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Highly respected parasitologist, veteran of the Polish Armia Krajowa during World War II, poet, fisherman, translator and scientific administrator
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President Congo (2001-present), Army General
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NASA/MIT: Rendezvous Engineer; he worked on the rendezvous system, which was bringing the Lunar and Command Modules back together in orbit. The system was in use starting Apollo 7. Later worked at the Skylab and Space Shuttle programs
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The younger brother of the 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski His memoir, Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family. Donated the $1 million dollar reward to the victims of the Unabomber
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Former Prime Minister of Poland (2005-07)
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The Unabomber Terrorist
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Scientist
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Former Payload Specialist Astronaut
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Australian Aborigine whose story was told in The Rabbit Proof Fence
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College student in 1963, Kadleck worked part-time at the Terminal Annex building in Dealey Plaza. Standing at the corner of Main and Houston Streets, he heard shots fired at the presidential limousine
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American scientist (born: 1921) who worked on the Manhatten Project. He has been interviewed several times about his involment in the project
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Flying Tigers-clerk
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American Nobel Laureate who is professor of medicine. He is a 2019 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine with Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza
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WWII veteran, Iwo Jima
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Miss America 2012, Miss Wisconsin 2011
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Historian
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German businessman, nearly blind, his life story made into the movie 'Mein Blind Date mit dem Leben' with Kostja Ullmann
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Was a student at Kent State University, Ohio, when he was shot in the back while lying on the ground and paralyzed for life by Ohio National Guardsmen in the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970 while walking to class, nor protesting
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8th Armored Division
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Joseph Kahn (2)
Spanish Civil War Veteran International Brigade, Lives in London, England, Born: 1915 -
US Banker, Businessman, Arts Patron (1867-1934) Chairman of the Board, Metropolitan Opera. Financial supporter of Gershwin, the Marx Bros. and Fanny Brice
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2006 Inductee of Inventor Hall of Fame; Co-inventor of TCP which is basis for modern internet
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Nobel economics laureate 2002
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Inventor of oxycontin
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American Spanish Civil War Veteran (1914-2009)- in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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German WWII Awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients
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Brazilian con artist and former soccer player, signed to numerous clubs from 1979 - 1992, without playing a single game, his real name is Carlos Henrique Raposo
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JFK/Worker at time of assassination at the school book depository/Worker there 2 years starting August 24th 1962/Knew Oswald only by site/Testimony of Frankie Kaiser was taken @ 3:40 p.m, on April 8, 1964, in the office of the U.S. attorney
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German ww2 pilot
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26-year Navy career in the Cold War, Master Bomb Disposal Technician; he helped disarm an errant U.S. nuclear bomb off the coast of Spain from a B-52 bomber that crashed there after a mid-air collision in 1966
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US Navy. Last Battleship Captain in History (USS Missouri)
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Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamiokande and its successor Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Arthur B. McDonald
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Author, Science guru
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American-born Hirsohima survivor, born 1938. Staying with his grandparents in Japan less than a mile away when the bomb hit. Returned to the US in 1948 and became a computer engineer
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WWII: PTO. Quartermaster on the USS Missouri; he steered the Mighty Mo into Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender
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AK-47 (Firearms Designer) Born: 11/10/1919
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vietnam war air force hero
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cosmonaut
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Born Elisabeth Marchtrenkerin, she was Maid to Adolf Hitler at his vacation home The Berghof, 1943-1945. As of 2015 she is 89 years old
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1st female Prime Minister to Estonia/Chairwoman of Reform Party
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Watergate Participant
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One of the last survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915. She is now 106 and lives in Marseille, France
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Commercial Officer
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Antarctic explorer
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Female Soviet sniper during WW2. At 17 years old, she was one of the youngest to ever fight in the war
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SS-Obersturmführer Søren Kam (b. November 2, 1921 in Copenhagen) is a former Danish Waffen-SS officer, an SS-foreign volunteer, who served with the 5.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Wiking during World War II rising to the rank of Obersturmfuhrer
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Inventor of the Segway Human Transporter
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Polish polar explorer, author
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(born Argentina on 1 October 1925) former French Resistance, specializing in forgery of identity documents, who later went on to assist Jewish emigration to Israel and then to forge identity documents for the National Liberation Front
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sports attorney
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Computer hacker who exposed the illicit global mobile phone tracking of all users, regardless of GPS or Location Services settings, on the Apple iPhone, Google Android and Microsoft Windows Phone mobile devices
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Coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their report, Climate Change 2007, assessing man-made global warming
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Mountaineer
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WW2 Veteran, Private that belonged to the 1st Infantry Division 26th Infantry Regiment. Fought in Belgium in 1944
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Tunisian computer scientist, one of the pioneers of the development of the Internet in Tunisia
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Spy/Central Intelligence Agency employee during the Cold War/1977, he stole a top-secret KH-11 spy satellite manual. Afterwards, resigned from his job, flew to Greece, & sold the manual to the Russian Embassy in Athens in return for $3,000
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Astronaut
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WWII Veteran
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Charles Mansons Lawyer in the Tate-Labianca case
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Japanese-Paraguayan politician, director of Paraguay's Civil Aeronautics National Direction (Direccion Nacional de Aeronautica Civil)
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Nobel medicine laureate 2000
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Worden. Survived her capsizing in January of 1943
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Air Force General
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WWII: D-Day, C-47 pilot 100th TCS, 441st TCG; flew 82nd AB into Ste. Mere-Eglise on D-Day. Also in Operation Market Garden
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Nobel laureate physics 2009
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Boxing Historian described as 'the leading authority on the Sweet Science' by the New York Times; World Boxing Hall of Fame inductee
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WW2 Navy Seaman/Guam
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WWII: PTO. 457th Field Artillery Battalion, 11th Airborne Division
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Doolittle Raiders: Navigator on the #11 aircraft
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Marathon Joggler - owns the world records for running the fastest marathon and half-marathon while juggling
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Convicted war criminal, former president of Serbia
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Retired USMC General
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German physical chemistry scientist
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German ww2 pilot
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newsmaker oj simpson trial
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Author and political activist; created Kwanzaa in 1967
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WWII Fighter Ace (7.5 Victs)
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Finnish ace in WW2, 32 victories
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WWII: Medic in Company B, 169th Infantry, 43rd Division, who was shot in the head by a Japanese sniper at New Georgia and barely survived
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Hungarian - American biochemist who specializes in RNA - mediated mechanisms, particularly in vitro - transcribed mRNA for protein therapies. 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Drew Weissman
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Indian army generel (retired), served in the Indo-Pakistani-War in 1971
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German Child, WWI Survivor
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Trumpgate/Law Professor/Appeared in House impeachment hearings for Donald J. Trump
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Scientist worked on the Manhattan Project with her husband Jerome Karle
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Nobel chemistry laureate 1985orn: 06/18/1918
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Member of the Little Rock Nine; group of African-American students who enrolled in all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Awarded Congressional Gold Medal in 1999
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Yemeni journalist and peace activist, receiver of Nobel peace prize 2011
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2011 Nobel Prize winner
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USS Pueblo
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Mountain climber
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American journalist and historian, who reported on the Vietnam War in its entirety and covered the story of The 1955 Le Mans disaster that resulted in the most catastrophic accident in motorsports history. He now lives in Washington, D.C., USA
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Surviving POW of the Colditz camp, is living in Great Britain
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Officer US Army Reserve (RET.) Notable for having commanded forces that operated Abu Ghraib & other prisons in Iraq in 2003 & 2004, at time of scandal related to torture & prisoner abuse. Commanded 3 prisons in Iraq & forces that ran them
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Austrian-born American theoretical chemist. Received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel for 'the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems'
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WWII - Fighter ace, U.S. Army Air Corps. Flew P51s over North Africa and Italy. 6 victories
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(born in 1920 in Oran, Algeria), was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. He was a leader of the Algiers putsch of 1942
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WWII: Reserve kamikaze pilot for the Japanese military. Now 92 and reportedly living in Osaka, Japan
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Marine Sergeant Major, recipient of the Navy Cross (second battle of Fallujah) Author of the book 'My Men Are My Heroes'
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One of the survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. She was 13 years old when the bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945
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Korean War Ace (6 kills) - USAF - POW Viet Nam - Air Force Cross recipient three times (flew the f-105 thunderchief)
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Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron C-130 Flight Demonstration Pilot and Executive Officer
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Teenager see in iconic 1967 anti-war photo by Marc Riboud, clasping a flower and gazing at bayonet-wielding soldiers. Photo was in Dec 1969 edition of Look magazine under title 'The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet.'
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Retired New York State Assemblyman, a retired judge of the New York State Courts at every level, and a World War II veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Tern
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Author '395 Days'/Vietnam 3rd Marines Division called 'E' Echo Company & 1st Battalion 9th Marines, Charlie Company 2nd Platoon
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'JFK'/Social studies teacher Bryan Adams High School in 1963. Member of the Dallas Police Reserves, spent the weekend of the assassination at police headquarters. Was working crowd control on Commerce Street at the time of Oswald shooting
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Wrote the book Why is Dad So Mad? (now a series) to help kids understand the PTSD he suffers following serving in the armed forces
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Canadian engineer whose achievements include designing the first digital game-playing machine, and the world's first automated traffic signalling system
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President of the Loukoumi Make A Difference Foundation and author of the Loukoumi children's Books. President and co-founder of the Hellenic Times Scholarship Fund
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Has argued more U.S. Supreme Court cases than any other minority lawyer in American history
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WWII: US Navy. Survied the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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nobel med. laureate 1970
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Morton Katz was born on May 15, 1919. He became a lawyer in 1951, after serving in World War II. He is still active in Connecticut
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Author
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Freelance UPI photographer & contributing Time-Life & People Magazine photographer, Katz covered every presidential election from 1960 to 2008. Katz photographed Jack Ruby & part of Life team that investigated findings of Warren Commission
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U.S. Attorney General (1965-66) during LBJ White House Administration
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Retired USN Vice Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941 (coastal artillery battery)
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AP Photographer/Took some of the final press photos of JFK
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Holocaust Survivor, Dachau Concentration Camp/He's depicted in the film 'The Hour Of The Liberators' on the History Channel
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Michael Kaufman (2)Andy Kaufman's brother
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Last living American officer at the Surrender of Japan on board the USS Missouri on 2 September 1945. Born:1919. He is now 99
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Boeing Company engineer, (NASA) Lunar Orbiter 1; 'Earthrise' photograph 23 August 1966; mapping the moon
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa
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Finnish WW2 veteran. An Estonian volunteer who participated in the Finnish Continuation War. Lived in Chicago
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World's fastest centenarian. Holds world record for people over 100 for the 100m race
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WWII: US Navy. PTO, USS Reid & USS Lowndes
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US Navy Sailor, survivor of the Israeli attack on USS Liberty in 1967
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Astronaut. Shuttle missions STS-91, STS-99, STS-104
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American-based employee of a Russian real estate company took part in a supposed July 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr
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Polish WWII Veteran
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Known as Hawaii's 'last princess', she is the last surviving descendant of the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii
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Japanese Pilot who claimed to have shot down Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941. USS Cassin
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Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is best known for his pioneering work
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JFK - Eyewitness to the November 1963 visit of President Kennedy to Fort Worth; pictured in the crowd of the Parking Lot Speech
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American historian, and professor at Georgetown University. He is co-editor of Dissent magazine
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Canadian centenarian war veteran
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WWII Air Force Veteran from Arizona. Just turned 97, was covered on a GMA episode for carrying 100lbs of weights and vigorously working out to stay healthy
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army general
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Radium Girl (Born: 1906) who in 1917, contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint at the United States Radium factory in Orange, New Jersey. She is now 107. Lives in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
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Supercentenarian (1893-2005). One of the last living women voters of the 1920 election. Also witnessed a flight demonstration by the Wright Brothers in Indiana as a young woman
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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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John Kearney (3) WWII: PTO. USMC, 12th Defense Battalion. Battle of Peleliu
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Serial killer known as the freeway killer
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Long Irish Republican Party activist. Age 104.
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Commander US Northern Command
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Rear Admiral. World War 2 veteran.Oldest Living Naval Academy Graduate
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Invented optical fiber; Inventor Hall of Fame inductee
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WWII - U.S. Marine Corps. Fought at Roi-Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, Iwo Jima, Saipan and Tinian
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Ohio State Judge 1961-87
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Activist. Wife of Judge John W. Keefe
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WWII: Pear Harbor survivor (USS Nevada), Battle of Coral Sea survivor (USS Lexington)
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WWII: Tuskegee Airman, Trained to be a bomber pilot for the 477th Bombardment Group, he never saw combat as the war ended before he was deployed. Trained in T-6. B-25
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Military
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US WWII Marine, born 1924. Served in the Battles of Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Worked under Werner von Braun in the 50s, absorbed into the newly formed NASA. Knew and worked with astronauts back to the original 7. Retired in 1985
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Retired General
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Member of the famous Flying Tigers Squadron during WWII.
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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Guinness world record. Largest hula hoop
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General, Born April 7, 1952
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WWII: German pilot. Leader of the IV. NJG 101 (Night fighters), in 1945 transferred to Oskar-Heinrich Bär's Jagdverband 44 (JV 44) (Air fighter unit flying the Me-262 - the world's first fighter jet). One of the last Me-262 pilots alive
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Holocaust Survivor, MS St. Louis
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Australian soldier born 1983, was awarded the Victoria Cross for actions in the Afghanistan War, the highest award in the Australian honours system
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US WWII Army Air Corps, born 1921. Groundcrew for B-17s flying out of England
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WWII: PTO. US Fleet Marine on the USS Enterprise;
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US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1953 to 1979. Went to Vietnam in 1970
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NASA Associate Deputy Administrator for Strategy and Policy
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US Army Officer Ret (LTC). Deputy Provost Marshal during Operation Just Cause, Panama
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Weathergirl vietnam armed forces radio 1967-69
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Spingham 1974, publisher,Russum award
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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Pearl Harbor veteran, born 1922, served on the USS West Virginia
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Chief Petty Officer (CTTC) on USS Pueblo when it was captured by the North Koreans in 1968, POW for 11 months
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WWII veteran, Iwo Jima
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Among the six men who raised the flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, recently identified by Marines
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Senior Editor At Task And Purpose Media. Contributing Editor At Pacific Stand
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Vietnam war army hero 'Medal of Honor Recipient'
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Military author
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Tank driver in the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa
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Politican
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lz xray 1965 nam
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JFK - Secret Service; Kellerman is the agent who was in the front passenger seat of the Presidential car on 22 November 1963 in Dallas
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(Born 1925) US Army WW2 Veteran. Company D, 1st Battalion, 315th Infantry Regiment. Became a POW until he escaped on foot 600 miles. Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, born 1918,. Onboard the USS West Virginia during teh attack
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(Born 1925) US Marine Corps WW2 Veteran. 22nd Marines, 6th Marine Division, Company C. Battle of Okinawa and Guam
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Pharmacologist. Government reviewer who refused to authorize thalidomide
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marine corps general
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medal of honor navy vietnam war
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Rights Activist
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Lz xray 1965
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Medal of Honor Recipient-USMC-(Mar.11th,1970) Vietnam War
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US Politician, Louisiana (1830-1918) Studied law in Illinois, friends with Lincoln. Given New Orleans position in meeting with Lincoln before he left for Ford's Theater. Early 'carpetbagger' but elected its Gov., Congressman and Senator
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WWII: Navajo Code Talker
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Convicted of 2 counts of Rape. Fled to Europe. TV movie 'Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly'
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WW2 Veteran:1st Seabee to Storm Beaches of Guam
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Met JFK in 1960/attended his speech at Hotel Texas on 11/22/1963/In following years maintained close ties to LBJ & John Connally families/Air Force Officer Korean War/Worked in the office of Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn
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Politician, member of Sinn Féin
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Tuskegee Airmen
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astronaut
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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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John F. Kelly (2)
Marine Corps General (retired), Secretary of Homeland Security for Donald Trump -
Margaret Kelly (2)Worked at Bletchley Park during WWII as a code breaker
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US Senator Arizona; former NASA astronaut flew four space shuttle missions
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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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Flight astronaut sts-103
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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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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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US FDA reviewer. Refused to authorize thalidomide for the market. Born: 06/24/1914
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Major General John Kelsey was the Director of Military Survey from 1972 to 1977
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navy admiral
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Inventor of the External Frame Backpack
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WWII: PTO. USS Doherty ( DE 14) and USS Dyson (DD572)
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Royal millitary
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Serial Killer
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navy admiral
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Adolf Hitler's Chauffeur
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US WWII Merchant Marine, born 1927. Atlantic convoy to Murmansk, Russia in 1944. Switched to the Army, hit Italy by war's end, but saw no combat there
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David Kendall (2)Attorney-Defended President Clinton during Impeachment
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WWII - She made history on 3 March 1945 she became the first US Navy flight nurse to fly an evacuation mission to an active battlefield: Iwo Jima
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American author & historian. Won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction for Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Founding dir of the Anti-Racist Research & Policy Center at American University
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WWII - C-47 Squadron Commander who flew paratroopers into their dropzones. Operation Husky (Sicily 1943); D-Day Normandy; CO of the 44th Troop Carrier Squadron after D-day; for Market Garden, General Gavin selected Kendig to be his pilot for the jump
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WWII: ETO. 351st Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Tailgunner on B-17 'The Brass Hat'. Flew at the end of the war (December 1944 to April 1945, incl. Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dortmund)
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Argonne
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Ex-Charlie Sheen Goddess. Activist for marijuana
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war hero, Victoria Cross receiver, now living in Australia
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diplomat/historian
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(April 18, 1913, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - November 1, 2003, Austin, Texas) was an American composer, author, educator, and professor/World War II, when he served as a bandmaster for the United States Army
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air force general
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Victoria Cross Recipient
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u.s. army deputy chief of state
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RAF Chinook test pilot
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Dallas Times Herald photographer who took recognized picture of 12-year - old student's tearful reaction to news of JFK?s death in November 1963/Also took pictures of Marina Oswald, Jack Ruby & attorney Melvin Belli for Life magazine & beyond
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Also know as 'Radio', the subject of a film starring Cuba Gooding, Jr
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1980 Damascus, Arkansas incident a missile equipped with a nuclear warhead exploded in Damascus, Arkansas, in 1980. The silo was part of the 374th Strategic Missile Sq./He entered launch complex that day for readings of fuel concentrations
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Kevin Kennedy (3)Commander Afc21scr
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Sacramento
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Historian
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Daughter of George C. Wallace, former governor of Alabama who became known as one of America's most ardent segregationists of the 1960's/She is Currently a Civil Rights Activist & Author & Speaker
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WWII: Royal Canadian Navy. Escorted Arctic Murmansk convoys. With HMS Naiad, he was in the evacuation of Greece, the Battle of Crete, in Malta convoys, eventually torpedoed on 11 March 1942. Later HMNZS Gambia (Battle of Okinawa, Tokyo Bay)
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Retired engine driver who drove the Flying Scotsman, one of the world's most famous locomotives from 1956 until it was retired in 1963. He is now 83 and lives in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK
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Forida Author & Civil Rights Activist
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US First Lady, book editor (1929-94)
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Political Activist, Son of Senator Edward 'Ted' Kennedy
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Son of John F. Kennedy, President of the US; founder of 'George' magazine
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Political activist, lawyer, born 1954
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b.07/04/51 American attorney, Lt.Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. Ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002. 2010 chair of the non-profit American Bridge, eldest of RFK and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, eldest grandchild of Joseph & Rose Kennedy
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Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member
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Lawyer to the stars including Snoop Dogg, Torey Lanz, Suge Knight etc
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One of the captains of the 1981 North Carolina Tar Heel that reached the NCAA finals - was a chemistry major and attended medical school after graduation.
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Born 24 November 1908 electrical welder from Plymouth, England during the Second World War. She is notable for being the first woman in Great Britain to be given equal pay.
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WWII - D-Day Utah Beach (4th Infantry Division, Battery B, 44th Field Artillery Battalion); also survivor of 'Exercise Tiger', the D-Day dress rehearsal, April 28, 1945, that turned into disaster as being attacked by German forces
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British' Born: 09/01/1908
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Lawyer, Judge, South African WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. First Battalion, 147th Infantry
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WWII: D-Day. Ranger. Pointe du Hoc
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WWII Bataan Death March Survivor, (1920-2022) Enlisted in the US Army in 1938, taken POW after the Death March. Then served 21 years in the US Air Force after WWII
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American former soldier, police officer, consultant, 40th Commissioner of the New York Police Department, author and convicted felon for which he obtained the presidential pardon in 2020
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WWII: PTO. Bougainville, Iwo Jima. 27th Marines, 5th Marine Division
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army general
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WWII: Drafted into the German Wehrmacht late in 1944, he was bombed out of two homes, strafed by British fighter planes, shot at and shelled on the European battlefields and eventually held as a POW - all before his 18th birthday
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WWII: Hump Flyer
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NASA - Apollo lunar module software engineer
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Joseph Kernan (2)USN Admiral
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4-Star General Born Sept 22, 1942 and served from 1968 to 2002
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Former under Secretary of Air Force
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. Battle of The Bulge. 78th Infantry Division
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Brazilian agricultural engineer and geneticist responsible for killer bees
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medal of honor navy vietnam
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Former U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1989-2001)
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Flight scientist, NASA
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WWII German Tank Ace 100+ Kills
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a physician and former NASA astronaut
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Hulbert
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Commander, US NAVY Blue Angels
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Former General in the National People's Army (NVA) and Minister of Defense of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
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John Kessler (2) World War II veteran and purple heart recipient, fought on D-Day. Two bronze stars for valor, two purple hearts, 5 combat stars, presidential citation, the French croix du guerre, the Belgian croix du guerre
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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nobel physics laueate 2001
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To receive MOH/Led several helicopter trips to help evacuate wounded soldiers near Duc Pho & returned to LZ without additional aerial support to rescue stranded soldiers pinned down by enemy fire. Helped save the lives of 40 soldiers
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Medical activis/Euthanasia Supporter - basis for the movie 'You Don't Know Jack.'
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US Army WWII vet, born 1921. Member of the segregated 761st Tank Battalion under Patton, known as the Black Panthers
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American Scientist
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air force general
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NASA: Assistant Flight Controller Apollo 11; started during the Mercury program in 1963 and worked through the end of Apollo in the mid-1970s and on the Space Shuttle into the early 1980s
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Father of slain Muslim Army captain challenged for Donald Trump at the DNC/His bold speech was well received
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Pashtun-American lawyer and writer. Worked as an interpreter for defense attorneys representing detainees held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. She wrote of her experiences in My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me
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Spiritual Leader
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American artist, activist, and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Other topics on which Cullors advocates include prison abolition in Los Angeles and LGBTQ rights
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Soviet canoeist, Olympic champion. Siege of Leningrad survivor which he joined the Red Army after the battle
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Saudi Arabian weapons dealer, living in Monaco
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Father of the Palestinian boy who donates his organs to an Israeli
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American author and social entrepreneur. Served as SEO of City Year, an AmeriCorps national service program he co-founded. Led two unsuccessful campaigns for U.S. Senator from MA. Founded and worked with numerous social and political orgs
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Indian-American Biochemist (1922-2011), 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his work with Nucleic Acids. Honored on 2018-1-9 with a Google Doodle on his 96th birthdate
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Son of Nikita Khruschev
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First woman named as US House of Representatives chaplain/Rear Adm./Bronze Star recipient, will replace Rev. Pat Conroy who has served in the ceremonial role since 2011/ Presbyterian minister, entered active duty in the US Navy in 1986
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army general
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Served 26 years as a U.S. Marine - was a drill sergeant in WWII at Montford Point, served with the 11th Marines in the Korean War, and survived being in the 1st Battalion 9th Marines - nicknamed 'The Walking Dead' during the Vietnam War
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Former Butler to the Queen & friend of the late Princess Diana
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American journalist, producer and author of history titles, including Signing Their Lives Away, Signing Their Rights Away and The Girls of Atomic City. Married to author, historian and journalist Joseph D'Agnese
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WWII: Marine Corps. Guadalcanal Campaign
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Born 17 March 1913 was a highly decorated Major in the Luftwaffe during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves during World War II
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WWII: Battle of Midway (USS Yorktown)
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navy admiral
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Finnish WWII Veteran. Trained with the Panzerfaust, a German anti-tank weapon. He ambushed a Soviet Tank, which took a hit and caught fire. His story is featured in this article: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/in-a-haunting-video-finnish-veterans-recall
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Inventor of Microchip / Nobel Prize
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navy admiral
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Australian author, strategist, and counterinsurgency expert who is currently the non-executive Chairman of Caerus Associates. 2005-2006: was Chief Strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the US State Department
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Shot down a Mig 17 in Vietnam
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tennessee; also Battle of Saipan, Iwo Jima
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WWII: Guam, Iwo Jima
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Parachutest who broke soundbarrier on free fall
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1915-1967 Folklorist/professor at SMU Dallas. Kilpatrick interviewed Cherokee folk healers in 60s, collected manuscripts of traditional medicine. Books including Friends of Thunder 1964 Walk in Your Soul 1965 Run Toward the Nightland 1967
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astronaut
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California congressional candidate
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Astronaut, doctor, navy seal
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Served in the Navy Radar Man in WWII, also served in the Korean War. USS Hornet (CV-12), USS President Hayes (APA-20), USS Laning (APD-55), USS Cronin (DEC-704)
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WWII - Capt Kimball was the Lead Navigator of the 100th Momb Group ('The Bloody 100th') of the 8th Air Force in Europe; receiving Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with Three Oak Clusters, the Croix de Guerre. Also served in Korea
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Flight astronaut sts-126
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group
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Scientist
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At the age of 116, is currently the world's oldest living man/person. The last person left living born in the year 1897. He now lives in Kyoto prefecture, Japan
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Military
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WWII: Radio operator on a B-24 Liberator as part of the 455th Bombardment Group stationed in Italy and was part of 29 bombing missions to various sites in the European Theatre of WWII
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Veteran: WW2. Landed on D - Day+1. Normandy. Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: D-Day. UK veteran. Wireless operator in a Sherman tank; B Company, East Riding Yeomanry, 27 Armoured Division. Landed on Juno Beach on LST 3204. Saw combat in France (incl. Pegasus Bridge and Caen) and later Belgium, Holland, Germany
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, at Kaneohe Bay
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British Olympic decathlete who was later an author, corporate director, corporate board member and specialist in Olympic marketing and sports development. Current British national pentathlon record holder
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Military historian and author
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WW2 USAAF fighter pilot ace 7 victories 347/359 FG
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Minister, speaker. Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr
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Commander William Donald Aelian 'Bill' King, DSO & Bar, DSC (born 23 June 1910), is a retired British naval officer, yachtsman and author. He was the oldest participant in the first solo non-stop around the world yacht race
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Tuskegee Airman
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Director of Shuttle Processing for NASA
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WWII: PTO. USS Tennessee
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Dallas Police captain in 1963 , an aid to Chief Curry , helped to interrogate Jack Ruby
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen
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Jack King (2) Former Chief of Public Information and Public Affairs Officer for NASA. Named 'the Voice of NASA' as he was the voice of launch control for every mission from Gemini 4 to Apollo 15 including Apollo 11
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army general
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Four Time Winner of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race
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African American/WW2 6888 Central Postal Battalion in US Army, know as Six Triple Eight
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Newscaster KBOX radio 1963, went live on the air moments after assassination & fired for it/Witnessed Oswald's shooting. Later, he covered the Jack Ruby trial/WW2 POW Corregidor/Wrote 'Alamo of the Pacific'
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newsmaker
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WW2 Canadian airman and one of the escapers from German PoW camp 'Stalag Luft III' in 1944, which inspired the Hollywood movie 'The Great Escape'. He is now 91
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Flew the Hump during WWII, Author
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WWII ship Reuben James survivor
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WWII: ETO. P-47/P-51 Fighter Pilot. 75 missions. 513th Fighter Squadron, 406th Fighter Group. POW (April 1945)
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P-51 Mustang Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of the 354 Fighter Group
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13th US V. President (1786-53). Rumored gay partner of future Pres. James Buchanan. US Congressman/Senator. 45 days as Pierce's V.Pres. then died of tuberculosis. Only inauguration oath ever given on foreign soil, in Cuba for TB treatment
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Bloodline/Granddaughter of Martin Luther & Coretta Scott King/Daughter of Arndrea & Martin Luther King III; Spoke March 24, 2018 at the March for Our Life's Rally in Washington DC
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(1875-1934) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934. King Albert was killed in a mountaineering accident in eastern Belgium in 1934, at the age of 58, and he was succeeded by his son Leopold
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British pilot from WW2
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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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Australian Pioneer / Aviator
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Australian Aviator and Public servant
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Great-great-grandson of Grenville M. Dodge, the famous American Civil War officer and U.S.A Congressman. He lives in Monterey, California, U.S.A
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4-Star General
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WW2: Not a D - Day Veteran; landed on Omaha Beach June 16, 1944. Normandy. Battle of the Bulge. Buchenwald. 45th Evacuation Hospital
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air force general
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101st airborne division, ww2also 1st cav at lz ray nam in 1965
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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Guinness world record. Atlas stone lifts
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(Born 4 July 1922) is an American-born singer, collector and historian who is a leading authority on Welsh folk music
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JFK - Kennedy Secret Service; driver of the follow-up car on Nov 22, 1963
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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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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 3 remaining (as of 2022)
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American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana U. Best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), as well as the Kinsey scale
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The last man alive who built the Roanoke Star, the world's largest freestanding illuminated man-made star, and actually switched it on for the first time on November 23, 1949
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Assistant who worked for Dudley M. Hughes Funeral Home , company that picked up Officer Tippitt on Nov. 22 , 1963 in Dallas , Texas
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Master whiskey blender
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WWII: PTO. Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor. Was 16-year-old on Dec. 7, 1941
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Medal of Honor Vietnam
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Pearl Harbor Survivor
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Flight scientist nasa flight director cardinal flight
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WW2 Army Vet/Bronze Star/Member of Company K, 143 Infantry Regiment, 36th Division/Battle of Cassino, Blood River picked by Gen. Mark Clark/National Guard Texas/National Commander DAV/Injured arm in battle/finished out war in Texas
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Admiral
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WWII: PTO. Reconnaissance scout in the Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. Battles of Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima
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Ww2 fighter ace - 5 Kills - USAAF
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Possible UFO abductee, as a 14 year old, in a well-known event on 9/1/69 in Berkshire County, MA. Other locals had their own stories, one other child abductee claiming to have seen her on the ship with him, though they were then strangers
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Former CIA analyst/case officer, former Sr. investigator Senate Foreign Relations Committee, & former counter-terrorism consultant ABC News & author. 1st U.S. official to confirm use of waterboarding Al-Qaeda prisoners as interrogation technique
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Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Moscow and all Russia
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WW2 Air Ace - 7 Kills - US Navy; Fighter Squadron VF-8 on the USS Intrepid and from February 1944 on on the USS Bunker Hill
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Wwii: eto. pow
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WWII: ETO. 66th Infantry Division. Survivor of the sinking of the troopship SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24. 1944. She was torpedoed and sunk by the U-486. 763 soldiers died, together with 56 of her crew
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WW2 POW who built a pinhole camera from cardboard scraps & used smuggled-in photo supplies to take photographs of fellow malnourished Marines/risked death from Japanese captors to build the camera, to document the horrors the POW's endured
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WWII - Nurse in the Battle of The Bulge; served with the 16th General Hospital
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in belle vernon,pa but not now?
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JFK - USAF Pipe Band; played at various events in the Kennedy presidency, including the visit of the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Sean Lemass in October 1963 (where Kirkpatrick met JFK) and the funeral of JFK
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-12 victories, US Navy, VF-10 - Navy Cross
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Fighter ace 11 1/2 kills
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Vietnam US Army Vet 1969-1971/Assigned to LZJamie, later a artillery & the radio operator with infantry/Received Bronze Star
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Canadian lawyer, former president of the International Criminal Court
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German WW2 veteran (Born: 1925) and last survivor of a little-known wartime prison camp on Merseyside, UK. Now 91 and lives in Huyton, Merseyside, UK
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Iran Hostage Crisis/U.S. Marine Corps Guard
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One of the attorneys for President Donald Trump
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Supercentenarian oldest person in Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture Born 1905
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS St. Louis
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D-Day Veteran, WWII
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Retired General
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Ukrainian-American scientist born November 18, 1900. Leader of X Division at 'Manhattan Project', later President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor.
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Belarusian-American rocket scientist (Born: 1910) In the mid-1950's he began his scientific activities in the field of astronautics. For 25 years he worked in the American space research program. He lives in Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany
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British army officer who fought in Malaysia and the Falkland War, later was Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen from 1983 to 1985
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Flight Engineer and curator, Northwest Airlines Museum
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physicist
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One of the pilots who took part in the mission to shoot down Admiral Yamamoto's airplane during WWII
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Set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest freefall and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere.
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Highway patrol officer who gave Hank Williams' driver Charles Carr a speeding ticket on December 31,1952
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JFK - Secret Service agent, Vice-Presidential (VPD) detail LBJ, lead agent for Lady Bird Johnson. Was in the VP follow-up car on November 22, 1963, in the Kennedy Dallas motorcade
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One of oldest people in world. Born 1895. Lives in Japan
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. He was wounded by a RPG in a firefight losing his leg. He was saved by Dale Edge who he finally got to meet him again in 2021 after over 53 years since the incident
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Surviving a plane crash in 1963, she spent 49 days of winter in the Yukon before being rescued; author of 'Hey, I'm Alive' about her ordeal; appeared on To Tell The Truth and the Mike Douglas Show
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Only player of the Pokemon Trading Card Game to win multiple World Championships, first in 2006, again in 2008, and most recently in 2013
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Received the 2017 National Jewish Book Award for Lioness. First woman to carry a Torah to the Western Wall. Former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America which voted to ordain women as rabbis and cantors in 1983
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US Marine Corps veteran who did 4 tours in Iraq and was deployed in Afghanistan once. Escorted General George Casey on board base
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Writer and Nazi Hunter
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WWII: ETO. Last survivor of B-24 bomber 'Arsenic & Lace' that was shot down on December 17, 1944, over Olomouc (now Czech Republic). He was taken POW until end of the war (Stalag Luft 1)
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Survivor of the wreck of the USS Indianapolis
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First F-14 combat pilot to shoot down a Su-22
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WWII Veteran
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Helped hide Anne Frank
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UCLA student Charlie Klein is often credited as being the first person to send a message over the internet, on Oct. 29, 1969
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WWII: 46th Field Artillery Battalion in Northern Ireland on June 6, 1944 (he was NOT a Ranger at Point-du-Hoc and NO D-Day veteran as he admitted in late 2017). Earned Bronze Star/Purple Heart; seriously wounded in combat near Moselle on 17 Nov 1944
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German terrorist and accomplice of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal, is living in France in Normandy
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One of the doctors who tried to save JFK's life after being shot
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WWII: HQ Co, 3rd Bn, 501st PIR, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles).. D - Day, Operation Market Garden. Battle of the Bulge
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Served as a developmental advisor for Sesame Street and HBO films for children. Appears regularly on Good Morning America. Author of How Toddlers Thrive. Director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development
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German WWII Veteran, Waffen - SS
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Attorney General 1972-1973
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(Born 1922) US Army WW2 Medic. 90th Infantry Medic. Was at the Battle of the Bulge, Utah Beach, Belgium, and Germany. Purple Heart and Bronze Star Recipient
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1969 professor at ucla, internet pioneer
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WWII: USS Enterprise dive bomber pilot from the Battle of Midway, who is credited with direct hits against Japanese aircraft carriers
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WWII: CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Dobbin. Barely survived being bombed, later helped to pull men from the USS Arizona a.o. ships out of the water. Transferred to USS Mugford in 1943
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Scientist
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-7 victories, USAAF, 56 Fighter Group, 61 Fighter Squadron
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 17th Airborne Division. Purple Heart
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Journalist, filmmaker, playwright, arts therapist, pop culture historian and author of 'Slimed!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age'
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Wake island pilot ww2 vmf-211
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Polish WW2 veteran
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Retired USMC General
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(born 10 July 1942) is a former Soviet cosmonaut and the first Belarusian to perform space travel. Klimuk made three flights into space:Soyuz 13,Soyuz 18,Soyuz 30
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Sent test transmissions between the computer at UCLA and the first IMP (Interface Message Processor) to develop the earliest protocols (1969)
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BM3, USN, USS Wasatch (AGC-9) Crewmember on General MacArthur's Command Ship
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Major, USAAF, 454th Sqdn, 323rd Bomb Group, 9th AF B-26 Bombardier, 65 Combat Missions, including the Normandy Invasion. Shot down twice in one week
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Kansas State Attorney General (2003-07)
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Centenarian (1896-2000). US WWI veteran, served in France
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(born 1918) is a retired Israeli scientist and the highest ranking Soviet spy ever caught in Israel. The case of Klingberg is regarded one of the most destructive spy scandals in the history of the State of Israel
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Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
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WWII: Flew his F4U Corsair with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 in support of the Battle of Okinawa. During operations he flew into Marine Corps history when he used his propellor to chop off the tail of Japanese aircraft
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Author, World War 2 historian
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Pearl Harbor/WWII Researcher & Author (Not USS Ward Vet!): 'Pearl Harbor: Awakening A Sleeping Giant'
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nobel Chemistry laureate 1982
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Retired General
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US WWII vet, born 1916. Horse cavalry in 1934, called back for WWII in the 331st Infantry regiment in the 83rd division as a Master Sergeant. Landed in Normandy couple weeks after D-Day, fought through Europe. Rode a horse in FDR's 1937 Inaugural Parade
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Grebe
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German politician
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Soviet WWII Veteran
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Soviet WWII Veteran, Liberator of Mariupol
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Kaneohe Bay
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Noted German ecologist, pacifist, civil servant, politician and a co-founder of the Green Party in Germany. Served in the Luftwaffe during WWII
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David Knapp (2) Knapp was an 18 yr. old member of the police line-up at which William Whaley identified Oswald as the man he had driven from the Greyhound bus station minutes after the assassination
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa (AR-1)
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German officer in WWII, made daily briefings in the Führerbunker with Hitler
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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Flight scientist
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NASA/MIT: Computer Programmer; coded, debugged and documented the navigation program P23, which the astronauts used to correct spacecraft drift between the earth and the moon
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WWII: PTO. 11th Airborne Division. Wounded Leyte, Philippine Islands. Purple Heart
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One of the last survivors of MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which sank after being torpedoed by the Soviet submarine in 1945 resulting in the greatest ship disaster in history
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Born 1895 #48 oldest document person in the world. Lives in Scotland.
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NASA flight director
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X-15 pilot, Holds world record for speed in a fixed wing aircraft (4520 mph) called the 'Fastest man alive'
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Freedom Rider
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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'Procet Manhattan' (Trinity); worked on the RaLa Experiment at Los Alamos, which was crucial to developing the spherical implosion necessary for the plutonium bomb
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Doolittle Raiders Co-Pilot Crew #13
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JFK: Military Academy at West Point Cadet representative at a White House reception in early 1961
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American software engineer who created Adobe Photoshop
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Flight aviator
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USDA agent who took part in the Michael Vick investigation
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World War II veteran
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WWII: PFC Knowles was in the troops that liberated Reims, France, and guarded SHAEF (the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force) where Dwight Eisenhower was located, and witnessed the end of the war there
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Lz xray 1965
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Fmr First Lady of Alaska
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British WWII frogman
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Chemist. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001
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army general
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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An American classicist, author, and critic born in England. He was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Spanish Civil War veteran
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Secretary of the Texas Air National Guard. At the center of the George Bush service controversy
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Scientist
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One of the six men who were first chosen to fly the U-2 Spy plane.
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US Army Air Force WWII vet (1926-2021). B-29 Tail Gunner in the South Pacific. HIs plane escorted the Enola Gay, and he witnessed Hiroshima from about a mile away in the air. Days later, he had the same role, witnessing Nagaski's bombing
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(Born 1938) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 4 Legion of Merits, Distinguished Flying Cross, 4 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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marine corps general
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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Nobel laureate physics 2008
