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WWII PTO: HMAS Australia. Veteran of the First Battle of Savo Island (August 8-9, 1942), when the Allied forces werew crushingly defeated
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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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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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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 Luftwffe pilot during World War II who converted to Judaism after the war
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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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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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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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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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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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Italian World War One Veteran.
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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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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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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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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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(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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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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Perry Allen (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Retired General - US Army
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William Allen (4) WWII Fighter Pilot 55th FG - Ace in a day Sept. 5th 1944
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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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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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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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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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POW Vietnam War
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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WWII - Ploesti Raid
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Retired Air Force General
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Centenarian - Canadian WWI Veteran. Born 07/23/1900
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/December 67 - October 68 (Saigon) Assistant Director: July 69 - July 70
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Military
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Helicopter Pilot/Vietnam War/Made five trips to the enemy territory, rescuing 126 troops
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WWII: Navy veteran who served on the USS Saratoga, Enterprise, Lexington
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Born in 1925, Bach is a Psychologist & WWII Veteran who served in the European Theatre of Operations during WW2. He later joined the Research Center For Mental Health at New York University in 1956. He was awarded the Heinz Hartmann award for his research
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WWII - B-24 Pilot who flew 35 missions ion Europe
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navy admiral
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Major General, US Army
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Retired German general
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medal of honor army vietnam
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navy admiral
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British ace from WW2
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Widow of WWII hero Douglas Bader
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WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941. Navy petty officer 3rd class, aviation mechanic with Patrol Squadron 22.
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army general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island, VP-22
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Lz xray 1965 b co. 1/7 cav
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, a.o. Survived the Kamikaze attack on the USS Bennett. Purple Heart
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Retired Admiral born 1924
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Retired General - US Army
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII - Paratrooper of H Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: USS Laffey. D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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USS Pueblo
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WWII - WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII: ETO, navigator of B-17 Chow-Hound (Serial # 42-31367), 91st Bomb Group, 322nd Squadron
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oglala
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Whitney (AD-4)
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Air force general - Retired 2002
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African-American female WWII vet, born 1918. Served in the WACs
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Pearl Harbor survivor of Ft. Shafter, and one of the few Civilian Conservation Corps survivors, serving 1939-41 in Washington State
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Originally stationed aboard the U.S.S. Schley and at the time of the attack was on the Naval Air Station
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Battan death march survivor ww2
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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WWII: British D-Day veteran of the 12th Yorkshire Parachute Regiment
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WW 2 air ace - 6 Kills - USMC - Navy Cross
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks. 'A' Company, 804th Aviation Engineers
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Military
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medal of honor US army, Vietnam War
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air force general
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Norman Baker (2) WWII - Iwo Jima. Seabee with the 4th Marine Division, built Motoyama No. 2 airfield
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Canadian World War II veteran and academic administrator (U of PEI)
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One of the pilots who took part in the mission during WWII to shoot down Admiral Yamamoto's aircraft
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Liberator of the Dachau concentration camp at the end of World War II
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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WWII: Bataan Death March (9 April 1942)
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WWII: ETO. 350th Bomb Sqdn, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Radio Operator/Gunner of B-17 #42-3413 'Hard Luck'. POW
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Italian WWII pilot and ace, finnishing the war with five victories, born 26. December 1919
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII pilot (Hell's Angels)
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navy admiral
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Korean war ace - 5 Kills - USAF
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William Ball (2)Military
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medal of honor, navy, vietnam war
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German ww2 pilot
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Navy Admiral
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A Russian political and military figure, Yury Nikolaevich Baluevsky is the Deputy Secretary of Russia's Security Council, the First Deputy Defense Minister, an army general, and a former head of Russia's General Staff
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WWII pilot - Battle of Britain
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Since 2006, is the First Sea Lord of the United Kingdom, the most senior serving officer in the Royal Navy
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ww 11 army hero
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WWII - Fighter Ace USAAF, 5 victories (3 on Jan. 14, 1945); 8th Air Force, 357th Fighter Group, 354th Fighter Squadron. 'The Yoxford Boys', stationed in England
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WWII fighter ace - 10 Kills - USAAF - DSC
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WWII Veteran, D-Day Veteran, Fox Company
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Retired General
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Canadian WWII Fighter Ace - R.C.A.F.'s top night fighter and the second highest scoring Canadian fighter pilot of WWII; also a 'V1 Ace'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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WWII: Rose The Riveter
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation. 66th Infrantry Division; witness of the sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville on 24 Dec 1944 (torpedoed by a German U-boat; 763 soldiers died). Served as a Monuments Men after V-E-day in Austria
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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WWII Ace--[5 victories]- Was one of the Pilots who shot down Japanese Admiral Yamamoto's airplane during WWII
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WWII: ETO/MTO. 451st Bomb Group, 724th Squadron, 15th AF. His plane was hit by a German 88 on Oct. 13, 1944, while over Vienna, Austria, and had to bail out. He became a POW, eventually held at Stalag Luft #7A near Moosburg, Germany,
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US Marine Corp, Medal of Honor Recipient Korea
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Bataan Death March Survivor
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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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British pilot in WW2
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient - WWII
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Paratrooper involved in 'Operation Dragoon' during WW2. born on 09/01/1924
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Former General in the Canadian Forces, Military Advisor to the UN Sec. General & head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations from 1992 to 1997, & Chief of the Defence Staff in Canada from 1997 t
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British ace from WW2, 11 victories, Battle of Britain
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WWII: US Navy. USS Hornet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid, Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands); survived the sinking of the Hornet in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942
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P-47 and P-51 Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of the 325th Fighter Group
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Highly decorated German tank ace of WW2
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Cassandra)
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US WWII D-Day veteran, born 1926. Knocked out by an explosion, spent the first night filled with shrapnel and wracked in pain until he was picked up the next afternoon. Later served in the Philippines
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Ben Barnes (2) WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran; later served on the HMS Glasgow on D-Day, in the Battle of Cherbourg and beyond
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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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507th p i r - ww 2
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Assistant weaponeer on Bockscar during Nagasaki mission
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WWII Pilot Ace-5, USAAF
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WWII: USS Enterprise (CV-6)
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American Writer And Commentator. Former Army Kiowa Helicopter pilot. Iraq & Afghanistan Veteran
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Flew in hundreds of combat helicopter missions in Vietnam during the 1960s. Honored with war medals for helping to extract dozens of wounded Americans from fields and jungles/1st Cavalry Division, 15th Medical Battalion Medevac platoon
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U.S. Coast Guard Honor Guard for JFK Death; in the Casket Team (Kennedy pallbearer)
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medal of honor, marines vietnam
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Bolivia' Born: 1921
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Australian WWII Ace 12 v
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coast guard admiral
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marine corps general
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co 1/7 cav
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII - Hitler's Nazi poster boy for propaganda in the late 1930s. Chosen at the age of four, his face appeared on postcards, books and campaigns for Nazi Germany
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Australian WWII ace
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WWII: Manhattan Project
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. He flew on Hurricane's throughout the Battle of Britain. He now lives in Western Australia
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Schley
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WWII: Pacific. Air Force pilot. Battle of Okinawa. Saw the Yamato sink
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CIA operative gathered on-the-ground intelligence on Cuba's military defenses in preparation for Bay of Pigs invasion. After JFK abandoned invading troops on beach at Playa Girón, Basulto says, he abandoned the CIA operatives on the island
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WWII. ETO. Pilot, 63 Fighter Squadron, 56 Fighter Group
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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Enigma code breaker of WWII, along with future wife, Mavis Batey
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Enigma code breaker of WWII
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navy admiral england
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Retired USMC General
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WWII: Witness of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII: British D-Day (Gold Beach) veteran. Royal Engineers. Spent much of the first few days of the landings lying on his stomach defusing mines
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Pearl Harbor Survivor
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Tuskegee Airmen ww2
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Served aboard the USS Patterson as a chief gunners mate
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WWII - D-Day. 116th Infantry, Dog Green Sector, Omaha Beach. Author
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August 27, 1918- March 20, 2008) was an American aviatrix who became the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Force jet aircraft as a test pilot during WWII as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots program/WASP
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WASP/First American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War II
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WWII PTO: Marine Raider of 'Carlson?s Raiders'. Makin Island Raid (17?18 August 1942), Guadalcanal Campaign
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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WWII: D-Day. Ranger. Pointe du Hoc
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WWII: CBI theater, C?109 pilot, 80 'Hump' round?trips
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WWII: British soldier evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940, later served in North Africa (notably El Alamein) and Italy campaign
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Canadian Victoria Cross receiver from WW2
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Retired General - USAF
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ww11 navy hero author (run silent run deep)
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WWII: PTO. USMC. 'Buffalo' amphibious vehicle driver, in the 3rd Marine Division
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Retired British General, who served in WW2 and saw active service in France 1944 and in Java 1946
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, serving on USS Hull. Later fought in the battles of Bourgainville, Salamua-Lea, Guadalcanal, Wake Island, Attu-Kiska, Wake Island again, and Tarawa. Born July 6, 1921
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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WWII - 1st Marine Division Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: D-Day. 101st Airborne (Screaming Eagles), 501st PIR , D-Day Pathfinder, Battle of Carentan, Battle of the Bulge. Became a POW and escaped
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Retired USMC General
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: Arctic convoy veteran (HMS La Malouine) in 3 convoys including the ill-fated PQ-17 in July 1942
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On D-Day, June 6, 1944, 73,000 American forces descended on the beaches of Normandy. Bearden was a 21-year-old sergeant in the Army's 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Wrote; 'To D-Day and Back'
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British WW2 pilot, 'Battle of Britain'
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Noted Civil War and World War II Historian. WWII Marine, 3rd Raider Battalion (Battle of Guadalcanal), Chief historian for the National Park Service 1981 - 1994
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WW II Nurse, 1st Lt., aka Jean Crooks
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: D-.Day, 508th PIR, medic, POW
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Canadian World War II veteran and politician
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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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Ploesti Air Raid --- WWII
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WWII: Marine Corps, 1st Raider Battalion. Tulaghi, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian. Fired the first shot against the Japanese occupied South Pacific Island of Tulagi on August 7, 1942
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Former Navy SEAL, Christopher Beck, who is transgender and now goes by the name Kristin Beck
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air force general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pyro
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USAF Jet fighter Ace during the Korean War--[5 Migs shot down]! fle the p-80, f-86, f-89, f-84, f-104, t-33, t-28, t-6
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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Former Marine General
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Retired USMC General
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Retired General - US Army
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marine corps general
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One of the last survivors (Born: 1917) from the sinking of RMS Lancastria, that sank in 1940 during WW2. He is now 101 and lives in London, UK
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British bomber pilot from WW2
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British pilot from WW2, living in Great Britain
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Notah Begay (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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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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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
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air force general
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Victoria Cross recipient from Great Britain, was awarded the VC in 2005
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Panzer Captain and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross who was on the intelligence staff of the Sixth Army during the Stalingrad encirclement
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Military
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Deep Freeze: an officer on the U.S.S. Arneb
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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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World War II Medal of Honor
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Military
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World War II Army veteran from 1942-1946. Part of 91st airborn that jumped over North Africa and Italy
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Served in the Navy during WWII in the Pacific Theater and was aboard the USS Lexington in May, 1942, when it was torpedoed during the Battle of Coral Sea
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Pilot Vietnam War/Astronaut
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Will become the first living Medal of Honor recipient for the war in Iraq for his heroism during the second battle of Fallujah in November 2004
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101st Airborne, 506 PIR, Easy Company (AKA 'The Band of Brothers' - WWII
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Retired General
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C-47 pilot for 101st band of brother flew support for them
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII WAVES female vet, born 1923. Top Secret Ultra clearance, gathered info from/prepared reports for upper command of decoded German messages. Learned of D-Day from a just-decoded msg from Germany's Donitz, saying they'd just been invaded
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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army general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. Ranger. Purple Heart recipient shot in the thigh while storming Omaha Beach
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa. Hq-2-6, 2nd MarDiv
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WWII - Flying Tigers (AVG) P-51 pilot
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USN Admiral
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Spanish Civil War survivor (Born: 1924) Wife of Josep Pons. Remembers how she left Barcelona in 1939 during the massive retreat towards France. Now 92
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co, 1/7 cav
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Military
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Asst.Secretary of Defense
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German Luftwaffe ace of WWII, 93 victories
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Pilot
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WWII: ETO/D-Day. Radio operator on B-24 Liberator 'The Hard Way' (44-40242), 854th Bomb quadron, 491st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 31 missions from June 2, 1944 to Sept. 9, 1944, including D-Day and Hanover, Sept. 9, 1944
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Phillip Bennett (2)Former Australian General, Chief of the Australian Defence Force 1984-1987
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Retired Admiral
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa. Corpsman with D-1-2, 2nd MarDiv. He was in the 2nd wave to Red Beach #2 on Tarawa-D-Day; arriving in a Higgins boat, he had to wade over 500 yards to the shore under devastating fire
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WWII: Evacuation of Dunkirk. 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Marched almost 120 miles to the beaches near Dunkirk to escape the German advance in May 1940. Eventually he found a rowing boat and was picked up by a navy ship
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Member of the 101 airbourne div. company E 506 parachute regiment
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Centenarian (1895-2004). One of the last US WWI vets. Wounded while serving about a year in France
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: ETO, top turret gunner and engineer of B-17 Chow-Hound (Serial # 42-31367), 91st Bomb Group, 322nd Squadron
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Fighter ace born 12/27/1919
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WWII - Operation Overlord. 279th Port Company, 505th Port Battalion. Landed between Utah and Omaha Beach on D-Day+1 still under constant fire; his unit was responsible to get the beach organized and to get supplies inland
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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Joseph Stalin's Interpreter
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Last living member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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WWII PTO: Co B, 1st Raider Bn, then 4th Marines. Fought at Guadalcanal (Bloody Ridge), Guam, Saipan, Bouganville, New Georgia, Okinawa. Guard duty at USS Missouri on the day the Japanese signed the surrender in Tokyo Bay. 2 Purple Hearts
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Military Contractor held captive by Al-Queda. Beheaded by Al-Zarawi in Internet video by Al-Queda
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WWII - USS Tennessee (1940-1942) and Submarine Base in 1943. Treasurer for P.T.Com Orchestra for 18 years
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US Army Sergeant who was held prisoner in Afghanistan for five years
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Benjamin Berger (2) WWII: Ranger that landed at Omaha beach on D-Day (Pointe du Hoc); before D-Day, he served in North Africa and Italy
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USMC General
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Operation Deep Freeze: GCA officer to guide incoming aircraft to land on ice
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: PTO. First Marine Division. Guadalcanal, Peleliu
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Main focus in the Canadian wait for me daddy photo he was the little boy reaching for his daddy
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WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, Original Band of Brothers. Note: He isn't the author of that book mentioned - these were 'Will Bill' Guarnere and 'Babe' Heffron: http://www.amazon.de/Brothers-Battle-Friends-William-Guarnere/dp/0425224368
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C-47 pilot, flew101st band of brothers
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WWII - Pilot 91st Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group; with his C-47 #43-15213 he flew paratroopers of Dog Company, 506th PIR, 101st AB into D-Day (Stick #64). Specialist in towing/rescueing Gliders, carrying D-Day wounded out to safety
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Vietnam War - Marines pilot who flew Ambassador Martin out of the American Embassy during the fall of Saigon to the Vietcong, April 30, 1975. Helicopter 'Lady Ace 09'
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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Bocks Car Crew, RCM Observer, WW II, Nagasaki
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WWII: Battle for Tarawa
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WWII: B-17 pilot, 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 28 missions from June to August 1944, most in 'Little Miss Mischief' (B-17 42-97880), including France, Munich, Merseburg, Brandenburg, Peenemunde
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Fighter Ace - Korean War - (5 Victs)- USAF
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Berlin Air Lift 1948; Brigadier General Betinger was one of those planning and supervising the Air Lift
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army general
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WWII: Battle of Midway (June 1942), USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady'). Severely wounded during the battle. Later, he served on the submarines USS Bashaw and USS Sea Robin
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Fox News military analyst
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WWII Fighter Ace (9 Kills) - Ace in a Day - Flew P-51's - USAAF, 376th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group, 8th Air Force (Europe)
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor
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Medal of Honor recipient, France, WWII
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Real brother of Bielski partisans. Last living Bielski brother from WWII
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WWII - tail-gunner on the 'Necessary Evil', the nickname of the B-29 Superfortress that accompanied the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Helena. Served on the USS Helena from Pearl until the Battle of Kula Gulf (1943), when she was sunk by Japanese torpedoes, fighting, a.o., in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Cape Esperance
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French military officer who fought in the Indochina war. Born: 02/14/1916
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Tuskegee Airmen, flew the b-25, b-29, b-52, b-24, b-50, b-17, b-47
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navy admiral
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker, participated in Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa
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WWII - Pacific. 4th Marine Division. Fought in the battles of Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima
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WWII: Corporal in Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, who survived the Malmedy Massacre on 17 December 1944
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Military
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'Doolittle Raiders 'Bombardier Crew #11'
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John Bird (2)Navy Admiral
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Italian flying ace of WWII
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Italian World War 1 Veteran Born: 10/07/1900 Lives in Dignano, Italy
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Austrian World War One Veteran
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Commander 509th Bomb Wing
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the b-24
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WWII - D-Day, 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One), 16th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, Omaha Beach. Mr. Bistrica actually is pictured in one of the most iconic photographs of the war
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WW II Veteran; survivor of the USS Indianapolis disaster
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One of the children saved by Nicholas Winton in the 'Kindertransport' before WWII broke out
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Known as Sir Jeremy Black, a British Royal Navy admiral who served as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command from 1989 to 1991
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Joseph Black (2) WWII: ETO. 57th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force
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Bill Blackburn (2) Flying Tiger-crew chief
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WWII - US Fighter Ace, 11 victories, of the Jolly Rogers, VF-17 Squadron; Pacific Theater
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WWII: Battle of Midway
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Born 1925, Blackwell served in the U.S. Navy from 1943-1946 during WWII. He later became a maritime administrator in 1969. In 1971 Blackwell became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs
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Retired USMC General
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WWII veteran wo went on to become a songwriter whose credits include two songs recorded by Elvis (Give me the right' and 'Put the blame on me'),
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Dennis Blair (3)Dennis Cutler Blair (born February 4, 1947) is the former United States Director of National Intelligence and is a retired United States Navy admiral who was the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific region
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Don Blair (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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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
