WWII: Sonarman in Mount 52, the 2nd 5-inch gun forward of the USS Laffey (DD-724 aka The Ship That Would Not Die). D-Day, Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
US Army WWII vet, born 1919. 158th Bushmasters, served in the Philippines, Australia, Germany. Rare survivor of both the 1918 Flu as an infant, and Covid-19 as a centenarian
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
WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Oakland from 1942 to 1946. Was in many battles in the Pacific incl. Coral Sea, Guam, Iwo Jima and Okinawa; near the USS Bunker HIll when she was hit by 2 Kamikaze; watched the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
US Army WWII vet, born 1923. Served from Normandy (days after D-Day) through the Bulge and the end of the war in the 550th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion
WWII: ETO. 5th Army, 36th Texas Division, 141st Regiment, Co I, 3rd Platoon. Battle of Monte Cassino, Operation Diadem (Velletri, Marched into Rome behind General Clark), Invasion of Southern France. Taken POW, spent 95 days in 5 camps)
One of Airbus founders & 1st President. Fought for French Resistance WW2. 1944 made commander of the Free French air forces in London, going on to become chief of staff of the French Forces of the Interior under General Koenig
WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group Manhattan Project Veteran
Military Veteran. Project Alberta. Army technician servicing the fusing electronics on the two Atomic Bombs on Tinian Island in the Western Pacific
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