie, which she invented in 1930
  29. WWII: PTO. USS South Dakota
  30. air force general
  31. Overcame massive claustrophobia/ fear of heights to become a fighter pilot. Flew missions in Iraq, SE Asia, & Kosovo during Operation Allied Force. Awarded numerous prestigious medals. Author and professional speaker
  32. Burke Waldron began his military service in July 1943 in Pearl Harbor and was part of both the Makin Island and Saipan invasions
  33. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
  34. German author and historian. He is also a German WWII Veteran. He was drafted first into the Reichsarbeitsdienst (auxiliary force), then the Luftwaffenhelfer (child soldier in the air force) and finally into the regular Wehrmacht (the German military)
  35. American physician-scientist who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  36. 1983 Nobel Peace Prize; Former President of Poland 1990-1995
  37. Astronaut
  38. 2016 Socialist Party USA nominee for Vice President, 2020 Green Party nominee for Vice President
  39. Miss America 1947
  40. Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) #3
  41. Dallas Police Officer in 1963 , helped to arrest Oswald at the theatre
  42. astronaut
  43. British George Cross recipient
  44. astronaut
  45. Edwin Walker  (3)
    11/10/1909-10/31/1993 US Army officer fought in WW2 & Korean. Known for ultra-conservative political views & criticized by Ike for promoting a personal political stand while in uniform/Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to kill him 4/10/1963
  46. 'Tuskegee Airmen'
  47. 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
  48. George Walker  (3)
    One of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, who's escapades were chronicled in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
  49. Is a Canadian astronomer and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia. He was a member of the first group to report on the detection of extrasolar planets, and pioneered some of the techniques for extrasolar planetary searches
  50. 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
  51. Jim Walker  (2)
    JFK/Photographed Kennedy motorcade and /was at Dealey Plaza in Dallas that fateful November day in 1963, when Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy. longtime director and actor with the CRIGHTON PLAYERS
  52. Jim Walker  (3)
    272nd Military Police Co.Vietnam
  53. nobel chem. laureate 1997
  54. WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach (Ranger); wounded in Carentan
  55. british army comm.-in-chief
  56. Oldest WWII veteran. Born 2/5/1909. Served in the Women's Voluntary Service. Lives in Kingwood, Oxfordshire, England
  57. Roboticists Rich Walker 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
  58. Cardiologist
  59. Retired United States Army four star general who served as Commander, Allied Land Forces South East Europe (COMLANDSOUTHEAST) from 1977 to 1978
  60. Astronaut
  61. Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
  62. One of the last surviving witnesses of Germany's Zeppelin raids in the UK, from 1914-1918. She is now 101 and lives in a care home near the town of Darlaston in the West Midlands of England
  63. army general
  64. Royal millitary
  65. Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Has fear of some tents even today, and serious claustrophobia
  66. WWII - Paratrooper of Fox Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne (Screamin' Eagles). Combat jumps at D-Day and Market Garden. Was in the Battle of the Bulge, helped capture Hitler's Eagle's Nest
  67. Journalist, photographer, historian and author
  68. American journalist, born 1936. Reporter who covered the Selma civil rights marches, including 'Bloody Sunday' in 1965 for the Selma Times-Journal. Decades later served as the president of the Selma Chamber of Commerce
  69. Georgia centenarian, born 1911. Born in Oklahoma and a Dust Bowl survivor. Believed to be the US' oldest living Eagle Scout. Army Captain in WWII, commanded 4416th Quartermaster Company.in Europe and on their way to the Pacific when the war ended
  70. WWII - 82nd Airborne, 507th PIR. Combat jump into Normandy(D-Day), fought for 21 days, then captured, escaped near Paris, joined the French Resistance, captured again until the end of the war (Stalag 12A and at a camp near Leipzig)
  71. (born 1 September 1918) is a British educationalist who founded the first all-age Montessori school in GB and the Gatehouse Learning Centre. Benemerenti Medal, conferred by Pope John Paul II. Member of the Order of the British Empire
  72. Lz xray & lz albany 1965 nam 2/7th cav
  73. American historian and author, as well as the Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency
  74. WWII Pearl Harbor survivor; Chief Petty Officer USS Whitney (AD-4)
  75. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor December 7, 1941, USS Pennsylvania; was with 'Communication Force'. Was in 6 Pacific landings including Iwo Jima
  76. Creator of 'Little Nellie' Autogyro
  77. Historian, Author (Route 66: the Mother Road, Pretty Boy: the Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd), Pulitzer Prize Nominee, voice of 'Sherrif' in Cars
  78. Full name is George Peter Walls, Lieutenant General who served as the Commander of the Military of Rhodesia, and later Zimbabwe, is living in exile in Eastern Cape, South Africa
  79. Member of the Little Rock Nine; group of African-American students who enrolled in all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Awarded Congressional Gold Medal in 1999
  80. Staff Sgt. James Harley Wallwork DFM (21 October 1919 - 24 January 2013) British soldier, member Glider Pilot Regiment achieved notability as pilot of 1st Horsa glider to land at Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944 WW2
  81. Former Chief Concorde Pilot with British Airways
  82. First Responder 9/11 Terrorist Attack September 11, 2001
  83. Guinness world record distance of arrow shot with feet
  84. American oceanographer, explorer and marine policy specialist
  85. Joe Walsh  (5)
    WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. A 3rd Defense Battalion Marine, Walsh manned anti-aircraft guns during the attack. Later served on Johnston Atoll
  86. WWII American Fighter Pilot Ace
  87. United States Air Aces
  88. WWII: 2nd Ranger Bn, D-Day, Pointe du Hoc
  89. Irish airline CEO, CEO of the International Airlines Group and British Airways, formerly CEO of Aer Lingus
  90. USMC four-star general who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. 2 Navy Crosses for extraordinary heroism during World War II. ('Walt's Ridge')
  91. Former Payload Specialist Astronaut
  92. WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Lives in the UK or New Zealand
  93. air force general
  94. Dallas Sherriff - witness to the JFK assassination
  95. Veteran, WWII Korea and Vietnam, 31 years of active duty
  96. British U-Boat hunter of the costal command in WW2
  97. WW2 Pilot, born 11 February 1919) is a United States Army World War II veteran and a centenarian
  98. Astronaut
  99. Only living individual present when John Dillinger's gang visited/overtook the Little Bohemia Lodge in Wisconsin, April 19-21, 1934. Was not present during police raid on April 22, 1934
  100. Pearl Harbor Survivor, USS Pennsylvania. born 1918
  101. WWII - Fighter Ace, 6 victories (and 12 probables); flew the P-38 and P-47. Wingman to America's highest-scoring air ace Richard Bong
  102. astronaut
  103. Former Vaudeville dancer in the Whirl of Splendor act, 1925-30. Born 1905. Shared the bill with Milton Berle, Edgar Bergen, others. Witness to a 1919 lynch mob in Omaha
  104. Royalty
  105. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Curtiss (AV-4)
  106. Veteran of WWII and the Korean War. Participated in the five European Campaigns of WW II, including Normandy, the Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge. Memoir 'Country Boy Gone Soldiering' was published in 1999
  107. Reality TV Judge: The People's Court, Judge Wapner's Animal Court
  108. President of Nauru
  109. Original Organizer from Occupation of Alcatraz
  110. Frank Ward  (2)
    One of the last living ground crewmen part of the Hindenburg disaster. Then a 17 year old there to grab the lines to pull the ship to earth
  111. WWII: Served aboard the USS San Francisco from Pearl Harbor until 'The 3rd Battle of Savo Island' off Guadalcanal in 1942. During the encounter he was seriously wounded
  112. American lawyer and judge. He become known for his efforts to challenge the racially discriminatory practices at the University of Georgia School of Law
  113. Usmc sniper vietnam - confimed killed 63author DEAR MOM- A SNIPERS WAR
  114. One of the Edmund Hillary group, 1953 Mt. Everest feat
  115. Peter Ward  (3)
    WWII: British Arctic Convoy and D-Day veteran
  116. Iran Hostage Crisis/Communications officer CIA
  117. WWII: B-17 ground crewman in the 100th Bomb Group ('The Bloody Hundredth')
  118. Justice of the Peace who tried to stop the removal of President Kennedy's body from Dallas
  119. WWII submarine Skipper and Admiral last known to be living in FL
  120. First woman to become a pilot with a major Australian airline
  121. American Serial Killer
  122. WWII, Pearl Harbor Survivor
  123. Downed by enemy fire on mission, badly injured endured 3 week's hell In hellish Vietnam Jungles. When his captain revealed his membership in the Ku Klux Klan, their situation that took a roll putting him on the road to becoming a general
  124. Is a centenarian and also an internet celebrity
  125. French survivor of Auschwitz and heroine of the French Resistance. She moved to Manchester, England
  126. Special Agent in charge, Norfolk Field Office, NCIS
  127. San Francisco-based architect
  128. Donut Dolly Vietnam War/Lai Khe - First Infantry Division - July 1969-October 1969. An Khe - Fourth Infantry Division - October 1969-January 1970, Program Director. Da Nang - Third Marine Division/24th Corps - January 1970-August 1970, Unit Director
  129. Explorer - longest raft voyage in history
  130. WWII veteran, born 1924, one of the last few living vets to have served as an Assistant Chaplain in the war
  131. Retired General
  132. Dallas firefighter in 1963, Warnock was sent to the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository immediately after the assassination. His memories of the sniper's perch differ from those of police investigators
  133. WWII: Canadian air force pilot who participated as a pilot in the Dieppe Raid
  134. US Supreme Court Chief Justice (1953-1969), and previously the 30th Governor of California. Led the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and headed the Warren Commission investigation of the Kennedy assassination
  135. James Warren  (2)
    Tuskegee Airmen ww2
  136. 2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine
  137. WWII: Served on the USS. Enterprise CV-6 (a.k.a. 'The Big E' and 'The Galloping Ghost') from 1942 to 1945
  138. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; USS MacDonough (DD-351). Well-known Southern Utah public figure nicknamed 'The Flag Man'
  139. 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
  140. Israeli-American Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for 'the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems'
  141. WWII. Worked at Bletchley Park as a code breaker of the enigma
  142. The world's first cyborg
  143. Navy Seal with Seal Team Six, Silver Star (Somalia), author, chiropractor
  144. Photographer/Explorer
  145. WWII: He saw action in the South Pacific from 1942-46, piloting massive PBY and PBM seaplanes, hunting submarines, rescuing sailors and downed airmen, almost losing his own life in a kamikaze attack. Later Assistant Secretary of Commerce
  146. Buffalo Soldier, one of a few still alive
  147. McDonald's worker arrested for adding phlegm to sweet tea
  148. Tuskegee Airman
  149. air force general
  150. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Was stationed with the 98th Coast Artillery at Schofield Barracks, but had traveled to the Navy yard that morning, where he witnessed the attack
  151. American geologist and Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work in the fields of cosmochemistry, meteoritics and astrophysics
  152. WWII: Pearl Harbor suvivor, US Navy Pearl Harbor firefighting group
  153. Five-time Emmy winning cinematographer and underwater film producer who was the world's first cameraman to film the Great White shark
  154. Hilary Swank played her in the movie 'Conviction'. She went to and graduated from law school to prove that her brother Kenny was innocent of murder
  155. JFK - After his famous visit to Berlin, JFK stopped in the UK for less than a day to meet with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at his country estate; Waters took his chance and made a few very rare photographs of Kennedy driving by
  156. Went to jail for murder but was proven innocent by DNA; Movie conviction is based on his story
  157. Actor: Law & Order, The Killing Fields, Heaven's Gate, Capricorn One, The Great Gatsby, Lincoln, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Interiors, Serial Mom, I'll Fly Away, Nixon, Shadow Conspiracy, The Newsroom, Grace and Frankie
  158. WWII: PTO. Battle of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC Platoon Leader. Silver Star, Gold Star
  159. James Watkins  (2)
    WW2 Flying Ace USAAF 49th FG - 12 Kills - DSC
  160. NASA Astronaut
  161. war hero, Victoria Cross receiver; later became a High Court judge and was knighted in 1971
  162. Canadian World War 2 Veteran (Canadian Forces 1929-1953. Born: 07/13/1912
  163. Soccer player for Bristol Rovers 1945-1963. Served in the Royal Navy during WWII
  164. One of the last survivors of the SS Morro Castle disaster that took place in 1934 when the ship caught fire and burned, killing 137 passengers and crew members. He is now 97 and lives with his wife Jeanne in U.S.A, maybe Wrentham, Massachusetts
  165. Convicted Killer, Member Of Manson Family
  166. English supercentenarian and the third oldest person in the United Kingdom. Born in 1900
  167. Flight aviator
  168. Member of the Tuskegee Airmen
  169. Jack Watson  (2)
    Radio Dispatcher for Dallas County Sheriff's Dept. on Nov. 22. Following the assassination he relayed info. from the Dallas Police Dept. and co-ordinated movement of the Deputy Sheriffs
  170. nobel prize 1962
  171. 17 year old sailed solo aroung the world
  172. WWII - British sailor on HMS Vindex; several trips to Murmansk, Russia, during the Arctic Convoys of WWII; occupation duty in Hiroshima starting only weeks after the a-bomb
  173. Civil rights leader
  174. Paul Watson  (2)
    One of the founders of Green Peace, Captain of the Sea Shepard on tv reality show 'Whale Wars', animal activist for whales, seals, turtles, etc
  175. 'Tuskegee Airmen' 'The Fighting 99th Squadron' the original Tuskegee group!
  176. United States Marine Corps private who received the Medal of Honor for his actions on Iwo Jima during World War II. He single-handedly killed 90 enemy soldiers, thus enabling his plat
  177. The only african american pilot to fly the SR-71 Blackbird
  178. Spanish Civil War Veteran, International Brigade, Lives in London. Born: 1913
  179. astronaut
  180. Author and American abortion rights activist who was the first African American and the youngest president ever elected of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the first woman since Margaret Sanger to hold the position
  181. WW2 fighter ace - VF-18 - 10 Kills - Navy Cross
  182. Heather Watts  (2)
    One of the last survivors from the sinking of SS Athenia. The SS Athenia was the first British ship to be sunk by Nazi Germany in World War II. She is now 77 and lives in Nova Scotia, Canada
  183. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tangier
  184. WWII: Lancaster bomber pilot of the 101 (Special Duties) Squadron at Ludford Magna in Lincolnshire, served from November 1943 incl. the Battle of Berlin, Munich and survived the disastrous Nuremberg raid on 30th March 1944 when 97 aircraft were lost
  185. World War 2 historian and author
  186. WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battle of Tarawa
  187. Creator Of Redwood National Park. Born: 09/17/1906
  188. Anthony Wayne  (2)
    Member of the famed U.S. Antarctic Service Expedition, often referred to as Rear Admiral Richard Byrd's third Antarctic Expedition. He is now 98 and lives in Niskayuna, Schenectady County, New York, USA. Born: 1915
  189. White House Secretary during the Kennedy Administation. Known as Fiddle
  190. Served time in the British Army before pursuing a career in corporate technology. Author of the Awakened Trilogy, Don't Move, First Activation, and the Invasion series
  191. WWII: Air Force pilot; flew the 101st Airborne on D-Day
  192. Tuskegee Airmen
  193. Pearl Harbor Survivor 'Was on weekend pass & headed to Scholfield Barracks where he was stationed with the 289th Regiment when the attacks started'
  194. Historian/Photographer/Author/'Time Was in Mineral Wells A Crazy Story but true...'
  195. Bill Weaver  (2)
    SR-71 test pilot; survived catastrophic breakup of SR-71 at 78,000 ft at Mach 3.18
  196. Interviewer, at age 11 was the youngest person to interview a sitting American President (Barack Obama)
  197. Project scientist on the New Horizon mission to the dwarf planet Pluto
  198. Ruby Ridge, Idaho standoff against Federal Agents
  199. Ruby Ridge
  200. WWII. PTO. Served on the submarine USS Skipjack, SS-184 (famous for the 'Battle for Toilet Paper')
  201. Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron
  202. Betty Webb  (2)
    WW2/From Wythall Worcestershire, member of Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Worked on German police messages in Mansion @ Bletchley Park. Messages revealed beginning of the Holocaust with the massacres of 1,000s of Jews on eastern front
  203. Optometrist from British Columbia believes heâ-?s invented the holy grail of corrective lenses: A device that lets you see â-?three times better than 20/20 visionâ- without wearing any contacts or glasses at all â-' for an entire
  204. Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
  205. John Webb  (3)
    D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in London, UK. He was with the 5th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment
  206. New Zealand based artist, author and social media giant. Her work has been recognised by many mainstream celebrities such as Ed Sheeran, Tyra Banks, etc. She is a mental health advocate and battles depression and anxiety
  207. US Air Force brigadier general. Photographed with Obama in White House Situation Room during raid on bin Laden's compound
  208. B. 2/17/1956) Civil rights activist known as Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Smallest Freedom Fighter's co-author of Selma, Lord, Selma. 9-year-old, took part attempt march across Edmund Pettus Bridge on 3/7/1965 march, known as Bloody Sunday
  209. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma, born 1918
  210. astronaut
  211. Robert Weber  (2)
    WW2 Veteran-Combat Infantryman 54th Armored Infantry Battalion Of The 10th Armored Division
  212. WWII: Marine Corps fighter pilot in the South Pacific
  213. Defeo serial killer attorney
  214. 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
  215. WWII Naval Pilot (Born 1915). Pearl Harbor survivor, stationed at Kaneohe Bay Air Station. Witness to MOH John Finn's actions. Later served across the Pacific for the remainder of the war
  216. Jean Webster  (2)
    The fifth oldest person in England and the oldest born in Northern Ireland (Born: 1906) Her father worked as a riveter on the Titanic. She also survived the 1918 flu pandemic. She recently celebrated her 111th birthday. Lives in Northern Island
  217. Spacecraft operations manager for the spacecraft cassini that studied the planet saturn
  218. cononer kennedy assassination expert
  219. Lawyer Roe V. Wade
  220. United States Army commander who served in Asia during World War II from October 1943 to the end of the war. Previously, he helped plan the Normandy Invasion
  221. Egyptologist- TMP
  222. Former Mobster and member of Whitey Bulger's Winter Hill Gang of Boston. Author - Brutal, Where's Whitey, Hunted Down
  223. Founding member of the German counter-terrorist force GSG 9
  224. WWII: PTO. Served aboard the USS South Dakota (BB-57). Luzon, Leyte, Philippines in general, Formosa, Okinawa
  225. Inventor on 14 U.S. patents related to online financial services
  226. 'Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
  227. NASA Flight director
  228. Mountain climber, first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest
  229. Has worked on the Hubble telescope
  230. nobel physics laureate 1979
  231. One of the famous 'Chicago 7' war protesters, 1968
  232. Actress: charm school instructor in 'A League of Their Own'
  233. WWII: PTO. Served in the United States Army in the South Pacific during World War II from November 29, 1944 to October 25, 1946
  234. WWII: Marine Corps flamethrower 'Flaming Joe' in the Battle of Iwo Jima, fought there for all 36 days of the battle. 5th Marine Division, 28th Marines, 3rd Battalion Headquarters Demolition Platoon. Flagraiser Ira Hayes was his friend
  235. Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; staff member of The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission
  236. army general
  237. WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS Columbia
  238. Experimental Test Pilot, Lockheed
  239. American supercentenarian (Born: 1909) She is also one of the last survivors of the 'Great Flood of 1913'. Lives in Fortville, Indiana, USA
  240. Judge who presided over the Menendez Brothers murder trial and the trial of the police officers accused of beating Rodney King
  241. army general
  242. navy admiral
  243. WWII: PTO. 228th Signal Operations Company. Philippines 1940, POW
  244. Holocaust Survivor/Said her mother, three younger siblings, and older brother were all murdered soon after in the gas chambers/Testified in War Crimes trial against 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' Oskar Groening
  245. American physicist. In 2017, Weiss was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, 'for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves'
  246. Israeli political scientist and politician; 1992-1996 speaker of the Knesset; 2001-2003 Israeli ambassador in Poland
  247. Daughter of Otto Skorzeny, famed nazi commando
  248. Was at Terezin Concentration Camp when she was a child. Survivor of the Holocaust
  249. Current director of the Genoscope and one of the pioneers of the sequencing and analysis of the genomes
  250. Navy's Blue Angels Pilot
  251. astronaut
  252. WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa
  253. German ww2 pilot
  254. Bob Welch  (3)
    Reporter/cameraman WBAP-TV/Covered attempted shooting Gen. Edwin Walker. November 22, at Love Field, Trade Mart & Parkland, captured only sound recording of announcement of President Kennedy's death. In 1964, he covered the Jack Ruby trial
  255. Bob Welch  (4)
    Last known survivor (Born: 1929) of the 15-strong gang who took part in The Great Train Robbery on August 8 1963, one of the biggest crimes of the 20th century. He is now 87 and lives in the UK
  256. Fighter ace world war 2- 5 kills flew the p-38
  257. Pearl Harbor survivor, served on the USS Maryland. Helped to drill through the hull of the next-door capsized USS Oklahoma to save men on board
  258. Retired General And Former U.S. Air Force Chief
  259. WW II Pilot 6 victories born 1923
  260. businesswoman/physician
  261. WWII - survived the Battle of Kohima, 1944
  262. Navy veteran, author, and candidate for Congress from NJ
  263. Physiologist
  264. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
  265. WWII. Merchant Marine. Trips to the Mediterranean, Suez Canal, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf
  266. Fighter ace world war 2 vmf-323 death rattlers- 5 kills
  267. Pioneering aviatrix, journalist (1908-2002). Co-founder of 'Ninety-Nines' women's group with A. Earhardt, worked with Wiley Post, first female parachutist from a damaged plane, White House reporter (1963-77), 1 of 3 women reporters on Nixon's China trip
  268. WWII Marine vet at Iwo Jima (1922-2016). Led the platoon attack on Mt. Suribachi that planted the first flag on the summit. His platoon became one of the most decorated in US history
  269. JFK - Secret Service for Caroline & John Kennedy Jr
  270. WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1922, he was the youngest Spitfire pilot
  271. Flight attendant aboard US Airways flight 1549 that landed in the Hudson River
  272. Air Force Chief of Staff (2012-Present)
  273. WWII - Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. USS Arizona survivor
  274. WWII Battle of the Bulge veteran, Nuremberg Trials guard for Field Marshal Hermann Goering
  275. WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-6 victories, US Navy, VF-16
  276. 'Pad Leader'/'Fuhrer of the Pad' Mercury & Gemini Space Flights & Apollo Missions 1967-1975
  277. Former Navy SEAL, wrote novel, Men In Green Faces.
  278. U.S.S. Arizona survivor (Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941)
  279. WWII: USS Helena
  280. WWII: Merchant seaman in the 'Murmansk runs' of World War II
  281. JFK: He was a member of the 4-H Club that President John F. Kennedy met at the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. 7 March 1961
  282. Known in WWII as the One man army or the Ghost of Bataan
  283. His life was the basis for the 2018 film White Boy Rick
  284. Founder, 'Democracy 21.' US watchdog group
  285. Fighter Ace - Korean War - USAF - 5 Kills
  286. Titanic survivor
  287. WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
  288. medal of honor army korean war
  289. Mathematician known for mathematical modelling shape of Earth, & work on development of satellite geodesy models that incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS) inducted into the US Air Force HOF in 2018
  290. James West  (3)
    Inventor
  291. Inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
  292. Jason West  (2)
    Former Green Party mayor of New Paltz, NY
  293. American writer, comedian and activist. Author of the essay collection Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman & a contributing opinion writer for The NYT. Was an executive producer/writer for the show, Shrill, the Hulu adaptation of her memoir
  294. A 99-year-old war heroine who worked on the top secret preparations for the D-Day landings, has followed in Captain Tom's footsteps by walking 100 laps of her Dedham garden
  295. WWII Pilot Ace- Flew the P-38 & P-40--[14 victories]- DSC
  296. Rick West  (2)
    Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) 12
  297. Serial Killer - Convicted of 10 Murders with her Husband Fred West, there house became a thing of legend known as 'The House of Horrors' There backyard help the corpses of several girls they had killed including one of there own daughters they stated left
  298. Hiroshima survivor. 13 years old, working in a factory to support the war effort when the bomb hit. Her widowed mother died in the blast and her grandparents died of radiation sickness weeks later. She became sick but recovered and later married an Americ
  299. WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
  300. U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1998-2000)
  301. USS Arizona Survivor - Pearl Harbor
  302. Tuskegee airman
  303. JFK - DPD Captain in the Lee Harvey Oswald, J.D. Tippit investigation
  304. Worked at the TSBD Nov..22 1963 JFK
  305. WWII: PTO. USS Balch (DD-363). Saw Pearl Harbor arriving on Dec. 8, 1941; his ship was in Task Force 18 (Doolittle Raid), saved nearly 600 sailors of the USS Yorktown when she sank in the Battle of Midway; supported the Guadalcanal campaign
  306. WW 2 vet/USN/Mechanic in Navy, stationed in the South Pacific and the Philippines
  307. Assistant Supervisor in the operating room at Parkland Memorial at the time of President Kennedy's assassination
  308. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Naval Air Station Kaneohe
  309. Sex Therapist
  310. World record hips
  311. One of the last surviving member's of the 1953 Everest Expedition. He is now 87 and lives in Cumbria, UK with his wife, Sally. He and George Lowe are now the only two surviving members of the 1953 Everest Expedition
  312. Retired US Army General
  313. falklands war hero
  314. astronaut
  315. An American ornithologist and avian paleontologist; Secretary of the Smithosonian (1944-1952)
  316. United States Air Aces
  317. 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
  318. Invented the ATM
  319. Medal of Honor Army Vietnam
  320. army general
  321. Connecticut Probate Judge, an attorney, an author, an award-winning talk radio host and the creator and executive producer of The Lisa Wexler Show, which airs weekdays 10 a.m. - noon on WICC600 a Connoisseur media station
  322. Army General, Chief of Staff of the USA army (1974-1976) Born: 09/15/1916
  323. WWII: USS Intrepid. On the flight deck aboard the USS Intrepid when she was hit by 2 kamikazes
  324. WW2 veteran. A decorated soldier whose military career lasted through the Vietnam War. He became an anti-nuclear activist. Father of former bassist of the Talking Heads Tina Weymouth
  325. Reported from NBC affiliate WBAP-TV in Fort Worth about President Kennedy's assassination
  326. Centenarian (1895-2001). US WWI veteran. Sent to France, marched to the front just as the war ended
  327. WWII: Battle of Midway
  328. Army general
  329. Women's Army Corps
  330. Theoretical Physicist
  331. Coined term black hole
  332. British engineer (Born: 1927) who was instrumental in Britain's successful development of rocket launchers and hovercraft. He worked on the Black Arrow rocket programme. He is now 89. Lives in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK
  333. Tuskegee airmen ww2
  334. Astronaut
  335. 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
  336. WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, New Guinea campaign, Battle of Saipan
  337. WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Company G, 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division
  338. WWII: ETO. Truck driver in the Red Ball Express, 104th Infantry, 3rd Battalion, 26th Yankee Division. Taken POW while supplying the front lines in November 1944
  339. Astronomer
  340. WWII: ETO. D-Day, Battle of the Bulge. Glider pilot
  341. WWII: Medic, 1st Infantry Batallion, 10th Armored Division, 3rd Army. Battle of the Bulge
  342. Mark Whitacre is an Ivy League Ph. D. and the highest - ranked executive of any Fortune 500 company to become a whistleblower in US history, and is responsible for uncovering the ADM price - fixing scandal in the early 1990's
  343. 63rd Inspector General of the Army. Served as Chief of Staff, CENTCOM during OIF and OEF
  344. test pilot
  345. Azellia White (June 3, 1913) was an American aviator who was the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license in Texas
  346. Bill White  (6)
    US WWII Marine vet, born 1915, wounded by a grenade at Iwo Jima. One of the last living workers who built the Hoover Dam in the 1930s
  347. Carol White  (2)
    Director of Correspondence for George HW Bush
  348. Major US Army Ret - Buffalo Soldier during WWII. Author - Give Me My Spirit Back; The Last of the Buffalo Soldier
  349. UK Garter Principal King of Arms, born 1961. Various peerage and royal duties. As senior herald, proclaimed Charles III the new King to the world, and later, the titles of Elizabeth II as her coffin was lowered at her funeral service
  350. Astronaut
  351. OSU end from River Rouge, MI, Played on Ohio State's first National Championship team in 1942. After military service, finished his career with Michigan and became the only player to win national championships with 2 different schools when they won in '48
  352. Cowboy, guano miner, cave explorer, and park ranger for the National Park Service. He is best remembered as the discoverer, early promoter and explorer of what is known today as Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
  353. Jerry White  (4)
    Author/historian - London in the Twentieth Century: A City and its People (2001) and Rothschild Buildings
  354. Joe White  (4)
    Pearl Harbor Veteran, USS Schley
  355. Joshua White  (2)
    Invented trip sceen projection process with a overhead projuector, a clock face, water and oil
  356. Kenneth White  (3)
    Ww2 veteran
  357. Former Army Sgt, to recieved the Congressional Medal of Honor on May 13, 2014, for his actions during a dismounted movement in mountainous terrain in Aranas, Afghanistan, on Nov. 9, 2007
  358. JFK - Assistant Special Counsel to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
  359. Intern assigned to the surgery section of the Emergency Room at Parkland Memorial in '63 , Martin helped to save President Kennedy's life
  360. WWII: USS Balch (DD-363), USS Boston (CA-69), USS Bladen (APA-63). Naval engagements include Marshall-Gilbert and Wake Islands, Midway, Guadalcanal-Tulagi, Eastern Solomons, Marshall Island, Kwajalein, Majuro, Eniwetok, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
  361. test pilot air force general
  362. Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
  363. WWII: One of the last 'Rats of Tobruk'. The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Rommel's Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk
  364. navy admiral businessman
  365. Prosecuted the case against the LAPD officers that beat Rodney King
  366. Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
  367. navy admiral
  368. 1960's activist. 'The Weatherman,' group
  369. Whistleblower
  370. WW2 Dunkirk Veteran (Born:1920) was a medic with the Royal Army Medical Corps and tended the wounded as the troops of the British Expeditionary Force withdrew towards the coast. Now 96 and lives in Laindon, Essex
  371. Born March of 1945. Australian Vietnam Veteran that was with the Australian SAS,7RAR, and 3RAR
  372. 1965 lz-xray
  373. USS Indianapolis Survivor
  374. Tuskegee Airmen (Would have to be 83 years old or older if lied about age & entered at age 16 to become an Airmen)
  375. Deputy Associate Administrator - Common Explorations Systems Directorate (CESD). Artemis Program
  376. WWII: Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. An electrician, Whitney was on break from his job when he saw the last plane fly over the mountain. He worked salvage duty on the electrical portions of various ships for the next month
  377. Tuskegee airmen ww2
  378. American astronaut
  379. Winner of the Largest Powerball Jackpot Ever 300 Million!
  380. WW2 POW forced to work on the bridge at Burma Siam Railroad that was featured in the film 'Bridge Over the River Kwai'
  381. Jim Whittaker  (2)
    An American mountaineer. First American to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1963)
  382. WWII: Battle of Midway pilot
  383. British-American chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 with John B. Goodenough and Akira Yoshino
  384. Lawyer shot by Dick Cheney
  385. 10 year old witness to the 1937 Hindenburg crash. Son of an airstation employee, he was about 100 yards away, so close the paint on his family's car blistered from the heat
  386. WWII/UK: In the rear guard at the Battle of Dunkirk, he was left on the beach and eventually managed to jump on board a Dutch fishing boat back to England. Later as a paratrooper, he was in Operation Market Garden (Battle of Arnhem)
  387. WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers',
  388. Chief NASA engineer of the 'Lunar Laser Ranging Program', the very last Apollo project active since July 21, 1969 and still going on, measuring the distance between earth and moon repeatedly
  389. Spy/Hot wars/cold wars & a few sub-war dust-ups/Served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense, the CIA, and the White House
  390. Was standing at the corner of Cedar Springs Rd. and Harwood St . to watch President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov . 22 , 1963
  391. German pilot
  392. army general
  393. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland
  394. Sri Lankan born Astronomer and Mathematician. He was a student and collaborator of Sir Fred Hoyle and is best known for his work on cosmic dust. He now lives in Cardiff, Wales, UK
  395. One of the last witnesses to the Hindenburg Crash of 1937
  396. 2006 genius award winner
  397. French art historian, living in Paris France, granddaughter of Pablo Picasso
  398. 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
  399. American aerospace researcher
  400. (Born 10 April 1916) was a German chief engineer on a U-boat in World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was born in Kiel.
  401. Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
  402. Canadian astronomer and professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is best known for the discovery of Earth's second moon and the orbits of minor planets in the Solar System
  403. JFK - NBC cameraman riding in Camera Car 1, (10th car in Kennedy's motorcade); as the shots fell, he jumped from the car in front of the TSBD and ran towards the assassination scene while fiming, he himself ending up in many famous photos
  404. One of the news cameramen you see running in Malcolm Couch's film, shot this film as he jumped from one of the camera cars following the limo and ran towards the grassy knoll at the JFK assassination
  405. Archbishop of Warsaw
  406. nobel physics laureate 2001
  407. US Army WWII veteran, born 1919. CCC member, 1938-40, and made an Army supply sargeant thanks to his CCC experience for WWII's Saipan battle
  408. German ww2 pilot JG 11
  409. nobel med. laureate 1995
  410. 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
  411. Born in 1922 in Bloomfield, Nebraska. Served in the US Army during WWII. Fred was assigned to the Station Hospital at Fort Des Moines without going through typical basic training
  412. Lufftwaffe ace 133 victories in wwII
  413. Nobel Prize-winning author, Holocaust survivor, Nobel for Peace - 1986
  414. nobel med. laureate 1981
  415. WWII German Knights Cross Recipient
  416. Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer
  417. WWII: PTO. Battle of Savo Island (USS Vincennes)
  418. whistle blower,told truth about tobacco companies. movie The Insider
  419. WWII: Fighter Ace, 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF
  420. Supercentenarian/Born: 02/09/1898
  421. Lz xray 1965 nam 1st cav
  422. Historian, folklorist, writer & teacher. Developed Foxfire Project, writing project led to magazine & series of best-selling Foxfire books, 12 vols. Based on articles Georgia high school students wrote. 1986 Georgia Teacher of the Year
  423. 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
  424. WWII: Sailor B.C. Wilborn manned an anti-aircraft gun during the attack upon Pearl Harbor; later surviving amultiple Kamikate attack at the USS Columbia on 6 January 1945 when he earned a Purple Heart; Race Horse Owner
  425. Tuskegee Airman
  426. WWII - D-Day, in the first wave at Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division, 115th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, E Company, First Scout of the 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon
  427. Israeli biochemist. He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science
  428. USS Indianapolis survivor
  429. Astronaut
  430. Nobel Laureate Physics
  431. Dennis Bryan Harvey 'Dick' Wildish CB (born 24 December 1914) is a retired vice admiral in the Royal Navy. He was born in Kent and is the son of Rear Admiral Sir Henry William Wildish, who also served in the Royal Navy
  432. Leader of the, 'American Family Association,' and activist
  433. WWII: Torpedo Bomber pilot, Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, USS Yorktown (CV-5), USS Enterprise
  434. Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
  435. British soldier involved in the Bloody Sunday massacre, living with his wife Linda somewhere in rural Belgium
  436. WWII - Fighter Ace, 5 victories. ETO. 309th FS, 31 FG
  437. German U-boat commander (Born: 1914) in the Atlantic during WW2 (Submarine U-704) Lives in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany. Now 103
  438. Retired Secret Service For JFK/Kennedy Detail
  439. NASA/MIT: Electrical Engineer, first at the Polaris Weapon System, then joining the Apollo project very early. Responsible for incorporating system components into the spacecraft as the guidance, navigation, and control on board system
  440. WWII: Served on the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) which sank the Japanese aircraft carrier HIJMS Shinano, on 29 November 1944
  441. Former head of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International in Rwanda. In 1994, he was the only American who chose to remain in the country after the genocide began/Saved about 400 people from Gisimba Orphanage
  442. Graduate of Swarthmore College, retired teacher born 1945 author of Book 'Flying Too Close to the Sun' 1960's radical in USA injured along with Kathy Boudin in the 1970 Greenwich Village w 11 street NYC townhouse Explosion-currently resides in Brooklyn NY
  443. British Computer Scientist. Born: 06/26/1913
  444. WWII: ETO. B-17 co-pilot, 351st Bomb Group. Shot down, Dutch Undeground, POW
  445. nobel med. laureate 1962
  446. JFK - Patrolman with the Dallas Police Department in 1963, Wilkins was involved in the initial search of the TSBD. He was among those who first discovered the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle in the northwest corner of the sixth floor
  447. Roy Wilkins  (3)
    08/30/1901-09/08/1981 American Postage Stamp made from his image/Prominent civil rights activist from the 1930s-1970s. Wilkins' most notable role was his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  448. WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
  449. One of the oldest people in England (Born: 1908) Recently celebrated her 109th birthday. Also one of the last surviving witnesses of Germany's Zeppelin raids in the UK and met King George V. She lives in Hethersett, Norfolk, England
  450. Former U.S. Naval officer, first Commanding Officer of the USS Nautilus
  451. WWII: British pilot of the Battle of Britain, flew with the Duxford Wing (served with inspirational Second World War flying ace Sir Douglas Bader) and joined No 19 Squadron in October 1940 and later joined 234 and 165 Squadrons
  452. WWII: ETO. 745th Squadron, 456 Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. B-24 pilot. Distinguished Flying Cross, European-Asian Eastern Ribbon, Air Medal with 2 Oakleaf Cluster. 51 Combat missions incl, missions to Ploesti
  453. HMS Intrepid crew member during Falkland Islands War, his actions are the base for the play 'San Carlos Hilton'
  454. Vietnam War Veteran birthday December 12, 1957
  455. navy admiral
  456. Physicist, author, and professor
  457. Biographical Information Name: Conrad J. Will State of Birth: PA Home State: NJ Gender Male War or Conflict World War, 1939-1945 Military Status Veteran Dates of Service 1943-1945 Entrance into Service Enlisted Branch of Serv
  458. Served as a guard for Pope John Paul in 1987 Persian Gulf War, 1991 with Army in Saudi Arabia Operation Desert Storm, Operation Desert Shield
  459. US Army WWII vet, born 1917. Served in the 738th Artillery of Patton's Third Army, through France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. Toured Buchenwald concentration camp after its liberation. Career as a dentist
  460. Commander US Pacific Fleet
  461. One of two of Holocaust last living survivors of Nazi death camp Treblinka/Estimated that between 800.000 and 1.2million prisoners were taken to Treblinka/Lives in Israel
  462. Author/Assistant Council Warren Commission
  463. Last surviving veteran of the Second Battle of El Alamein during WW2. He is now 95 and lives in Rotherwick, Hampshire, England
  464. WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
  465. Tryst with Bill Clinton/Author
  466. WWII Veteran; Marine - Tank Driver; Iwo Jima
  467. Member of the 'Clinton 12', where a dozen students became the first to integrate a school in the South in the fall of 1956
  468. Served in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve during WW2 born 3/1/1921
  469. Peace activist, winner of the Peace Nobel Prize 1976
  470. Fighter ace ww2 1/19/1919
  471. Tuskegee Airmen
  472. Clayton 'Claytie' Williams, Jr. (b. 10/8/1931), businessman from Midland, Texas, was unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee 1990 against Democratic State Treasurer Ann Richards even though Williams initially led in opinion polls by 20 points
  473. WW II 27 May 1944 - Missing in Action Shot down by flak in northern France, east of St. Leger.Belly-landed plane in sugar-beet field and evaded capture with the help of the French Resistance. Born: 10/17/1921
  474. Flight astronaut sts-90,118
  475. Canadian Astronaut
  476. Tuskegee Airmen
  477. astronaut
  478. WWII Perl Harbor veteran. B-17 flight member flying over Pearl Harbor by chance during the attack. Shot down by Japanese, landed at Hickam Field. Plane broke apart, shown in an iconic photo of the day
  479. Survivor of the Winecoff hotel fire on December 7, 1946
  480. Born in 1917, historian & conservationist; the daughter of Edith Roosevelt Derby; granddaugther of President Theodore Roosevelt
  481. Tuskegee Airmen, In 1948, Williams was recalled to military service during the Berlin Airlift. President Harry Truman integrated military service in 1949 & Eldridge Williams departed for his first integrated assignment on the island of Okinawa
  482. British ace from WW2
  483. doolittle's radiers crew #15 co-pilot
  484. Congressional Medal of Honor, USMC, WWII
  485. Wwii army sgt
  486. Centenarian (1895-2002). British WWI veteran, last living pilot of the Royal Flying Corps. Bombed German trenches in France, later had his Sopwith Camel shot down over Greece. Second last living pilot to have been in WWI dogfights
  487. medal of honor navy vietnam
  488. army general
  489. Sailor of the United States Navy during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the most highly decorated enlisted man in the history of the United States Navy
  490. STS-101, Soyuz TMA-8 (Expedition 13), Soyuz TMA-16 (Expedition 21/22), Soyuz TMA-20M (Expedition 47/48)
  491. Nobel peace laureate 1997
  492. 'B-25 Tuskegee Airmen' 'Class of 43-J'
  493. Medal Of Honor
  494. Matt Williams  (5)
    Time Team Field Archaeologist
  495. United States Army Master Sergeant-Medal of Honor
  496. USN Admiral
  497. marine corps general
  498. Former Alcatraz Inmate (1915-2001), Author of 'From Alcatraz To The White House', 122. recipient of the President's Volunteer Action Award
  499. Navy Admiral
  500. An intern at Parkland Hospital in '63 , Williams had contact with Jackie Kennedy outside Trauma Room One and two days later assisted in the surgery of Lee Harvey Oswald