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WWII: PTO. Battles of Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. US Navy Higgins Boat Coxswain. Transported Joe Rosenthal and Ernie Pyle
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WWII - Nurse Recruiting Poster Girl of the most popular WWII Nurse Poster. President Franklin D Roosevelt took a liking of the poster and ordered to be a million copies printed. She is supposedly the last of the poster girls alive
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Author / Veteran - wrote The Life of a Combat Medic, From the Ozarks to Korea...To Alaska
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WWII: D-Day. Served in the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion ? the only all-black unit that took part in the World War II D-Day landings in Normandy
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(Born 1923) US Army WW2 Veteran. Worked as an Anti-Taker
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WWII fighter Ace/ Watergate scandal figure - 15 Kills - USAAF - DSC
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Congressional Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
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WWII: PTO. USS Mississippi BB 41, 1943-1946
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Retired Air Force General
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Retired USMC General
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US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1963 to 1967
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Along with his brother Johnny are the oldest living brothers that invaded Normandy on D-Day
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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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Along with his brother Ernie are the oldest living brothers that invaded Normandy on D-Day
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WWII Navajo Code Talker; he lives in West Valley City, Utah
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medal of honor army, ww11
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Former American Football Player. Also is a World War 2 Veteran. Born in 1919
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Served with the 506th PIR / 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge
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Canadian General and Senator
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WW2/WWII Womens Army Service Pilot (WASP); 44-W-4 Flew the uc-78, at-11, c-45
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Dalton KCB was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and latterly became Secretary General of MENCAP and National Chairman of The Royal British Legion
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air force general
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Royal millitary
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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Wwii: pto, usmc
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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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Air Force pilot
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Lord Dannatt, British Politician
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Original "Operation Paperclip" Wernhervon Braun rocket scientist team born August 5, 1912. Deputy Manager of Saturn rocket program, rec'd NASA Exceptional Service Medal for successfully initiating development of the Saturn V rocket
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. 81st Wildcat Division
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Vietnam War 1975/Escaped during the Fall of Saigon/Was passenger violently forced without provocation from a United Airlines flight.and suffered a significant concussion, a broken nose, a sinus injury and lost two front teeth
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. Only French GI to fight at Omaha Beach
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII survivor of USS Tang
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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WWII: Signalman aboard the S.S. Hawkins Fudske, a cargo ship that made 2 round trips to Archangle and Murmansk, Russia.Rcvd the Medal of Ushakov from Russia for his wartime efforts
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US WWII Army veteran, born 1924. 9th Infantry Division. Fought in the bitter Hurtgen Forest, until hit by shrapnel in the leg and foot
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor; later escaped and joined the guerillas. 33rd Infantry Regiment (PA), 31st Division, USAFFE
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British WWII Flying Ace credited with 17 victories
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart
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Wren during WW2/spent World War II listening - spending hours at a time trying to pick voices from squealing static, spying on the Germans
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. Army Air Corps, Photo Reconnaissance
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American WWII Fighter Ace (6 Victs.)- USAAF, flew the p-47 and p-51
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air force general
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WWII: Battle of Midway, Battle of Santa Cruz
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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Tuskegee Airman
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Author military
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Nevada
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WWII veteran, Pearl Harbor Survivor at Schofield Barracks
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WWII: PTO. Leyte, Philippines, Okinawa. 96th Infantry, 763rd Tank Battalion
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world war 2 air ace
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Glenn Davis (4)
WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battle of Peleliu -
Vietnam Veteran in the Marine Corps
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Born March 27th 1918, served in the US Navy during World War 2, survived attack on Pearl Harbor. Later became an attorney, and then a State Senator for Louisiana from 1956-1980
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air force general
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WWII veteran, born 1919, Tunisia and Sicily campaigns
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WWII: PTO. Battles of New Britain, New Guinea, Peleliu and Okinawa. Platoon sergeant of his unit, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Purple Heart, Sharp Shooter Medal
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WWII: Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor
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Colonel (born 13 May 1939) retired US Army officer received Medal of Honor 3 March 2023 for actions on 18 July 1965 during Vietnam War. Twice previously nominated for MOH, but both times the paperwork relating to his nomination disappeared
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medal of honor marines korea
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WWII: African American/6888 Central Postal Battalion (Birmingham, UK) in US Army, known as Six Triple Eight. In just three months, Davis and her unit processed 17 million pieces of mail
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air force general
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Medal of honor vietnam war army, born 1946
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Jarvis (DD-393)
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Commanded the Tuskegee Airmen in WWII Born 1912
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WWII: Radio Operator, 505th Parachute Regiment (PIR), 82nd Airborne Division (AD). Wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, but rejoined the 505th on Rhine River. He met the Russians at Elbe River
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Rear admiral of carrier group 6
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US WWII Army vet, born 1923. Trained as electrical engineer and radio operator, attached to MacArthur's HQ for a time. Born in N. Dakota, raised in Minnesota, experienced Dust Bowl storms in his youth. Retired district judge
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Oklahoma dust bowl survivor, born 1924, interviewed for Ken Burns' documentary. WWII 'Rosie' at Boeing Aircraft working on B-29s. Career in journalism and teaching
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navy admiral
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Air Force Medal of Honor Recipient - Vietnam, guadalcanan, flew the f-80, f-84, f-100, f-101, f-104, f-105, f-106, f-4, a-4, a-7, cf-5, f-45
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WWII: ETO. 66th Infantry Division. Survivor of the sinking of the troopship SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24. 1944. She was torpedoed and sunk by U-486. 763 soldiers died, together with 56 of her crew
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French World War One Veteran
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World War One Veteran
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Former Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff / Former Ambassador to the United States / Current Head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning
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Italian WW One Vet
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French soldier and politician, born 1921, former Colonial Administrator of the Comores (1962-1963), was awared the French Legion of Honor for his military service in 2015
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French Air Force Nurse - The Angel of Dien Bien Phu, born 1925
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French politician and former general inspector of the French Navy, son of Charles de Gaulle
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British director of the United Kingdom Special Forces during the Iranian Embassy Siege and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the 1990 Gulf War
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WWII: French fighter pilot & ace
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Actor, born: 1911. The Flying Tigers (1942); Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943); Tiger Woman (1944); Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
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Oldest Brazilian WWII veteran. ETO. Italy. Brazilian Expeditionary Force, 9th Engineering Battalion. Italy
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World War II fighter pilot, first commander of the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier (USS Enterprise CVN-65). Reached the rank of Vice Admiral with the Navy
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Former member of the Resistance and later military officer in the French army
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United States Marine, Went to her military ball with Justin Timberlake
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marine corps general
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From Wooster, Ohio, Hal played guard for the first OSU National Championship team in 1942. Was named All-Western Conference that year. Served as a Captain in the 11th Airborne as a paratrooper during WWII. Played 3 seasons for the Rams
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WW2 Hero served with the Grenadier Guards maninly in Italy and North Africa
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United States Army major general during World War II and the Korean War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on July 20 and 21, 1950, during the Battle of Taejon in South Kore
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Reired General
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Highly decorated British soldier from WW2 who later became a general, born in 1917
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WWII, US NAVY. Honorary 'Band of Brothers''E' - Company - 506th ParachuteInfantry Regiment
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu. Machine Gunner, 1st Combat Engr Bn
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Retired Air Force Colonel/Vietnam Veteran
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Military
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(Born 1944) US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1966 to 1977 in between reserve and active duty. Silver Star Recipient
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WWII Fighter Ace (9 Victs.), Medal of Honor recipient, US Marines World War II
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Taiwanese WWII Veteran, 109 years old. During WWII, he served in the Imperial Japanese Army and was stationed in the Philippines
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Helena CL-50). Also served on the USS Helena in the Guadalcanal Campaign and survived the sinking of the USS Helena after she was hit by a torpedo in the Night Battle of Kula Gulf, 6 July 1943
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WWII, Sturmann 12th SS Panzer Division Normandy 1944 D-Day
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WWII: USMC, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Battle of Peleliu and Okinawa; earned a Purple Heart in the latter on Wana Ridge. JFK campaign 1960
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New Zealand fighter pilot and ace during WWII. Flew in the Battle of Britain. 17 confirmed victories. Died September 21, 1995
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1921-2016). survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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WWII: One of the last 3 Monuments Men, who saved artwork and cultural pieces during and after WWII
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9/11 survivor
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII: D-Day (second wave at Utah Beach), Battle of the Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge. 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion
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WWII - Pacific Theater; survivor of the sinking of the USS Colhoun (DD-801) after repeated Kamikaze attacks in the early stages of the Battle of Okinawa, 6 May 1945
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US Navy veteran of the USS Nautilus' historic first underwater crossing of the North Pole on Aug 3, 1958. Born 1933
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Montgomery
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WWII: I Company, 3rd BN, 157th Infantry, 45th Division. One of the liberators od Dachau concentration camp, actually the very first sodier to enter the compund who shot open the lock of the gates
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WWII Ace
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WWII Veteran, Battle of Bataan, POW, 515th Coastal Artillery Regiment, Captured at Corregidor
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, Holland, Alsace. A Line Company and G Company, 501st PIR, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles). Bronze Star
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WWII: Served on the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) which sank the Japanese aircraft carrier HIJMS Shinano, on 29 November 1944
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. Naval Combat Demolition 30, Utah Beach
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WWII: PTO. USMC 1940-1945. Silver Star
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WWI veteran. Oldest man in world. Born 1891. Lives in Puerto Rico
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Retired U.S. Air Force veteran who miraculously survived an IED in Afghanistan. He was awarded the Pat Tillman Award for Service at The Espy's in 2017
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WWII D-Day veteran, also Battle of Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia. Showed Doris 'Dorie' Miller how to use the machine gun
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Tennessee
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Army Truck Driver, took part in D-Day Infantry invasion
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WW2 Veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division. while Returning Home Michael Brought A Albino Rabbit On July 11,1944
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WWII: US Veteran of the Battle of Remagen, March 1945
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WWII: USMC veteran of the Guadalcanal campaign
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Military
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, USS Oklahoma. Later fought at the Battle of Guadalcanal (November 1942)
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marine corps general
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WWII USMC Ace--[14 victories]
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WWII: CBI. Member of HQ Company, White Combat Team, 1st Battalion of the Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Top turret gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress based at Hickam Field. Also saw action in the Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal
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WWII: Kurdish veteran. Fought with Iraq Levies, a minority scout force established by the British. Now 99 and living in Erbil, Kurdistan Region
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navy admiral
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U.S. Army 1942-1945, Minor League Baseball player
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WWII: PTO. Army Air Corp. Pilot. 460th Fighter Squadron, 5th Air Force. 124 combat missions in P47's and P51's in New Guinea, Philippines, and Luzon
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Saipan, Iwo Jima. US Army 7th Air Corps, 38th Bombardment Squadron, 30th Bomb Group. B-24 radio operator and right waist gunner
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WWII - Captured during Battle of the Bulge, he became the most famous POW of WWII when LIFE featured a photo taken at prison camp Stalag 12-A in Limburg, Germany, on the day of his liberation. He became known as 'The Human Skeleton'
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Army General
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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Retired Captain of the Royal Air Force. The oldest surviving knight of the Military Order of William , and this the last of the Royal Air Force of World war 2. Born: 07/23/1914
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WWI: ETO. RAF. Battle of Britain pilot
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WWII: PTO. Leyte, Philippines, Okinawa. Company L, 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division. Bronze Star
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WWII: ETO/PTO. Merchant Marine
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WWII: PTO. USMC. First Division,Third Armored Amphibian Battalion
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WWII: 45th Fighter Squadron, 7th Fighter Command, 20th Air Force. Flew from airfields Bellow's field, Guam, Saipan, Iwo Jima. Pictured in a 1945 photo on Iwo Jima,
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First Lieutenant of the CMEC and MACV from 1967-68 during the Vietnam War (Born: 1943 Bethany, Missouri)
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WW2/Normandy D-Day/Navy/After landing at Normandy on D-Day in 1944, he encountered a young French girl who waved him over and spoke to him in perfect English
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WW2 Vet. Survived the sinking of the USS Atlanta, and involved in Battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa. Knew and regularly saw JFK while working as a Navy radioman. During Japanese surrender ceremony, transmitted the news to the worl
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WWII: Assistant to General Eisenhower who typed up the plans for Operation Overlord
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American actor, author, and former United States Navy SEALs commander. Denver is most known for his role as Lieutenant Rorke in the 2012 film Act of Valor and for his appearance as team leader in the Fox Television series, American Grit
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WWII army vet, assigned to clean-up/odd job duties at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos base. Witness to the first atomic explosion, the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale (DD-353)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Medical corpsman
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Air Force General
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WWII: D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. 501st PIR, 101st AB. Purple Heart
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Nevada. Served in the USS Nevada throughout the war
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WWII: PTO. Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Gilberts and Marshall Islands campaign, Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, Philippines campaign, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa; survived Typhoon Cobra (Halsey's Typhoon) in December 1944
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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 Tuskegee Airmen (Flew B-25 and T-6) & University Michigan football player; helped Michigan win 1948 Rose Bowl
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WWII: PTO. USS Teton. Surrender Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945
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WWII: USS Helena
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'Wife of Doolittle Raider Jacob Deshazer'
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Doolittle's Raiders 'Crew #16/Bat out of Hell' Bombadier' 'Missionary to Japan for 30 years after Doolittle Raid'
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Conyngham
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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vietnam war air force hero
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: CBI. Flight Radio Operator, 1330th AAAF Base Unit, India China Division, Air Transport Command
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JFK - Honor Guard at President Kennedy's funeral
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa
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WW2 Flying Ace, Age 92, '8 Victories' Silver Star-DFC with 3 Gold Stars, Air Medal with 4 Gold Stars!
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WWII: D-Day. Coast Guard assigned to attack transport USS Samuel Chase, ferrying troops of 1st Infantry, Big Red 1 1&2 wave to Omaha Beach on Higgins Boat. In invasions of North Africa; Sicily; Salerno/Made 11 or 12 trips back & forth from ship to beach
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Lz ray 1965 namwas in valrico,fl but not now?
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WWII veteran, Bataan Death March survivor. Born 1919
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US Marine, WWII veteran, born 1921. Saw action at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian. Beat Covid-19 at 99 years old
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medal of honor Korean war marines
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WWII Navy veteran. Witnessed the attack of Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Antares
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WWII: Medal of Honor nominee who served with the 41st Infantry Division in the Pacific
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US Navy veteran, born 1925. Witness to both Bikini atoll Operations Crossroads atomic bomb tests in 1946
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Sotoyomo
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Countess of Romanones, Grandee of Spain/OSS cipher clerk during World War II. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1962 (LIVES IN MADRID SPAIN)Author 'El fin de una era' (2010), published in Spain
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Corporal Dhein was assisting the administrative tasks of the Berlin Air LIft 1948
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Author;'Just A Kid, A Guard at the Nuremberg Trials' 18 years old when drafted in 1944, into infantry. Found himself standing guard over Nazi war criminals, & watched as atrocities were described in detail throughout the Nuremberg Trails
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(Born 1948) Vietnam Veteran. Served in the Air Force from 1967 to 1973 and in the Marine Corps from 1973 to 1975
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WWII: ETO, 8th Air Force; served with Jimmy Stewart
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US WWII Army, born 1921. Action in Tunisia and the first wave in the Sicily attack. Wounded at Sicily, taken by Germans to Stalag 2B. POW/slave labor for 21 months. 1st Division, 26th Infantry
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WWII: MTO. North Africa, Italy. 34th Infantry Division. Purple Heart with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Bronze Star, Silver Star
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John Dick (2) WW2 USMC Iwo Jima I Company 3rd Battalion 24th Marine Regiment 4th Marine Division
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII - 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division; 1st Marines, 1st Mar. Div. in Korea. Veteran of Saipan, Tinian and the entire Battle of Iwo Jima; radio operator, telecom lineman, and handling COMS for the storied Navajo Codetalkers
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British ace from WW2
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Former football player and coach. Also is a World War 2 veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Curtiss (AV-4). Being attacked by Japanese aircraft, he manned a small launch and was ordered to retrieve bodies from the water
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Retired General
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South Vietnam's ambassador to the US. After the Vietnam war he moved to the US
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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WWII - Iwo Jima veteran, Army radioman
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Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich is a pilot from the Black Aces of Lemoore, California
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WWII: North Africa/Italy. 36th Infantry Division, 141 Infantry Regiment, Company B
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WWII: PTO. USS Ticonderoga (CV-14). Survived kamikaze attack and two kamikaze hitting his ship in January 1945
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World war 2 fighter ace -6 kills
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Vietnam (Army) -- 1965 LZ Xray We Were Soldiers born April 19, 1933
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC, of the famous K/3/5. Wrote a memoir, 'With the Marines in North China.'
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engineer of the memphis belle
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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WWII Veteran
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII - Battle of the Normandy, landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day+1. 747th Tank Battalion
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. USMC
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Wwii: mto
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Algiers Motel; a black security guard, witnessed the murders of 3 black men at the motel in 1967
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. C Co. Third Armored Amphibian Bn
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Leon & Mike Donnet took a Stampe SV4 aircraft under the noses of the German enemy in WW2 Belgium, repaired the plane & excaped occupied enemy territory. This done July 4th 1941. Later joined British Royal Air Force
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII, Alaska's oldest WWII Veteran
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Recognized as the last surviving Buffalo Soldier at West Point. Born May. 1921
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air force general
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WWII Romanian Ace with 11 Victories
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WWII: British Arctic convoy veteran
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WWII - Served with the 4th Marine Division in the South Pacific; Iwo Jima survivor. Took a series of dramatic war photographs now housed at the U.S. Marine Corps museum in Quantico
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JFK - Honor Guard at Kennedy funeral 1963; was in charge of ushers at St. Matthew's Cathedral and in charge of Irish cadets at JFK funeral
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WWII: SM3 at Mount 52, the 2nd 5-inch gun forward of the USS Laffey (The Ship That Would Not Die). D - Day, Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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United States Army soldier and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War. He was awarded the medal for conspicuous leadership during the taking of a strongly defended hill as part of Opera
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WWII: 3rd Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th PIR, 82nd AB. Paratropper in Operation Market Garden; served in the 82nd until the end of the war; occupation duty in Berlin
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WWII: CBI. Battle of Hong Kong 1941. Of D Company, Royal Rifles of Canada, who defended Hong Kong in December 1941. After the surrender, he was a POW until the end of the war
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Pelias
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WWII: ETO. C Company, 333rd Regiment, 84th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge
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British flying ace from WW2
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay
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Medal Of Honor Recipient Vietnam
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Former U.S. Senator from Kansas (1969-1996); unsuccessful Republican Presidential Candidate (1988, 1996)
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WWII: One of two survivors of the Lezaky massacre, razed as a reprisal of Heydrich's assassination in 1942. She and her sister were the only survivors and were adopted. Maiden name Stulik. Lived in Vcelakov about a decade ago
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Wwii: wasp
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battles of Coral Sea and Midway. USS Yorktown, later USS West Virginia
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WWII: Malmedy Massacre survivor, 17 December 1944
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Former United States Major Army General and is currently a Special Assistant to the Commanding general
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world war 2 air ace
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(Born 1967) US Navy SEAL Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Recipient of a Navy Cross, a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart
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WWII. PTO. Sonar Man First Class on the USS Melvin R. Newman participating in seven major engagements, including Okinawa and Iwo Jimo. Also in Korean War
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Recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia in 2009 for his duty in Afghanistan
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WW2 USAAF fighter pilot ace 5 victories, 24/49FG deceased
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. 24th Material Squadron, 18th Air Base Group, Wheeler Field
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medal of honor vietnam war army
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Mike Donnet & Leon Divoy in occupied German Belgium Territory, discovered damaged Stampe SV4 aircraft, repaired it & flew it to safty under the German enemy's noses on July 4th 1941. Later both joined the British Royal Air Force
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge and other major battles. 740th Tank Battalion ('Daredevil Tankers')
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Actively serving US Marine Corps Major General
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navy admiral
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Peleliu and Okinawa. E Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; nurse at Triple Army Hopsital
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CMOH recipient, Famed WWII Air Commander
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John Doolittle (2)
Son of General Jimmy Doolittle -
Tuskegee Airmen
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Flying Tigers-clerk
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navy admiral
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Italian WWII Veteran, Battle of Stalingrad
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Lz xray 1965 nammember of the lost platoon
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WW2 air ace - 6 Kills - USMC - Navy Cross
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WWII USMC Ace. On 4/22/1945 he shot down 6 Japanese Vals and had 2 probables to become an 'Ace in a Day'. He was awarded the Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross and 3 Air Medals. Passed away 7/20/2008
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German ww2 pilot 5./JG 1
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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Alabama State Trooper; while protecting George Wallace on the campaign trail, he was unintentionally shot in the stomach by Arthur Bremer during the attempt on Wallace's life
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WWII: PTO. US Army Air Corps. B-24 bombardier in the 31th Squadron, 5th Bombardment Group of the 13th Air Force. 6 combat operations against Japanese forces in and around the Philippines
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navy admiral
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WW2 P-47 Thunderbolt Flying Ace(Medals out the Wazoo)
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One of the 'Rosie the Riveteers' during WW2. One of The Last Voices of World War II in the June 2020 issue of National Geographic
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325th fighter group checkerboard clan,flew spt for 101st airborne band of brothers
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WWII veteran, born 1923. One of the last surviving veterans of Attu, an often overlooked invasion of Alaska by the Japanese in 1942
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. E Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines. Purple Heart
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Korean War US Army Veteran in an all black regiment. Wounded in combat in July of 1950 and was among the visitors of his hospital was General MacAurthur in Japan. Left in 1951
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WWII: ETO. Bombardier/Navigator in the 703rd Squadron, 445th Bomb Group, 8th AF, actor Jimmy Stewart was his Flight Leader. Became a POW in 1944 (Stalag Luft I camp), shot down on 9/27/44 on Kassel mission in B-24 'Frigid Bridget' #4251342
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WWII: PTO. B-24 copilot, 424th Bomb Squadron, 307th Bomb Group, 13th Air Force
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WWII veteran, born in 1913, believed to be the oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor. He served on the USS W> Virginia during the attack, and later served in the Korean War
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general army
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Irish'
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Female WWII veteran, WASP pilot, born 1921
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navy admiral
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Army general; kidnapped and held 42 days by Red Brigades (Italian terrorist organization of the 70s)
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WW2 Veteran 'Made famous Bataan Death March' Awarded medals for his service December 2008, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, POW Medal & Asiatic-Pacific Campain medal!
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WWII: PTO. Battel of Okinawa. Purple Heart. Sixth Marine Division
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Italian ww2 ace
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Author 'Life On a Short Fuse' /War or Conflict Korean War, 1950-1953 Air Force/Korea/Vietnam War, 1961-1975/Lieutenant Colonel/Served as a Fighter Pilot; a Command Pilot; a Test Pilot; and an Instructor Pilot
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WW2, Battle of Britain pilot and ace in the RAF.
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WWII: USMC infantry man. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Guam (Silver Star), assistant squad leader in the Battle of Iwo Jima in the second wave (Purple Heart). Silver Star, 2 Bronze Sars, 2 Purple Hearts
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World War 2 Veteran and one of the last surviving members from the 23rd Special Troops known as 'The Ghost Army'
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Royal Navy Hot Air Balloon Co-Pilot
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker
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Tuskegee Airmen/Civilian Instructor 1942-1945
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
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American soldier and defector, born 1941, defected to North Korea and is still living in Pyongyang
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WWII Navy Veteran
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P-51 Mustang Ace during WWII-[6 victories] Member of the 361st Fighter Group - Air Force Cross
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German ww2 pilot
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Motor Machinst's Mate 2nd Class Edmund T. Drewitch served aboard PT 109 along with then Lt (jg) and future President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy; due to injury, he was not aboard PT-109 when it was sunk
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WWII veteran, was abroad the HMS Ajax during the Battle of the River Plate
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US Navy Flying Ace, VF-31 - 5 Kills
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Military, Navy Flying Ace, Vietnam War
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WWII: MTO. B-25 pilot. 57th Bomb Wing
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Jesse Ray Drowley (September 9, 1919 - May 20, 1996) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions in World War II
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Former U.S. General, U.S. Air Force
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Tuskegee Airmen; 99th Pursuit Squadron and 332nd Fighter Group; author of 'A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman'
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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Military , author
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Newsman for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, covered many 20th century events. Was in the JFK motorcade when Kennedy was killed and later witnessed Oswald being shot. In the 70s, he covered Cambodia and was held as a civilian prisoner of war for a time, and w
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WW2 veteran of D-Day
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American fighter ace VF-15, 5 Kills - US Navy, f4f hellcat, p-47, p-51
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Vietnam War Medal of Honor Recipient
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US Army WWII veteran, served under MacArthur in the Philippines. Press liaison for the trials of Generals Homma & Yamashita in Manilla after the war's end, and both their executions
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air force general assoc. executive
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, and survivor the sinking of the USS Sims and USS Astoria
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British ace from WW2
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Apollo 16 Astronaut and moonwalker. Also the youngest Astronaut on the moon
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Retired General
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WWII: Atlantic. Corsair pilot on escort carrier USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60). They sank 3 German subs in the North Atlantic, and captured U-505 on 4 June 1944. It was the first enemy warship captured on the high seas by the US Navy since 1815
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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)
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WWII German Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot Ace 5 victories flew the pik as, jg 53
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Commander on board the HMS Bulldog (1945)on which the surrender document of the German garrisons of the Channel Islands was signed on 9 May 1945
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)
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navy admiral
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WWII: PTO. FM-2 Wildcat pilot
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US Navy Fighter 7 victory ace, WWII was the first F6F Hellcat pilot to down a Zero - Navy Cross
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Roi Namur, Iwo Jima and Saipan. 4th Marine Division
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 7 victories; Pacific Theater; US Navy, Navy Cross. One of the first F6F Hellcat nightfighter pilots
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medal of honor ww11 army
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WWII Pilot Ace-- Flew the P-40,47& 51-[9 victories]
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WWII:Battle Of Iwo Jima. 5th Marine Division, 27th Marine Regiment. Pictured in a photo from the battle directing mortars and artillery against Japanese positions
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WWII: ETO, 104th Infantry Division
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ww 11 marines corps hero (cmh)
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Oglala
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma. (1923-2015)
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Ben Dunn (2) Pow by japanese in ww2- lives in murphysbobo,il, 92 if still alive?
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(Born June 25, 1923) is a decorated U.S. Army veteran of World War II. For his heroism, he was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart
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Lz xray 1965
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Served on USS California (gun director for the broadside guns)
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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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Centenarian (1899-2001). US WWI Army veteran, served in the ambulance corps in France. Later became a freelance writer, writing books in the 1920s, including WWI experiences. One of 8 WWI vets profiled by Life magazine on the 80th anniversary in 1998
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First woman to become a US Four Star General
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WWII Assistant Chaplain veteran (born 1917), ETO including the Normandy campaign
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Former member of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a prisoner of war in Cuba for 18 months; former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association. Now an attorney in Miami.
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hellcopter pilot captured in somalia 1993
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US army General
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WW 2 Vet born in 1921
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Turkish Air Force Captain who in 1959, took the first photograph of a strange formation on Mount Ararat, believed to be the remains of Noah's Ark. He was still alive in 2007, not sure if he still is now
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
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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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Assst Secretary of Navy
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field. Believed to be the last living Pearl Harbor survivor in South Dakota
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100-year-old pioneer is WA's last surviving female WWII-era pilot. One of the last surviving WASP pilots of the World War 2 Era
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Wwii: pto. USS Kenton
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Lz xray 1965 nam, k.i.a. 2nd tour 1970
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real-life Vietnam war hero turned actor - often typecast as General, Cpt., Lt., Col. in film: Platoon (1986), Casualties of War (1987), Born On The Fourth Of July (1989), JFK (1991), Saving Private Ryan (1997), Band of Brothers (t.v. mini-series, 2001)
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navy admiral
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Survivor of the Bataan Death March
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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'Commanding Officer Royal Navy'
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Crewmember USS Ward 139, the first American ship to engage the Japanese in WW2 at Pearl Harbor when it sunk thier mini-submarine
