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WWII: PTO. USS Laffey ('The Ship That Would Not Die'). D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action in the worst Kamikaze attack in history)
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Retired Navy Admiral
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U.S. Navy Waves 1943-1945
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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Veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad. Resident of Orenburg Oblast
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King of Jordan (1999-present)
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WWII Japan Pilot that bombed Pearl Harbor
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WWII: PTO. Corsair fighter pilot assigned to the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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(born 23 June 1925) is a physicist whose research in the 1960s in the USA on germanium-silicon alloys led to the technology used to power space probes such as the Voyager spacecraft.Served in the Royal Air Force during WWII
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Commander-In-Chief U.S. Central Command
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Became known as 'The Ghost of Bataan' due to the fact that General Douglas McArthur asked him to stay in the Philippines after the raid at Cabanatuan to locate the mass graves of thos who died in the Bataan Death March. Born: 07/31/1913
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Member of the Hitler Youth and Luftwaffe pilot during World War II who converted to Judaism after the war and moved to Israel
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(born August 15, 1924) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Thompson Medical, whose main product is Slim-Fast, a diet program. Also served during WWII
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WW2 Veteran, Founder of Slim-Fast
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A Rosie the Riveteer WWII
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(September 15, 1914 - September 4, 1974) was a general in the United States Army who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968?72 which saw U.S. troop strength in Vietnam fall from a peak of 543,000 to 49,000. He served as Chief of Staff
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army general
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Robert Abrams (2)United States Four Star Army General
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US Navy/Joined in Philippines/Served WW2, Korea & Vietnam/Served Merchant Marines the end of WW2/Philippine by birth
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American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War/WW1 Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Radio operator in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Decorated USMC officer born 1980 -Bronze and Silver Star and Purple Heart . Graduated from Tufts University served in the Obama Administration as a USMC platoon during fighting in Falluja Iraq -author of several best selling fiction and non fiction books
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Ww2 veteran
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army general
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WWII - Europe, Italy. 320th Bomb Group. Distinguished Flying Cross
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USO performer, WW2
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6th Baronet GCVO, CB, DSO, MC & Bar 3/11/1897 in London 4/8/1988) British Army general in WW2 commanded Guards Armoured Division from 9/12/1942 until the end of war. Mentioned in Despatches four times during his military career
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Jonathan Adair (born 27 October 1963), better known as Johnny Adair or Mad Dog Adair, is an Ulster loyalist and the former leader of the 'C Company', 2nd Battalion Shankill Road, West Belfast Brigade of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF)
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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British WWII Veteran, helped liberate Denmark
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co.1/7 cav
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Chris Adams (4)
Author & retired United States Air Force officer/Distinguished Service Medal/Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command 1983 accepted an appointment as Associate Director @Los Alamos National Laboratory/Brazos River Authority Board of Directors -
Colonel in the Medical Corps during World War 2, Korea and Vietnam
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George Adams (4)
WWII Pearl Harbor survivor -
WWII Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel
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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
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Medal of Honor recipent - WWII
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Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group!
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, Germany
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air force general
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WWII - 505th Parachute Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. Four Combat jumps incl. D-Day and Operation Market Garden; also Battle of the Bulge
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navy admiral
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Former Israeli Military General
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WW2/Corporal/7th Armored Division under General Patton/Battle of the Bulge and Battle of Metz/Turns 100 July 20th 2017/Threw out 1st pitch Military Appreciation Night at Busch Stadium baseball game/loyal Cardinal/s fan
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WWII - D-Day, stormed Utah Beach; only officer of his unit to survive Operation Overlord
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Vietnam veteran, will receive the Medal of Honor on Sept 15, 2014
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Retired General - USMC
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German tank ace of WW2
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American mechanical engineer most famous for having taken the only well-exposed color photograph of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945 at the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico. He is now 88
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Highly decorated German officer in World War II. Eckart also was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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Vietnam War U.S. Marine Corps from 1964 to 1967/Has memories of China Beach
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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Maltese WWII veteran. Part of Royal Malta Artillery during the Siege of Malta
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Ww2 101st airborne one of the 4 filthy 13 survivors left alive
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John 'Jack' Agnew, one of the original members of a U.S. Army unit that operated behind enemy lines in World War II and is often credited with having loosely inspired the novel and movie 'The Dirty Dozen,'
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Fighter pilot that escorted Air Force One on September 11, 2001
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
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Lx xray 1965 nam
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Japanese WWII Veteran of Pearl Harbor
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Japanese WWII Veteran Iwo Jima
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Retired General - US Army
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WW II Navy veteran; survivor of the USS Indianapolis disaster
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US WWII veteran, born 1920. 10th Mountain Division, heavy machine gunner in major battles of Apennines Mountains and Po Valley, Italy
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WWII: 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 100th Infantry Battalion. Joined in 1944 and served primarily in Italy until 1946
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(1930-2000) President of Syria from 1971 to 2000. Upon his death he was succeeded by by his son Bashar al-Assad
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WWII - Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Schofield Barracks, 19th Coast Artillery
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WWII veteran, served on the USS Missouri, injured during an April 1945 kamikaze hit on the ship. Witnessed the Japanese Surrender ceremony on the ship several months later
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Philosopher, German WWII Veteran born 8 February 1921
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air force general
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French WWII fighter ace, 23 victories moved to the US after the war
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WWII: Sonarman on the USS Kalk who served in the North Atlantic and Pacific Theaters
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Co-pilot on a B-29 that accompanied the Enola Gay, also the Bockscar's navigator for the Nagasaki bombing, WWII
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WWII: PTO. UMSC. Battle of Tarawa
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air force general
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Former Secretary of the Air Force (1986-1988)
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Spanish fighter ace from WW2
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WWII Pilot - Tuskegee Airmen; B-25 Bomber Pilot (flew the b-25, pt-17, bt-13, and at-10, b-10
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 101st Airborne Division
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air force general
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Former Secretary of the Army (1977-1981)
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Highly decorated combat ace of World War II (born 1912-)
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president azerbaijan army general
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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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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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WWII: A Crew Chief assigned to the 4th Fighter Group, 334th Fighter Squadron in England, he also painted 65 nose art designd on WWII fighter aircraft
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Glenda Allen (2)
Donut Dolly Vietnam War/Served in Vietnam: 07/67 - 11/67 Cu Chi - 25th Inf. Div. Served in Vietnam: 11/67 - 03/68 Cam Rahn Bay - Army Served in Vietnam: 03/68 - 07/68 Lai Khe - 1st Inf. Div. (Returned to Viet Nam and Thailand with USO1971-73) -
Retired US Marine Corps General/Deputy Commander of U.S. Central Command 2014, President Barack Obama appointed General Allen as Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL
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American free jazz saxophone player born 1924. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and EVI. Also served during WWII
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Perry Allen (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Retired General - US Army
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WWII Ace (5 kills) 5th September 1944 - Destroyed 5 aircraft, to become 'An Ace in a Day' - USAAF
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Vietnam Veteran:1st Lieutenant Troop B,1st Squadron,1st Calvary Regiment,Medal of Honor
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air force general
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German Sniper (World War Two)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Raleigh
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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We were soldiers- lz-xray-
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British WWI (World War I) Veteran Born: 06/06/1896
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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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Crew Member/USS Menhaden (SS-377) US Navy Balao-class submarine. Launched 1944, Operated out of Pearl Harbor until 1946 And then decommissioned & re-fitted as remotely controlled, unmanned acoustic test vehicle known as 'Yellow Submarine'
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WWII: PTO. Radar specialist on the USS Monterey (CVL-26); later on the USS Hancock and then USS Intrepid (Battles for the Philippines and Okinawa)
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Last French Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1921)
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One of the nine surviving Spanish Civil War Veterans Born:1919. Joined in 1936. In 2016, declared embassador by Valencia's Government during the October 9th Awards, aka Jose Alumudever Mateu
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US WWII veteran, born 1926, served on the USS Missouri, witnessed the Japanese Surrender ceremony
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Spanish Civil War survivor (Born: 1925) who witnessed the air raid over Gernika in 1937. Also witnessed the the siege of Leningrad in 1941 and 1942. Now 91
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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WWII veteran, b. 1923. Pearl Harbor survivor on the USS California. Later at Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Saw MacArthur return to the Philippines, the flag go up on Iwo Jima, and the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay
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Tuskegee airman
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Retired German general, lives in Bremen, Germany
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Politician, German WWII Veteran
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Received Congressional Medal of Honor 03/18/2014 for his actions in Viet Nam
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WWII: D-Day, Radio Operator, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach ('first jeep out'). Fought also at Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge. Also served in Korea and Vietnam
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Jose Alvarez (2) 'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Spain' Born: 08/04/1919
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1919) Nationalist Army. Served in Barcelona. also a writer. Age: 97. Lives in Spain
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Author and former U.S. Navy officer. Was the first U.S. pilot to be downed and detained during the Vietnam War and spent over 8 years in captivity, making him the second longest-held U.S. POW. Appointed to many roles under Ronald Reagan
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WWII - Operation Overlord; Navy man on LST-133, the first LST to reach the beach on D-Day+1; struck by a mine a few days later while delivering troops and ammunition. Met Queen Elizabeth and President Obama at 70th D-Day anniversary
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JFK - Honor Guard at Kennedy funeral on 25 November 1963; Marines
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peace medal vietnam war
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American WWII - Pilot, USAAC, Member of combat mission 'Yamamoto Mission' in October 1942
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president uganda army field marshal
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Spy/Former Israeli military intelligence major who was convicted of espionage in 1987. Amit is thought to have spied for the United States and a European NATO country, though this has never been confirmed by the Israeli government
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4 Star General Born Nov 12, 1946
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WWII Ace - 5.5 Victories - USAAF
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American veteran (1910-2007), served in the Spanish Civil War's Lincoln Brigade (seriously wounded in March 1937), and the US Army in WWII
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WWII fighter ace (5 kills) flew the f6f-hellcat, f4-u corsair
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Fernando Macarro Castillo (Born: 1920) is a Spanish poet. Released in 1962, was a political prisoner who spent time in the prisons of the Franco dictatorship. Age: 96. Lives in Spain
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 39 victories, living in Japan
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WW2 Iwo Jima Marine (23rd Marines, 4th Marine Division), age 94 in 2020
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WW2 British veteran and prisoner of war, who experienced the horrors of the River Kwai. Born December 1918
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Skiing, gold medal military patrol event with his swiss team, olympics 1948
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WWII: Iwo Jima veteran
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Flying Tiger-crew chief, named Jacobson in 1941-42
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Aleutian Islands, WWII
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World War II Medal of Honor Recipient, WWII.
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WWII - Fighter Ace, USAAF, 17 Kills victories. 8th Air Force, 357th Fighter Group, 363rd Fighter Squadron('The Yoxford Boys'), stationed in UK
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US Army General and Actor
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World War 2 American General ,born 1919
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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army general
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, in the second wave. 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
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WWII: PTO. USS Washington
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Centenarian/WW1 Veteran
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WWII - D-Day. UK Royal Engineers, 591 Para Squadron, 6th British Airborne Division. Dropped in at Pegasus Bridge, wounded after 5 weeks of fighting in Normandy
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James Anderson (8) WWII: PTO. USMC. Battles of Peleliu and Okinawa. Purple Heart, Bronze Star
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James Anderson (9)WWII Ghost Army
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USS Arizona survivor; veteran of Pearl Harbor
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Former Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada
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Marcus Anderson (2)Military air force general
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WWII: D-Day. Landed at Normandy in LST-264
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1st Sergeant C co, 6th Ranger Battalion during the Great Raid WWII
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WWII: Survivor of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4?8 May 1942), a corporal of the Marine Corps Detachment (assigned to Battery 4, Gun 10) aboard the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Wheeler Field,
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Wayne Anderson (3)Lz xray 1965 nam
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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commander of nautlius (1st atomic submarine)
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Sweden´s Only Fighter Ace
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Military fighter ace (357 fg)
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WWII Veteran, Bulge, Africa, Sicily, Normandy
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal; New Guinea; Cape Gloucester, New Britain; Peleliu. Korean War: Inchon, Korea, 'Chosen' Campaign
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French pilot and general born 1922, first Woman to fly a Helicopter in a Combat Zone
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Andy Andrews (3) WWII: ETO. D-Day. Fought from Omaha Beach in Normandy through France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany and into Czechoslovakia at the war's end. 3 Bronze Stars, 3 Purple Hearts
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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WWII: D-Day. 671st Bomb Squadron, 416th Bomb Group, 9th Bomber Command, 9th Air Force - Army Air Corps/Air Force. Flew bombing missions (Douglas A-20 Havoc) on D-Day and beyond
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WW 2 air ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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WWII Veteran, coast to coast run
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WW1 british army hero victorian cross
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British Vice-Admiral
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation. Participated in the retrieval and restitution of stolen Jewish property
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Victoria Cross recipient from New Zealand, received the award for bravery under fire during the Afghanistan conflict in 2004
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WWII: One of the youngest fighter pilots who flew with the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain, and was one of the aircrew known as 'The Few'
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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Israeli historian, author, retired IDF brigadier General & a former Soviet partisan
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Swedispilot born 1918, was shot down and injured by Sovjet, while searching for a missing swedish plane
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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D-Day landings veteran. Born in 1924 and lives in North London, UK. He was a paratrooper in the 7th Battalion Parachute Regiment and fought to take and keep Pegasus Bridge, which was key to the allied advance
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Oldest living George Cross recipient, living in Great Britain
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: Radio operator and gunner of a PBY Catalina seaplane, participated in the battles of Midway, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guam and Guadalcanal. Distinguished Flying Cross (2x)
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Polish photographer and veteran of World War II. He is a veteran of the Luftwaffe and the German Army
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WWII: ETO. Ploesti Raid. 564th Bomb Squadron, 389th Bomb Group
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WWII: Bomber pilot in Europe
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Survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp during WW 2. In famous Buchaewald photo
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Lt. Gen. serving as the Director of Staff of the Office of the Chief of Space Operations of the Space Force. She is the service's first female general officer, the first female Air Force general officer to transfer to the Space Force
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WWII veteran
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Author, motivational speaker and former United States Marine Corps officer who was the first African - American female naval aviator in the Marine Corps and the first African American female combat pilot in the U.S. Armed Forces
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WWII: C Company, 2nd Medical Battalion, 2nd Marine Division. Battle of Tarawa, Battle of Saipan
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Military
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vietnam war marine corps hero
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air force general
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air force general
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5-Star General
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Military
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Steven Arnold (3)Military
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Britsh barrister, fought in WW2 and wrote various books
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WWII: ETO. Technician 5th grade (T/5), gunner/radio operator in an armored vehicle. 76th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop (mechanized), 76th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes-Alsace, Rhineland, Central Europe. Near Chemnitz, Saxony, on VE day
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Spanish ace from WW2
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Royal millitary
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Fort Shafter, Battery E, 64th Coastal Artillery
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Military
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Was trapped inside the USS Oklahoma but eventually rescued
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Oldest Person in Finland/Last World War 1 Veteran of Finland Born: 08/04/1897/(lives in Jarvenpaa, Finland)
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Ascani, a retired Air Force major general, flew an F-86 Sabre jet at 628.698 mph at the National Air Races in Detroit in 1951. He later oversaw development of a supersonic bomber. Fred J. Ascani, a retired Air Force major general and former test pilot at
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, USS Oklahoma. (1922-2013)
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American Peace Corps administrator, including its 1967-69 deputy director, and author of more than 30 books, primarily non-fiction children's literature, which received over 40 awards
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WWII: Navy Veteran of the USS Tisdale (DE-33), 'The Lucky T', of many battles, like Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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navy admiral england
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weaponeer on Bockscar WWII
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WWII: US Navy. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid
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British colonial officer, later associate of Ugandian president Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada, is now living in Wimbledon, London
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Former colonial officer and associate of presidents Obote and Amin in Uganda in the the 1960s and 70s. Born 1924. He currently lives in Wimbledon, London. His nickname is: 'The White Rat'
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US WWII/Vietnam vet, born 1921. Ship sank by mine hit, then wounded at Anzio. Fought through France/Germany. Military career, ended up in the Brinks Hotel bombing in Vietnam Christmas Eve 1964, featured in Life Magazine
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Medal of Honor WWII, for actions on the Villa Verde Trail,Luzon Island, Philippines. He fired over 400 rounds over a period of 4 hours as the only remaining soldier at a position that was being heavily assaulted
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Peleliu
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Canadian WWII Fighter Ace
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Last known surviving contributor to the war effort in Inuit communities during World War II, particularly the drive to collect animal bones and carcasses for the Allied munitions effort
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Aerospace research Test Pilot. Col., USAF, Ret.; Bachelor of Sciene in Chem,, University of Virginia, 1959; Master of Science in Engineering Administration, unsuccessful application NASA astronaut group 3; 1963 as military astronaut - class-3 selected
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US Army WWII veteran, born 1925. Served in the Battle of the Bulge and the Hurtgen Forest, his feet suffering permanent damage from frostbite. Assigned as an MP later in his war service
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Member of French Resistance. WWII
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Member of the French Resistance. WWII. Born: 07/31/1914
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Navy Admiral
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Israeli Ace Fighter Pilot from the Arab-Israli war. Combination of four Egyptian planes in 1948 & two German planes in WW2 makes him a Flying Ace
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: ETO. 445th Bomb Group (Jimym Stewart's group), 703rd Bomb Squadron
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Madame Jacqueline Auriol (November 5, 1917-February 11, 2000) was a French aviatrix who set numerous world speed records. Auriol became one of the first female test pilots after earning her military pilot license in 1950
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Retired French Army Brigadier General, who fought during World War II, the First Indochina War and Algerian War. Is still living in France!
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WWII Flying Ace (5 Victories); 506th Fighter Group - 457th Fighter Squadron; Iwo Jima, Osaka, Tokyo. Called 'The Last Fighter Ace of WWII' Age 97
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US Secretary of Defense, Retired United States Army general, 12th commander of United States Central Command
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BBC Weather
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Solace
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American WWII Fighter Ace (6 Victs.)- USMC - Navy Cross
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Woman Pilot first woman to fly a B-29, in 1944
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Commander Installation Mgmt Command korea
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army general
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British air ace from WW2 with 5 victories
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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marine corps general
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
