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WWII: ETO. 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. 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment. POW until the end of the war
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known as the 'lucky lady'
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Emmett Till's Oldest Living Relative
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Air Force Veteran; 2 Flying Crosses, Bronze Star, and 8 Air Medals; Author
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WWII US fighter pilot, Eagle Squadrons, 4th Fighter Group
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Filmmaker, founder of a music label, motivational speaker, philanthropist and author. Ziman works as a writer, producer and director and is known internationally for her work on behalf of saving abandoned children
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astronaut
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WWII: Red Army.Throughout the war, Efremova served as a nurse along the front lines in field hospitals. She is now 96 and lives with her daughter in Yakutsk, Russia
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NYC Police Officer - The 'Popeye' Doyle character in The French Connection is very loosely based on his career. Actor - The French Connection, Prime Cut, Eischied, The New Mike Hammer, Police Story (6)
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Centenarian, one of the last women alive to vote in the open election of 1920. Also saw the Wright Brothers in a flight demo on her honeymoon in 1915 at the San Francisco Pan Pacific Expo. (1896-2002)
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Member of the Band of Brothers, 506th Easy Company WWII
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Commander 325 Fighter Wing
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WWII: Rosie The Riveter at the Willow Run plant in Michigan
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Was a lifelong friend of Anne Franks moved permanently to USA in 1940's
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient - WWII - Featured in Ken Burn's 'The War'
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Astronomer- Detected the 'WOW Signal' while working for SETI
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Navy radioman on a Pacific landing craft during WWII. Took part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. There at MacArthur's return, where he was entrusted to help bring 50 cases of whiskey to the officer's club
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German rocket-propulsion engineer & advocate for space colonization/He worked at Peenemünde as a propulsion engineer from 1942-1945, then to USA with other German rocket scientists & technicians under 'Operation Papercli
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populaition bio. author (population bomb)
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Counsel & Assistant to President for Domestic Affairs under President Nixon. Key figure in events leading to Watergate 1st break-in & the ensuing Watergate scandal, for which he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice & perjury
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Retired Italian journalist whose question at a government press conference in the former East Germany is said to have precipitated the end of the Berlin Wall; is living in Madrid/Spain
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Human ethnologist
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army general
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Retired 4 Star General
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Holocaust survivor of the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Bergen - Belsen; also survived the Lodz Ghetto in Poland
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Commander Air Force Flight Test Center
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Utah
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German WWII Awarded Knights Cross of the Iron Cross
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Retired General
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US Centenarian, born on Leap Year Day, 1916. Served in the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps in South Dakota for six months in 1934
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Air Force General
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nobel chemistry laureate 1967
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WWII - D-Day, Pointe-du-Hoc. 2nd Ranger Battalion. Scaled a 100-foot cliff while taking constant fire from German troops to take out six 155mm guns at Pointe-du-Hoc
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Retired German Air Force General. He was Inspector of the Air Force, the senior Air Force appointment, and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. German WWII Veteran
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Was an anti-war & environmental activist who became influential in various New Age movements during the 1970s. He was convicted in 2002, after spending 17 years on the run, for the 1977 murder of his girlfriend and is serving a life sentence
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Born 1896 #67 oldest documented person. Lives in England.
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Bloodline/Was an anesthesiologist and physician, at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica and the great - grandson of physicist Albert Einstein
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Apollo 7 astronaut
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First woman ever placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list, for the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Mackle
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US Lawyer, born 1934. Asst. Council for the JFK Warren Commission and UC Berkeley law professor
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One of 3 New York Firefighters who raised the flag at Ground Zero; now retired
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General during World War II, 34th President of the United States
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Granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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WWII: ETO. Holocaust survivor pictured in a famous photograph of the liberation of concentration camp Dachau
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Last witness to the Battle of Barrington. Born: 1928. The Battle of Barrington was a gunfight between federal agents and notorious gangster Baby Face Nelson, that took place on November 27, 1934. He was six years old at the time. Now 91
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Author and holocaust survivor. Used the black-market skills he acquired in the Warsaw ghetto to make a fortune as a legitimate American importer-exporter and then used those millions to tell his story and support Holocaust-related education
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WWII: D-Day Pathfinder. 82nd Airborne
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army general israel
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Rock-Climber
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Russian solid state physicist. Ekimov along with Moungi Bawendi and Louis E. Brus are the recipients of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 'for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots'
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British World War II veteran, famous for destroying German tank ace Michael Wittmann's tank; seems to be living in Rushden, Northamptonshire
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Strange woman who claims to be married to the Berlinwall...Has been on tv severaltimes
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69-year-old criminal lawyer Andrew Ekonomou, a man with a penchant for Medieval history has found himself at the center of President Donald Trump's legal team as it wrestles with the Mueller probe into collusion with Russia
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Nigerian women's rights activist
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Egyp/Amer scientist worked w/NASA in planning of scientific exploration of the Moon, & selection of Apollo landing sites & training of astronauts in lunar observations & photography. Shuttle pod named in Star Trek: The Next Generation 'Time Sq
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Conyngham
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Canadian commercial helicopter pilot. He is a 'pioneer in the development of high altitude winch rescue and mountain flying techniques'. He is Canada's first commercial helicopter pilot who was not previously a fixed-wing pilot
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Nobel Laureate Peace
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'Tuskegee Airmen' one of their Aircraft Mechanics
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WWII: D-Day, USS Augusta. Met and talked to King George VI during inspection
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WWII - Battle of Midway Pilot
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Former Surgeon General 1993-1994
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US Marine Corps; Security for FDR, Warm Springs, GA; Pacific theater (Guadalcanal)
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Tuskegee Airman
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Albanial Resistance Fighter during WW2. Was a criminologist after the war
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WWII: Pearl Harbor Survivor, 7 December 1941. Camp Malakole
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WWII - D-Day. Radio man on Landing Ship Tank LST 281 towing landing craft to Utah Beach on June 6, 1944
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First cousin and childhood playmate of Anne Frank and president of the Anne Frank Fonds, a Basle-based charity that owns and administers the rights to her diary
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WWII: ETO. Battle of Hürtgen Forest. 8th Infantry Division
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Ex-Pentagon UFO Whistle-blower, UFO researcher - Known for leaking the famous 2004 'Tic Tac UFO' US Airforce Video which has since been confirmed authentic
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JFK - Former LULAC leader who met JFK on Nov. 21, 1963, at a LULAC gala at the Grand Ballroom, Rice Hotel, in Houston; was photographed as he is about to shake JFK's hand that night
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Born 1920, WWII Battle of Britain pilot, one of only 7 remaining
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British RAF, Pilot During WWII: D-Day, Battle of Britain
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Widow of a World War I veteran, one of about 2,000 still alive. She was born in 1910 oldest person in Hillsborough County, and one of the oldest in the country, ever to receive VA benefits
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1918-2008). survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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Flight aviator 1978 group 8 astronaut candidate
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American teacher and anti-racism activist.
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WW2 air ace - 7 Kills - USAAF
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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The last surviving widow of a British WW1 soldier. She is now 92 and lives in Iddesleigh, Devon, UK
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James Ellis (3)Flight aviator 1978 group 8 astronaut candidate
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army general
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army general
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Mary Ellis (3)
Last surviving female WW2 Spitfire pilot -
Last surviving veteran of The Battle of Knightsbridge that was fought in North Africa in June 1942 during WW2
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JFK - DPD sergeant in command of the motorcycle escort for Kennedy on 22 November 1963; one of the motorcycle officers leading the motorcade, seen in several famous photographs
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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navy admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11
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Resident at Parkland Hospital in Dallas when JFK was shot and brought in. After Kennedy's body was removed, he was one of 3 people known to have salvaged a rose from Jackie Kennedy's bouquet left behind, which he has preserved in plastic Lucite
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Military Analyst. Policical Activist. Released the top secret Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. Born: 1931
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US Lawyer, Politician, Founding Father (1745-1807). CT delegate to Continental Congress, helped write US Constitution. US Senator, close ally of Alexander Hamilton. Selected by G. Washington as the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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Civil Rights Activist
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Navy Admiral
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As minister of Lake June Methodist Church in Dallas in '63 , Elrod held a memorial service for President Kennedy on the evening of the assassination
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Lee Harvey Oswald Cellmate interviewed on "Hard Copy" & subject of book "Oswald Talked"
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US Army Veteran and Presidential Candidate 2024
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 5th Marine Division
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Rosie the Riveteer during WW2
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Flight aviator 1967 group 6 astronaut candidate
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army general
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Dallas police patrolman in 1963, Elwonger was assigned to the entrance to Dallas Love Field and remained at his post from before Air Force One's arrival until after its departure later that afternoon with the newly sworn-in president
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air force marshal england
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Born: Dec. 29, 1911, World War 2 Veteran and the oldest living graduate of West Point Academy
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. US Army staff sergeant and photographer who took the first air-to-air photographs of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, taken from on board a B-17 which happened to be flying in on December 7, 1941
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Nigerian computer scientist, claims he invented the internet
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navy admiral
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American journalist, author, and pundit on national security, terrorism, and Islamic extremism. Executive Director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism
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A U.S. Marine stationed at the Barracks at 8th and I Streets in Washington , Emery participated in the funeral services for President Kennedy
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Retired U.S. Navy - former Commanding Officer of the USS Duluth (LPD-6)
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Former Secret Service Agent/author of 'Within Arm's Length: The Extraordinary Life and Career of a Special Agent in the United States Secret Service'
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Democratic activist. Was the oldest attendee at the 2016 DNC Born 1914
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inventor co-developed tagarment
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Served in the Admiral?s Band on the USS Pennsylvania. He was 'armed' with a French horn readying himself to play morning colors when the Japanese attacked
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Honolulu. Moved to Hawaii and devotes his time to identify sailors buried in unmarked graves; recognized by the National Park Service for his efforts
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Fighter ace world war 2 5th fighter sq, p-39, p-40, p-51, spitfire
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member of pappy boyington's Black sheep squardron
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WWII - USS Hornet (CV-8), Doolittle Raid, VF-11 The Sundowners
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Naval Air Station Kaneohe on Ford Island
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Survivor Korean Death March/29th Regimental Combat Team/Captured Oneui on 7/26/1950, marched 40 miles south of Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW for 3 months & was one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured men/Recipient of the Purple Heart
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Flight aviator
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US Navy WWII pilot, born 1921. Flew supplies and mail across the Pacific theater. Flew many Bataan Death March survivors home to Hawaii. Hit spots including Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Saipan, Okinawa, Midway, Wake and the Aleutians. Flew C-47, C-54, PBY, SBD Dive
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Scientist/Entomologist/Author - Known for his authority on the History and Geological placement of insects most notably the 'Honey Bee', writer or over 300 papers and the book 'Evolution of the Insects'
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German ww2 pilot
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Supreme Court: Lead plaintiff in the landmark First Amendment case Engel v. Vitale (1962)
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Flight sicentist
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computer scientist (mouse inventor)
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Author & Joe DiMaggio's controversial business advisor, attorney, and confidante during the last 16 years of the ballplayer's life
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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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Supercentenarian.'Worlds Oldest Girl Scout' Born: 05/15/1900. 64th Oldest Living Person in the World
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Astronaut
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Omaha Beach. Company H, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division
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Former Sniper for the United States Marine Corps 3rd Marine Division during the Vietnam War
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Abu Ghraib, fiasco
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Astronaut; X-15 Flight 138, X-15 Flight 143, X-15 Flight 153, ALT, STS-2, STS-51-I
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nobel economics laureate 2003
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Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor, Born: 07/23/1905
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Iran Hostage Crisis/U.S. Navy Attaché
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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WWII-Pilot, Lt. USAF (Ret.), 366th Fighter Group, 391st Fighter Squadron
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Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel laureate (shared with Peter Higgs)
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World renown Psychoanalyst born 1916
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JFK: Security aboard the White House helicopters serving presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy whom he met both
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WWII. PTO. Army Air Corps
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World War 2, Iwo Jima vet, and P-51 pilot
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South African-born British cardiac surgeon (Born: 1932) He performed Britain's first successful heart transplant in January 1979. He was knighted in 1991. He is now retired and lives in the UK. Sir Terence English
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Officer on board the USS Liberty when it was attacked by the Israelis during the 6 Day War in 1967
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(Born 1937) US Navy Vietnam War Veteran. POW 1972 to 1973. Navy Cross Recipient
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Crewmember on the USS Ward 139, the first American Ship to engage the Japanese in WW2 at Pearl Harbor when it sank thier mini-submarine
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vietnam war air force hero
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Astronaut
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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WWII - WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)
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Former Israeli flying ace, pilot
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Holocaust Survivor (Auschwitz)
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British pathologist one of the discoverers of the Epstein Barr virus
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Woman who was half of the blanketed couple who appeared on the iconic 1970 'Woodstock' album cover and on posters for the documentary film about the festival
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Man who was half of the blanketed couple who appeared on the iconic 1970 'Woodstock' album cover and on posters for the documentary film about the festival
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To receive the Medal of Honor
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Centenarian, US Marine veteran of WWI (1899-2001)
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Test Pilot for the B-36
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WW2 WASP appointed Squadron Commander for the 6th Ferry Command/only woman during war to be awarded the Air Medal for her service/Flew medium-size bombers A-20, A-26 and B-25, the cargo craft DC-3, C-54 & mighty B-17 Flying Fortress bomber
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WWII: PTO. USS New Mexico (BB-40)
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Actor: House, Full Metal Jacket, Mississippi Burning, Toy Soldiers, Body Snatchers, Naked Gun 33 1/3, Seven, Murder in the First, Toy Story, Dead Man Walking, Saving Silverman, The Frighteners, Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Night Fighter LTC
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nobel chemistry 1991
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Husband of Susan Ershler, a professional public speaker. Co-author (with Susan Ershler) of Together on Top of the World: The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits. IMG Partner AMGA Certified Alpine Guide
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WWII: German Wehrmacht soldier
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German physicist, 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry
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Author; Walled-In/ an eyewitness to President Kennedy?s historic speech in West Berlin on June 26, 1963?/Lives with husband Burch in San Diego California
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in betonia,ms but not now?
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American politician. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974/His investigation in 1972 and 1973 of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation in 1974 of President Richard Nixon
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British army officer awarded the Victoria Cross in June 1940
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Cassin
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ww 11 army air corps hero (cmh)
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Made 5 combat cruises on submarine USS Parche (SS-384) in the Pacific
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Nobel physics laureate 1973
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Roberto Escobar (2)Accountant for his brother Pablo Escobar. A tour visits him in Medellin
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Pearl Harbor Survivor Born January 30, 1918
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WWII Veteran - Pearl Harbor Survivor
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Agriculture minister, fishes and feeding (Ministra de Agricultura ,Pesca y Alimentación) from Spain (2002- )
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Astronomer - exoplanet detection
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WWII: Served in the Asiatic theater, transporting cargo from India to China. 3468th Quartermaster Truck Company
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Venezuelan judge, responsible for the Cubana Airlines flight 455 case
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WWII (ETO): B-17 crew member, 381st Bomb Group, 532nd Squadron, 8th Air Force
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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(Born 1934) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 3 Legion of Merits, 3 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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air force general businessman
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Retired Air Force General
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(Born 1955) US Marine Corps Gulf and Iraq War Veteran. Former Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps. Served from 1973 to 2007
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Ward, which is credited with firing the first U.S. shots of World War II
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French navigator
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Navajo Bougainville Code Talker/2nd All-Navajo Platoon 297/Stationed in Guadalcanal, Guam, Iwo Jima and other Pacific locations for just over two years
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(12/4/1918?7/23/2011 Academic/"Father of cryonics" from impact of his book The Prospect of Immortality/Considered pioneer transhumanist from his book Man into Superman. Founded Cryonics Institute & Immortalist Society/His body Cryopreserved
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The last surviving Monuments Men (1943-1946) Born:1926
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vietnam war air force hero
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Senior Vice President at Google, holds the World Record for highest Stratosphere jump
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WWII: 76th Field Artillery Battalion. Fought from France to Pilzen
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Australian Coast Watcher in Pacific theatre in WW II/Chiefly remembered for playing significant part in rescue of future President John F. Kennedy and his surviving crew after Torpedo Boat, PT-109, was sunk by enemy action in August 1943
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One of the Sir Edmund Hillary party, on the 1953 Mt. Everest feat
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 116th Infantry regiment, 29th Division, in the first wave
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David Evans (6) RAF officer
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WW2 2nd Armor Light Recon Tank Gunner/WIA POW/Advised to movie 'Fury', was in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Belgium, Holland and Germany/Lives in Upper Providence, PA./Age 97
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tennessee (BB-43). Winner of the Jitterbug contest at Bloch Arena on Dec. 6, 1941, during the semi-finals of the Battle Of The Bands 1941
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James Evans (3) WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. Marine Pfc at Kaneohe Bay Naval Station
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. Chief Petty Officer USS Pelias
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association executive navy admiral
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Nobel Prize in Medicine 2007
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WWII: USMC, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division (the famous K/3/5). Battle of Peleliu and Okinawa
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Apollo 17 astronaut
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Scientist
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WW2 Flying Ace, Eagle Squadron 121, 335th FS 4th Fighter Group, 359th Fighter Group - 6 Kills - USAAF
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News Editor at WFAA Radio , he was at Dallas Trade Mart , Parkland Hospital and Love Field the day of the JFK assassination
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world war 2 fighter ace navy 8 1/2 kills
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Royal military
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Pilot
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Test Pilot
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(Born 1947) US Navy Vietnam Veteran and Former CIA. POW in Vietnam from 1972 to 1973. CIA from 1982 to 2004. Recipient of 2 Bronze Stars
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United States Navy Rear Admiral
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Historian
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Robert R. Everett (born ca. 1920) is a computer scientist known to be the father of electronic computers
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WWII: British Atlantic convoy veteran (USA to UK), Arctic veteran (aboard the HMS Wanderer, in the disastrous PQ-17 convoy) and D-Day veteran (escort convoys to the landings)
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Brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers
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Flight scientist
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Civil Rights Activist & Author, widow of slain Civil Rights Activist Medger Evers
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US Army member served in somalia. Josh Hartnett played him in the movie 'Black Hawk Down'. He is the author of the book 'The Battle of Mogadishu'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 6th Marines
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WWII: PTO. 7th Infantry Division. Philippines, Okinawa. Two Bronze Stars, Silver Star, Purple Heart
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WW2/Member of codebreakers of Bletchley Park
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German astronaut, 19 days in space
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Dallas Morning News reporter in the photographs where Oswald is arrested at the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper. 3rd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne
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WWII: ETO. 45th Infantry Division. Italy to Germany
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Born 1894 #16th oldest documented person in the world. Lives in Texas
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WWII: CBI. Battle of Hong Kong veteran. POW until the end of the war
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Gay activist and science fiction author
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French astronaut
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navy admiral
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Vincent 'Little Vinny' Artuso - capo of a crew in Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach County, Boca Raton and Palm Beach Island. Artuso lives in South Palm Beach, Florida. On January 22, 2008 in Fort Lauderdale, Artuso was charged with racketeering
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former NASA Astronaut
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100 year old mobster. Born: 03/1910
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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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WW2 Air Gunner manning a ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress/French President Francois Hollande had installed him as a chevalier, chevalier you know is a knight in that country's Legion of Honor
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American engineer, designer, entrepreneur, and active investor. He is the inventor of the iPod and the iPhone
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Mental health advocate, writer, motivational speaker, life coach, podcaster
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Military, Coast Guard
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Michael Fagan (4)
British man who broke into Buckingham Palace and entered the Queen's bedroom, talking to her for several minutes before he was arrested -
navy admiral
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scientist invented space shuttle & lunar lander
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invertor (co-inv. micoprocessor & computer chip)
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#34 Oldest Person In The World Lives In France Born 1894
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90-year-old Holocaust survivor, commemorates anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz with dance performance about her years in the concentration camp. Fahidi performed the dance, 'Sea Lavender or The Elation of Being,'. May live in Berlin
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University Professor, claims to be the inventor of the Digital Smiley face :-) on September 19, 1982
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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 97 years old
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Secret Service agent that served 6 presidents; also in the greater Kennedy detail (Ambassador Joseph Kennedy Detail)
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Sleepwalk killer
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German ww2 pilot
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Spanish Civil War flying ace
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WWII: D-Day; Battle of the Bulge; 82nd Airborne Division (All-Americans), 505th paratrooper infantry (PIR), Company D; landed in the cemetery of St. Mere Eglise in France on D-Day
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Former Soviet diplomat and politician, Ambassador of the Soviet Union to West Germany
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WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
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German ww2 pilot
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Polish pilot who flew with the RAF 635, 639 and 303 squadrons during WWII. He lives in Canada
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American physicist and inventor who specializes in the field of gravity. He conceived the Lunar Laser Ranging Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Faller
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Commander US Pacific Command
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Chief of Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces from 1977 to 1980
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101st airborne. dday battle of the bulge
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American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics jointly with Robert Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen
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WWII - D-Day, 618th Ammunition Co., 74th Ordinance Bat., 6th Enginering Special Brigade
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Civil Rights Activist, 1961 Freedom Rider
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Police officer from Jan 6 attack on capitol
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WWII: PTO. New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC
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U.S. Navy sailor serving as a radioman in the Coast Guard Flotilla 4/10, LCI-492 (landing craft infantry), that landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944
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navy admiral
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Puerto Rican lawyer, daughter of Junno Faria and Iris Chacon
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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: US Army. Fought at New Caladonia, Guadalcanal, Fiji Island and Bougainville
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Muhammed Ahmed Faris is a Syrian military aviator. He was the first Syrian and the second Arab in space
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Former cosmonaut from Hungary, first Hungarian in space, now president of Airlines Service & Trade Ltd. in Budapest
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WWII: PTO. D-Day, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France; Battle of Zerf, and the Battle of the Bulge. 5th Ranger Batallion
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American politician, business executive, & dignitary who served as head of the Democratic National Committee & as Postmaster General. Farley known as political 'kingmaker', & was responsible for FDR's rise to presidency
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John Farley (2) In 1963 Test Pilot on the RAE Aerodynamics Research Flight at Bedford. During this tour he flew all the UK research aircraft then flying. Flown over 80 different aircraft types, both fixed and rotary wing. 19 years of Harrier programme test flying.
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Former employee of ESL Incorporated, he stalked co-worker Laura Black. On February 16, 1988, he shot and killed seven people at ESL. He was convicted of seven counts of first degree murder. Portrayed by Richard Thomas in the movie I Can Make you Love Me
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WWII Fighter Ace - 8 Kills - US Navy - Navy Cross
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Guadalcanal, New Guinea & Peleliu. 1st Marine Division
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US Navy vet, born 1926. Naval reserves at the end of WWII, and the end of the Korean War. 'Atomic veteran' witness to the Operation Crossroads first peacetime tests of atomic bombs at the Bikini Atoll in 1946
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WWII: PRO. Guadalcanal. 1st Marine Division. 3 Purple Hearts, Silver Star, Bronze Star
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African - American WWII Army WACS veteran, born 1922. Postwar career as a Chicago beautician
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, USMC
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Antiques Road Show
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Civil rights activist
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WWII USMC - Battle of Corregidor (1942), awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart. Spent over 3 years as a POW and was awarded a 2nd Purple Heart. Also, served in the Korean War
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Wing Commander, RAF Pilot
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Member of french resistance WWII
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WWII Tuskegee Airmen
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Military
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US Navy, First Female Commander of the USS Constitution
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WII: B-17 tail-gunner in the 524th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 21 missions beginning in February 1945, incl. Berlin, Schweinfurt, the Ruhr Valley
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USMC Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of VMF-312
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Flight astronaut
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Nurse stationed at triage desk at Parkland Hospital's emergency room when Pres. kennedy , Gov. Connolly and Oswald admitted
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JFK - Dallas police officer. Was at Parkland Memorial Hospital when the motorcade arrived, and he saw President Kennedy?s body. On Saturday, he guarded the Homicide and Robbery Bureau doorway at Dallas police headquarters. Acquaintance of Jack Ruby
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Legendary Marine; WWII (Guadalcanal, Guam, Bougainville, Iwo Jima), Korea (Pusan Perimeter, Inchon Landing, Seoul Recapture, 'Frozen Chosin' Reservoir). Knew Mike Mervosh, Chesty Puller, John Wayne
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WWII: British Royal Marine in the Arctic convoys (Murmansk Run)
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Fighter ace
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US WWII vet, born 1914. Son of Italian immigrants, he worked in a clerical office in Italy in WWII, where he found his family's dialect left him unexpectedly not understanding the language there
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WWII: B-17 waist gunner Flew 19 mission, the first on D-Day. B-17 Shack Rat. 390th Bomb Group, 568th Squadron, 8th Air Force
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Governor Arkansas 55-67. 1957 stand against desegregation of Little Rock School District during Little Rock Crisis/Ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School
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American immunologist who has made substantial contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)/Saved millions of lifes
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Civil rights leader Walter E. Fauntroy, who served 20 years in Congress as Washington, D.C.â-?s non-voting delegate and chaired the Congressional Black Caucus, after helping Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plan the March on Washington
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WWII. Was part of the French Commandos that copied the techniques of the British Commandos
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signer of the Treaty of Rome. The Treaty of Rome, officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, was an international agreement that led to the founding of the European Economic Community on 1 January 1958
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Businessman and CEO of Danfoss
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First female President of Harvard University
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WWII: D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. 508th Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division
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French astronaut
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Inventor Nespresso-businessman
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Descendant of Guy Fawkes, the leader of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up parliament.He is a retired headteacher and is a politician
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Navy Friend and Presidential Aide to JFK
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WWII: US Navy WAVE, broadcasting reports to the Northern Pacific Fleet
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Holocaust Survivor/Public Speaker
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WWII: US Navy Higgins Boat Coxswain (driver) on D-Day. His LCVP picked up 35 men of the 1st Infantry Division from the USS Henrico and brought them into the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach. It was the 5th boat in the 1st wave at Omaha on 6:30 AM
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Author and historian
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Kansas centenarian, born 1911. Survivor of the Kansas dustbowl storms and lost her older brother to the 1918 Flu epidemic
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U.S. Army WW2 Veteran
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US WWII Montford Marines vet, born 1925. Post-war entered the seminary and became a pastor
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Irish-American gang leader, 'The Westies'
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Captured by Red Chinese during CIA - sponsored C-47 flight over mainland China during Korean War. POW nearly 2 decade battle of wills between the U.S. & China/He was released in December 1971. CIA awarded him the Distinguished Intelligence Cross
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Spanish Civil War Veteran. Pilot. Born: 02/10/1914
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Spanish Civil War Veteran ,Red Army, Lives in Moscow Born: 02/10/1914
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NASA test pilot - Gulfstream III, the DC-8 airborne science laboratory, C-17 and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), T-34 mission support aircraft and the remotely piloted X-56 multi-utility technology testbed
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Scientist
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Recognized for having dropped the first bomb of Operation Desert Storm, flying the F-117A
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Gay activist
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WWII - Fighter Ace, Pacific. 9 victories, 4 probable's, 9 more aircraft damaged. He flew with VF-5 (USS Yorktown) during the Battle of Midway; took part in many of the key battles in the Pacific, from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima
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Jewish Soviet WWII veteran, born April 3, 1926 in Sverdlovsk, probably living in Montreal, Canada
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Austrian Holocaust survivor, lecturer, and community leader. Born: May 28, 1913)
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Military
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'Spanish Civil War' 'International Brigade' 'British' Lives in West Cliff...Bournemouth, England Born: 04/24/1909
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BAMN and ANTIFA sctivist
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WWII: PTO. USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76). Battles of Peleliu, Leyte Gulf, Luzon and the Battle off Samar
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JFK - Honor Guard, casket team - one of Kennedy's pallbearers at the state funeral
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Was the second head coach of the Oakland Raiders. He played College football for Stanford at the Offensive Guard position. He was elected to the Stanford Athletics Hall o Fame He is also a World War 2 veteran, served in the US Marines
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'German' Born: 04/14/1912
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Oglala
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WWII: ETO. B Company, 275th Regiment, 70th Division. Battle of the Bulge. POW and slave laborer at Berga camp
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A former National Security Agency analyst and whistleblower who revealed the existence of the NSA and its worldwide covert surveillance network in an interview
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F-15 test pilot
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inventor (portable computer)
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Daughter of Mark Felt, 'Deepthroat.'
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Former FBI Agent - Informed Woodward & Bernstein of Watergate Scandal (Deep Throat)
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WWII: USS Navy. Crossed Atlantic from Boot Camp on The RMS Queen Mary; served on the HMS Ceres during D - Day, directing ships in and out at Omaha Beach
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90 year old gay man whose coming out story went viral in 2020. Found out his one true love had died a few years earlier
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Austrian naturalist
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Was the head of the Communications section at NASA starting with Apollo 9. Fendell would use a camera mounted on the Lunar Rover to perfectly capture the lunar liftoff of the Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger
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Nobel prize winner - Chemistry - 2002
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Staff Assistant to President John F Kennedy: Dan H. Fenn Jr. Gave a 'Ted talk' in January 2018 on differences between JFK's White House and the one of today
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Australian virologist12/21/1914
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Nurse at Parkland Hospital , helped escort Pres. Kennedy's casket out of hospital
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Political scientist, author
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US Army 4 Star General
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WWII: US Navy, cook on the USS Yorktown. Battle of Guadalcanal, Coral Sea and Midway
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(7 February 1926 - 21 November 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut and an eminent space engineer. Feoktistov also wrote several books on space technology and exploration. The Feoktistov crater on the Far Side of the Moon is named in his honor
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Col. Vietnam War/US Air Force, pilot/Pow six years/John McCain's cellmate two years/ His Air Force career flying the B-47 Stratojet, RB-66 and EB-66 Destroyer, T-38 Talon, and F-111 Aardvark aircraft
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WWII: PTO. Underwater Demolition Team
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American Systems Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; gained brief media notoriety in August 2012, when he wore an unusual mohawk hairstyle during the Curiosity landing on Mars
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Bombardier 'Enola Gay'
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Last surviving prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, in 1945-46, at the Palace of Justice
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Invented LCD technology; Inventor Hall of Fame Inductee
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Operator on Parkland Memorial's switchboard , Anne was the first to hear that President Kennedy had been shot and was on his way to the hospital
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Astronaut
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Colin Ferguson (2)Serial killer
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medal of honnor army vietnam
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Historian, author. Professor of Political and Financial History. Presenter and author of 'Empire' on Channel 4.
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WWII Black Widow Airplane Pilot
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A synthetic organic chemist. He received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage, 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'
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Historian, author, State University of West Georgia - professor emeritus
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Spy/also known as Anya Fermanov, is a Latvian-American television personality and alleged smuggler. While living in Texas, Fermanova allegedly smuggled night-vision equipment to her husband in Russia
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Survivor of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centers
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Spanish Civil War veteran who served in the International Brigades (Born: 1918) Age: 97. Lives in Mexico
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Supercentenarian born 1895 lives in Spain
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Usmc sniper vietnam 41 confirmed kills
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Presidential historian and author mainly on FDR and Harry Truman
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Courtoom Judge
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Vestal
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Brought invention to alaska to save some whales as featured in The Big Miracle
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Radioman/Gunner on TBF Avenger, Torpedo Squadron 8, (VT-8). Battle of Midway, WWII, 4 June 1942. Of the six Avengers, Ferrier's was the only one to return. Ferrier was wounded along with his pilot, the top gunner was killed. He was awarded DFC & PH
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Flight scientist
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WWII Navy Cross recipient and pilot, helped sink japanese battleship yamato
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French physicist , Nobel Prize 2007
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Okinawa, the Philippines and Iwo Jima. USS Sarasota
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Author and founder and President of the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award Foundation. The foundation's goal is totell the story of the greatest generation of National Baseball Hall of Fame players that served in WWII led by Bob Feller, etc
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Mover/shaker civil rights movement
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Holocaust Survivor
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JFK/Cold War: Member of Light Photographic Squadron 62 (VFP-62) that took the low-level pictures of the Russian missiles in Cuba during the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' in October 1962. Aviation electrician responsible
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WWII: ETO. US Air Force. 305th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. POW:
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Jason Fettig is a United States Marine Corps colonel who is the music adviser to the President of the United States and the 28th director of the United States Marine Band 'The President's Own'
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Astronaut
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WWII: 32nd Infantry Regiment. 7th Infantry Division, Aleutian Islands. Battle of Attu. Purple Heart
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Adolph Hitler's Jewish Neighbor/Wrote,'When Hitler Was Our Neighbor'/Lives in Britain
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Author historian
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Astronaut
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Founding member of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet Company and witness to 'The Great Smog', that affected London, England, during December 1952. She was 21 at the time and is now 85
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US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. Served with the Jolly Green Giants in Vietnam. Recipient of 5 Distinguished Flying Crosses
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Son of Richard Feynman
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Daughter of Richard Feynman
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97 Year old WW 2 Air Force Gunner He now lives in Edison, New Jersey
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Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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WWII: D-Day. Captain of a minesweeper (YMS-305) who had to clear of Omaha and Utah Beach from German mines
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P-51 Mustang Ace during WWII-[8 victories] Member of the 325th Fighter Group
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B-1 test pilot
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high-profile defense attorney/commentator - most known for defending Jack 'Dr. Death' Kevorkian
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Scientist
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Co Inventor of Bubble Wrap
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Civilian imprisoned for more than three years by the Japanese during WW2 as a child/Was living on the island of Java in what was then the Dutch East Indies during World War II when the Japanese invaded in 1942
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Civil rights activist (b. 1930), one of the last living organizers of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Named recording secretary of the boycott's MIA group, to Martin Luther King's presidency of the group. Pastor of one of the churches bombed during the boycot
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army general
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Explorer
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WWII: ETO. B-17 pilot of the 100th Bomb Group (Bloody 100th)
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Belgian molecular biologist who was the first to establish the complete nucleotide sequence of a viral RNA-genome
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developed napalm
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Renowned physicist and optical engineer, winner of the Kingslake medal
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One of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, born 1909
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Leader of Ican organization who won the Nobel Peace Prize 2017
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JFK assasination suspect
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Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent (Born: 1928) He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions. After leaving the space programme in 1982 he became the Deputy Director of the OKB in Kharkiv
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(Born 1925) US Marine Corps WW2 Veteran. 6th Marine Division. He was the 2nd wave at Okinawa. Recipient of a Bronze Star and 3 Purple Hearts
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Wrote a diary during the siege of Sarajevo- Often Called 'The Anne Frank Of Sarajevo'(Author Zlata's Diary)- well known peace and human rights activist
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WWII: PTO. US Army. Expert marksman with E Company, 160th Infantry Regiment, 40th Infantry Division
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WW2 USMC Sergeant Iwo Jima I Company 3rd Battalion 24th Marine Regiment 4th Marine Division and a Purple Heart recipient
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13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House
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US WWII army vet (ETO, 287th Combat Engineers) and NASA engineer, born 1924. Project chief scientist and manager for Pioneer planetary missions 6-13. Pioneer 10 and 11 the first spacecrafts to Jupiter and Saturn, and the first to leave the solar system
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Floyd Finberg, Maj fighter ace-Flying tiger
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Military
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NASA/Apollo 11: Engineer who invented the 'barbecue roll' for rotating the flight capsule that balanced temperature while in flight, a maneuver that later saved Apollo 13
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Vietnam veteran, author
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pilot retraced amellia earhart's route
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vietnam war air force hero
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Autopsy on John F Kennedy
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Astronaut, Guest appearance Star Trek ENT
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Air Force General
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 26th Marines, 5th Marine Division
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - The longest-serving woman in NASA
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Firefighter - 9/11
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Oldest Living Medal of Honor (Navy WW 2) Born: 07/23/1909.Lieutenant John William Finn (born July 23, 1909) is a retired officer of the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor in recognition of heroism and distinguished service during the Japan
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. Company G, 2md Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division
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navy admiral
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Pearl Harbor Survivor
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British soldier of the 'Blues and Royals'm awarded the George Cross for bravery under friendly fire during the 2003 invasion of Iraq
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Is a centenarian, a British statistician, Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, and former President of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Biometric Society
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Former Bonnano 'acting capo' of Gerard Chilli's South Florida crew. He is based in Palm Beach County, city of Boynton Beach. On October 14, 2009 his crew in South Florida was charged under the RICO law.
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Now 90 years old (2021) grew up in northern New Mexico during the Manhattan Project. Her ancestors were Hispano homesteaders who built the Romero Cabin, an important pre-Manhattan Project structure at Los Alamos
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Nobel prize winner - Medicine - 2006
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1Lt, USAAF, 835th Squadron, 486th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force B-17 Pilot/Lead Crew Distinguished Flying Cross 25 Missions over Europe
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nobel medicine 1992
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nobel chemistry 1973
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Awarded the Knight's Cross during WW2
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American Korean War Fighter Ace - 10 Victories
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Astronaut
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Alaskan politician, activist, born 1924. Last living delegate to Alaska's Constitutional Convention upon Statehood in the1950s
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German WWII Veteran, Tiger Tank
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WWII: Fighter Ace; 5 victories
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Broadcaster for NHL Hockey for the MSG Network. Hockey Historian and author
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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air force general
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WWII: MTO/ETO. Africa, Italy, France, and Germany. D-Day. 39th Infantry
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astronaut first mother in space
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real life person from the movie based on his life
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Medal of honor air force vietnam
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Mr. Fisher served on board the USS Arkansas BB BB 33 during the D Day invasion and Iwo Jima
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Charles Fisher (3) Art Director at KRLD-TV in '63 , Charles processed film all over the world the weekend of the assassination . In '64 he was a sketch artist for the Jack Ruby trial
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WWII: Battle of Midway; USS Hornet (CV-8)
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Navy corpsman
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Jeremy Fisher (3)Cosplayer. Made a 200+ pound suit that was featured in Popular Science magizine for engineering
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Along with Cousin Kaiden Madsen discovered a Full Size Baby T-REX
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The only full-time Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff on horseback in '63 , Fisher was stationed outside Hotel Texas Nov.22 1963 . He met Pres. Kennedy who was photographed petting Fisher's horse
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Flight astronaut sts-51L
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Centenarian (1897-2003). US WWI veteran, one of the last of the Navy's female 'yeomanettes'
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First Pilot of WW2 B-17 'Mission Belle' and author of 'The Lucky Bastard Club'
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WWII Veteran born 1915 in Moldov, moved to Canada
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Pearl Harbor survivor
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Former Special Prosecutor who investigated the Clinton Whitewater scandal, before Kenneth Starr
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RAF ace from WW2, living in New Zealand
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air force general
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Racecar driver, decorated World War II fighter and bomber pilot, ex-POW
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Nobel prize for physics 1980, worked on Manhattan Project
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WWII: PTO. Navy. USS Antietam. Battles of Midway, Saipan, Okinawa
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American political activist and author
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WWII -Turret Gunner in the Torpedo Squadron of Carrier Air Group 11 (VT-11, sister quadron to the famous Sundowners VF-11) in the Pacific Theater; served on the USS Hornet (CV-12)
