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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 -
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
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Military
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, USS Oklahoma. Later fought at the Battle of Guadalcanal (November 1942)
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marine corps general
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WWII USMC Ace--[14 victories]
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DeLorean Motor Company
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WWII: CBI. Member of HQ Company, White Combat Team, 1st Battalion of the Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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astronaut
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Top turret gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress based at Hickam Field. Also saw action in the Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal
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WWII: Kurdish veteran. Fought with Iraq Levies, a minority scout force established by the British. Now 99 and living in Erbil, Kurdistan Region
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Astrobiologist
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navy admiral
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U.S. Army 1942-1945, Minor League Baseball player
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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Vincent 'Chickie' DeMartino - a Colombo soldier. In 1993, DeMartino was sentenced to four years in prison on weapons charges. In 1999, Alphonse Persico ordered DeMartino and Thomas Gioeli to murder William Cutolo.
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One of three to reach & rescue Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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WWII: PTO. Army Air Corp. Pilot. 460th Fighter Squadron, 5th Air Force. 124 combat missions in P47's and P51's in New Guinea, Philippines, and Luzon
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Saipan, Iwo Jima. US Army 7th Air Corps, 38th Bombardment Squadron, 30th Bomb Group. B-24 radio operator and right waist gunner
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Ringling Brothers Circus Fire/Age 3 (age 4 on July 25th) time of fire
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Ringling Brothers Circus Fire/Age six time of fire
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Age 7 Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire /got out safely through a slit in the tent
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Born Ivan Mykolayovych Demyanyuk; is a retired auto worker and former United States citizen, who gained notoriety after being accused of Holocaust-related war crimes.Born:04/03/1920
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Russian born women who claims to possess a special vision that allows her to look inside human bodies and see organs and tissues, and thereby make medical diagnoses. She has appeared on television shows and performed readings in Russia
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WWII - Captured during Battle of the Bulge, he became the most famous POW of WWII when LIFE featured a photo taken at prison camp Stalag 12-A in Limburg, Germany, on the day of his liberation. He became known as 'The Human Skeleton'
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Army General
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Flight scientist
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JFK - Secret Service, White House Detail secretary. The Miss Moneypenny of the US Secret Service!
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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Retired Captain of the Royal Air Force. The oldest surviving knight of the Military Order of William , and this the last of the Royal Air Force of World war 2. Born: 07/23/1914
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Renowned penguin expert, scientist TED speaker and award-winning author. AKA The Penguin Lady
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Considered Sicily's top Cosa Nostra boss, born 26 April 1962. Was on the run for 30 years, but apparently has just been arrested in Italy. AKA Diabolik
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WWI: ETO. RAF. Battle of Britain pilot
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WWII: PTO. Leyte, Philippines, Okinawa. Company L, 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division. Bronze Star
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WWII: ETO/PTO. Merchant Marine
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WWII: PTO. USMC. First Division,Third Armored Amphibian Battalion
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Discovered Petussis Vaccine Born: 02/01/1898. 4th Oldest person in the world
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inventor (delevoped ram in computers)
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An employee at a Dallas Stock Exchange Company , Denny watched the Kennedy motorcade on Main St. . Her office closed early when the stock exchange shut down following the assassination
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Former German Major during World War 2.Born: 06/30/1915
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WWII: 45th Fighter Squadron, 7th Fighter Command, 20th Air Force. Flew from airfields Bellow's field, Guam, Saipan, Iwo Jima. Pictured in a 1945 photo on Iwo Jima,
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Dave Dennis (2)
Civil Rights activist -
YouTuber and former US Army veteran
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First Lieutenant of the CMEC and MACV from 1967-68 during the Vietnam War (Born: 1943 Bethany, Missouri)
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US Politician, Maryland (1822-82) Medical doctor, then into politics as a Whig, then a Democrat. Senator, 1877-79. Gave stirring speech to re-open investigation of controversial R.B. Hayes election, but unsuccessful
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WW2/Normandy D-Day/Navy/After landing at Normandy on D-Day in 1944, he encountered a young French girl who waved him over and spoke to him in perfect English
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WW2 Vet. Survived the sinking of the USS Atlanta, and involved in Battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa. Knew and regularly saw JFK while working as a Navy radioman. During Japanese surrender ceremony, transmitted the news to the worl
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professor of biology at Stanford University
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Truck driver who was almost killed in the '92 Los Angeles riots
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Whistleblower
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Donna Dent (2)
Flight attendant aboard US Airways flight 1549 that landed in the Hudson River -
Works for The Oxford Dictionary and is regularly seen on TV's 'Countdown' in 'Dictionary Corner' alongside the show's celebrity guest
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New Jersey mobster who is a former captain and consigliere for the Genovese crime family.
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WWII: Assistant to General Eisenhower who typed up the plans for Operation Overlord
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American actor, author, and former United States Navy SEALs commander. Denver is most known for his role as Lieutenant Rorke in the 2012 film Act of Valor and for his appearance as team leader in the Fox Television series, American Grit
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Unabomber defense attorney
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WWII army vet, assigned to clean-up/odd job duties at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos base. Witness to the first atomic explosion, the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale (DD-353)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Medical corpsman
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Air Force General
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WWII: D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. 501st PIR, 101st AB. Purple Heart
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Nevada. Served in the USS Nevada throughout the war
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WWII: PTO. Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Gilberts and Marshall Islands campaign, Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, Philippines campaign, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa; survived Typhoon Cobra (Halsey's Typhoon) in December 1944
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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Former Tuskegee Airmen (Flew B-25 and T-6) & University Michigan football player; helped Michigan win 1948 Rose Bowl
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Trump's impeachment lawyer, Harvard Law Professor, appellate attorney, member of O. J. Simpson's 'Dream Team, author of 'The Abuse Excuse', 'Reversal of Fortune', 'Reasonable Doubts', 'The Advocate's Devil', 'The Genesis of Justice', 'Chutzpah'
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WWII: PTO. USS Teton. Surrender Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945
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WWII: USS Helena
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'Wife of Doolittle Raider Jacob Deshazer'
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Doolittle's Raiders 'Crew #16/Bat out of Hell' Bombadier' 'Missionary to Japan for 30 years after Doolittle Raid'
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Conyngham
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Great Biker Buildoff on Discovery Channel
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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French Egyptologist. Born: 11/17/1913, known for her role in the preservation of the Nubian temples (e.g. Abu Simbel) from flooding caused by the Aswan Dam
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French rock climber and mountaineer. In 1992 she became the first woman to complete a solo ascent of the Eiger's north face
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vietnam war air force hero
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Jim Garrison's Lawyer who investigated the JFK Assassination in the 60's
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: CBI. Flight Radio Operator, 1330th AAAF Base Unit, India China Division, Air Transport Command
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Supreme Court: One of the three officers present at the raid on Ms. Mapp's residence, which resulted in the landmark case Mapp v. Ohio (1961). Considered a 4th amendment victory
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JFK - Honor Guard at President Kennedy's funeral
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa
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Former Correctional Officer Alcatraz Prison from 1950 to 1958. Guarding such noted prisoners as Robert the Birdman of Alcatraz Stroud, Machine - Gun Kelly, & former Public Enemy #1 Alvin Creepy Karpis
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WW2 Flying Ace, Age 92, '8 Victories' Silver Star-DFC with 3 Gold Stars, Air Medal with 4 Gold Stars!
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WWII: D-Day. Coast Guard assigned to attack transport USS Samuel Chase, ferrying troops of 1st Infantry, Big Red 1 1&2 wave to Omaha Beach on Higgins Boat. In invasions of North Africa; Sicily; Salerno/Made 11 or 12 trips back & forth from ship to beach
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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Lz ray 1965 namwas in valrico,fl but not now?
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Inventor
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WWII veteran, Bataan Death March survivor. Born 1919
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American billionaire, businesswoman, philanthropist from Michigan. Secretary of Education in Donald Trump's Administration
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Scientist
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US Marine, WWII veteran, born 1921. Saw action at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian. Beat Covid-19 at 99 years old
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medal of honor Korean war marines
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WWII Navy veteran. Witnessed the attack of Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Antares
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WWII: Medal of Honor nominee who served with the 41st Infantry Division in the Pacific
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US Navy veteran, born 1925. Witness to both Bikini atoll Operations Crossroads atomic bomb tests in 1946
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Sotoyomo
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Countess of Romanones, Grandee of Spain/OSS cipher clerk during World War II. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1962 (LIVES IN MADRID SPAIN)Author 'El fin de una era' (2010), published in Spain
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Ringling Brother's Circus Fire/Age six time of fire
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cosmonaut
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Father of the pentium computer chip
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Corporal Dhein was assisting the administrative tasks of the Berlin Air LIft 1948
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Author;'Just A Kid, A Guard at the Nuremberg Trials' 18 years old when drafted in 1944, into infantry. Found himself standing guard over Nazi war criminals, & watched as atrocities were described in detail throughout the Nuremberg Trails
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Last survivor of the Raid of the Ghetto of Rome 16 October 1943
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American mathematician and former professional magician and poker player. He teaches statistics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness
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Author, businessman
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CEO & President of SETI
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Civil Rights Activist, 1961 Freedom Rider
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American economist. In October 2022, Diamond was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Ben Bernanke and Philip H. Dybvig
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Author Of Many Historical Books, Including The Pulitzer-Prize Winning 'Guns, Germs, And Steel'
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Pallbearer For JFK Funeral
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Nobel prize
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U.S. Virgin Islander businessman, CEO Four Star Cargo Airlines
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(Born 1948) Vietnam Veteran. Served in the Air Force from 1967 to 1973 and in the Marine Corps from 1973 to 1975
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Puerto Rican lawyer and business owner, Borinquen Air airlines
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WWII: ETO, 8th Air Force; served with Jimmy Stewart
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US WWII Army, born 1921. Action in Tunisia and the first wave in the Sicily attack. Wounded at Sicily, taken by Germans to Stalag 2B. POW/slave labor for 21 months. 1st Division, 26th Infantry
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WWII: MTO. North Africa, Italy. 34th Infantry Division. Purple Heart with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Bronze Star, Silver Star
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John Dick (2) WW2 USMC Iwo Jima I Company 3rd Battalion 24th Marine Regiment 4th Marine Division
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Canadian Scientist / Credited with first identifying cancer stem cells in certain types of human leukemia
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British actor and performer known in the United Kingdom and the United States for his one man shows based on the novels of his great great grandfather, Charles Dickens
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Activist
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII - 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division; 1st Marines, 1st Mar. Div. in Korea. Veteran of Saipan, Tinian and the entire Battle of Iwo Jima; radio operator, telecom lineman, and handling COMS for the storied Navajo Codetalkers
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Author
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British ace from WW2, Spit, Channel 41, Malta 42, Sicily 43.
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Former football player and coach. Also is a World War 2 veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Curtiss (AV-4). Being attacked by Japanese aircraft, he manned a small launch and was ordered to retrieve bodies from the water
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Retired General
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South Vietnam's ambassador to the US. After the Vietnam war he moved to the US
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Austrian mountaineer, member of the expeditions that first climbed the Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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WWII - Iwo Jima veteran, Army radioman
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World Famous Private Investigator and multi - millionaire security company CEO
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Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich is a pilot from the Black Aces of Lemoore, California
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Flight aviator
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WWII: North Africa/Italy. 36th Infantry Division, 141 Infantry Regiment, Company B
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Great Great Grandson of Ulysses S. Grant
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Inventor; 2011 Inductee National Inventor Hall of Fame
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Survivor of 9/11 World Trade Center attacks - was damaged by a huge fireball and the last known survivor of the South Tower, has since moved to Canada
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WWII: PTO. USS Ticonderoga (CV-14). Survived kamikaze attack and two kamikaze hitting his ship in January 1945
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Italian Super Centenarian (b. 1891)
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World war 2 fighter ace -6 kills
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Michael 'Mikey Scars' DiLeonardo (born June 18, 1955) is an Italian-American New York mobster who formerly belonged to the Gambino crime family and is now a government informant
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WW2 Navy Veteran. Delivered supplies to troops at D-Day
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Chief photographer for the Dallas Morning News in 1963, Dillard was riding in a press car in the presidential motorcade and took photos of the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository immediately after the shooting
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John Dillinger (2) American mobster
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Vietnam (Army) -- 1965 LZ Xray We Were Soldiers born April 19, 1933
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC, of the famous K/3/5. Wrote a memoir, 'With the Marines in North China.'
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engineer of the memphis belle
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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US Army, Korean War, born 1929. 24th Division
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WWII Veteran
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII - Battle of the Normandy, landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day+1. 747th Tank Battalion
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. USMC
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WWII: MTO. Distinguished Service Cross
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Algiers Motel; a black security guard, witnessed the murders of 3 black men at the motel in 1967
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. C Co. Third Armored Amphibian Bn
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Flight scientist
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9/11 Survivor
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American physicist, worked at 'Manhattan Project' (Trinity)
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Leon & Mike Donnet took a Stampe SV4 aircraft under the noses of the German enemy in WW2 Belgium, repaired the plane & excaped occupied enemy territory. This done July 4th 1941. Later joined British Royal Air Force
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII, Alaska's oldest WWII Veteran
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2022 Green party candidate for Governor of Illinois, also has ran for Belleville, IL mayor
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US WWII vet, the last surviving Buffalo Soldier of West Point. (1921-2024)
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air force general
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Artist and social activist, born 1969. Wrongfully convicted of murder after a trial with no evidence or motive, exonerated after serving 27 years. Acclaimed for his golf course artworks
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Chemist - The First Oral Contraceptive Pill
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Romanian Diplomat, Writer, Historian. Born: 08/18/1916
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WWII Romanian Ace with 11 Victories
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Test pilot
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Astronomer & telescope designer. Born: 09/14/1915
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WWII: British Arctic convoy veteran
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WWII - Served with the 4th Marine Division in the South Pacific; Iwo Jima survivor. Took a series of dramatic war photographs now housed at the U.S. Marine Corps museum in Quantico
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JFK - Honor Guard at Kennedy funeral 1963; was in charge of ushers at St. Matthew's Cathedral and in charge of Irish cadets at JFK funeral
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WWII: SM3 at Mount 52, the 2nd 5-inch gun forward of the USS Laffey (The Ship That Would Not Die). D - Day, Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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United States Army soldier and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War. He was awarded the medal for conspicuous leadership during the taking of a strongly defended hill as part of Opera
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WWII: 3rd Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th PIR, 82nd AB. Paratropper in Operation Market Garden; served in the 82nd until the end of the war; occupation duty in Berlin
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He was outside the Texas Theatre when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested
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WWII: CBI. Battle of Hong Kong 1941. Of D Company, Royal Rifles of Canada, who defended Hong Kong in December 1941. After the surrender, he was a POW until the end of the war
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Pelias
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WWII: ETO. C Company, 333rd Regiment, 84th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge
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Famous Sex Doctor and Author
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British flying ace from WW2
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Last Surviving Passenger from The Hindenburg Disaster of 1937. Born: 1929
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nobel med. laureate 1996
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay
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Anti Vietnam war activist in the 1960's was on the FBI's 10 most wanted list 1970 Member of the Weather Underground-attorney-wife of Bill Ayers
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astronaut
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JFK: Witness to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
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Medal Of Honor Recipient Vietnam
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US electrical engineer who devised the Dolby system used to reduce background noise in tape recording
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Former U.S. Senator from Kansas (1969-1996); unsuccessful Republican Presidential Candidate (1988, 1996)
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American former civil rights activist. She was president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter in Spokane, having resigned when it was revealed that she was Caucasian, not African-American
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WWII: One of two survivors of the Lezaky massacre, razed as a reprisal of Heydrich's assassination in 1942. She and her sister were the only survivors and were adopted. Maiden name Stulik. Lived in Vcelakov about a decade ago
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Wwii: wasp
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Scientist
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battles of Coral Sea and Midway. USS Yorktown, later USS West Virginia
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US Navy Test Pilot/NASA Astronaut
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WWII: Malmedy Massacre survivor, 17 December 1944
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Former United States Major Army General and is currently a Special Assistant to the Commanding general
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world war 2 air ace
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Talk Show Host, Political Activist, Husband of Actress Marlo Thomas
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JFK: A close aide to President John F. Kennedy, a prominent attorney, former president and CEO of Nike
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(Born 1967) US Navy SEAL Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Recipient of a Navy Cross, a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart
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WWII. PTO. Sonar Man First Class on the USS Melvin R. Newman participating in seven major engagements, including Okinawa and Iwo Jimo. Also in Korean War
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Recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia in 2009 for his duty in Afghanistan
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JFK - Witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy; worked at the Dallas Morning News, can be seen in the Zapruder movie
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WW2 USAAF fighter pilot ace 5 victories, 24/49FG deceased
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North Korean defector living in South Korea, the only person known to have successfully escaped from a 'total-control zone' grade internment camp in North Korea
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Emmett Till case. Carolyn Donham, the white woman at the center of the case, admitted she lied about the events leading up to the murder. Donham told police in 1955 that Till (14) whistled at her and tried to grab her inside a store in Money, Miss
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. 24th Material Squadron, 18th Air Base Group, Wheeler Field
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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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medal of honor vietnam war army
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Ringling Brother's Circus Fire/Talked with her on phone, she said she was about six the time of the fire, has fear of tents
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Altar boy at John F Kennedy's funeral mass in Washington DC. Father was a doctor who was a Harvard classmate of JFK and treated John & Jackie before the Presidency
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Colonel Air Force One Pilot for President Clinton and Bush II
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Mike Donnet & Leon Divoy in occupied German Belgium Territory, discovered damaged Stampe SV4 aircraft, repaired it & flew it to safty under the German enemy's noses on July 4th 1941. Later both joined the British Royal Air Force
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge and other major battles. 740th Tank Battalion ('Daredevil Tankers')
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Actively serving US Marine Corps Major General
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navy admiral
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Actress Ashley Judd recited a poem by a Franklin teen Saturday at the Women's March on Washington./Nina wrote the poem 'Nasty Woman'
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Peleliu and Okinawa. E Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; nurse at Triple Army Hopsital
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CMOH recipient, Famed WWII Air Commander
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John Doolittle (2)
Son of General Jimmy Doolittle -
An American invertebrate paleontologist who became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada; Secretary of the Smithsonian (1907-1927)
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Flying Tigers-clerk
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Holocaust survivor of the Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Salzwedel concentration camps
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navy admiral
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(born 10 April 1918) is an Indian activist and journalist. He turned 100 in April 2018
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Italian WWII Veteran, Battle of Stalingrad, born 1921
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From November 25 to 26, 1981, Hélène Dorigny and Michel Arnould set a new hot-air balloon distance record of 717 miles (1154 km) while piloting their balloon, 'Semiramis.'
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Lz xray 1965 nammember of the lost platoon
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Richard Dormer (2)Suffolk County Police Commissioner during the long island serial killer investigations
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WW2 air ace - 6 Kills - USMC - Navy Cross
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WWII USMC Ace. On 4/22/1945 he shot down 6 Japanese Vals and had 2 probables to become an 'Ace in a Day'. He was awarded the Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross and 3 Air Medals. Passed away 7/20/2008
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18th oldest person in the world. Lives in Portugal born 1894
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German ww2 pilot 5./JG 1
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WWII: PTO. USS Randolph (CV-15)
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist who resides in Queenstown, New Zealand
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Alabama State Trooper; while protecting George Wallace on the campaign trail, he was unintentionally shot in the stomach by Arthur Bremer during the attempt on Wallace's life
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23 Oldest Person in the World Born 1894 Lives in Italy
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WWII: PTO. B-29 tail gunner stationed at Guam; 21 missions to Japan
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WWII: PTO. US Army Air Corps. B-24 bombardier in the 31th Squadron, 5th Bombardment Group of the 13th Air Force. 6 combat operations against Japanese forces in and around the Philippines
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American biochemist known for her pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, for which she won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Emmanuelle Charpentier
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An employee of TSBD , Dougherty saw Lee Harvey Oswald arrive on the morning of the assassination . He told the Warren Commission that he didn't think Oswald was carrying anything
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Boeing Company engineer, born 1937. Worked on the Lunar Orbiter, mapping the moon for the Apollo program. Worked at a Madrid, Spain tracking station where he helped receive the first ever photo of the earth taken from the moon
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Pioneer flight aviator
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navy admiral
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As a 12 yr. old watched Pres. Kennedy's motorcade on Harwood St. in Dallas and then heard the shots in Dealey Plaza , friends with Officer J.D. Tippet's son
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att. oj simpson trial
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FBI's pioneer and master of investigative profiling. Author and basis for the Netflix series 'Mindhunter'
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WW2 P-47 Thunderbolt Flying Ace(Medals out the Wazoo)
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Noted author, scientist, and conservationist. Works to save the African Elephant
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One of the 'Rosie the Riveteers' during WW2. One of The Last Voices of World War II in the June 2020 issue of National Geographic
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325th fighter group checkerboard clan,flew spt for 101st airborne band of brothers
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WWII veteran, born 1923. One of the last surviving veterans of Attu, an often overlooked invasion of Alaska by the Japanese in 1942
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor
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Donald Trump's lawyer/Special Counsel to the Commissioner of Baseball and author of a report that led to the banning of Major League Baseball player Pete Rose
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. E Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines. Purple Heart
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Korean War US Army Veteran in an all black regiment. Wounded in combat in July of 1950 and was among the visitors of his hospital was General MacAurthur in Japan. Left in 1951
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American author & historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the National Book Award for Nonfiction & the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Executive producer of Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima
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Transgender activist and model
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WWII: ETO. Bombardier/Navigator in the 703rd Squadron, 445th Bomb Group, 8th AF, actor Jimmy Stewart was his Flight Leader. Became a POW in 1944 (Stalag Luft I camp), shot down on 9/27/44 on Kassel mission in B-24 'Frigid Bridget' #4251342
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WWII: PTO. B-24 copilot, 424th Bomb Squadron, 307th Bomb Group, 13th Air Force
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WWII veteran, born in 1913, believed to be the oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor. He served on the USS W> Virginia during the attack, and later served in the Korean War
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general army
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Irish'
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Eric Doyle (2)Commanding Officer and flight leader for the Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron
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Model for the 'We Can Do It!' posters during World War II
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Astronomer
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Female WWII veteran, WASP pilot, born 1921
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Richard Doyle (2)Great-nephew of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who created Sherlock Holmes. Lives in Boyatt Wood, Hampshire, UK
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Author and former head men's basketball coach at both Kingswood - Oxford School and at Trinity College. Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for International Sport. Found guilty of embezzling more than $1 million from his foundation
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navy admiral
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Army general; kidnapped and held 42 days by Red Brigades (Italian terrorist organization of the 70s)
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Unverified Italian World War 1 Veteran.Born:01/25/1901. Lives in Maniago, Italy
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President of the European Central Bank
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WW2 Veteran 'Made famous Bataan Death March' Awarded medals for his service December 2008, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, POW Medal & Asiatic-Pacific Campain medal!
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WWII: PTO. Battel of Okinawa. Purple Heart. Sixth Marine Division
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Italian ww2 ace
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JFK assassination witness. Co-worker of Oswald, standing in front of the Texas School Book Depository when was Kennedy shot
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Author 'Life On a Short Fuse' /War or Conflict Korean War, 1950-1953 Air Force/Korea/Vietnam War, 1961-1975/Lieutenant Colonel/Served as a Fighter Pilot; a Command Pilot; a Test Pilot; and an Instructor Pilot
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JFK - FBI special agent assigned to the Parkland trauma room where Kennedy died
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WW2, Battle of Britain pilot and ace in the RAF.
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American astronomer who is best known as one of the pioneers in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, including the founding of SETI, mounting the first attempts at detecting extraterrestrial communications in 1961
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WWII: USMC infantry man. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Guam (Silver Star), assistant squad leader in the Battle of Iwo Jima in the second wave (Purple Heart). Silver Star, 2 Bronze Sars, 2 Purple Hearts
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Russian polar explorer
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World War 2 Veteran and one of the last surviving members from the 23rd Special Troops known as 'The Ghost Army'
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Honor Guard; an interesting one as he was there when Air Force One arrived back at Washington with the coffin
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Royal Navy Hot Air Balloon Co-Pilot
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker
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Tuskegee Airmen/Civilian Instructor 1942-1945
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
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Flight scientist
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Victoria Manalo Draves, the first woman to win two gold medals in diving in the same Olympics ? in the three-meter springboard and the 10-meter platform competitions in London in 1948 and the first Asian American to win an Olympic medal
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German pilot
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Alfred Dregger (December 10, 1920 - June 29, 2002) was a German politician of the Cdu. He was mayor of Fulda from 1956 to 1970 and chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 1982 to 1991
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Scientist
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Schindler List survivor. Known as Dr. Danka Dresner Schindel
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Holocaust survivor. On Schindler's list. Is a doctor who lives in Israel. Also known as Yonathan or Jonathan
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American soldier and defector, born 1941, defected to North Korea and is still living in Pyongyang
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Scientist
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astronomer
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Flight astronaut sts-118
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Astronaut, Born Nov. 5, 1962
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WWII Navy Veteran
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P-51 Mustang Ace during WWII-[6 victories] Member of the 361st Fighter Group - Air Force Cross
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German ww2 pilot
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Motor Machinst's Mate 2nd Class Edmund T. Drewitch served aboard PT 109 along with then Lt (jg) and future President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy; due to injury, he was not aboard PT-109 when it was sunk
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WWII veteran, was abroad the HMS Ajax during the Battle of the River Plate
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US Navy Flying Ace, VF-31 - 5 Kills
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Military, Navy Flying Ace, Vietnam War
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WWII: MTO. B-25 pilot. 57th Bomb Wing
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Spy - Involved in the Bay of Pigs
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Jesse Ray Drowley (September 9, 1919 - May 20, 1996) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions in World War II
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One of the last 1918 Spanish Flu survivors. As of April 2020, she is 104 and lives in Letterkenny, Ireland
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Former U.S. General, U.S. Air Force
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Tuskegee Airmen; 99th Pursuit Squadron and 332nd Fighter Group; author of 'A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman'
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(born October 14, 1917) is a Canadian educator known for teaching computer classes at the age of 101. Manitoba Teachers? Society honoured Dryden in their magazine's March issue. City of Winnipeg presented her with a Community Service Award
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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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Labor leader
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Retired Swiss biophysicist. In 2017, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson
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Military , author
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In prison for killing a cop
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Scientist
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Canadian feminist & peace activist.Born: 10/31/1908
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Newsman for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, covered many 20th century events. Was in the JFK motorcade when Kennedy was killed and later witnessed Oswald being shot. In the 70s, he covered Cambodia and was held as a civilian prisoner of war for a time, and w
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Spanish Civil War Veteran 'International Brigade'. Born:01/24/1916
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WW2 veteran of D-Day
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NASA astronaut (retired) flew four space shuttle mission STS-45,57,72, and 92
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Survivor Of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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American fighter ace VF-15, 5 Kills - US Navy, f4f hellcat, p-47, p-51
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Vietnam War Medal of Honor Recipient
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US Army WWII veteran, served under MacArthur in the Philippines. Press liaison for the trials of Generals Homma & Yamashita in Manilla after the war's end, and both their executions
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French American economist. She shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty'
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American serial killer active between 1983 & 1985 in Chicago's western suburbs.
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air force general assoc. executive
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Robert was a sergeant in the Dallas Police Dept .He was stationed at the Trade Mart on Nov. 22 '63 . Later he stood guard outside Trauma Room #1 as JFK was treated
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, and survivor the sinking of the USS Sims and USS Astoria
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German mountaineer and explorer. First german who climbed on top of all 14 8000er
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Former blackjack player with MIT Blackjack Team/Played with Strategic Investments & one of founding members & team leaders on Amphibian Investments exploits chronicled in Ben Mezrich's Busting Vegas & referred to in Bringing Down the House
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Flight aviator
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British ace from WW2
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Apollo 16 Astronaut and moonwalker. Also the youngest Astronaut on the moon
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First surgeon to receive President John F. Kennedy after being shot and taken to Dallas Parkland Hospital, & attended to the wounds of then Texas Governor John Connally, who was shot at the same time John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963
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JFK/November 22nd 1963 Duke-Ruhd observed the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue
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Betty Duke-Ruhd (2)JFK was at Love Field November 22 1963
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Retired General
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WWII: Atlantic. Corsair pilot on escort carrier USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60). They sank 3 German subs in the North Atlantic, and captured U-505 on 4 June 1944. It was the first enemy warship captured on the high seas by the US Navy since 1815
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nobel med. laureate 1975
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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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WWII German Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot Ace 5 victories flew the pik as, jg 53
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Commander on board the HMS Bulldog (1945)on which the surrender document of the German garrisons of the Channel Islands was signed on 9 May 1945
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Subject of the film Melvin and Howard
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D.1965 cathode ray tube inventor
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astronaut
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)
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navy admiral
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WWII: PTO. FM-2 Wildcat pilot
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United States Air Aces
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US Navy Fighter 7 victory ace, WWII was the first F6F Hellcat pilot to down a Zero - Navy Cross
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Roi Namur, Iwo Jima and Saipan. 4th Marine Division
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U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the White House detail during the Kennedy years, Duncan served as the advance agent for Fort Worth during the Texas visit in November 1963
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KLIF radio newsman in Dallas who had interaction with Jack Ruby on November 23 , 1963
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 7 victories; Pacific Theater; US Navy, Navy Cross. One of the first F6F Hellcat nightfighter pilots
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Supercentenarian Born 1907 Went to school at Bath Consolodated School. Was at home sick when the Bath School Massacre took place in 1927, which killed 38 children and 6 adults
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Maternal Grandmother of Barak Obama
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medal of honor ww11 army
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Entomologist - Trying to Prove Bugs are the food of the future and will solve World Hunger
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WWII Pilot Ace-- Flew the P-40,47& 51-[9 victories]
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astronaut
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WWII:Battle Of Iwo Jima. 5th Marine Division, 27th Marine Regiment. Pictured in a photo from the battle directing mortars and artillery against Japanese positions
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WWII: ETO, 104th Infantry Division
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ww 11 marines corps hero (cmh)
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Oglala
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma. (1923-2015)
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Ben Dunn (2) Pow by japanese in ww2- lives in murphysbobo,il, 92 if still alive?
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Civil war historian and author
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(Born June 25, 1923) is a decorated U.S. Army veteran of World War II. For his heroism, he was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart
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Harry Dunn (2)Police Officer, fought rioters at the capitol during the January 6th Insurrection
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Lz xray 1965
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Zoologist, theory that all evolution is now human driven
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Served on USS California (gun director for the broadside guns)
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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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Centenarian (1899-2001). US WWI Army veteran, served in the ambulance corps in France. Later became a freelance writer, writing books in the 1920s, including WWI experiences. One of 8 WWI vets profiled by Life magazine on the 80th anniversary in 1998
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First woman to become a US Four Star General
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WWII Assistant Chaplain veteran (born 1917), ETO including the Normandy campaign
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French criminal defence lawyer, famous for his record numbers of acquittals in French territories. Former French Minister of justice (1921-1924)
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Author - 'Caught in the Act', The true story of his life. He was caught in the '80's helping people escape from East to West Germany. He spent several years in a Prison in Budapest
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astronaut
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Former member of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a prisoner of war in Cuba for 18 months; former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association. Now an attorney in Miami.
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On October 29, 1994, fired 29 rounds from an SKS rifle at the White House. He was convicted of attempting to assassinate United States President Bill Clinton and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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Assisted discovery of H2 receptor class of drugs, cimetidine, which inhibits production of stomach acid. Cimetidine is commonly used to treat acid reflux and stomach ulcers to this day. Inducted National Inventors HOF 1990
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hellcopter pilot captured in somalia 1993
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US army General
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Survived falling off his 22 foot boat while grouper fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Has been feautured in many magazines
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WW 2 Vet born in 1921
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Marine Master Sergeant who saved Howard Hughes after the Beverly Hills plane crash documented in The Aviator
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Flight astronaut sts-35,67
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Killer; subject of the six - part HBO documentary The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
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Turkish Air Force Captain who in 1959, took the first photograph of a strange formation on Mount Ararat, believed to be the remains of Noah's Ark. He was still alive in 2007, not sure if he still is now
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Engineer 1st working American gasoline-powered car & co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. In Springfield Charles & his brother Frank produced & road-tested America's 1st gasoline-powered car
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Westerfield trial Prosecuter
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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Scientist
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Assst Secretary of Navy
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Author, former activist, widow of activist Rudi Dutschke
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Living witness to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi, India in 1948. At the time he worked as a journalist
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Astronaut ascan 2004
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Former first lady of Haiti and ex-wife of Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, lives under her maiden name Bennett in France
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Truck driver was picking up shipment of books at Texas School Book Depository on Nov.22 and saw Oswald before assassination
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Flight engineer on United Flight 232
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One of Russia's most notable specialists in the investigation of unidentified flying objects. He works as a coordinator at The Science and Research center Kosmopoisk (Search of Cosmos), Russia
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first black candidate for astronaut 1961
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Co-Founder Of The DemCoalittion, has been featured on MSNBC
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field. Believed to be the last living Pearl Harbor survivor in South Dakota
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100-year-old pioneer is WA's last surviving female WWII-era pilot. One of the last surviving WASP pilots of the World War 2 Era
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American economist. Dybvig was awarded the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Douglas Diamond and Ben Bernanke, 'for research on banks and financial crises'
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Wwii: pto. USS Kenton
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jim. Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division
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Lz xray 1965 nam, k.i.a. 2nd tour 1970
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real-life Vietnam war hero turned actor - often typecast as General, Cpt., Lt., Col. in film: Platoon (1986), Casualties of War (1987), Born On The Fourth Of July (1989), JFK (1991), Saving Private Ryan (1997), Band of Brothers (t.v. mini-series, 2001)
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Paul Dye (2)Flight scientist
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Chief Radio Engineer during 2nd Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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navy admiral
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Survivor of the Bataan Death March
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'Norman G. Dyhrenfurth (born May 7, 1918) is a Swiss-American mountaineer and film maker. He was the leader of the successful American Mount Everest Expedition of 1963, which placed six climbers on the summit.'
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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Born 1916 SS guard and Gestapo official in Auschwitz concentration camp
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'Commanding Officer Royal Navy'
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Crewmember USS Ward 139, the first American ship to engage the Japanese in WW2 at Pearl Harbor when it sunk thier mini-submarine
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german physicist, nobel peace prize 1995 (with group Pugwash), recipient of the alterbative nobel prize and the Bundesverdienstkreuz
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a former cosmonaut who made five flights: Soyuz 27,Soyuz 39, Soyuz T-6, Soyuz T-12 and Soyuz T-13. In all he had spent 145 days, 15 hours and 56 minutes in space over these five missions
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One of the last surviving members of the Manhattan Project. He now lives in Idaho Falls, Idaho, U.S.A
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Army Air Corps, Hickam Field
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air force general
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Military seal team 3 charlie platoon
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WWII (European Theater, 353rd Squadron), Korea - Fighter Ace, 20.5 victories
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General Ira Clarence Eaker (April 13, 1896 - August 6, 1987) was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. On April 30, 1945, General Eaker was named deputy commander of the Army Air Forces and Chief of the Air Staff
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Youngest woman to have traveled around the globe in a single-engine plane, completing the journey on July 11, 2014; named after legendary pilot Amelia Earhart
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941; last Hawaiian survivor of USS Arizona, born 1915
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American foreign affairs and intelligence strategist. Author of Nights in the Pink Motel
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WW2 Marine part of the 4th Marine Division who enlisted on November 10, 1942 and fought in Iwo Jima (B: 1924)
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Environmental Advocate and Oceanographer, Professional Speaker
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Virginia State Attorney General (1998-2001)
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WWII: ETO. D-Day (Omaha Beach), Battle for Brest, Battle of the Bulge. 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII - Pacific; one of only two torpedo plane pilots of Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) to survive after attacking the Japanese aircraft carriers during the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942.
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Author and founding executive director of the International Spy Museum and a 35 year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He served 25 years as a case officer in its Clandestine Service, primarily in Europe and the Middle East
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World war 2 Fighter Ace - - 13 Kills -9th af mustang pilot, flew the p-51, p-80, l-5, c-47a, c-53, b-25, c-78, c-45, t-33, f-84g, rf-84f, b-17f
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Gunnery Sgt/One of three Marines that lowered the Embassy flag in Cuba the last time when the Embassy closed in 1961/ Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana 5+ decades raise the Stars and Stripes once again there
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Businessman; a former financier involved business scandal that sent him to jail for fraud multiple times & complicated by ties to future President LBJ/Alleged in 80s had inside knowledge that LBJ was involved in assassination of Kennedy
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Lockheed Test Pilot First pilot to fly the YF-12A Second pilot to fly the SR-71 Third pilot to fly the A-12 Chief test pilot during testing of Convair YB-58A Author of YF-12 flight Manual
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(Born 1933) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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2010 Inductee National Inventor Hall of Fame; inventor of GPS
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group
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One of the few WWII paratroopers who made all four major jumps during the war - Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Holland
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Army sniper vietnam