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Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
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JFK - Leading Honor Guard horse rider at the Kennedy funeral, 25 November 1963
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Former Romanian general and defector during the Cold War, probably living in the USA
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Army 9th Air Corps Pilot who flew the Martin B-26 Marauder during WWII. Lives in Botca Ridge, FL
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII British Fighter Pilot Ace.
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army general
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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medal of honor marines ww11
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Real life Rosie the Riveter; worked B-29 line in Wichita, KS. Volunteer on Doc restoration. Most of her original rivets from when she installed them at 18 years old were still sound
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WWII: Served on the destroyer USS Dale (DD-353) from 1942-45. Battle of Komandorski Islands (Aleutians Campaign, March 1943), Central Pacific 1943/44 (Makin, Kwajalein, Eniwetok), 1944/45 Saipan, Guam, Battle of the Philippine Sea
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army general
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WWII:_ PTO. Served on the submarine USS Finack. While on its 10th war patrol, the Finback -- with Andrew at the helm and the first man on deck -- rescued Lt. J.G. George Herbert Walker Bush
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Palermo was part of the 2nd wave at Omaha Beach. He piled out of a Higgins boat, into a storm of bullets and bombs. This was followed by an hour dug into the bloody sand, while 2,500 men died around him
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U.S. Air Force in 1966 and served as a Weapons Specialist on Phantom F-4D fighter aircraft at bases in West Germany, Italy, and Libya
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WWII Nazi War Criminal; was a guard at Trawniki labor camp; his US citizenship has been revoked but he originally couldn'tt be deported because no country would take him; has since been deported to Germany
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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 pilot - Battle of Britain
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Retired General
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David Palmer (4)
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WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII Veteran
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WW2 US Army Veteran, Malmedy Massacre Survivor!
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Romanian WW1 vet
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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US WWII vet, born 1921 in Italy. Through Ellis Island to the US in 1927. Sent to fight the Japanese in the Aleutians, Alaska
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Member of the Republic of China Air Force's 'Black Cat' Squadron, which operated U-2 surveillance from 1961-1974
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WWII: US Navy, carrier pilot. Survived the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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USCG Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Born 1931, Military leader of Panama,1982-1983
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. 320th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Balloon Barrage Battalion (African-American unit), landed with 3rd wave at Omah Beach, spent 68 days there, raising hydrogen-filled barrage balloons to deny low-level airspace to enemy planes
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS T. Louis
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CEO of the Wyche Law Firm and former F16 fighter pilot who is running for lieutenant governor of South Carolina
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Military
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Lz xray 1965 nam was in bristow,ok but not now
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS McCawley (AP-10) off the coast of Guadalcanal Island, 30 June 1943
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WWII: ETO. 333rd Regiment, 84th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge (Bronze Star), Siegfried Line
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Retired Vice Admiral
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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WWII Rosie the Riveter, photographed working with her sister Naomi Parker Fraley in WWII. Revealed in 2015 that her sister's photo was the inspiration for the iconic We Can Do It WWII Rosie poster
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'Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Pilot'
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John Parkinson (2) Korean War: Battle of Chosin Reservoir, US Marine Corps
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WWII: Guadalcanal campaign, Battle of Cape Gloucester. Korean War. Commended for his cour-age and coolness under fire by both his command-ing officers and the men that served with him, who dubbed him 'The Real John Wayne'. Silver Star
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Polish World War One Veteran
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Member of the Annex Security Team that fought the Battle of Benghazi, Libya, from September 11 to September 12, 2012. 13 Hours Movie Basis
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Fighter Ace USAF - Korea - 10 Kills - DSC Korea - AFC Viet Nam - Credited with last air to air kill in the Korean War
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal (AR-4, a repair ship moored alongside USS Arizona, at berth F 7, off Ford Island)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor Survivor, 7 December 1941; Army motor mechanic stationed on the island Oahu
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WWII: 327th Glider Regiment, 101st Airborne Div. Due to a shortage of gliders, he arrived in France only on D-Day+1, landed with his glider in Holland in Sept. 1945 (Operation Market Garden), also in the Battle of the Bulge near Bastogne
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Born March 1921 was a member (Navy WAVES) of an all-women's German code-breaking team during WW2
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WWII: One of the first WAC during the war. She wrote a book about her experience, titled 'First WAC'
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United States Navy - served from 1944 to 1975
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Filipino WWII Veteran, U.S. Army. In July 1942, his Filipino squad ambushed a train carrying Japanese troops, cutting off the officers' heads to present to their commanding officer; the Japanese captain on the train had brutalized Filipinos.
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WWII veteran, Schofield Barracks at Pearl Harbor
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WWII: Served as a medic in Europe, beginning with the Battle of Normandy, landing at Utah Beach a couple days after D-Day and spent his last days in Germany tending to the Jewish Holocaust survivors at Buchenwald
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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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: D-Day, 101st Airborne 401st Glider Infantry Regiment but went ashore on a landing craft at Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944
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Brazilian Military/Political Leader. Born: 01/11/1920
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WWII: Medical Detachment, 3d Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division. Battle of the Bulge
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Emergency room technician, HS English and drama teacher, health care administrator, marketing executive, former Air Force member, professional actor, comic, and musician, author and professional speaker
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Last British WW1 Veteran/Centenarian Born: 06/17/1898. WW1 Veteran
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Italian WWII Veteran
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WWII: ETO. 8th AF, Carpetbaggers Special Operations
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talkers'
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Brigadier GeneralChief Of Staff US Central Command
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WWII: Pacific Theater 1941-1945. 1st Platoon, G Company, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division. Battle of Guna-Bona, Sanananda , New Guinea, Leyte, Philippines, Luzon. Silver Star, 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII Veteran, Fox Company, D-Day veteran
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WWII - D-Day. Fox Company, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne, flanked the famous Easy Company (Band of Brothers); also jumped at OperatÃon Market Garden
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Greek military man and one of the masterminds of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/9/67 - 1/68 -- Cam Ranh Bay 1/68 - 7/68 An Khe (1st Air Cav and 173rd Airborne)
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII - 486th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, 'Bluenosed Bastards of Bodney'. P-51 pilot with 5 air to ground victories (a 'strafing Ace'). Also Flew PT-17, BT-13, AT-6, P-40 and P-47. He flew with his twin brother, Maj. Gen. Cuthbert 'Bill' Pattill
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Maj. Gen. Cuthbert 'Bill' Pattillo was a P-51 pilot in WWII. Flew with his twin brother, Lt. Gen. Charles 'Buck' Pattillo. Bill shot down a ME-262 German Jet. 6 days later, Bill was shot down himself, and became a POW to the Germans
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American ww2 pilot
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in London, UK. He was a paratrooper from the 9th Battalion Parachute Regiment
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Tuskegee Airman
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son of ww11 army officer-military leader
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Wwii - wasp
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WWII - Crew member of the USS Saratoga ('Sister Sara') from 1941 until the end of WWII, survivor of the Kamikaze attack on 21 February 1945. when the Sara was hit by 6 Kamikaze in 3 minutes
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Retired General
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WWII: USS Drexler survivor, which was sunk after attacks from a kamikaze on May 28, 1945
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Victorian cross, army aust. vietnam war hero. Also awarded the DSC and Silver Star from the United States
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Sergeant Major Delta Force Operation Inherent Resolve
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98 year old fighter ace WWII, Pacific theatre
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WWII vet of the Tarawa battle. Seen being carried off wounded in the 1945 Best Oscar Documentary Short 'With the Marines at Tarawa'
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales on 10 December 1941
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British Ace w/six Vic's in WW2
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Royal military
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker.One of two surviving WWII Navajo Code Talkers. Born 04/28/1925
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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2007-09)
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WWII Fighter Ace (6 Victs.)- US Navy
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Robert Pearce (2)Aerographer's Mate 1st Class, USN, Fleet Air Wing 10 Weather Observer, flying through the eye of typhoons and participating in 50 missions in the South China Sea searching for downed aircraft. Pacific Theater of Operations
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Highly decorated British navy officer from WW2
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Peter Pearson (2)Royal millitary
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WWII: New Zealand fighter pilot and flying ace. Europe/No. 610 Squadron; North Africa, Malta, Sicily, Italy, Far East/No. 81 Squadron. 6 victories. Notable for having shot down aircraft from all 3 main Axis powers'ermany, Italy and Japan
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Former Army General
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Air Force General
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WWII: PTO. USS Enterprise (CV-6) 1942-1945
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WWII US Marines veteran, born 1925. Aboard the USS Missouri, he was part of the Japanese Surrender ceremony's honor guard on September 2, 1945
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WW2/B-17 'Miss Carriage' bombardier/306th BG/POW Stalag Luft 3 Sagan Silesia Bavaria Move/forced to march 300 miles and held for a year at the Nazi prison Stalag Luff 7 until liberated by troops under Gen. George Patton's in April 1945
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Flight Lt., 'Royal Air Force Captain'
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Retired Admiral
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WWII - 9th Army Air Corps, 434 Troop Carrier Group, 71st Troop Carrier Squadron; Radio operator on C-47 42-24022 'Butch' , 3 trips on D-Day incl. first dropping 101st Airborne Pathfinders. Operation Market, Bastogne, Operation Varsity
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WWII - D-Day. Pathfinder paratrooper for the 101St Airborne (Screaming Eagles), one of the first men to jump into Normany
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WWII: US Navy. Survied the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII: 5th Army, 91st Infantry Division, 362 Regiment, 1st Battalion, Company C, 2nd Platoon, 2nd Squad. Battle of Rome
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WWII: British Murmansk run veteran
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Mahan (DD-364) from April to December 1944 and survived the Kamikaze attack on Dec. 7, 1944 (Battle of Ormoc Bay) between Leyte and Ponson Island, when 3 out of 7 Kamikaze hit the ship
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WWII: Guadalcanal (Battle of the Tenaru) August 1942, Cape Gloucester, Pavuvu. 1st Marine Division
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Wwii navy
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British Major General, in charge of the Royal Artillery forces in the Falklands War and as a witness signed the Argentine surrender document
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WWII: PTO. Iwo Jima survivor
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Crewman USS Ward 139, the first American Ship to engage the Japanese in WW2 at Pearl Harbor, sinking their mini-submarine
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WWII: ETO. B-24 navigator at the end of the war in the same squadron as later senator and Democratic Party presidential nominee George Stanley McGovern: 741st Bomb Squadron, 455th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. Bombing missions to Austria
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USS Pueblo survivor, Korean POW
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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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WWII: ETO. B-17G 'Angel in Di-Skies' aka 'Angel in Disguise' (#42-37906). 568th Bomb Squadron, 390th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 16 missions as a B-17 ball turret gunner. Shot down on Aug. 2, 1944, POW at Stalag Luft IV
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Member Of Band Of Brothers, 506th Easy Company WWII
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Navy USS Joseph T Hickman
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U.S. Army 1942-1946
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Retired United States Army four-star general who last served as the chief operating officer of the federal COVID-19 response for vaccine and therapeutic
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, landing near to the town of Sainte-Mère-Église. 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Division, 82nd Airborne Division
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JFK - Honor Guard at the State funeral of President John F. Kennedy
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Air Force General
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WWII: ETO. Ball-turret gunner. 533th Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group
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Retired General
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'Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Pilot'
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Centenarian (1896-2002). US WWI veteran, served in France
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America's first six star General. Led U.S. forces in the first World War
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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100 Year old WW 2 Codebreaker,
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Former general of the German Democratic Republic's army
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Enlisted US Air Force in 1942 during World War II. Peterburs served in 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, & he piloted a P-51 Mustang; on 10 April 1945, he shot down Walter Schuck's Me 262
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German ww2 pilot
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British Tornado pilot, was the first POW of the Gulf War in 1991
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One of the last five survivor's of the Sinking of the Bismarck, that sunk on 27 May 1941. He is now 93 years old and lives in Reinbek, Germany
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Nuse at ww2 nazi camp dascha
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Retired USMC General
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WWII: CBI. Of 1st Bn, 915 Winnipeg Grenadiers, who defended Hong Kong in December 1941. After the surrender, he was a POW until the end of the war. He is the last of the so-called 'Arden Seven'
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WWII: USS Augusta; Roosevelt and Churchill met aboard the Augusta on 9 Aug 1941. Peterson was assigned to the president's personal guard detail. He left the USS Augusta before D-Day and joined the Marines for Guam and Iwo Jima
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WW1 Veteran/Born 1900/Lives in Spokane,Wa.
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale (DD-353). Later served on the USS Kalk (DD-611) from the Aleutians to Okinawa
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C.G. US Army Combined Arms Command; Director of the CIA (2011-)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4). Petretti hauled dead or horribly wounded young sailors into a motor launch
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Italian ww2 ace
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Retired Russian Colonel who prevented a Worldwide Nuclear War in 1983 by not responding to a false alarm that the United States had launched a nuclear missile
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Russian military officer. Former Marshall of the Soviet Union
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WWII: ETO. 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. The Ghost Army deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there
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Congessional medal of honor in afghanastan- only 2nd one in 40+ years alive that got it
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. 24th Infantry Division, Wheeler Field
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WWII: B-29 tail gunner in the Pacific- and China-Burma-India-Theater. He was assigned to a B-29 crew stationed in Guam. His plane 'The Uninvited' was called 'the last plane to bomb Japan.'
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Vietnam Veteran Pilot
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World war 2 german fighter ace
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Italian WWII-Fighter Ace
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Crewmember USS Ward 139, the first American ship to engage the Japanese at Pearl Harbor when it sank thier mini-submarine
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 912th Field Artillery Battalion
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
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WWII: Merchant Marine veteran. Traveling the Atlantic and Pacific, his service includes D-Day (his ship was grounded as part of one of the Mulberry harbous) and one Murmansk run
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WWII D-Day veteran, Utah Beach in the second wave . 4th Division, 8th Infantry
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Maryland. He was on the Maryland until March 1944 and also in the Battle of Tarawa since the Maryland was the flagship there
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu. Also Korean War
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge; liberation of Mauthausen camp (Austria). 11th Armored Div.. Phelps, as photographed sewings his pants with a sewing machine after the Battle of the Bulge, made it on the cover of the Yank magazine on Feb. 18, 1945
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Cardiologist who wrote a great book on his WWII experiences called The Other Side of Time (1987) which was reissued in 2002 as Our War For the World
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WWII German Major General
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WWII: 486th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force (Sudbury, England). He was a Nose Art artist who painted what became known as the 'Zodiac Bombers' because the aircraft featured (often frivolous) painting themed to the signs of the zodiac
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Distinguished Flying Cross for successful missions in the Raid on Rabaul
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps. Guadalcanal Campaign
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USN Admiral
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Ryan Phillips (4)Transported President George W. Bush to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, California on 1 May 2003. The flight officer was Lieutenant Ryan Phillips
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World War II Marine Corp veteran portrayed in the new mini-series 'The Pacific'. Also interviewed for Ken Burn's The War
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WWII Artist
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Aviator, WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) lives in Austin, TX
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WWII: Quartermaster, USS Laffey (DD-724), 'the ship that would not die'. D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action), surviving four bombs, six kamikaze crashes, and strafing
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WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941 survivor; USS Arizona. Read his story at http://my.execpc.com/-dschaaf/phraner.html
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WWII, 101st Airborne, Orig. Band of Brothers
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Born 1922, WWII: Royal Canadian Navy 1942-1945, ammunition loader on a four - inch anti aircraft gun. Served on the Tribal Class destroyer HMCS Iroquois on several Arctic Convoys to Murmansk
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WWII: PTO. USS Reid (DD-369)
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WWII: Battle of Britain pilot
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WWII: D - Day, Omaha Beach; Battle of St. Lo; Battle of Brest; seriously wounded in each battle, he was sent home after Brest. Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division
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air force general
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WWII: ETO. Survivor of the sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville on Dec. 24, 1944
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army general
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WWII: Veteran of the USS Yorktown. Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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First responding Police Officer to Rosa Parks' bus arrest in 1955, born 1926. A motorcycle cop who was blocks away when the call came in, he knew he could get there quicker than the police car could. He arrived first, and helped in taking Parks off the bu
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Centenarian (110) WW1 Veteran
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WWII: ETO. OSS: 'Jedburgh' espionage and guerrilla operation in Nazi-occupied France
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British glider pilot, born 1922
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British General, former C.O.of 3 Para during the Falklands War, knighted by the Queen
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WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
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WWII: CBI. 1 Bn (White Combat Team) of the Merrillâ-™s Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit. Purple Heart. Bronze Star
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WWII Veteran
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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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Last living member of the Flying Tigers
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Repulse on 10 December 1941 off Malaya, an event in the war that often is named 'Britain's Pearl Harbor'. Survived the sinking of his next ship, HMS Spartan, in 1944. Also recused troops at Dunkirk
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WWII: Medical Detachment, 3d Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Hürtgen Forest
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Spanish Civil War veteran who served in the International Brigades (Born: 1915) Age: 101. Lives in France
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining. While Pinto trained to be a Navajo Code Talker with the U.S. Marines, World War II ended before he would be sent overseas
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Portugese army officer and politician, Military Governor of the Azores from 1974 - 1976
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Latvian WW2 hero, last living 'Forrest Brother', probably living in Riga, also known as J?nis P?nups
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Mr. Piper admitted in April 2018 that he was not a D-Day veteran
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WWII: D-Day veteran, 505th PIR
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WWII Veteran, Pacific Theater
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WWII: Battle of Attu veteran
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American WWII Fighter Ace (10 Victs.)
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WWII: PTO. Radioman/gunner in a Curtis Helldiver (SB2C), participated in many battles and also helped sink the Yamato
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Marine Supertintendent Royal Fleet Auxiliary
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WW2 /From Monmouth in Gwent, was a Foreign Office civilian & member of legendary Dilly?s Girls, a group of young women who worked alongside the great Bletchley Codebreaker Dilly Knox breaking Italian & German secret service Enigma messages
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Author/'Inside the Third House'/Pacific Theater WW2/Commissioned in military intelligence/2 governors named him the Master of Ceremonies for State Texas/Served inaugural committees for Governors Shivers, Connally, Daniel, Smith & Briscoe
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Soldier in the United States Army during the Korean War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on November 26, 1950
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medal of honor marines vietnam
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2014 Medal of Honor recipient
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Brazilian WWII Vet, survived Covid-19
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WWII. Italian Fighter Ace
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Phelps
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6th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON)
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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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WWII: PTO. USS Astoria
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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Fmr commissioner of the IRS and former Civil War General
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Last living WWII veteran from French Guiana
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WWII Veteran, Tiger Tank
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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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Medal of Honor Recipient
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3 war vet-ww2/korea/nam-Retired COMMAND SGT. MAJOR- LZ X-RAY 1965. Depicted in the movie We Were Soldiers starring Mel Gibson and his character played by Sam Elliot
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WWII Veteran
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Played a crucial role in the development of Fort Drum in Northern New York
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air force general
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WWII: PTO. USS HOrnet (CV-8). Witness to the Doolittle Raiders taking off for Tokyo. He was on the Hornet from its initial launch in Norfolk, Virginia until its ultimate sinking on October 26, 1942 in the Battle of Santa Cruz
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WWII: USMC. GUadalcanal, Peleliu
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Survivor of the of HMS Royal Oak which was sunk by a German U-Boat at Scapa Flow in 1939
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WWII. PTO. Served on the submarine USS Skipjack, SS-184 (famous for the 'Battle for Toilet Paper')
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British Army officer best known for commanding the 5th Parachute Brigade, British 6th Airborne Division during the Battle of Normandy
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Former National Security Advisor (1985-1986)
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WWII US Navy WAVES veteran, born 1919. Worked in Washington, DC as one of the Navy's code-breaking 'Code Girls'
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air force general
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WWII veteran, born in the Ukraine and served in the Soviet Army (1942-45)
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
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WWII: Royal Canadian Navy 1942-1945. Served on the destroyer HMCS Huron (G24) protecting four Arctic convoys to Murmansk, also supported the D-Day landings in June 1944. Also served on the HMCS Pictou and HMCS Poundmaker
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German WWII awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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Director of the CIA, US House Representaive for Kansas, US Army (retired), Tea Party activist
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Fought at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. WWII Veteran featured in the HBO Miniseries 'The Pacific'. Pictured in the iconic Peleliu photograph of a Marine resting exhausted after 36 hours of combnat, helmeted head in his hands
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Flying Tigers-engineering specialist
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Philippine former Senate President. Secretary of National Defense under Ferdinand Marcos. Guerilla fighter during WWII
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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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Vietnam US Army Vet 1970-1971, 1st Calvary Infantry, ran patrols in hills and mountains
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Second Spanish Republic 'La quinta del biberón' fighter
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Josep Pons (2)Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1922) who was one the last soldiers to be drafted up for the conflict. He is also one of more than 200 living soldiers of 'La Quinta del Biberon' (Draft of the Baby's bottle)
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The last verified French World War One Veteran.Born: 12/07/1897
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 28th Marines, 5th MarDiv
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WWII: Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Okinawa. USS Balch
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USAAF Fighter Ace, 8th FG, 35th FS - 5 Kills
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First British soldier to land in France on D-Day
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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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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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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US Air Force pilot that was shot down in 1958 over Indonesia, was secretly working for the CIA helping the rebels to overthrow the Indonesian government
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Medal of Honor, USMC, World War II
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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 the U-486. 763 soldiers died, together with 56 of her crew
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JFK: Part of drill team that escorted President Kennedy's remains up the driveway to the North Portico when they arrived at the White House
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Served in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross
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George Porter (2) Tuskegee Airman
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WWII: PTO. USS Bunker Hill 1943-1945, survivor of the Kamikaze attack on 11 May 1945
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WWII - 12th Armorded Division; led first squad across the Danube River via Dillingen Bridge
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WWII: USMC fighter pilot, 2 victories
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WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
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Cuban exile militant and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent (Born: 1928). He is considered to be 'one of the most dangerous terrorists in recent history'. Age: 88. He now lives in Miami, U.S.A
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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SS Commando, Peace activist
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WW2/served at the end of WWII in occuped Japan. On V-J Day, his ship was in the process of crossing the international dateline, and his witnessed historic celebrations among his fellow sailors
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US Marine/Fall of Saigon Vietnam/Guarded embassy and was on the 2nd to-last helicopter out/Presently a Lawyer
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Member of the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo--WWII
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'Royal Air Force Test Pilot for the Development Flights of the Man-Powered Aircraft Jupiter'
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USS Arizona survivor, Pearl Harbor
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WW2 - Ploesti Raid
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma. (1920-2006)
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World War 2 veteran. Tuskegee Airman
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WWII - Fighter Ace born 12/31/1920, 6 victories. VF-16 (USS Lexington CV-16). Flew Hellcat and F4Wildcat
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WWII: Pacific. Served on the USS John Penn (survived her sinking after a Japanese air attack on Aug. 13, 1943) and the USS President Hayes
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Military
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Pulitzer Prize Winning Jazz Pianist/Composer. Big Band/Jazz HOF/During World War II, Powell was drafted into the U.S. Army, but fought his battles from a piano stool, having been assigned to Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band from 1943 to 1945
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William Powell (3) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale
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WWII: ETO. Fighter pilot 328th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, 8th AF
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WWII: Served on the USS Balch from 1939-1943. Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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Member of the Band of Brothers, Easy Company 506th PIR 101st. Airborne
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(August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident
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Last Female World War One Veteran (Canadian)Born: 05/10/1899
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WWII veteran, born 1925, served on the USS Bismarck Sea. Supported the Iwo Jima campaign, and survived the ship's sinking there by the Japanese
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WWII - D-Day veteran, wounded during the landing at Omaha Beach, laid out on the beach all night
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WW2 air ace - 9 Kills - US Navy - Navy Cross
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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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Korean War - Frank Praytor is the Seargent that adoped and looked after a two-week old kitten, he named 'Miss Hap', during the height of the Korean War, as is pictured in a famous War photograph, dated October 18, 1952
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WWII: Served on LST-474 in the Pacific
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WWII veteran, 45th Infantry Division. Part of the campaigns of Italy: Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio. Saw Mussolini's body hung in an Italian square, and one of the first groups to liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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WWII vet. WAC 1943-1946 - Army Good Conduct medal, WAC Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Honorable Service Lapel Pin
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One of the last survivors to have served in FDR's top-secret Map Room
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group Manhattan Project Veteran Military Veteran
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A quarterback from West Jefferson, Ohio, he was the backup for Team Captain George Lynn on the 1942 Ohio State National Championship team. Paul completed Army Air Force pilot training and flew 64 combat missions in Europe during WWII
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WWII Nazi War Criminal. Born: 07/29/1913. Responsible for killing 335 Italian civilists in May 1944 at the Fosse Ardeartine
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Mapmaker at Camp Malakole. Since he was familiar with the locations, he was called to pick up his skipper to drive him to Pearl Harbor where they arrived during the second wave of the attack and got strafed
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WWII: 9th Armored Division Headquarters Company, Reconnaissance Patrols. Among the first Americans to dash across the Luddendorf Bridge at Remagen, and one of those who painted the famous sign at the bridge
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French military officer who was involved in the sining of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985
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Former US Navy SEAL, founder and former CEO of security company Blackwater, USA
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Alamo Scout Leader of WWII raid on Cabanatuan POW Camp
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WWII: Fighter Pilot, 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group
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WWII: PTO. USS Nicholas
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, battle of Okinawa
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Montgomery
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, 116th IR, 29th Division. DSC
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Ukrainian military officer
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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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WWII: D-Day, first wave. Gunner on LST-515. One of the few men left of disastrous Exercise Tiger (D-Day landing practice, April 28, 1944), when German E-Boats attacked the practicing LSTs and sank 2 LSTs,damaging 2 others, killing 746 men
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Retired USN Admiral
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Air Force General
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Born Dec. 8, 1926. One of the most decorated military figures in history.With the Medal of Honor, Puckett will now have the following military citations: Medal of Honor (Korea) Distinguished Service Cross (Vietnam) Silver Star with first Oak Leaf Clu
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Author of My Final Re-Spot: A young sailor's misfortune on the flight deck of the USS Forrestal CV-59; American Naval veteran
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WWII - D-Day Omaha Beach; 1st Infantry Division; of the 38 men of his platoon, only 9 survived by the end of the war
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WWII: PTO. Edson's Raiders. Three Purple Hearts
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Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, is now living in Great Britain / England
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WWII - Navy veteran, observed the first flag raising in Iwo Jima, Japan, while aboard the LSM 241
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WW2 Bomber Pilot
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WWII: Serving with the Royal Army Service Corps, he was evacuated from Dunkirk (1940) in a frigate
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WW1 Veteran/Oldest pensioner - Deceased 2006
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WWII veteran who was stationed in Spain during the Spanish Ciivil War, while in the Navy. He helped in the evacuation of Americans from Spain at the time. Belved to the be the last surviving American assocated with that war.. Born 5/31/1918
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Bagley (DD-386)
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George Pyne (2) D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1920. He is now 94 and lives in Exeter, Devon, UK. He was on a landing craft when a mine exploded under it and survived. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
