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Survivor of the of HMS Royal Oak which was sunk by a German U-Boat at Scapa Flow in 1939
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Descendant of Edgar Allen Poe, the famous author and poet. He is professor of faith and culture at Union University in Jackson, Tenn
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A member of the Dallas Police Department on Nov. 22/63 and on Radio Car Duty , he went first to the TSBD and then to the location of the Tippet shooting
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WWII. PTO. Served on the submarine USS Skipjack, SS-184 (famous for the 'Battle for Toilet Paper')
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British Army officer best known for commanding the 5th Parachute Brigade, British 6th Airborne Division during the Battle of Normandy
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Member of Bundestag - Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery and a Federal Minister for Special Affairs
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astronaut
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astronaut
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Former National Security Advisor (1985-1986)
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WWII US Navy WAVES veteran, born 1919. Worked in Washington, DC as one of the Navy's code-breaking 'Code Girls'
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astronaut, STS-98 pilot
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nobel chem. laureate 1986
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cosmonaut
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WWII: ETO. Normandy, Northern France and Rhineland Campaigns. 79th Infantry Division. Bronze Star
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(Born 1921) USAAF WW2 Veteran. Served from 1942 to 1945. B-17 Pilot with the 365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group. He was shot down and was a POW from 1944 to 1945. Recipient of 1 Distinguished Flying Service Cross and a Purple Heart
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(Born 1924) USAAF WW2 Veteran. 18th Weather Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group
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Mafia gangster
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Member of the U.S.N. he served as part of the Honor Guard during President Kennedy's funeral
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2004 Nobel laureate physics
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air force general
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WWII veteran, born in the Ukraine and served in the Soviet Army (1942-45)
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JFK/Kennedy/Served as a staff member on the President's Commission on the Assassination of JFK, unofficially known as the Warren Commission
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Former Arlington National Cemetery caretaker; the man who dug the grave of President John F. Kennedy
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Dallas policeman in '63 , he participated in the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theatre
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American poet, essayist and critic. Her writing focuses on political & social issues from a left-leaning perspective, including abortion, racism, welfare reform, feminism, & poverty. She writes the 'Subject to Debate' column for The Nation
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Lawyer, born 1928. Served as Supreme Court law clerk to Chief Justices Vinson and Warren. Wrote the final draft of the iconic Brown v. Board of Education case decision that the justices then unanimously voted for. Later, an attorney in the U.S. Department
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
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WWII: Royal Canadian Navy 1942-1945. Served on the destroyer HMCS Huron (G24) protecting four Arctic convoys to Murmansk, also supported the D-Day landings in June 1944. Also served on the HMCS Pictou and HMCS Poundmaker
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Granddaughter of General Dmitriy Fedorovich Polyakov 'crown jewel' of US counterintelligence efforts & who for decades during Cold War had clandestinely worked to help western countries fight the Soviet system/Betrayed by Aldrich Ames
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Cosmonaut
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German WWII awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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American sexologist. He was a frequent co-author with Alfred C. Kinsey
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Director of the CIA, US House Representaive for Kansas, US Army (retired), Tea Party activist
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Fought at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. WWII Veteran featured in the HBO Miniseries 'The Pacific'. Pictured in the iconic Peleliu photograph of a Marine resting exhausted after 36 hours of combnat, helmeted head in his hands
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Brunhilde Pomsel (born 11 January 1911) was a personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels. She worked for Goebbels from 1942 onwards, and is one of the last surviving eyewitnesses of the Nazi power apparatus. After the war, she was sentenced by the Soviets to 5
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Flying Tigers-engineering specialist
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Philippine former Senate President. Secretary of National Defense under Ferdinand Marcos. Guerilla fighter during WWII
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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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Vietnam US Army Vet 1970-1971, 1st Calvary Infantry, ran patrols in hills and mountains
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1922) who was one the last soldiers to be drafted up for the conflict. He is also one of more than 200 living soldiers of 'La Quinta del Biberon' (Draft of the Baby's bottle)
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astronaut
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The last verified French World War One Veteran.Born: 12/07/1897
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 28th Marines, 5th MarDiv
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'I'm Not A Cat' Meme. Tx Lawyer who joined court proceeding with a cat filter on Zoom
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WWII: Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Okinawa. USS Balch
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Son of Civil War Soldier Charles Parker Pool
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USAAF Fighter Ace, 8th FG, 35th FS - 5 Kills
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 6 victories, Pacific Theater. US Navy, VF-39, VF-17, flew the Hellcat
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First British soldier to land in France on D-Day
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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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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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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(Born 1967) US Marine Corps Gulf War and Iraq War Veteran. Was part of the unit that toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein. Recipient of a Silver Star and Purple Heart
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US Air Force pilot that was shot down in 1958 over Indonesia, was secretly working for the CIA helping the rebels to overthrow the Indonesian government
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Medal of Honor, USMC, World War II
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Roboticists James Pope of Shadow Robot Co. in England led the assembly of the bionic man from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world/First Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes
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American Chemist. Born: 08/22/1918
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Author - Journalist - Media Commentator - Former Ministry of Defense lead UFO Investigator - frequent guest on History Channel's Ancient Aliens - NASA's Unexplained Files - Open Skies, Closed Minds, The Uninvited, Operation Thunder Child and more
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Ronco, does a lot of infomercials
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1 of the 9 miners in the Pennsylvania mine
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Cosmonaut
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US Army 4 Star General
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Imaging team leader for cassini probe at the planet Saturn
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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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JFK: Part of drill team that escorted President Kennedy's remains up the driveway to the North Portico when they arrived at the White House
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Served in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross
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Took the Pulitzer Prize winning photo of a fireman holding a child in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing
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George Porter (2)
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WWII: PTO. USS Bunker Hill 1943-1945, survivor of the Kamikaze attack on 11 May 1945
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Daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald
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WWII - 12th Armorded Division; led first squad across the Danube River via Dillingen Bridge
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American academic known for his theories on economics, business strategy, and social causes. He is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School, and he was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group and FSG
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WWII: USMC fighter pilot, Began flying with VMF-121 and transfered to VMF-111 flying the F4F Wildcat. Moved once again to VMF-121 and flew the F4U Corsair. He scored 3 victories during this time. Later returned flying the F6F & scored 2 more victories
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Daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald who was implicated in the assassination of JFK John F. Kennedy
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Real life person for the movie 'Gridiron Gang'
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WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
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NASA pilot - Global Hawk high-altitude aircraft and small remotely piloted aircraft. He also flies NASA's B200 King Air mission support aircraft. And flew the MQ-9 Ikhana, which carried instruments for environmental Earth science studies
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Cuban exile militant and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent (Born: 1928). He is considered to be 'one of the most dangerous terrorists in recent history'. Age: 88. He now lives in Miami, U.S.A
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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Holocaust/Polish/1942 arrested by Gestapo on suspicion of distributing anti-Nazi leaflets/Survived Auschwitz& Birkenau concentration camps/Author of many including 1959 radio play The Passenger in Cabin 45 which was adapted into 1962 novel
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SS Commando, Peace activist
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Invented 'Pop - Tarts' for Kellogg's in 1964 (1927-2024)
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Postal called the police on November 22, 1963, to report that JFK-assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was in the cinema; 'Texas Theater'
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North Carolina police officer that arrested the Olympic Park Bomber, Eric Rudolph. He now works as an office at the Boston College
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Deadly recall detective retired NYPD
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WW2/served at the end of WWII in occuped Japan. On V-J Day, his ship was in the process of crossing the international dateline, and his witnessed historic celebrations among his fellow sailors
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US Marine/Fall of Saigon Vietnam/Guarded embassy and was on the 2nd to-last helicopter out/Presently a Lawyer
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Member of the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo--WWII
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'Royal Air Force Test Pilot for the Development Flights of the Man-Powered Aircraft Jupiter'
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Flight scientist NASA chairman of the Board of Directors of the Astronauts
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USS Arizona survivor, Pearl Harbor
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WW2 - Ploesti Raid
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma. (1920-2006)
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World War 2 veteran. Tuskegee Airman
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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WWII - Fighter Ace born 12/31/1920, 6 victories. VF-16 (USS Lexington CV-16). Flew Hellcat and F4Wildcat
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Robert Pound, a Harvard physicist whose elegant experiments confirmed a key part of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and who helped lay the groundwork for the magnetic resonance imaging technology now widely used in medicine
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Internet scientist CYCLADES French Born April 20. 1931
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1922 with Army Air Service, where he was one of the 1st enlisted pilots. After a Miami air show in 1934, was invited to inspect Cuba?s air facilities & pilots, & became head of Cuban Air Force. Originated the Cuban Eight aerial maneuver
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Flight aviator air Force test pilot
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WWII: Pacific. Served on the USS John Penn (survived her sinking after a Japanese air attack on Aug. 13, 1943) and the USS President Hayes
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Police Officer Involved in The Rodney King beating
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Military
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Pulitzer Prize Winning Jazz Pianist/Composer. Big Band/Jazz HOF/During World War II, Powell was drafted into the U.S. Army, but fought his battles from a piano stool, having been assigned to Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band from 1943 to 1945
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American attorney, former federal prosecutor, and conspiracy theorist who attempted to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
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William Powell (3) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale
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WWII: ETO. Fighter pilot 328th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, 8th AF
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WWII: Served on the USS Balch from 1939-1943. Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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Blue Origin astronaut mission NS-18 (Shatner flight)
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Member of the Band of Brothers, Easy Company 506th PIR 101st. Airborne
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(August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident
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Last Female World War One Veteran (Canadian)Born: 05/10/1899
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Time Team
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WWII veteran, born 1925, served on the USS Bismarck Sea. Supported the Iwo Jima campaign, and survived the ship's sinking there by the Japanese
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US Navy SEAL, born 1947. UDT for Apollo 12 recovery team
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WWII - D-Day veteran, wounded during the landing at Omaha Beach, laid out on the beach all night
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astronaut
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Belarussian opposition journalist, jailed after his Ryanair plane was forced down while overflying Belarus
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WW2 air ace - 9 Kills - US Navy - Navy Cross
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US Navy WAVE of WWII, born 1923. Began wartime service as a 'Rosie' in an ammunitions depot, 1942. Joined the Navy, served 1943-1945. Trained as an airplane mechanic, but due to biases against women, was given bookkeeper/supply work to do
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WWII - Witness to the Japanese bombardment of coastal targets near Santa Barbara, CA on February 23, 1942, an event that was the inspiration for the John Belushi movie "1941"
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Korean War - Frank Praytor is the Seargent that adoped and looked after a two-week old kitten, he named 'Miss Hap', during the height of the Korean War, as is pictured in a famous War photograph, dated October 18, 1952
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Astronaut
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American environmental conservationist, mariner, writer and educator. He is the founder of Living Lands & Waters
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Played by Susan Sarandon in the film 'Dead man walking'
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Nobel Laureate Economics
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One of the developers of the KH-9 Hexagon's panoramic camera system
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WWII: Served on LST-474 in the Pacific
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WWII veteran, 45th Infantry Division. Part of the campaigns of Italy: Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio. Saw Mussolini's body hung in an Italian square, and one of the first groups to liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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Landed a helicopter on the White House lawn in 1974
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WWII vet. WAC 1943-1946 - Army Good Conduct medal, WAC Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Honorable Service Lapel Pin
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Ron 'Big Ron' Previte is a former federal witness, Philadelphia police officer and member of the Philadelphia crime family.[1] Previte was born in West Philadelphia and later grew up in Hammonton, New Jersey to a first-generation Sicilian-American fath
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WWII: MTO. Operation Dragoon (Invasion of Southern France). US Army
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One of the last survivors to have served in FDR's top-secret Map Room
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Employee of the Union Terminal Co . , J.C. witnessed the assassination of President Kennedy from the roof of the Terminal Annex Building
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group Manhattan Project Veteran Military Veteran
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A quarterback from West Jefferson, Ohio, he was the backup for Team Captain George Lynn on the 1942 Ohio State National Championship team. Paul completed Army Air Force pilot training and flew 64 combat missions in Europe during WWII
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Ww2 german fighter pilot, publisher author of thank you canada
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WWII Nazi War Criminal. Born: 07/29/1913. Responsible for killing 335 Italian civilists in May 1944 at the Fosse Ardeartine
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Mapmaker at Camp Malakole. Since he was familiar with the locations, he was called to pick up his skipper to drive him to Pearl Harbor where they arrived during the second wave of the attack and got strafed
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WWII: 9th Armored Division Headquarters Company, Reconnaissance Patrols. Among the first Americans to dash across the Luddendorf Bridge at Remagen, and one of those who painted the famous sign at the bridge
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French military officer who was involved in the sining of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985
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Former US Navy SEAL, founder and former CEO of security company Blackwater, USA
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Alamo Scout Leader of WWII raid on Cabanatuan POW Camp
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Also known as Kyril of Saxe-Coburg Bulgarian royalty
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guiness record holder for the world's largest natural breasts/model/actress
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WWII: Fighter Pilot, 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group
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Dutch woman who saved the lives of many Jews during the Holocaust
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Tom Pritchard (2) Australian WW2 veteran. Last living Rats of Tobruk, the first Allied troops to defeat German troops
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WWII: PTO. USS Nicholas
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A student at Cistercian Preparatory School in Dallas in '63 , he received parental permission to attend Pres. Kennedy's motorcade and kept the original permission slip which he donated to the Sixth floor Museum
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GM engineer, born 1929. Project Engineer for the Lunar Rover training model the astronauts trained with on earth
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, battle of Okinawa
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WWII: PTO. Poi-Namur, Kwajalein, Atoll, Marshall Island, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Tinian and Iwo Jima. USMC
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Montgomery
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Historian TCU Fort Worth/Held Cecil & Ida Green Emeritus Chair TCU History Department/ 1979 to 1980, President Texas Historical Association. Played football with the Los Angeles Rams
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SpaceX astronaut Inspiration4 crew. aka. Dr. Sian Proctor
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, 116th IR, 29th Division. DSC
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Ukrainian military officer
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Sergei Valeriyevich Prokopyev is a Russian cosmonaut. He is the commander of Soyuz MS-09, and flight engineer of Expedition 56/57 to the International space station
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mountaineer
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WWII: One of the last 'Rats of Tobruk'. The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Rommel's Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk, Lybia
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WWII: D-Day, first wave. Gunner on LST-515. One of the few men left of disastrous Exercise Tiger (D-Day landing practice, April 28, 1944), when German E-Boats attacked the practicing LSTs and sank 2 LSTs,damaging 2 others, killing 746 men
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Retired USN Admiral
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WW 2 pilot Tuskegee airmen
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Romanian cosmonaut
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Nobel medicine laureate 1997
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An award-winning developer and authority in polymer concrete, Richard Prusinski is known as the 'father' of the polymer concrete industry
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American Senior Research Scholar of Economics at Swarthmore College, widely known for his role in a noted Cold War Spy swap depicted in Steven Spielberg's 2015 film 'Bridge of Spies'
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Air Force General
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Holocaust Survivor portrayed in film 'Memoirs of Holocaust'
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia
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Born Dec. 8, 1926. One of the most decorated military figures in history.With the Medal of Honor, Puckett will now have the following military citations: Medal of Honor (Korea) Distinguished Service Cross (Vietnam) Silver Star with first Oak Leaf Clu
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astronaut
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Author of My Final Re-Spot: A young sailor's misfortune on the flight deck of the USS Forrestal CV-59; American Naval veteran
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WWII - D-Day Omaha Beach; 1st Infantry Division; of the 38 men of his platoon, only 9 survived by the end of the war
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Reptile specialist, starred on wildboys
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WWII: PTO. Edson's Raiders. Three Purple Hearts
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Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, is now living in Great Britain / England
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Test pilot
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WWII - Navy veteran, observed the first flag raising in Iwo Jima, Japan, while aboard the LSM 241
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Mountain climber who holds numerous world records. Fastest to climb all 14 'eight-thousander' mountains in the world, Ascended Everest, Lhotse and Makalu in 48 hours, was the first to do a winter ascent of K2
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WWII: ETO. B-17 pilot. 379th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 35 missions, mostly over Germany (Merseburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen). Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters
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Was the California Highway Patrol officer who arrested Charles Manson in Death Valley, Oct 1969
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Witness to the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee (1912-2007). Sat front row to the outdoor final arguments by Darrow and Jennings, as well as an indoor spectator at times. One of the last living witnesses, she was interviewed for many outlets
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WWII: Serving with the Royal Army Service Corps, he was evacuated from Dunkirk (1940) in a frigate
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WW1 Veteran/Oldest pensioner - Deceased 2006
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Subject of the film 'Walking Tall'
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Flight astronaut
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JFK - DFL activist who planned Kennedy's campaign trips to Minnesota in 1960 and traveled with him. 'Political' advance man for Dallas, working with Agent Lawson. Rode in the 'pilot car' in Dallas a couple of blocks ahead of the motorcade
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WWII veteran who was stationed in Spain during the Spanish Ciivil War, while in the Navy. He helped in the evacuation of Americans from Spain at the time. Belved to the be the last surviving American assocated with that war.. Born 5/31/1918
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Controversal philosopher
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A DPD inspector , Putnam was one of three drivers who drove LBJ , Lady Bird and their party from Parkland Hospital to Love Field after JFK's death
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Milt Putnam, a former U.S. Navy chief photographer, chronicled with his cameras the recovery of the astronauts of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 24, 1969, in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii
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American political scientist. Most famous (& controversial) work, Bowling Alone, argues that the US has undergone an unprecedented collapse in civic, social & political life (social capital) since the 1960s w/ serious negative consequences
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NASA Payload Specialist
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Bagley (DD-386)
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World Renowned Lepidopterist
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George Pyne (2) D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1920. He is now 94 and lives in Exeter, Devon, UK. He was on a landing craft when a mine exploded under it and survived. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
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Swedish geneticist specialising in the field of evolutionary genetics and a Nobel prize laureate
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WWII: ETO. 17th Airborne Division, Battle of the Bulge, Operation Varsity (March 1945)
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Ringling Brother?s Circus Fire
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WWII: CBI. Combat cameraman of the Merrill's Marauders, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit. Post-war, he filmed the first television commercial ever and worked in Hollywood with Burt Lancaster, Alan Alda, Anthony Perkins, a.o
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US Army Air Corps stateside WWII plane mechanic, born 1916. Last living 1947 charter member of the North Dakota National Guard
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Army General
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) (/ U.S. Marine Corps Guard
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Author and historian
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Scientist
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Daughter of former vice president Dan Quayle
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US Army Col. (1884-1926). Wounded at Argonne in WWI, made aid-de-camp to Gen. Pershing in May 1918. Rode with him in the London victory parade, and continued as Pershing's aid after the war. Died unexpectedly of pneumonia at 41
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Swiss astronomer. He is a professor at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor at the University of Geneva. He shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Peebles and Michel Mayor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa
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JFK - Met President Kennedy at the White House on 2 August 1962 when he met with Members of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs; at the time, Joyce was the President of the Nat'l Association of Colored Girls Clubs
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survivor of the Titanic
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Fighter ace
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dobbin
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One of the last witnesses to the launch of R.M.S Titanic in 1912. He is now 105 and still lives in east Belfast, Northern Ireland
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American WWII Fighter Ace (5 Victs.) - USAAF
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 29th infantry division
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Filipino WWII veteran. Oldest member of the Hunter's ROTC Guerilla Unit of the Philippines. He was part of the liberation of Fort McKinley, USAFFE's headquarters
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One of four known 1906 San Francisco Earthquake survivors. Born: 1904, Lives in Watsonville, California
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He escaped from San Quentin prison while serving time for armed robbery and then commited a series of crimes. He was finally captured by J. Edgar Hoover's F.B.I. and sentenced to Alcatraz.Jim Quillen was incarcerated on Alcatraz from 1942 to 1952.
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Member of the crew of the ''Memphis Belle''--1st B-17 bomber during WWII to fly 25 missions!
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USN Admiral
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Thomas Quinn (2)District Attorney for Bristol County,MA
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WWII PTO: HMAS Australia. Veteran of the First Battle of Savo Island (August 8-9, 1942), when the Allied forces werew crushingly defeated
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Poet, Vietnam War Veteran
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US WWII Tuskegee Airmen, born 1925. Served stateside as an airplane mechanic. Degree in accounting, then worked for Pan Am Airlines and later the Treasury Dept
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WWII Veteran, D-Day, Omaha Beach Normandy, France. 5th Rangers Battalion. Has an article about him on D-DAY Eyewitness Accounts Of WW2
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Born in Neustadt-Glewe on 2 October 1923, was a guard at two concentration camps from November 1944 until April 1945
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Co-inventor of games, including Twister. Also an author and illustrator
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Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate born 29 July 1898. Worked on the 'Manhattan Project' (Trinity). Nobel laureate 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance.
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Born Williamsburgh, Brooklyn c. 1934, is an Italian-American Bonnano crime family mobster and reputed acting boss or consigliere of the Bonanno family
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WWII: US Navy. Scotland; Russia; Caribbean
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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
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Former Prime Minister of Fiji after leading a series of military coups
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German political activist and ship captain (Sea-Watch), born 1988
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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
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JFK Assassination/Texas School Book Depository Clerk employee bookkeeping department for six months in 1963 Virgie Rackley a.k.a. Mrs. Donald Sam Baker, says she never meet or knew Lee Harvey Oswald
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Robert Rackstraw (2) 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
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Holocaust survivor
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American serial killer who murdered 10 people in and around Wichita, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. He was known as the BTK killer
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British folk-singer/songwriter, youngest known participant in D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1928. He is now 88 and lives in the UK
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WWII: Pearl Harbor Survivor, 7 December 1941, served on the USS California
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WWII, German Fighter pilot, Jagdgeschwader 51 (JG 51)
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WWII: B-24 bomber pilot of the 53rd Bomb Group, 753rd Squadron, 8th Air Force, who was instructed by none other than Jimmy Stewart himself
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air force general
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TWA PILOT/Race and Test Pilot
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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
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS McCawley (AP-10) off the coast of Guadalcanal Island, 30 June 1943
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WW2 Pilot
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Retired General
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June 15, 1919 - January 23, 2011 Texas lawyer for more than fifty years. She was the first female prosecutor in Dallas County, Texas. She spearheaded a coalition to establish the Marital Property Act of 1967, and the Texas Family Code
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American economist, syndicated columnist, and entrepreneur
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Nepalese Gurkha awarded the Victoria Cross in June 1944
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Unverified World War 1-Era Veteran from Nepal served in Gurkha Regiment. Lives in United States (New Hampshire) Born: 01/01/1900
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United States Congress from 1967-1983 for Illinois's 19th congressional district/last surviving members of the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Richard M. Nixon
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Member of the AVG-Flying Tigers WWII--[3.5 victories]
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Spy/March 8, 1971 with her Husband John, took a lock pick and a crowbar and broke into a Federal Bureau of Investigation office in a suburb of Philadelphia, making off with nearly every document inside
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Spy/March 8, 1971 with his wife Bonnie, took a lock pick and a crowbar and broke into a Federal Bureau of Investigation office in a suburb of Philadelphia, making off with nearly every document inside
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Survivor of the 1970 Kent State shooting. Went to the demonstrations with friend Dean Kahler, who was shot and paralyzed. In the moments after the attack, he cradled the bloodied Sand Sheuer as she lay dying
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United States Army general, serves as the commanding general of United States Army Futures Command
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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)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII air force hero & Ace (275 victories)
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51st Oldest Living Person in the World. Born: 10/17/1899
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Ringling Brother?s Circus Fire
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Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (1996-2000); Supreme Allied Commander Europe NATO (2000-03)
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Military
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WWII Pilot aboard the USS Enterprise - Took part in the 'Marianas Turkey Shoot), Commander of USS Independence, RADM, Navy Cross Recipient
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(born 1952, Indian-born American and British structural biologist, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, 'for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome'
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Engineer
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Member of the Munich branch of the student resistance group White Rose. Born: 10/11/1913
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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WWII: 91st Coast Artillery, Philippine Scouts. POW. Bronze Star
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Serial Killer- 'Night Stalker'
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'The Jackal' (assassin)
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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
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WWII German Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot Ace with 46 victories
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Author, historian - Unbroken Will
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American Physicist.Born:05/13/1913
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Nobel peace laureate 1996
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British Army officer, served in the Indonesia?Malaysia confrontation and Northern Ireland
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World War One Veteran
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1989 Nobel Prize Winning Physicist. Born:08/27/1915
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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
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navy admiral
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navy
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Randall has been variously described as a 'serial killer', despite only having two convictions for murder, and as a 'notorious criminal'.
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American theoretical physicist and leading expert on particle physics and cosmology
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WWII: ETO. Radio Operator, 297th Combat Engineering Battalion. Normandy, northern France, Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. Bronze Star
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International Brigade Rakosi Battalion, XIII Brigade
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One of two last survivors, and the last female, of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. Born: 1915. She recently celebrated her 105th birthday. She lives in the USA
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Sister of Buell Wesley Fraizer JFK November 22 1963
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WWII - Local Californian baseball icon; contemporary witness of the Port Chicago, CA, disaster in July 1944
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'Royal Air Force Group Captain Battle of Britain Museum Hendon'
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Civil Rights Activist (1889-1979). Founder of Pullman Car Porter union, 1925. Led push to have FDR and Truman end military discrimination and segregation. Official head of the 1963 March on Washington. Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1964
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Retired Air Force General
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, aboard the USS Sacramento
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WWII Ace (10 Kills) 56th Fighter Group - USAAF - DSC
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Inventor, TIME's First-Ever Kid of the Year (2020)
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Scientist
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Flight scientist NASA Flight Director
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Veteran of both World War 1 and World War 2
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1918-2010) , survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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Human rights activist and advocate of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in America
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Danish WWII Veteran
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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
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first officer on the D.B. Cooper flight in 1971
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British Nobel Laureate physician-scientist. He is best known for his work on cellular reactions to hypoxia, for which he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William Kaelin Jr. and Gregg L. Semenza
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Norwegian WWII resistance fighter and politician
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WWII: PTO. 5th Air Force, 43rd Bomb Group, 63 Squadron
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Estonian-Swedish art historian, editor, and journalist.
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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Scientist
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American historian of education and educational policy analyst. Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. In 2013, she joined forces with writer and former teacher, Anthony Cody, to create the The Network for Public Education
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Iban Scout from Johore in Malaya, who won the British George Cross for gallantry
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WW II Sailor; survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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David Ray (3)
US Secret Service, Pres. Nixon to Reagan -
(Born 1954) US Marine Corps Gulf War Veteran. 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion, 1st Marine Division. Received the Navy Cross. Retired as a Colonel
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American criminal convicted of the assassination of civil rights and anti-war activist Martin Luther King, Jr
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinian. USMC
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One of oldest people in the world. Born:05/17/1895 Lives in New Hampshire. 2nd Oldest Person in the World One of only three people living today born in the year 1895
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. First Marine Division
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Owner of the Venice Beach Freakshow that was once a sideshow attraction located on the historic Venice Beach in California. Had own reality series known as 'FreakShow' on AMC
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WWII. PTO. USS John C. Butler. Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Leyte Gulf, a.o
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Tuskegee Airmen pilot
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WWII - Pearl Harbor. US Navy. The first diver to enter the sunken USS Arizona. Author of the book 'Descent into Darkness'. Born Oct. 18, 1920
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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
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WWII: ETO. 333rd Squadron, 944th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. DFC
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One of six teens that went to JFK Airport to see the Beatles in 1964 and Ringo Starr took a picture of them. Pictured in Starr's book 'Photograph'
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Survived both collapses of the twin towers of the WTC while in the Marriot Hotel on the WTC complex
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WWII: 1st Bn, 27th Marine Regiment. Served in North Afric and the Pacific Theater
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Parachuted into Normandy France as part of the Normandy Invasion 6 June 1944 as well as a 95 year ols 75 years later
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(Born 1922) US Coast Guard WW2 Veteran. Utah Beach D-Day
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Connally's press rep., delivered one of 1st eyewitness reports FK's assassination to media, nationally prominent Texan corporate communications & public affairs counselor part of state's business & political scene for 1/2+ a century
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Was the arresting officer of the Kray brothers
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Eric Bana played his life story in 'Chopper'
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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
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Donut Dolly in Vietnam. Author
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Flight astronaut sts-42,51,79
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JFK - Secret Service 1960-1981, on the right front running board of the follow-up car in the Dallas motorcade, pictured in a series of famous Kennedy assassination photographs
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Typhoon of 3 June 1945. US Navy, LST-1122
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WWII: PTO. Defense of Corregidor 1942. POW. Camp Cabantuan. Hellship Totori Maru. Osaka Camp #1, slave labor. Osaka Sakai Prison. 60th Coast Artillery
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American supercentenarian and currently the oldest black person in the world. Born in 1898
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US centenarian, born 2020. Served in the Civilian Conservation Corps (1938-39), then in the Air Force in Germany at the end of WWII (1945-46)
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Burned but not taken to Hartford Hospital for 4 days. Then taken to hospital run by Army doctors - so could be given penicillin for the infections. It had not yet been released for use by civilians
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WWII: Montford Point Marine (first African-American Marines), served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam
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Dick Reavis was the reporter who asked a Branch Davidian member where Mt. Carmel was, tipping off the group of the impending ATF raid. Helped transport wounded ATF Agent to EMS on hood of his truck
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Air evacuation nurse for the U.S. Army Air Force
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Veteran of Polish-Soviet War. Born: 1907 (1920 Battle of Warsaw)
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The owner and occupier of the Palmer family home, seen in Twin Peaks. She appears onscreen in the final episode of the series
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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
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Battle of Stalingrad survivor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS San Faancisco
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United Airlines Flight 232 co-pilot
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WWII - Flying Tiger Ace, 10.5 victories
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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
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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
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Born in 1898. Claims to have fought in the Mexican Revolution. Lives in Illinois, U.S.A
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(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
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Political campaigner
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) who knew Richard Bong, Top American Ace of WWII
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney
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101st airborne, c co- not band of brothers
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Co - founder of the music group The Dramatics. He witnessed the events at the Algiers Motel in 1967 and was harassed and beaten brutally by the police. The movie Detroit was based on these events
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Sam Reed (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Former Secretary of the Air Force
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German Author/Publicist, Victim of the Reemtsma-Kidnapping in 1996
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Last man out of the tunnel in the Great Escape during WWII
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Scientist
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air force general
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Futurist, historian, author, keynote speaker, businessman. Books include the award-winning 'Infinite Progress: How Technology and the Internet Will End Ignorance, Disease, Hunger, Poverty, and War.'
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Civil rights activist, educator (born 1929). One of the 'Courageous Eight' who helped organize the Selma Marches in 1965, and the man who extended an invitation to Martin Luther King to join them
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Ward, , which is credited with firing the first U.S. shots of World War II
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air ace usaf 475th squadron satan's angels
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Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science
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World war 2 fighter ace- 6 kills - 530th FS, p-51, pt-22, p-40, c-45, bt-13, c-47, at-6, b-25,pq-13, b-26
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Archaeologist and social historian.
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Young schoolgirl who was at the 1963 Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed 5 others
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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German tank ace in World War 2, at least 17 tank kills (was awared the Ritterkreut after his 17th victory)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Utah. Later served on the USS St. Louis in the Battles of Kula Gulf and Kolombangara
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII French Resistance double agent and composer/lyricist (1922-2002). Co-wrote the Christmas classic 'Do You Hear What I Hear' with his wife in 1962
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Born 1942 US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. 2 Bronze Stars and Legion of Merit
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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
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Former general in the German Democratic Republic's army
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Captured Green River Killer; US Representative-Wash.;
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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
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Harry Reid (3) Retired rocket engineer, hired to work with Von Braun's team in 1958. Worked on the recently launched Explorer I satellite project, and then a career at NASA, with contributions to the Apollo and Skylab missions
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NASA Operations Engineer - Airborne Science Program
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Scottish Flight Lieutenant WW II was awarded the Victoria Cross for action during air combat over Dusseldorf, Germany on November 3, 1943
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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
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
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astronaut
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First Disneyland Ambassador (1965) and 2015 Disney Legend. She hosted along with Walt Disney the 'Disneyland 10th Anniversary' episode of 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.'
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Raleigh
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Deemed the 'mother of comfort food,' Dorcas Reilly led the team that created the Green Bean Casserole in 1955, while working as a staff member in the Home Economics department of the Campbell Soup Company
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Flight astronaut sts-89,104
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WWII veteran. Honored by the President during the 2019 State of the Union Address
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Commnader Military Sealift Command
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JFK: Military Academy at West Point Cadet representative at a White House reception in early 1961
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army general chief of staff
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Air Force General
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JFK - Member of The Old Guard, serving the Kennedy family and also Honor Guard at the funeral of John F. Kennedy
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WWII: PTO. 1st Marines Division. Battle of Cape Gloucester , Battle of Peleliu.Wounded twice
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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Survivor of the sinking of the S.S. Andrea Doria in 1956 (Born: 1935) He was 21 at the time and was one of 1,706 passengers and crew on the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria . He lives in Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Former general of the German Democratic Republic's army
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Korean War: Battle of Chosin Reservoir, US Marine Corps
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WWII Fighter Ace, F4F Wildcat Pilot - US Navy - 9 Kills - Navy Cross
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Israeli Professor of Chemistry and D.H.C. Enrique Berman Professor of Solar Energy at Institute of Chemistry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, author of 532 scientific papers cited more than 30,000 times
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Niece of Greta Garbo
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Last living client of Frank Lloyd Wright, born 1924. Wright designed a house for Reisley and his wife in 1951. Was still living in the same house at 100 years old
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Astronaut; spent three months in space in 2008, including a seven hour spacewalk
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Astronaut
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia. Surrender Tokyo Bay
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Journalist and author who survived Jonestown
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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
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Neosho (AO-23). Born July 8, 1919.
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Former cosmonaut from Czechoslovakia, the first Czechoslovak in space (the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States)
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Firearm manufacturer and designer. Founder of the Remington Arms Company
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commander 18th wing
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Gun Entrepreneur Died 1892
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WWII PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid
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US Air Force, Korea and Vietnam, born 1932. Served stateside during Korean War, then to Vietnam with the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing
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American polymer chemist, inventor, and professor emeritus. He is noted for his contribution to the development of Teflon. Born: 10/12/1910
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Flight scientist NASA Human Space Flight
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Military
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U.S. Attorney General (1993-2001)
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army general
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Air Force General
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Former Tristan da Cunha island chief
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WII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Trained for the Marine Air Corps, he never flew but had to endure sniper attacks at Okinawa where his CO was killed
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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
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Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 ? January 28, 1986) was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died when the Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed during the launch of mission STS-51-L
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Filipino-American journalist and author, the co-founder and CEO of Rappler, and a Nobel Peace Prize 2021 laureate
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Colombian American Supercentenarian born 1906
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Author/Editor at Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security
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Adventurer, fist swede to climb Mt Everest
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British engineer (Born: 1912) who worked as personal assistant to the creator of TV John Logie Baird in the 1930's. He is one of the great pioneering engineers of British television in the 1930's. He is now 104 and lives in East Anglia, UK
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Former FBI Associate Deputy Director/Noted Homeland Security Advisor, Appointed to SuperCom Advisory Board
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WWII: Arctic convoy (Murmansk) veteran, D-Day veteran (HMCS Algonquin)
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Russian cosmonaut that was selected in 1996, and completed spaceflight training in 1998. He served as a crew member aboard the International Space Station, having launched on his first spaceflight on 15 May 2012 and returned
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Russian cosmonaut. Flew on Soyuz TMA-04M / ISS-31 / ISS-32. Graduated from Moscow Institute of electronical technics, 1989 with an engineering degree; worked until 1993 for NPO IT, Korolyov, then for the GKB within the RKKE; was selected as cosmonaut on
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Thornton
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor at Schofield Barracks, 7 December 1941
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Centenarian - World War I Vet Born: 05/04/1901
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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
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma, Navy Seaman First Class
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Air Force General
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Mastermind of the Great Train Robbery, Author of 'The Autobiography of a Thief'
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WWII - Iwo Jima. Corporal in the Baker Co. 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of the 4th Marine Division, Also Roi-Namur, Saipan, and Tinian
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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
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Jim Reynolds (2)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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air force general
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WWII: Veteran (2nd Marine Division) of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian
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Civil rights lawyer and jurist
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Political Activist imprisoned for burning a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Served in Pearl Harbor, Luzon, Guadalcanal, the Northern Solomons, and Manila. Us Army
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Went to Oran, Africa, Sicily, Italy, and the Philippines during the war. USS Boise
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Former Executive Director of the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum and now serves as the Cincinnati Reds team historian
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American writer and historian. Won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for non-fiction in 2006 and has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She won a 2012 Whiting Award
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(Born 1986) US Air Force Afghanistan and Iraq War Veteran. Recipient of an Air Force Cross and 3 Purple Hearts
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Scientist, founder 'Community of Sant'Egidio'
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Tuskegee Airman
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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)
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Labor and consumer rights activist known as the 'Ralph Nader of Harlem' Born 1919,
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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
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Author and historian
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He was the first helicopter pilot to fly Lyndon Johnson as President on the evening of Nov.22/63
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Wounded in the hip and later got the Purple Heart
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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
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Air Force General
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Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11). Later on transport USS Kittson in the Battle of Okinawa
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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
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President of Planned Parenthood
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Dave Richards (2)Retired Royal millitary
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Centenarian. She and her sister Marjorie Ruddles were recognized as the oldest living sisters until her died in December 2012
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Archaeologist Presenter, BBC2 Meet the Ancestors, Blood of the Vikings. Mapping the Town, Radio Four.
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WWII: MTO. Anzio. Darby's Ranger
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astronaut
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Flight astronaut sts-28,41,50,64
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WWII US Navy (b. 1923) Served on USS Valve and USS Hitchiti. Marshall Islands, Leyte, Luzon, and Okinawa campaigns
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Retired 4 Star General
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(Born 1947) US Navy SEAL Vietnam War Veteran. Part of SEAL Team 1
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US Army Vietnam Veteran. Bronze Star Recipient
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2020 Alliance Party nominee for Vice President
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Ex gangster, former rival of the Kray Twins, part of the Richardson gang
