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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
Australian WW1 Veteran/Born: 03/03/1901. One of 2 remaining WW1 Veterans. It's reported that his health is declining (he is almost totally blind and deaf) Choules is no longer able to give interviews due to poor health
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
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
Donut Dolly Vietnam War/She said; Whenever anybody was going back home they'd play Leaving on a Jet Plane. They listen to soldiers, played games and records at the base rec centers, their job was to lift the guys spirits
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
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)
DT1, USMM & USN
Merchant Marine delivered supplies and ammunition at Iwo Jima, Midway and Guadalcanal
Witnessed the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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"
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
WWII: Burma (flew parachute troopers and supplies into Burma). Bangladesh (Support of Claire Lee Chennault, The Flying Tigers). 27th Troop Carrier Squadron
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
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
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,
(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
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
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
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
WWII: H Company, 505th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division. D-Day, joined the fight for Ste. Mere Eglise, fighting alongside paratroopers from Easy Company. Also Operation Market Garden and eventually seriously wounded in the Battle of the Bulge
Coordinator for Counterterrorism at Department of State with rank of Ambassador-at-Large on August 2, 2005. Ambassador Crumpton joined Central Intelligence Agency in 1981 and served as an operations officer both at headquarters and abroad
January 19, 1905 - August 16, 1995 was the first secretary of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps, and chairperson of the board of the Houston Post
WWII: USMC, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division (the famous K/3/5). Battle of Peleliu and Okinawa. 2 Purple Hearts, Silver Star. Gold Star
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; USS West Virginia. On a routine job of taking a small boat to the officers' club when the attack began, he tried evading Japanese bombs, strafings and torpedoes, and saving wounded sailors
WWII: Crew member of the 'Clay Pigeon', a C-47 that flew paratroopers into Normandy on D-Day and was shot down on Sept. 17, 1944, during Operation Market Garden. POW
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
Actor: Hot Shots!, The Last Boy Scout, Kuffs, Sliver, In the Line of Fire, Wagons East, The Quest, The Glimmer Man, Psycho, The Practice, Gods and Generals, The West Wing, Mad Men, 24, The Collection, The Brink
WWII - Pacific, 106st Field Artillery Battalion, Batlle of Leyte: Was in the second wave that attacked the Japanese-held island of Leyte in the Philippines on Oct. 20, 1944, and met Douglas MacArthur that day
WWII: PTO. USS Vincennes (CA-44). Witness to the Doolittle Raid (April 1942), Battle of Midway (June 1942), Guadalcanal, survived the sinking of his ship in the Night Battle of Savo Island (August 9, 1942)