WWII - Nurse Recruiting Poster Girl of the most popular WWII Nurse Poster. President Franklin D Roosevelt took a liking of the poster and ordered to be a million copies printed. She is supposedly the last of the poster girls alive
Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Dalton KCB was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and latterly became Secretary General of MENCAP and National Chairman of The Royal British Legion
Original "Operation Paperclip" Wernhervon Braun rocket scientist team born August 5, 1912. Deputy Manager of Saturn rocket program, rec'd NASA Exceptional Service Medal for successfully initiating development of the Saturn V rocket
Vietnam War 1975/Escaped during the Fall of Saigon/Was passenger violently forced without provocation from a United Airlines flight.and suffered a significant concussion, a broken nose, a sinus injury and lost two front teeth
WWII: Signalman aboard the S.S. Hawkins Fudske, a cargo ship that made 2 round trips to Archangle and Murmansk, Russia.Rcvd the Medal of Ushakov from Russia for his wartime efforts
Born March 27th 1918, served in the US Navy during World War 2, survived attack on Pearl Harbor. Later became an attorney, and then a State Senator for Louisiana from 1956-1980
WWII: PTO. Battles of New Britain, New Guinea, Peleliu and Okinawa. Platoon sergeant of his unit, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Purple Heart, Sharp Shooter Medal
Colonel (born 13 May 1939) retired US Army officer received Medal of Honor 3 March 2023 for actions on 18 July 1965 during Vietnam War. Twice previously nominated for MOH, but both times the paperwork relating to his nomination disappeared
WWII: African American/6888 Central Postal Battalion (Birmingham, UK) in US Army, known as Six Triple Eight. In just three months, Davis and her unit processed 17 million pieces of mail
WWII: Radio Operator, 505th Parachute Regiment (PIR), 82nd Airborne Division (AD). Wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, but rejoined the 505th on Rhine River. He met the Russians at Elbe River
US WWII Army vet, born 1923. Trained as electrical engineer and radio operator, attached to MacArthur's HQ for a time. Born in N. Dakota, raised in Minnesota, experienced Dust Bowl storms in his youth. Retired district judge
Oklahoma dust bowl survivor, born 1924, interviewed for Ken Burns' documentary. WWII 'Rosie' at Boeing Aircraft working on B-29s. Career in journalism and teaching
WWII: ETO. 66th Infantry Division. Survivor of the sinking of the troopship SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24. 1944. She was torpedoed and sunk by U-486. 763 soldiers died, together with 56 of her crew
Former Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff / Former Ambassador to the United States / Current Head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning
French soldier and politician, born 1921, former Colonial Administrator of the Comores (1962-1963), was awared the French Legion of Honor for his military service in 2015
British director of the United Kingdom Special Forces during the Iranian Embassy Siege and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the 1990 Gulf War
World War II fighter pilot, first commander of the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier (USS Enterprise CVN-65). Reached the rank of Vice Admiral with the Navy
From Wooster, Ohio, Hal played guard for the first OSU National Championship team in 1942. Was named All-Western Conference that year. Served as a Captain in the 11th Airborne as a paratrooper during WWII. Played 3 seasons for the Rams
United States Army major general during World War II and the Korean War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on July 20 and 21, 1950, during the Battle of Taejon in South Kore
WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Helena CL-50). Also served on the USS Helena in the Guadalcanal Campaign and survived the sinking of the USS Helena after she was hit by a torpedo in the Night Battle of Kula Gulf, 6 July 1943
WWII: USMC, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Battle of Peleliu and Okinawa; earned a Purple Heart in the latter on Wana Ridge. JFK campaign 1960
WWII - Pacific Theater; survivor of the sinking of the USS Colhoun (DD-801) after repeated Kamikaze attacks in the early stages of the Battle of Okinawa, 6 May 1945
WWII: I Company, 3rd BN, 157th Infantry, 45th Division. One of the liberators od Dachau concentration camp, actually the very first sodier to enter the compund who shot open the lock of the gates
WWII: ETO. D-Day, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, Holland, Alsace. A Line Company and G Company, 501st PIR, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles). Bronze Star
Italian WWII Resistance fighter, born 1923. Trained as paratrooper, first and maybe only female to make a WWII combat jump. Broke ankle, kept on her missions. Germans killed her Resistance brother, inspired her own Resistance ambitions
WWII: CBI. Member of HQ Company, White Combat Team, 1st Battalion of the Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Top turret gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress based at Hickam Field. Also saw action in the Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal
WWII - Captured during Battle of the Bulge, he became the most famous POW of WWII when LIFE featured a photo taken at prison camp Stalag 12-A in Limburg, Germany, on the day of his liberation. He became known as 'The Human Skeleton'
Retired Captain of the Royal Air Force. The oldest surviving knight of the Military Order of William , and this the last of the Royal Air Force of World war 2.
Born: 07/23/1914
WW2/Normandy D-Day/Navy/After landing at Normandy on D-Day in 1944, he encountered a young French girl who waved him over and spoke to him in perfect English
WW2 Vet. Survived the sinking of the USS Atlanta, and involved in Battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa. Knew and regularly saw JFK while working as a Navy radioman. During Japanese surrender ceremony, transmitted the news to the worl
American actor, author, and former United States Navy SEALs commander. Denver is most known for his role as Lieutenant Rorke in the 2012 film Act of Valor and for his appearance as team leader in the Fox Television series, American Grit
WWII army vet, assigned to clean-up/odd job duties at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos base. Witness to the first atomic explosion, the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945
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
WWII: D-Day. Coast Guard assigned to attack transport USS Samuel Chase, ferrying troops of 1st Infantry, Big Red 1 1&2 wave to Omaha Beach on Higgins Boat. In invasions of North Africa; Sicily; Salerno/Made 11 or 12 trips back & forth from ship to beach
Countess of Romanones, Grandee of Spain/OSS cipher clerk during World War II. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1962 (LIVES IN MADRID SPAIN)Author 'El fin de una era' (2010), published in Spain
Author;'Just A Kid, A Guard at the Nuremberg Trials' 18 years old when drafted in 1944, into infantry. Found himself standing guard over Nazi war criminals, & watched as atrocities were described in detail throughout the Nuremberg Trails
US WWII Army, born 1921. Action in Tunisia and the first wave in the Sicily attack. Wounded at Sicily, taken by Germans to Stalag 2B. POW/slave labor for 21 months. 1st Division, 26th Infantry
WWII - 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division; 1st Marines, 1st Mar. Div. in Korea. Veteran of Saipan, Tinian and the entire Battle of Iwo Jima; radio operator, telecom lineman, and handling COMS for the storied Navajo Codetalkers
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Curtiss (AV-4). Being attacked by Japanese aircraft, he manned a small launch and was ordered to retrieve bodies from the water
Leon & Mike Donnet took a Stampe SV4 aircraft under the noses of the German enemy in WW2 Belgium, repaired the plane & excaped occupied enemy territory. This done July 4th 1941. Later joined British Royal Air Force
WWII - Served with the 4th Marine Division in the South Pacific; Iwo Jima survivor. Took a series of dramatic war photographs now housed at the U.S. Marine Corps museum in Quantico
WWII: SM3 at Mount 52, the 2nd 5-inch gun forward of the USS Laffey (The Ship That Would Not Die). D - Day, Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
United States Army soldier and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War. He was awarded the medal for conspicuous leadership during the taking of a strongly defended hill as part of Opera
WWII: 3rd Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th PIR, 82nd AB. Paratropper in Operation Market Garden; served in the 82nd until the end of the war; occupation duty in Berlin
WWII: CBI. Battle of Hong Kong 1941. Of D Company, Royal Rifles of Canada, who defended Hong Kong in December 1941. After the surrender, he was a POW until the end of the war
WWII: One of two survivors of the Lezaky massacre, razed as a reprisal of Heydrich's assassination in 1942. She and her sister were the only survivors and were adopted. Maiden name Stulik. Lived in Vcelakov about a decade ago
WWII. PTO. Sonar Man First Class on the USS Melvin R. Newman participating in seven major engagements, including Okinawa and Iwo Jimo. Also in Korean War
Mike Donnet & Leon Divoy in occupied German Belgium Territory, discovered damaged Stampe SV4 aircraft, repaired it & flew it to safty under the German enemy's noses on July 4th 1941. Later both joined the British Royal Air Force
WWII USMC Ace. On 4/22/1945 he shot down 6 Japanese Vals and had 2 probables to become an 'Ace in a Day'. He was awarded the Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross and 3 Air Medals. Passed away 7/20/2008
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
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
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
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
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
WW2 Veteran 'Made famous Bataan Death March' Awarded medals for his service December 2008, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, POW Medal & Asiatic-Pacific Campain medal!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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)