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French actor and war hero
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WWII and Korean War Ace-[28 victories - WWII and 6.5 victories -Korea]!
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WW2 Veteran:US Army's 29th Infantry Division; not a D - Day veteran; he arrived in Europe on September 19, 1944
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air force general
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. Paratrooper & Demolition Expert, 82nd Airborne Division
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
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(Born 1923) US Air Force WW2 and Vietnam Veteran. POW in Vietnam 1966 to 1973. Retired as a Brigadier General
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(Born 1975) US Army Iraq War amputee veteran. Retired as a LT Colonel. Recipient of a Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Army Air Corps. Battle of Midway. Battle of Guadalcanal
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Navy Coxswain, Higgins Boat {LCVP}
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Tennessee
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WWII: ETO. 222 Anti Tank Company, 42nd Infantry 'Rainbow' Division. Liberation of Dachau
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USAAF General WW2 fighter Ace, 357th FG 363rd FS, 7 Kills, POW
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One of the Tuskegee Airmen, Class: 44-G-SE, graduated 8/4/1944
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WWII: Original Montford Point Marine (first Black marines)
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US Army, D-Day paratrooper, born 1925. 82nd Airborne, taken POW days after D-Day, held for 11 months. Kept a secret journal of his time as POW
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US POW in Vietnam War.
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WWII: ETO. I Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment), 101st Airborne. Camp Toccoa, D-Day, Operation Market Garden (seriously wounded on Sept. 18, 1944 near Eindhoven which meant the end of the war for him)
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WWII: Chaplain in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII: Veteran of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4-8 May 1942), served on the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, 53rd Signal Corps. Lost his best friend John Horan that day
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medal of honor marines ww11
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Dobbin
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WWII: On board the USS Missouri (BB-63) during the Japanese surrender ceremonies, 2 September 1945, taking many photographs of the ceremony
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Jim Gallagher (4)Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class, USN, VTN-91, USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) TBF 'Avenger' Gunner Saipan, Mariana Islands
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Sergeant/ assistant flight engineer, Bocks Car Crew, WW II, Nagasaki
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USN Admiral
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WWII: Was on two ships that were sunk: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941 (USS Nevada BB-36) and USS Northampton (CA-26) which was sunk during the Battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942 (Born July 20 1921)
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1914) Last 'La quinta del biberón' fighter. Affiliated with PSOE. Second Spanish Republic. Age: 103. Lives in Spain
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Former Prime Minister of Peru (1976-1978), Army General
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USMC General
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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War Correspondent / Author - CO-Wrote We Were Soldiers was in 1st ground battle of nam in lz-xray-ia drang valley- only civilian to EVER get bronze star during vietnam war
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Iraq War vet, lost left leg and arm. Physical trainer, model, motivational speaker, contestant on 'Dancing with the Stars'
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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4 Star General
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WWII; USS Quincy (CA-39). Survivor of the Battle of Savo Island (9 August 1942) where USS Quincy and three other Allied ships were sunk by the Japanese in a disastrous battle for the US, suffering the loss of 379 men on the USS Quincy alone
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Air Force General
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Pfc army
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Received Congressional Medal of Honor 3/18/2014 for his actions in World War II
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WWII: PTO. One of the last Filipino Bataan Death March survivors. Purple Heart
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania (BB-38). Also aboard when a Japanese torpedo hit the Pennsylvania on August 12, 1945, while anchored at Buckner Bay in Okinawa killing 20 men
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JFK - Served in the Army, broadcast a radio show to troops, and interviewed three future Presidents (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon) all while they were Senators
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WWII - 3rd Battalion, 23 Marines Regiment, 4th Marine Division: Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Saipan
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Spanish Civil war veteran (Born: 1918) Nationalist Army. Promoted to captain in 1942. Awarded four medals. Military historian, author, and teacher. Age: 98. Lives in Spain
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WWII: 112th Cavalry RCT. Fought in the bloody battle of the Driniumor River in 1944. Also made landings at Leyte and Luzon, earning two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart before the war's end
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Italian World War 1 Veteran/ Born:03/30/1900/Lives in Civitanova Marche
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Received Congressional Medal of Honor 3/18/2014 for his actions in the Viet Nam war
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Last member of the 'Blue Patrol', a group of fighter pilots who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Currently age 101 and living in the Bay of Santander, Spain
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WWII: D-Day, Battle of the Bulge; Buchenwald. Barely survived D-Day, and later became commander of the just-liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 110th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion
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WWII: ETO. 18th Infantry Regiment. Arrived in Germany after the war and guarded some of the top Nazis like Albert Speer during the Nuremberg Trials
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Centenarian/WW1 Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Reid). Reid supported landings at Adak on 30 Aug 1942 (sank an enemy submarine 31 Aug 1942). Guadalcanal, New Guinea, New Britain. Got transferred off the ship in 44 and then served in the Battle of Okinawa
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(Born 1921) Flew over 34 combat missions in B-17s and B-24s during WW2 earning him the Distinguished Flying Cross and 6 Air Medals. Became an aviation racer for P-38s and P-51s
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ww 11 british army hero (vc)
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'Squadron Leader Royal Air Force Pilot'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Marine Platoon Sergeant aboard the USS Tennessee, he got wounded while trying to keep the Tennessee safe from the burning oil coming from the Arizona. Also in Korea as one of the 'Chosin Few'
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(Born 1961) US Army Global War on Terror Veteran. 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division. Recipient of Legion of Merit, Air Medal, and Silver Star
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Dean Garrett (2)
WWII- Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Navy Hospital -
WWII: ETO/MTO. Escaped Dunkirk on a destroyer HMS The Wolsey. British gunner served with 142 Bty 52nd Regt Royal Artillery in GB and France, 1938-1940; NCO served with Royal Artillery 51st (Highland) Div in North Africa & Sicily, 1940-44
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Retired General in US Army. Former commanding general of US Army Forces Command (2019-2022)
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U.S. Coast Guard 1955/Kennedys Guard of Honor & death watch guard
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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US General
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WWII: PTO. B-29 Ball Turret Gunner. Air Force
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WWII: PTO. 1st Marine Raiders Battalion (Edson's Raiders) 1942-1945. Tulagi, Guadalcanal and Guam
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US WWII army vet, born 1919. Saw action in the Battle of Coral Sea and Buna in New Guinea
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WWII: CCC. Pearl Harbor survivor. 21st Inf. Reg., Schofield Barracks. Atop a mountain when the raid began; was catapulted into a canyon when a bomb exploded near him and turned over his car during the first wave of attacks. 3 Bronze Stars
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Retired General
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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Crewmember USS Ward 139, the first American ship to engage the Japanese at Pearl Harbor when they sank thier mini-submarine
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WWII veteran on the USS Missouri. Witness to the Japanese Surrender Ceremony onboard Sept 2, 1945
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WWII: PTO. Served on sumarine SS-391 Pomphret
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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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Air Force veteran chosen to be one of the official pallbearers for President John F. Kennedy's funeral
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Pearl Harbor survivor - Chief Cook, USS Pompano (SS-181), In Sub-Barrack during Attack
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French politician who served in the Waffen-SS during World War 2, is living in France and was born in 1915
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WW II Navy Veteran; Survivor of the USS Indianapolis disaster. Believed to be the basis for the story Robert Shaw as QUINT in JAWS tells about the sinking of the Indianapolis
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Born Oct. 27, 1922. French WW2 Veteran and last living member of the Kieffer Commandos
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Military leader and ambassador
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Israeli General
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WWII: Battle of Britain, RAF pilot ('The Few')
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Commandant Navy District Washington
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John Gay (2) Past President of the Orlando chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc
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Douglas TBD Devastator pilot in US Navy Torpedo Squadron 8 operating in the World War II Pacific Theater of Operations. Of the 30 VT-8 aircrew from Hornet that participated in the pivotal Battle of Midway, Gay was the sole survivor
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Cape Gloucester, Battle of Peleliu. Navy Cross
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World War II flying ace, later U.S. Navy Admiral
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Military
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Served in World War II on the U.S.S. Borie (destroyer) and the U.S.S. Darter (submarine) Machinist in the engine room of this submarine, which played a pivotal role in the Battle of Leyte Gulf involving 32 Japanese warships
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 101st Airborne, 501 PIR, G Company Trained at Camp Toccoa (Band of Brothers). Mission Albany at D-Day (drop at Sainte-MÚre-Ã-glise). Wounded on June 8, 1944
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Maggie Gee (2) WASP WWII Female Pilot
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WWII: Battle of Midway
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper who also fought in Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. 502nd Airborne Regiment HQ Co., 101st AB
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American (1910-2009), served in the Lincoln Brigade of the Spanish Civil War. Held as a POW from Jan 1938 to April 1939 in Spain. Had joined the Young Communist League in the early 1930s after a student trip to the Soviet Union
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Member of the Annex Security Team that fought the Battle of Benghazi, Libya, from September 11 to September 12, 2012. 13 Hours Movie Basis
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US WWII veteran, born 1918, served in the OSS in England, France, and behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany. Helped in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp
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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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Former US Army Brig. General and Author
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Lz xray 1965 nam k.i.a. ia drang rip
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WWII: German soldier in the Battle of Moscow; escaped the Russians three times
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Jewish Soviet WWII veteran, probably living in Toronto, Canada
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Last surviving soldier of the '800 Heroes', better known as 'The Battle of Shanghai'. The military defensive took place from October 26 to November 1, 1937. He is now 90 and lives in Sichuan Province
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WWII: ETO/PTO. USS Rodman. D-Day. Southern France. Yalta Conference. Battle of Okinawa (Kamikaze hit)
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, Liberation of Dachau.2nd Battalion, 232nd Infantry Regiment, Company E. 42. 'Rainbow' Division Seventh U.S. Army
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. 324 Signal Company, 5th Air Force. Chief Radio Operator at Hickam Field Air Base
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US Army 4 Star General
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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
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(Born 1972) US Army Iraq War Veteran. Purple Heart Recipient
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Last recipient of the Mannerheim Cross
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WW 2 air ace
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Fighter ace- 56th fg-61 sq
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(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and a Legion of Merit
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WWII: CBI Theater. 3rd Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit Provisional aka Merrill's Marauders, a long-range penetration special ops warfare unit. Fought in the jungles of Burma, witnessed massive casualties and endured machine gun wounds
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WWII: CBI. Served with the RCCS in the Battle of Hong Kong (1941) and was a Hong Kong POW for over 3 1/2 years
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Seabee
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; USS Pennsylvania, quartermaster; was there for the invasion to Leyte Gulf (when MacArthur returned to the Philippines) as well as when the Pennsylvania was hit by a torpedo which barely missed him
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War hero - received Victoria Cross in May 1943 for action in Burma
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Lz xray 1965 1/9 cavonondada,mi somewhere
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Retired USMC General
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Vadm. U.S. Navy, appointed Supreme Allied Commander
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Born 1949, served as a lieutenant colonel in CMEC and MACV during the Vietnam War. He would go on to serve after the war. He served from 1968 to 2010
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Italian WWII Veteran
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Võ Nguyên Giáp (2) Vietnamese General and member of the communist party of Vietnam
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US Admiral
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WWII/ETO: B-17 pilot of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group), 350th Bomb Sqdn
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Dick Gibbs (2) WWII P-51 fighter pilot Dick Gibbs flew 43 combat missions during WWII. Sunday Dick shares the stories of shooting down four German aircraft. He explains that of all the medals and awards he received, he was most pleased to receive the Distinguished
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army field marshal england
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WWII: ETO/PTO. D-Day, Battle of Okinawa
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Mel Gibson's father. Also is a World War 2 veteran
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One of nearly 30 'Rosies' who traveled to Washington, D.C. to accept the Gold Congressional Medal of Honor for their service to the nation during World War 2. She worked at Todd Pacific Shipyard during World War 2. Born 1926
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Marine Corp Attack pilot - flew two tours of combat duty during WWII
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British' Born: 1913
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Fighter ace
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US WWII Army vet, born 1923. part of the second wave on D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. Returned home to a career as a firefighter
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WWII: Pearl Harbor Survivor, 7 December 1941
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Venezuelan Air Force director, president of Conviasa Airlines
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Israeli Flying Ace, retired Brigadier General, Israeli Air Force
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Schofield Barracks
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Last survivor of the Ambon Island POW camp
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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 - XO of F Company of the 38th Infantry of the famous 2nd Infantry Division ('Indian Heads). His unit liberated what today is the Czech Republic
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WWII: I Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR). D-Day, Carentan, Operation Market Garden (wounded by 7 bullets after 3 weeks)
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WWII: Headquarters Company, 2nd Bn, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles). Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne. Wounded in the chest on Jan. 15, 1945 in the Battle of Noville
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WWII: PTO. USS Laurens APA-153
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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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An American military officer who helped develop strategic bombing theory and practice. Giles was named commanding general of the Army Air Forces in the Pacific Ocean Area in April 1945 and was in charge of planning the final B-29 Superfortress air attacks
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Tuskegee Airman; Class of 45-D-SE, graduated 6/27/1945
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US WWII Army Air Corps vet, born 1921. B-24 Navigator, 43 Pacific missions, 307th Bomb Group
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WWII - D-Day: Crew member of minesweeper YMS-348, reached Normandy at 03:30 AM at D-Day and exploded Gernan shallow-water mines so Allied forces could land on the beachheads
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Born 1949, was in the Vietnam War from 1970 to 1974 in the army's CMEC and MACV
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Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Gillespie attended Brentwood College School, McGill University and then Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. After receiving a business degree from the University of Toronto, he went on to a senior role in the educati
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WW2 soldier from 42nd Rainbow Division which liberated Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945
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Oldest living Navy Seal/WW2 & Korean War/Frogman/Performed missions during Pacific Campaign/Yale Champion Swimmer
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Guadalcanal
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New Zealand WWII Veteran
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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British WWII Veteran. Royal Engineer, cleared landmines. Served in Egypt, Libya, Burma as part of the Chindits, an Anglo-Indian special operations unit working behind Japanese lines. He fought in Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Japanese Language Specialist/308th Intelligence Service Organization in the Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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German spy of World War II
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Lt. General, USAF, Retired; President, InternationalConsulting Asspciates; MBA w/Distinction; CPA, PSIA
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Azerbaijani WWII Veteran, fought for the Soviet Union during the war. Fought in the Red Army. Now lives in Israel
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14th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (2016-current)
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WWII Veteran, Pearl Harbor Survivor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, Ford Island. Flight engineer on a PBY Catalina Squadron VP-24 at Hangar 54
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German diplomat and intelligence officer during World War II, Author
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WWII - 101st AB, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment; Bronze Star. Operation Market Garden, Bastogne/Battle of the Bulge, Germany, Berchtesgaden, liberated Landsberg Concentration Camp, finished the war in Austria
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WWII: First Jewish chaplain the Marine Corps ever appointed (5th Marine Division)
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Staff Sergeant, U.S Army, first living person since the Vietnam War to receive the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor
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Polish fighter ace from WW2, now living in the USA (Seattle, WA area). Fought with the Polish Air Force, the RAF, and the 56th Fighter Group in WW2. 18+ victory 'ace'
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Buchenau Liberation. HQ Co., 50th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th Armored Division
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Colonel and Historian
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Comic book artist, born: 1924, aboard the U.S.S. Stevens during WWII, and so to his 'Savage Tales' comics, plus: Carlton's 'Hercules', 'Flying Saucers', 'Outdoor Life' Magazine, and 'Adirondack Stories' I + II
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Provost Marshal General of the U.S. Army
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WWII: USMC fighter pilot in the Pacific (USS Enterprise). Marshall Islands, Wake Island, the battle of the Solomons, battle of Santa Cruz and the battle of Guadalcanal. Distinguished Flying
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WWII veteran (Pacific)
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Napoleoninc war
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WW2 Veteran, Iwo jima, Fox Company
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WWII Veteran. Served in Okinawa
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WWII-Pilot from USA, flew P-47s on 50 combat missions during World War II, Author of 'P-47 Pilots: The Fighter-Bomber Boys'
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(1824-1895) US Army Civil War Veteran. Co. A, 89th Ohio Infantry Regiment. Captured as a POW by confederates and was in a POW camp in Georgia
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Army veteran post-WWII who served as a prisoner guard at the Nuremberg Trials
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Greek left-wing activist, and Greek Resistance fighter in WW2
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Retired General
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Born March 14, 1942 General
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WWII: USS Breeman (DE-104) a destroyer escort of the USS Block Island in 1943 that left the Task Group in order to evacuate the gold of the Bank of Poland (30 tons) in March 1944 from Africa to NY to keep it out of the hands of the Nazis
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WWII - D-Day, 9th Parachute Battalion (UK). On D-Day his glider was hit by flak and he was wounded in both legs, became a POW, later escaped with help of the French Resistance
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WWII: Served on the USS Balch (DD-363) from late 1943 to 1945 at Guadalcanal and in several trans-Atlantic convoy escort crossings to various North African ports
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German Luftwaffe ace of WWII, 71 victories
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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
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Polish ace from WWII
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USN Admiral
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'Royal Navy & Royal Navy Air Service' 'Commander RNZAF South Pacific 1941-1943'
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Military
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WWII: Godwin joined the Navy in 1935. In 1937, he was on the USS Lexington as she searched for the remainder of Earhart's missing plane. He then transferred to the Air Corps, flying 34 missions with the 567th Squadron, 389th Bomb Group
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma. (1917-2007)
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WW 2 fighter Ace--[11 victories]
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Military
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WWII - 339th Fighter Squadron; Yamamoto Mission April 18th 1943
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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Croatian-born US WWII Army vet, born 1924. Wounded 3x -Anzio, Vosges Mtns, and near the Rhine. South France invasion. Spent night under dead buddies in a foxhole, tumbled down a hill in the morning under hail of German bullets to escape
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WWII veteran that was one of the first to enter the Buchenwald Death Camp during its liberation. Was also a machine gunner at the Battle of the Bulge
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WW I vet. Born 3/19/1900 USA - Army
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Air Force General
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of a Bronze Star and Purple Heart
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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WWII: ETO. B-17 (42-40017 Miasses Dragon) waist gunner, 535th Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group. 25 missions over Germany from December 1944 to May 1945
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Lieutenant General Harry Edgar Goldsworthy (born April 3, 1914) is a centenarian and was an American Air Force lieutenant general who was deputy chief of staff for systems and logistics, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C
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German WWII Veteran, Waffen-SS
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WWII: ETO: D - Day Nazi - Germany, Wehrmacht Ammunition runner, Grenadier - Regiment 1057, 91. Luftlandedivision
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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US Navy WWII veteran, born 1915. One of the last people to have worked on the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s
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Spanish Civil War veteran and and liberator of Paris during WW2. Born: 1921. Age: 95
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Retired General
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Lz ray 1965 nam
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. 7 Dec 1941
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1920) who served in the International Brigades. Volunteered in 1936. Was captured on 2 November 1938 in 'Puebla de Masaluca' and was a prisoner of war until 1 April 1939. Born 1920. Lives in the UK
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Retired General
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Former British test pilot and Royal Navy officer. Pilot during WWII. Inventor of the mirror-sight deck landing system for aircraft carriers
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David Goodman (2) 'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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cmdr.-in-chief, sup. allied command/europe)
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WWII - Guadalcanal (2nd Marines), Tarawa (6th Marines), Iwo Jima (5th Marines). Was severely wounded in the Battle of Iwo Jima on March 10, 1945, by a machine gun
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Wwii: wasp
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WWII Pilot-fighter Ace-- Flew the P-47 & 51--30 kills- 15 air- 15 gound USAAF - POW - DSC
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guam. 3rd Marine Division. Purple Heart
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USS Oklahoma survivor - Pearl Harbor attack
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1938. KGB double agent who provided information to the British Intelligence Service. Exfiltrated from the Soviet Union in 1985 and currently lives in an undisclosed location in London
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World war 2 fighter ace- 7 kills vf-10
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WW2 began to find his religious faith in squalor of 1942 & forced with thousands of other captives to build a railroad through the jungles of Burma & Siam (now Myanmar and Thailand) along the famous Kwai River/'Author Through the Valley of
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, US Navy, WWII
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Sergeant, USAAF, 327th Bomb Squadron, 92d Bomb Group, B-17 ball turret gunner
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WWII: PTO. Naval Aviator. DFC. Torpedoed and sank the underwater Japanese freighter I-52 in 1944 in the Atlantic, which was to carry German radioactive uranium oxide that would eventually be used to target San Francisco and the Panama Canal
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Hero of the Soviet Union during WW2. Lives in Missouri
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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 - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941; USS Hulbert
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army general
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US WWII WAC (1920-2020). Aircraft radio mechanic, then trained to decode msgs, sent to Europe to work in a US military court. Flew to bring back a secretary of Hitler's to face military charges, made a trip to view Dachau alone, toured of Hitler's bunker
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor Navy corpsman (USS Sandoval) attached to a Marine platoon
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Italian flying ace of WWII
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US WWII Marine Raider, 2nd Battalion, born 1923. 'Carlson's Raiders'. Bougainville, Guam, Okinawa battles
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air force general
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WWII - Stormed Utah Beach, Normandy on D-Day with the 531st Special Brigade. Later fought in the Battle of the Rheinland, Ruhr River, and Battle of the Bulge
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German WWII Veteran, Wehrmacht.He fought throughout Europe, initially in the Soviet Union. In 1942 he joined the Afrika Korps and fought across North Africa. In 1943 he returned to Europe. He was captured by American soldiers in Bavaria in 1945 Born 1922
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran of the HMS Howe; before that, he served on the HMS Fiji which was sunk in the Battle of Crete
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Military
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WWII Hump Pilot (680 Flights), Author (Himalayan Rogue: A Pilot's Odessey - 1994), CNAC 1942-1947
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Recently verified French WWI Veteran Born: 12/31/1899 and called to service on April 19, 1918. Was not officially recognized by the French government as he served less than 90 days
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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WWII: PTO. Invasion of Lingayan Gulf (Philippines); Battle of Okinawa. USS Laurens APA-153, Navy Yeoman 2nd Class, 1944-1946
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German U-boat LI, Engineer U-96
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Currently serves as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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American WWII - Pilot, USAAC, Member of combat mission 'Yamamoto Mission' in October 1942
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WWII: Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6), USS Enterprise
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS South Dakota. Battle of Santa Cruz Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Youngest U.S. serviceman to serve and fight during World War II at the age of 12
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army general
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Military
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WWII veteran, Iwo Jima
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. D Battery 515th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft)
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air ace ww11
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WWII veteran from Waco, Texas. Completed 33 missions as a B-17 radio operator. 487th Bomb Group
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US WWII Navy tugboat veteran, born 1922. After the war, became an Atomic veteran when he was part of the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests. Became a writer and voice for Atomic veterans and their health problems
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WWII: PTO. USS HOrnet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid
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WWII: Grakovich worked with Soviet Belarus partisans, starting at 13 years old in 1942. Now 91 and living in Minsk, Belarus
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Controversial Commander - in - Cheif of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
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air force marshal england
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Retired General
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Commander USS Donald Cook
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Author and Chairman and CEO of Centurion Holdings LLC, a company that advises private and public companies. Served in the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets). Served as the Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council under Bush, Jr
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Defected NKVD agent, author. Served in the Red Army during WWII
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WWII US Army vet, 824th Tank Destroyer Battalion, fought in France, Germany, and Austria
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Air Force General
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WWII: ETO. Army nurse at the 10th Station Hospital
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WWII Battle of the Bulge Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Battle of Midway
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'German'
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Iwo Jima survivor/USMC 1942-1946, flame thrower in the Second Battalion
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army general
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army general born 1924
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marine corps general
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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World War II RAF Eagle Squadron Pilot and 5 victory ace
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(WWII Pilot - Tuskegee Airmen)
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 4th Marine Raider Battalion. Distinguished Service Cross
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First Responder 9/11 Attack
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Marine corps general/29th Commandant of the Marine Corps
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Australian WW2 veteran and politician. He wrote about his experiences in Kokoda Lieutenant: The Triumph of the 21st Brigade 16th Battalion. He is the earliest Australian Member of Parliament alive
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Military royal air chief marshall
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One of the last survivors of the Dambusters raid in 1943
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Dennis
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US WWII vet, born 1923. Third Wave on D-Day,Omaha Beach, St. Lo, Bulge. Stayed with Eisenhower while installing phone lines in his personal quarters. Last known witness to German surrender ceremony in Reims, France on May 7, 1945
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New Zealand WWII Veteran
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American solo vocalist with the United States Army Band. An accomplished performer, particularly of the US national anthem, Green is often called upon to sing at important sporting events, diplomatic functions and military ceremonies
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Donald Green (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pyro
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Battery F, 2nd Battalion, 12 Marines, Third Marine Division. Bronze Star
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa, Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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WWII: ETO. Forward observer in the 283rd Field Artillery Battalion, 45th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge, Liberation of Dachau
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WWII Flying Tiger Pilot
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WWII - Iwo Jima. Lives in Spartanburg, SC
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Navy Admiral
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Israeli Tank Ace, 20 Kills, Yom Kippur War
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Vietnam War: Photographer of the famous photograph 'Help From Above'. Medivac helicopter 'Dustoff 65' was shot down by a rocket in April 1968 which led to the famous 'Rescue of Dustoff 65'
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Former Major General that served during WW2, Korea, and Vietnam
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Richard Greer (2) WWII: PTO. USMC. Served with John Basilone and featured in HBO's 'The Pacific':
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Retired General
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WW2 Veteran:Pilot at Battle of Midway
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WWII pilot, born 1920. First mission was as a dive bomber at the Battle of Midway, Battle of Guadacanal and Battle of Tokyo. Flew SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber
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Pilot and Ace, Medal of Honor (WWII-Army)
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WW2 veteran/author who fought in the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, 1942. Born: 1920. He was a rifleman during the conflict. He is now 96 and lives in Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, UK, 'Dresden: A Survivor's Story,' 'Rifleman: A Front-Line Life'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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WWII: Royal Air Force Air Gunner during the Battle of Britain, and was one of the men known as 'The Few'
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WWII: D-Day. Paratrooper with the 101st Airborne who dropped south of the Dove River, was wounded and captured, only to espace days later
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Retired Air Force General
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marine corps general
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German ww2 pilot
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French World War One Veteran
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WWII Arctic Convoy veteran, holds the highest German military honour, the Ehrenkreuz
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U.S. Marines 1936-1945
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Navy petty officer 3rd class, electrician's mate aboard the destroyer Phelps
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US Army General
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Fighter ace
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Doolittles Raiders: Navigator on the #9 aircraft [POW for 2 years]
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army general
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WWII: B-17 crew member, 8th Air Force (35 mission in Europe)
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4-Star General
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British judge and barrister, received the Military Cross for valor in WW2; also known as William Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne (AG-31)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Cummings
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Soviet WWII Veteran, 308 Rifles Division, Machine Gunner, Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Konigsberg. Lives in Canada, possibly Toronto
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WWII Soviet Veteran
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German Flying Ace Of World War II
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Army General
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Activist, Attempted POW rescues in conjunction with the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue
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US Navy Diver of 20 years now turned video game streamer
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2015 Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 4th Marine Division
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Auschwitz Prison Camp
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WWII Fighter Ace, 354th Fighter Group, 6 victories - USAAF
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WWII: Battle of Midway (June 1942). Survivor of the sinking of USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady'). Assistant gunnery officer.. After being in the way of 3 torpedoes and 1 bomb, he floated 6 hours in the Pacific before being picked up
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An ex-Luftwaffe fighter pilot and glider pilot who has established 50 world records approved by FAI Gliding Commission
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII - Fighter Ace - USAAF - 8 Kills
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US Navy, WWII, born 1927. USS Abercrombie, 1944-45
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division. Purple Heart
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JFK - The Old Guard, Honor Guard at the John F. Kennedy funeral
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US Navy Admiral
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WWII 'Rosie' worker, born 1926. Worked 1944-45 at an Air Force depot at the Buffalo Airport, while her mother worked at Bell Aircraft
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'Known as the 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz'/Former guard at the Auschwitz prison camp. Lives in Germany
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Having served as an in the US Army at Berlin Tempelhof airport in the late 1940s, Mr. Groetsch was a Berlin Airlift veteran working with the "Candy Bomber", Col. Gail Halvorsen
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Commander Naval Air Training
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: US Veteran of the Battle of Remagen, March 1945
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WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, Original Band of Brothers; co-author of 'Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends'
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WWII: PTO. Bronze Star. US Army. Battle of Leyte, Luzon and Hollandia, New Guinea, Okinawa
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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World War II German veteran 2nd SS Panzer Division later became a Protestant Minister
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Serving on Hickam Field, Guilliams was strafed and then fired upon Japanese planes. Later fought on Saipan. Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient
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WWII - D-Day: 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion and landed on Utah Beach during D-Day in the second wave
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WWII - D-Day. Survivor of USS Corry (DD-463, the destroyer that led the armada into D-Day), which was sunk on June 6 near Utah Beach by German guns. In March 1944, he was part of the Corry crew who sank German submarine U-801
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Katharine Teresa Gun is a British translator who worked for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency. In 2003, she leaked top-secret information to The Observer
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WWII - Pearl Harbor; USS Arizona. Took a leave before the attack and was on board USS Henderson on 7 Dec 1941; didn't know about the fate of his ship until Dec. 12, 1941
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Phoenix
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Sniper during WW2, lives in Memphis, Missouri
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WWII: CBI Theater. B-24 Hump Flyer (19 round-trips 1944-1945)
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US Army WWII vet, born 1921. Served in the Signal Intelligence Service, through Africa and Italy. Later a career with Pan-Am Airlines, and close friends with the Monaco royal family. Married in Italy with actor Rex Harrison as a witness
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War hero, Victoria Cross recipient
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War hero, Victoria Cross receiver, now living in Nepal
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WWII: PTO. USS Lamson. Purple Heart
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US Marine Crops Afghanistan War Veteran. Navy Cross Recipient
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Steven Gustafson (2)(Born 1947) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Was wounded 2 different times from shrapnel while sweeping for mines. Recipient of 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII vet (1925-2018), Communications officer on Adm. Halsey's staff on the USS Missouri (BB-63), witness to the Japanese surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri
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Member Of Band Of Brothers, 506th Easy Company
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4). Last Pearl Harbor survivor in Nebraska
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US Navy Wave veteran of WWII, born 1917. Typed decoded messages sent on to Navy Intelligence
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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US Air Force Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Recipient of the Air Force Cross, 3 Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart
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Navy Corpsman WWII. Landed on Omaha Beach on D Day. PTO: Battle of Okinawa
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CPO, USN, Landing Ship Tank, USS LST-553 Coxswain on LST that supported Peleliu, Leyte, Mindoro, Lingayen Gulf, Subic Bay, and Okinawa Landings
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
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Fighter ace, MAR-151
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Tucker
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Nicknamed 'aloha' ronnie- was at lz-xray in 1965 with 1st cav
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WW2 & KOREAN WAR VETERAN, 30th Div.Rangers. Born, june 1919, 100 years old.. Distinguished Service Cross, 3 Silver Stars, 2 Bronze Stars, 7 Purple Hearts, 2 POW Medals, Legion Of Honor (France, D-day Medal)
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German WW2 soldier, escaped from his prison camp in the USA and led a live as Dennis Whiles, surrendered to the U.S.A. in 1985 on 'The Tonight Show', is now living in Boulder, Colorado
