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German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist who resides in Queenstown, New Zealand
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Alabama State Trooper; while protecting George Wallace on the campaign trail, he was unintentionally shot in the stomach by Arthur Bremer during the attempt on Wallace's life
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23 Oldest Person in the World Born 1894 Lives in Italy
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WWII: PTO. US Army Air Corps. B-24 bombardier in the 31th Squadron, 5th Bombardment Group of the 13th Air Force. 6 combat operations against Japanese forces in and around the Philippines
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American biochemist known for her pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, for which she won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Emmanuelle Charpentier
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An employee of TSBD , Dougherty saw Lee Harvey Oswald arrive on the morning of the assassination . He told the Warren Commission that he didn't think Oswald was carrying anything
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Boeing Company engineer, born 1937. Worked on the Lunar Orbiter, mapping the moon for the Apollo program. Worked at a Madrid, Spain tracking station where he helped receive the first ever photo of the earth taken from the moon
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Pioneer flight aviator
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navy admiral
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As a 12 yr. old watched Pres. Kennedy's motorcade on Harwood St. in Dallas and then heard the shots in Dealey Plaza , friends with Officer J.D. Tippet's son
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att. oj simpson trial
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FBI's pioneer and master of investigative profiling. Author and basis for the Netflix series 'Mindhunter'
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WW2 P-47 Thunderbolt Flying Ace(Medals out the Wazoo)
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Noted author, scientist, and conservationist. Works to save the African Elephant
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One of the 'Rosie the Riveteers' during WW2. One of The Last Voices of World War II in the June 2020 issue of National Geographic
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325th fighter group checkerboard clan,flew spt for 101st airborne band of brothers
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WWII veteran, born 1923. One of the last surviving veterans of Attu, an often overlooked invasion of Alaska by the Japanese in 1942
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor
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Donald Trump's lawyer/Special Counsel to the Commissioner of Baseball and author of a report that led to the banning of Major League Baseball player Pete Rose
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. E Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines. Purple Heart
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Korean War US Army Veteran in an all black regiment. Wounded in combat in July of 1950 and was among the visitors of his hospital was General MacAurthur in Japan. Left in 1951
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American author & historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the National Book Award for Nonfiction & the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Executive producer of Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima
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Transgender activist and model
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WWII: ETO. Bombardier/Navigator in the 703rd Squadron, 445th Bomb Group, 8th AF, actor Jimmy Stewart was his Flight Leader. Became a POW in 1944 (Stalag Luft I camp), shot down on 9/27/44 on Kassel mission in B-24 'Frigid Bridget' #4251342
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WWII: PTO. B-24 copilot, 424th Bomb Squadron, 307th Bomb Group, 13th Air Force
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WWII veteran, born in 1913, believed to be the oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor. He served on the USS W> Virginia during the attack, and later served in the Korean War
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general army
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Irish'
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Eric Doyle (2)Commanding Officer and flight leader for the Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron
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Model for the 'We Can Do It!' posters during World War II
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Astronomer
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Female WWII veteran, WASP pilot, born 1921
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Richard Doyle (2)Great-nephew of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who created Sherlock Holmes. Lives in Boyatt Wood, Hampshire, UK
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Author and former head men's basketball coach at both Kingswood - Oxford School and at Trinity College. Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for International Sport. Found guilty of embezzling more than $1 million from his foundation
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navy admiral
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Army general; kidnapped and held 42 days by Red Brigades (Italian terrorist organization of the 70s)
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Unverified Italian World War 1 Veteran.Born:01/25/1901. Lives in Maniago, Italy
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President of the European Central Bank
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WW2 Veteran 'Made famous Bataan Death March' Awarded medals for his service December 2008, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, POW Medal & Asiatic-Pacific Campain medal!
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WWII: PTO. Battel of Okinawa. Purple Heart. Sixth Marine Division
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Italian ww2 ace
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JFK assassination witness. Co-worker of Oswald, standing in front of the Texas School Book Depository when was Kennedy shot
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Author 'Life On a Short Fuse' /War or Conflict Korean War, 1950-1953 Air Force/Korea/Vietnam War, 1961-1975/Lieutenant Colonel/Served as a Fighter Pilot; a Command Pilot; a Test Pilot; and an Instructor Pilot
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JFK - FBI special agent assigned to the Parkland trauma room where Kennedy died
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WW2, Battle of Britain pilot and ace in the RAF.
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American astronomer who is best known as one of the pioneers in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, including the founding of SETI, mounting the first attempts at detecting extraterrestrial communications in 1961
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WWII: USMC infantry man. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Guam (Silver Star), assistant squad leader in the Battle of Iwo Jima in the second wave (Purple Heart). Silver Star, 2 Bronze Sars, 2 Purple Hearts
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Russian polar explorer
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World War 2 Veteran and one of the last surviving members from the 23rd Special Troops known as 'The Ghost Army'
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Honor Guard; an interesting one as he was there when Air Force One arrived back at Washington with the coffin
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Royal Navy Hot Air Balloon Co-Pilot
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker
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Tuskegee Airmen/Civilian Instructor 1942-1945
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
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Flight scientist
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Victoria Manalo Draves, the first woman to win two gold medals in diving in the same Olympics ? in the three-meter springboard and the 10-meter platform competitions in London in 1948 and the first Asian American to win an Olympic medal
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German pilot
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Alfred Dregger (December 10, 1920 - June 29, 2002) was a German politician of the Cdu. He was mayor of Fulda from 1956 to 1970 and chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 1982 to 1991
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Scientist
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Schindler List survivor. Known as Dr. Danka Dresner Schindel
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Holocaust survivor. On Schindler's list. Is a doctor who lives in Israel. Also known as Yonathan or Jonathan
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American soldier and defector, born 1941, defected to North Korea and is still living in Pyongyang
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Scientist
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astronomer
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Flight astronaut sts-118
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Astronaut, Born Nov. 5, 1962
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WWII Navy Veteran
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P-51 Mustang Ace during WWII-[6 victories] Member of the 361st Fighter Group - Air Force Cross
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German ww2 pilot
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Motor Machinst's Mate 2nd Class Edmund T. Drewitch served aboard PT 109 along with then Lt (jg) and future President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy; due to injury, he was not aboard PT-109 when it was sunk
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WWII veteran, was abroad the HMS Ajax during the Battle of the River Plate
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US Navy Flying Ace, VF-31 - 5 Kills
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Military, Navy Flying Ace, Vietnam War
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WWII: MTO. B-25 pilot. 57th Bomb Wing
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Spy - Involved in the Bay of Pigs
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Jesse Ray Drowley (September 9, 1919 - May 20, 1996) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions in World War II
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One of the last 1918 Spanish Flu survivors. As of April 2020, she is 104 and lives in Letterkenny, Ireland
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Former U.S. General, U.S. Air Force
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Tuskegee Airmen; 99th Pursuit Squadron and 332nd Fighter Group; author of 'A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman'
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(born October 14, 1917) is a Canadian educator known for teaching computer classes at the age of 101. Manitoba Teachers? Society honoured Dryden in their magazine's March issue. City of Winnipeg presented her with a Community Service Award
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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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Labor leader
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Retired Swiss biophysicist. In 2017, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson
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Military , author
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In prison for killing a cop
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Scientist
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Canadian feminist & peace activist.Born: 10/31/1908
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Newsman for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, covered many 20th century events. Was in the JFK motorcade when Kennedy was killed and later witnessed Oswald being shot. In the 70s, he covered Cambodia and was held as a civilian prisoner of war for a time, and w
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Spanish Civil War Veteran 'International Brigade'. Born:01/24/1916
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WW2 veteran of D-Day
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NASA astronaut (retired) flew four space shuttle mission STS-45,57,72, and 92
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Survivor Of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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American fighter ace VF-15, 5 Kills - US Navy, f4f hellcat, p-47, p-51
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Vietnam War Medal of Honor Recipient
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US Army WWII veteran, served under MacArthur in the Philippines. Press liaison for the trials of Generals Homma & Yamashita in Manilla after the war's end, and both their executions
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French American economist. She shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty'
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American serial killer active between 1983 & 1985 in Chicago's western suburbs.
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air force general assoc. executive
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Robert was a sergeant in the Dallas Police Dept .He was stationed at the Trade Mart on Nov. 22 '63 . Later he stood guard outside Trauma Room #1 as JFK was treated
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, and survivor the sinking of the USS Sims and USS Astoria
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German mountaineer and explorer. First german who climbed on top of all 14 8000er
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Former blackjack player with MIT Blackjack Team/Played with Strategic Investments & one of founding members & team leaders on Amphibian Investments exploits chronicled in Ben Mezrich's Busting Vegas & referred to in Bringing Down the House
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Flight aviator
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British ace from WW2
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Apollo 16 Astronaut and moonwalker. Also the youngest Astronaut on the moon
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First surgeon to receive President John F. Kennedy after being shot and taken to Dallas Parkland Hospital, & attended to the wounds of then Texas Governor John Connally, who was shot at the same time John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963
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JFK/November 22nd 1963 Duke-Ruhd observed the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue
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Retired General
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WWII: Atlantic. Corsair pilot on escort carrier USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60). They sank 3 German subs in the North Atlantic, and captured U-505 on 4 June 1944. It was the first enemy warship captured on the high seas by the US Navy since 1815
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nobel med. laureate 1975
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WWII: PTO. USS Vincennes (CA-44). Witness to the Doolittle Raid (April 1942), Battle of Midway (June 1942), Guadalcanal, survived the sinking of his ship in the Night Battle of Savo Island (August 9, 1942)
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WWII German Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot Ace 5 victories flew the pik as, jg 53
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Commander on board the HMS Bulldog (1945)on which the surrender document of the German garrisons of the Channel Islands was signed on 9 May 1945
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Subject of the film Melvin and Howard
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D.1965 cathode ray tube inventor
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astronaut
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)
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navy admiral
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WWII: PTO. FM-2 Wildcat pilot
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United States Air Aces
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US Navy Fighter 7 victory ace, WWII was the first F6F Hellcat pilot to down a Zero - Navy Cross
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Roi Namur, Iwo Jima and Saipan. 4th Marine Division
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U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the White House detail during the Kennedy years, Duncan served as the advance agent for Fort Worth during the Texas visit in November 1963
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KLIF radio newsman in Dallas who had interaction with Jack Ruby on November 23 , 1963
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 7 victories; Pacific Theater; US Navy, Navy Cross. One of the first F6F Hellcat nightfighter pilots
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Supercentenarian Born 1907 Went to school at Bath Consolodated School. Was at home sick when the Bath School Massacre took place in 1927, which killed 38 children and 6 adults
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Maternal Grandmother of Barak Obama
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medal of honor ww11 army
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Entomologist - Trying to Prove Bugs are the food of the future and will solve World Hunger
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WWII Pilot Ace-- Flew the P-40,47& 51-[9 victories]
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astronaut
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WWII:Battle Of Iwo Jima. 5th Marine Division, 27th Marine Regiment. Pictured in a photo from the battle directing mortars and artillery against Japanese positions
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WWII: ETO, 104th Infantry Division
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ww 11 marines corps hero (cmh)
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Oglala
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma. (1923-2015)
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Ben Dunn (2)
Pow by japanese in ww2- lives in murphysbobo,il, 92 if still alive? -
Civil war historian and author
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(Born June 25, 1923) is a decorated U.S. Army veteran of World War II. For his heroism, he was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart
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Harry Dunn (2)Police Officer, fought rioters at the capitol during the January 6th Insurrection
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Lz xray 1965
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Zoologist, theory that all evolution is now human driven
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Served on USS California (gun director for the broadside guns)
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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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Centenarian (1899-2001). US WWI Army veteran, served in the ambulance corps in France. Later became a freelance writer, writing books in the 1920s, including WWI experiences. One of 8 WWI vets profiled by Life magazine on the 80th anniversary in 1998
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First woman to become a US Four Star General
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WWII Assistant Chaplain veteran (born 1917), ETO including the Normandy campaign
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French criminal defence lawyer, famous for his record numbers of acquittals in French territories. Now French Minister of justice
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Author - 'Caught in the Act', The true story of his life. He was caught in the '80's helping people escape from East to West Germany. He spent several years in a Prison in Budapest
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astronaut
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Former member of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a prisoner of war in Cuba for 18 months; former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association. Now an attorney in Miami.
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On October 29, 1994, fired 29 rounds from an SKS rifle at the White House. He was convicted of attempting to assassinate United States President Bill Clinton and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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Assisted discovery of H2 receptor class of drugs, cimetidine, which inhibits production of stomach acid. Cimetidine is commonly used to treat acid reflux and stomach ulcers to this day. Inducted National Inventors HOF 1990
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hellcopter pilot captured in somalia 1993
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US army General
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Survived falling off his 22 foot boat while grouper fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Has been feautured in many magazines
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WW 2 Vet born in 1921
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Marine Master Sergeant who saved Howard Hughes after the Beverly Hills plane crash documented in The Aviator
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Flight astronaut sts-35,67
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Killer; subject of the six - part HBO documentary The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
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Turkish Air Force Captain who in 1959, took the first photograph of a strange formation on Mount Ararat, believed to be the remains of Noah's Ark. He was still alive in 2007, not sure if he still is now
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Engineer 1st working American gasoline-powered car & co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. In Springfield Charles & his brother Frank produced & road-tested America's 1st gasoline-powered car
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Westerfield trial Prosecuter
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
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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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Scientist
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Assst Secretary of Navy
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Author, former activist, widow of activist Rudi Dutschke
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Living witness to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi, India in 1948. At the time he worked as a journalist
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Astronaut ascan 2004
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Former first lady of Haiti and ex-wife of Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, lives under her maiden name Bennett in France
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Truck driver was picking up shipment of books at Texas School Book Depository on Nov.22 and saw Oswald before assassination
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Flight engineer on United Flight 232
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One of Russia's most notable specialists in the investigation of unidentified flying objects. He works as a coordinator at The Science and Research center Kosmopoisk (Search of Cosmos), Russia
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first black candidate for astronaut 1961
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Co-Founder Of The DemCoalittion, has been featured on MSNBC
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field. Believed to be the last living Pearl Harbor survivor in South Dakota
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100-year-old pioneer is WA's last surviving female WWII-era pilot. One of the last surviving WASP pilots of the World War 2 Era
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American economist. Dybvig was awarded the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Douglas Diamond and Ben Bernanke, 'for research on banks and financial crises'
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Wwii: pto. USS Kenton
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Lz xray 1965 nam, k.i.a. 2nd tour 1970
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real-life Vietnam war hero turned actor - often typecast as General, Cpt., Lt., Col. in film: Platoon (1986), Casualties of War (1987), Born On The Fourth Of July (1989), JFK (1991), Saving Private Ryan (1997), Band of Brothers (t.v. mini-series, 2001)
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Paul Dye (2)Flight scientist
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Chief Radio Engineer during 2nd Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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navy admiral
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Survivor of the Bataan Death March
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'Norman G. Dyhrenfurth (born May 7, 1918) is a Swiss-American mountaineer and film maker. He was the leader of the successful American Mount Everest Expedition of 1963, which placed six climbers on the summit.'
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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Born 1916 SS guard and Gestapo official in Auschwitz concentration camp
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'Commanding Officer Royal Navy'
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Crewmember USS Ward 139, the first American ship to engage the Japanese in WW2 at Pearl Harbor when it sunk thier mini-submarine
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german physicist, nobel peace prize 1995 (with group Pugwash), recipient of the alterbative nobel prize and the Bundesverdienstkreuz
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a former cosmonaut who made five flights: Soyuz 27,Soyuz 39, Soyuz T-6, Soyuz T-12 and Soyuz T-13. In all he had spent 145 days, 15 hours and 56 minutes in space over these five missions
