Vice Admiral within the United States Navy and leader of the project to develop the Polaris missile system. Vice Admiral Raborn was also the 7th Director of Central Intelligence and the 5th Director of CIA
WWII: PT boat gunner (PT-81) who saw action in the Aleutian Campaign and later in the Pacific, where he was severely wounded while defending a U.S. ammunition supply ship during a Japanese kamikaze attack, nearly losing an arm and a leg
Private investigative team believe D.B. Cooper is an individual named Robert Rackstraw who flew helicopters in the Vietnam War and is now 73 and living in the San Diego area
Born 1938 US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. 2 Bronze Stars, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, 1 Legion of Merit, and 1 Defense Superior Service Medal
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, aboard the USS Maryland. Fought the rest of the war in the Pacific front, witnessed the surrender of the Japanese from the deck of the USS Wilkes Barre (CL-103)
US WWII Navy corpsman (medic), born 1925. Cared for the wounded/dying thru the Iwo Jima battle, one dying in his arms. Saw flag raised on Mt. Suribachi. Ship burials at sea continued going back to Pearl Harbor, where they learned FDR died
WWII: ETO/PTO. USS Nevada (BB-36). D-Day, Southern France, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. Survived a Kamikaze hit and a bombardment from a shore battery that struck the ship on starboard side; one shell passed directly through his bunk on the 2nd deck
WWII Army electrical engineer (b.1920) assigned to the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site. One of the last surviving witnesses of the first atomic explosion, the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945
4-Star General: first Chief of Space Operations - United States Space Force. Currently oversees organizational stand-up & transfer of officers/enlisted personnel into the newest service branch. Previously was commander of US Space Command
USN Flier. During World War II, he saw action in 11 battles in the Pacific theater and was awarded the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. He became a vice admiral in the Reserve in 1960
WWII: US Navy. Aviation machinist mate aboard the escort carrier USS Petrof Bay in the Pacific ; his carrier was engaged in various battles, including Iwo Jima and Okinawa
US WWII Army veteran, born 1923. 45th Infantry, saw action at Anzio and Operation Dragoon in South France. Later, a Phys Ed teacher and member of NYS Wrestling Hall of Fame
WWII: D-Day. 24th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized). Landed on Utah Beach on June 6, 1944, advanced from Normandy to Cape de la Hague, then to Cherbourg, where he was wounded by an 88mm shell that blew his jeep into the air
(Born 1975) US Navy SEAL Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Severely wounded in Fallujah, Iraq by heavy fire in 2007. Author of books like The Trident and Overcome
Pitcher for West Point he then pitched in 17 games for the U.S.A. in the 1993 World games. He pitched a couple of minor league games in 1996 for the Orioles but was recalled to military duty. He died in Afhanistan while serving
WWII - Pearl Harbor veteran. B-17 copilot arriving at Pearl Harbor by chance during the attack. Shot down by Japanese, landed at Hickam Field, the plane broke apart, shown in an iconic photo of the day
WWII - contemporary witness of the Port Chicago disaster; largest US mainland munitions explosion, July 17, 1944, Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, CA. As of 2018, she is the oldest National Park Ranger in the United States, born Sept. 22, 1921
Known as 'Hitler's Favorite Test Pilot'. Hanna was a German Nazi test pilot who tested many different types of German planes throughout World War 2. She is also the author of The Sky My Kingdom
WWII: Soviet pilot during the Second World War, flew 307 missions and was named a 'Hero of the Soviet Union' in 1943. Now age 98 and reportedly lives in Russia
WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) called 'Sexy Rexy'. Last WASP of South Dakota and as an Oglala Lakota, she is the only female Native American to serve in the WASPs
WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
WWII: ETO D-Day, Utah Beach, D Company, 359th Regiment (Heavy Weapons Unit), 90th Infantry Division. Also in Hill 122 (the Battle of Mont Castre and Le Plessis-Lastelle, July 3-12, 1944), and The Battle of Chamois (Falaise Pocket)
C-47 pilot that dropped paratroopers near the town of St. Mere Eglise as part of the D-Day invasion of France; later also flew paratroopers into Operation Market Garden
U.S. World War II D-Day veteran Tom Rice, from Coronado, California, parachutes in a tandem jump into a field in Carentan, Normandy, France, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. WWII: ETO. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, Eagles Nest
US Army, WWII 11th Airborne Paratrooper, born 1927. Turned 18 in 1945, drafted, sent to Japan as part of the postwar occupation force. Had to leave school, but finally 'graduated' alongside his grandson in 2020
WWII: PTO. Edson's 1st Marine Raider Battalion. Tulagi, New Georgia, and Guadalcanal (Battle of Bloody Ridge, first and second Matanikau, Tasimboko Raid)
(Born 1949) US Marine Corps Vietnam War Veteran. Company B, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. POW from 1968 to 1973. Recipient of a Bronze Star and 3 Purple Hearts
Retired U.S. Navy Master Chief Boatswain's Mate - WWII and Atomic veteran, served from 1940-1966, skipper of LCU-974, participated in four nuclear weapon test operations: Castle, Wigwam, Redwing, and Hardtack I
Veteran, born 1943, of the 101st Airborne, 327th Division that was called into service by President Eisenhower to protect the Little Rock Nine students integrating the high school in 1957
WWII - D-Day paratrooper. 82nd Airborne, 505th PIR, General Gavin's staff. His responsibilities included determining the drop zones for the Normandy invasion. 2nd combat jump (Operation Market Garden), also in the Battle of the Bulge
WWII: Battles of Midway, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinian. NASA: Explorer I (first US satellite 1958), Alan Shepard (Mercury-Redstone 3), Chief Engineer/Deputy Director for Apollo Space Program, Skylab, director Launch Operations Apollo-Soyuz '75
WWII: ETO, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. Featured in a famous Robert Capa photograph that appeared in Life magazine on May 14, 1945, taken on April 18, 1945, during fighting in Leipzig
WWII: D-Day. 29th Infantry Division. Severely wounded in the Battle of St. Lo (July 1944); returned to combat in the Battle of the Bulge and was Goering's MP at the Nuremberg Trials
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal (AR-4). Later served at Italy, France, the Battle of Casablanca, and also was a witness to the a-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll
WWII: Marine Corps fighter pilot; Korea: napalm runs at the Chosin Reservoir; Vietnam: flying for the CIA (Air America); stunt flights for the 2001 movie 'Pearl Harbor'
(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Served on the USS West Virginia. Went to Leyte Gulf, Sulu Sea, Lingayen Gulf, Surigao Strait, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Witnessed the Kamikaze attack on the West Virginia. At Tokyo Bay for the Surrender of Japan
WWII Nazi war criminal; worked as guard with an SS-trained attack dog at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for women; deported from US to Germany in 2006; only female Nazi war criminal to be caught & deported; now living with her sister in Viersen, Germany
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
(Born 1931) US Navy Korean War and Vietnam War veteran. Corpsman during Korea getting 2 Purple Hearts. Was a Navy Seal during Vietnam. 2 Bronze stars and 5 Purple Hearts
Spanish writer and linguist. 8th Count of Casa Dávalos and Grandee of Spain. President of the 'Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona' since 1965 and one of the last surviving veterans of The Spanish Civil War. He is now 98 and lives in Spain
WWII WAVES vet, born 1921. Raised pigeons as a girl, accepted into the Navy's pigeon program. Pigeons used mainly to communicate with blimps used for scouting enemy subs and more, avoiding the possible detection of radio messages
Canadian D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1923. He was in the first landing craft ashore and was the second man to hit the beach. He is now 91 and lives in Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
Last surviving Bletchley Park codebreaker who cracked a German cipher machine in WW2. He was among four members of the Testery section tasked with breaking the German Tunny code. Also known as 'Raymond 'Jerry' Roberts'
Green Beret presumed dead after his helicopter was shot down in a 1968 secret mission over Laos, has been found more than four decades later in south-central Vietnam/Can only speak Vietnamese
WWII: St. Lo. One of the two French kids sitting at the top of the destroyed St. Lo watching an US patrol driving through the rubble on June 15, 1944, in a very famous war photograph
WWII: St. Lo. One of the two French kids sitting at the top of the destroyed St. Lo watching an US patrol driving through the rubble on June 15, 1944, in a very famous war photograph
Vietnam US Army Airborne Infantry Vet/deployed 1969/Bronze Star for valor, Combat Infantry Badge, National Defense Service Medal, Sharpshooter Medal with auto rifle & rifle bars, Marksman Medal with machine gun bar & Parachutist's Badge
British WW2 veteran who was captured at the Fall of Singapore, he was sentenced to 15 years at Sakai Prison in Osaka and faced the the firing squad, only to be saved at the last second. Born: 1916. Recently turned 100. Lives in Canada
(Born 1959) US Air Force Gulf and Kosovo War Veteran. With three air-to-air combat victories, he joined 3 other USAF pilots as the closest to becoming a flying ace of any U.S. pilot since the Vietnam War. Flew F-15 Eagle's
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
Félix Ismael Rodríguez Mendigutia b.5/31/1941 former CIA officer known for involvement in Bay of Pigs Invasion, in interrogation & execution of Marxist guerilla Che Guevara & his ties to George H. W. Bush during Iran-Contra affair
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, Juno Beach. Royal Engineers, British 21st Army group. Landed in support of the 3rd Canadian Army Div where he would spend over a month under almost constant artillery/machine gun fire, helping bring ashore vital supplies
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island, Rogo claims he waved at one of the pilots, who waved back. Unbeknownst to him, this pilot was Japanese
WWII Veteran Floyd Rolf enlisted in the Army Air Corps in December of 1942. He initially trained to fly P-38s but ultimately flew C-47 troop carriers. Before he left for Europe in October of 1944, Rolf proposed to Peg, his high- school sweetheart. Th
WWII vet, born 1913. Served in the Philippines and Australia. In his life, saw Lou Gehrig's farewell speech, and met Martin Luther King Jr and Mother Teresa. At 24, drove himself to see a famous airship land, and ended up witnessing the Hindenburg explode
WWII Pearl Harbor survivor; chief turret officer USS Oklahoma, calling the crew the General Quarters rather unceremoniously with the words 'All hands, man your battle stations! This is no shit, Goddamn it! Jap planes are bombing us!'
Norwegian Army officer and broadcaster. He is known for his resistance work during World War II and his post-war war information work. He is also the last veteran of the legendary WW2 'Heroes of the Telemark' raid. He is now 96
CM Sgt. Ronald Roos 'Air Force Honor Guard/ Death Watch/'I was there when the presidents body was taken off Air Force one, I saw Mrs. Kennedy, still in the blood stained dress, standing in the doorway,' Roos said
US WWII Navy WAVE, born 1923. Too young for service, she began as a munitions worker Rosie in 1941. Joined the WAVES a couple years later, and worked as a mechanic in the Navy's Blimp program
Explorer/Byrd: geographic, air reconnaissance and photogrammetric officer to Admiral Byrd on two antarctic expeditions and served as Byrd's scientific advisor
Former United States Army officer and a Vietnam War veteran. For his actions during the war, Rose is scheduled to be presented the Medal of Honor on 23 October 2017 by United States President Donald Trump
WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1920, he claimed three victories during the Battle of Britain and flew three or four sorties each day. He is now 96 and lives in the UK
1950s Army Veteran and gay husband of Hubert Spires. He helped fight for a honorable discharge for Spires and they succeeded in 2017 when Spires got a honorable discharge from the US Military after over 60 years
American fighter pilot (Ret.)/As captain in the US Air Force, flew 30 missions in an F-16 Fighting Falcon during the Persian Gulf War. His book about his experiences in the war, titled Vipers in the Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot
1896-1973 U.S. lawyer, judge, Democratic political figure, and presidential speechwriter/Was FDR Special Counsel upon FDR's death Truman asked him to stay on, initially through V-E Day, then through V-J Day, and finally into 1946
WWII - D-Day, 2nd Battalion, The Glostershire Regiment. Frank's regiment was tasked to take the French town of Bayeux, 12 miles from Gold Beach, and fought in the Battle of Tilly-sur-Seulles, where some of the toughest combat took place
US WWII Merchant Marines (1928-2024). Joined the MM in 1942 at 14 years old, served in the S. Pacific and Atlantic. One of the last MM to attend the official Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for Merchant Marines in 2022
Officer of the United States Navy who received the first Medal of Honor of World War II. This award was made for his actions during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941
WWII: Highly decorated officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of Brigadier General. He is most noted for his service with the 1st Marine Division during the Battle of Okinawa. He placed the American flag at Mt. Shuri
WWII: Survivor of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion 1944, 320 dead; mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.) Later on the USS Ancon where he rejected an order and was given right by the white Captain
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
Was one of the last surviving French marine commandos who stormed ashore on Sword Beach, Normandy, on D-Day to initiate the liberation of their homeland
(No Kum-Sok) Sept 1953 2 months after Korean War ended with an armistice, a 21-year-old North Korean fighter pilot defected to a South Korean airfield with a state-of-the-art Russian fighter plane
WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa. The Lindsey was severely damaged by two kamikaze planes that crashed into her killing 57 sailors and wounding another 57
US Army Korean War Veteran. He was a POW from 1951 to 1953 in North Korea. 333 people of his battalion including him were taken as POWs and only 117 made it
WWII WAVES veteran, born 1915. She worked coding and decoding ship movements while based in San Francisco. Later used the GI Bill to get an education and become a teacher
Vietnam 1965 flew into Landing Zone X-Ray Ia Drang Valley on supply helicopter/Was supply officer for 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry Regiment 1st Cavalry Division Airmobile during 1st full-scale battle between American & North Vietnamese troops
British Army officer who earned the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre for organising guerrilla resistance in France and Burma; full name is Richard Arthur Rubinstein
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks. During the attack, Rubien helped burn classified documents, then picked up a gun and ammo and began shooting. Later served at Saipan, Guam, and the Marshall Islands
WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of USS Helena (CL-50) in the Battle of Kula Gulf, July 1943. Also Night Battle of Guadalcanal Nov. 1942 and the Battle of Cape Esperance (Oct. 1942) where he saw the USS Juneau (Sullivan brothers) sink
Female WWII veteran, snuck away from home to join the WAACs in 1942, becoming a WAC in 1943. Ran a night flight simulator for pilot training. Later in life had a nursing career
German nurse (Born: 1929) who was stationed at Hitler's bunker during the final days of WW2. She was 15 at the time and met Joseph Goebbels and his family on the day Hitler committed suicide. She is now 88 and lives in Germany
WWII: Navy fighter carrier pilot, flying in combat during World War II and the Korean War; including dive-bomber support for the First Marine Division during the battle of Guadalcanal, flying off the USS Saratoga
Marine Guard of Honor, JFK funeral/ enlisted in 1960 Two years after enlisting, they found themselves on separate boats off coast of Cuba, part of a flotilla that was prepared to invade the island if Cuban missile crisis came to a head
WWII: D-Day, landing near Ste. Marie Eglise, captured on D-Day; POW at Stalag 4B near the Czech border. Earlier combat jump in Operation Husky (Sicily, July 1943) and combat in Salerno, Italy. 505th PIR, HQ Company, 82nd Airborne Division
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