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WWII - WASP pilot. Commanding Officer of the WASP stationed at Love Field, Dallas; flew every type of aircraft, training, cargo, fighter, and twin and four-engine bombers, experimental
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medal of honor army korean war
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General Mark A. Milley is the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation's highest-ranking military officer, and the principal military advisor to the President, Secretary of Defense, and National Security Council
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WWII Ace, P-38, 5 Victories - USAAF
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WWII - Bill Millin who was the Piper of the 1st Special Service Commando Brigade, and was amongst the more noticeable men to land on D-Day as he played the Brigade ashore with his bagpipes under enemy fire. Pictured in 'The Longest Day'
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WWII Veteran, born June 1920
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WWII - Chief Steward onboard the USS Yorktown (CV-5), Battle of Midway survivor
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Catalina pilot archie mills battle of midway
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(Born 1920) US Merchant Marine WW2 Veteran. Received the congressional gold medal in 2022
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WWII: ETO. D - Day paratrooper, 502nd Parachute Regt, 101st Airborne. Witnessed Eisenhower's D - Day talk to the group. Also Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge
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Frank Mills (2)
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WWII: ETO. Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge (taken POW Dec. 18, 1944 in Fouhren, Luxembourg; first at Stalag II-A, then a 5-month-death march across Germany from one POW camp to another). 109th Infantry, 28th Div
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British RAF pilot of the 19th Squadron
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British ace from WW2
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WWII: ETO. Italy. 133rd Infantry, 34th Division
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WW2 Air ace - 5 Kills - US Navy
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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U.S.S. Indianapolis Survivor
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Was a Security guard at Area 51
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WWII: Marine PFC on Sand Island during the Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942. His battle station was the wooden searchlight control tower from where he witnessed the Japanese attack on the island
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WWII: D-Day, Carentan, Operation Market Garden. Dog Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR (Screaming Eagles). Jumped into Normany in Stick 60 (C-47 42-100874), wounded at Carentan, returned and seriously wounded during Operation Market Garden
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American reporter covered the Civil Rights Movement and who was a WWII veteran on the USS Stephen Potter; he saw the Kamikaze attack on the Bunker Hill and his ship tried to rescue survivors
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WWII: PTO. He served in seven major battles in the Pacific Theater. He was the last crew member standing from the USS Hoel DD-533 which was sank in the Battle of Samar, 25 October 1944
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Was Hitler's bodyguard in the bunker until Hitler committed suicide, he's living in Berlin Born: 07/29/1917
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WWII American Fighter Pilot Ace.
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US Navy Vietnam Veteran who served from 1972 to 1975. He was a AT2 when he got out
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, USS Jarvis
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII and Korean War Veteran, was taken POW during the Korean War and Received the MOH (Medal of Honor) for going above and beyond the call of duty
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vietnam war air force hero
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medal of honor army korean war
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WWII fighter Ace (8.5 kills) & Lt. General - USAAF - DSC flew the p-51
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Retired Navy Admiral
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World War 2 Vet, 98, said he can remember what he saw when he was among the first Marines to enter Nagasaki in Sept 1945. A few weeks before they arrived, the U.S. had dropped an atomic bomb on the city, which led to Japan's surrender
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Medal of honor marines vietnam
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Vietnam war crew chief/door gunner on a Huey Helicopter. Served from 1967 to 1968
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WWII: ETO. US Army (England, France and Germany). Guard at the Nuremberg War Trials
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army general
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WWII: ETO/'Mighty Eight'. Copilot on B-17 #42-3413 'Hard Luck!'. 350th Bomb Sqdn, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 'Hard Luck' crashed, after tanks ran dry, on 14 Aug 1944. Captured on 17 Aug. POW at Stalag Luft 4 for the rest of the war
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British pilot who torpedoed the German battleship Bismarck in 1941
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JFK - Marine Color Guard serving in official functions for the Kennedy adminstration as well as at JFK's funeral
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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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German ww2 pilot
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German Reformed theologian. Also a German WWII Veteran, Taken POW by the British
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American WWII-Fighter Ace & Lt. General - USAAF - 8 Kills - DSC
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(Born 1919) US Navy WW2 and Korean War Veteran. Join the Navy in 1937 and was on the USS Boise for the entirety of WW2. Kept a diary about his time. Served as a doctor in Korea
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WWII: PTO. Arrived at burning Pearl Harbor on Dec. 12, 1941 on USS Mahan (DD-364). Served on several ships later bust mostly USS Claxton (DD-571) where he survived a Kamikaze attack on 1 November 194 missing him by 15 feet
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Wasp - wwii Flew the AT-6, p-40, p-51, p-39, j-3 piper cub, p-63, p-47, p-39,
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Cold War: Berlin Air Lift Pilot
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WWII veteran. Served in the Army Air Corps. Born 1912
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WWII: D-Day, 467th AAA Automatic Weapons Squad, he and his squad took out German WN65 ('resistance nest')
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. US Navy
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African American Black History figure/Arkansas 'hidden figure' the first person to design a U.S. Navy ship using a computer
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Author and veteran
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WWII/Apollo: PTO, Fighter Pilot, 22 mission, Distinguished Flying Cross. Later Vice-President of Rocketdyne (built the rockets, incl. the Saturn V, for NASA)
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Cuban Exile living in the United States. He was a military battalion commander of Brigade 2506 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961
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1051st Quartermaster Company, provided food & clothing to Tuskegee Airmen. Recieved Gold Medal from President Bush with Tuskegee Airmen. Chaplin to Tuskegee Airmen East Coast Chapter. 'Bodyguard to Martin Luther King from Selma Alabama to Montgomery'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24, 1944
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Lz x-ray 1965 nam wrote we were soldiers with joe galloway
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Tuskegee Airmen 'Crew Chief' 'Staff Sergeant'/302nd FS, 99th FS & 332nd FG/Italy 1943-1945
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commander of the British land forces during the Falklands War
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John Moore (8)WW2 veteran. Author of The Wrong Stuff
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, 101st Airborne Division
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WWII: Original Montford Point Marine (First Black Marines). Server at the Battle of iwo Jima, was wounded by a shrapnel
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WWII: PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia (BB-48)
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WWII: PTO. He flew torpedo bombers and SB2C dive bombers off of aircraft carriers
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WWII (Marines) - Iwo Jima
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Tom Moore (7) British war hero born 1920 who raised more than 30 million dollars to Corona charity by walking in his yard. 2020 fundraising walk..Also the oldest person to have a number 1 hit in the UK With song you will never walk alone
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa. Navy Corpsman, USS Sandoval
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WWII: No. 138 (Special Duties) Squadron; dropping secret agents into occupied Europe, picking folks up, dropping supplies, cooperating with the French Maquis. Later bombing raids all over Europe
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navy admiral
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Retired Admiral
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navy admiral businessman
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air force general
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Retired Air Force General
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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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Former Millitary president, Peru
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(Born 1925) US Army WW2 Veteran. Was in the 87th Infantry. Battle of the Bulge. Has the Purple Heart and Bronze Star
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Army sniper vietnam- 53 kills
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WWII Fighter Ace - 6 Kills - US Navy
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (8 Kills) USAAF, 49 Fighter Group, 8 Fighter Squadron (5 victories w/this squadron), 1FG, 24PG - DSC, flew the p-38, p-39, p-51, p-80, and the f-86
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Jean Morel (2) WWII: D-Day veteran
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Navy
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José Moreno (3) Born: November 1918. Former POW, last veteran of the Basque army
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen; last Tuskegee Airmen from Louisiana
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper. Flew into Normandy aboard C-47 Skytrain 42-92841 'Turf & Sport Special' and dropped to St. Mere-Eglise on June 6, 1944; Normandy (Hill 195), Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. 508th PIR, 82nd AB
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WWII: ETO. 16th Armored Division . Battle of the Bulge
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David Morgan (3)British fighter pilot, the most successful pilot of the 1982 Falklands War with 4 air victories, is living in Dorset
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Survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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WWII - Medic 82nd AB, 505th PIR made four combat jumps (Sicily, Italy, D-Day LaFiere Bridge, Holland), participated in six battle campaigns in the European Theatre of Operations. Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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Survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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WWII - Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor, Navy Base, 11y; his father David Jay Morgan was serving on the USS Ward (fired 1st US shots in WWII), survived the attack and his name is engraved on the crew list by the gun memorial today
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Joe Morgan (4) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Aircraft Utility Squadron Two (VJ-2) , Ford Island
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ww 11 army air corps hero
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pilot memphis belle
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Marshall Islands, Saipan, Okinawa
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Comanding General US 2nd ID
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General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1986-1987), Chief of Staff, JASDF (1983?1986). Also a Veteran of the Japanese Army during WWII
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WWII. ETO. 8th Air Force, 100th Bomb Group
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team
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WWII: Pearl Harbor, Battle of Midway, Iwo Jima
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WWII: PTO. LSM 367 (landing ship medium). Philippines Campaign. His LSM was attacked by Kamikaze in the Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Utah
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One of the survivors from Pearl Harbor; together with his brother, Albert, among the last living sets of brothers to serve in the United States Navy and survive the attack on Pearl Harbor aboard the same ship
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Soviet WWII Veteran
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WW2 Fighter Ace - 5 Kills - USAAF - POW - DSC
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Larry Morris (2)Cpl. /One of three Marines that lowered the Embassy flag in Cuba the last time when the Embassy closed in 1961/ Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana 5+ decades raise the Stars and Stripes once again there
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Retired US Special Forces soldier; was left blinded in one eye in the firefight that killed Sgt. Christopher Speer on 7/27/02
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Received Medal of Honor on March 18th, 2014
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(Born 1932) US Army Korean War Veteran. Battle of Pork Chop Hill
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker
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WWII: PTO. US Army. Battles of Saipan, Guam
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Don Morrison (2)WWII Veteran, B-17 Gunner originally from Limon, CO
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Otolaryngologist, US WWII Army Air Corps, born 1925. Served at end of WWII, used GI Bill to get doctorate. While with the US Public Health Service, he delivered Alaska's first baby, 30 minutes after Eisenhower announced it was a new state
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. Saipan, Okinawa, Peleliu
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WWII: PTO. PBY Pilot. Battle of Midway
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Former US Army member turned personal trainer, corrective exercise specialist and Precision Nutrition coach, author and motivational speaker
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Commander 1st air force
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WWII: Veteran (2nd Marine Division) of the Battle of Tarawa
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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WWII: ETO. D-Day to occupation duty in Austria
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WW2/From Bramble Edge in Dorset, Wren working in Newmanry Registration Room receiving German messages from intercept site at Knockholt, near Sevenoaks in Kent on punched paper teleprinter tapes, prepared for Colossus and logging the results
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WWII: D-Day veteran from Norway. Served on the HNoMS Svenner which was sunk off Sword Beach, Normandy, at dawn on 6 June 1944, while supporting the British Army landings
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Chief of Staff US Air Force, 4 star general
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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SSgt, USA, 66th Infantry Regt., 71st Inf. Div., 3rd Army Combat Intantryman Battle of the Bulge veteran
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WWII: Last living survivor of the sinking of the HMS Parramatta, 27 November 1941
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WWII Flying Tigers (weatherman)
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Navy Admiral
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Neopagan priest, Finnish WWII Veteran. Fought in the Finnish Army during WWII
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Competed in the 'Battle of the Bands' on the USS Arizona the night before, later served at Midway
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, Remagen Bridge, Germany. 9th Armored Division
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WWII Flying Tiger Pilot
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Born 1942 US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. 1 Bronze Star, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, 1 Legion of Merit, and 1 Defense Superior Service Medal
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WWII Battle of Britain pilot, one of 7 remaining
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Midway (June 1942), USS Hammann, DD-412. Survived the sinking of his ship when she was hit by a torpedo. He jumped overboard and would remain in the water for nearly 6 hours before being rescued. Also Korea/Vietnam
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WWII: D-Day, Sword Beach. Sapper in the 263 Field Company of the British Royal Engineers
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WWII: US Navy. Survived the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII: ETO. US Army. Battle of the Bulge
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Member of the legendary WWII Flying Tigers; not an original (AVG) Flying Tiger, but a successor in the 14th AIr Force
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Ex - marine, horror stories youtuber
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, Army Air Corps, Hickam Field
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the Battle of Jebsheim ('Colmar Pocket') in early 1945
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WWII. PTO. USMC. Combat action at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Peleliu Island, and Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, trapped inside USS Maryland, but escaped. Later Fighter Pilot USN VF-16 USS Randolph-Fighter Bomber 16
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WWII: PTO. 24th Infantry Division, 19th Infantry Regiment. 'Lost Battalion', which operated behind enemy lines for several weeks in the Philippines
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Navy Chief of Staff, Member of the Joint Chiefs
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Born April 7, 1917 is a retired American soldier who served during World War II in the United States Army with the 11th Airborne Division between 1944 and 1945
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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Awarded 2 Silver Stars, 8 Air Medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and 2Purple Hearts, as well as the POW medal. Guest of Hanoi Hilton. Author/'The Hanoi Commitment'
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WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach (Carentan). C Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Glider Infantry (aka 'Bastogne Bulldogs'), 101st AB. Also Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, all the way to Hitler's Eagles Nest in Berchtesgaden and Austria
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WW2 vet, member of the Tuskegee Airmen, awarded Congressional Gold Medal; grandfather of basketball player Channing Frye. flew the pt-17, bt-13, at-10, c-47, c119, c-97, a-10
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101 Year old WW 2 Navy vet from the Normandy Landing and now resides in Washington Township, New Jersey
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WWII: Survivor of the Battle of Coral Sea (1942), USS Sims
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WWII: Sole survivor of the sinking of the UK steam passenger ship Ceramic, which sank on 7 December 1942, leading to 654 deaths
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marine corps general
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Centenarian (1902-2007). US Navy veteran of the WWI era. Did not enlist until 1919 (after the war's end), but fits into the post-war era of veterans
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Dam Busters World War 2 VeteranPilot: F/L John Leslie Munro ? Born 1919 New Zealand. . Retired as Wing Commander. Still living in Te Kuiti in New Zealand where he was Mayor for several years.
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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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Canadian WWII-Fighter Ace (Spitfire pilot)
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WWII: ETO. US Navy. USS Savannah
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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WW2 Fighter Ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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Most decorated American soldier during World War II; Author 'Recived the Medal of Honor' Actor/Westerns & war films
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WWII - WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)
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Executive Officer of USS Pueblo, held as a POW by the North Koreans for a year
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WWII Marine veteran, Peleliu and Okinawa
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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medal of honor marines korea
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WWII: 82nd Airborne Division, 505th PIR. It is confirmed by historians that Bob Murphy was the first guy out and on the ground on the 82nd's lift into Normandy
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Son of actor and Medal of Honor recipient Audie Murphy
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medal of honor army ww11
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Company A, 1st Separate Chemical Battalion, Schofield Barracks. Fought in Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge. Retired from the military in 1969 after 30 years of service
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Military, 14th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force
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WW2 Veteran with 82nd Airbourne Division/Author 'To Be As Brave'
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Canadian civil servant, retired Vice Admiral and former acting Chief of the Defence Staff
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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U.S. Army veteran, retired businessman, author and sought-after lecturer. In 1989, he was one of the most famous men in Panama, the leader of a plot to overthrow the dictatorship backed by Gen. Manuel Noriega
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OSS Operation HalyardLargest rescue of downed airmen in WWIIForgotten 500
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head of state pakistan, army general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Oglala
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WWII: ETO. Bombardier in the 445th Bomb Group
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navy admiral
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WWII veteran (born 1924) who served at the invasion of Anzio and was held as a POW at Stalag 7A
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Tanzanian WWII Veteran, General
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Retired USMC General
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WWII Veteran
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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
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WWII: ETO. 445th Bomb Group; knew Jimmy Stewart
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WWII: 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The Ghost Army used inflatable rubber tanks, wooden guns, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy
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(Born 1941) US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, and 2 Purple Hearts
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NFL football player, born 10/8/1924, UCLA 1944-47, Eagles 1948-50, Rams 1952, served as an ensign during WWII
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Civilian worker, POW. Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941. POW:
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WWII: D-Day. 29th Infantry Division, 116th Regiment, Company F, in the first wave. Last surviving veteran of Company F
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 101st AB
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medal of honor marines korean war
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Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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(Born 1923) WW2 US Army Veteran. 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion as an anti-tank gunner. Legion of Honour and Bronze Star Recipient
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WWII. PTO. Served on the submarine USS Skipjack, SS-184 (famous for the 'Battle for Toilet Paper'), the USS Midway and the submarine Trumpetfish
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German WWII fighter Ace, shot down a B-17 that Lester Schrenk was in, and they later became friends
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: ETO. 306th Bomb Group (The Reich Wreckers), 8th Air Force. Silver Star
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Purple Heart. Korea. USMC
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Korean General in Vietnam war
