WWII: PTO. USS Laffey ('The Ship That Would Not Die'). D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action in the worst Kamikaze attack in history)
WWII: PTO. Corsair fighter pilot assigned to 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
Became known as 'The Ghost of Bataan' due to the fact that General Douglas McArthur asked him to stay in the Philippines after the raid at Cabanatuan to locate the mass graves of thos who died in the Bataan Death March. Born: 07/31/1913
(September 15, 1914 - September 4, 1974) was a general in the United States Army who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968?72 which saw U.S. troop strength in Vietnam fall from a peak of 543,000 to 49,000. He served as Chief of Staff
American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War/WW1 Veteran
6th Baronet GCVO, CB, DSO, MC & Bar 3/11/1897 in London 4/8/1988) British Army general in WW2 commanded Guards Armoured Division from 9/12/1942 until the end of war. Mentioned in Despatches four times during his military career
Jonathan Adair (born 27 October 1963), better known as Johnny Adair or Mad Dog Adair, is an Ulster loyalist and the former leader of the 'C Company', 2nd Battalion Shankill Road, West Belfast Brigade of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF)
Author & retired United States Air Force officer/Distinguished Service Medal/Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command 1983 accepted an appointment as Associate Director @Los Alamos National Laboratory/Brazos River Authority Board of Directors
Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
WW2/Corporal/7th Armored Division under General Patton/Battle of the Bulge and Battle of Metz/Turns 100 July 20th 2017/Threw out 1st pitch Military Appreciation Night at Busch Stadium baseball game/loyal Cardinal/s fan
American mechanical engineer most famous for having taken the only well-exposed color photograph of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945 at the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico. He is now 88
John 'Jack' Agnew, one of the original members of a U.S. Army unit that operated behind enemy lines in World War II and is often credited with having loosely inspired the novel and movie 'The Dirty Dozen,'
Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
WWII veteran, served on the USS Missouri, injured during an April 1945 kamikaze hit on the ship. Witnessed the Japanese Surrender ceremony on the ship several months later
Donut Dolly Vietnam War/Served in Vietnam: 07/67 - 11/67 Cu Chi - 25th Inf. Div.
Served in Vietnam: 11/67 - 03/68 Cam Rahn Bay - Army
Served in Vietnam: 03/68 - 07/68 Lai Khe - 1st Inf. Div.
(Returned to Viet Nam and Thailand with USO1971-73)
Retired US Marine Corps General/Deputy Commander of U.S. Central Command 2014, President Barack Obama appointed General Allen as Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL
Crew Member/USS Menhaden (SS-377) US Navy Balao-class submarine. Launched 1944, Operated out of Pearl Harbor until 1946 And then decommissioned & re-fitted as remotely controlled, unmanned acoustic test vehicle known as 'Yellow Submarine'
One of the nine surviving Spanish Civil War Veterans Born:1919. Joined in 1936. In 2016, declared embassador by Valencia's Government during the October 9th Awards, aka Jose Alumudever Mateu
Spanish Civil War survivor (Born: 1925) who witnessed the air raid over Gernika in 1937. Also witnessed the the siege of Leningrad in 1941 and 1942. Now 91
WWII veteran, b. 1923. Pearl Harbor survivor on the USS California. Later at Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Saw MacArthur return to the Philippines, the flag go up on Iwo Jima, and the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay
WWII: D-Day, Radio Operator, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach ('first jeep out'). Fought also at Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge. Also served in Korea and Vietnam
WWII - Operation Overlord; Navy man on LST-133, the first LST to reach the beach on D-Day+1; struck by a mine a few days later while delivering troops and ammunition. Met Queen Elizabeth and President Obama at 70th D-Day anniversary
Spy/Former Israeli military intelligence major who was convicted of espionage in 1987. Amit is thought to have spied for the United States and a European NATO country, though this has never been confirmed by the Israeli government
Fernando Macarro Castillo (Born: 1920) is a Spanish poet. Released in 1962, was a political prisoner who spent time in the prisons of the Franco dictatorship. Age: 96. Lives in Spain
WWII - D-Day. UK Royal Engineers, 591 Para Squadron, 6th British Airborne Division. Dropped in at Pegasus Bridge, wounded after 5 weeks of fighting in Normandy
WWII: Survivor of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4?8 May 1942), a corporal of the Marine Corps Detachment (assigned to Battery 4, Gun 10) aboard the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle
WWII: ETO. D-Day. Fought from Omaha Beach in Normandy through France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany and into Czechoslovakia at the war's end. 3 Bronze Stars, 3 Purple Hearts
WWII: D-Day. 671st Bomb Squadron, 416th Bomb Group, 9th Bomber Command, 9th Air Force - Army Air Corps/Air Force. Flew bombing missions (Douglas A-20 Havoc) on D-Day and beyond
D-Day landings veteran. Born in 1924 and lives in North London, UK. He was a paratrooper in the 7th Battalion Parachute Regiment and fought to take and keep Pegasus Bridge, which was key to the allied advance
WWII: Radio operator and gunner of a PBY Catalina seaplane, participated in the battles of Midway, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guam and Guadalcanal. Distinguished Flying Cross (2x)
Author, motivational speaker and former United States Marine Corps officer who was the first African - American female naval aviator in the Marine Corps and the first African American female combat pilot in the U.S. Armed Forces
Ascani, a retired Air Force major general, flew an F-86 Sabre jet at 628.698 mph at the National Air Races in Detroit in 1951. He later oversaw development of a supersonic bomber. Fred J. Ascani, a retired Air Force major general and former test pilot at
WWII: Navy Veteran of the USS Tisdale (DE-33), 'The Lucky T', of many battles, like Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
Former colonial officer and associate of presidents Obote and Amin in Uganda in the the 1960s and 70s. Born 1924. He currently lives in Wimbledon, London. His nickname is: 'The White Rat'
Medal of Honor WWII, for actions on the Villa Verde Trail,Luzon Island, Philippines. He fired over 400 rounds over a period of 4 hours as the only remaining soldier at a position that was being heavily assaulted
Aerospace research Test Pilot. Col., USAF, Ret.; Bachelor of Sciene in Chem,, University of Virginia, 1959; Master of Science in Engineering Administration, unsuccessful application NASA astronaut group 3; 1963 as military astronaut - class-3 selected
Madame Jacqueline Auriol (November 5, 1917-February 11, 2000) was a French aviatrix who set numerous world speed records. Auriol became one of the first female test pilots after earning her military pilot license in 1950
Born in 1925, Bach is a Psychologist & WWII Veteran who served in the European Theatre of Operations during WW2. He later joined the Research Center For Mental Health at New York University in 1956. He was awarded the Heinz Hartmann award for his research
A Russian political and military figure, Yury Nikolaevich Baluevsky is the Deputy Secretary of Russia's Security Council, the First Deputy Defense Minister, an army general, and a former head of Russia's General Staff
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
WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation. 66th Infrantry Division; witness of the sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville on 24 Dec 1944 (torpedoed by a German U-boat; 763 soldiers died). Served as a Monuments Men after V-E-day in Austria
WWII: ETO/MTO. 451st Bomb Group, 724th Squadron, 15th AF. His plane was hit by a German 88 on Oct. 13, 1944, while over Vienna, Austria, and had to bail out. He became a POW, eventually held at Stalag Luft #7A near Moosburg, Germany,
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
Former General in the Canadian Forces, Military Advisor to the UN Sec. General & head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations from 1992 to 1997, & Chief of the Defence Staff in Canada from 1997 t
WWII: US Navy. USS Hornet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid, Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands); survived the sinking of the Hornet in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942
US WWII D-Day veteran, born 1926. Knocked out by an explosion, spent the first night filled with shrapnel and wracked in pain until he was picked up the next afternoon. Later served in the Philippines
Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
Flew in hundreds of combat helicopter missions in Vietnam during the 1960s. Honored with war medals for helping to extract dozens of wounded Americans from fields and jungles/1st Cavalry Division, 15th Medical Battalion Medevac platoon
WWII - Hitler's Nazi poster boy for propaganda in the late 1930s. Chosen at the age of four, his face appeared on postcards, books and campaigns for Nazi Germany
CIA operative gathered on-the-ground intelligence on Cuba's military defenses in preparation for Bay of Pigs invasion. After JFK abandoned invading troops on beach at Playa Girón, Basulto says, he abandoned the CIA operatives on the island
Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
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 in Burma. Bronze Star
August 27, 1918- March 20, 2008) was an American aviatrix who became the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Force jet aircraft as a test pilot during WWII as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots program/WASP
WASP/First American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War II
Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, serving on USS Hull. Later fought in the battles of Bourgainville, Salamua-Lea, Guadalcanal, Wake Island, Attu-Kiska, Wake Island again, and Tarawa. Born July 6, 1921
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
On D-Day, June 6, 1944, 73,000 American forces descended on the beaches of Normandy. Bearden was a 21-year-old sergeant in the Army's 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Wrote; 'To D-Day and Back'
Noted Civil War and World War II Historian. WWII Marine, 3rd Raider Battalion (Battle of Guadalcanal), Chief historian for the National Park Service 1981 - 1994
WWII: Marine Corps, 1st Raider Battalion. Tulaghi, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian. Fired the first shot against the Japanese occupied South Pacific Island of Tulagi on August 7, 1942
Panzer Captain and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross who was on the intelligence staff of the Sixth Army during the Stalingrad encirclement
Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
Served in the Navy during WWII in the Pacific Theater and was aboard the USS Lexington in May, 1942, when it was torpedoed during the Battle of Coral Sea
WWII WAVES female vet, born 1923. Top Secret Ultra clearance, gathered info from/prepared reports for upper command of decoded German messages. Learned of D-Day from a just-decoded msg from Germany's Donitz, saying they'd just been invaded
WWII: ETO/D-Day. Radio operator on B-24 Liberator 'The Hard Way' (44-40242), 854th Bomb quadron, 491st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 31 missions from June 2, 1944 to Sept. 9, 1944, including D-Day and Hanover, Sept. 9, 1944
WWII: Battle of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa. Corpsman with D-1-2, 2nd MarDiv. He was in the 2nd wave to Red Beach #2 on Tarawa-D-Day; arriving in a Higgins boat, he had to wade over 500 yards to the shore under devastating fire
WWII: Evacuation of Dunkirk. 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Marched almost 120 miles to the beaches near Dunkirk to escape the German advance in May 1940. Eventually he found a rowing boat and was picked up by a navy ship
WWII - Operation Overlord. 279th Port Company, 505th Port Battalion. Landed between Utah and Omaha Beach on D-Day+1 still under constant fire; his unit was responsible to get the beach organized and to get supplies inland
WWII PTO: Co B, 1st Raider Bn, then 4th Marines. Fought at Guadalcanal (Bloody Ridge), Guam, Saipan, Bouganville, New Georgia, Okinawa. Guard duty at USS Missouri on the day the Japanese signed the surrender in Tokyo Bay. 2 Purple Hearts
WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, Original Band of Brothers.
Note: He isn't the author of that book mentioned - these were 'Will Bill' Guarnere and 'Babe' Heffron: http://www.amazon.de/Brothers-Battle-Friends-William-Guarnere/dp/0425224368
WWII - Pilot 91st Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group; with his C-47 #43-15213 he flew paratroopers of Dog Company, 506th PIR, 101st AB into D-Day (Stick #64). Specialist in towing/rescueing Gliders, carrying D-Day wounded out to safety
Vietnam War - Marines pilot who flew Ambassador Martin out of the American Embassy during the fall of Saigon to the Vietcong, April 30, 1975. Helicopter 'Lady Ace 09'
WWII: B-17 pilot, 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 28 missions from June to August 1944, most in 'Little Miss Mischief' (B-17 42-97880), including France, Munich, Merseburg, Brandenburg, Peenemunde
WWII: Battle of Midway (June 1942), USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady'). Severely wounded during the battle. Later, he served on the submarines USS Bashaw and USS Sea Robin
WWII - tail-gunner on the 'Necessary Evil', the nickname of the B-29 Superfortress that accompanied the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Helena. Served on the USS Helena from Pearl until the Battle of Kula Gulf (1943), when she was sunk by Japanese torpedoes, fighting, a.o., in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Cape Esperance
WWII - D-Day, 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One), 16th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, Omaha Beach. Mr. Bistrica actually is pictured in one of the most iconic photographs of the war