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Retired Air Force General
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Centenarian - Canadian WWI Veteran. Born 07/23/1900
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/December 67 - October 68 (Saigon) Assistant Director: July 69 - July 70
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Military
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Helicopter Pilot/Vietnam War/Made five trips to the enemy territory, rescuing 126 troops
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WWII: Navy veteran who served on the USS Saratoga, Enterprise, Lexington
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Retired Army National Guard Brigadier General
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Born in 1925, Bach is a Psychologist & WWII Veteran who served in the European Theatre of Operations during WW2. He later joined the Research Center For Mental Health at New York University in 1956. He was awarded the Heinz Hartmann award for his research
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WWII - B-24 Pilot who flew 35 missions ion Europe
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navy admiral
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Major General, US Army
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Retired German general
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WWII veteran, Utah politician and General Authority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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medal of honor army vietnam
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navy admiral
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British ace from WW2
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Widow of WWII hero Douglas Bader
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WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941. Navy petty officer 3rd class, aviation mechanic with Patrol Squadron 22.
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army general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island, VP-22
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Lz xray 1965 b co. 1/7 cav
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, a.o. Survived the Kamikaze attack on the USS Bennett. Purple Heart
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Retired Admiral born 1924
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Italian WWII veteran, born 1923
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Retired General - US Army
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII - Paratrooper of H Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: USS Laffey. D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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USS Pueblo
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WWII - WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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(Born 1943) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, a Legion of Merit, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII: ETO, navigator of B-17 Chow-Hound (Serial # 42-31367), 91st Bomb Group, 322nd Squadron
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oglala
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Whitney (AD-4)
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Air force general - Retired 2002
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WWII: PTO. USS Franklin (CV-13)
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African - American female WWII vet, born 1918. Served in the WACs. Made a parachute jump for fun at the age of 102
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Pearl Harbor survivor of Ft. Shafter, and one of the few Civilian Conservation Corps survivors, serving 1939-41 in Washington State
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Originally stationed aboard the U.S.S. Schley and at the time of the attack was on the Naval Air Station
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US Army Air Corps, 453rd Bomb Group
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC. Purple Heart
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Battan death march survivor ww2
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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WWII: British D-Day veteran of the 12th Yorkshire Parachute Regiment
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WW 2 air ace - 6 Kills - USMC - Navy Cross
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks. 'A' Company, 804th Aviation Engineers
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Charles Baker (2)
WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC -
Military
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medal of honor US army, Vietnam War
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air force general
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WWII - Iwo Jima. Seabee with the 4th Marine Division, built Motoyama No. 2 airfield
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Canadian World War II veteran and academic administrator (U of PEI)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Served on the USS Ralph Talbot during the attack, and was on board during the landing on Guadalcanal and the Battle of Savo Island in 1942
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One of the pilots who took part in the mission during WWII to shoot down Admiral Yamamoto's aircraft
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Liberator of the Dachau concentration camp at the end of World War II
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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US WWII Merchant Marine, born 1926. One of the 10 Merchant Marines to represent the surviving 1500 at the official Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in 2022
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Broadcaster, Russian WWII Veteran
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WWII: Bataan Death March (9 April 1942)
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WWII: ETO. 350th Bomb Sqdn, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Radio Operator/Gunner of B-17 #42-3413 'Hard Luck'. POW
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US Navy aerial gunner
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Italian WWII pilot and ace, finnishing the war with five victories, born 26. December 1919
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(Born 1939) US Navy Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII pilot (Hell's Angels)
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navy admiral
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Korean war ace - 5 Kills - USAF
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS Mellette APA156. Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Japanese Surrender Tokyo Bay
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(Born 1948) Former US Navy Vice Admiral. Served from 1969 to 2005
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Former U.S. Army soldier - WWII, Korean War, was assigned to Operation Castle - a series of nuclear weapons tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Published 10 books. Mauser expert - History Channel's 'Tales of the Gun' series
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WWII: PTO. Army Air Corps. 27 missions as a B-29 navigator. Distinguished Flying Cross
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William Ball (2)Military
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medal of honor, navy, vietnam war
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Curtiss
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(Born 1934) US Army Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1961 to 1962. Recipient of a Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star, and Purple Heart
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German ww2 pilot
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US Marine veteran, born 1931, of the Korean War. Fought in the 'Frozen Chosin' battle
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Navy Admiral
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A Russian political and military figure, Yury Nikolaevich Baluevsky is the Deputy Secretary of Russia's Security Council, the First Deputy Defense Minister, an army general, and a former head of Russia's General Staff
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American journalist at The Washington Post. Frequently appears on the Meet the Press and the PBS program Washington Week. Co-wrote The Battle for America 2008 with the late Pulitzer Prize winner Haynes Johnson. Served in the military
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WWII pilot - Battle of Britain
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Since 2006, is the First Sea Lord of the United Kingdom, the most senior serving officer in the Royal Navy
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Romanian WWII Veteran, born August 20 1922
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ww 11 army hero
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WWII - Fighter Ace USAAF, 5 victories (3 on Jan. 14, 1945); 8th Air Force, 357th Fighter Group, 354th Fighter Squadron. 'The Yoxford Boys', stationed in England
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WWII fighter ace - 10 Kills - USAAF - DSC
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WWII Veteran, D-Day Veteran, Fox Company
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Retired General
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Canadian WWII Fighter Ace - R.C.A.F.'s top night fighter and the second highest scoring Canadian fighter pilot of WWII; also a 'V1 Ace'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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WWII: Rose The Riveter
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation. 66th Infrantry Division; witness of the sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville on 24 Dec 1944 (torpedoed by a German U-boat; 763 soldiers died). Served as a Monuments Men after V-E-day in Austria
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(Born 1931) US Army Korean War Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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WWII Ace--[5 victories]- Was one of the Pilots who shot down Japanese Admiral Yamamoto's airplane during WWII
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WWII: ETO/MTO. 451st Bomb Group, 724th Squadron, 15th AF. His plane was hit by a German 88 on Oct. 13, 1944, while over Vienna, Austria, and had to bail out. He became a POW, eventually held at Stalag Luft #7A near Moosburg, Germany,
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US Marine Corp, Medal of Honor Recipient Korea
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Raleigh
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US WWII Army vet (1913-2021). Stationed in Alaska in WWII, honored as a fan by the LA Dodgers when he turned 108
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WWII: ETO. Regiment, 78th Infantry Division. Battle of Hurtgen Forrest, Battle of Remagen
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. D Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion. Pointe du Hoc
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Bataan Death March Survivor
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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British pilot in WW2
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient - WWII
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Paratrooper involved in 'Operation Dragoon' during WW2. born on 09/01/1924
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Former General in the Canadian Forces, Military Advisor to the UN Sec. General & head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations from 1992 to 1997, & Chief of the Defence Staff in Canada from 1997 t
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British ace from WW2, 11 victories, Battle of Britain
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WWII: US Navy. USS Hornet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid, Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands); survived the sinking of the Hornet in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942
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P-47 and P-51 Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of the 325th Fighter Group
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Highly decorated German tank ace of WW2
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11 year old Civilian Pearl Harbor Witness, born 1930. Father worked at the Harbor. Raced on his bike, saw bombs dropping, bullets near his feet. Told 'We're at war! Run for safety!' Served as island messenger on his bike in the days after
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Cassandra)
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US WWII D-Day veteran, born 1926. Knocked out by an explosion, spent the first night filled with shrapnel and wracked in pain until he was picked up the next afternoon. Later served in the Philippines
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Ben Barnes (2) WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran; later served on the HMS Glasgow on D-Day, in the Battle of Cherbourg and beyond
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
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507th p i r - ww 2
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Assistant weaponeer on Bockscar during Nagasaki mission
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Tinian, Okinawa
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WWII Pilot Ace-5, USAAF
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WWII Veteran, As a radar operator on a B-29 nicknamed The Great Artiste, he and other crew members accompanied a plane known as Bockscar to Japan, where it dropped the second atomic bomb and hastened the end of World War II
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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WWII: PTO. B-29 Navigator, 505th Bomb Group, Tinian Island. 23 missions over Japan
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WWII: USS Enterprise (CV-6)
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American Writer And Commentator. Former Army Kiowa Helicopter pilot. Iraq & Afghanistan Veteran
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Flew in hundreds of combat helicopter missions in Vietnam during the 1960s. Honored with war medals for helping to extract dozens of wounded Americans from fields and jungles/1st Cavalry Division, 15th Medical Battalion Medevac platoon
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U.S. Coast Guard Honor Guard for JFK Death; in the Casket Team (Kennedy pallbearer)
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medal of honor, marines vietnam
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Bolivia' Born: 1921
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Australian WWII Ace 12 v
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Most decorated soldier in the Vietnam War. Has been called the Puerto Rican Rambo. He earned 38 military decorations during his career. Born April 7, 1937
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coast guard admiral
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Manuel Barrios (2) WWII: I Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR). D-Day (wounded by a grenade after a couple of days), back for the Siege of Bastogne (Battle of the Bulge), made it to the Eagle's Nest and ended the war in Austria
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marine corps general
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co 1/7 cav
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Soviet WWII Veteran, Translator for the Red Army, interrogated German Prisoners during the Battle of Stalingrad, born 1922
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WWII - Hitler's Nazi poster boy for propaganda in the late 1930s. Chosen at the age of four, his face appeared on postcards, books and campaigns for Nazi Germany
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Australian WWII ace
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WWII: Manhattan Project
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US WWII veteran, born 1920. Joined the CCC in 1938 in Washington State. Served as a clerk in the Air Transport Command in India during WWII
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. He flew on Hurricane's throughout the Battle of Britain. He now lives in Western Australia
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: PTO. USS Franklin (CV-13)
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8th Armored Division
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Schley
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WWII Rosie and SPAR (1923-2024) Worked two years at Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant, drilling rivet holes for B-24s. Then joined the Coast Guard's Women SPARs
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WWII: Pacific. Air Force pilot. Battle of Okinawa. Saw the Yamato sink
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CIA operative gathered on-the-ground intelligence on Cuba's military defenses in preparation for Bay of Pigs invasion. After JFK abandoned invading troops on beach at Playa Girón, Basulto says, he abandoned the CIA operatives on the island
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
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WWII. ETO. Pilot, 63 Fighter Squadron, 56 Fighter Group
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit in Burma. Bronze Star
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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She is Major John Howard's daughter, the British Officer who fought in Pegasus Bridge during WWII
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Enigma code breaker of WWII, along with future wife, Mavis Batey
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Enigma code breaker of WWII
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navy admiral england
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Retired USMC General
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WWII: Witness of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, ordered to a firefighting party for the Cassin and Downes destroyers. Later Fighter Pilot for VF-1 on USS Bennington CV-20 (missions to Japan)
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WWII: British D-Day (Gold Beach) veteran. Royal Engineers. Spent much of the first few days of the landings lying on his stomach defusing mines
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Pearl Harbor Survivor
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Navy Veteran
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Tuskegee Airmen ww2
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Served aboard the USS Patterson as a chief gunners mate
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WWII - D-Day. 116th Infantry, Dog Green Sector, Omaha Beach. Author
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August 27, 1918- March 20, 2008) was an American aviatrix who became the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Force jet aircraft as a test pilot during WWII as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots program/WASP
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WASP/First American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War II
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WWII PTO: Marine Raider of 'Carlson?s Raiders'. Makin Island Raid (17?18 August 1942), Guadalcanal Campaign
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WWIOI: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 2nd Marine Air Wing
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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WWII: D-Day. Ranger. Pointe du Hoc
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WWII: CBI theater, C?109 pilot, 80 'Hump' round?trips
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WWII: British soldier evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940, later served in North Africa (notably El Alamein) and Italy campaign
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Canadian Victoria Cross receiver from WW2
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Retired General - USAF
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(Born 1925) US Merchant Marine/Army/Air Force WW2 and Vietnam Veteran. Merchant Marine 1943 to 1944, US Army from 1944 to 1946, US Air Force 1951 to 1974
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ww11 navy hero author (run silent run deep)
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Bougainville, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima. Purple Heart. USMC
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WWII: PTO. USMC. 'Buffalo' amphibious vehicle driver, in the 3rd Marine Division
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Retired British General, who served in WW2 and saw active service in France 1944 and in Java 1946
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, serving on USS Hull. Later fought in the battles of Bourgainville, Salamua-Lea, Guadalcanal, Wake Island, Attu-Kiska, Wake Island again, and Tarawa. Born July 6, 1921
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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 - 1st Marine Division Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: D-Day. 101st Airborne (Screaming Eagles), 501st PIR , D-Day Pathfinder, Battle of Carentan, Battle of the Bulge. Became a POW and escaped
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Retired USMC General
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: Arctic convoy veteran (HMS La Malouine) in 3 convoys including the ill-fated PQ-17 in July 1942
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On D-Day, June 6, 1944, 73,000 American forces descended on the beaches of Normandy. Bearden was a 21-year-old sergeant in the Army's 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Wrote; 'To D-Day and Back'
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British WW2 pilot, 'Battle of Britain'
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Noted Civil War and World War II Historian. WWII Marine, 3rd Raider Battalion (Battle of Guadalcanal), Chief historian for the National Park Service 1981 - 1994
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WW II Nurse, 1st Lt., aka Jean Crooks
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(Born 1914) US Army WW2 Veteran. Went to Fuji Islands, Guadalcanal, and the Philippines. Bronze Star Recipient
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: D-.Day, 508th PIR, medic, POW
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Canadian World War II veteran and politician
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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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Ploesti Air Raid --- WWII
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WWII: Marine Corps, 1st Raider Battalion. Tulaghi, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian. Fired the first shot against the Japanese occupied South Pacific Island of Tulagi on August 7, 1942
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Army veteran and local theater actor
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam War Veteran. Recipient of a Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart
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Former Navy SEAL, Christopher Beck, who is transgender and now goes by the name Kristin Beck
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air force general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pyro
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
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USAF Jet fighter Ace during the Korean War--[5 Migs shot down]! fle the p-80, f-86, f-89, f-84, f-104, t-33, t-28, t-6
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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Former Marine General
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Retired USMC General
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Retired General - US Army
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marine corps general
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WWII Manhattan Project
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(Born 1945) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW 1969 to 1973. Recipient of a Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Vietnam Vet/Participated in Battle of La Drang, highlighted in the book 'We Were Soldiers Once...And Young'/Artillery with Infantry, carried radio in battle/Awarded one Purple Heart, two Bronze Stars
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Ramapo (AO-12)
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One of the last survivors (Born: 1917) from the sinking of RMS Lancastria, that sank in 1940 during WW2
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British bomber pilot from WW2
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British pilot from WW2, living in Great Britain
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Navajo Code Talker (born 1926) of the 1st Marine Division 2nd Battalion
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Wife of Navajo Code Talker Thomas H. Begay
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Notah Begay (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker - 1 of only 3 remaining (as of 2022)
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
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air force general
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Victoria Cross recipient from Great Britain, was awarded the VC in 2005
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Panzer Captain and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross who was on the intelligence staff of the Sixth Army during the Stalingrad encirclement
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Military
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano (born 23 February 1961), also known as Don Berna or Adolfo Paz, is a former leader of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia paramilitary group, as well as the leader of The Office of Envigado cartel
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WWII: Esther was one of the last survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She survived because she was a player in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
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Deep Freeze: an officer on the U.S.S. Arneb
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Native of Belgium, returned to Antwerp after the war
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
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World War II Medal of Honor
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Military
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World War II Army veteran from 1942-1946. Part of 91st airborn that jumped over North Africa and Italy
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Served in the Navy during WWII in the Pacific Theater and was aboard the USS Lexington in May, 1942, when it was torpedoed during the Battle of Coral Sea
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WWII: Battel of Okinawa. 77th Division. Distinguished Service Cross for the battle for Ishimi Ridge
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Pilot Vietnam War/Astronaut
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Retired United States Army four-star general
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Will become the first living Medal of Honor recipient for the war in Iraq for his heroism during the second battle of Fallujah in November 2004
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WWII: Iwo Jima survivor; H Company, 3rd Battalion, 26th Regiment, 5th Division. Recipient of 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of Liberty ship SS John A. Johnson (by Japanese torpedo) on 30 October 1944
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101st Airborne, 506 PIR, Easy Company (AKA 'The Band of Brothers' - WWII
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Retired General
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C-47 pilot for 101st band of brother flew support for them
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(Born 1923) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Personal friend of JFK during his time in the Navy. Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor (1963-1965) and Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1975-1987)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII WAVES female vet, born 1923. Top Secret Ultra clearance, gathered info from/prepared reports for upper command of decoded German messages. Learned of D-Day from a just-decoded msg from Germany's Donitz, saying they'd just been invaded
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WWII: MTO/ETO. Quartermaster on the Landing Craft, LST 1. Africa (Arzew and Bizerte), Italy (Palermo, Anzio, and Sicily), and Normandy on D-Day
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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army general
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British WWII Veteran, RAF
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WWII: PTO. Battled of Okinawa. K Co, 3rd Bn, 5th Marine Regiment (3/5)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland
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US WWII Army Air Corps B-29 gunner (1925-2023). Flew over Nagasaki hours after the bombing as part of an Army photo mission. Flew in the Japanese Surrender Ceremony Flyover weeks later
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. Ranger. Purple Heart recipient shot in the thigh while storming Omaha Beach
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa. Hq-2-6, 2nd MarDiv
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WWII - Flying Tigers (AVG) P-51 pilot
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USN Admiral
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Spanish Civil War survivor (Born: 1924) Wife of Josep Pons. Remembers how she left Barcelona in 1939 during the massive retreat towards France. Now 92
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co, 1/7 cav
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. Italy 1944-1945. US Army Air Force, 459th Bombardment Group. Distinguished Flying Cross
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Military
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Asst.Secretary of Defense
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German Luftwaffe ace of WWII, 93 victories
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Pilot
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US Army Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1968 to 1969
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WWII: ETO/D-Day. Radio operator on B-24 Liberator 'The Hard Way' (44-40242), 854th Bomb quadron, 491st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 31 missions from June 2, 1944 to Sept. 9, 1944, including D-Day and Hanover, Sept. 9, 1944
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Phillip Bennett (2) Former Australian General, Chief of the Australian Defence Force 1984-1987
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Retired Admiral
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa. Corpsman with D-1-2, 2nd MarDiv. He was in the 2nd wave to Red Beach #2 on Tarawa-D-Day; arriving in a Higgins boat, he had to wade over 500 yards to the shore under devastating fire
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WWII US Army D-Day veteran, born 1926. Part of the Dachau concentration camp liberation, and later a guard at the Nuremberg Trials
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WWII: PTO. Nurse in the Battle of Okinawa. Later 23 years with the CIA
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Wwii: wasp
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WWII: Evacuation of Dunkirk. 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Marched almost 120 miles to the beaches near Dunkirk to escape the German advance in May 1940. Eventually he found a rowing boat and was picked up by a navy ship
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WWII: PTO. Underwater Demolition Team
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Member of the 101 airbourne div. company E 506 parachute regiment
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Centenarian (1895-2004). One of the last US WWI vets. Wounded while serving about a year in France
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: ETO, top turret gunner and engineer of B-17 Chow-Hound (Serial # 42-31367), 91st Bomb Group, 322nd Squadron
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Fighter ace born 12/27/1919
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WWII - Operation Overlord. 279th Port Company, 505th Port Battalion. Landed between Utah and Omaha Beach on D-Day+1 still under constant fire; his unit was responsible to get the beach organized and to get supplies inland
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(Born 1971) US Army Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Served from 1989 to 2014
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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Joseph Stalin's Interpreter
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Last living member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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WWII PTO: Co B, 1st Raider Bn, then 4th Marines. Fought at Guadalcanal (Bloody Ridge), Guam, Saipan, Bouganville, New Georgia, Okinawa. Guard duty at USS Missouri on the day the Japanese signed the surrender in Tokyo Bay. 2 Purple Hearts
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Military Contractor held captive by Al-Queda. Beheaded by Al-Zarawi in Internet video by Al-Queda
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WWII - USS Tennessee (1940-1942) and Submarine Base in 1943. Treasurer for P.T.Com Orchestra for 18 years
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WWII French Resistance member, born 1925. Truck driver delivering supplies to the Germans, recruited to collect intelligence. Survived a brutal German attack in 1944 when Nazis discovered a local Resistance effort
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US Army Sergeant who was held prisoner in Afghanistan for five years
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Benjamin Berger (2) WWII: Ranger that landed at Omaha beach on D-Day (Pointe du Hoc); before D-Day, he served in North Africa and Italy
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Four-star general currently serving as the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
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French holocaust survivor and member of the Résistance during World War 2, living in the French city of Saint-Étienne
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WWII: 3rd Marine Division, Wounded in the battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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WWII: US Navy, anti-aircraft gunner. Survived the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay which was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tarawa (November 1943) and also his next ship (USS Salamaua) being hit by a Kamikaze
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. Air Warning Service Company, US Army Signal Corps
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Operation Deep Freeze: GCA officer to guide incoming aircraft to land on ice
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. First Marine Division. Guadalcanal, Peleliu
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Main focus in the Canadian wait for me daddy photo he was the little boy reaching for his daddy
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WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, Original Band of Brothers. Note: He isn't the author of that book mentioned - these were 'Will Bill' Guarnere and 'Babe' Heffron: http://www.amazon.de/Brothers-Battle-Friends-William-Guarnere/dp/0425224368
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Author and former CIA officer and Directorate of Operations between October 1982 and June 2005. Served as a CIA Station Chief on 3 separate occasions and led several of CIA?s most important counterterrorism deployments
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Buna-Gona, Battle of Luzon. 32nd Infantry Division
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WWII - CpL (Tech 5), USA, 78th Quartermaster Bn., 78th Infantry Div., 3rd Army. Landed at Normandy on D-Day. Battle of the Bulge veteran. European Theater of Operations
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C-47 pilot, flew101st band of brothers
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WWII - Pilot 91st Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group; with his C-47 #43-15213 he flew paratroopers of Dog Company, 506th PIR, 101st AB into D-Day (Stick #64). Specialist in towing/rescueing Gliders, carrying D-Day wounded out to safety
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Vietnam War - Marines pilot who flew Ambassador Martin out of the American Embassy during the fall of Saigon to the Vietcong, April 30, 1975. Helicopter 'Lady Ace 09'
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Author: 'Make the Kaiser Dance: Living Memories of a Forgotten War: The American Experience in World War'
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WWII: Last living survivor of the sinking of the SS Arandora Star, 2 July 1940
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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WWII: 14th Armored Division, Company B Mortar Squad; he fought in the ETO, capturing a succession of small towns in France and into the Italian mountains. He was injured three times
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Bocks Car Crew, RCM Observer, WW II, Nagasaki
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WWII: Battle for Tarawa
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WWII: B-17 pilot, 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 28 missions from June to August 1944, most in 'Little Miss Mischief' (B-17 42-97880), including France, Munich, Merseburg, Brandenburg, Peenemunde
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Former director of Naval Criminal Investigative Service AKA NCIS/With NCIS, Betro served as the Special Agent Afloat aboard the USS John F. Kennedy as well as the USS Enterprise/Did cameo on long running TV series NCIS
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Fighter Ace - Korean War - (5 Victs)- USAF
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Berlin Air Lift 1948; Brigadier General Betinger was one of those planning and supervising the Air Lift
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army general
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WWII: Battle of Midway (June 1942), USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady'). Severely wounded during the battle. Later, he served on the submarines USS Bashaw and USS Sea Robin
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Fox News military analyst
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WWII U.S. Navy quartermaster - served on the USS Bowfin (SS-287)
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WWII Fighter Ace (9 Kills) - Ace in a Day - Flew P-51's - USAAF, 376th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group, 8th Air Force (Europe)
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor
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Medal of Honor recipient, France, WWII
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Army
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Real brother of Bielski partisans. Last living Bielski brother from WWII
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WWII: 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. The Ghost Army deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there
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WWII Luftwaffe Recipient of the Knights Cross
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WWII - tail-gunner on the 'Necessary Evil', the nickname of the B-29 Superfortress that accompanied the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Helena. Served on the USS Helena from Pearl until the Battle of Kula Gulf (1943), when she was sunk by Japanese torpedoes, fighting, a.o., in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Cape Esperance
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French military officer who fought in the Indochina war. Born: 02/14/1916
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Tuskegee Airmen, flew the b-25, b-29, b-52, b-24, b-50, b-17, b-47
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navy admiral
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WWII Veteran From Williamsville, New York. Good Conduct Medal, a European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 2 bronze service stars, a World War II Victory Medal, an Honorable Service Lapel and a Sharpshooter Badge with Rifle Bar
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WWII: Living in the Polish town Zdrowa, Bik witnessed the first attack on the Westerplatte peninsula. He escaped 2 forced labor camps, and was sent to the Gross-Rosen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps before his 1945 liberation
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker, participated in Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa
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US WWII Army bomber pilot/OSS vet, born 1923.14 missions in Europe, then transferred to an OSS cover unit in Italy. Dropped OSS agents and spies in various areas, including flights turned down by the RAF as too risky. Still flying at 97
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WWII - Pacific. 4th Marine Division. Fought in the battles of Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima
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WWII: Corporal in Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, who survived the Malmedy Massacre on 17 December 1944
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Military
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'Doolittle Raiders 'Bombardier Crew #11'
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John Bird (2)Navy Admiral
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Congresstional Medal of Honor and former Cherokee Nation Supreme Court justice
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Honolulu
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, Civillian Witness to the Attack
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Italian flying ace of WWII
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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Frank E. Birtciel was a fighter pilot assigned to the 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force during World War II
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Italian World War 1 Veteran Born: 10/07/1900 Lives in Dignano, Italy
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Austrian World War One Veteran
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Commander 509th Bomb Wing
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Jerry Bishop (2)Vietnam veteran. Flew Boeing B-52 Bomber planes and survived over 100 combat missions
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the b-24
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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WWII - D-Day, 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One), 16th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, Omaha Beach. Mr. Bistrica actually is pictured in one of the most iconic photographs of the war
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WW II Veteran; survivor of the USS Indianapolis disaster
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
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Danish WWII veteran. Part of the battalion that was immediately dispatched when German invasion looks imminent
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One of the children saved by Nicholas Winton in the 'Kindertransport' before WWII broke out
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(Born 1933) Air Force Korean War Veteran. K2 Korea
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WWII. PTO. USS Franklin (CV-13)
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Korean War veteran
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Known as Sir Jeremy Black, a British Royal Navy admiral who served as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command from 1989 to 1991
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Joseph Black (2) WWII: ETO. 57th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force
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Bill Blackburn (2) Flying Tiger-crew chief
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WWII - US Fighter Ace, 11 victories, of the Jolly Rogers, VF-17 Squadron; Pacific Theater
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WWII: Battle of Midway
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Born 1925, Blackwell served in the U.S. Navy from 1943-1946 during WWII. He later became a maritime administrator in 1969. In 1971 Blackwell became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs
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Retired USMC General
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WWII veteran wo went on to become a songwriter whose credits include two songs recorded by Elvis (Give me the right' and 'Put the blame on me'),
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Dennis Blair (3)Dennis Cutler Blair (born February 4, 1947) is the former United States Director of National Intelligence and is a retired United States Navy admiral who was the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific region
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Don Blair (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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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: UK pilot, Squadron Leader, DFM (Distinguished Flying Medal). Was the RAF's World War poster boy. Currently lives in Brentwood, Essex
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. US Army, Fort Kamehameha
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Survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941aboard the USS St. Louis and went on to earn Navy combat stars in Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal and Luzon
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WWII Pilot Ace-- Flew Spifires and Mustangs-[14.5 victories]
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Fighter Pilot Ace during WWII[flew the P-51 Mustang]
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 82nd Airborne. Also Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge
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WWII. PTO. USS Franklin (CV-13). Subject of iconic photograph of a dying sailor who did not die, when Father Joseph O?Callahan performed last rites for Blanchard (March 19, 1945) on the fiery deck of the USS Franklin, but Robert survived
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WWII: Fighter pilot with the 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group
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US WWII veteran, saw action in the Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima, b. 1924
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WWII: D-Day Invasion, Medic, 326th Medical Battalion, 101st Airborne Division; also in the Battle of the Bulge and Bastogne and witness to General McAuliffes' famous 'Nuts' quote; Operation Market Garden and served all the way to Berchtesgaden
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USS Pueblo
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Director and Head of Talent at Schmidt Futures. Served 5 years as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps. Serves on the board of Operation Gratitude. Co-author of Union: A Democrat, a Republican, & a Search for Common Ground
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US fashion designer. He was a member of the Ghost Army in WWII
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Navajo Code Talker 5th Marine Division (Born 1917)
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WWII: D-Day, landed on eastern half of Omaha Beach, 6:30 AM, June 6, 1944, with the 1st Infantry Division. Before Normandy, he fought in the Tunisian campaign in North Africa, and was a part of the invasion of Sicily, in 1943
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medal of honor arme korean war
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U.S. Marines 1942-1945. Landed on Guam in 1944 with the 3rd Marine Division
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(Born 1921) USAAF WW2 Veteran. 487th Fighter Squadron of the 352nd Fighter Group in England from July 1943 to August 1945
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Korean War Ace - USAF - 10 Kills - DSC, P-40, P-47, P-51 Mustang, P-80, F-86, F-100, F-102, A-7, F-104, F-106, F-4, and F-111
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Rifleman, 4th Infantry Division
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(Born 29 August 1916) Norwegian military officer, known for his resistance work during World War II
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WWII: His 28-year Air Force career included piloting 25 B-17 missions out of England in WW II, and working at the Pentagon and Boeing Aircraft
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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WWII: PTO. Radar Technician aboard the USS Enterprise
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WWII (Pacific Theater) - Survivor of the sinking of the USS Astoria during the Battle Of Savo Island, 9 August 1942
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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American WWII - Radioman And Gunner In VT-11 (Torpedo Squadron, Sister Squadron Of The Famous Sundowners) Of Carrier Air Wing Eleven (Pacific Theater)
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Retired USMC General
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WWII: 603rd Engineers Camouflage Division, The Ghost Army used inflatable rubber tanks, wooden guns, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Walter Blum (2)WW2/D-Day Army among 1st to face cannon & machine-gun fire awaited on beaches of Normandy/Member amphibious 1st Engineer Special Brigade sent in to clear lanes through obstructions & lay wire-mesh roadbeds, allowing tanks & troops to beach
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WWII - Survivor of the sinking of the USS Quincy (CA-39) in the Battle Of Savo Island, 9 August 1943
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Fighter ace born 12 /25/1921
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German Luftwaffe ace of WWII, 60 victories
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WWII: PTO. Navy corpsman. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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(born November 15, 1918 in Sassari, Sardinia) is an Italian sculptor, painter, and academic. Bocchetta was a member of the anti-fascist Italian resistance movement during World War II
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WWII. ETO: He took part in the retreating fights in France in the summer of 1940, and then joined the RAF, 312 Squadron. 26 operational flights. Last surviving Czech WWII pilot
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Soviet machine gunner, Fought in battles of Moscow and Stalingrad during WW2. Currently lives in Philadelphia, PA
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WWII flying ace with the 357th scored 14 kills which included two of the new ME 262's
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vietnam war air force hero
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; Army Air Corps, 804th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Bugle Master. Turned down an offer to spend the night of 6th to 7th Dec on the Arizona which most probably saved his life
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Iwo Jima
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Israeli flying ace, pilot
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Author of FIRST SEAL - Founder of the US Navy SEALs
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Former Waffen-SS member
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German WWII Fighter Ace
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Military
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German ww2 pilot
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Military
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WWII: PTO. 112th Calvary Regiment Of The Texas Army National Guard. Battle of Driniumor River (10 July ? 25 August 1944) of the Western New Guinea campaign. Battle of Leyte, Batttle of Luzon
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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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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group
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Oldest Man in France born 1910. WW2 veteran of the Free Corps
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WWII: PTO. B-17 tail-gunner
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Born 1919, Bokhary served in the British Indian Army for four years as a logistics expert, and came to Hong Kong with the army on the first British ship after the surrender of Japan ended the occupation of Hong Kong. He became a businessman
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WWII: ETO. Army Air Corps, 99th Bomb Group, 247th Squadron. 51 missions
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WWI British Commonwealth One of the last female veterans of that war
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Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Bolcar was born in 1917. He served in the Eighth U.S. Army Air Corps, 702nd Bomb Squadron, 445th Bombardier Group during WW2
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Officer in the German Army (Wehrmacht Heer) who wrote about his experiences during World War II
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WW2 fighter ace- Served aboard the USS Randolph from 2/16/1945-5/14/1945 as a member of VMF-12 flying the F6F Hellcat. He is officially credited with 5 confirmed victories.
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Retired Brigadier General:The Horse Soldiers
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Retired General
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American author, historian, and retired a lieutenant general of the United States Army
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US WWII Army vet (1923-2022) Saw action in Normandy, the Rhineland, the Bulge, and at the Remagen Bridge. In his 90s, sketched scenes of his memories of WWII that he donated to charity auctions
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WWiII: Navigator on a B-17 'Wolf Wagon. Flew 30 missions, including 2 missions D-Day. 388th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force
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WWII - Flying Tigers, served a total as 34 years as a figher pilot
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WWII veteran, born 1921. 16th Squ.,16th Bomb Group. Bataan Death March survivor. Author of several books, incl. one on his Bataan experience. POW at Camp O'Donnell, Philippines, later moved to Manchuria; liberated by Russian Army Aug. 1945. Purple Heart
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WWII U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate - served aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). Witnessed the formal surrender of Japan
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WWII/Korea - Black Sheep Squadron; 12 victories
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WWII: Merchant seaman in the 'Murmansk runs' of World War II
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Centenarian (1900-2002). French immigrant, WWI French Naval vet and WWII French Infantry vet. 1918 Flu survivor who was almost given up for dead on a troop ship
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Tarawa. Motor machinist mate 2nd class, USS Sheridan (APA-51)
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 12th Defense Battalion. Battle of Peleliu
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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air force general
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Member of the famed ''Flying Tigers'' before and during WWII, a Major General, Ace (9 victories)
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USCG Admiral
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US WWI veteran, born 1924. Served in Italy at Anzio, Rome, the Po Valley, and witnessed the abuse of Mussolini's body in the public square by Italian citizens
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LTC, USAAF, 773 Bomb Sqdn, 463rd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force B-17 Pilot, 30 missions over Italy as Sqdn. Leader. Hickam Field, Hawaii - Pearl Harbor Survivor Distinguished Flying Cross
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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WWII Fighter Ace (5 Victs)Member of the Flying Tigers
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WWII combat nurse (1918-2019). Landed on Utah Beach on D-Day+6, following the front lines through out the war, and earning 5 battle stars
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WWII: USS Yorktown, CV5; USS Saratoga, CV3. Naval battles of Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal. Senior yeoman to Admiral Frank Fletcher
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WWII. ETO. B17 Flying Fortress waist gunner. 25 missions
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Born 1924, Booker served in the British Royal Navy from 1940-1954 during WWII and peacetime. He later became a well-known Engineer and is known for his book A History Of Engineering Drawing published in 1963
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English Former Male British Royal Air Force Navigator Pilot During World War 2
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USMC General
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Montford Point Marine (the very first African Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corps)
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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Waffen SS Knights Cross Holder
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Survivor of the wreck of the USS Indianapolis
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Walter Borchert (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Survived her capsizing in January 1943
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ww2 german knights cross/german cross in gold/ 4 tank destoyer badges
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fighter air ace korean war
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WWI: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Oklahoma. Hardly escaped the sinking ship and being strafed by Japanese pilots after jumping into the harbor. Pictured exactly 3 years later in a popular War Bond Drive photograph
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American World War 2 Fighter Ace , 5 Vic - Navy Cross, flew the f6f hellcat, corsair, wildcat, cougar, panther, fury
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One of nine surviving veterans of Spanish Civil War. Born: December 20, 1918.Also survivor of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
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Last Italian World War One Veteran
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Danish WWII Veteran
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French Supercentenarian Born 1911. As a nurse during WWII she participated in the Allied Invasion of Italy
