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Polish social activist, veteran of World War II, last living member of pre-war National Party
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Fighter ace ww2 born 1/15/1920
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941; USS Arizona
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Iwo Jima
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Lz xray 1965
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Medal of Honor, Korean War, US Marine Corps
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WWII: PTO. Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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Iconic guitarist, who played the themes of 'Bonanza' and 'The Magnificent Seven'. Worked with Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Buddy Holly, Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Barbara Streisand, Frankie Laine, Peggy Lee, Neil Sedaka a.o. Iwo Jima veteran
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WWII: ETo. 89th Division, 3rd Army and the 550th AAA infantry. Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Ohrdruf concentration camp liberation
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, USS Utah!
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia. Navy chief petty officer. Trapped inside the West Virginia and hardly escaped. Also in the Battle of Midway
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WWII: Marine who fought at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Guam. As a boy, he attended the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, met and corresponded with Civil War veterans, and is a sculptor of miniature figures
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Iwo Jima survivor,Navy Cross recipient
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Pearl Harbor survivor - shipyard dispensary
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WWII: D-Day. Company K, 116th Infantry, 29th Division. Landed in the first wave at Omaha Beach; later served across France, like Saint Lo and Brest, then Belgium, Siegfried Line, Germany. Purple Heart, three Bronze Stars, Silver Star
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WWII - Paratrooper of the 101st Airborne (Screamin' Eagles). Combat jump on D-day, when he was wounded, captured by Germans and escaped. Also fought in the Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: ETO. 8th Air Force. Served with Clark Gable
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Adjutant General of Rhode Island, and Commanding General of the Rhode Island National Guard
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John Callahan (3)
WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battle of Okinawa -
WWII Flying Tigers Ground Crew
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII veteran, D-Day landing on Utah Beach
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Senior officer present at the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War
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British pilot and WWII Prisoner of War. Wrote about his time in German captivity called Free as a Running Fox
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navy admiral writer
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US Air Force veteran who served from 1953 to 1957 during the Korean War (Born 1933)
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. Paratrooper of the 1st Bn, HQ Co, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
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French WW1 veteran
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co. 1/7 cav
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Scottish Female First Female Yeoman Warder Of The Tower Of London (Beefeater). Protector Of The Queens Jewels (2007- )
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WWII Manhattan Project
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WWII - D-Day: Served on the HMCS Kitchener, K-225, the only Canadian Corvette to participate in D-Day, escorting the second wave of American infantry which landed at around 11 am on Omaha Beach
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Military
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US Army General
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Doolittle Raiders 'Navigator crew #13'
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Author, decorated U.S. Marine Corps veteran
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WWII: PTO. 29th Marines, 6th Div. 2nd Battalion, Fox Co
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WWII: PTO. Fighter pilot aboard the USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76). Distinguished Flying Cross
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WWII: PTO. Cook on the USS Missouri who took the famous photograph of the USS Missouri about being hit by a Kamikaze on April 11, 194 during the Battle of Okinawa
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air force general
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Army General
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Kim Campbell (2)American Female Pilot Of U.S. Air Force (1997- ) Awarded With 'The Distinguished Flying Cross' For Action In Aerial Combat After Flying A Mission Over Baghdad, Iraq, And 'Defense Superior Service Medal Legion of Merit' (2003)
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Roy Campbell (2) WWII: PTO. Buna, Aitope, New Guinea, Morotai, Leyte. 32nd 'Red Arrow' Division
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Col. Campbell was a Tuskegee Airman
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air force general
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army general
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Col USAF (RET) WWII 6 Victory Ace, 479th fighter group
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Medal of Honor winner. Vietnam
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French general born 1932, last French Commandant of Berlin's French sector
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WWII: D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. G Company, 506th PIR, 101st AB
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St. Lt. 339th Fighter Squadron; Yamamoto Mission April 18th 1943 flew the p-40, p-39, p-38, p-43, p-51, p-80, t-33 and 56 others
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Army General
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WWII: Cano piloted LCVPs off of the USS Zeilin (APA-3), starting with the Battle of Tarawa in November, 1943
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1917) who fought on the Aragon front in 1938 during the conflict. He is now 99
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1929) who fought during the frustrated offensive to retake Mallorca under Nationalist control. He is the younger brother of Alfons Canovas. He is now 87 and lives in Barcelona, Spain
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Lz-xray 1965 vietnam 1/7 cav
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1916) is one the last two living mechanics of Republican fighter aircrafts. He fought with the fourth squadron fixing Russian Polikarpov-15 fighters during the conflict. Now 100
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WWII: ETO. B 24 Liberator radioman and aerial gunner. 35 missions from 6 October 1944 to 10 April 1945. Stationed in Attlebridge, England. 785th Bomb Squadron, 466th Bomb Group
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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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Born Havana, Cuba 3-7-1938/Bay of Pigs Veteran/Cuban Pilot Air Force Captain trained by US, when returned to Cuba arrested for being trained by USA & later participated to fight for US forces in invasion/Flew B-26 hit during invasion
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Malvinas War hero
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Korean War. Vietnam War. USMC
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USN Admiral
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Former Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush; notified President Bush of the 9/11 terrorist attacks while they were visiting the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida
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Major in Household Cavalry who operated on and saved Sefton
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Field Marshall of the Brazilian Army
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British ace from WW2
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WW2 German Tank Ace - Awarded the Knight's Cross
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WWII: PTO. Served on LSM-135 (landing troops and tanks onto the beaches), Leyte operation, also landings at Luzon and Lingayen Gulf. He survived more than a dozen attacks from kamikaze until eventually hit off Okinawa, 25 May 1945
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First USMC Ace during WWII--[18 victories]
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B-24 Liberator Pilot/32 missions w/747 Squadron/456 Bomber Group/Noted Aviation Artist
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JFK - The Old Guard, 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment; led riderless horse 'Black Jack' for fallen president at John F. Kennedy's funeral.
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air force general
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navy admrial
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WWII: US Navy Ace F6 Hellcat VF-40, VF-30, 9 Victories. Bougainville, Rabaul, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Japanese mainland
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air force general
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air force general
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WWII veteran and American painter known for his figurative paintings based on the work of the old masters
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Fighter ace NV-224
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded. Chief engineer who was instrumental in saving the ship
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WWII: PTO. He led one of the two unfortunate groups of B-17s to Pearl Harbor to arrive in the midst of the attack on Dec. 7, 1941. Later piloted the first B-29 to be shot down over Japan. POW
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United States Surgeon General (2002-06)
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US WWII Army vet, born 1916. Supply driver for the 24th Evac Hospital though Europe. Arrived on Omaha Beach 5 days after D-Day
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One of the last living Ritchie Boys
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army general
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WWII: Veteran of the Battles of Tarawa and Okinawa
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ace (WW2)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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2014 Medal of Honor recipient, Afghan war veteran, retired US Marinehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Carpenter
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Retired U.S. Navy - served as Commanding Officer of the USS Anzio (CG-68) and USS John Rodgers (DD-983). Also served as a reactor officer with the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and as XO of the USS Bainbridge (CGN-25)
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navy admiral
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US WWI veteran and 1920s boxing manager for Jimmy Slattery and others, (1894-1996)
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WWII: D-Day. Seabee signalman, 111th Construction Battalion; spent six months building barges for the invasion, then volunteered for duty as a signalman during the invasion
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Lz xray 1965 vietnam
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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WW2 Veteran-Battle Of The Bulge
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WWII veteran, POW and Bataan Death March survivor
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navy admiral
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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WWII: PTO. USMC Fighter Pilot
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Italian WW One Vet
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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WWII: Sergeant, 391st Quartermaster Trucking Company of the 'Red Ball Express', the famous and one of the biggest logistical operations of WWII, using up to 5600 trucks to transport goods across Europe from August 25 to November 16, 1944
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Nick Carter (2)Royal military
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WWII veteran, Pearl Harbor Survivor (Born 1920) on the USS Oklahoma
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Medal of Honor recipient, Afghanistan
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US WWII Marine, born 1919. Took part in Guadalcanal, Saipan, Iwo Jima
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navy admiral
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Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2007-??)
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air force general
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WWII: Pacific, 182nd regiment, fought in five major Pacific campaigns
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WWII: ETO. 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division. He fought in the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns. Guard duty at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, often photographed standing directly behind Goering
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Military
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Later Korea War. USMC
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WW2 Veteran : Code Girl For The United States Navy
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air force general
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air force general
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WW2/U.S. Army with the 238th Combat Engineer Battalion. He landed on Utah Beach on June 6, 1944, and continued throughout Europe until the end of the war
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U.S. Army Chief of Staff
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US Navy chaplain currently assigned to USS John C. Stennis as Command Chaplain. A 6 ft 4 in graduate of The Citadel in South Carolina and of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Rev. Cash nearly became a professional football player. He is the great
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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JFK - USAF Pipe Band; played at various events in the Kennedy presidency, including the visit of the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Sean Lemass in October 1963 (where Cashion met JFK) and the funeral of JFK
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Military
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, Schofield Barracks. Later served in Guadalcanal and New Cadelonia during WWII, retired from the army in 1964
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British WW2 'Dambuster' pilot
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Korean War vet, US Marines, born 1929. Purple Heart for injuries during combat at the Semichon River
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WWII PTO: USMC. Aircraft mechanic for the famous 'Cactus Air Force' at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. After the war, he worked for Rockwell; part of the team that designed the launch umbilical tower for the Saturn V rocket (Apollo 11)
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World war 2 fighter ace-5 kills p-38
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Tennessee, 7 December 1941
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U.S. Army Major who has continued serving on active duty in the Special Forces despite losing his eyesight. Served in Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield. Lost eyesight due to a mortar round landing near where he was deployed
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WWII - Pacific. Fighter Ace (7 victories). Marine Fighting Squadron 221 (VMF-221), USS Bunker Hill. Flex F7F, F4U, F3D SKYNIGHT, F-8, A-4, F4. Claims he flew 56 different types of planes
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WWWI: ETO. D-Day. As a gunner on a small transport vessel Catalano helped transport army soldiers to Normandy on D-Day June 6, 1944
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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D-Day WW2 veteran
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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NYPD officer who used his own experiences to write best-selling thrillers. He joined the NYPD after serving in the United States Marine Corps
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Medal of honor army vietnam war
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WWII: MTO, ETO, PTO. United States Navy. He participated in the landings at Gela, Sicily, Salerno, Italy and at Normandy for the invasion of Europe. Also served in the Pacific at Leyte Gulf and Okinawa
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Navy, LST 681
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WWII: Army Nurse Corps, 3rd General Hospital. Served in Africa, Italy, and France
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US WWII Navy veteran, born 1927. USS Indianapolis Survivor, one of the last 5 living as of 6/21
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Navy Admiral
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U.S.S. Indianapolis Survivor
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Major General Reginald A. Centracchio former Adjutant General of Rhode Island, and Commanding General of the Rhode Island National Guard
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army general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Communications Division, Signal Corps, Schofield Barracks
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WWII: D-Day. 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of the USS Mannert Abele in the Battle of Okinawa
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Captain of the midway during the evacuation of south korea
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'The lone marine' stands and salutes every 'Rolling Thunder' parade since 2001
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor (Scofield Barracks), 27th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. Also fought in the Guadalcanal Campaign and Solomon Islands campaign
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WWII American Fighter - Ace (9 Victs.)- USAAF
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US WWII Army vet, born 1923. Fought Japanese in the Philippines. Surrendering in May 1942, his unit was brutally tortured. He ended up in Yodogawa camp until near war's end. Of only 52 Yodogawa POW survivors, he's now the last living one
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Michael Chandler (4)Military air force thunderbirds
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WWII: British Arctic convoy veteran ('Murmansk Runs')
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Member of the Republic of China Air Force's 'Black Cat' Squadron, which operated U-2 surveillance from 1961-1974
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Navy Admiral
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Iraq US Army veteran who was on active duty from 1999 to 2010. He went in Iraq twice and now is an influencer on Youtube
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US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. 3 campaigns in Vietnam. Wounded and combat and recipient of the Purple Heart
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: USS Killen (DD-593), Battle of Leyte Gulf: Killen provided a critical hit to battleship Yamashiro (flagship of Vice-Admiral Shoji Nishimura) leading to is sinking on Oct. 26, 1944. He also survived a Kamikaze attack on Nov. 1, 1944
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Military ww11 british war hero (victoria cross)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge; Liberation of Dachau; occupation duty in Vienna, Austria. 42nd ?Rainbow? Division
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WWII: PTO. 1885th Aviation Engineer Battalion, Army Corps of Engineers. He also helped to build airfields for B-29 bombers on the Mariana Islands and Ryukyu
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WWII: D-Day. Company D, 5th Ranger Battalion. Pointe du Hoc
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Medal of Honor, US Navy, Korean War
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Author/"Last Man Out"/POW Kwai Chang Japanese POW Camp as told in the story of Bridge on the River Kwai
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: Pacific Theater, Navy, USS Atlanta (CL-51). Survivor of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in which the Atlanta was sunk in the fiercest night battle of the war
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Pearl harbor survivor
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Schley
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WWII: ETO. Recon scout in Cannon Company 303rd Infantry Regiment 97th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Battle of the Ruhr pocket (Siegburg, Solingen. Dusseldorf) in April 1945, end of war in Czechoslovakia
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American stand-up comedian and writer with stage and screen credits in eight countries, and author of the comic memoir The 188th Crybaby Brigade, about his year as a tank soldier in the Israeli Army
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WWII: PTO. Medical Corpsman. Served in the Pacific Theatre aboard the USS Bandera, the USS Herald of the Morning, and the USS Pasadena
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WWII: Greek fighter pilot in the Hellenic Air Force, serving in North Africa, Italy, Yugoslavia. 336th Combat Squadron. One of the pilots who provided air protection to Churchill and FDR to meet with Stalin at the Tehran Conference
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WWII: PTO. 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines. Seen in a famous photo of the Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge. Severely wounded twice. 276th Infantry Reg, 70th Infantry Div. 37 combat missions as a B-29 pilot In Korea. Vietnam: Wrote Air Force history flying the B-52's 1st combat mission on June 18, 1965 (Op. Arc Light)
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WWII. Oldest Pearl Harbor Survivor. Born 1911
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Ernest Cheatham (2) Retired USMC General
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Ships cook aboard the destroyer USS Phelps
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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JFK - Honor Guard Kennedy funeral; Casket Team (pallbearer)
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WWII - D-Day, First Infantry; in the first landing waves
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WWII: Ground mechanic of the 14th US Air Force in the CBI (China-Burma-India) theater
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Chinese Former Female War Correspondent - World War 2. Married to American General Claire Chennault. Hsin Ming Daily Newspaper (1944-1948)
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Author and Soviet WW2 veteran - Battle of Kursk
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Weld inspector on the St. Louis Arch when it was being built and WWII veteran and Purple Heart recipient
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vietnam war air force hero
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U.S. Marine Corps officer, first American who received the British Distinquished Flying Cross since World War II on March 21, 2007. Major of the USMC
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Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire (7 September 1917 ? 31 July 1992) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during the Second World War.Among the honours Cheshire received as a pilot is the Victoria Cross
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Navy seal, born 1944, on the underwater dive team that recovered the Apollo 11 command module
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WWII - Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: Member of the 17th, 101st, and 82nd Airborne Divisions
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WWII veteran, born 1918. One of the few surviving Bataan Death March survivors of 1942
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WWII: USS Drexler survivor; was on the ship when kamikaze attacks led to the sinking of the destroyer on May 28, 1945
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Army General
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Cassin). Torpedo Squadron 3 (USS Yorktown) in Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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Retired Navy Admiral
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4-star General in the USAF who was also a NASA astronaut
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Iraq War Veteran, pictured in famous photo holding the American Flag over the face of a Saddam Hussein statue
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Chinese American Female Former Nurse - U.S. Army Veteran World War 2 (1944 to 1946)
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WWII: ETO. D - Day. 5th Ranger Batallion (Rangers, lead the way)
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WWII - Nurse during the siege of Bastogne. She and fellow nurse Renee Lemaire (who died Dec. 24, 1944) treated injured soldiers during Battle of the Bulge. Shortly portrayed as 'Anna' in 'Band of Brothers'. Honorary Member 101st Airborne
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Submarine base
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Marine corps iraq war hero
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JFK - Honor Guard Kennedy funeral (Army)
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English Former Female Women's Royal Naval Service WWII. Worked At Code Cracking Centre Bletchley Park On The Worlds First Electronic Computer - Colossus
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Chinese Air Force WWII veteran, born 1920. Notoriety as a centenarian fitness buff
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UK WWI Navy vet (1901-2011). Last male veteran of WWI, and the last to see action. Moved to Australia, and served in their Navy in WWII. So also the last vet to serve in both wars. Death left Florence Green as the very last WWI vet
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Last surviving revolutionary of the Chittagong armoury raid. The raid was an attempt on April 18, 1930 to raid the armoury of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armoury in Bengal, British India. He lives in Chittagong, India and is now 102
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WWII Pilot Ace- Part of the famous ''Zemke's Wolfpack''--[21 victories]
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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danish WW2 fighter ace
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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Former ranger
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American Female Red Cross Donut Dolly. Vietnam War. She Said; 'Whenever Anybody Was Going Back Home They'd Play Leaving On A Jet Plane'. They Listened To Soldiers. Played Games And Records At The Base Rec Centres. Their Job Was To Lift The Guys Spirits
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4th Baronet GBE CB DSO MC 1893-1993, British commander WW2. Sept, 1945 Christison deputised for Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten as commander of SEAC and took the surrender of the Japanese 7th Area Army & Japan's South Sea Fleet at Singapore
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German World War One survivor
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WWII: Christopher flew 49 missions (in the PBM-5 Seaplane in the Pacific Theatre (Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa) from 1944 to 1945. VPB-27 Squadron, plane 'Dina Might' (Crew E-2)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Company B, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Division, Schofield Barracks
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Uzbekistan Male Jewish Soviet WWII Veteran - Order of the Patriotic War (1st and 2nd Class), Order of the Red Star and Victory over Germany In The Great Patriotic War
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WWII veteran
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Last Royal Navy veteran of Dunkirk
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(Born 1925) US Army D-Day WW2 Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps fighter pilot
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Retired General
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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WWII: ETO. 350th Bomb Sqdn, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Pilot of B-17 #42-3413 'Hard Luck'. POW
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DT1, USMM & USN Merchant Marine delivered supplies and ammunition at Iwo Jima, Midway and Guadalcanal Witnessed the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, 29th Infantry Division, in the fourth wave at Omaha Beach; also Battle of St. Lo (July 9-24, 1944)
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Guinea, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Okinawa
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Romanian Male WWII Veteran. Born 1913 - Age As Of February 13, 2023: 109 years, 261 days
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville on Dec. 24, 1944
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WWII: PTO. He was the man who prepared the table for the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS MIssouri
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WWII: Veteran of the Battle of Tarawa
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Was a member of the French Maquis in WW2
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Currently serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
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WWII: ETO. Bomber pilot 786th squadron, of the 466th bomber group in the Eighth Air Force under Colonel James A. (Jimmy) Stewart
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD 4).
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WW2 Navy Gunner-Omaha Beach
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Retired Lt. Gen. US Air Force, Director of Nat. Intelligence. Served director of Defense Intel Agency from 92-95. 1st Director Defense Intel within Office of Director of National Intelligence & Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
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WWII: PTO. 25th Infantry Division. Col. Clark was awarded the Silver Star medal for gallantry in action at Guadalcanal. He later was wounded on Aug. 5, 1943, on New Georgia Island, and again in the Korean War. 2 Purple Hearts
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Carl Clark, a veteran whose actions of wartime heroism deserved a medal for heroism but was denied the recognition for more than 60 years because he was African American. He was born in 1916
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Pallbearer JFK funeral, US Navy
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WWII veteran, B-17 bomber pilot, born 1923. Professor Emeritus, U of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering. Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame
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WW2/WASP Women Air Force Service Pilots/Class 44-1/Author Dear Mother & Daddy: WW2 Letters Home from a WASP/After training, stationed Las Vegas Army Air Base/Flew PT-19, BT-13, AT-11, AT-6, P-39, P-63 fighter & copilot B-17 & B-26 bombers
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Army General
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WWII: PTO. US Navy veteran. USS Balch (DD 363). Battle of Midway
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Member of the Band of Brothers, 506th Easy Company WWII
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WWII: Douglas Dauntless SBD gunner in VMSB-341 Squadron in the PAcific
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WWII - Pacific; Fighter Ace (VBF-17), 6 victories
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Admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
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Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander; Candidate for President in 2004
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WWII: Arctic Convoy veteran (Convoy PQ-18); later served in the Far East on HMS Braganza
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Born. July 23, 1962, 4 Star General
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medal of honor marines vietnam war
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Retired German general
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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American Army General born 1897.Military Governor of West Germany following WW2.Member of the'Judgment at Nuernberg'(1948).
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WWII: Witness of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII, Warrant Officer, flew Spitfires with 607 Squadron
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WWII: Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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British colonial administrator and soldier in World War 2, full name is Warren Frederick Martin Clemens
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Women Air force Service Pilot
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Canadian WW1 vet. One of the last 3 living Canadian vets at his death
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Retired Navy Admiral
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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US fortieth and last Fighter Jet Ace of the Korean War. Flew F-80s, F-84s, F-86s, F-100s, F-101s, F-4s and F-111s
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Retired American Air Force lieutenant general and flying ace, born November 13, 1927. Was commander of the Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. As of October 2019, only living American fighter ace of the Korean War
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: ETO. Company C, 3103rd Signal Service Battalion
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WWII pilot - Battle of Britain
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Navy Admiral
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Air Force General
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Navy yard
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Member of the Flying Tigers (AVG) WWII
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; US Army 19th Infantry, 24th & 25th Division, Schofield Barracks. Later in the war, he was sent to the Philippines.
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WWII: British Malta Convoy veteran
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII Fighter Ace (9.33 Victs)- US Navy - Navy Cross
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma, born 1920
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Retired General
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WWII: ETO. 2679th HQ Co, Psychological Warfare Branch (a precursor to the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency), Allied Force HQ Italy. In service since June 1941. Eyewitness to Mussolini's Death
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Irish'
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Worked at Bletchley Park during WWII as a code breaker
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WWII - Pilot of Carrier Air Group 11 (Bombing Squadron VB-11), flew the SBD Dauntless dive bomber
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WWII: 82nd Airborne in Europe, parachuting in over the Rhine River, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and receiving the Bronze Star
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Guadalcanal veteran
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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world war 2 air ace
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WWII - Pilot of the famous Sundowners squadron (VF-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater
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Professional Speaker/1966, while flying combat missions over N. Vietnam, Captain Gerald Coffees reconnaissance jet was downed by enemy fire. He parachuted but was captured immediately & spent the next 7 years as a Prisoner of War in the Hanio Hilton
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World War One Veteran. Lives in Ohio.
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WWII: ETO. B-24 Liberator pilot. Distinguished Flying Cross
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British-Argentine WWII veteran. Joined the RAF during the War
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII: WWII Fighter pilot who was in the crew that flew the last combat mission of the European Theater
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Landed on Omaha Beach with the 1st wave on D-Day, June 6th 1944
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Mary Cohen was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 23, 1923. WWII - WAC (Women's Air Corps); 'Rosie The Riveter'; repaired battle-worn B-29s in Tucson, later recruited young men for the Army
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WWII: Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned in Auschwitz at age 12 and credits her survival to being on Schindler's list
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WWII: ETO. Holocaust survivor, Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland, guard for subsequent Nuremberg Trials. 87th Infantry Division
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US WWII veteran, born 1919. Part of the campaigns in Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, and St Lo. Served under Patton and Eisenhower, eventually serving as an aide under Eisenhower
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Congressional Medal of Honor
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WWII: D-Day. Utah Beach. 90th Infantry Division. Was in 5 major battles, including the Battle of the Falaise Pocket. In Czechoslovakia at the end of the war
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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WW2 Marine Corp 4th Signal Company H&S Battalion 4th Marine Division joined in 1942 and would go on to fight in Iwo Jima (B: August 15, 1924)
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WWII: ETO. 729th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. B-17 pilot. 30 combat missions. Met then-16year-old actress Jean Simmons while in London
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Jimmy Doolittle's copilot in the first bomber to launch from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet on the famous Tokyo Raid/Doolittle Raiders
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WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942. Also aboard for the Doolittle Raid and the Battle of Midway (May 1942)
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Irish'
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Ken Coleman (2)From Brooklyn, NY, he played center and end for the first OSU National Championship team. As with most of his teammates, his Buckeye career was disrupted by military service during WWII. He was awarded 3 Purple Hearts & 14 Battle Ribbons!
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WWII - D-Day. British veteran who landed at Gold Beach on D-Day; also fought in Sicily and Italy
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Fighter ace ww2 born 12/1/1921
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WWII Fighter pilot. Flew P-47s and P-51s. 4-kills, including a German ME 262 jet fighter on 31 March 1945. 78th Fighter Group, ETO
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WWII - US paratrooper on D-Day who became a POW during Operation Overlord and as a POW, survived the fire bombing of Dresden
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World war 2 fighter ace navy
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Bagley (DD-386). He broke open the 50 caliber forward port ready service locker, opened fire and hit the first two Japanese Torpedo Bombers. Also in the Battle of the Coral Sea
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Zane
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air force general
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navy admiral
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WWII - British Spitfire Ace of Squadron 403
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Technical Sergeant in Vietnam and Korean War
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coast gaurd admiral
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American WWII Fighter Ace (6 Victs.)- USAAF
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US WWI veteran, served in the US Army in France. (1898-2002)
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'One of few Nurses to Tuskegee Airmen' 'Received Gold Medal from President Bush with Tuskegee Airmen'
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Admiral in Spanish navy.Decendent of The Christopher Columbus
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo jima
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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101st Airborne, Easy Company Band of Brothers - WWII
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WWII - Mine Platoon of the Anti-Tank Company, 69th Infantry Division, 271st Regiment. First combat at the 'Siegfried Line' in February 1945; crossed the Rhine on March 27, 1945; arrived at the KZ Buchenwald one day after its liberation
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WWII - Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941; Kaneohe Bay NAS
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WW2-Ploesti Raid
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101st Airborne Band of Brothers in WW2 // Lead Prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. // California Appeals Court Judge
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P-47 Thunderbolt Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of the 56th Fighter Group
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WW2 US marine corp fighter pilot ace 6 victories VMF-215
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Retired General
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Army General
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WW2 Flying Ace - USAAF - 12 Kills - DSC
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US Army Vietnam Veteran. 9th Infantry Division. Served from 1969 to 1970. Purple Heart recipient
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WWII: 362nd Fighter Squadron, 357th Fighter Group, 8th AF. 71 missions, 270 combat hours, 1 victory
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Born 1950, was a specialist 5 in CMEC and MACV during his time in the Vietnam War which he served from 1969 to 1972
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WWII - US Army; aided in the defence of Bataan, Luzon Island, Philippines; after the US surrender on April 9, 1941, he evaded capture and organized a guerrilla force in the mountains west of Clark Field; subject of the book "Resolve"
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Purple Heart. 96th Infantry Division
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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(January 12, 1919 - July 27, 1994) was a sergeant in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor after leading a platoon of 36 men attached to the 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division against German positions, defended by snipers and ma
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Navy Admiral
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WWII, Pearl Harbor Survivor
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WWII: ETO. B-24 navigator in the 445th Bomber Group
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vietnam war air force hero
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As a Marine officer, Justin volunteered for deployment to Iraq in 2006, and served as a Civil Affairs Team Leader while attached to an infantry battalion. While on a routine combat patrol, Justin was shot in the head by a sniper. Although the original pro
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USAAF, 450th Bomb Group, 15th AF European Theater
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WWII: D-Day. USS Thompson (joined Task Group 124.7, Convoy O-1, bound for Omaha Beach), Conte was firing at German positions at Omaha Beach, including supporting the Rangers on Pointe-du-Hoc
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Born 1921 Pearl Harbor survivor who was on the USS Arizona during the Attacks
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Commandant, United States Marine Corps
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C-47 pilot that dropped paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division off Normandy (Utah Beach) on D-Day, June 6th 1944
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Centenarian, US WWI vet (1895-2005). Wounded in France, at Argonne
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1923. He is now 91 and lives in Chester, UK. He was a former lieutenant with the 12th Yorkshire Parachute Battalion
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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air force general
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WWII: D-Day. A Screaming Eagle paratropper of A Company, 506th PIR
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; USS Arizona
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WWII: One of the last living Chaplain's Assistant, served in Europe at the Battle of the Bulge
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UK WWII D - Day veteran, born 1925. 7th Battalion The Green Howards, first wave on Gold Beach 6/6/44
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U.S. Army; Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in World War II (France, Oct. 1944) born August 4, 1921
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Jack Coombe (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Left the mess hall to the sight of planes overhead. Injured during the Battle of Midway
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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'Brigadier General'
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US Marine, WWII, born 1920. Saw action in Okinawa
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marine corps general
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Pilot
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Tuskegee Airman; class of 44-H-SE, graduated 9/8/44
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navy admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tern (AM-31)
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Gary Cooper (4)Australian Vietnam War Veteran , flight-lieutenant
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Wwii: pto. uss helena
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John Cooper (5)Retired Lieutenant General with Royal millitary
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Director/actor/writer 'Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story' 'Random Passage'/4 years Naval officer in WW2. Landing craft officer-Boat Group Commander for my ship-landing assault troops on the beaches of six Japanese island strongholds
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Wren at Bletchley Park
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USMC General
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marine corps general
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Received Congregational Medal of Honor 3/18/2014 for his actions in the Viet Nam War
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Fighter ace (six-kill)
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Parzival Copes, OC (born 22 January 1924) is a Canadian economist with a particular interest in regional science and specialization in fisheries economics and management
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WWII Rosie the Riveter, born 1923. One of 17 siblings, sent by her father to aid the war effort by working at the Curtiss-Wright aviation company in Buffalo, NY. Was a 'bucker', a final step in the riveting process
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British General born 1940, last Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin
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WWII Pilot, last of the 10 Fighter Boys
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WW2 OSS Officer/Technical adviser to the film 'OSS' (1946)/He was trained at the famous 'Camp X' in Canada/As a spy he once lived with an Italian family just 450 yards from a German base
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in the UK. He was a torpedo man and drove one of the two cranes on HMS Belfast
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Commander of British Forces in the first Gulf War 1990-91
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WWII: D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, Germany. 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles), 3rd Bat, 502nd PIR
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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WWII: PTO. Turret Gunner on the Avenger. Carrier Air Group 11. He flew combat missions at Guadalcanal and the USS Hornet (CV-12)
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Member of the famed ''Black Sheep Squadron''-VMF-214
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French resistance fighter during WWII Lives in retirement community in Loir-et-Cher France
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Retired BGEN, USAF. As a Major, she was captured and held as an Iraq War POW (1991)
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KCB, CBE, DSO, MC 5/27/1887-1985) British Army officer & linguist. Lieutenant-General in charge of air defense of Great Britain. 1940 he went to France to help evacuate British troops from Cherbourg, boarding the last ship to leave port
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WWII: PTO, US Navy, USS Auburn: Was at Iwo Jima
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Italian ww2 bomber pi,lot
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WWII: 59th Coast Artillery Regiment. Escaped the infamous Bataan Death March by swimming, only to be captured again at Corregidor, Fort Mills, in the Philippines on May 6, 1942. POW at Camp Omori, Tokyo Bay
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WWII: PTO. Navy corpsman in the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa
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US WWII Army vet, born 1926. Tank commander, Patton's 773rd Tank Destroyer Batt. On furlough, passed over to see Nuremburg Trial, as only an NCO. But Russian scientist showed him the evidence room, was his guest for 3 days of the Trials
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WWII: D-Day (Omaha Beach), Battle of St. Lo. 29th Infantry Division, 116th IR
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Retired General
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Navy Combat Demolition Unit on Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach
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WWII: He served with the First Marine Division in the Guadalcanal Campaign and was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in an enemy ambush during a jungle patrol following the Battle of Edson's Ridge
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USN Admiral
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Australian Military
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World War One
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WWII: D-Day. H Company, 502nd PIR,101st Airborne
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WWII Marine, Author of The Brig Rat
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Navy SEAL, Vietnam hero, author
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JFK - Honor Guard. Was positioned at the steps of the Capitol when President Kennedy's body was transferred to the Capitol. His spot was on the left, the 7th guard counted from the bottom of the steps upwards
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WWII - British D-Day veteran who landed at Sword Beach and saw heavy fighting at Caen
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German-born, American physicist (1924- ). Built circuits for the Manhattan Project. One of the few surviving witnesses of the Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion
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USS Downes
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navy admiral england
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Australian WW2 veteran born January 1, 1913
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Vice Admiral (VADM) Michael L. Cowan, US Navy (USN) Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy (2001-2004)
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Was Winston Churchill's Head of Security at Chequers (British Prime Minister's country estate) during WW2, lives in Australia
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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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WWII Veteran SPAR, Women's Coast Guard
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navy admiral
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British war hero born in 1919, received the Distinguished Conduct Medal in WW2
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WWII: USMC. Guadalcanal
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WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
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British air ace from WW2 with 8 victories
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US Marine aviator, born 1936. Served as the recovery helicopter co-pilot for some early NASA Mercury flights, including first US man in space Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Ham the Chimp before the manned missions. Served in Vietnam also
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WWII: D-Day. Medic landing in the first wave with the 116th Reg 29 ID at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944; hit by a mortar at 12:30 PM
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James Cox (2)LCDR - US NAVY Blue Angels
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John Cox (3) WWII: Burma (flew parachute troopers and supplies into Burma). Bangladesh (Support of Claire Lee Chennault, The Flying Tigers). 27th Troop Carrier Squadron
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WWII - British D-Day veteran (tank gunner) who landed at Gold Beach
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Cape Gloucester, 1943. Purple Heart
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Retired colonel
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Worked as an usher for the Pittsburgh Pirates till he was 99 years old. Also is a WWII Veteran
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Former United States Army general. His last military assignment was as Commander, United States European Command and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe from December 2006 to June 30, 2009
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Supreme Allied Commander Europe
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. PH Naval Base - 1010 Dock
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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David Craig (5) WWII: Merchant seaman in the 'Murmansk runs' of World War II
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air force marshal england
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII: Marine Corps pilot in the Pacific; personal pilot of General Roy Geiger
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WWII: PTO. Fighter Ace, 13 victories, 120 missions. Battle of Guadalcanal. Later served in Korean and Vietnam war
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U.S. Army Medal Of Honor recipient (November 1965, Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam). Born 1933
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World War II veteran and one of few living children of Civil War veterans. His father, James Crane, was a Confederate soldier
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US WWII Navy veteran, born 1925. USS Indianapolis, one of the last 5 living as of 6/21
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Maryland
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WW2 fighter ace - 5 Kills - USAAF
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WWII - Captain in the Navy's Chaplain Corps; served with Marine Corps units in high-casualty combat operations during WWII and the Korean War; saw flag-raising at Iwo Jima; pictured in well-known photo of baptizing a soldier at Iwo Jima
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Midway. USS Yorktown
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WWII - US Navy, USS Saratoga. On board during the Battle of Iwo Jima when the 'Sara' was hit by 4 Kamikazes and 3 bombs, he and his crew worked to keep the Saratoga fueled and afloat
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Marine Survivor Pearl Harbor USS Arizona WWII
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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Vice Commandant USCG
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World War 2 pilot, Y29 Raid participant, born March 16, 1924
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air force general
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WWII: 507 PIR, 82nd Airborne (All Americans). D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Bronze Star. A bridge at Chef-du-Pont in Normandy, where he led a successful assault on the German troops, bears his name. Bronze Star, Purple Heart,
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Korean war ace - USAF - 5 Kills
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(1927-1997) Born Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, Tex., 2/26/1927, Served U.S. Navy World War II; lawyer; member of Texas state senate, 1961-81. Died April 28, 1997 Interment at Woodland Park Cemetery, Mineral Wells, Texas
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Member of french resistance WWII
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WWII Assistant Chaplain (born 1922), served at Okinawa. In 2018, gave the daily invocation for the US House of Representatives. Billed then as the last living WWII Assistant Chaplain, though at least two others were also alive then
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Oklahoma
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(March 8, 1923 - September 25, 1999) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration?the Medal of Honor?for his actions at the Battle of Buchhof and Stein am Kocher in World War II
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WWII - Air Force, Pacific Theater. Crew member of B-29 'Little Gem' who flew notably succesful missions on the Japanese mainland. Berlin Airlift after the war
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marine corps general
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Tuskegee Airmen, WWII
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air force 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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Vietnam War Fighter Pilot
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WWII Veteran, flew with the PBM Mariners
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Last US WWI aviator (1893-2003). Trained as a Signal Corps pilot, got his wings in Oct 1918. War over before sent overseas. Played football in 1918 Thanksgiving game against Army team, considered first early Air Force/Army game
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Navigator 100th Bomb Group - author, A Wing And A Prayer
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WWII Fighter Ace (5.25 Victs) - US Navy - Navy Cross, flew the hellcat, skyraider, f8f bearcat, iwo jima, okinawa
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U.S. Air Force brigadier general (Ret.)& author 'Around the World with LBJ: My Wild Ride As Air Force One Pilot', White House Aide, & Personal Confidant/Military aide & chief Air Force One pilot under President Lyndon B. Johnson
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1927. He is now 87 and lives in Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK. He worked as a fuse-setter aboard HMS Belfast
