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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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USAF General
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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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Military
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23-year-old American student in his senior year at California State University, Sacramento, who helped avert a massacre when an armed attacker began shooting on a train from Amsterdam to Paris; received France's Legion of Honor
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WWII Veteran
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Former Turkish Air Force general born 1925, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 for his role in the 1980 Military Coup in Turkey
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4-Star General
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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WWII: 442nd Regimental Combat Team (all Japanese-American unit). Served from May 1944 until the end of the war, incl. the rescue of the Texas 'Lost Battalion'. Wounded 4 times, rcvd 2 Bronze stars.Served with Joe Sakato & Dan Inouye (MOH)
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Japanese Midget Sub Captain (Pearl Harbor Attack) US P.O.W. #1
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Congressional Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
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US WWII Army vet, born 1928. Joined the Texas Guard out of high school, then the Army. Sent to Japan at war's end. Engineer/Supply Sgt. at Sugamo Prison during the Tokyo Trials. Helped build the gallows used for war criminal executions
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Battle of the Bulge Veteran
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: D-Day. 20th Infantry Division
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WWII Veteran, D-Day Veteran, Fox Company
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WWII - British D-Day veteran of the Pioneer Corps who had the job to clear the landing areas of obstructions, explosives and defences so that troops and armour could quickly get off the beaches
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Retired General
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Civilian underwater welder who barely survived the attack, rescued sailors from the USS Oklahoma and eventually was assigned to remove the main 16-inch diameter guns and three turrets
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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German WWII Army Guard, born 1923. Last living witness to the July 1944 'Operation Valkyrie' briefcase bombing suicide attempt on Hitler's life at the Wolf's Lair( Wolfsschanze)
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WWII: Highly decorated Azerbaijanian veteran of the war, who fought for the Soviets. He received the Order of Glory 3rd degree in 1942 for heroic actions, and went on to fight in other battles including the Battle of Berlin. Now 96
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Oberscharführer in the Waffen SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. WWII
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WWII: One of the last 4 Monuments Men, who rescued artwork and cultural pieces during and after WWII
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101st Airborne soldier who helped guard the Little Rock Nine students integrating their high school in 1957
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, USMC
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American WWII Marine, born 1926. Saw action at Peleliu
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WWII: USMC. Radio operator, saw active service in Kwajalein, Iwo Jima and Saipan, where he was wounded
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Spanish fighter ace from WW2
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WWII: 59th Coast Artillery Regiment. POW at Camp Omori, Tokyo Bay. Captured on Corregidor, Fort Mills, in the Philippines on May 6, 1942 after a Japanese artillery barrage knocked out his machine gun; 'hell ship' transport to Japan
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WW2 Veteran : 30th Infantry Division Sharpshooter at Omaha Beach
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Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy MCPON #5
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Anti-aircraft gunner, 251st Coastal Artillery (California National Guard) on Hospital Point, where the Nevada went aground. He shot down a Japanese Zero fighter plane headed toward the local hospital
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American WWII Merchant Marine veteran of WWII, born in 1925. Part of 'Murmansk Run' convoys bringing supplies to and from the Russian port by international forces challenged by arctic conditions
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker, enlisted 1943, 2nd and 5th Marine Division
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining
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WWII: Navy veteran. Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway. USS Hammann
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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WWII Canadian Lieutenant General
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Italian WWII Biplane Ace, with 12 Victories
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Air Force General
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Puerto Rican criminal, shooter at Fort Lauderdale Airport on January 7, 2017
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Author of 1981 book nominated for National Book Award 'Everything we Had': an oral history of the Vietnam War by the men who fought it. Born 1949,founder Asia America Iniative, an Adjunct Professor in the Institute of World Politics
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US Marine vet, born 1931. Korean War vet saw action at Inchon, and one of the Chosin Few
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Decorated by Gen William Westmoreland, with Silver Star a company commander and Lt. in the US Army during the Vietnam War, graduate of OCS, author of the book 'Letters Home from Vietnam' insturmental in the construction of the NTC Vietnam Veterans Memoria
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Portuguese military officer and politician, was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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Ww2 womens army service pilot, Flew the pt-19, bt-13, bt-15, at-6, c-78, /SBO Dauntless, AT-9, at-11
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. 290th Infantry Regiment, 75th InfDiv (aka 'Bulgebusters') . Wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. Also joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) before the war
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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US Air Corps 1942-1945
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII veteran of the Aleutian campaign, and the Battle of Attu in Alaska
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Member of a Band of Brothers
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Last Turkish Veteran of World War One. Born: 03/11/1898
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Former Surgeon General 1998-2002
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WW2/Served in the 4th Armored Division of the United States Army, and participated in battles in Belgium, Germany and Czechoslovakia/Drove tank & loader/Worked with M4A1 Sherman Tank/Battle of the Bulge/Age 97 in 2020
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U.S. Army General
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WWII - 4th Marine Division; fought at Roi Namur, Tinian, Saipan, and Iwo Jima. His platoon leader was Henry Bellmon, former governor of and later United States Senator from Oklahoma
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Paul Saunders (2)
Saboteur from the U.S.S. Barb WWII -
WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Author of 'Twin Platoons' and 1 of 100+ young men and women sworn into the Marine Corps at a Minnesota Twins baseball game on June 28, 1967
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1965 lx ray namwas in columbus,ga but not now
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WWII: Pacific Theater, Marine Corps
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WWII: last Polish pilot of the Battle of Britain
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '332nd Fighter Group, Overseas Pilot'
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Antares (AKS-3). The back then unarmed Antares detected a suspicious object near the harbour, informed the USS Ward which then identified it as a Japanese submarine and fired the first US shots of WWII
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WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941 survivor
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doolittle's raiders crew #15 engineer
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US army general
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach. Battle of St. Lo. 90th Infantry Division, 359th Infantry Regiment. 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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Pearl Harbor Survivor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Petty Officer 1st Class Schab, a sousaphone player in the admiral's band, served at the USS Dobbin, a destroyer tender. He saw the Utah capsizing and the USS Arizona explode
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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Ww2 german fighter ace 27 kills
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Paul Schaefer (2)Director for Strategy ECJ5/J-8HQ EUCOM
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Iran Hostage Crisis/444 days of captivity as a hostage in Iran/USAF Attaché
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WWII - Medic on D-Day
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor and a pilot in the first wave of planes in the Battle of Midway during World War II
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Centenarian (1896-2004). One of the last woman voters of the 1920 election, and campaigners for the right to vote beforehand. A WWII Goldstar mother, and a competitive ballroom dancer into her 100's who appeared with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran ( A-1-6, 2nd MarDiv ) of the Battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Arizona
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WW1 Balloonist/Deployed on land and sea for use in observing enemy troops, artillery spotting, & locating submarines. Importance as observation platforms, balloons were heavily defended by anti-aircraft guns and patrolling fighter aircraft
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US Army WWII vet. Fought in the Hurtgen Forest, the Bulge, and held as a POW by the Germans for 4 1/2 month in Stalag 9b
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WWII: USS Helena
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WWII - Navy corpsman at the Battle of Iwo Jima who piloted an LST (landing ship tank) ashore. Also fought at the Battle of Okinawa
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German WWII Interrogator
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Centenarian (1895-2001). US WWI veteran, served in France
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USAF General
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United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honor-'for his actions in World War II
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WWII Veteran, Pearl Harbor Survivor
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Debuted for Cubs in 1941 as right-handed-hitting catcher, but then served in military during WWII, finishing his career in 1951 with Cardinals. He managed Cubs 1957-59 and then managed the Tigers in 1961, 1962, and part of 1963
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German priest, Holocaust survivor and lecturer.Born 07/24/1913
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, Submarine Base, Torpedo Shop
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; later fought at Normandy
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Landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944/Combat Engineer, Mine Detector, 531st Amphib Eng Battalion, 279th, D-Day
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Ww2 german fighter ace 18 kills
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WWII: Navy fighter pilot at Guadalcanal (VF-14). Distinguished Flying Cross
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Part of raid of WWII POW camp Cabanatuan
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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WWII Fighter Pilot, 357th Fighter Group
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. Radar Operator at Opana Radar Station where they detected the incoming Japanese planes on Dec. 7, 1941. Schimmel, did not see the planes coming, but was told by other operators thus was the 5th person to know of the attack
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WWII Manhattan Project 'Atomic Girl', born 1925. Unable to join the WAAFs, volunteered for a secret mission where she watched meters in Oak Ridge, not knowing why. After Hiroshima, she realized she'd helped produce uranium for the bomb
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Veteran
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 508th PIR
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Army Private part of the 'Mountain Troops' caring for the horses and mules on the base. On the day of the attack at Pearl Harbor during WW2
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German economist and former President of the Bundesbank. He is also a German WWII Veteran
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Secretary to Wernher von Braun, from Pennemuende to Huntsville, from WWII and V2 to Apollo and Saturn V
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WWII: German fighter ace (8 victories)
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WWII German Knights Cross Recipient
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Ww2 ace-6 kills
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Canadian Ace of WWII, Pilot
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII, Korea, Vietnam War Veteran
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WWII: 1st Marine Division, Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: Hitler Youth, Fallschirmjäger, Western Front, POW. After the war, he worked as an aerospace engineer with Wernher von Braun
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Ww2 tank ace- panzers
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Defended Hickam Air Field during the attack. Witnessed the first atomic bomb test from afar
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army general
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Retired German general
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WWII: Luftwaffe radio operator who risked his life to give a Channel Island family some rations. Made international news in 2017. Now 97/98 and living in Essex
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Tunnel Rat Vietnam War 25th Infantry Div./Author 'In There Own Words: Vietnam'/Wife named Gail, lives in maybe Colorado or Texas
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Chief of Staff of the Army (2003- )
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WWII Marine veteran of Guadalcanal and Peleliu
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B. August 9th 1920/WW2 Colonel/Received Silver Star for actions in Okinawa/ Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, the young platoon leader would find himself leading a rifle platoon onto the beaches of Peleliu
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medal of honor army karean war
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Henley
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air force general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Ash
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. USS Ash
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WWII - D-Day; Company F of the 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. First American soldier to come ashore from a landing craft at Utah Beach
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WW2 Luftwaffe Ace and Me262 pilot/Shot down by Joseph Peterburs & later became friends
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor (December 7, 1941) USS Phoenix (CL-46)
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WWII: D-Day. Omaha Beach. Landed with LST-510 on Omaha Beach around noon of June 6, 1944. 90-millimeter artillery gunner of Battery B of the the 110th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. Battle of the Bulge
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Memoir, The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army. The ghost soldiers were members of the XX Corps, which earned the title Ghost Corps when, during combat/Typist for a Colonel in G-3
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German ww2 pilot
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Canadian Ace of WWII, Pilot
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Robert Schultz (2) WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Tinian
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WWII Veteran in General Patton's 3rd Army. Wrote a Book
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WWII: German bomber and fighter communications, pilot 1940-1945 (103 missions). 23 night bombing misions (DO-217) over England incl. London (1942/1943). Bf-109 pilot for JG 5 in 1944 in Finland. POW, 3 victories. Also flew ME-109G, ME-110C and JG51
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USS Pueblo
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vietnam war air force hero
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Medusa
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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 veteran, POW, born 1915. Captured by the Japanese 12/9/41 when they invaded Guam, he was held POW for 1367 days--the entire war!
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air force general
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WWII: Army Air Corps in the Phillippines. Surrendered and was part of the Bataan Death March (9 April 1942). Spent the rest of the war as a POW. After the war, he went on the be a jeweler and sold Elvis' the first of the famous TCB necklace
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army general
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Retired Army General
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U. S. General - Desert Storm Fame born 1934
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Non-commissioned officer who served in the German army during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
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WWII - German paratrooper of Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6 (6th Paratrooper Regiment); fought in the Battle of Carentan where his regiment had a direct frontline to the famous 'Band of Brothers' of Dick Winters
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Trever
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WWII: Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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US Army General
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Was a German Officer in WWII, was in the Fuhrerbunker with Hitler. Born: 07/24/1915
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One of the last crew members and survivors of MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which sank after being torpedoed by submarine in 1945 resulting in the greatest ship disaster in history. He is now 86 and recently wrote the book "The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff"
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German WWII Veteran, Waffen-SS
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German ww2 pilot
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air force general
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor. Radioman at 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division. He landed in the first 35 minutes of the battle. His duties also included protecting the Navajo Code Talkers
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RAF fighter ace 5 victorys test pilot
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Air Force General
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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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Bataan Death March Survivor
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James Scott (4)Lz xray 1965 nam
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Author, The Iran Contradiction. Former Military Officer Vietnam 1967. 101st Airborne Divison. Wounded during North Vietnamese Army's Tet Offensive of 1968
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November 30, 1913 - February 5, 1999) was a soldier of the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for actions during World War II
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British-Argentine WWII veteran. Left Argentina as a volunteer for the 794 Naval Air Squadron, part of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Army. Last known Latin American pilot of Spitfire
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Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) 10, from 2002-2006
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Ace and member of the AVG-Flying Tigers
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Brigadier general in U.S. Air Force. Scott known for autobiography God is My Co-Pilot about exploits in WW II with Flying Tigers & the United States Army Air Forces in China & Burma. The book was eventually made into a film of the same name
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army general educator
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British Major General, born in 1920, participated in the D-Day invasion
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Morgan Stanley employee working in Tower 2 of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He bravely led the evacuation of 276 fellow employees
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Spitfire Ace - North African desertand Italy
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in London, UK. Also a HMS Belfast crew member
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WWII: US Navy. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid. Aleutian Campaign. Philippines
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WWII: Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Exeter, 1 March 1942. Also served during the Battle of the River Plate (1939). Spent 3 years as a Japanese POW
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima
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army general
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German World War 1 (lives in USA)Veteran/Born:12/12/1899
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (Schofield Barracks); Guadalcanal; New Georgia. 25th ID
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Female French Resistance Fighter in WWII
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Pearl Harbor vet, USS Nevada, born 1923. Stayed on the Nevada through most of the war, supporting the landings of D-Day, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Robin in a long series of battles all over the Pacific
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WW2 POW, 'Bridge over the River Kwai' prisoner
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German World War One survivor
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German WWII-Pilot, Ju88 pilot, Mistel mission of WWII
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WW2/Japanese American/Go For Broke/US Army Units served 442nd regiment, 3rd battalion, Company L/Purple Heart; 2 Unit Citations; O'Connor Task Force; Bruyeres
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 7 kills
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Lz xray 1965
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B-17 bomber pilot, WWII, 8th Air Force. Shot down by a FW-109 over Ruhland, Germany, 12 September 1944. Sole survivor in a crew of ten. P.O.W. for 9 months. PH AM POW medals
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WWII: 4th Battalion, 29th Infantry. A communications specialist that served on D-Day (3rd or 4th wave, Omaha Beach), The Battle of the Bulge, Liberation of Dachau
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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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WWII: D-Day veteran
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Member of the French maquis in WW2
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WWII: PTO. 5th Air Force
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Hungarian fighter ace from WW2
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Italian veteran from WW1
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98-years old British veteran of the Spanish Civil War; living in the United Kingdom, featured in the documentary, 'The First Will Be The Last' by Pasquale D'Aiello
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WWII: CBI. He flew 30 roundtrip missions in C-46s and C-47s over the Hump
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Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
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WWII - Iwo Jima. CO of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Div. His 3rd Platoon, led by 1st Lt Wells, is the most decorated Marines Platoon in history. He is the CO who selected the men who went up Mt. Suribachi
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Army General
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Female WWII veteran, WASP pilot (1917-2017). One of the 'Lucky Thirteen' WASP pilots to train and fly the B-17 'Flying Fortresses'
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WWII: US Navy veteran. Battle of Midway (June 1942), Battle of Santa Cruz (October 1942), Battle of Formosa (1944), a.o. Served on USS Russell (DD-414) and USS Houston (CL-81)
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Lz xray 1965
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WWII - D-Day U.S. Navy Seaman U.S. Navy 2nd Class Motor Machinist's Mate. Shaeff was USS LST-290 on D-Day to carry troops and equipment to the shore
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Ace (5 kills - 2 in WWII & 3 in Korean War)- USAAF/USAF, p-47, f-86, me 109
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WWII: Served on LST-474 in the Pacific
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Former Israeli soldier who was held captive by Hamas for five years
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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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'Band of Brothers' '101st Airbourne Division, 506th Parahute Infantry Regiment, Easy Company' 'Battlefield Commission- Normandy'
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Acting Secretary of Defense Jan 2019 -
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Medusa
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WWII veteran. At a retirement home in Florida, he discovered his good friend and neighbor was a German WWII veteran who'd fought against him at the Bridge at Remagen, and whose outfit had taken the neighbor POW
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Spitfire Pilot, one of the few female Air Transport Auxiliary pilots
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4 Star General
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Patterson. The Navy credited him with shooting down a Japanese plane during the attack on 7 December 1941
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air force general association executive
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Andy Shaw (3)Member Sioux Tribe stationed Japan 24th Infantry Div./Survivor Korean Death March/29th Reg. Combat Team/Captured Oneui 7/26/1950 marched 40 miles south of Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW 3 months one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured
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Jack Shaw (2) 'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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John Shaw (2)Artist, Aviation Art, Band of Brothers paintings
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, first wave. A Penobscot Indian who was a medic in the 1st U.S. Infantry Division (16th Infantry Regiment). D-Day was his first day in combat
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former member of the British Security Service (MI5)
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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Jack Shearer (2)Member of the Sino-American Cooperative Organization
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WWII: Melvin served in the US Army in the 6th Ranger Battalion where participated in the Great Raid at Cabanatuan in the Phillipines and was awared the Bronze Star Medal for his actions
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Oldest living Navy World War 2 Veteran. Born: May 17, 1906
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WWII - Ball-turret Gunner of B-17 "Big Yank", 483rd Bombardment Group, 840th Bombardment Sq. Base: Sterparone, Italy; on March 24, 1945, they flew the longest escorted European bombing mission to Berlin, credited for destroying 3 Me-262's
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 99th Infantry Division
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4-Star General, Born Feb 25, 1954
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper. Flew into Normandy aboard C-47 Skytrain 42-92841 'Turf & Sport Special' and dropped to St. Mere-Eglise on June 6, 1944.Normandy, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. E Co, 2nd Bn, 508th PIR, 82nd AB
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JFK - US Navy rear admiral; naval aide to President John F. Kennedy.
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Tuskegee airmen ww2, flew the curtiss p-40, p-39-q, p-47d, p-51 c, p-51 d
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Navy Admiral, last skipper of USS Lexington,
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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air force general
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'Royal Air Force Crewman'
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Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941, USS Arizona
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Japanese politician (1887-1957). WWII Foreign Affairs Minister and post-war Deputy Prime Minister. Signed the WWII Instrument of Surrender, as Japan's representative
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(1916-2002) AVG Flying Tigers CNA & Captain/Hump Pilot with 700 flights Pre-WW2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tgiLSkcvN4
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WWII: 603rd Engineers Camouflage Division, 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. Long and prominent career as an illustrator after the war, working for National Geographic, Life, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian and NASA
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Pearl Harbor survivor (7 Dec 1941), USS Helena. Survived only as he had swiched shifts with a friend
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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009-present)
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Retired Navy SEAL. He investigates phony Navy SEALs, and puts the videos on YouTube
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Wrote under the name Lee Shippey, American author & journalist whose romance with a French woman during WWI caused a sensation in the US as a 'famous war triangle.' Shippey later wrote a popular column in the Los Angeles Times for 22 years
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu
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New Zealand WWII Veteran, Telegraphist in the Royal New Zealand Navy
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Commander of British Troops in Iraq
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army general
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WWII: ETO. Pilot, 100th Bomb Group, 351st Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force ('Bloody 100th'). B-17 #42-31767 'Our Gal Sal', the only B-17 of the 351st Squadron returning from the murderous 6 March 1944 raid on Berlin
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Retired General
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Decorated general of the United States Marine Corps who was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, became the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Co C, 1st Bn, 23Marines, 4th Marine Division. His comnpany suffered a 94 percent casualty rate on Iwo Jima; only 16 were non-casualties and only 38 returned home
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WWII: Soviet partisan fighter, living in a retirement home in central Israel
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air force general
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WWII: 34th Field Artillery Battalion (9th Inf Div), operating a 155mm howitzer. North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium, Germany. D-Day (Utah Beach), Battle of Remagen 1945
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Centenarian (1902-2002). US WWI vet, lied about his age to enlist. Sent to France, fought in trenches
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor/ U.S. Marine Corps Guard
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Soviet sniper during World War Two. Credited with over five-hundred confirmed kills. Lives in the Republic of Dagestan, near the Caucasus
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Saipan, Battle of Okinawa. 27th Infantry Division
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Polish publicist and lawyer, former member of the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa (AK)
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American Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Iwo Jima campaign
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army general finland
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Tuskegee Airmen, Author, WWII
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JFK related/Frogman at Bay of Pigs, lives in Caracas since 70's/Wounded & taken prisoner, Castro refers to these prisoners as 'yellow worms'
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JFK related/Frogman at the Bay of Pigs
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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JFK - Honor Guard at the funeral of John F. Kennedy, leading the naval troops at the procession; also serving the President in functions prior to the assassínation
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medal of honor marines korean war
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WWII: ETO/PTO. Transported troops to both Utah and Omaha beaches on D - Day on LST-501, later again in the Battle of Okinawa (April 1 ? June 22, 1945)
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, aboard U.S.S. Utah during attack!
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Officer who served in the German army during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
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Ralph Simpson (2) 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: US Navy. PTO: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid
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WWII, Berlin Airlift (Chief of Navigation & Briefing), Korea, Master Navigator
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doolittles radiers
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2nd oldest man in Canada born 1911. WWII veteran
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Indian war hero, bearer of Param Vir Chakra
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Indian-Singaporean WWII veteran. Member of the Indian National Army boys' brigade. Later served for the Singapore Armed Forces
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Indian military - awarded the Victoria Cross in December 1944
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Spy/C.I.A./US Army General
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Navy veteran of 3 wars: WWII, Korea, Vietnam
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WWII: D-Day. USS Augusta (Admiral Kirk's flagship for D-Day, also carrying Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, providing fire support on D-Day and beyond)
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Sri Lankan WWII veteran and aviator
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US WWII Navy, born 1924. Sent as part of the occupying forces in Japan at the end of the war. Re-enlisted and served as part of the weather recon air squadron for the 1946 Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests in 1946
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Carl Leonard Sitter (December 2, 1922 - April 4, 2000) was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer and Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
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Former General of the Polish Army (retired)
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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: Battle of Wake Island December 1941. US Marine Corps. Jack's artillery battery sank the first Japanese ship of the war. POW until his liberation by U.S. forces on September 7, 1945
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WWII: Merchant Marine, Arctic convoys
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Military air force general
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Bataan Death March survivor, born 1917
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WWII: Served on the USS Bunker Hill and saved sailors from the ship when she was hit by two Kamikaze on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa)
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Army National Guard Specialist; helped avert a massacre when an armed attacker began shooting on a train from Amsterdam to Paris; received the US Soldier's Medal and France's Legion of Honor; Dancing With The Stars Season 21
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Former general in the German Democratic Republic's army
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army general
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WWII: PTO. A Chief Radioman of the VP44 Patrol Bombing Squadron 'Golden Pelicans', a seaplane squadron flying the PBY-5A Catalina. Battle of Midway. On June 5, 1942, his PYB, sighted the Japanese cruisers Mogami and Mikuma
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WWII - Flying Ace, 12 victories
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Military
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WWII: Last remaining Polish survivor of Westerplatte Peninsula, where roughly 200 Polish troops valiently fought off German troops for seven days in September 1939. POW 1939-1941. Considered the opening battle of WWII
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British expert on conflict, reconciliation and stability, who has worked mainly in the Middle East. She served in Iraq as the political advisor to US General Ray Odierno and General David Petraeus during the surge
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Former United States Navy SEAL
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WWII - WASP. Base assignment_ Love Field, Dallas. Flew B-26, B-39
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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WWII Manhattan Project
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1922-2009). survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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D-Day participant
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WWII - D-Day. D Company, 116th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. 4th wave at Omaha Beach
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WW2 veteran. Nose Gunner on the B17 Flying Fortress
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Retired General Born Nov. 11, 1924
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WWII: Navy veteran. USS Yorktown, USS West Virginia
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WWII: Royal Navy, HMS Anson. Escorting merchant ships on their 'Murmansk runs' in the Arctic convoys. Later served on the HMS Duncan, the HMS Pennywort and the HMS Taff and was involved in patrols along the Burma coast behind enemy lines
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Military
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, 18th Fighter Group at Wheeler Field
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navy admiral
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WWII - VJ-Day 14 August 1945. In the famous scene of a sailor kissing a nurse, Mr. Smalley can be seen as a bystander
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United States Navy, first captain of the USS Indianapolis. Captain from 15 November 1932 - 10 December 1934
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WWII - Civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Worked as a civilian employer of the Navy in a big hangar, building and repairing aircraft wings
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First blind active duty officer in the Army. Speaker, Veteran, IronMan, Purple Heart recipient and author of Beat Feet: Scotty Smiley's Blind Journey to Ironman (2015) and Fox and Friends (1998)
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WW2 Dunkirk veteran (Born:1919) who served with the Royal Army Service Corps and was rescued from the beach after two days under fire without food or water. Lives in Shoeburyness, southeast Essex, UK
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Last survivor from the sinking of HMS Royal Oak, that was torpedoed by the German submarine U-47 on 14 October 1939. He is now 94 and lives in the UK
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Ww2 fighter ace - 5 kills vf-14
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air force general
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Night fighter ace, flew P-61's with the 418th NFS
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, Machine Gunner. Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941. POW for 4 years
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Charles Smith (4)Served in the 3rd Infantry Division during the war. Mr. Smith was one of the first American soldiers to cross the Rhine River and begin the march towards Berlin
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David Smith (5) Veteran of Spanish Civil War, Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Born: 1913
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Retired General
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army general
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Hump Pilot to China
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George Smith (3) USS Oklahoma survivor - Pearl Harbor attack
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, glider pilot in Operation Varsity. 194th Regiment, 17th Airborne Division
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge. Machine Gunner. 291sth Infantry Regiment, 75th InfDiv (aka 'Bulgebusters')
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Jack Smith (4) Abc news correspondant- also at lz-xray in 1965 with 1/7 cav- he might have died?
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US WWII Navy veteran (1924-2021). One of 7 last USS Indianapolis survivors at the time of his death
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Lz xray 1965
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air force general
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JFK - Honor Guard 'Casket team', one of Kennedy's pallbearers (Navy)
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WWII Fighter Ace (6 kills), 56th Fighter Group, 'Zemke's Wolfpack', flew the p-47
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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Civil war general railroad tycoon 1st vp of b & o railroad
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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Tuskegee Airman
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Vietnam: Fall of Saigon - US Marine Corps. Last Marine to stand duty at the US Embassy in Saigon and the Marine who took down the US flag during the evacuation of Saigon on April 29. 1975, for the very last time
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Retired USMC General
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Buffalo Soldier of WWII (1923-2021). Badly wounded in Italy alongside John Fox (one of the few Black MOH recipients of WWII), held POW by Germany. Teaching career, known as 'Doc Rock'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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William Smith (3) WWII: Battle of the Bulge. 75th Infantry Division
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navy admiral
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan
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Army general 'As Major in 1961 Airforce aide to the Military Representitive of the President'
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Aviator, WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) lives in San Antonio, TX
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker´
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Air Force General
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WWII - D-Day, Utah Beach. 29th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Infantry Division
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Centenarian (1898-2004). One of the last living Australian WWI veterans
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Subject of the new WWII book 'Spearhead'
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WWII: ETO. RAF Battle of Britain pilot
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South African war hero, awarded Victoria Cross in June 1942
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WWII WASP Women Pilot
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African American WWI veteran of the 9th Calvary, born 1922. One of the last of the Buffalo Soldiers
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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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WWII - LtGen Snowden (Fox Company, 2nd Bn, 23rd Marines, company commander) is the senior and highest-ranking surviving veteran of the Battle of Iwo Jima (Purple Heart); also in the battles at Saipan and Tinian; WWII, Korea, Vietnam
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Rosie The Riveter --- WWII War Effort at Aerospace Plants
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach
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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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Japanese WWII Veteran
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Former Soviet Military Marshal (Soviet Army) and the last surviving veteran from The Battle of Lake Khasan in 1938
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, 4th Marine Division
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WWII: PTO. 163rd Regiment, 41st Infantry Division. New Guinea campaign (Battle of Buna 1942/1943)
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Russian World War One Veteran
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U.S. Army veteran, who was captured by the Nazis in 1944, after bombing a Nazi bunker
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army general
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German World War One survivor
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WWII: Marine Corps (2nd Marine division) veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa
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German ww2 pilot
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Jewish survivor of the Nazis and a WWII veteran. Born in turbulent post-war Germany and witnessed the rise of National Socialism/Managed to escape in January 1939 and immigrated to America. He fought in the Pacific Theater during WWII
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Member of the Norwegian Resistance during the German Occupation WWII. The most highly decorated person in Norway
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Aviation pioneer W/Fred Sigrist, others set up Sopwith Aviation Company which produced 18,000+ British WWI aircraft for allied forces, including 5747 of the famous Sopwith Camel single-seat fighter/awarded the CBE 1918
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Glenn Sorensen (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. US Army Air Corps
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Army General
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WWII - Employed at the Glenn L. Martin Company at Offutt Field (Fort Crook), she worked on the Enola Gay, did the cockpit wiring like the wiring for the special navigator table
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Congressional Medal of Honor, USMC, WWII
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army general
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Spanish Civil War Veteran, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Born: 12/20/1918
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (USS New Orleans), later USMC Guadalcanal
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, USS Utah
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WWII -Medic in Colonel Rudders's HQ company who climbed Pointe du Hoc on D-day
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WWII: North-Africa (Kasserine Pass), Sicily, Battle of Normandy. Sixth Armored Division (Patton)
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WWII: British soldier evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940. He was abandoned on the beach by his commanding officer with the instruction 'every man for himself'. He then got himself on to a boat, alone
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WWII: D-Day. Landed with LST-510 on Omaha Beach around noon of June 6, 1944. 90-millimeter artillery gunner of Battery B of the the 110th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. Battle of the Bulge
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US Army Air Corps Pearl Harbor survivor (7 Dec 1941); caught in the open at Wheeler Field as the attack started
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British Victoria Cross awardee for his actions in the Korea War
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Army General
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USS Pueblo
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101st airborne, band of brothers ww2
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Nazi officer
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WWII: Fighter Pilot , 334th Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, show down, became POW, escaped
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Former High-School/College Basketball coach for Arkansas State Univ. Played at the Arkansas State Univ. Also is a World War 2 Veteran
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WWII: US Navy; 20mm anti-aircraft gunner on the Liberty ship SS Julius Olson. Murmansk Run veteran
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Binbrook'
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WWII Ace (9.5 kills) 361st Fighter Group - USAAF - DSC
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John Spencer (5) WWII: Original Montford Point Marine (first Black marines) who fought in the Battle of Guadalcanal and later on the battles of Operation Forager (Mariana and Palau Islands battles)
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Larry Spencer (2)Air Force General
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WWII: ETO. Bombardier with the 93rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force
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WWII: Belgian WWII veteran who was in the Belgian Resistance and joined the 512th MP Battalion of Patton's 3rd Army after the liberation of Antwerp, being in the Battle of the Bulge and also entering the Buchenwald concentration camp
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WWII: Infantryman machine gunner, H Company, 501st PIR, 101st AB. Battle of the Bulge (Siege of Bastogne), soldier who (unintentionally und unknowingly) created the 'Airborne Beer' in Belgium. Occupation duty in Austria
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WWII veteran with the 75th Division, 291st Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion. Went to the beaches of Normandy 5 months after D-Day
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Former British military officer, later employee of Sandline International, a private military company, wrote a book called 'An Unorthodox Soldier' about his life
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B-17 Pilot during WWII. Known for developing artificial/fake trees in the early 1970's. Lives in New York
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Retired German general
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101st airborne,band of brothers ww2
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Retired General
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WWII: N. Africa, Sicily, Normandy (Utah Beach, D-Day+4, Battle of Bulge, Battle of Remagen (1945), Rhine Crossing. 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
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WW2 Veteran/100th Infantry Division & 82nd Airborne Division/July 1944, reassigned to 82nd Airborne Division, 325th Infantry Glider Regiment, Company C/Remembers seeing smoke from guns below crossing the English Channel toward Holland
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US Army vet, born 1925. 'Undesirable' discharge for being gay, 1948. Hid the anguish from his family, until he married his partner of decades in 2009 and fought years for an honorable discharge, which came at the age of 91 in 2017
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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; 320 dead, 390 wounded, followed by mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.)
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: British soldier of the 56th (Highland) Medium Regiment who survived 4 days under fire at the beaches of Dunkirk and was evacuated on board J86, the minesweeper HMS Salamander
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Is a former officer in the United States Marine Corps and the proprietor of The Globe and Laurel Restaurant in Stafford, Virginia. He served in the Marine Corps for over 29 years and is called 'the living historian of the Marine Corps'
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WWII: Gunner on the USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady') . Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942), Battle of Midway (June 1942), when he spent 10 hours in the Pacific before being picked up. Later served on submarine USS Jack
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WWII/ETO: B-17 ball turret gunner of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group)
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Patrol Squadron 23 (PBY Patrol plane), Kaneohe Bay
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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retired United States Army Colonel and former NASA astronaut
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US Navy vet, born 1940. Assigned to the USS Lake Champlain in 1961, participated in the recovery of Alan Sheperd and Freedom 7. Helped make the bed that the recovered capsule was set upon
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navy admiral
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British ace from WW2
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US Navy 'Atomic Veteran', born 1928. Operation Crossroads atomic tests witness in 1946. Enlisted 1945, but recruiter held him off since he had four brothers serving. But ended up exposed to radiation, fighting skin cancers later in life
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Retied USMC General
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Swedish'
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astonaut air force general
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A British Royal Air Force meteorologist who notably persuaded General Dwight D. Eisenhower to change the date of the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II, from the 5th of June to the 6th of June 1944
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WWII - D-Day Utah Beach, 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. Also fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Before that, he was sent to the Pacific Theater, where he survived the sinking of the SS President Coolidge on 26 Oct 1942
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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German Flying Ace Of World War II
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British ace from WW2
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WWII: Fighter Pilot, 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF
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army field marshal england
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Retired U.S.-Marine General, USMC
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WWII: PTO. Bataan Death March survivor
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Director FOrce Structure J-8
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RAF ace from 'Battle of Britain', currently residing in the U.K., 7
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WWII: British Arctic convoy veteran
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Croatian World War II pilot, born 1916, lives in Pancevo, Serbia
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WWII: ETO. Nose Art artist of the 91st Bomb Group, also painted the 'Memphis Belle'
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World war 2 fighter ace- 7 kills
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WW2 POW 31st Infantry Regiment U.S. Army, was captured & shipped to Yokkaichi city in Japan where was forced to shovel coal at copper mill/suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, but recovered & held career as corrections officer in Conn
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WW1 Veteran (Royersford, Pa.)
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army general
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USN Admiral
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WWII - Navigaor and OOD (Officer of the Deck) of the USS Missouri. It was his job to greet US and Japanese military officials as they boarded to sign the papers of surrender, and his job to set up the ceremony
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world war 2 fighter ace (6 kills)- USAAF
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navy admiral england
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U.S. Navy 4-Star Admiral; NATO Supreme Allied Commander (2009-2013); Commander, U.S. Southern Command (2006-2009)
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WWII - D-Day, Battle of The Bulge, Nuremberg Trails. 1st Infantry Div, 26th Infantry Regiment. 1st wave on Omaha Beach. Occupational duty of guarding the top 12 high ranking German officials, including Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Jamaica). Part of the bodyguard at Yalta, when Churchill met Roosevelt and Stalin
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Air Force General
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WWII - Pilot of the famous Sundowners squadron (VT-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater
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Former General (Generaloberst) of the German Democratic Republic (DDR)
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WWII Marine, born 1924, fought at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan. Went on to a career as a lawyer and circuit judge
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WWII Bataan Death March Survivor
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Michael Steele (2)Michael Dane Steele (born September 15, 1960) is a retired colonel of the United States Army. He was a company commander in the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment during the Somalia mission Operation Gothic Serpent
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, Guadalcanal, Battle of the Bloody Ridge
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WWII: Marine veteran of the Battles of Tawara, Saipan, Tinian
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army general
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Bataan Death March Survivor
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WW2 Veteran : Army 37th Infantry Division
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Centenarian (1901-2006). US vet of WWI and WWII. 4 WWI battles in France. Named Provost Marshal of Hawaii, living through Pearl Harbor. Oldest living West Point grad (1925) and only WWI vet still on (honorary) active duty at his death
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Veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad - WW2
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the c-45
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WWII: U.S.S. L.S.T. 1046, U.S. Navy. He saw combat at Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, and at the invasion of Okinawa
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WWII: D-Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion; was the third man to climb Pointe-du-Hoc on D-Day
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Soldier of Fortune anf French Foreign Legion Paratrooper veteran
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Current captain of the USS Illinois
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS John Penn on August 13, 1943
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British WW2 pilot, 'Battle of Britain'
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WWII: USS Indianapolis (CA-35) survivor
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WW2/Battle of the Bulge/101st FA 26 Yankee Division
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
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US WWII Navy vet, born 11 Jan 1921. Served on the USS Wichita, part of the Murmansk Runs to Russia, incl. the disastrous Convoy PQ-17. Later in the Pacific
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WWII - Yeoman aboard the submarine USS Wahoo (SS-238); sole survivor of the sinking of the Wahoo (11 Oct 1943) as he was miraculously transferrd just 45 mins before Wahoo sailed on her last and fatal voyage. Author of 'Wake of the Wahoo'
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WW2/Member of Ritchie Boys, a military intelligence unit composed of German, Austrian, & Czech refugees & immigrants to the US, mostly Jewish. Member of (interrogators of prisoners of war) Team 37. For this he gained the Bronze Star Medal
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Member of The Ritchie Boys was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War II. Holocaust survivor and now 99 years old
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WWII: ETO. 345th Bomb Squadron, 98th Bomb Group, 9th AF. B-24 Liberator 'The Sandman' (#42-40402). Pilot & Squadron Commander. 50 Combat missions. DFC for Operation Tidal Wave (1 Aug 1943), the bombing of the oil refineries at Ploesti
