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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
WWII: 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
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
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)
(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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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)
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
WWII. ETO: Battle of Normandy. On Aug. 11th, 1944, he was shot through the neck while engaged in heavy combat, then taken POW and eventually sent back in an soldiers exchange. Company F, 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division
WWII Kogawa was born in Masuda City, Shimane in 1923. During World War II, he was stationed in Malay as a platoon leader for the 3rd Division of the Imperial Japanese Army. He was in an internment camp in Thailand before returning to Japan
(Born 1926) US Army WW2 Veteran ETO. 89th Division, 354th Anti-Tank Unit. Helped in the liberation of concentration camp Ohrdruf. Bronze Star recipient
Speaker, 21 year marine officer and author of From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava. Client success executive at AirStrip. Has appeared frequently on both network (Fox, NBC) and local television news
WWII - 6th Naval Beach Battalion, Navy corpsman at Omaha Beach (D-Day), also in the Battle of Okinawa. His memories are incorporated into Max Hasting's epic book 'Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944'
WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
WWII: D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne Operation Market Garden. 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles), he was General Maxwell Taylor's radioman and later an accomplished WWII Author '(Hell's Highway', 'D-Day With The Screaming Eagles' a.o.)
WWII: Served on the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) which sank the largest aircraft carrier ever built, the HIJMS Shinano, on 29 November 1944. This marks also the largest ship wver sunk by a submarine
(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Engineer with the 5th Transportation Company in Vietnam from March 1968 until he was captured in Cambodia and taken as a POW while serving aboard a landing craft
US Navy vet on the USS Randolph, born 1940. Participated in the Mercury mission recoveries of Gus Grissom and John Glenn. Served to escort and guide members of the onboard press onboard during the recoveries
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Assigned to a port anti-aircraft battery and was blown into the water when a torpedo hit. He swam around the damaged USS West Virginia and made it to safety on Ford Island
Survivor Korean Death March/29th Regimental Combat Team/Captured at Oneui on July 26, 1950, marched 40 miles south of the Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW for 3 months & was one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured men
US Army veteran (4-star general) of 3 wars: WWII ('Colmar Pocket', Battle of Jebsheim 1945, 254th Regiment, 63rd Infantry Division, Korea (187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team), Vietnam (23rd Inf.Div). On Sept. 15, 1981, he was injured in an RAF attack
WWII - Germany; paratrooper of the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment ('Green Devils'), fought at the Normany and many battles. Direct line of combat to the US 502nd and 506th PIR (Easy Company)
WWII veteran, born August 21, 1914. Believed to be the oldest living survivor of Iwo Jima by his 100th birthday. Wounded by shrapnel at Iwo, hospitalized and sent back to the states
WWII: Mr. Kudzik completed 14 war patrols, 8 aboard Nautilus 168 (WWII sub), 6 aboard USS Gar (SS-206). Battle of Midway (the Nautilus was co-credited sinking a Japanese ship), Makin Island Raid (they transported Marine Raiders to and back from the raid)
Born 1947 US Air Force Vietnam and Iraq Veteran. POW in Vietnam from 1972 to 1973. 2 Legion of Merits, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, a Purple Heart, and 1 Bronze Star
WWII P-38 Lightning Fighter Pilot. 2 aerial victories before being shot down over Aachen Germany on 16 September 1944. Also flex B17, B-24, B-25, B-26, P-39, P-47, P-51, P-59A, P-63, Wildcat, Hellcat, P80 and P-84
US Army General. Participated in the Iraq, Gulf, and Afghanistan wars and operations Just Cause and Inherent Resolve. Recipient of Army Distinguished Service Medal (2), Legion of Merit (2), Bronze Star (5), Purple Heart (2)
WWII - Navy radio man on LSM (Landing Ship Medium) 241 during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Today he is (along with Joe Demler) one of the 'ambassadors' of the original Honor Flight
WWII: Joined the Army Air Corps and served in the 9th Air Force as a radar plotter; being a very talented artist, she painted the nose art many of the 9th AF B-26 Bombers