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WWII Veteran, D-Day, Omaha Beach Normandy, France. 5th Rangers Battalion. Has an article about him on D-DAY Eyewitness Accounts Of WW2
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WWII: US Navy. Scotland; Russia; Caribbean
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Vice Admiral within the United States Navy and leader of the project to develop the Polaris missile system. Vice Admiral Raborn was also the 7th Director of Central Intelligence and the 5th Director of CIA
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Former Prime Minister of Fiji after leading a series of military coups
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WWII: PT boat gunner (PT-81) who saw action in the Aleutian Campaign and later in the Pacific, where he was severely wounded while defending a U.S. ammunition supply ship during a Japanese kamikaze attack, nearly losing an arm and a leg
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Robert Rackstraw (2)
Private investigative team believe D.B. Cooper is an individual named Robert Rackstraw who flew helicopters in the Vietnam War and is now 73 and living in the San Diego area -
British folk-singer/songwriter, youngest known participant in D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1928. He is now 88 and lives in the UK
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WWII: Pearl Harbor Survivor, 7 December 1941, served on the USS California
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WWII, German Fighter pilot, Jagdgeschwader 51 (JG 51)
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WWII: B-24 bomber pilot of the 53rd Bomb Group, 753rd Squadron, 8th Air Force, who was instructed by none other than Jimmy Stewart himself
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air force general
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Born 1938 US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. 2 Bronze Stars, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, 1 Legion of Merit, and 1 Defense Superior Service Medal
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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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Retired General
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Member of the AVG-Flying Tigers WWII--[3.5 victories]
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United States Army general, serves as the commanding general of United States Army Futures Command
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, aboard the USS Maryland. Fought the rest of the war in the Pacific front, witnessed the surrender of the Japanese from the deck of the USS Wilkes Barre (CL-103)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII air force hero & Ace (275 victories)
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Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (1996-2000); Supreme Allied Commander Europe NATO (2000-03)
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Military
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WWII Pilot aboard the USS Enterprise - Took part in the 'Marianas Turkey Shoot), Commander of USS Independence, RADM, Navy Cross Recipient
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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WWII: 91st Coast Artillery, Philippine Scouts. POW. Bronze Star
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US WWII Navy corpsman (medic), born 1925. Cared for the wounded/dying thru the Iwo Jima battle, one dying in his arms. Saw flag raised on Mt. Suribachi. Ship burials at sea continued going back to Pearl Harbor, where they learned FDR died
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WWII German Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot Ace with 46 victories
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British Army officer, served in the Indonesia?Malaysia confrontation and Northern Ireland
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US Army WWII vet. Served in the South Pacific
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World War One Veteran
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WWII: ETO/PTO. USS Nevada (BB-36). D-Day, Southern France, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. Survived a Kamikaze hit and a bombardment from a shore battery that struck the ship on starboard side; one shell passed directly through his bunk on the 2nd deck
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navy admiral
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navy
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WWII: ETO. Radio Operator, 297th Combat Engineering Battalion. Normandy, northern France, Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. Bronze Star
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International Brigade Rakosi Battalion, XIII Brigade
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WWII - Local Californian baseball icon; contemporary witness of the Port Chicago, CA, disaster in July 1944
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'Royal Air Force Group Captain Battle of Britain Museum Hendon'
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Retired Air Force General
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, aboard the USS Sacramento
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WWII Ace (10 Kills) 56th Fighter Group - USAAF - DSC
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Veteran of both World War 1 and World War 2
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1918-2010) , survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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Danish WWII Veteran
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WWII Army electrical engineer (b.1920) assigned to the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site. One of the last surviving witnesses of the first atomic explosion, the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945
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Norwegian WWII resistance fighter and politician
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WWII: PTO. 5th Air Force, 43rd Bomb Group, 63 Squadron
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: PTO. USS Franklin (CV-13)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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Iban Scout from Johore in Malaya, who won the British George Cross for gallantry
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WW II Sailor; survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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(Born 1954) US Marine Corps Gulf War Veteran. 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion, 1st Marine Division. Received the Navy Cross. Retired as a Colonel
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinian. USMC
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. First Marine Division
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII. PTO. USS John C. Butler. Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Leyte Gulf, a.o
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Tuskegee Airmen pilot
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WWII - Pearl Harbor. US Navy. The first diver to enter the sunken USS Arizona. Author of the book 'Descent into Darkness'. Born Oct. 18, 1920
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4-Star General: first Chief of Space Operations - United States Space Force. Currently oversees organizational stand-up & transfer of officers/enlisted personnel into the newest service branch. Previously was commander of US Space Command
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WWII: ETO. 333rd Squadron, 944th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. DFC
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WWII: 1st Bn, 27th Marine Regiment. Served in North Afric and the Pacific Theater
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Parachuted into Normandy France as part of the Normandy Invasion 6 June 1944 as well as a 95 year ols 75 years later
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(Born 1922) US Coast Guard WW2 Veteran. Utah Beach D-Day
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USN Flier. During World War II, he saw action in 11 battles in the Pacific theater and was awarded the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. He became a vice admiral in the Reserve in 1960
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Donut Dolly in Vietnam. Author
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Typhoon of 3 June 1945. US Navy, LST-1122
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WWII: PTO. Defense of Corregidor 1942. POW. Camp Cabantuan. Hellship Totori Maru. Osaka Camp #1, slave labor. Osaka Sakai Prison. 60th Coast Artillery
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US centenarian, born 2020. Served in the Civilian Conservation Corps (1938-39), then in the Air Force in Germany at the end of WWII (1945-46)
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WWII: Montford Point Marine (first African-American Marines), served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam
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WWII: US Navy. Aviation machinist mate aboard the escort carrier USS Petrof Bay in the Pacific ; his carrier was engaged in various battles, including Iwo Jima and Okinawa
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Battle of Stalingrad survivor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS San Faancisco
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WWII - Flying Tiger Ace, 10.5 victories
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US WWII Army veteran, born 1923. 45th Infantry, saw action at Anzio and Operation Dragoon in South France. Later, a Phys Ed teacher and member of NYS Wrestling Hall of Fame
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WWII: D-Day. 24th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized). Landed on Utah Beach on June 6, 1944, advanced from Normandy to Cape de la Hague, then to Cherbourg, where he was wounded by an 88mm shell that blew his jeep into the air
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Born in 1898. Claims to have fought in the Mexican Revolution. Lives in Illinois, U.S.A
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(Born 1975) US Navy SEAL Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Severely wounded in Fallujah, Iraq by heavy fire in 2007. Author of books like The Trident and Overcome
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) who knew Richard Bong, Top American Ace of WWII
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney
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101st airborne, c co- not band of brothers
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Sam Reed (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Former Secretary of the Air Force
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Last man out of the tunnel in the Great Escape during WWII
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air force general
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Ward, , which is credited with firing the first U.S. shots of World War II
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air ace usaf 475th squadron satan's angels
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World war 2 fighter ace- 6 kills - 530th FS, p-51, pt-22, p-40, c-45, bt-13, c-47, at-6, b-25,pq-13, b-26
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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German tank ace in World War 2, at least 17 tank kills (was awared the Ritterkreut after his 17th victory)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Utah. Later served on the USS St. Louis in the Battles of Kula Gulf and Kolombangara
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII French Resistance double agent and composer/lyricist (1922-2002). Co-wrote the Christmas classic 'Do You Hear What I Hear' with his wife in 1962
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Born 1942 US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. 2 Bronze Stars and Legion of Merit
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Pitcher for West Point he then pitched in 17 games for the U.S.A. in the 1993 World games. He pitched a couple of minor league games in 1996 for the Orioles but was recalled to military duty. He died in Afhanistan while serving
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Former general in the German Democratic Republic's army
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WWII - Pearl Harbor veteran. B-17 copilot arriving at Pearl Harbor by chance during the attack. Shot down by Japanese, landed at Hickam Field, the plane broke apart, shown in an iconic photo of the day
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Scottish Flight Lieutenant WW II was awarded the Victoria Cross for action during air combat over Dusseldorf, Germany on November 3, 1943
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WWII - contemporary witness of the Port Chicago disaster; largest US mainland munitions explosion, July 17, 1944, Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, CA. As of 2018, she is the oldest National Park Ranger in the United States, born Sept. 22, 1921
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Raleigh
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WWII veteran. Honored by the President during the 2019 State of the Union Address
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Commnader Military Sealift Command
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JFK: Military Academy at West Point Cadet representative at a White House reception in early 1961
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army general chief of staff
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Air Force General
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JFK - Member of The Old Guard, serving the Kennedy family and also Honor Guard at the funeral of John F. Kennedy
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WWII: PTO. 1st Marines Division. Battle of Cape Gloucester , Battle of Peleliu.Wounded twice
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Former general of the German Democratic Republic's army
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Korean War: Battle of Chosin Reservoir, US Marine Corps
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WWII Fighter Ace, F4F Wildcat Pilot - US Navy - 9 Kills - Navy Cross
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia. Surrender Tokyo Bay
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WWII: ETO. F Company, 264th Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division. Survivor of the sinking of the troopship SS Leopoldville (torpedoed and sunk by the U-486) on Dec. 24. 1944. 763 soldiers died, plus 56 of her crew. Battle of the Bulge
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Known as 'Hitler's Favorite Test Pilot'. Hanna was a German Nazi test pilot who tested many different types of German planes throughout World War 2. She is also the author of The Sky My Kingdom
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Neosho (AO-23). Born July 8, 1919.
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commander 18th wing
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WWII PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid
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US Air Force, Korea and Vietnam, born 1932. Served stateside during Korean War, then to Vietnam with the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing
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Military
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army general
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WWII. PTO. Served as Admiral Bull Halsey?s Staff Photographer in the South Pacific Theater
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Air Force General
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WII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Trained for the Marine Air Corps, he never flew but had to endure sniper attacks at Okinawa where his CO was killed
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WWII: Soviet pilot during the Second World War, flew 307 missions and was named a 'Hero of the Soviet Union' in 1943. Now age 98 and reportedly lives in Russia
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WWII: Arctic convoy (Murmansk) veteran, D-Day veteran (HMCS Algonquin)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Thornton
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor at Schofield Barracks, 7 December 1941
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Centenarian - World War I Vet Born: 05/04/1901
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) called 'Sexy Rexy'. Last WASP of South Dakota and as an Oglala Lakota, she is the only female Native American to serve in the WASPs
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma, Navy Seaman First Class
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Air Force General
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WWII - Iwo Jima. Corporal in the Baker Co. 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of the 4th Marine Division, Also Roi-Namur, Saipan, and Tinian
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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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Retired Navy Admiral
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Jim Reynolds (2)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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air force general
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WWII: Veteran (2nd Marine Division) of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Served in Pearl Harbor, Luzon, Guadalcanal, the Northern Solomons, and Manila. Us Army
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(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Went to Oran, Africa, Sicily, Italy, and the Philippines during the war. USS Boise
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(Born 1986) US Air Force Afghanistan and Iraq War Veteran. Recipient of an Air Force Cross and 3 Purple Hearts
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WWII: ETO D-Day, Utah Beach, D Company, 359th Regiment (Heavy Weapons Unit), 90th Infantry Division. Also in Hill 122 (the Battle of Mont Castre and Le Plessis-Lastelle, July 3-12, 1944), and The Battle of Chamois (Falaise Pocket)
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C-47 pilot that dropped paratroopers near the town of St. Mere Eglise as part of the D-Day invasion of France; later also flew paratroopers into Operation Market Garden
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Wounded in the hip and later got the Purple Heart
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U.S. World War II D-Day veteran Tom Rice, from Coronado, California, parachutes in a tandem jump into a field in Carentan, Normandy, France, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. WWII: ETO. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, Eagles Nest
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Air Force General
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Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11). Later on transport USS Kittson in the Battle of Okinawa
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US Army, WWII 11th Airborne Paratrooper, born 1927. Turned 18 in 1945, drafted, sent to Japan as part of the postwar occupation force. Had to leave school, but finally 'graduated' alongside his grandson in 2020
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Dave Richards (2)Retired Royal millitary
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WWII: MTO. Anzio. Darby's Ranger
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WWII US Navy (b. 1923) Served on USS Valve and USS Hitchiti. Marshall Islands, Leyte, Luzon, and Okinawa campaigns
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Retired 4 Star General
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(Born 1947) US Navy SEAL Vietnam War Veteran. Part of SEAL Team 1
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US Army Vietnam Veteran. Bronze Star Recipient
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Jack Richardson (3) WWII: PTO. Edson's 1st Marine Raider Battalion. Tulagi, New Georgia, and Guadalcanal (Battle of Bloody Ridge, first and second Matanikau, Tasimboko Raid)
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Retired United States Army lieutenant general
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Four-star general in the United States Army who is the commander of United States Southern Command
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British Army officer during the Troubles, before becoming General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland
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Member of the Flying Tigers (AVG) WWII
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal a.o. 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines
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Retired General
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Tuskegee Airman, flew P-40 and P-47 aircraft
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Former Surgeon General 1977-1981
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII & Korean War: Navy corpsman
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Son of WWI Hero Eddie Rickenbacker
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LCDR - US NAVY Blue Angels
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in johns island,sc but not now
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Civilian worker, POW. Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Lz xray 1965
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Leyte, Battle for Cebu City, 182nd IR, Americal Division
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WWII: PTO. USS Yorktown
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(Born 1949) US Marine Corps Vietnam War Veteran. Company B, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. POW from 1968 to 1973. Recipient of a Bronze Star and 3 Purple Hearts
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U.S. Army General (World War II, The Korean War)
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PFC, USA, H Co., 301st Inf., 94th Infantry Division, 3rd Army Combat Infantryman Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland & Central Germany campaigns
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WW2 fighter ace - 5 Kills - US Navy
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Sergeant U.S. Armty Silver Star Recipient
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Retired U.S. Navy Master Chief Boatswain's Mate - WWII and Atomic veteran, served from 1940-1966, skipper of LCU-974, participated in four nuclear weapon test operations: Castle, Wigwam, Redwing, and Hardtack I
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German WWII Veteran, Kriegsmarine
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Tunnel Rat/Vietnam War
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Veteran, born 1943, of the 101st Airborne, 327th Division that was called into service by President Eisenhower to protect the Little Rock Nine students integrating the high school in 1957
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World War One Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 1st Platoon, I Company, 106th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division
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WWII - D-Day paratrooper. 82nd Airborne, 505th PIR, General Gavin's staff. His responsibilities included determining the drop zones for the Normandy invasion. 2nd combat jump (Operation Market Garden), also in the Battle of the Bulge
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army general
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WWII: Battles of Midway, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinian. NASA: Explorer I (first US satellite 1958), Alan Shepard (Mercury-Redstone 3), Chief Engineer/Deputy Director for Apollo Space Program, Skylab, director Launch Operations Apollo-Soyuz '75
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WWII: PTO. Seabee (carpenter's mate) of the 301st Naval Construction Battalion on Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima
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Survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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WWII: ETO, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. Featured in a famous Robert Capa photograph that appeared in Life magazine on May 14, 1945, taken on April 18, 1945, during fighting in Leipzig
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WWII: D-Day. 29th Infantry Division. Severely wounded in the Battle of St. Lo (July 1944); returned to combat in the Battle of the Bulge and was Goering's MP at the Nuremberg Trials
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
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1973 Spingham award
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal (AR-4). Later served at Italy, France, the Battle of Casablanca, and also was a witness to the a-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll
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WWII: Marine Corps fighter pilot; Korea: napalm runs at the Chosin Reservoir; Vietnam: flying for the CIA (Air America); stunt flights for the 2001 movie 'Pearl Harbor'
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American soldier in one of Robert Capa's 11 D-Day invasion photos. Private First Class, Company F, 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
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army general
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne. 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division
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WWII: PTO. USS Ommaney Bay, the USS Columbia, and the USS Enterprise
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(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Served on the USS West Virginia. Went to Leyte Gulf, Sulu Sea, Lingayen Gulf, Surigao Strait, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Witnessed the Kamikaze attack on the West Virginia. At Tokyo Bay for the Surrender of Japan
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W.a.s.p. ww2 womens army service pilot
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WWII Nazi war criminal; worked as guard with an SS-trained attack dog at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for women; deported from US to Germany in 2006; only female Nazi war criminal to be caught & deported; now living with her sister in Viersen, 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 German Knights Cross Recipient born Sep 14 1924
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(Born 1931) US Navy Korean War and Vietnam War veteran. Corpsman during Korea getting 2 Purple Hearts. Was a Navy Seal during Vietnam. 2 Bronze stars and 5 Purple Hearts
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WWII Veteran, U.S. Navy, USS Pollux, Okinawa, Wake Island and Solomon Island Campaigns Pacific Theater of Operations
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Spanish writer and linguist. 8th Count of Casa Dávalos and Grandee of Spain. President of the 'Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona' since 1965 and one of the last surviving veterans of The Spanish Civil War. He is now 98 and lives in Spain
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Born 1925. WW2 Veteran. Navy Guard Veteran. Enlisted at age of 17. Was on Armed Ships And Mercant Vessels. 91st Birthday August 16, 2016
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WWII: Merchant Marine. Murmansk Run
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in mt juliet ,tn but not now
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Korean War Ace (8 kills) and a long-time POW in Vietnam - AFC x2
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One of only three US Air Force fighter aces of the Vietnam War, and one of only five in total
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Navy Seal's Team dog trainer & author
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WWII: PTO. USMC Diver Bomber Pilot, VMA-331
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coast guard admiral
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WWII: PTO. Alpha Company, 1st battalion, 1st Marine Regiment. Solomon Islands, New Britain, Peleliu and Okinawa
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Lz xray 1965 nam-was in benito, tx but not now
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WWII: USS Bunker Hill. Survivor of the Kamikaze attack in May 1945. Also served in the Korean War
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WWII Soviet Veteran, fought in the Battle of Stalingrad. Lives in Canada, possibly Toronto
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Military
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Banika Island, Russell Islands, Okinawa
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WWII: Roi-Namur, Tinian, Saipan, Iwo Jima. 4th Marine Division
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WWII: PTO. USS Fieberling. Shot down a Japanese fighter plane
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WW II ace with 22 victories
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WWII WAVES vet, born 1921. Raised pigeons as a girl, accepted into the Navy's pigeon program. Pigeons used mainly to communicate with blimps used for scouting enemy subs and more, avoiding the possible detection of radio messages
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WWII: ETO. 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division
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World War II ace
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WWII: USMC. Guam, Iwo Jima
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Canadian D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1923. He was in the first landing craft ashore and was the second man to hit the beach. He is now 91 and lives in Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
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WWII US Fighter Ace (9 Victs.)
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Last surviving Bletchley Park codebreaker who cracked a German cipher machine in WW2. He was among four members of the Testery section tasked with breaking the German Tunny code. Also known as 'Raymond 'Jerry' Roberts'
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WWII veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Maryland
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Australian Victoria Cross (VC)recipient
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American ww2 B-29 Superfortress Pilot
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Green Beret presumed dead after his helicopter was shot down in a 1968 secret mission over Laos, has been found more than four decades later in south-central Vietnam/Can only speak Vietnamese
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WWII: St. Lo. One of the two French kids sitting at the top of the destroyed St. Lo watching an US patrol driving through the rubble on June 15, 1944, in a very famous war photograph
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WWII: St. Lo. One of the two French kids sitting at the top of the destroyed St. Lo watching an US patrol driving through the rubble on June 15, 1944, in a very famous war photograph
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1st Lt. US Army Air Corps WW2 veteran who flew a P38. (Born 1924)
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Navy Surgeon General
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Saipan, Battle of Okinawa. 27th Infantry Division: Headquarters Company, 3rd Batallion, 105th Infantry Regiment:
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WWII Veteran, longest serving Enlisted Man
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Author, Major General
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WWII veteran, born 1922. Pearl Harbor survivor, Schofield Barracks
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US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Retired as a Vice Admiral. Navy Cross Recipient
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Ret Colpresent at lz-xay in 1965 vc slapdoawn
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WWII: British Arctic convoys veteran ('Murmansk Runs')
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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Air Force General
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Army General
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Vietnam US Army Airborne Infantry Vet/deployed 1969/Bronze Star for valor, Combat Infantry Badge, National Defense Service Medal, Sharpshooter Medal with auto rifle & rifle bars, Marksman Medal with machine gun bar & Parachutist's Badge
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British WW2 veteran who was captured at the Fall of Singapore, he was sentenced to 15 years at Sakai Prison in Osaka and faced the the firing squad, only to be saved at the last second. Born: 1916. Recently turned 100. Lives in Canada
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WW2 fighter ace - USAAF - 8 Kills
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Received Medal of Honor 3/18/2014 for his actions in the Vietnam war
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WW2 Flying Ace & Flying Tigers Pilot
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WW2 Veteran-Anti Tank Gunner 27th Infantry Division On Saipan
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WW2 Veteran-4th Marine Reconnaissance Company
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Wireless operator in the WRNS who intercepted enemy signals
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Pearl Harbor survivor - Section Base, Bishop's Point
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David Rodrigues (2)United States Army General who served as the Commander, United States Africa Command
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(Born 1959) US Air Force Gulf and Kosovo War Veteran. With three air-to-air combat victories, he joined 3 other USAF pilots as the closest to becoming a flying ace of any U.S. pilot since the Vietnam War. Flew F-15 Eagle's
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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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C.G. 82nd Airborne Division
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Félix Ismael Rodríguez Mendigutia b.5/31/1941 former CIA officer known for involvement in Bay of Pigs Invasion, in interrogation & execution of Marxist guerilla Che Guevara & his ties to George H. W. Bush during Iran-Contra affair
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medal of honor army korean war
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. 515th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft) Medical Detachment
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Polish seargeant world war II
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Is an Irish clergyman known both for his work as an army chaplain and as a rugby union player, played for London-Irish
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WWII Stuka Ace/Roell is credited with 83 victories during the war and is a German Knights Cross Recipient
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US Army Black Hawk Helicopter Pilot who served in Iraq and Afghanistan
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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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USN Admiral
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WWII: Homefront. Rosie The Riveter at Glenn L Martin factory in Bellview, NE, making B26's
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field
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Lieutenant, USAAF, 15th AF B-24 Pilot, Ploesti Oil Fields Raid Veteran
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USS Pueblo survivor, Korean War POW
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army general
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Retired General
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WWII: Marine Corps, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8?23 December 1941
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Military
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company ('Band of Brothers')
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The oldest surviving member of the original Tuskegee Airmen who became legendary for their service in World War II. He was born in 1915
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WWII: D-Day, Juno Beach. Royal Engineers, British 21st Army group. Landed in support of the 3rd Canadian Army Div where he would spend over a month under almost constant artillery/machine gun fire, helping bring ashore vital supplies
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island, Rogo claims he waved at one of the pilots, who waved back. Unbeknownst to him, this pilot was Japanese
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guam. Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: ETO. Operation Market Garden. Hq Battery, 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division
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WWII: WASP pilot (Woman Air Force Service Pilot), WASP training class 44-W-4. Her great - grandmother sang in Queen Victoria's court
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German WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht
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Soviet Nurse, Word War II, WWII, Stalingrad
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air force general
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WWII Veteran Floyd Rolf enlisted in the Army Air Corps in December of 1942. He initially trained to fly P-38s but ultimately flew C-47 troop carriers. Before he left for Europe in October of 1944, Rolf proposed to Peg, his high- school sweetheart. Th
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WWII: Veteran of the Battles of Makin Island (1943), Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa. 165th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in columbus ga but not now
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WWII vet, born 1913. Served in the Philippines and Australia. In his life, saw Lou Gehrig's farewell speech, and met Martin Luther King Jr and Mother Teresa. At 24, drove himself to see a famous airship land, and ended up witnessing the Hindenburg explode
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dobbin
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Bataan Death March survivor. A Battery 200th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft
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Medal of Honor Recipient for action in the GWOT in Afghanistan and author of Red Platoon
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor; chief turret officer USS Oklahoma, calling the crew the General Quarters rather unceremoniously with the words 'All hands, man your battle stations! This is no shit, Goddamn it! Jap planes are bombing us!'
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USN Admiral
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 7th Infantry Division
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A Rosie the Riveter during WW2. She worked at a bomber plant in Kansas City, Mo
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Norwegian Army officer and broadcaster. He is known for his resistance work during World War II and his post-war war information work. He is also the last veteran of the legendary WW2 'Heroes of the Telemark' raid. He is now 96
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Black WWII Driver for Red Ball Express. Lives in Maple Heights
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CM Sgt. Ronald Roos 'Air Force Honor Guard/ Death Watch/'I was there when the presidents body was taken off Air Force one, I saw Mrs. Kennedy, still in the blood stained dress, standing in the doorway,' Roos said
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American politician (1882-1945). 32nd US President, 1933-45, NYS Governor, 1929-32 Asst Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20
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26th US President, statesman, writer, explorer, 1858-1919
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newest DDG
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US Lawyer, Minister (1736-1822) CT Militia and delegate to Continental Congress
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WWII: D-Day; in the third wave at Utah Beach with the first elements of the 90th ID
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New Zealand rugby player and WW2 veteran
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USS Pueblo
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WWII: USS Laffey. D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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WWII: PTO. New Guinea and Southern Philippines. 383rd Infantry Regiment
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WWII Flying Tiger Pilot 'Joe' Author Flying Tigers Joe Adventure Story Cookbook/(Pilot) (CNAC 1942 - 1945) (Captain - March 1943) (Hump Flights - ???)
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US WWII Navy WAVE, born 1923. Too young for service, she began as a munitions worker Rosie in 1941. Joined the WAVES a couple years later, and worked as a mechanic in the Navy's Blimp program
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WWII. 15th Air Force
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Canadian WWII-Fighter Ace
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Explorer/Byrd: geographic, air reconnaissance and photogrammetric officer to Admiral Byrd on two antarctic expeditions and served as Byrd's scientific advisor
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Former United States Army officer and a Vietnam War veteran. For his actions during the war, Rose is scheduled to be presented the Medal of Honor on 23 October 2017 by United States President Donald Trump
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British Army General during the Falklands Conflict and the Yugoslav Wars; also known as General Sir Hugh 'Michael' Rose
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1920, he claimed three victories during the Battle of Britain and flew three or four sorties each day. He is now 96 and lives in the UK
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Rick Rose (2)CAPT - USMC, US NAVY Blue Angels C-130 'Fat Albert' Pilot
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10th Juror on Jack Ruby Trial to the JFK Assassination/WW2 fighter pilot
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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Fighter ace
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1950s Army Veteran and gay husband of Hubert Spires. He helped fight for a honorable discharge for Spires and they succeeded in 2017 when Spires got a honorable discharge from the US Military after over 60 years
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WWII: Veteran of the Battle of Remagen, March 1945. 9th Armored Division, Purple Heart
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Battle of Bataan
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WWII. ETO: D-Day. PTO: Iwo Jima, Okinawa. USS Nevada
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American fighter pilot (Ret.)/As captain in the US Air Force, flew 30 missions in an F-16 Fighting Falcon during the Persian Gulf War. His book about his experiences in the war, titled Vipers in the Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot
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1896-1973 U.S. lawyer, judge, Democratic political figure, and presidential speechwriter/Was FDR Special Counsel upon FDR's death Truman asked him to stay on, initially through V-E Day, then through V-J Day, and finally into 1946
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Commander Of 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group In The WWII. Prosecutor In The Nuremberg Trial After The WWII.
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WWII - D-Day, 2nd Battalion, The Glostershire Regiment. Frank's regiment was tasked to take the French town of Bayeux, 12 miles from Gold Beach, and fought in the Battle of Tilly-sur-Seulles, where some of the toughest combat took place
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. USS Arkansas (BB-33)
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US WWII Merchant Marines (1928-2024). Joined the MM in 1942 at 14 years old, served in the S. Pacific and Atlantic. One of the last MM to attend the official Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for Merchant Marines in 2022
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Officer of the United States Navy who received the first Medal of Honor of World War II. This award was made for his actions during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
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WWII: PTO. Tech. Sergeant with Unit Co. A. 182nd Infantry
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WW2 fighter pilot ace 7 victories 82/48 PS 78/14PG 14FG - USAAF
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Retired General
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Australian World War 1 Veteran Born' 03/11/1899 One of 6 remaining World War 1 Veterans - Deceased 2009
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WWII: Highly decorated officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of Brigadier General. He is most noted for his service with the 1st Marine Division during the Battle of Okinawa. He placed the American flag at Mt. Shuri
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Tuskegee Airmen/332nd FG/302nd FS
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Medal of Honor recipient: World War II
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WWII: Survivor of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion 1944, 320 dead; mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.) Later on the USS Ancon where he rejected an order and was given right by the white Captain
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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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medal of honor army korean war
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Was one of the last surviving French marine commandos who stormed ashore on Sword Beach, Normandy, on D-Day to initiate the liberation of their homeland
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Ww2 fighter ace -navy hellcat
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'Flying Tigers & WWII Ace (6.25 kills)'
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WWII - D-Day (Normandy)
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German WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht
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29th Navy Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
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WWII: Fighter Ace, 5 victories
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WWII: PTO. 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division. Battles of GUadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian. Air Force pilot in Korea. Purple Heart
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navy admiral
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(No Kum-Sok) Sept 1953 2 months after Korean War ended with an armistice, a 21-year-old North Korean fighter pilot defected to a South Korean airfield with a state-of-the-art Russian fighter plane
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa. The Lindsey was severely damaged by two kamikaze planes that crashed into her killing 57 sailors and wounding another 57
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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US Army Korean War Veteran. He was a POW from 1951 to 1953 in North Korea. 333 people of his battalion including him were taken as POWs and only 117 made it
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WW2 WASP/Airfield Assignments; Love Field & Selman Army Air Field
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army general
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WWII: USS Yorktown. Navy Photographer who photographed the Battle of Midway
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WWII WAVES veteran, born 1915. She worked coding and decoding ship movements while based in San Francisco. Later used the GI Bill to get an education and become a teacher
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Vietnam 1965 flew into Landing Zone X-Ray Ia Drang Valley on supply helicopter/Was supply officer for 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry Regiment 1st Cavalry Division Airmobile during 1st full-scale battle between American & North Vietnamese troops
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Ww2 veteran on the USS Alabama
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British Army officer who earned the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre for organising guerrilla resistance in France and Burma; full name is Richard Arthur Rubinstein
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks. During the attack, Rubien helped burn classified documents, then picked up a gun and ammo and began shooting. Later served at Saipan, Guam, and the Marshall Islands
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WWII: ETO. 743rd Bomb Squadron, 455th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force. 28 missions
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Korean War Medal of Honor Recipient
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of USS Helena (CL-50) in the Battle of Kula Gulf, July 1943. Also Night Battle of Guadalcanal Nov. 1942 and the Battle of Cape Esperance (Oct. 1942) where he saw the USS Juneau (Sullivan brothers) sink
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Female WWII veteran, snuck away from home to join the WAACs in 1942, becoming a WAC in 1943. Ran a night flight simulator for pilot training. Later in life had a nursing career
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US Navy WWII, born 1926. One of the last Navy UDT Frogmen, forerunner of the Seals. South Pacific service: Saipan, Guam, Philippines
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P-47 Thunderbolt Ace of WWII, F-86 Sabre Ace of WWII, 10.5 victory Ace with 406th FG
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JFK - placed the Green Beret on President Kennedy?s grave on November 25, 1963.
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medal of honor army ww11
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WW 2 Luftwaffe Fighter Ace and Me262 Pilot 222 victories
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Spanish Civil War survivor (Born: 1929) is one of the last living survivors of the Italian air raid over Granollers on May 31, 1938. She is now 87
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German nurse (Born: 1929) who was stationed at Hitler's bunker during the final days of WW2. She was 15 at the time and met Joseph Goebbels and his family on the day Hitler committed suicide. She is now 88 and lives in Germany
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WWII Veteran, D-Day Invasion, D-Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion
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US Army Brig. Gen. (1869-1932). Spanish American War, WWI ordnance official/ammo expert
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Highly decorated Major in the Wehrmacht during WW2. Also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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WWII veteran and one of the first 13 female nurses of Puerto Rico's Women's Army Corps
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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WWII: Germany, Luftwaffe. Night fighter radio operator, Knights Cross
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WWII: U.S. Army Sergeant Technician, 7th Division, 17th Infantry. Attu, Marshall Islands, Okinawa
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WWII: ETO. June 6, 1944 D - Day, Omaha Beach, Navy LCT 539. PTO (in 1945), LST 309
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WWII: Merchant Marine 1941-1945
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WWII: PTO. Motor machinist mate second class aboard U.S.S. L.S.M 485
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WWII Veteran: ETO. Combat Medic, PFC, U.S. Army 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. Battle of Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge. Not a D - Day veteran
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White House Chef
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Allan Russell (2)Last surviving member of Z Special Unit
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WWII: Navy fighter carrier pilot, flying in combat during World War II and the Korean War; including dive-bomber support for the First Marine Division during the battle of Guadalcanal, flying off the USS Saratoga
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma, born September 15, 1920
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; butcher stationed at the Army Air Corps' Wheeler Field
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USS Pueblo
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Fighter ace
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Jack Russell (3)Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo; became a psychologist in Whittier, CA
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navy admiral hero
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Cape Gloucester. 7th Marines Regiment (Magnificent Seventh), 1st Marine Division. Purple Heart
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WWII: D-Day. Was in the Aviation Unit (Kingfisher reconnaissance plane) of the USS Arkansas. Also at Iwo Jima, A-bomb
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Steve Russell (2)
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Marine Guard of Honor, JFK funeral/ enlisted in 1960 Two years after enlisting, they found themselves on separate boats off coast of Cuba, part of a flotilla that was prepared to invade the island if Cuban missile crisis came to a head
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Tuskegee Airmen 99th Pursuit Squadron
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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WWII: D-Day, landing near Ste. Marie Eglise, captured on D-Day; POW at Stalag 4B near the Czech border. Earlier combat jump in Operation Husky (Sicily, July 1943) and combat in Salerno, Italy. 505th PIR, HQ Company, 82nd Airborne Division
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Decorated Australian Military - Now deceased
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Italian flying ace of WWII
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101st airborne division, ww2
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Author and WW2 veteran
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navy admiral educator
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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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Thomas Ryan (3) WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa
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navy admiral
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Retired General Born Dec 10,1928
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tern (AM-31)
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Fighter ace
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World War 1 Veteran (Finland) Born: 05/21/1905
