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JFK - U.S. Secret Service agent from 1961 to 1977. Served on the details of President Kennedy, President Johnson and Vice President Hubert Humphrey. He was part of the advance team for San Antonio on President Kennedy?s trip to Texas
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One of the first black students admitted to Harry Harding HS in Charlotte, NC. Parents made her withdraw due to harassment; school has since been named in her honor
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Dallas Police patrolman , he escorted officials to Dallas Trade Mart the morning of Nov. 22 . Following assassination he was assigned guard duty at TSBD and police headquarters
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WWII - British D-Day veteran who landed at Sword Beach and saw heavy fighting at Caen
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British astronomer
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Scientist
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German-born, American physicist (1924- ). Built circuits for the Manhattan Project. One of the few surviving witnesses of the Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion
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DPD , one of two mid motorcade motorcycle officers in President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov.22 , 1963
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USS Downes
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Young man who ran on the field after Hank Aaron's 715th Home Run
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Attended the Chamber of Commerce Breakfast at Hotel Texas on the morning of Nov.22 , 1963
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navy admiral england
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French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. Co-invented the Aqua-Lung. Hosted the tv show The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. Created the Cousteau Society for the Protection of Ocean Life. Father of Jean-Michel Cousteau
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oceanographer
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Australian WW2 veteran born January 1, 1913
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Left man in prison for 26 years, because of attorney client privlidges. Only came to light when his client died
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NASA astronaut (retired) Four space shuttle missions; last person to speak to the astronauts on Challenger before it exploded
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American physical chemist, worked at ' Manhattan Project' (Trinity)
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Secretary in the JFK White House. Known as Faddle
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Vice Admiral (VADM) Michael L. Cowan, US Navy (USN) Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy (2001-2004)
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Intelligence Officer with the Texas Department of Public Safety, present at the tower during Charles Whitman's school shooting on August 1, 1966 at the University of Texas
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Was Winston Churchill's Head of Security at Chequers (British Prime Minister's country estate) during WW2, lives in Australia
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
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First known british male to female transexual
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Scientist, Physicist, host of 'Physics Girl' on YouTube
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WWII Veteran SPAR, Women's Coast Guard
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navy admiral
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Scientist
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British war hero born in 1919, received the Distinguished Conduct Medal in WW2
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WWII: USMC. Guadalcanal
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American artist (1896-1982). Muralist, apprenticed with his father Kenyan Cox, also a painter. Hired in 1953 to add new murals to the US Capitol, including ones of the Wright Brothers and the moon landing. Worked on them until his death
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Watergate Attorney
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TV Presenter, Author - Why Does E=mc2?
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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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British air ace from WW2 with 8 victories
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Attorney, Candidate for 2006 U.S. Senate in NY, President Nixon's Son-In-Law born 1946
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US Marine aviator, born 1936. Served as the recovery helicopter co-pilot for some early NASA Mercury flights, including first US man in space Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Ham the Chimp before the manned missions. Served in Vietnam also
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WWII: D-Day. Medic landing in the first wave with the 116th Reg 29 ID at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944; hit by a mortar at 12:30 PM
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James Cox (2)LCDR - US NAVY Blue Angels
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John Cox (3)
WWII: Burma (flew parachute troopers and supplies into Burma). Bangladesh (Support of Claire Lee Chennault, The Flying Tigers). 27th Troop Carrier Squadron -
USS Indianapolis survivor
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Forensic Archaeologist, Channel 4's Time Team.
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WWII - British D-Day veteran (tank gunner) who landed at Gold Beach
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Cape Gloucester, 1943. Purple Heart
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Retired colonel
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Miss America 1936
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Canadian Lawyer
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Worked as an usher for the Pittsburgh Pirates till he was 99 years old. Also is a WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. K Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, First Marine Division
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established scouting for all
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Lived through the Dust Bowl featured in Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl
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Former United States Army general. His last military assignment was as Commander, United States European Command and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe from December 2006 to June 30, 2009
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Supreme Allied Commander Europe
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. PH Naval Base - 1010 Dock
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Governement
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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American cartoonist and children's book illustrator best known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip Mama's Boyz and his Newberry Award-winning graphic novel New Kid
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United States Air Aces
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RIBA Chartered Architect, Professional Wrestling Historian and Author
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David Craig (5) WWII: Merchant seaman in the 'Murmansk runs' of World War II
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air force marshal england
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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Prominent Attorney. Served as White House Counsel under Presidents Clinton and Obama. Represented John W. Hinckley, Jr, Elian Gonzalez' father, and many other high profile cases
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Woman from the famous photograph 'American Girl in Italy' by Ruth Orkin
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(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Wounded at Guadalcanal from the sinking of the USS Duncan in 1942
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US WWII Coast Guard SPAR (1923-2024). Jeep/truck driver in WWII
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British World War 2 historian and author
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Conceived and patented in 1978 an on-field marker to help TV viewers identify first down distances in 1978. First used in a Cincinnati Bengals-Baltimore Ravens game on September 27, 1998
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Paul was the Director of Maintenance at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963 and had several special duties to perform due to President Kennedy's arrival after the assassination
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII: Marine Corps pilot in the Pacific; personal pilot of General Roy Geiger
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WWII: PTO. Fighter Ace, 13 victories, 120 missions. Battle of Guadalcanal. Later served in Korean and Vietnam war
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U.S. Army Medal Of Honor recipient (November 1965, Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam). Born 1933
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World War II veteran and one of few living children of Civil War veterans. His father, James Crane, was a Confederate soldier
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US WWII Navy veteran, born 1925. USS Indianapolis, one of the last 5 living as of 6/21
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Flight aviator 1978 group 8 astronaut candidate
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Maryland
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WW2 fighter ace - 5 Kills - USAAF
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WWII - Captain in the Navy's Chaplain Corps; served with Marine Corps units in high-casualty combat operations during WWII and the Korean War; saw flag-raising at Iwo Jima; pictured in well-known photo of baptizing a soldier at Iwo Jima
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'Bad Luck Brian' meme
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American video game designer and writer, born on June 1, 1950. He was recruited by Alan Kay to join Atari, Inc. where he authored Eastern Front (1941)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Midway. USS Yorktown
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WWII - US Navy, USS Saratoga. On board during the Battle of Iwo Jima when the 'Sara' was hit by 4 Kamikazes and 3 bombs, he and his crew worked to keep the Saratoga fueled and afloat
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Marine Survivor Pearl Harbor USS Arizona WWII
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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(Born 1933) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Navy Distinguished Service Medal, 3 Silver Stars, a Legion of Merit, 4 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Born July 18, 1947, American mobster. He is a member of the Mafia (Cosa Nostra) and the boss of the Lucchese crime family
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Vice Commandant USCG
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World War 2 pilot, Y29 Raid participant, born March 16, 1924
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astronaut
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air force general
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WWII: 507 PIR, 82nd Airborne (All Americans). D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Bronze Star. A bridge at Chef-du-Pont in Normandy, where he led a successful assault on the German troops, bears his name. Bronze Star, Purple Heart,
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astronaut
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Korean war ace - USAF - 5 Kills
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(1927-1997) Born Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, Tex., 2/26/1927, Served U.S. Navy World War II; lawyer; member of Texas state senate, 1961-81. Died April 28, 1997 Interment at Woodland Park Cemetery, Mineral Wells, Texas
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Member of french resistance WWII
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Original Tuskegee Airmen, was one of the first African Americans in the country and the first from Arkansas to be trained by the federal government as a civilian licensed pilot. Born 01/13/1919
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JFK - Doctor at Parkland hospital, Dallas
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WWII Assistant Chaplain (born 1922), served at Okinawa. In 2018, gave the daily invocation for the US House of Representatives. Billed then as the last living WWII Assistant Chaplain, though at least two others were also alive then
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Oklahoma
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Flight (astronaut)
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(March 8, 1923 - September 25, 1999) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration?the Medal of Honor?for his actions at the Battle of Buchhof and Stein am Kocher in World War II
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Biochemist who helped determine the DNA structure
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WWII: ETO/PTO. USS Arkansas (BB-33). D-Day, Southern France (Avalanche), Iwo Jima, Okinawa
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NASA astronaut (retired) Pilot of the first Space Shuttle Mission; Director of Kennedy Space Center 1992-1995
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WWII - Air Force, Pacific Theater. Crew member of B-29 'Little Gem' who flew notably succesful missions on the Japanese mainland. Berlin Airlift after the war
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Governor of Florida (2007-2011) Former State Attorney General
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marine corps general
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Scientist
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The First woman Italian astronaut, crewmember of ISS Expedition 42/43, (November,2014 - June,2015)
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Tuskegee Airmen, WWII
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Whiplash expert, director ofspine research institute of san diego
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Astronomer
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air force general
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Flight (astronaut)
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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'Jail clerk Dallas Police Department time of the assassination, Started 1st Crime Scene Search Unit at the Dallas County Sheriff's Department in 1970 and has since become a veteran crime scene investigator and law enforcement consultant'
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Air Force DJ during Vietnam War, was portrayed by Robin Williams in the film 'Good Morning Vietnam'
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nobel physics laureate 1980
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Vietnam War Fighter Pilot
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WWII Veteran, flew with the PBM Mariners
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Last US WWI aviator (1893-2003). Trained as a Signal Corps pilot, got his wings in Oct 1918. War over before sent overseas. Played football in 1918 Thanksgiving game against Army team, considered first early Air Force/Army game
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Australia's leading underwater photographer and one of the first to film the Whale Shark
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Navigator 100th Bomb Group - author, A Wing And A Prayer
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WWII Fighter Ace (5.25 Victs) - US Navy - Navy Cross, flew the hellcat, skyraider, f8f bearcat, iwo jima, okinawa
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U.S. Air Force brigadier general (Ret.)& author 'Around the World with LBJ: My Wild Ride As Air Force One Pilot', White House Aide, & Personal Confidant/Military aide & chief Air Force One pilot under President Lyndon B. Johnson
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James Cross (2) British diplomat born 1921, was kidnapped by the FLQ militants during the October Crisis of October 1970 in Canada, married to late actress/singer/dancer Peggy Ryan
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Test Pilot
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1927. He is now 87 and lives in Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK. He worked as a fuse-setter aboard HMS Belfast
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. US Navy, LST 559
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Author
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Vietnam/Commanded the 198th Signal Detachment, which was attached to the 118th Assault Helicopter Company/He photographed mission
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Doolittle's Raiders crew #10 Navigator/Bombadier
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Payload Specialist
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4-Star General
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British soldier of the Royal Marines, who was awarded the George Cross in Afghanistan in 2008
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Representative from Colorado and a Army Veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
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Native American Historian belongs to the Crow Tribe. Became the last Crow War Chief during WWII. Grandfather was a scout for George Custer. Appeared in Ken Burns' 'The War'
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Studio supervisor at independent station KTVT-TV in '63, he operated the camera during the Fort Worth breakfast speech , at Parkland , and the funeral service for Officer Tippitt
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Peace activist
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Admiral, former Joint Chief under Reagan and Bush
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Daniel Crowley (2) WW2 Veteran-Bataan Death March
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John Crowley (3)Extraordinary Measures
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(Born 1950) US Army Vietnam and Persian Gulf Veteran. POW in Vietnam from 1969 to 1973 when he was also discharged. Joined again in 1975 before retiring from the Army in 1991. Recipient of a Legion of Merit, 6 Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart
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American journalist and essayist. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Received the Lillian Smith Book Award from the Southern Regional Council as well as more honors
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale (DD-353)
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war hero, Victoria Cross receiver. He is the last living recipient to have been awarded the VC during the Second World War
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WWII: H Company, 505th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division. D-Day, joined the fight for Ste. Mere Eglise, fighting alongside paratroopers from Easy Company. Also Operation Market Garden and eventually seriously wounded in the Battle of the Bulge
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Mother of robert crumb. appeared on crumb the movie
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(Born 1925) WW2 Marine Corps Veteran Flamthrower. 6th Marine Division
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Oxford, MI school shooter
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Mother of Oxford, MI school shooter Ethan Crumbley. Jennifer has also been charged with murder
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Was tried and acquitted for the muder of Mary Pinchot Meyer in 1964/1965
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WWII: Marines veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian
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Coordinator for Counterterrorism at Department of State with rank of Ambassador-at-Large on August 2, 2005. Ambassador Crumpton joined Central Intelligence Agency in 1981 and served as an operations officer both at headquarters and abroad
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WWII: Survived the sinking of two aircraft carriers: USS Wasp-CV7 and the USS Liscomb Bay-CVE56
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nobel chemistry laureate 1995
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The US Soldier who captured Saddam Hussein
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Chef and former host of Calorie Commando and Weighing In on the Food Network. Lost 43 lbs on Discovery Health Body Challenge. Sentenced to prison for 9 years in California for soliciting homeless people to murder his wife, Jennifer Campbell
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Puerto Rican convicted drug dealer
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WWII Nazi War Criminal. Living in Budapest
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Cuban government official after Castro's revolution. Became a CIA asset. Was arrested for attempting to assasinate Fidel Castro. When released moved to Spain, where he became a doctor
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US general
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Last witness to the assassination of El Salvadorian bishop Óscar Romero on March 24, 1980. She is now 87 and lives in San Salvador
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Author of 'PanAfrica: Across the Sahara in 1941 with Pan Am'
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Astronaut; the only American not on Earth during the tragedy of September 11th, 2001. He was on a 4 month long mission aboard STS-105 Discovery and took photos from space of the smoke that was seen in lower Manhattan where the Twin Towers had been hit
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Michael Cullen (3)Peace Activist one of the Milwaukee 14
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. Amphibious Tractor Battalion, 1st Marine Division
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace with the 357th fighter Squadron and 355th Fighter Group - 5 Kills - POW - USAAF - DSC
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Navy Admiral
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Gangster, Tony Spilotro's right hand man. Writer, 'Cullota', film adviser, 'Casino'
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January 19, 1905 - August 16, 1995 was the first secretary of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps, and chairperson of the board of the Houston Post
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Lawyer, counsel to Ronald Reagan, vetted Vice President candidates for John McCain and Donald Trump
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WWII: USMC, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division (the famous K/3/5). Battle of Peleliu and Okinawa. 2 Purple Hearts, Silver Star. Gold Star
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World war 2 fighter ace- 7 Kills - USAAF, Born Jan 17, 1919
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '617th Bomber Squadron Pilot'
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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Actress - The Goodbye Girl, Family, Big Eddie. Inventor/Company President - Hip-Hugger baby-carrying sling-type device
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WWII PTO: 1st Marine Division, Guadalcanal
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WASP Pilot and member of US 1936 Olympic swimming team flew the p-47, p-51, p-39, p-40, c-47, b-25, a-20, p-38, and p-61 blackwidow, a-24, c-47, bt-13
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British World War One Vet lives in Great Bedwyn Wilthsire England
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British U-Boat hunter of the costal command in WW2
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WWII Australian Fighter Pilot Ace-5.66 (RAF) 260 Squadron
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Saw motorcade on Main St. , then assisted at Cinderella Flower Shop making flower arrangements for Dealey Plaza
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worls war 2 air ace
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WW2 Navy Flying Ace, 'Navy Cross & Distinguished Flying Cross'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Peleliu. USMC. Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 134
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James Cunningham (6) WWII: Pearl Harbor, Doolittle Raid. Battles of the Coral Sea, Guadalcanal, Cape Esperance, the Aleutians and the Gilbert Islands
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WWII: Battle of Midway, USS Hammann
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John Cunningham (2) British ace from WW2
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Former U.S. Representative from California, First Vietnam Ace
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; USS West Virginia. On a routine job of taking a small boat to the officers' club when the attack began, he tried evading Japanese bombs, strafings and torpedoes, and saving wounded sailors
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astronaut on apollo 7 (oct. 11-22 1968)
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WW2 Marine Flying Ace
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Astronaut
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Former Italian terrorist, living in Italy
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Former Chief Information Officer of NASA
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nobel chemistry laureate 1996
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WWII: ETO. D - Day. US Navy, Radar Man on Landing Cruise Control LCC-10. His job was to lead the first wave to Omaha Beach
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, Dec. 7, 1941. USS Tennessee
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WWII: Crew member of the 'Clay Pigeon', a C-47 that flew paratroopers into Normandy on D-Day and was shot down on Sept. 17, 1944, during Operation Market Garden. POW
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WWII - Europe. 3rd Battalion, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division. Medal of Honor for his actions on December 21, 1944 in Malmedy, Belgium
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Military
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astronaut (STS-57,70,88,and scheduled for STS-109)
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Palaeontolist, curator, author
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Co-founder of Acorn Computers, a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were popular in the UK. Due to its innovative designs, Acorn is sometimes known as the 'British Apple'
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Police officer was chief of Dallas Police Department from 1960-1966. Chief time of assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, & murder of his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, while in police custody 2 days later
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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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Korean War Fighter Ace (5 kills)- USAF
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USN Admiral
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Dr Who worked on JFK After he was shot
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Structural engineer, born 1937. One of the last living engineers of the Seattle Space Needle's design. Project lead for the foundation and the top house
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Born 1916, English woman aviator, flight test engineer, air racing pilot and sportswoman
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WW2 Fighting Flying Ace, 52nd FG - 14 Kills - USAAF - DSC
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Lt. General was 42nd Quartermaster General of the United States Army 1991-1993. Born March 11,1942. Served 1964-1998
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Was born in 1941. He joined the United States Navy and eventually became a radiology technician at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated on 22nd November, 1963, his body was taken to Bethesda and Custer
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Medal Of Honor
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Descendant of Colonel George Armstrong Custer, who died at the Battle of Little Bighorn
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Joseph Cutaia is an associate. His father Salvatore is a soldier and his grandfather Domenico is a capo in the Lucchese family
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Lucchese soldier, the father of Joesph Cutaia
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Physicist, best known for the Cutkosky cutting rules in quantum field theory, which give a simple way to calculate the discontinuity of the scattering amplitude by Feynman diagrams
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War hero - received Victoria Cross for action in Syria in June/July 1941
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John Gotti's attorney
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Actor: Hot Shots!, The Last Boy Scout, Kuffs, Sliver, In the Line of Fire, Wagons East, The Quest, The Glimmer Man, Psycho, The Practice, Gods and Generals, The West Wing, Mad Men, 24, The Collection, The Brink
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JFK: Met President Kennedy on 19 October 1962, when he presented JFK with a football on behalf of the student body St. Edward High School, Ohio
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One of the last few survivors of the 1917 Halifax Explosion, born 1916. Oldest member of the Maritime Sports Hall of Fame in Canada
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army general
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. US Marine Corps
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WWII - Pacific, 106st Field Artillery Battalion, Batlle of Leyte: Was in the second wave that attacked the Japanese-held island of Leyte in the Philippines on Oct. 20, 1944, and met Douglas MacArthur that day
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WWII: PTO. USS Vincennes (CA-44). Witness to the Doolittle Raid (April 1942), Battle of Midway (June 1942), Guadalcanal, survived the sinking of his ship in the Night Battle of Savo Island (August 9, 1942)
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Politician
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12 year old boy who Hitler gave the iron cross to at the last days of WWII. Lives in Rhineland
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Mountain climber
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Parachute jumper
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German ww2 pilot, ARM20, Me 262, Fliegerschule, W-34, Bu 131, Bu-133, fw-44, fw-56, fw-58, he-72, he-70, w-34, Me109, bn-131, bn-11, avia 13 534 and Nightfigher
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. US Navy Higgins Boat Coxswain. Transported Joe Rosenthal and Ernie Pyle
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WWII - Nurse Recruiting Poster Girl of the most popular WWII Nurse Poster. President Franklin D Roosevelt took a liking of the poster and ordered to be a million copies printed. She is supposedly the last of the poster girls alive
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Mobster Married to Drita from Mob Wives
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Brazilian supercentenarian, last known surviving, validated person in born in 1905
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Chinese American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients
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Author and President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Was a staff member of the US National Security Council (NSC) under Bill Clinton and a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama
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Author / Veteran - wrote The Life of a Combat Medic, From the Ozarks to Korea...To Alaska
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Computer engineer, born 1937. Co-founder of Syzygy in 1969 and Atari in 1972. Co-creator of early video games Computer Space and Pong
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WWII: D-Day. Served in the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion ? the only all-black unit that took part in the World War II D-Day landings in Normandy
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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nobel peace laureat 2000
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Youngest Dutchman to space
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American video game designer, programmer, and producer. He is best known for being the creator of early games from several different genres, including pioneering simulation game Utopia for Intellivision in 1981
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Award-winning copywriter, entrepreneur and the inventor of the Pet Rock
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(Born 1923) US Army WW2 Veteran. Worked as an Anti-Taker
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WW2 air ace - 9 Kills - USAAF. Flew P-38, P-80 and P-84
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Political Scientist. Born: 12/17/1915
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WWII fighter Ace/ Watergate scandal figure - 15 Kills - USAAF - DSC
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Congressional Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
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WWII: PTO. USS Mississippi BB 41, 1943-1946
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Rocket Scientist, 'Dr. Wernher Von Braun's NASA Team'
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Serial Killer
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Mobster
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Flight attendant aboard US Airways flight 1549 that landed in the Hudson River
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Retired Air Force General
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World War II Criminal. Lives now in Kirchberg, Germany, Sachsen
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British Titanic Survivor
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Retired USMC General
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US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1963 to 1967
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DPD , one of two rear mid motorcycle officers in President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov.22 , 1963
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Along with his brother Johnny are the oldest living brothers that invaded Normandy on D-Day
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Along with his brother Ernie are the oldest living brothers that invaded Normandy on D-Day
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WWII Navajo Code Talker; he lives in West Valley City, Utah
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medal of honor army, ww11
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Former American Football Player. Also is a World War 2 Veteran. Born in 1919
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Last survivor of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre of coal mining families, which led to Congress enacting new labor laws and an 8 hour day. Born in 1914 and a baby during the event, her family was split up, and she was sent off to live in orphanages
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Served with the 506th PIR / 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge
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Canadian General and Senator
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WW2/WWII Womens Army Service Pilot (WASP); 44-W-4 Flew the uc-78, at-11, c-45
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Dalton KCB was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and latterly became Secretary General of MENCAP and National Chairman of The Royal British Legion
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air force general
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Royal millitary
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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inventor (mri scanner)
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Wwii: pto, usmc
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NASA Test Pilot/One of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA. He was also selected for participation in the X-20 Dyna - Soar program
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Author/Screenwriter/Playwright/Historian 'The Fallen Idols of Father Brown'
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pilot of the first liquid fuel rocket
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Grandson of President Harry Truman, born 1957
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Stood with 3 sons at west side of underpass at Dealey Plaza & filmed JFK motorcade as cars raced by with wounded President
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Inspiration for NBC's Miss Match
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Air Force pilot
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(born 9 July 1917), a Polish orphan from the town of Otwock, was awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1998, for saving the lives of Polish Jews during the Holocaust
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Adventurer - Australian presenter of 'Outback Adventures'
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Lord Dannatt, British Politician
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Original "Operation Paperclip" Wernhervon Braun rocket scientist team born August 5, 1912. Deputy Manager of Saturn rocket program, rec'd NASA Exceptional Service Medal for successfully initiating development of the Saturn V rocket
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. 81st Wildcat Division
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Nazi war criminal.Luise Danz (born December 11, 1917) is a former concentration camp guard. She was born in Walldorf (Werra), Thuringia
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Vietnam War 1975/Escaped during the Fall of Saigon/Was passenger violently forced without provocation from a United Airlines flight.and suffered a significant concussion, a broken nose, a sinus injury and lost two front teeth
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Joe Darby (2)
Sergeant Joseph M. Darby, former U.S. Army Reservist known whistleblower in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal -
Mathematician, data analyst, and aeronautical engineer who devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA researching supersonic flight and sonic booms. She is also featured in the book Hidden Figures
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Co-Prosecutor of the O.J. Simpson murder trial; Author of the New York Times Bestseller, 'In Contempt'
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. Only French GI to fight at Omaha Beach
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United Airlines pilot, flew United's last DC-8 flight in 1991
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James Darnell (2) Cameraman for WBAP-TV in President Kennedy's motorcade
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Inventor of Monopoly
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Botanist and great-great grandaughter,of the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.
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Great grandson of Charles Darwin, the famous English naturalist
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WWII survivor of USS Tang
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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WWII: Signalman aboard the S.S. Hawkins Fudske, a cargo ship that made 2 round trips to Archangle and Murmansk, Russia.Rcvd the Medal of Ushakov from Russia for his wartime efforts
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Iran Hostage Crisis/3rd Secretary of U.S. Mission (CIA officer)/Ph.D., is a professor of government and foreign policy at Armstrong Atlantic State University
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CEO of the 2016 and 2008 Democratic National Convention Committees, and the chief of staff to Howard Dean, the former chairman of the DNC. Former Acting Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management at the US Department of Labor
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US WWII Army veteran, born 1924. 9th Infantry Division. Fought in the bitter Hurtgen Forest, until hit by shrapnel in the leg and foot
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French immunologist, Nobel medicine laureate 1980. Born: 10/19/1916
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Time Team Field Archaeologist
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor; later escaped and joined the guerillas. 33rd Infantry Regiment (PA), 31st Division, USAFFE
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British WWII Flying Ace credited with 17 victories
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Dennis David (2) A Petty Officer in the Medical Service Corps stationed at Bethesda Naval Med. Center on Nov.22/63 when President Kennedy was brought here for autopsy
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French Egyptologist and scientist who published a theory stating that the stones of the Great Pyramid where not carved stone but mostly a form of limestone concrete
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Granddaughter of Harley Davidson, Harley Davidson's Motorcycles. Author of 'Growing Up Harley-Davidson'
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Scientist
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WWII: Survivor (69th Medium Regt, Royal Artillery) of the Wormhoudt, France, massacre (May 1940). One of few survivors when German SS ambushed a convoy; most of the 50 men died, while he & 2 friends escaped. Later at El Alamein, Monte Cassino and France
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart
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Wren during WW2/spent World War II listening - spending hours at a time trying to pick voices from squealing static, spying on the Germans
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. Army Air Corps, Photo Reconnaissance
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Author, aviation specialist
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Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron FA-18 Flight Demonstration Pilot
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60's political activist educator
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American WWII Fighter Ace (6 Victs.)- USAAF, flew the p-47 and p-51
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air force general
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Manson killer
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Convicted Killer, Member Of Manson Family
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WWII: Battle of Midway, Battle of Santa Cruz
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Mathematician, writer. Wrote science fiction into the 60's
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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Tuskegee Airman
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Author military
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Dennis Davis (3) British mountaineer, the first man to climb the Mount Nuptse in 1961
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Nevada
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WWII veteran, Pearl Harbor Survivor at Schofield Barracks
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WWII: PTO. Leyte, Philippines, Okinawa. 96th Infantry, 763rd Tank Battalion
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First pilot in the USA to fly a turbo-prop-powered airplane - Convair?s experimental XP-81 fighter, developed for the United States Air Force in 1945. He also flight tested the following aircraft types:- BT-13,BT-15,P-66,XP-54,XP-81,XA-41,A-31 and A-35
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Civil Rights Movement/Freedom Rider/Veteran of state's sit-in movement to end lunch counter segregation/Attempted to use white restrooms, were arrested for disorderly conduct & sentenced within the hour to a $200 fine & 60-day jail term
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world war 2 air ace
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Glenn Davis (4) WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battle of Peleliu
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Vietnam Veteran in the Marine Corps
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Jack Davis (3)Was inside Texas Theatre when Oswald arrived ; believed Oswald sat next to him for a short time
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Born March 27th 1918, served in the US Navy during World War 2, survived attack on Pearl Harbor. Later became an attorney, and then a State Senator for Louisiana from 1956-1980
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air force general
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Nasa Space Shuttle Astronaut (retired) STS 47,60, and STS 85
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WWII veteran, born 1919, Tunisia and Sicily campaigns
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WWII: PTO. Battles of New Britain, New Guinea, Peleliu and Okinawa. Platoon sergeant of his unit, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Purple Heart, Sharp Shooter Medal
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Flight astronaut sts-47,60,85
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WWII: Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor
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US Diplomat (1878-1944). Asst Treasurer, Under-Sec. of State under Woodrow Wilson. Financial advisor at the WWI Paris Peace Conference. 1932 Time cover subject
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Colonel (born 13 May 1939) retired US Army officer received Medal of Honor 3 March 2023 for actions on 18 July 1965 during Vietnam War. Twice previously nominated for MOH, but both times the paperwork relating to his nomination disappeared
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medal of honor marines korea
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One of the famous'Chicago 7' war protesters
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (WWII-5.5 Kills) USN, VF-18/36
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WWII: African American/6888 Central Postal Battalion (Birmingham, UK) in US Army, known as Six Triple Eight. In just three months, Davis and her unit processed 17 million pieces of mail
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air force general
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Medal of honor vietnam war army, born 1946
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Emergency physician and NYT best selling author of The Pact (winner of 'The Books for Better Life' Award) and The Stuff. Appeared on numerous talk and radio shows including Oprah, Dr. Oz, The Today Show, The View, Anderson Cooper 360 & NPR
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Radio newsman, covered JFK White House. Riding in the Dallas motorcade when Kennedy shot, covered the press conference at Parkland Hospital, and picked as one of the few reporters to cover the LBJ oath on Air Force One. He is seen, head down, in the iconi
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Fort Worth millionaire whose life was dramatized in the made for TV movie 'Texas Justice'
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Jarvis (DD-393)
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Author or editor of thirty-five books on the civil war and southern history - A Way Through the Wilderness, A Government of Our Own
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Commanded the Tuskegee Airmen in WWII Born 1912
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WWII: Radio Operator, 505th Parachute Regiment (PIR), 82nd Airborne Division (AD). Wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, but rejoined the 505th on Rhine River. He met the Russians at Elbe River
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American Nobel Prize winning Physicist
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Rear admiral of carrier group 6
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US WWII Army vet, born 1923. Trained as electrical engineer and radio operator, attached to MacArthur's HQ for a time. Born in N. Dakota, raised in Minnesota, experienced Dust Bowl storms in his youth. Retired district judge
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Witnessed JFK assassination from the overpass directly ahead of Kennedy's limo
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Oklahoma dust bowl survivor, born 1924, interviewed for Ken Burns' documentary. WWII 'Rosie' at Boeing Aircraft working on B-29s. Career in journalism and teaching
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Miss America 2014, Miss New York 2013; born in Syracuse, NY she is the first Indian-American to be chosen as Miss America
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British Ethologist, Evolutionary Biologist, Professor at Oxford University
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Author of 'PanAfrica: Across the Sahara in 1941 with Pan Am'
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navy admiral
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Air Force Medal of Honor Recipient - Vietnam, guadalcanan, flew the f-80, f-84, f-100, f-101, f-104, f-105, f-106, f-4, a-4, a-7, cf-5, f-45
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JFK - Dallas police investigator who was photographed lifting Oswald's rifle above his head
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Former Austin, TX police officer. One of three responsible for stopping Charles Whitman's mass killing at Univ Texas - Austin
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JFK - Dallas Police, involved in the Kennedy assassination investigations; officer in the rare photograph holding Oswald's rifle up and inspecting it
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Israeli activist and fashion designer. Ex wife of Moshe Dayan
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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 U-486. 763 soldiers died, together with 56 of her crew
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Author of A Garden of Thorns, a memoir about surviving Nazi occupation in France including becoming a junior agent performing reconnaissance missions for the French resistance at age 13
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German engineer and computer scientist. He is one of the pioneers of the first generation computers. Born: 04/04/1912 in Ascona
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French World War One Veteran
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World War One Veteran
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Former Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff / Former Ambassador to the United States / Current Head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning
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Heroic Australian pilot, QANTAS Airlines Flight 32
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Italian WW One Vet
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French soldier and politician, born 1921, former Colonial Administrator of the Comores (1962-1963), was awared the French Legion of Honor for his military service in 2015
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nobel med. laureate 1974
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French Air Force Nurse - The Angel of Dien Bien Phu, born 1925
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French politician and former general inspector of the French Navy, son of Charles de Gaulle
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nobel physics laureate 1991
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American Political Scientist, 'Public and Republic'. Born: 12/29/1919
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English author and biomedical gerontologist. He is the author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007)
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Puerto Rican world champion boxer, first man to defeat Roberto Duran, also fought Antonio Cervantes and Saoul Mamby for world titles, convicted of murderr 1981, P.R. jails all star baseball player and Christian preacher
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9/11 Survivor
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Oldest Person in the World. Born 09/10/1893 Deceased 2009
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Dutch Engelandvaader. Born: 09/21/1911
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British director of the United Kingdom Special Forces during the Iranian Embassy Siege and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the 1990 Gulf War
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WWII: French fighter pilot & ace
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Helped to capture serial killer Richard Ramirez
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Former Head of the IMF
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Primatologist. Known as the dean of Brazilian Primatology
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Actor, born: 1911. The Flying Tigers (1942); Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943); Tiger Woman (1944); Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
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Baloon driver
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Oldest Brazilian WWII veteran. ETO. Italy. Brazilian Expeditionary Force, 9th Engineering Battalion. Italy
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World War II fighter pilot, first commander of the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier (USS Enterprise CVN-65). Reached the rank of Vice Admiral with the Navy
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Former member of the Resistance and later military officer in the French army
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United States Marine, Went to her military ball with Justin Timberlake
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JFK Aid & alleged mistress/83-year-old psychotherapist and grandmother at 09/22/2021/Descriptions of their affair were previously published in Vanity Fair editor Sally Bedell Smith's 2004 book about the Kennedys, Grace and Power
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Belgian astronaute
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Air America Pilot
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Publisher Dallas Morning News/Harbored animosity against JFK, told JFK in White House he was not ?the man on horseback? the country was searching for rather a wimp ?on Caroline?s tricycle.? Plaza where JFK was shot named after his family
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JFK - Jerry Dealey, Dallas historian/assassination researcher, is of the Dealey family who gave the Plaza its name. Dealey Plaza was named after the founder of the Dallas Morning News, George B. Dealey, Jerry's great grandfather's brother
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marine corps general
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From Wooster, Ohio, Hal played guard for the first OSU National Championship team in 1942. Was named All-Western Conference that year. Served as a Captain in the 11th Airborne as a paratrooper during WWII. Played 3 seasons for the Rams
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Inventor Hall of Fame inductee; holds three of the nine original IBM patents upon which the IBM PC personal computers were based including bus control means for peripheral processing devices
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Last survivor of the Titanic sinking. Born: 02/02/1912 - Deceased 2009
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WW2 Hero served with the Grenadier Guards maninly in Italy and North Africa
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United States Army major general during World War II and the Korean War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on July 20 and 21, 1950, during the Battle of Taejon in South Kore
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Reired General
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Highly decorated British soldier from WW2 who later became a general, born in 1917
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WWII, US NAVY. Honorary 'Band of Brothers''E' - Company - 506th ParachuteInfantry Regiment
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Golden State Killer suspect
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu. Machine Gunner, 1st Combat Engr Bn
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WWII: ETO. US Army Air Corp, Dental Technician. 615th Technical, Keflavik, Iceland
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Flight astronaut mse astronaut
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British and American economist. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare
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Retired Air Force Colonel/Vietnam Veteran
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Famed Heart Surgeon
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USMC Drill Team , JFK funeral
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Military
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(Born 1944) US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1966 to 1977 in between reserve and active duty. Silver Star Recipient
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WWII Fighter Ace (9 Victs.), Medal of Honor recipient, US Marines World War II
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Taiwanese WWII Veteran, 109 years old. During WWII, he served in the Imperial Japanese Army and was stationed in the Philippines
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Helena CL-50). Also served on the USS Helena in the Guadalcanal Campaign and survived the sinking of the USS Helena after she was hit by a torpedo in the Night Battle of Kula Gulf, 6 July 1943
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WWII, Sturmann 12th SS Panzer Division Normandy 1944 D-Day
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Centarian who survived both the spanish flu and COVID
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American Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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WWII: USMC, K Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Battle of Peleliu and Okinawa; earned a Purple Heart in the latter on Wana Ridge. JFK campaign 1960
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New Zealand fighter pilot and ace during WWII. Flew in the Battle of Britain. 17 confirmed victories. Died September 21, 1995
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tried and convicted for the 1974 killings of his father and mother, two brothers and two sisters. The case is notable for being the real life inspiration behind the book and film versions of The Amityville Horror
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1921-2016). survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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WWII: One of the last 3 Monuments Men, who saved artwork and cultural pieces during and after WWII
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9/11 survivor
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII: D-Day (second wave at Utah Beach), Battle of the Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge. 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion
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JFK - Secret Service; WHD (White House Detail) for Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Advance Agent for Houston (Nov. 21, 1963, not in Dallas (sent home after Houston)
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WWII - Pacific Theater; survivor of the sinking of the USS Colhoun (DD-801) after repeated Kamikaze attacks in the early stages of the Battle of Okinawa, 6 May 1945
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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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US Navy veteran of the USS Nautilus' historic first underwater crossing of the North Pole on Aug 3, 1958. Born 1933
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Montgomery
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WWII: I Company, 3rd BN, 157th Infantry, 45th Division. One of the liberators od Dachau concentration camp, actually the very first sodier to enter the compund who shot open the lock of the gates
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Attorney for David Koresh
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Professor, author, and curator of Le Musée Fragonard in Maisons-Alfort
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Tail gunner, 'Bockscar' (plane that dropped bomb on Nagasaki..)
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WWII Ace
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WWII Veteran, Battle of Bataan, POW, 515th Coastal Artillery Regiment, Captured at Corregidor
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nobel physcis laureate 1989
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, Holland, Alsace. A Line Company and G Company, 501st PIR, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles). Bronze Star
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nobel chemistry laureate
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WWII: Served on the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) which sank the Japanese aircraft carrier HIJMS Shinano, on 29 November 1944
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. Naval Combat Demolition 30, Utah Beach
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Former NASA mission controller
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John Dekker (2) Alcatraz Inmate 1953-58/Author 'The Ghost of Alcatraz'/As teenager to raise $1000 to bail father out of jail, he robbed corner grocery. was 1st heist in dramatic crime spree across the country & condemned him to Alcatra
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WWII: PTO. USMC 1940-1945. Silver Star
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Italian WWII Resistance fighter, born 1923. Trained as paratrooper, first and maybe only female to make a WWII combat jump. Broke ankle, kept on her missions. Germans killed her Resistance brother, inspired her own Resistance ambitions
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WWI veteran. Oldest man in world. Born 1891. Lives in Puerto Rico
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Retired U.S. Air Force veteran who miraculously survived an IED in Afghanistan. He was awarded the Pat Tillman Award for Service at The Espy's in 2017
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Spanish centenarian, born 1913. One of the last known Spanish citizens to have had the 1918 'Spanish Flu'. In 2020, she survived Covid-19 at the age of 106
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Journalist, Film Historian
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Pilot
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Police officer shot by John Hinckley Jr. during the attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981
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Miss America 1927
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WWII D-Day veteran, also Battle of Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia. Showed Doris 'Dorie' Miller how to use the machine gun
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Tennessee
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Army Truck Driver, took part in D-Day Infantry invasion
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Supreme Court: One of the three officers on scene in the 4th amendment landmark case Mapp v. Ohio (1961), where he participated in the raid on Ms. Mapp's residence
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Radio Announcer, did KLFI 12 Noon newscast the hour describing the President's arrival at Love Field/among journalists in the police station basement when Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald
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(Mexican Revolution) Last Living Member of Pancho Villa's Division del Norte. Born:1900
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Carlos Delgado (2)Founder of Blue Lives Matter
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Hollywood Celebrity - A woman who used to walk around Hollywood with heavy make-up applied to her face. It was this look (and hair style) that Bette Davis chose to use for her make-up in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?; stage star born in Hodgenville, KY
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WW2 Veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division. while Returning Home Michael Brought A Albino Rabbit On July 11,1944
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WWII: US Veteran of the Battle of Remagen, March 1945
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Australian stunt pilot
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WWII: USMC veteran of the Guadalcanal campaign
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Invented the big mac for mcdonalds
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One of the famous war protesters from the the 1968 protests in Illonois
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Former FBI criminal profiler/Was lead profiler in San Francisco & worked on the Unabomber case/Currently hosts Investigation Discovery programs Deadly Women and Facing Evil. Often compared to Clarice Starling from The Silence of the Lambs
