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(Born 1916) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Provided support at D-Day. Oldest known WW2 Veteran in Kentucky
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WWII: PTO. Navy radar operator. Served aboard the USS South Dakota (BB-57)
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us army colonel war hero. world war 2,korea and vietnam.jls
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Army Air Corps.1st mission firebombing mission Hamm, Germany Feb, 1945. Flew 23 missions/part 8th Air Force, Rookie crew, 1st combat mission, bomber Last plane in formation to pass over the target - position known as 'Tail End Charlie'
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One of six remaining survivors from the U.S.S. Arizona as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He is supposed to be living in West Warwick R.I. according to newspaper reports
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WWII: ETO. Battle of The Bulge. 84th Infantry Division
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Former Commandant or Chief of Staff for the Marines
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medal of honor army vietnam
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General US marine
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. 1st Marine Division. Knew Chesty Puller
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WWII: Company K, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division 'The Old Breed'. Awarded the Navy Cross for his actions on Peleliu, Palau Islands, on 15 and 16 September 1944
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Military/Indian Army - awarded Victoria Cross in April 1945
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Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1974-1979); Secretary of State (1981-1982)
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Retired General
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British pilot from WW2, 'Battle of Britain'
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4 Star General
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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Medal of Honor WWII
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Finnish WWII Veteran
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WWII: D-Day veteran
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Mars task force, burma ww2 475th inf
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LCDR - US NAVY Blue Angels
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WWII U.S. Corporal - served in the 3rd Marine Division, participating in campaigns such as Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima. Witnessed the iconic flag raising atop Mount Surabachi. Purple Heart recipient
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WWII: PTO. Underwater Demolition 5 (UTD5). Bronze Star
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WWII: PTO. USS Balch. Battle of Midway
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Howard Hall (2)
WWII: New Guinea (Battle of Buna-Gona), The Philippines (Battle of Luzon). 32nd Infantry Division -
WWII: British Arctic Convoy sailor
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(Born Jan. 3, 1924) US Army WW2 Veteran. Distinguished Service Cross Recipient, native of Madison
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Okinawa. 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division
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Former Sergeant Major of the US Army from 1997 to 2000
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world war 2 fighter ace VMF - 213
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu & Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
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Jack Hallett (2)
WW2 Fighter pilot cadet in Maxwell Field. Flew on the B-40, P-28, and P-47 (Born 1920) He flew a P51 Mustang for his 99th birthday -
(Born 1939) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1963 and retired in 1987 as a colonel
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WWII: ETO. 501st PIR, 101st AB. Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Bavaria, occupation duty in Austria
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B-29 Bomber/ POW in Japan
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Ww2 british vetran
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WW2 veteran who fought in the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, 1942. Born: 1921. He was Germany's youngest winner of the Knight's Cross -the highest award for bravery. He is now 95 and lives in Bad Munder, near Hanover, Germany
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Fleet Admiral
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US Army General
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German ww2 pilot
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(born 1939) is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former deputy base commander of RAF Bentwaters, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. After serving in Vietnam, Japan and Korea, he was assigned to Bentwaters as deputy commander
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Commander US 19th Air Force
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Crewmember USS Ward 139, the first American ship in WW2 to engage the Japanese at Pearl Harbor when it sank thier mini-submarine
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Col. USAF pilot in the Berlin Airlift known as the 'candy Bomber' dropped candy to children from his plane over Berlin, flew the A-26, B-25, C-47, C-54 and C-74
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4 Star General
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'Bat 21' movie was his story of being shot down in vietnam
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co 1/7 cav
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland
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Former FBI undercover agent, author of The Last Undercover
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Flight Steward who served on Air Force One for Kennedy through Ford. Flew JFK into Dallas, then helped tear out seats to fit the casket in after the shot. Stayed in the area with Jackie Kennedy and JFK's body during the flight back to DC.
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Military, Former SAS member
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WW2 Navy who served on the USS King and Orlick during his time in service. (Born 1922)
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George Hamilton (3)WWII Veteran from Alabama, just turned 100. Served aboard the USS King in the North Pacific
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US WWII Navy vet, born 1924. Served on the USS Phoenix for WWII, including Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Leyte
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WWII: British Army Major (1st King?s Dragoon Guards) who was evacuated from Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo, May/June 1940) along with 339.000 British, French and Belgian soldiers
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WW2 Spitfire pilot and Flight Commander who received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his attacks on enemy aircraft. Born: 1916 and recently reached his 100th birthday. Lives in a care home in Ammanford, South Wales, UK
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WWII: CBI. Last living member of the Merrill's Marauders, aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long-range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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(Born 1921) US Coast Guard WW2 Veteran. His job was to help soldiers from not drowning after getting off of the boats including at Normandy Beach
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Retired General
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Writer of Military works/military historian, with a focus on the military campaigns of the United States Marine Corps, and military action in World War II
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From Dartford, Kent, One of few surviving D-Day officers/Commanded five ?flail? or ?crab? tanks, belonging to the 22 Dragoons, equipped with a boom and chains to detonate mines/one of 1st soldiers to land at Juno Beach on 6 June 1944
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. US Naval Hospital; later Costa Mesa mayor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Sub Base at Pearl Harbor
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African American WWII veteran. A Montford Marine, served in Guam in 1944
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army general
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WWII - Marine Corps, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Regiment, 4th Marine Division. Battles of Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima. Wounded in the legs by a thrown hand grenade on Iwo Jima, hospitalized
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. 1st Marine Division
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WWII: PTO. Anti-aircraft gunner on the USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady'). Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942), Battle of Midway (June 1942, when the Yorktown sank)
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 12th Defense Battalion. Battle of Peleliu
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USAF Col. (ret.) credited with the only known shoot down of a MiG with cannon fire above supersonic speed (Vietnam-June 2, 1972)
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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John Handy (2)
General John W Handy USAF CommanderUnified Combatant Command -
Retired Command Sergeant Major, Author of the book 'Inside Delta Force'
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Omaha Beach. 1st Infantry Division
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USMC Major General (Ret.) Flown over 3300 hours in peace, contingencies and war within the Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight Helicopter, CH-53D Sea Stallion, CH-53E Super Stallion, UH-1N Huey, AH-1W Cobra and Bell - Boeing MV-22 Osprey Tiltrotor aircraft
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Flying Tigers WWII) Nurse
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U.S. Navy Ace WWII--[6 victories]- 1st USA Ace in a Day - Navy Cross
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WWII:: PTO. B-29 flight engineer 398th Bomb Squadron, 504th Bomb Group, 20th AF. Flew firebombing mission against Japan (incl. Operation Meetinghouse, 9th March 1945) to targets like Tokoy, Nagoya, Kobe. Shot down March 27, 1945
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Also participated in the Battle of Midway as an aircrewman aboard one of the PBY Catalina aircraft
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devil dog defender (wake island) marines ww11
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101st airborne division, ww2
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Retired Admiral
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air force general businessman
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WWII: One of the last 'Rats of Tobruk'. The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Rommel's Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk, Lybia
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navy admiral
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WWII TBF Avenger torpedo dive bomber pilot. Battle of Midway and the Battle of Guadalcanal. Torpedo Squadron 8. Received two Navy Crosses and three Air Medals. Featured in book, 'A Dawn Like Thunder.'
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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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JFK - Air Force One Co-pilot in the Kennedy years, incl. Texas trip 1963
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WWII: PTO. US Navy Flight Nurse in the Pacific
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radio operator (memphis belle)
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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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Samurai of the sky/Japanese Zero Pilot WW2/19 Victories/Public Speaker/Imperial Japanese Navy, and graduated from the service's 35th fighter pilot course/Lives @ NAGANO, Japan/http://ww2db.com/person-bio.php?person-id=777
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WWII: ETO. Mortar men of the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 100th Infantry Battalion
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WWII/Korean War - RAF pilot, later holding senior command roles in the RAF; author of a noted technical report that evaluated the performance and tactics of jet combat during the Korean War.
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German U-boat commander; over 100,000 tons sunk; 24th most successful commander in World War II.Born: 03/18/1913
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa
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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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Peter Harding (2)Military british air force marshall
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navy admrial
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Honolulu, 7 December 1941
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WWII Pilot - Tuskegee Airmen. B-29, B-36, P-47, P-51, B-57, KC-97 and AC-119K
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Last living black US WWI veteran (1894-2006) Son of ex - slaves
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 6.5 victories. VF-17. Ace-in-A-Day. ff-1, f6f-3, f6f-5, f9f-2, f9f-5, f9f-8t, f11f-1, f4u-1, fj-3, fj-3m, f4d-1, sbd, sbc-5, fh-1, f2h-2
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WWII: PTO. 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines. Seen in a famous photo of the Battle of Okinawa storming Wana Ridge
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Military
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot) (flew the pt-19, BT-13, AT-6, BT-13n and B-17)
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Pioneering stewardess and WWII nurse, born 1916. Special duty nurse for Air Force Gen. Hap Arnold, after having been one of Delta's first ever stewardesses from 1940-43
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navy admiral
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Landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day June 6th 1944 with the 29th Division, 111th Artillery Battalion
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WWII - Co-pilot of the B-17 "Big Yank", 483rd Bombardment Group, 840th Bombardment Sq. Base: Sterparone, Italy; on March 24, 1945, they flew the longest escorted European bombing mission to Berlin, credited for destroying 3 Me-262's
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WWII: Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
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WWII: USS Indianapolis Survivor; author of the book 'Out of the depths'
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. Fought side by side with Chesty Puller
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British ace from WW2
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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Flying Tigers-headquarters staff
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David Harris (9) Journalist/author. Known chiefly for anti-war activist during Vietnam War. Notably as leading opponent of Draft. 1967 Harris found organization called the Resistance, which persuaded men of draft age to refuse to cooperate with Selective Service System
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WWII: British Fairey Swordfish pilot who conducted U-boat searches to protect merchant ships during the Murmansk Runs,
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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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4 Star General
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Tuskegee Pilot
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(Born 1949) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Served as a rifleman with Company D, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment in South Vietnam. Captured as a POW in June 1969 and was a POW for 135 days until being released by his captors
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(Born 1940) Vietnam War Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vega
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Viet nam war hero,last address was north decota
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Tuskegee Airmen
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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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Staff Sgt. US Army (Ret.), Author, Motivational speaker
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (WWII-9 Kills) US Navy, VF-17/18
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army general
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Craig Harrison (2)Former Corporal of Horse (CoH) of the Household Cavalry of the British Armed Forces. He holds the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at a range of 2,475 m (2,707 yd)
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WWII - D-Day; C-47 pilot who flew paratroopers of the 501th PIR (101st Airborne , 'Screaming Eagles') into Normandy
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Military
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US WWII Navy WAVES vet, born 1920
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WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
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army general
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US Military Officer, Politician (1773-1841). 9th US President (1841). Died just 31 days into his term of office
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WWII: D-Day. USS Augusta (task force flagship at Omaha Beach). Also in the Arctic Circle and the Mediterranean Sea. Had dinner with President Truman onboard the Augusta
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Vietnam War Veteran-SS Mayaguez Incident(Last Official Battle of The Vietnam War)
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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. Canada's oldest and longest-serving officer
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WWII: Marine veteran of the Battles of Tarawa (1943) and Guadalcanal. 33 years in the Marine Corps, also served in Korea and Vietnam
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John Hart (6) Born John Stewart Hart in New Brunswick, Canada, 1916; WWII Battle of Britain pilot, one of only 7 remaining. Reported to be living in Canada as of 2015
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WWII: PTO. Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps serving on the USS Enterprise until the end of WWII
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WWII: 82nd Airborne. Battle of the Bulge. Operation Varsity
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WWIIO: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Purple Heart. 4th Marine Division (23rd Marines, 1st Battalion, Company A)
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US WWII Army vet,1st Armored Division ambulance driver in North Africa and Italy, born 1920
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Retired Army General
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Pioneer military aviator who survived 10 days in Alaska's wilderness after crashing in around-the-world flight attempt in 1924/1941 commanded an around-the-world flight of 24,600 miles set record of 121 hours & 55 minute
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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US WWII Army vet, born 1924. Served as a paratrooper in the Alsace campaign in France
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Tuskegee Airmen Flew PT-17, BT-13, A-26, P-40, P-47, P-51, F-80, F-86, F-89, F-94 and the F-102
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18th Field Artillery Brigade
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WW2 Marine/Served in Iwo Jima, Bougainville, Vella Lavella & Solomon Islands Campaigns/Silver Star Recipient/95 Years old in 2019/Loves the Marine Core with a passion
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SS camp guard
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Band of brothers 101st/506th pir ww2
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navy admiral
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Danish-born soldier and writer who has written pseudo-autobiographical novels based on his experiences in World War II
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WWII: Screaming Eagles paratrooper who served from D - Day to the end of the war in Austria. 506th PIR
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Former head of the Australian Defence Force and a WW2 and Korea veteran, knighted by the Queen in 1976, living in Australia
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WWII: US Marine Corps. One of the first Black Marines (Montford Point Marines) who served in the Pacific in WWII
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Lz xray 1965
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marine corps general
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army general
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air force general
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Saboteur from the U.S.S. Barb WWII
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Deep Freeze: he operated a quad-radar unit and built the control tower
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Child Actor, WWII Vet Appeared in 1921 Charlie Chaplin film 'The Kid' playing The Kid as an even younger kid/Tank mechanic with the 2nd Armored Hell on Wheels Division
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Usmc sniper nam-93 confirmed kills
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Vietnam vet, born 1943. Team leader of the UDT-11 frogmen who recovered the Apollo 11 Command Module. He opened the hatch and shook the hand of Neil Armstrong, the first out, welcoming him back home. He then scrubbed each astronaut with a disinfectant
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. USS Worden
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Philanthropist. World War 2 Colonel under President Eisenhower.Founder of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies.And Grace Hauenstein Library. Author of book 'Intelligence Was My Line: Inside Eisenhower's Other Command'. Born: 03/20/1912
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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'Empire Carpets' Spokesman, Famous US Commercial Jingle That Sings The Digits: 1-800-588-2300, Also WW II Vet & Barbershop Quartet Singer
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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WWII - 355th Fighter Group, 354th Fighter Squadron, European Theater, 5 victories. Also flew in the Korean War
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Ww2 fighter ace, f6f hellcat
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WWII: US Navy. PTO, USS Reid
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient - WWII
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Storyteller, recording artist
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WWII - US Navy Flying Ace, 14 victories
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Sacramento
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
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WWII/ETO: 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Remagen (wounded by shrapnell while running across bridge)
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Military
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WWII: CBI. Battle of Hong Kong veteran. POW until the end of the war
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, US Marines Corps
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National Security Agency Director (1999-2005); CIA Director (2006-2009) retired United States Air Force four - star general
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WWII WASP -womens army service pilot, Flew the pt-17, at-6, bt-13, uc-78
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Bill Hayes (4) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII veteran, last known survivor of the Coast Guard's USS Taney, which responded to the attack on Pearl Harbor, though the Taney itself was stationed near Honolulu when the attack began
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19th President of the United States. Served from 1877-1881. He was a General in the Civil War and was wounded five times
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WWII US Fighter Pilot
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WWII: 159th Port Company. Served as a cook in Port Moresby, Australia, before a reassignment to New Hebrides. As of July 2019, Haymon is the second oldest WWII veteran in America, having been born 8 November 1909
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Captain and Iwo Jima Vet -USMC
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US Marines, WWII/Chinese Civil War/Korea/Vietnam, born 1930. Enlisting in 1945, he was sent to China to help return Japanese soldiers at wars end, and then to Okinawa to rid remaining (and still fighting) Japanese there
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Survivor, sinking of USS Indianapolis. Rank of Captain. Was chief medical officer of the ship
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WWII: US Navy. Survived the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay which was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tarawa (November 1943)
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B. February 16, 1920 was the first woman in the U.S. Military to be promoted to a general officer rank. She was promoted on June 11, 1970, after being appointed by President Richard Nixon on May 15, of that year.
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navy admiral
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Saipan. US Navy
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WW2 RAF pilot (RNZAF) fighter ace 5 victories battle of britain deceased
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Admiral, United States Navy, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations 1978 - 1982
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge. Bronze Star
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British ace from WW2, 5 victories
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(Born 1945) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Served on the USS Rangell as a signalman
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POW Camp: Stalag Luft 4-- Stalag Luft 1 Prisoner
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Navy Admiral
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Former Nazi Hitler Youth Commander
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. 1st Calvary Division. Recipient of the Bronze Star
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24, 1944
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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. USS West Virginia (BB-48); one of two men who survived the direct hit of a Japanese bomb on Turret No. 3; lived through 13 sea battles in World War II; saw combat in the Korean War
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WWII - D-Day. 29th Infantry Division, 3rd Battalion, 115th Regiment, Company I
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WWII - flight engineer and top turret gunner, "Flying Tigers", 22nd Bombardment Squadron
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WWII - Codebreaker; cracked Russian and German codes; does not speak or read any other language than English
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WWII: Arctic convoy veteran on the merchant tanker 'British Promise', carrying highly explosive airplane fuel during three convoys
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WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, Original Band of Brothers; co-author of 'Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends'
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Retired General
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Battle Zone Combat Rescue Pilot that fought for women's rights to fight in combat/Running for Senator for Texas
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(Born 1946) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. While serving aboard the USS Canberra, Hegdahl was blown overboard off the deck of the ship in the Gulf of Tonkin and was taken as a Prisoner of War by the North Vietnamese. POW from 1967 to 1969
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US Marine, 2 Vietnam tours of duty. Stationed on the USS Hornet in 1969 during it's Apollo 11 recovery, served as a guard of the crew and later, the command module. Held a rifle at attention as Nixon welcomed the quarantined crew back
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Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
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WWII: 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Broup; Herbert Heilbrun piloted a B-17 Flying Fortress and was escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen. 32 missions including Linz, Austria, and Brux, Czechoslovakia, After the war test pilot at Wright Field, Dayton Ohio
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Born 1940 US Navy Vietnam War Veteran. Was a became a POW in 1966. Bronze Star, 3 Leigon of Merit?s, Purple Heart, and a Silver Stat recipient
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Army Air Corps, 31st Bomb Squadron, Hickam Field. Then B-17 pilot Europe. 78 fighter-unsupported missions over Italy, Austria, Hungary, Germany (Leader for the 2nd Bombd Group, 20th Squ). DFC, Purple Heart
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WWII: Belgian-born Air Gunner on Blenheim with 235 Sqn Coastal Command during the Battle of Britain
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USMC General
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Retired General
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WWII German Luftwaffe PILOT BRIGADIER GENERAL(1913-1992) He won the Knight's Cross & He was Commodore of IV./ KG 51 & 30
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US Marine Corps WW2 Veteran. Was at the invasion of Saipan and the battle of Iwo Jima. Got the Bronze Star for his actions at Saipan
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army general
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, 82nd Airborne Division
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(Born 1948) US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1968 to 1973. Recipient of a Bronze Star and 2 Purple Hearts
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Battle of the Atlantic. He survived the sinking of the USS Block Island (CVE-21) that was the only US aircraft carrier sunk by Nazi Germany on 29 May 1944 by U-549 by 3 torpedo hits
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Wwii:wasp
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Super Bowl Sunday 1969 he hijacked United Airlines flight to Havana. A former Green Beret, his mission to get Fidel Castro. Reds boarded a 727 from Miami forced pilot to fly to Cuba. He had the pilot send a message, 'Tell Fidel, El Rojo is coming.'
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WWII: PTO. USS McFarland, USS Bradford. He was aboard the USS McFarland on the night of Dec. 6, 1941. On the night watch, he reported a flare no one could identify (now thought to be from a Japanese mini-sub assisting the Pearl attack)
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WWII: ETO. Arctic Convoy veteran, serving on the HMS Kent
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Ret. Lt. General of the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. STS-54 (1993) ,STS-64 (1994) , STS-78(1996) ,STS-101 (2001) - ExpediciÃ-³n 2 (2001)
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. He is now the last verified surviving aircrew of the Battle of Britain. He lives in a retirement home near Dublin, born 17-07-1919
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Former Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada from 2001 to 2004
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII US Navy WAVE veteran, born 1921. Joined the Navy after her husband became a Flying Tiger in the war. Did clerical duties in DC through the war
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WWII: CBI. Lt. Col. bombardier on the bomber that destroyed the famous 'Bridge on the River Kwai'
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Retired U.S. Navy - former Commanding Officer of the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and the USS Juneau (LPD-10)
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WWII: USS Helena
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma
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WWII: PTO. SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber Pilot. USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)
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Retired USMC General
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Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
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army general
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army general
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Last survivor of the sinking of HM Submarine Truculent that sank in the Thames Estuary, with 64 men dead and only 15 survivors, in January 1950. Born: 1925. He lives in Chatham, Kent, UK
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WW2/79th Regiment, demolition squad, His company had 3 platoons that were involved with communications, ammunitions and engineering/Henley's regiment was headed to capture the seaport town of Cherbourg France when D-Day invasion had begun
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German ww2 veteran and pow and author
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WW2 Fighter Pilot (B: 1922) in the United Kingdom Air Force from 1941 to 1945 and at age 100 ran 100 miles to support young men and women in service
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island
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WWiI: Battle of Attu veteran
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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Pierre Henry (2)Tuskegee Airmen
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Pearl Harbor survivor, born 1920. Served in the Navy on the USS Helena from 1939 to 1942. Became a Fire Chief Control Technician after the war
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WWII vet - served as part of a black/African American unit that didn't fight combat in battle of Iwo Jima but still saw the raising of the flag. Survived COVID-19 at the age of 100
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Black WWII US Army vet (1923-2020), spent decades fighting his biased 'blue discharge' release. Finally upgraded to an honorable discharge in 2019. Died of COVID-19 in 2020
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Finish WWII Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Antares
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American WWI balloonist, Craig Herbert of the 2nd Balloon Company
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WWII: Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge
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medal of honor army vietnam
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9th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON 9), from 1998-2002
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WWII: Germany, Wehrmacht, Knights Cross
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Retired Navy Admiral
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medal of honor army korean war
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Doolittle's Raiders crew #8 Navigator/Bombadier/Nose Gunner
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Army 348th Engineer Combat Battalion
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WWII: PTO. Navy, USS Santee
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Vietnam War correspondent
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Lz xray 1965
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11 year old witness to the 1945 Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion. Helping his dad work on the car, he saw the mushroom cloud in the distance. Survived cancer, but lost many family and friends in the area downwind of the test site
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medal of honor army ww11
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air force general businessman
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Detroit (CL-8)
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WWII: PTO. Navy, USS Ancon. Witness to the surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945
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United States Naval Reserve officer and a recipient of America's highest military decorationâ-'the Medal of Honor-'for his actions in World War II
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Col, U.S. Army (Ret.) is an author and retired counterintelligence officer with extensive interrogation experience in three wars (Vietnam, Operation JUST CAUSE, and Operation DESERT STORM/Fall of Saigon evacuee
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WW2 Luftwaffe Ace. 'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'German'
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Pennsylvania
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WWII: 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, 8th AF ('Bloody Hundredth'). Homebase: Thorpe Abbots, UK. Tail gunner on 'Heaven Sent,' a B-17 Flying Fortress (43-38414); flew 33 missions including Merseburg and Hamburg
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USS Indianapolis survivor from De Leon Springs, Florida
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Army General
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Retired Army General, author, speaker, CNN Analyst
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Romanian WWII Veteran
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One of the Original Rosie The Riveters
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Former WWII German General
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U.S. Army National Guard soldier, Recipient of the Silver Star
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air force general
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Vietnam Veteran. Was in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970
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One of six remaining survivors from the U.S.S. Arizona as a result of the Pearl Harbor attack. He is supposed to live in Las Vegas
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WWII Veteran, his Army Air Corps unit provided air cover for Army General George S. Patton. Hetzel was a part of five major battles in the war in Europe with the Battle of the Bulge being his last
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The last survivor of the Bismarck, WWII, former German Navy soldier, resides in Essen-Steele/Germany
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Former British Royal Air Force commander
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pelias. Went on to serve in both the Atlantic and Pacific campaigns, including seven successful round-trip escorts aboard the USS Hissem and the USS O?Reilly to Europe and North Africa
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WWII: ETO. 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group. 4 victories. Silver Star, 4 DFC's, 13 Air Medals
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Son of Nazi Leader from WWII
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WW2/Korea/Vietnam Veteran Pilot
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'Red Devil' paratrooper Major Tony Hibbert -WWII
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US Marine Corps Sniper Vietnam Veteran. In 1966 he was wounded (and later got the Purple Heart) by mortar fire by the VietCong (Born 1945)
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air force general
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Tuskegee Airman born August 6, 1925
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Former baseball player for the 1956 Detroit Tigers. Also was a member of the US Armed Air Force
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Vietnam War: US employee who helped evacuate Vietnamese people who had worked for the USA in the last days of the war
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WWII US Army veteran, born 1917. Went through Africa, Italy, and in France worked with the French Resistance. Helped in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp
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Current United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 9 kills
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WWII: PTO. Luzon, Northern Solomons, New Guinea. Bronze Star, Purple Heart. 43rd ?Winged Victory? Division, 169th Infantry Regiment
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Whitney
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WWII: PTO. Served in the USS Bennington (Iwo Jima, Okinawa)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Military Intelligence Service, 96th Division. Grew up on Okinawa and used his Okinawa dialect to convince local non-combatants hiding inside to surrender peacefully and without harm during the battle
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American conservative political activist, author, and former U.S. Navy SEAL. Regular commentator on Fox News, CNN, and Newsmax. Best known for promoting the birther conspiracy theory about Barack Obama
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Tuskegee Airmen 'LA Chapter'
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Retired USMC General
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Tuskegee Airmen 'LA Chapter' B-25 Pilot with 477th Medium Bomber Group!
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WWII: MTO/ETO. Landed in North Africa, Sicily and southern France. 431st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 44th Anti-Aircraft Brigade
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Navy Captain; Part of the Blue Angels
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Pearl Harbor survivor at the Naval Air Station on Ford Island. Born in 1921 in Oklahoma, he also survived the dust bowl of the 1930s
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WWII: PTO. USS Washington
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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Bill Hill (2) WWII Pearl Harbor survivor, Schofield Barracks
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Member of 'The Essex', a R&B group, the only active duty military personnel to record a number one hit while on active duty ('Easier Said Than Done', 9 July 1963)
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Born: 1932. Ex Secret Service Agent in President Kennedy's motorcade during the assassination. Hill is the last surviving passenger of the presidential limousine which arrived at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963
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Fighter ace- Flying Tigers
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WW2, and was stationed in Normandy, France
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(born 12 December 1915) is a retired British Royal Air Force officer. From 1966 to 1969, she served as Director of the Women's Royal Air Force
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WW2 air ace - 8 Kills - USAAF
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WW2 - US Navy Fighter Ace, VF-5 - 7 Kills
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Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
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army general
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WWII: Merchant Marine. Murmansk Run, Pacific, Mediterranean, White Sea, Africa, Middle East
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WWII - WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)
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British fighter ace from WW2
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Tuskegee Airmen
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navy admiral
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Royal millitary
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British U-Boat hunter of the costal command in WW2
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Former Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces, 2005 to 2008
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WW2 - Fighter Ace - USAAF - 365-FG - POW - 5 Kills
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Navy fighter ace ww2
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The only known British survivor of the International Brigades who fought with left-wing forces against General Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. He now lives in Australia
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WW2 Veteran:123rd Quartermaster Truck Company/After D - Day invasion 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division/Served D - Day, Normandy, Belgium, Germany & Rhine River
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German WWII Veteran, Battle of Stalingrad
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'Patton Trooper member for mechanized calvary company WW2'
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air force marshal england
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: ETO. 70th Infantry Division, C Company, 276th Regiment. Battle of the Bulge
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WWII/JFK - Iwo Jima survivor; also fought at Choiseul Island Raid (1943), serving directly under Charles Krulak, later Marine Corps commander), Land Battle of Vella Lavella (1943). During the Raid on Choiseu, he met John F. Kennedy
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New Zealand Military - awarded the Victoria Cross at Kalamai, Greece, on 28th/29th April 1941
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WWII combat veteran who served as a Quartermaster aboard the USS Blessman DE69/APD48 crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans numerous times. He participated in the landings at Normandy, Lingayen Gulf and Iwo Jima
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WWII - US Marines, Iwo Jima 1945. Purple Heart. Was hit by shrapnel as he stepped off the Higgins Boat onto Iwo, got his wounds patched by corpsman John Bradley, one of the famous flag-raisers. Hipps guarded both flag-raisings
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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Japanese WWII Veteran, retired Japanese Naval Commander, CEO - Task Force Japan L.L.C
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Japanese WWII Veteran, Kamikaze Pilot
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Dutch WWII veteran. Last surving member of the No. 320 Netherlands Squadron RAF
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WWII Veteran, Who Was A Front-Line Bomber Against The Nazis, Royal Canadian Air Force
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Co-pilot of the 16th B-25 in the Doolittle Raid in WWII, spent three years as a POW. Born: 03/03/1920
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Retired General
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Politician
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WWII: PTO 132nd Infantry Regiment, 23rd Infantry Division. Battle of Guadalcanal, Bronze Star
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WWII: D-Day veteran from Norway
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WWII: ETO. 445th Bomb Group (Jimym Stewart's group), 701st and 703rd Bomb Squadrons
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Singaporean WWII vet, born 1920. Last surviving Singaporean pilot of the Flying Tigers. Served in the Chinese American Composite Wing, assigned to the 14th US Air Force. 18 B-25 missions. Career as Captain with Malaysia-Singapore Airlines
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former Marine Corps General
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Mercenary leader of 'The Wild Geese,' known for military battles in Africa and the Indian Ocean, full name is Thomas Michael Hoare
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air force general
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WWII - D-Day Omaha Beach. Co A, 115th Inf., 29th Div
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Dutch WWII veteran. Was in Dutch East Indies and Indonesian Revolution
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WWII: Pearl Harbor Survivor, 7 December 1941
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Jerry T. Hodges Jr was born on June 29, 1925 in Tennessee. He became one of many Tuskegee Airmen. He went into WW2 from 1944 to 1945 and became a businessman after the war
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Supercentenarian (1888-2003), one of the last black US WWI veterans. Served as a stevedore in France and knew Gen. Pershing
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WWII - Contemporary witness "Operation Elster", a Nazi German mission to gather intelligence on and sabotage the Manhattan Project. Nazi agents landed in Maine on Nov. 30, 1944. Herbert's brother's vigilance led to their fast arrest
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He is a WWII veteran and currently resides in Ontario,
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks/Wheeler Field
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII: Battle of the Atlantic. He survived the sinking of the USS Block Island (CVE-21), the only US aircraft carrier sunk by Nazi Germany on 29 May 1944. Served on the next USS Block Island (CVE-106) until the end of the war
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WWII: PTO. Serving as Quarter Master during WWII on the USS Alabama, he steered the battleship through 8 major battles and a typhoon
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US Realtor/Businessman, born 1943. Ambassador to Portugal (2005-2007), Republican operative. Met Eisenhower in the Oval Office while a military cadet in 1953
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(Born 1941) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1971 to 1973. Recipient of Defense Superior Service Medal, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, and 3 Purple Hearts
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Air Force General
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German ww2 pilot
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navy admiral
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WWII: PTO. USS Navy. USS Bailey. Battle of the Komandorski Islands
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Four-star general in the US Army who currently serves as chief of the National Guard Bureau
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Combat medic, Company C, 312th Medical Bn, 87th Infantry Division
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D-Day landings veteran. He lives in the UK. Also a Fleet Air Arm Veteran
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WWII: D-Day, USS Arkansas
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navy admiral
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor (PBY - Squadron VP23/ Ford Island), Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal, later B-24 flight engineer for anti - submarine patrols off the coast of France. Born December 13, 1921
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devil dog defender (wake island) marines ww11
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal, the Northern Solomon Islands and Luzon. 35th Infantry
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining. He served duties on the island of Roi Namur, Kwajalien, Tinian, Saipan and Iwo Jima
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former Air Force General
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WWII: Captain of the 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group (England-based)
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Centenarian (1899-2004). US Army WWI veteran in France. Cannoneer on the Western front, later in the war rode a Harley motorcycle as a dispatcher
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WWII: CBI. Member of the Merrill?s Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit. Bronze Star
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Centenarian (1898-2004). One of the last living Canadian WWI vets and the last Canadian to see combat in WWI
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Phoenix
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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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WWII German officer
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Retired Army General
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British Journalist WW2 reported on the outbreak of WWII. Lives in Hong Kong. Born: 10/10/1911
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, 6th Defense Battalion. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Mr. Hollis was assigned to Midway Islands in 1942 to defend the atoll
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WWII - Witness to the Japanese bombardment of coastal targets near Santa Barbara, CA on February 23, 1942, an event that was the inspiration for the John Belushi movie "1941"
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American WWII-Pilot, P-51, First black helicopter pilot in the U.S. Air Force
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WWII - West Point graduate, a World War II fighter ace, and the commander-in-chief of the Strategic Air Command (SAC)
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Former Chief of Navy Operations (1974-1978)& commander of 1st nuclear sub
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WWII: Tuskegee Airman
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air force general
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WWII: 11th Armored Division, 1943-1946. Advanced through Germany and overran both Mathausen and Gusen. A Finnish immigrant, Holma was preparing to leave for D-Day but was pulled off the loading ramp to avoid fighting his birth country
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One of the lead pilots on the Yamamoto Mission in WW2. Lives in the SF Bay Area.
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WWII - Pacific Theatre; last survivor of the sinking of the USS Juneau (sank at Battle of Guadalcanal)
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WWII airman, served in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, helping with various covert operations and missions in Europe
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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George 'Sonny' Holt has flown in B-25s, RB-57s, RB-66s, B-47s, and the B-58
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Early experimental research test pilot for the X-1 aircraft and other aircraft. In 1952, Holtoner became the commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base
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Tuskegee Airmen, WWII
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Australian WWII veteran
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WWII and Korea, 101st Airborne, C Company, 506th P.I.R. - POW during WWII
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101 Squadron Lancaster pilot and veteran of 32 operations, WWII pilot
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Block Recreation Center, Oahu
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Lt. Gen. Commander Of 1st U.S. Army, Spearheaded Aid In New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina Clean-up
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USAF General
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(Born 1946) US Army Vietnam Veteran. 220th Aviation Company in South Vietnam from September 1968 to March 1969, when he was wounded in combat. Silver Star Recipient
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Doolittle Raider, Pilot Crew #2
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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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Retired USMC General
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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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WWII: Battle of Midway pilot
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air force general
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '99th Fighter Squadron' 'Class of 44-J'!
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, 24th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks. Later later fought in the jungles of New Guinea
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Vietnam War Veteran:Air Force
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WWII: MTO. Battle of Salerno, Battle of Monte Cassino. 36th Infantry Division
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WWII: CBI. Assiniboine code talker 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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air force general
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WWII: D-Day. 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He is the paratrooper on the famous Life cover dated August 14, 1944
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Air Force General, Co-Author with Tom Clancy
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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Wwii: wasp
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Former member of the SAS involved in the 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege
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WWII: Navy. Served in 5 ships, survived being torpedoed while on the USS Benham and survived the sinking of the USS Helena in the Battle of Kula Gulf
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Steve Horton (3)Military Air Force Thunderbirds, 52nd Fighter Wing Vice Commander (Spangdahlem Air Force Base in Germany)
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New Zealand RAF pilot in WWII
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doolittles raiders crew #10 gunner
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Air force general. Top graduate of the first Air Force Academy graduating class in 1959. Also the first USAFA graduate to come back as superintendent
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WWII: Marine Corps chaplain in the Pacific
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Nazi general
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WWII: US NAvy Ace who led the attack at the Yamato (the largest battleship ever built) on April 7, 1945, that eventually sank her
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41st Judge Advocate General of The U.S. Navy
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Retired Royal military, current member of The House Of Lords
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British Army officer who was Commading General Officer in Northern Ireland during the 'Troubles'
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Marine Corps Staff Sergeant when he led an eighteen-man reconnaissance patrol in a fierce battle against a battalion of Viet Cong in June 1966. As a result of his heroic actions, Howard became the sixth U.S. Marine to be awarded the Nation?s highest
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First four-star female Navy Admiral
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Medal of Honor 'US Army Vietnam'
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Former Football player. Played 4 seasons for the New York Yankees, and Cleveland Browns as a running back. Also is a World War 2 veteran
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retired Navy admiral/deputy assistant of National Security Affairs under President George Bush Sr., PhD, NATO commander, author
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WWII Veteran
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Retired General
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WWII: PTO. USMC 1943-1945. Battle of Peleliu. After the war, friend to actors like Roy Rogers, Michael Landon, Charles Ingalls, Jonathan Smith or George Lindsey
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WW II Sailor; office/survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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WWII: CBI. Member of the 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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WWII served as commanders of 2nd Battalion/13th Armor Regiment (1943)/13th Armor Regiment (1943?44); 1st Armored Division, Italy (44?45)/ Bri. Gen. in 1952 Assistant Commanding Gen., 2nd Armored Div., European Command, until 1954
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WWII American Merchant Marine Veteran World War 2
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Ukrainian Soldier, 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine. On the first day of the invasion, Snake Island was attacked. After a Russian Warship demanded that he surrender, he famously responded 'Russian Warship, Go F*** yourself. Taken POW
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WWII: Served with the 101st Medical Regiment attached to 52nd Field Hospital at Guadalcanal
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ETO: 302nd Signal Operation Battalion
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WWII: CBI. Member of 475th Infantry Regiment of the MARS Task Force. His job was to block the Burma road so the Japanese could not use it
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WWII: D-Day. Landed with LST-510 on Omaha Beach around noon of June 6, 1944. 90-millimeter artillery gunner of Battery B of the 110th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. The 110th AAA would be credited as the first US unit to enter Paris
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker
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Author, Died on the RMS Lusitania
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WWII: CBI. US Army Air Corps, 10th AF. Radar operator and technician for the fighter planes P-40 and P-47
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Retired USMC General
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CAPT - USMC, US NAVY Blue Angels C-130 'Fat Albert' Pilot
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WWII: Hudgins joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos after writing a letter to Dorothy McKibbin as a chemist and metallurgist with the Special Engineer Detachment. He was born in 1924
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Korea, Vietnam: Captain Hudner received the Medal of Honor for his actions in trying to save the life of his wingman, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War, by intentionally crash-landing his plane
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WWII, flew Lancaster bomber
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John Hudson (2)USAF General
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, Bronze Star, Purple Heart
