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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941; last Hawaiian survivor of USS Arizona, born 1915
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American foreign affairs and intelligence strategist. Author of Nights in the Pink Motel
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WW2 Marine part of the 4th Marine Division who enlisted on November 10, 1942 and fought in Iwo Jima (B: 1924)
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WWII: ETO. D-Day (Omaha Beach), Battle for Brest, Battle of the Bulge. 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII - Pacific; one of only two torpedo plane pilots of Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) to survive after attacking the Japanese aircraft carriers during the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942.
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World war 2 Fighter Ace - - 13 Kills -9th af mustang pilot, flew the p-51, p-80, l-5, c-47a, c-53, b-25, c-78, c-45, t-33, f-84g, rf-84f, b-17f
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Gunnery Sgt/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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(Born 1933) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group
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One of the few WWII paratroopers who made all four major jumps during the war - Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Holland
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Army sniper vietnam
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Curtiss
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former Air Force General
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Colonel for the U.S. Air Force
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS West Virginia
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Rosie the Riveter --- Built WWII airplanes
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WWII Veteran, 5th Ranger Battalion climbed cliffs at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy on D-Day and was wounded about four months into his service
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; USS New Orleans (CA-32)
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(Born 1946) US Marine Corps Vietnam War Veteran. POW from May 10, 1966 to June 17, 1966 when he would manage to escape
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WWII: ETO. 26 missions as a B-17 ball turret gunner, his first mission being on D-Day. On his last mission his plane was shot down forcing an emergency landing in Switzerland
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 7 victories. Europe, 56th Fighter Group ('Zemke's Wolf Pack'), 62nd Fighter Sqadron. Few the P-40, P-47, P-51, F-84, F-100. Also served in Korea (23 January 1951, 'Mig alley')
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WWII Navy Pilot Ace
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Saved comrade Fred Kjorlien in a firefight in Vietnam. Fred had lost his entire leg from a RPG and Dale was keeping him calm. The two final reunited in 2021 after 53 years after the event took place
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Retired General
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo; from Charlotte, NC
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navy admiral
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WWII: D-Day nurse (Special Advance Group 56). Arrived at the the Royal Victorian Hospital outside Southampton, mid-February 1944 and prepared for D-Day; treated the first D-Day casualty 4 days after June 6, 1944
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Buffalo Soldiers of WW2 'Age 90'
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325th fighter group checkerboard clanflew cover for 101st airborne band of brothers in ww2
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Jack Edwards (3)
'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British' Lives in Willington. Born: 08/13/1914 -
WWII: Canadian / RAF Flying Ace, at least 19 victories, though assumed to have a much higher score, even by Nazi-German's war records. Highest scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
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US Army Vietnam
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Wasp (wwii pilot)
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Vietnam-lz-xray-we were soldeiers fame
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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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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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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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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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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient - WWII - Featured in Ken Burn's 'The War'
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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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army general
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Retired 4 Star General
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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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Air Force General
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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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General during World War II, 34th President of the United States
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WWII: ETO. Holocaust survivor pictured in a famous photograph of the liberation of concentration camp Dachau
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WWII: D-Day Pathfinder. 82nd Airborne
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army general israel
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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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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Conyngham
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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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WWII: ETO. Battle of Hürtgen Forest. 8th Infantry Division
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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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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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WW2 air ace - 7 Kills - USAAF
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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army general
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army general
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Last surviving veteran of The Battle of Knightsbridge that was fought in North Africa in June 1942 during WW2
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Tuskegee Airmen
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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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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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Navy Admiral
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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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army general
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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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navy admiral
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Retired U.S. Navy - former Commanding Officer of the USS Duluth (LPD-6)
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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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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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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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WWII: 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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WWII-Pilot, Lt. USAF (Ret.), 366th Fighter Group, 391st Fighter Squadron
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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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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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WWII - WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)
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Former Israeli flying ace, pilot
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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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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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WWII: German Wehrmacht soldier
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in betonia,ms but not now?
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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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Pearl Harbor Survivor Born January 30, 1918
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WWII Veteran - Pearl Harbor Survivor
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WWII: Served in the Asiatic theater, transporting cargo from India to China. 3468th Quartermaster Truck Company
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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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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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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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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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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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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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WW2 Flying Ace, Eagle Squadron 121, 335th FS 4th Fighter Group, 359th Fighter Group - 6 Kills - USAAF
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world war 2 fighter ace navy 8 1/2 kills
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Royal military
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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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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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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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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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WWII: CBI. Battle of Hong Kong veteran. POW until the end of the war
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navy admiral
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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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Military, Coast Guard
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navy admiral
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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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German ww2 pilot
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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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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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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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WWII - D-Day, 618th Ammunition Co., 74th Ordinance Bat., 6th Enginering Special Brigade
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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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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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WWII: PTO. D-Day, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France; Battle of Zerf, and the Battle of the Bulge. 5th Ranger Batallion
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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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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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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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WWII. Was part of the French Commandos that copied the techniques of the British Commandos
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WWII: D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. 508th Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division
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WWII: US Navy WAVE, broadcasting reports to the Northern Pacific Fleet
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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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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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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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Recognized for having dropped the first bomb of Operation Desert Storm, flying the F-117A
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Jewish Soviet WWII veteran, probably living in Montreal, Canada
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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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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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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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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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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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medal of honnor army vietnam
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WWII Black Widow Airplane Pilot
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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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Usmc sniper vietnam 41 confirmed kills
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Vestal
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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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WWII Navy Cross recipient and pilot, helped sink japanese battleship yamato
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Okinawa, the Philippines and Iwo Jima. USS Sarasota
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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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WWII: 32nd Infantry Regiment. 7th Infantry Division, Aleutian Islands. Battle of Attu. Purple Heart
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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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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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army general
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WWII: ETO. B-17 pilot of the 100th Bomb Group (Bloody 100th)
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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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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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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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Vietnam veteran, author
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vietnam war air force hero
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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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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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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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Awarded the Knight's Cross during WW2
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American Korean War Fighter Ace - 10 Victories
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German WWII Veteran, Tiger Tank
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WWII: Fighter Ace; 5 victories
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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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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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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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Centenarian (1897-2003). US WWI veteran, one of the last of the Navy's female 'yeomanettes'
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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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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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WWII: PTO. Navy. USS Antietam. Battles of Midway, Saipan, Okinawa
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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)
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American Army officer for thirty years He was awarded the Soldierâ-?s Medal for heroism and the Bronze Star for valor before retiring as a Col in 1993. Author of The Final Invasion: Plattsburgh, the War of 1812's Most Decisive Battle
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Navy admiral
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Medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII/ETO: B-17 pilot of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group)
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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WWII: Navy veteran of World War II, serving as a chief pharmacist's mate. He took part in the Normandy Invasion and the occupation of Japan
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WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941; USS Arizona survivor
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'Tuskegee Airmen', Communication Tech., WWII
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Retired USN Admiral
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Ret. WW2 Lt. General
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USN Admiral
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flew many missions during WWII, was at Guadacanal, born September 17th 1919
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, Schofield Barracks. Later fought at Guadalcanal where he was wounded. 89th Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division
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Hitlers Nurse (Germany Red Cross)
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 6 victories; flew the P-47; 348th Fighter Group, Pacific Theater
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WWII Nurse, born 1923. First African American nurse to teach at Rhode Island College. Honored by Rhode Island Senate for lifetime work with children of Providence
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Medal of Honor Recipent 'Air Force' Vietnam
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John Fleming (4)SSgt, USA, 271st Regt., 69th Div., 2nd Army. Combat Infantryman, Mechanic. Awarded Two Bronze Stars Battle of the Bulge, Siegfried Line and Leipzig European Theater of Operations
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(Born 1932) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 3 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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American WWII - Pilot, USAAF, co-pilot of 'The Peacemaker'
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(Born 1922) African American US Army WW2 Veteran. Got injured in 1944 at Normandy but did not get the Purple Heart until 2021 due to racist push back
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WWII: Radio man in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. The Ghost Army deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there
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First woman to pilot a B-52 Bomber and author or the book Charged
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Supercentenarian (1894-2006). France's oldest living man ever documented, and one of it's last living WWI veterans
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African American WWII veteran. Montford Marines, served in Guam during WWII
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Manuel Flores (2) WWII: PTO. USMC, 3rd Marine Air Wing. Driver for Brig.General Schilt. After the war, he trained recruits. At one point he was a stand-in for then actor Ronald Reagan in a WWII-themed movie when it came time for Reagan to jump out of a plane
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Born in 1898, claims to have fought in the Mexican Revolution. He lives in Ecatepec City, in the State of Mexico
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Wwii: wasp
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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USN Admiral
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Medal of Honor, US Navy, WWII: commanded USS Barb, most decorated submarine of the war
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US Army 4 Star General
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, became a POW for well over 3 years
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Lieutenant General, United States Army (retired), Author, Advisor to Donald Trump
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army general
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WWII Flying Tigers (clerk)
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Military Commander Ferdinand Foch was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders and Artois campaigns of 1914-1916, Foc
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air force general
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air force general
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US WWII vet, born in 1920. Served as a Navy WAVE in secret intelligence work involving Japanese merchant ships, though she refused to discuss details of her work even decades later
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Member of the Band of Brothers, 506th Easy Company WWII
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US Army Vietnam War Medal of Honor Recipient
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navy admiral
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Author; 'Visions from a Foxhole : A Rifleman in Patton's Ghost Corps'/WW2 Battle of the Bulge veteran
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps Fighter pilot (VMF-121) of the 'Cactus Air Force' at Guadalcanal 1942 who flew with J. Foss' 'Flying Circus'. In the mission that sank the Japanese battleship Hiei. Later Squadron Leader, VMF-533. Post-war test pilot
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(Born 1980) US Navy Medical Corpsman Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran. Navy Cross Recipient
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Commander 21st Theatre Sustaintment Commandunit 23203APO AE 09263
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WWII. Holocaust survivor. Witness of 'Kristallnacht' and the burning of the synagogue at Fasanstrasse, Berlin, on Nov. 10/11, 1938
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Military, British recipient of the Victoria Cross
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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Robert Ford (2) British Army Officer
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Military
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Lz X - ray Battle of la Drang/1965 1/5 Calvery/ Born April 13, 1938/African American part of Berlin Airlift/1st Cav Airmobile
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WWII: PTO. Last surviving veteran of iconic Kokoda Track campaign photo
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WWII: One of the few remaining 'lumberjills' of the war, a group in the Women's Land Army. Now 96 and possibly living in Glasgow
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US Army General
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WWII: PTO. Leyte, Philippines, Okinawa. 96th Infantry, 763rd Tank Battalion
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American WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War Ace
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army general
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German WWII Soldier, born 1925 in Berlin. Drafted near war's end, soon taken POW by the US, shuttled to France & the USSR. Got medical degree, moved to the US. Radiology career. Medical officer in the US Air Force, later the Army Reserves
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/11/67-04/68 Lai Khe 1st Inf. Div. 04/68-06/68 Da Nang 3rd Marines 07/68-09/68 Chu Lai - Americal Div. 10/68 - 12/68 Lai Khe - 1st Inf. Div. http://www.donutdolly.com/id24.htm#patty__bright__fortenberry
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WWII author and Ace
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: ETO. 78th Infantry Division
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WWII Marine Ace- shot down 26 Japanese planes- LIFE cover June 7, 1943, awarded the congressional medal of honor
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Korean war ace/15 mig kills
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Flying Tigers-Nurse;named Foster in 1941, Petach in 1942
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British ace from WW2, 6.5 victories, Battle of Britain
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WWII Tank Commander, Battle of the Bulge
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Aviation Radioman 2nd Class, USN, USS Hornet (CV-12) SB2C Helldiver Radio Operator/Gunner Distinguished Flying Cross Shot down while bombing the battleship Yamato during the Battle of Okinawa. Rescued by Destroyer
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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One of his Purples Hearts is pictured on the USPS Purple Heart stamp
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Superintendent US Naval Acadamy
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo; from Tampa, FL
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RCAF Pilot, WWII, Wounded E. Rommell
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, 23rd Provisional Company, 6th Defense Battalion. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Was assigned to Midway Islands in 1942 to defend the atoll. Later in the Iwo Jima invasion and the postwar occupation of Japan
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Part of raid of WWII POW camp Cabanatuan 'The Great Raid
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WWII: 1st Marine Division. Flamethrower in the Battle of Peleliu, 1944
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WWII: PTO. USS Kennabago
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Desert Storm Fighter Pilot -- shot down a MiG-21 from his F/A-18 on 17 Jan, 1991. His was the first Navy air-to-air kill of the war
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Vietnam War Medal Of Honor Recipient - US Marines
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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WWII: MTO/ETO. North Africa, Battle of Kasserine Pass (Tunisia), Sicily, D-Day (Omaha Beach, 3rd wave), Battle of the Bulge. 15th Engineer Combat Battalion, 9th Infantry Division
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WWII veteran of the 3rd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, 36th Infantry Division. He fought throughout Europe from October of 1944 in Alsace-Lorraine, ending near the Austrian Alps when the war ended
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French Veteran of Spanish Civil War, International Brigade. Born: 1920
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American broadcast news executive. Created the groundbreaking Huntley-Brinkley Report, and was its producer until 1964. Served two tenures as president of NBC News. Mentored such journalists as Tom Brokaw, John Chancellor & Linda Ellerbee
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Uss yorktown & 1948 israel war of independence pilot
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Retired General
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Military
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U.S. Army General
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Retired general, Author
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JFK - Honor Guard at President Kennedy's funeral
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ww2 pilot
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WWII: PTO. USS Randolph
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4 Star General Born April 16, 1953
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War hero, Victoria Cross receiver
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4 Star GeneralBorn Aug.17,1952
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Retired USMC General
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Retired naval pilot and Commander of VFA-41 also known as 'The Black Aces'
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Commander US Alaskan Command
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WWII: Battle of Midway
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Bataan death march survivor- wrote book-hells guest
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Centenarian (1901-2002). One of the last living US WWI Marine veterans. Lied about age to join, sent to combat in France. Re-enlisted in WWII, served in the battle of Okinawa. Wounded in the trenches by an exploding shell in WWI, and hit in the neck with
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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British air ace from WW2 with 13 victories
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor. Also fought at Bougainville, where he served and spent time with later Iwo flag raiser Ira Hayes
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'Tuskegee Airmen'/332nd, WWII, Lawyer
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WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, 506th PIR, Easy Company - one of the original Band of Brothers
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Medal of Honor Vietnam at lz-xray 1965
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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WWII: Ace, 6 victories. VMF-121, later VMF-115, William Freeman flew over 200 combat missions in the Pacific theater
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WW2/From Haddenham in Buckinghamshire, member of the Women?s Royal Naval Service, Wrens. Worked on Colossus, world?s first digital electronic computer, which was developed at Bletchley but the existence of which was kept secret for decades
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Highest ranking German officer to survive the sinking of the bismark
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WWII: B-17 Ball Turrett Gunner, 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group (Bloody 100th). Shot down on his last mission on April 28, 1944 in B-17 #42-107024 (unnamed). POW at Stalag XI, Nürnberg, Stalag 17B, Krems, Austria
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Soldier french revolution, knighted in uk, alot of stuff, a admiral of the royal navy
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WWII: UK veteran of the 'Kings? Royal Rifles' who landed on Juno Beach three days after D-Day and fought all the way to Hamburg
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US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1970 to 1981
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WWII: D-Day, electrician on the USS August; also helped serve the meal when President Truman was aboard
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WWII: Reconnaissance Photographer at NAS Honolulu, working at Admiral Nimitz' Office. Took countless photos in the Pacific, incl. celebrities visiting the base, like Rene Gagnon (flag-raiser at M t. Suribachi) or actress Betty Hutton
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WWII: Army Scout Veteran. Arrived in Normandy on Aug. 5, 1944, with the 80th Division and fought all through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Austria
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Army medic with the 16th Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division that treated soldiers on Omaha Beach, D-Day June 6th 1944
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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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Paul Friedman (2)Military
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(Born 1931) US Army Korean War Veteran. Heavy Vehicle Operator with the Combat Engineers in the 2nd Infantry Division from 1951-52
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WWII: Survivor of the Bataan Death March (Philippines) on April 9, 1942
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Shaw
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Military tuskegee airmen
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Gunner's Mate 1st Class, USN, USS LST 341 Pacific Theater of Operations
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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WWII: ETO. Ghost Army, 23rd Headquarters Special Troops
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Navy
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941
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Retired USMC General
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island Naval Air Station
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navy admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Detroit
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge and other major battles. 740th Tank Battalion ('Daredevil Tankers')
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German World War One survivor
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WWII: Justice Robert H. Jackson's bodyguard at the Nuremberg trials
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WWII: D-Day. Tech Sgt., 8th AF, 390th Bomb Group, 568th Squadron, 8th Air Force. Radio operator in a B-17 that bombed targets in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Shot down July 1944, POW in Stalag Luft IV
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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Congressional Medal of Honor
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 9 victories
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 72 kills
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marine corps general
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USAF Colonel, Pilot, and War Hero
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)
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WWII Navy WAVE worked in Navy intelligence
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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vietnam war air force hero
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SS-Sturmmann during WW2. Fought in France during the D-Day invasion. Is still alive as of 2011
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United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and one of the most decorated soldiers and paratroopers of World War II. He also received the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, and three Purple Hearts
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WWII: Marine Corps; Guadalcanal, Guam, Okinawa; hit by a mortar on the 41st day of the Balle of Okinawa, which he miracously survived
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Former Corporal of the Canadian Forces, once held the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at 2,430 metres (2,657 yd, 12.08 furlongs, or 1.51 miles)
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WWII: PTO. USMC fighter pilot. WIth Joe Foss at Guadalcanal (Cactus Air Force), later commanding the illustrious 'Black Sheep Squadron' and also serving in the Korean War
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WWII: PTP. Pearl Harbor survivor, Ford Island
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WWII: 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Battalion, 'G' Company
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French actor and war hero
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WWII and Korean War Ace-[28 victories - WWII and 6.5 victories -Korea]!
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WW2 Veteran:US Army's 29th Infantry Division; not a D - Day veteran; he arrived in Europe on September 19, 1944
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air force general
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. Paratrooper & Demolition Expert, 82nd Airborne Division
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
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(Born 1923) US Air Force WW2 and Vietnam Veteran. POW in Vietnam 1966 to 1973. Retired as a Brigadier General
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(Born 1975) US Army Iraq War amputee veteran. Retired as a LT Colonel. Recipient of a Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Army Air Corps. Battle of Midway. Battle of Guadalcanal
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Navy Coxswain, Higgins Boat {LCVP}
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Tennessee
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WWII: ETO. 222 Anti Tank Company, 42nd Infantry 'Rainbow' Division. Liberation of Dachau
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USAAF General WW2 fighter Ace, 357th FG 363rd FS, 7 Kills, POW
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One of the Tuskegee Airmen, Class: 44-G-SE, graduated 8/4/1944
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WWII: Original Montford Point Marine (first Black marines)
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US Army, D-Day paratrooper, born 1925. 82nd Airborne, taken POW days after D-Day, held for 11 months. Kept a secret journal of his time as POW
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US POW in Vietnam War.
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WWII: ETO. I Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment), 101st Airborne. Camp Toccoa, D-Day, Operation Market Garden (seriously wounded on Sept. 18, 1944 near Eindhoven which meant the end of the war for him)
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WWII: Chaplain in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII: Veteran of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4-8 May 1942), served on the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, 53rd Signal Corps. Lost his best friend John Horan that day
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medal of honor marines ww11
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Dobbin
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WWII: On board the USS Missouri (BB-63) during the Japanese surrender ceremonies, 2 September 1945, taking many photographs of the ceremony
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Jim Gallagher (4)Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class, USN, VTN-91, USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) TBF 'Avenger' Gunner Saipan, Mariana Islands
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Sergeant/ assistant flight engineer, Bocks Car Crew, WW II, Nagasaki
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USN Admiral
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WWII: Was on two ships that were sunk: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941 (USS Nevada BB-36) and USS Northampton (CA-26) which was sunk during the Battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942 (Born July 20 1921)
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1914) Last 'La quinta del biberón' fighter. Affiliated with PSOE. Second Spanish Republic. Age: 103. Lives in Spain
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Former Prime Minister of Peru (1976-1978), Army General
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USMC General
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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War Correspondent / Author - CO-Wrote We Were Soldiers was in 1st ground battle of nam in lz-xray-ia drang valley- only civilian to EVER get bronze star during vietnam war
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Iraq War vet, lost left leg and arm. Physical trainer, model, motivational speaker, contestant on 'Dancing with the Stars'
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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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4 Star General
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WWII; USS Quincy (CA-39). Survivor of the Battle of Savo Island (9 August 1942) where USS Quincy and three other Allied ships were sunk by the Japanese in a disastrous battle for the US, suffering the loss of 379 men on the USS Quincy alone
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Air Force General
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Pfc army
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Received Congressional Medal of Honor 3/18/2014 for his actions in World War II
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WWII: PTO. One of the last Filipino Bataan Death March survivors. Purple Heart
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania (BB-38). Also aboard when a Japanese torpedo hit the Pennsylvania on August 12, 1945, while anchored at Buckner Bay in Okinawa killing 20 men
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JFK - Served in the Army, broadcast a radio show to troops, and interviewed three future Presidents (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon) all while they were Senators
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WWII - 3rd Battalion, 23 Marines Regiment, 4th Marine Division: Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Saipan
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Spanish Civil war veteran (Born: 1918) Nationalist Army. Promoted to captain in 1942. Awarded four medals. Military historian, author, and teacher. Age: 98. Lives in Spain
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WWII: 112th Cavalry RCT. Fought in the bloody battle of the Driniumor River in 1944. Also made landings at Leyte and Luzon, earning two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart before the war's end
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Italian World War 1 Veteran/ Born:03/30/1900/Lives in Civitanova Marche
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Received Congressional Medal of Honor 3/18/2014 for his actions in the Viet Nam war
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Last member of the 'Blue Patrol', a group of fighter pilots who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Currently age 101 and living in the Bay of Santander, Spain
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WWII: D-Day, Battle of the Bulge; Buchenwald. Barely survived D-Day, and later became commander of the just-liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 110th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion
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WWII: ETO. 18th Infantry Regiment. Arrived in Germany after the war and guarded some of the top Nazis like Albert Speer during the Nuremberg Trials
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Centenarian/WW1 Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Reid). Reid supported landings at Adak on 30 Aug 1942 (sank an enemy submarine 31 Aug 1942). Guadalcanal, New Guinea, New Britain. Got transferred off the ship in 44 and then served in the Battle of Okinawa
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(Born 1921) Flew over 34 combat missions in B-17s and B-24s during WW2 earning him the Distinguished Flying Cross and 6 Air Medals. Became an aviation racer for P-38s and P-51s
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ww 11 british army hero (vc)
