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Scotlands Oldest Living Man/WW1 Veteran(enlisted at end of War) Born: 06/28/1900
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Retired General
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USMC SGT being held prisoner in Mexico
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WWII Japanese Pilot
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WWII: One of the few survivors of the Japanese Navy who were involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Survived the sinking of the Hiryu during the Battle of Midway in 1942, and almost starved on the Pacific Island Chuuk
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Retired General
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Bloodline/Vietnam Vet/Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Eagle Scout/Great grandfather killed in battle of Little Big Horn/Genus IQ 245
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vietnam war air force hero
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JFK/Kennedy Honor Guard Death Watch/Death watch at White House & Capital Grounds
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Japanese aircraft and automotive engineer. Japanese WWII Veteran
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Wasp wwii pilot
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Lakeland Flying Tigers AAA
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Vietnamese Minister of Justice during the Vietnam War era, now living in Exile in France
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army general
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WWII: Finnish Fighter Ace
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Hiroshima survivor, born in 1926 in California, moved to Japan at age 6. Drafted into the Japanese army during WWII, he was helping to dig an air raid shelter into a hill about a mile and a half from Hiroshima's center when the bomb hit. He emerged to see
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge and other major battles. 740th Tank Battalion ('Daredevil Tankers')
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Coast guard author
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation. Interrogated numerous Nazi officials involved in art operations, incl. Albert Speer and Walter Hofer. At Berchtesgaden, he worked to recover the objects from Hermann Göring's collection
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Figher ace iwo jima p-51
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Former Soviet military leader, doctor of technical sciences, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1917) was a volunteer of the Republican army, becoming an official. He fought in Madrid and the Battle of Teruel. One of the last surviving Republican officers. Now 99
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WWII: Nurse on hospital ship USS Solace
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Author/Retired Brigadier General
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Retired General
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Fought at Iwo Jima.Veteran featured on the HBO miniseries The Pacific
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Harold has been cited in several books and publications chronicling the history of the war for heroism in the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill on Okinawa. Purple Heart
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, Army Medical Department
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, 101st Airborne Division
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WWII: Escaped the German Army in the 'Miracle of Dunkirk', May/June 1940. 13th Lysander Squadron RAF, but dispatched to the Royal Signals of the Army before Dunkirk as they were in need of wireless operators like him
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WWII: Signalman on HMS Palomares in the ill-fated PQ17 arctic convoy in July 1942 when 25 of 36 ships were lost to enemy actions
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American aviator, notable for being in the late summer and early fall of 1976 the first person in history to successfully fly a homebuilt aircraft around the world. World War II Veteran
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Founder of Enterprise Rental cars, pilot aboard the USS Enterprise during WW2
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Medal of honor army vietnam, born 1937
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Pearl Harbor Suvivor 'Battleship California'
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WW2 veteran (Born: 1918) who helped plan the D-Day landings in June 1944. Also the first woman to get the Legion d'Honneur. She is now 98 and lives in London, UK
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Army General
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TV/movie actress of the 1960s + 70s: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Peter Gunn, Dragnet (1958), Flight = 1 ep. 'Enemy Agent' of: 'Gen. Kenny that introduced the episodes was the commander of the 5th Air Force under MacArthur in WWII'; + 'Three Men in a Boat'
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WWII: Merchant Marine. Arctic convoys
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942; also a Malta convoys veteran
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French Freedom Fighter WW2 Born c. 1916
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Retired General
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WWII Veteran from Kansas. He served in the 98th Infantry Division at the end of WWII as a replacement for the original infantry and trained for deployment in Japan. He was one of 15,000 replacements for the Division at the end of the war.
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Spanish soldier, tried a coup-etat in Spain in 1981 but failed
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941; survived the sinking of 4 ships in WWII
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Navy radioman third class stationed at Ford Island
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WWII - Bataan Death March Survivor/192nd Tank Battalion, U.S. Army,made to march for 8 days after his capture/Former professor of economics at Arizona State University
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Soviet War Veteran (Red Army) Born: 07/12/1915
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1919, he joined 615 RAuxAF in March 1938. Called up in 1939, he flew on Beaufighters throughout the Battle of Britain. He is now 96 and lives in Wheldrake near York, UK
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US AF pilot during the Berlin Air Lift 1948
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Last survivng Tahitian WWII veteran
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British WWI soldier. Born: 06/23/1903
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Abingdon'
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WWII D-Day veteran, served on LCT transporting troops and supplies to the beaches under heavy fire. Also met Babe Ruth as a 5 year old in 1928 when his uncle played for the Red Sox
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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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Japanese WWII Veteran
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Vietnam war army hero 'Medal of Honor'
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa
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Doolittle's Raiders crew #7 Engineer/Gunner
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Fighter ace world war 2 6 1/2 kills
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US WWII Navy veteran, born 1927. USS Indianapolis survivor, one of the last 5 living as of 6/21
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Pearl Harbor Survivor; sight-setter on a battery gun of the USS Ward, the ship that fired the first American shots in WWII and sank a Japanese submarine on Dec. 7, 1941
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Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Flying Training School Cranwell
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 1st Marine Division. Battle of Peleliu
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US Air Force SR-71, U-2 and RB-57F Test Pilot
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army general
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Air force General
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US WWII Navy vet, born 1925. Served on the USS Bush. Hit and sunk by kamikazes at Okinawa. Last living survivor of the sinking
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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WWII: MTO/ETO. US Navy. Sicily, Naples, Sardinia
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WWII ETO: D-Day. Operation Market Garden, Bastogne, Battle of the Bulge. 101st Airborne Division
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Tuskegee Airman
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Fighter ace
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US Navy Admiral
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WWII: CBI theater, Hump flyer
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of the USS Mannert Abele in the Battle of Okinawa
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Navy Admiral
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US Centenarian, born 1912. Lived through the 1918 Flu and COVID-19. WWII Navy veteran, patrolled the Aleutian Islands
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WWII: B-24/B-17 bombardier in the 839th Squadron, 487th Bombt Group, 8th Air Force (Lavenham base). 30 missions (incl. D-Day) from 6 May to 5 November 1944. Wounded twice: 14 October 1944 at Cologne and 5 November 1944 at Ludwigshafen
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WWII: B-24/B-17 bombardier in the 839th Squadron, 487th Bombardment Group, 8th AF(Lavenham base). 30 missions (including D - Day) from 6 May to 5 November 1944. Wounded twice: 14 October 1944 at Cologne and 5 November 1944 at Ludwigshafen
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Served on the USS Tennessee prior to WWII and the USS Missouri during WWII, ultimately witnessing the end of WWII/His story got 5 million views on facebook
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JFK - Honor Guard in the State funeral of President Kennedy; also stood Death Watch and as such pictured in the famous photograph of Jackie and Caroline Kennedy kneeling at the coffin
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; Naval Housing, Ford Island. Thompson was 13 on Dec. 7, 1941. His father was stationed on the seaplane tender Curtiss, anchored in Pearl Harbor
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John Thompson (6)
WWII: Guadalcanal. Led an air attack on Japanese forces at Guadalcanal's Bloody Ridge -
Fighter ace 31st fighter group
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American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973 from the 5th Congressional District of Georgia. World War II Veteran
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air force general
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Former Governor of Nebraska (1979-1983)
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Remagen. 78th Infantry Division
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(February 11, 1953 - May 24, 1986), (Lt Cmdr, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot and a NASA astronaut candidate.Thorne was killed in an aircraft accident of a stunt plane -in which he was a passenger- on May 24, 1986
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen. Crew chief for the 332nd Fighter Group
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USAF General
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Medal of Honor, US Navy Vietnam, born 1949
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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Dep Asstiant Secretary of Defense
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Air Force Medal of Honor Recipeint - Vietnam
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Survivor of the Mai Lai Massacre
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navy admiral
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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US Army General
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air force general
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)
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WWII: PTO. One of the two Marines smoking in the famous photo from the Battle of Peleliu
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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Pilot of Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the A-Bomb on Hiroshima
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WWII: D-Day, etc., 82nD AB, 505th PIR
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US Admiral
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Member of the Annex Security Team that fought the Battle of Benghazi, Libya, from September 11 to September 12, 2012. 13 Hours Movie Basis
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P-61 Pilot during WWII-(15 victories)
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation, in Japan
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Vietnam/UH-60 Medivac Pilot Huey Cobra Medical Ambulance
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Son of Charles Tigard, Founder of Tigard, Oregon Born 1909 WWII veteran
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Clerk/typist for the Nuremberg Trials after WWII. Subject of the documentary 'The Typist', as the trial's last living typist
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Tuskegee Airmen/477th Bomber Group/'LA Chapter'
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMT Lancastria during Operation Ariel (17 June 1940). It is estimated that there were 6.500 fatalities, representing a greater loss of life than the Titanic and Lusitania disasters combined
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(June 11, 1906 - September 23, 1992) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces
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La Drang Valley, LZ-Xray Vietnam Way
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WWII Veteran, F Co, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division) Has a video on YouTube you can checkout 'The Day I Was Saved By A German Medic' December 2nd, 1944
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Us airman, fighter ace in spanish was in 36-38
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CCC. WWII: PTO. 2nd Marine Division. Fought in the battles of Okinawa, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian and Tarawa
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Air Force General
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Former Prime Minister of Thailand, Army General
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Member of the Band of Brothers / 506th Easy Company
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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WWII: ETO, tail gunner on B-17 42-31720 'The Blue Blazing Blizzard' (379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force). His B-17 was shot and exploded at 25.000 feet while on a raid to Ludwigshafen, Sept 8, 1944; survived, was taken POW
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Lz xray nam 1965
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Battle of Remagen. 303rd Medical Battallion, 78th Infantry Division
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German WWII Veteran
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WWII - D-Day, Ranger 5HQ, in the 1st Wave on Omaha Beach
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WW2/from Poole in Dorset, Wren in Bletchley Park Naval Section working on ?Allied Plot?. A chart of the world covering all 4 walls & Wrens plotted the movement of all the allied ships and their German, Italian and Japanese opposite numbers
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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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Supercentenarian (1889-2002), one of the last Italian WWI veterans, and at the time of his death, the world's oldest man
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WW II Japanese propogandist 'Tokyo Rose'
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WWII: ETO. 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Fought in the famous 'Battle of the Lost Battalion'
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Navajo Code Talker/3rd Battalion/9th Regiment
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker
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One of the first five African American F-4 Phantom II pilots to serve under the famed Tuskegee Airman Gen. Daniel 'Chappie' James
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Retired Israeli Air Force officer. During WWII he served in a group of Palestinian Jewis Royal Air Force pilots. Back in Israel he served in the Israeli Air Force
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. Company A, 2nd Rangers Battalion; landed near to the heavily fortified village of Vierville where he was seriously wounded while getting ashore
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WWII: PTO. B-24 Liberator nose gunner, 40 missions
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WW2, Korean & Vietnam Wars/Medal of Honor Recipient & Awarded Purple Heart U.S. Army/Rank Colonel/1st lieutenant in Company I, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. At Saulx de Vesoul, France location for actions awarding him MOH
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WWII: D-Day, USS Barnett (APA-5), Utah Beach. Wounded in Operation Husky (Sicily, July 1943). Later in the Invasion of Souther France (August 1944) and also in the Battle of Okinawa. Purple Heart, French Legion of Honor Medal
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WWII: USMC fighter pilot of VMF-214 'The Swashbucklers'. Southwest Pacific and Guadalcanal to join Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 214, known as the 'Swashbucklers.' Guadalcanal, Solomon and Russell Islands
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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WWII Vet, lives in Wisconsin
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Czech who took part in The Great Escape from Stalag Luft POW camp
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USMC General
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Survivor of the of HMS Royal Oak which was sunk by a German U-Boat at Scapa Flow in 1939
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3rd Most Successful German U-Boot Commander WWII
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Finnish World War 2 Hero. Birth Name: Lauri Allan Torni. aka. Larry Thorne Born: 05/28/1919
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Artist and veteran of the Spanish Civil War
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WWII: 4th Marine Division. Iwo Jima. Bronze Star. Purple Heart
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navy admiral
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WWII: ETO. 8th Air Force Fighter Pilot
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WWII: USS Yorktown, Battle of Midway
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Lz xray 1965 nam was in windham,oh but not now
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WWII, Berlin Air Lift 1948. He was a radio operator and Assistant Chief of Operations for the Berlin Air Lift
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Tuskegee Airman born May 1919
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WWII: ETO. Nose Art artist for the 32nd Bomb Squadron
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Cavaly officer civil war, lawyer, us ghose of reprsenatives, colorado
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navy admiral
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WWII. PTO: Fire Controlman 3rd Class on Escort Carrier USS Vella Gulf (CVE-111). Credited with shooting down 3 Japanes 'Zeros' in the last weeks of the war. Visited atom-bombed Nagasaki during occupation duty
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One of three Marines that lowered the Embassy flag in Cuba the last time when the Embassy closed in 1961/ Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana 5+ decades raise the Stars and Stripes once again there
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navy admiral
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marine corps general
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Rcaf fighter ace world war 2 -401 sq
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Founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of Sriracha sauce/Vietnamese businessman and former Major in the army of South Vietnam
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One of the last surviving '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 the Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk in WW2. He is 96 and lives in Brassall, Australia
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. B Battery 515th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft)
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WWII: PTO. SBD Bomber Pilot. U.S.S. Yorktown, U.S.S. Enterprise and the U.S.S. Saratoga
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WWII: B-17 bomber pilot (B-17G Flying Fortress My Mary Myrtle 42-97827), 8th Air force, 1st Division, 457th Bomb Group, 751st Sqdn.; flew 20 missions to Berlin a.o. places between the end of 1944 and June 1945
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Australian WWII veteran and one of the few surviving members of Z-Special unit, the group of Special Forces that assisted downed American airmen. Now lives in Clapham, South Australia. Sometimes known as Jonathan Tredrea
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Retired General
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One of the last survivors of German battleship Bismarck that was sunk on 27 May 1941. He and Otto Peters are now the two last survivors. He is now 90 and lives in Germany
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US Marine, born 1928. WWII (Okinawa) and the Korean War (Chosin Reservoir)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tangier (AV-8); manned a machine gun to shoot at incoming Japanese planes. Later saw service in Guadalcanal, Battle of Midway, Wake Island, Battle of the Coral Sea, a.o. Also invasion of Inchon (Korean War)
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. In the 2nd wave as part of 6th Engineer Special Brigade
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WWII: ETO. 355th Bomb Squadron, 350th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Waist-gunner/Ball-turret gunner on B-17 'Heaven And Earth'. 35 combat missions, including the huge Berlin raid on Feb. 3, 1945
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navy admiral
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WWII - Iwo Jima, 5th Marine Division, Headquarters Company; radio operator working with the Navajo Code Talkers. Later occupation duty in Japan
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WW2 Navy fighter Ace, VF-29 - 7 Kills
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Ralph Talbot
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WWII: ETO. 17th Airborne Division. Fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and landed in a glider in Operation Varsity (24 March 1945, largest airborne operation in history to be conducted on a single day and in one location)
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Fighter ace 63rd FS, Halesworth
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Former President of the US
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WWII German Knights Cross Recipient
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American writer, born 1947. Military family, descended from Thomas Jefferson. 'Dress Gray', novelist. Village Voice writer, stumbled upon the 1969 Stonewall uprising, and one of the first journalists to cover it
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USMC General
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division. Was captured at the fourth day of the battle and spend the rest of the war as a POW in Czechoslovakia
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US Vietnam POW, born 1935. Held for 7 1/2 years, from July 1965 to February 1973. Photo featured on Time 12/7/70 cover on POWs
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WWII: PTO. Navajo code Talker
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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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Japanese WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 306th Headquarters Intelligence Detachment, XXIV Corps
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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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WWII: ETO. P-47 Thunderbolt pilot. OOer 100 missions. Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross
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Dutch officer of the Royal Army and Knights of the Military Order of William, the highest order of chivalry of the Netherlands
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Tuskegee Airmen, WWII
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Lz xray 1965 nam, k.i.a. 1969 nam
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WWII: D-Day veteran, Omaha Beach, POW (escaped)
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor; 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division
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WWII: Aviation Machinist assigned to Torpedo Squadron (VT) 8 (USS Hornet): Doolittle Raid, Battle of Midway. Later on USS Kitkun Bay in the Battle of Leyte
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WWII Pacific Marine vet (born 1924), featured in iconic WWII photo, covered in dirt after a fight in the Marshall Islands, and holding a cup of coffee in front of him
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Finnish WWII Veteran
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Nigerian WWII Veteran
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US Navy vet, born 1927. Witness to Operation Crossroads atomic tests in 1946
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy Merchant Marine veteran; was in the disastrous PQ-17 convoy (27 June - 10 July 1942) when 24 out of 35 ships were sunk by Nazi - German forces
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WWII: ETO/PTO: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Tennessee. Later D-Day veteran
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Army General
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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WWII: Pacific Theater, Battles of Buna-Gona (Papua), Sanananda and the Driniumor River and at the battles of the upper Ormoc Valley (Leyte) and Luzon in the Philippines.Company G, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division
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army general
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World War 1 veteran
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WWII: D-Day. 29th Division of the 115th Infantry
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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Naval Officer who wrote a book on the Kennedy Assasination Bloody Treason: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1997)
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WW2 air ace - 7 Kills - USAAF
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Radio Operator at Pearl Harbor December 7th 1941 (Responded to Radar observations of Japanise Planes with 'Don't worry about it')
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu & Okinawa
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Member of Flying Tigers, WWII
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Navy Admiral
