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WWII: B-17 crew member, 8th Air Force (35 mission in Europe)
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4-Star General
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Great-grandnephew of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly who was was hanged for murder in 1880. He lives in Wangaratta, north-east Victoria, Australia
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British judge and barrister, received the Military Cross for valor in WW2; also known as William Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths
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Great-grand-niece of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly who was was hanged for murder in 1880. She lives in Wangaratta, north-east Victoria, Australia
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Stanley David Griggs (September 7, 1939 ? June 17, 1989) was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D.
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Author/'No Case To Answer' a book about the JFK Assassination & is a JFK Assassination researcher
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne (AG-31)
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Col. Robert Grimes, an Army Air Forces pilot flew a B-17 bomber during World War II
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Spy/Former CIA officer who participated on a small team that investigated and uncovered the actions of Aldrich Ames, a counterintelligence officer who was subsequently convicted of spying for the Soviet Union
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Cummings
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Soviet WWII Veteran, 308 Rifles Division, Machine Gunner, Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Konigsberg. Lives in Canada, possibly Toronto
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WWII Soviet Veteran
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NASA - Deputy Director of the Armstrong Flight Research Center
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astronaut
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German Flying Ace Of World War II
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Army General
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Mercury astronaut
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Soccer mom madam
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Activist, Attempted POW rescues in conjunction with the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue
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US Navy Diver of 20 years now turned video game streamer
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/born February 1, 1938 was elected the first female lieutenant governor of Connecticut in 1990
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2015 Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
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German medical and prof. of the University ofWitten/Herdeck - Brother of the singer Herbert Groenemeyer
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field
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Government
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 4th Marine Division
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Auschwitz Prison Camp
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WWII Fighter Ace, 354th Fighter Group, 6 victories - USAAF
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Nobel laureate physics 2004
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WWII: Battle of Midway (June 1942). Survivor of the sinking of USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady'). Assistant gunnery officer.. After being in the way of 3 torpedoes and 1 bomb, he floated 6 hours in the Pacific before being picked up
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Rocket Scientist, 'Dr. Werner Von Braun's Team'
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Professional boxer, fought Mike Tyson at the Madison Square Garden
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An ex-Luftwaffe fighter pilot and glider pilot who has established 50 world records approved by FAI Gliding Commission
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British solicitor, son of paranormal investigator Maurice Grosse. He helped his father interrogate the Enfield poltergeist and, as such, is probably the only member of the Law Society to have cross-examined a ghost. He lives in the UK
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Retired Navy Admiral
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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WWII - Fighter Ace - USAAF - 8 Kills
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US Navy, WWII, born 1927. USS Abercrombie, 1944-45
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division. Purple Heart
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Neurosurgeon at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1963, was in Trauma Room One during the treatment of President and claims to have examined the president's head wound; however, he was not called to testify before the Warren Commission
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former editor/chairman of National Geographic, son of Melville Bell Grosvenor (NatGeo), great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell
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Mathematician in 20th century
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chairman ceo of intel. time's man of the year 1997
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JFK - The Old Guard, Honor Guard at the John F. Kennedy funeral
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2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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American computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur co-founded Siri Inc., which created the Siri intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator
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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 Admiral
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Astronaut
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Rafal Grupinski - Polish politician, historian and organizer of cultural, literary critic, essayist, publisher, entrepreneur, university lecturer
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Judge
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Presenter/Adventurer: Born Survivor, Man vs Wild. Chief Scout
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Nobel Prize Winner Physics
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WWII 'Rosie' worker, born 1926. Worked 1944-45 at an Air Force depot at the Buffalo Airport, while her mother worked at Bell Aircraft
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'Known as the 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz'/Former guard at the Auschwitz prison camp. Lives in Germany
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Having served as an in the US Army at Berlin Tempelhof airport in the late 1940s, Mr. Groetsch was a Berlin Airlift veteran working with the "Candy Bomber", Col. Gail Halvorsen
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One of the last living crewmembers (1917-2002) of the Hindenburg that survived the 1937 crash. Served as a ship cook, he jumped to safety through an opening in the ship and ran to safety as the ship fell behind him
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Commander Naval Air Training
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: US Veteran of the Battle of Remagen, March 1945
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WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, Original Band of Brothers; co-author of 'Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends'
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(March 1931 - 21 February 2015) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two space flights: Soyuz 17 and Soyuz 28
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WWII: PTO. Bronze Star. US Army. Battle of Leyte, Luzon and Hollandia, New Guinea, Okinawa
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Argentine-Cuban pediatrician, Che Guevara's daughter
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National Spelling Bee Champion - Has Topps Allen & Ginter Card
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Friday Night Bank Robber -robbed more then 50 banks. Released in 2017
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World War II German veteran 2nd SS Panzer Division later became a Protestant Minister
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Attorney - L.A. Deputy D.A. (1996-2000), San Francisco Ass't. D.A. (2000-2004). Host & Contributor on the Fox News Channel - The Five, The O'Reilly Factor, Red Eye
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nobel med. laureate 1977
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Italian World War 2 Hero and Diplomat. Born: 02/07/1909
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Serving on Hickam Field, Guilliams was strafed and then fired upon Japanese planes. Later fought on Saipan. Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient
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Descendant of Jules Verne, the legendary French author of Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty-Thousand Leagues under the Sea
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Employed at a used-car lot at Patton Ave. and Jefferson Blvd. in Oak Cliff ,he heard gunshots and saw a man run south sticking a handgun in his belt . He positively identified the man as Lee Harvey Oswald
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WWII - D-Day: 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion and landed on Utah Beach during D-Day in the second wave
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Lawyer, Preacher, Assassin of Pres. James Garfield (1841-1882). Shot Garfield on July 2, 1881, was hanged on June 30, 1882 for it
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WWII - D-Day. Survivor of USS Corry (DD-463, the destroyer that led the armada into D-Day), which was sunk on June 6 near Utah Beach by German guns. In March 1944, he was part of the Corry crew who sank German submarine U-801
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Katharine Teresa Gun is a British translator who worked for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency. In 2003, she leaked top-secret information to The Observer
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WWII - Pearl Harbor; USS Arizona. Took a leave before the attack and was on board USS Henderson on 7 Dec 1941; didn't know about the fate of his ship until Dec. 12, 1941
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Phoenix
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Invented the modern photocopier; Inventor Hall of Fame inductee
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Former US Park Ranger who stood guard next to Martin Luther King Jr. during his 'I Have a Dream' March on Washington speech in 1963
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Sniper during WW2, lives in Memphis, Missouri
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Icelandic labour leader. Father of singer Bjork
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British developmental biologist.In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells
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Politician
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WWII: CBI Theater. B-24 Hump Flyer (19 round-trips 1944-1945)
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US Army WWII vet, born 1921. Served in the Signal Intelligence Service, through Africa and Italy. Later a career with Pan-Am Airlines, and close friends with the Monaco royal family. Married in Italy with actor Rex Harrison as a witness
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War hero, Victoria Cross recipient
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War hero, Victoria Cross receiver, now living in Nepal
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WWII: PTO. USS Lamson. Purple Heart
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Age 14 when JFK shot & was witness/skipped school to see him/Close enough to touch President
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US Marine Crops Afghanistan War Veteran. Navy Cross Recipient
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JFK: Doctor at the Parkland Memorial Hospital who treated Gov. Connally after the Kennedy assassination and two days later Lee Harvey Oswald
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Steven Gustafson (2)(Born 1947) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Was wounded 2 different times from shrapnel while sweeping for mines. Recipient of 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII vet (1925-2018), Communications officer on Adm. Halsey's staff on the USS Missouri (BB-63), witness to the Japanese surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri
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Author of 10 Louisiana French-Creole cuisine cookbooks & proprietor of New Orleans' Antoine's Restaurant, est. 1840. Noted Creole culinary historian & resident of French Quarter for more than 3 decades & studied at the Le Cordon Bleu
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Polish nurse who gained international recognition for aiding Polish Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany during WWII. Author of In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
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Member Of Band Of Brothers, 506th Easy Company
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4). Last Pearl Harbor survivor in Nebraska
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US Navy Wave veteran of WWII, born 1917. Typed decoded messages sent on to Navy Intelligence
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Actress and whistleblower
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US Air Force Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Recipient of the Air Force Cross, 3 Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart
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Astronaut - STS-59
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Navy Corpsman WWII. Landed on Omaha Beach on D Day. PTO: Battle of Okinawa
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CPO, USN, Landing Ship Tank, USS LST-553 Coxswain on LST that supported Peleliu, Leyte, Mindoro, Lingayen Gulf, Subic Bay, and Okinawa Landings
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
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Fighter ace, MAR-151
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Tucker
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Nicknamed 'aloha' ronnie- was at lz-xray in 1965 with 1st cav
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Hungarian man who appeared in the famous faked photo of a tourist on top of the World Trade Center in NYC just before it was hit by a plane on September 11, 2001
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Mexican drug lord
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WW2 & KOREAN WAR VETERAN, 30th Div.Rangers. Born, june 1919, 100 years old.. Distinguished Service Cross, 3 Silver Stars, 2 Bronze Stars, 7 Purple Hearts, 2 POW Medals, Legion Of Honor (France, D-day Medal)
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Test pilot - F-14, etc. Also known as J. Thomas Gwynne
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Astronaut and first Mongolian in space (1981)
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Organizes 'Wiener Opernball'
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German WW2 soldier, escaped from his prison camp in the USA and led a live as Dennis Whiles, surrendered to the U.S.A. in 1985 on 'The Tonight Show', is now living in Boulder, Colorado
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Daughter of Hermann Göring, is living in Munich, Germany
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German Resistance Fighter/Born:1/18/1907
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US Secretary of Interior (2021-), US Representative (2019-present); first Native American woman to serve in Congress
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Author and Titanic expert; president and co-founder of the Titanic International Society
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Born 22 July 1942, Austrian mountaineer
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Original founder of the SDS movement(Students for a Democratic Society) 1962
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The Poland native also founded the 1939 Club, an organization of Holocaust survivors, and was a board member of the L.A. Museum of the Holocaust
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Philosopher and Sociologist
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(Born 1916) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Provided support at D-Day. Oldest known WW2 Veteran in Kentucky
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WWII: PTO. Navy radar operator. Served aboard the USS South Dakota (BB-57)
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us army colonel war hero. world war 2,korea and vietnam.jls
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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American businessman, political aide and author, born 1928. RFK assistant during the 1960 JFK campaign, and first Associate Director of the Peace Corps. Later an executive for the DeLorean car and pharmaceutical companies
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Aka..Granny D Political ActivistSubject of the HBO Program 'Run Granny Run' about her run for US Senator position at age 94. Born: 01/24/1910
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Retired Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space. An Engineer and former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station
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Historian to time team programme in uk
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Explorer, Yachtsman
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Descendant of the Yi Dynasty (Empire of Korea) is one of two pretenders to the throne of Korea. She is a second daughter of Prince Imperial Ui of Korea, a fifth son of Emperor Gojong of Korea
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Army Air Corps.1st mission firebombing mission Hamm, Germany Feb, 1945. Flew 23 missions/part 8th Air Force, Rookie crew, 1st combat mission, bomber Last plane in formation to pass over the target - position known as 'Tail End Charlie'
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One of six remaining survivors from the U.S.S. Arizona as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He is supposed to be living in West Warwick R.I. according to newspaper reports
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Auction Hunters show
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. 307th AB Engineers, 82nd Airborne Division
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Assassin. Took part in the killing of Malcolm X. Lives in New York
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WWII: ETO. Battle of The Bulge. 84th Infantry Division
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Former Commandant or Chief of Staff for the Marines
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medal of honor army vietnam
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General US marine
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. 1st Marine Division. Knew Chesty Puller
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Writer, Literary Critic, Historian. Born: 09/05/1908
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Astronaut
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astronaut
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WWII: Company K, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division 'The Old Breed'. Awarded the Navy Cross for his actions on Peleliu, Palau Islands, on 15 and 16 September 1944
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Manager of the Sikorsky Presidential Helicopter Division, he was in the team that built all Presidential helicopters from Kennedy to Reagan
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Military/Indian Army - awarded Victoria Cross in April 1945
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former Austrian political leader of FPO, now a member of BZO and governor of Carinthia
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Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1974-1979); Secretary of State (1981-1982)
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French doctor and former astronaut, spent 25 days in space, probably living in France
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French astronaut
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Retired General
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British pilot from WW2, 'Battle of Britain'
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4 Star General
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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Astronaut
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Medal of Honor WWII
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Japanese former professional boxer who was sentenced to death on September 11, 1968, in March 2014 he was granted a retrial and an immediate release
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Finnish WWII Veteran
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WWII: D-Day veteran
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Author
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Danish Statistician
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Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane FRS (born 14 September 1951) is a British physicist. He won the 2016 Nobel prize for physics with David J. Thouless and John Michael Kosterlitz
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Political aide & businessman, White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon & his consequent involvement in the Watergate scandal. His intimate role in the Watergate cover-up precipitated his resignation from government
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Astronomer/co-discoverer of the Hale-Bopp Comet
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Sole survivor from the sinking of S.S. Daniel J. Morrell. that sank in november 1966
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Mars task force, burma ww2 475th inf
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Flight (scientist), former NASA engineer
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Formerly Oldest Man, born on December 1, 1890 (USA)- Deceased 2004
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American-born Israeli author/journalist. Has been active in Middle East reconciliation efforts. Chairman of Open House, an Arab-Jewish educational project in the working class town of Ramle. Featured in the 1984 documentary film Kaddish
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LCDR - US NAVY Blue Angels
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Historian & writer of numerous books on Texas & Western history/2 Spur Awards/Texas: An Album of History: From the Frontier to Spindletop/Texas: From Spindletop through World War 2/Sam Houston/Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas
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Spaceflight Participant trainee
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Inventory of the Waterbed
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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Newsmaker; was a secretary to Lt. Colonel Oliver North and a notable figure in the Iran - Contra affair. Granted immunity for testifying at the trial in 1987 and became overnight celebrity
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WWII U.S. Corporal - served in the 3rd Marine Division, participating in campaigns such as Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima. Witnessed the iconic flag raising atop Mount Surabachi. Purple Heart recipient
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WWII: PTO. Underwater Demolition 5 (UTD5). Bronze Star
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WWII: PTO. USS Balch. Battle of Midway
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Howard Hall (2)
WWII: New Guinea (Battle of Buna-Gona), The Philippines (Battle of Luzon). 32nd Infantry Division -
WWII: British Arctic Convoy sailor
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American geneticist and chronobiologist with a focus on the neurology and behavior of Drosophila melanogaster and 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physiology
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(Born Jan. 3, 1924) US Army WW2 Veteran. Distinguished Service Cross Recipient, native of Madison
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Nobel Laureate Physics 2005
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Iran Hostage Crisis/U.S. Army Military Attaché
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Serial killer
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Okinawa. 6th Marines, 2nd Marine Division
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City Manager of the Armored Motor Service in Dallas , Hall arranged to have two armored trucks sent to the DPD on the morning of Nov. 24 , 1963 , to act as decoys during the transfer of Oswald
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Author of The Sky's the Limit. Self-help expert
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Was a 28-year-old nurse working at the hospital where President John F. Kennedy was brought after his assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, said the bullet was found between his ear and shoulder
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Former Sergeant Major of the US Army from 1997 to 2000
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American shot along with the Pope in 1981
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world war 2 fighter ace VMF - 213
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Steve Hall (4)Retired Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency/retired from the CIA after 30 years of running and managing intelligence operations in Central Eurasia and Latin America
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu & Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
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Tuskegee Airmen- Pilot
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American Olympic swimmer, 1968 and 1972 silver medalist, ophthalmologist, father of Gary Hall, Jr
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Administrator for the Clark County Museum System in Las Vegas, NV, most called-upon expert featured on The History Channel's 'Pawn Stars', has also appeared on The History Channel's 'American Restoration'
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Sixth grader at John J. Pershing Elementary in 1963, Haller filmed the Kennedy motorcade on Turtle Creek Boulevard. He shared his film publicly for the first time at the 50th anniversary of the assassination in 2013
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Jack Hallett (2)
WW2 Fighter pilot cadet in Maxwell Field. Flew on the B-40, P-28, and P-47 (Born 1920) He flew a P51 Mustang for his 99th birthday -
Businessman, chief cargo officer, Qatar Airways Cargo airlines
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American adventurer and author
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Animal rights activist who is serving ten months in prison for raiding a mink farm
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(Born 1939) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1963 and retired in 1987 as a colonel
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WWII: ETO. 501st PIR, 101st AB. Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Bavaria, occupation duty in Austria
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Maj.Gen. Patrick J. Halloran is deputy director for strategic command, control and communications systems, Command, Control and Communications Systems Directorate, Joint Staff, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington,D.C.
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B-29 Bomber/ POW in Japan
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Ww2 british vetran
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explorer
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WW2 veteran who fought in the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, 1942. Born: 1921. He was Germany's youngest winner of the Knight's Cross -the highest award for bravery. He is now 95 and lives in Bad Munder, near Hanover, Germany
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Flight astronaut sts-65,74,83,94,101
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Fleet Admiral
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US Army General
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German ww2 pilot
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(born 1939) is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former deputy base commander of RAF Bentwaters, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. After serving in Vietnam, Japan and Korea, he was assigned to Bentwaters as deputy commander
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Commander US 19th Air Force
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Crewmember USS Ward 139, the first American ship in WW2 to engage the Japanese at Pearl Harbor when it sank thier mini-submarine
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Senate chaplain
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Col. USAF pilot in the Berlin Airlift known as the 'candy Bomber' dropped candy to children from his plane over Berlin, flew the A-26, B-25, C-47, C-54 and C-74
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Third party US Presidential candidate 1992 for the Socialist Equality Party
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4 Star General
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Flight astronaut sts-124
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'Bat 21' movie was his story of being shot down in vietnam
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co 1/7 cav
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland
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Astronaut mse astronaut
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Former FBI undercover agent, author of The Last Undercover
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Son of Frank Hamer (bonnie and clyde)
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Flight Steward who served on Air Force One for Kennedy through Ford. Flew JFK into Dallas, then helped tear out seats to fit the casket in after the shot. Stayed in the area with Jackie Kennedy and JFK's body during the flight back to DC.
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Military, Former SAS member
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Ww2 bombarder b-52
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(born 1929) is a political scientist, civil rights leader, and the W. S. Sayre Professor Emeritus of Government and Political Science at Columbia University/Most noted work is Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America
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WW2 Navy who served on the USS King and Orlick during his time in service. (Born 1922)
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George Hamilton (3)WWII Veteran from Alabama, just turned 100. Served aboard the USS King in the North Pacific
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US WWII Navy vet, born 1924. Served on the USS Phoenix for WWII, including Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Leyte
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Ian Hamilton (2) Scottish Lawyer and Nationalist (born: 1925). He is best known for his part in the removal of the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey in 1950. Now 94. Lives in the UK
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WWII: British Army Major (1st King?s Dragoon Guards) who was evacuated from Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo, May/June 1940) along with 339.000 British, French and Belgian soldiers
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Computer scientist, systems engineer/Director of Software Engineering Division of MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for Apollo space program. Her team's work prevented abort of Apollo 11 moon landing
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WW2 Spitfire pilot and Flight Commander who received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his attacks on enemy aircraft. Born: 1916 and recently reached his 100th birthday. Lives in a care home in Ammanford, South Wales, UK
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WWII: CBI. Last living member of the Merrill's Marauders, aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long-range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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(Born 1921) US Coast Guard WW2 Veteran. His job was to help soldiers from not drowning after getting off of the boats including at Normandy Beach
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Retired General
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German politican for FDP born in 1921
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American neurologist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, operated Duk Koo Kim before Kim died
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Writer of Military works/military historian, with a focus on the military campaigns of the United States Marine Corps, and military action in World War II
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Has worked with the Hubble telescope
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Painter, writer, lecturer, and family historian. Grandson of Oscar Hammerstein. He has devoted much of his life to studying and preserving his family's heritage and their contribution to American culture
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From Dartford, Kent, One of few surviving D-Day officers/Commanded five ?flail? or ?crab? tanks, belonging to the 22 Dragoons, equipped with a boom and chains to detonate mines/one of 1st soldiers to land at Juno Beach on 6 June 1944
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. US Naval Hospital; later Costa Mesa mayor
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Civilian Conservation Corps veteran, featured in history documentaries about the CCC and the Great Depression. Also one of the last living people who travelled as a hobo during the Depression
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Sub Base at Pearl Harbor
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US Mining Engineer Businessman, Diplomat (1855-1936) Close friend and advisor to Wm Taft. Also knew and advised Grant, Hayes, Roosevelt, and Coolidge as a friend
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African American WWII veteran. A Montford Marine, served in Guam in 1944
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army general
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Flight astronaut sts-39,64
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German Politican for SPD born in 1942
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Dallas schoolgirl in 1963, Hampson saw the presidential motorcade near the corner of Main and Houston Streets. She and a friend walked to Dealey Plaza in the aftermath of the assassination
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WWII - Marine Corps, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Regiment, 4th Marine Division. Battles of Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima. Wounded in the legs by a thrown hand grenade on Iwo Jima, hospitalized
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Survivor and one of the last living of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Born: 1903 - Deceased 2009
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Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland on 29 May 1914
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. 1st Marine Division
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JFK - Secret Service agent; was one of those that were assigned to Dallas after the assassination for duties like guarding the Presidential limousine or further investigations
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WWII: PTO. Anti-aircraft gunner on the USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady'). Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942), Battle of Midway (June 1942, when the Yorktown sank)
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US patriot, statesman, merchant (1737-97). 4th and 13th President of the Continental Congress, 1st and 3rd Gov. of Massachusetts
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Producer, director, author, photographer and pilot. President of Handleman Filmworks. Owner of Handleman Sky Ranch. Director of the Michigan Air Guard Historical Association. Has served on more than thirty civic and charitable boards
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'Inventor Barbie Doll' 'Founder of Mattel Toys'
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 12th Defense Battalion. Battle of Peleliu
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USAF Col. (ret.) credited with the only known shoot down of a MiG with cannon fire above supersonic speed (Vietnam-June 2, 1972)
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Historian/Writer. Born: 09/29/1915
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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John Handy (2)
General John W Handy USAF CommanderUnified Combatant Command -
Test pilot
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Retired Command Sergeant Major, Author of the book 'Inside Delta Force'
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Supreme Court: One of the three officers who initially attempted to enter Ms. Mapp's residence with a false warrant in Mapp v. Ohio
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Chemist, William 'Butch' Hanford (1908-1996) is best-known for his development of the modern system of making multipurpose material polyurethane. This method is responsible for manufacturing many of the plastics used within today's society
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Trooper who arrested Timothy McVeigh
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Omaha Beach. 1st Infantry Division
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USMC Major General (Ret.) Flown over 3300 hours in peace, contingencies and war within the Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight Helicopter, CH-53D Sea Stallion, CH-53E Super Stallion, UH-1N Huey, AH-1W Cobra and Bell - Boeing MV-22 Osprey Tiltrotor aircraft
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Born 1896 #74 oldest documented person in the world. Lives in Mississippi.
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Flying Tigers WWII) Nurse
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U.S. Navy Ace WWII--[6 victories]- 1st USA Ace in a Day - Navy Cross
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WWII:: PTO. B-29 flight engineer 398th Bomb Squadron, 504th Bomb Group, 20th AF. Flew firebombing mission against Japan (incl. Operation Meetinghouse, 9th March 1945) to targets like Tokoy, Nagoya, Kobe. Shot down March 27, 1945
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Flight (scientist)
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Jamaican politician
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Also participated in the Battle of Midway as an aircrewman aboard one of the PBY Catalina aircraft
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devil dog defender (wake island) marines ww11
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Author, scientist and public health advocate whose research exposed the Flint water crisis. Her book What the Eyes Don't See, was named 1 of the NY Times 100 most notable books of the year. Founded the Pediatric Public Health Initiative
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101st airborne division, ww2
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Retired Admiral
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German pilot
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Author, illustrator, and also was an electronic instrument technician for NASA for 36 years
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air force general businessman
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Astronaut
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Professor of economics. In 2013, he was awarded the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Robert J. Shiller and Eugene Fama
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Pushed his wheelchair across Canada, Author & Motivation Speaker
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American serial killer. Confessed to killing 15 women from 1980 to 1983
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WWII: One of the last 'Rats of Tobruk'. The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Rommel's Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk, Lybia
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navy admiral
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WWII TBF Avenger torpedo dive bomber pilot. Battle of Midway and the Battle of Guadalcanal. Torpedo Squadron 8. Received two Navy Crosses and three Air Medals. Featured in book, 'A Dawn Like Thunder.'
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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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JFK - Air Force One Co-pilot in the Kennedy years, incl. Texas trip 1963
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WWII: PTO. US Navy Flight Nurse in the Pacific
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radio operator (memphis belle)
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United States Air Aces
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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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WWII: PTO.Battles of Peleliu, New Guinea, New Britain, the Solomon Islands and Okinawa. Also Korean War
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Wife of FBI Agent Russian Spy Robert Hanssen, movie Breach
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Former American FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia against the U.S. for more than 20 years
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Chinese engineer, scientist and supercentenarian. He is a pioneer in the field of food science and industrial fermentation and has contributed to food industry development in China through nearly 8 decades of work
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Astrobiologist, co-founder of Blue Marble Space
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Samurai of the sky/Japanese Zero Pilot WW2/19 Victories/Public Speaker/Imperial Japanese Navy, and graduated from the service's 35th fighter pilot course/Lives @ NAGANO, Japan/http://ww2db.com/person-bio.php?person-id=777
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WWII: ETO. Mortar men of the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 100th Infantry Battalion
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NASA astronaut
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Texas State Trooper on duty at Parkland on Nov. 22 , 1963
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WWII/Korean War - RAF pilot, later holding senior command roles in the RAF; author of a noted technical report that evaluated the performance and tactics of jet combat during the Korean War.
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German U-boat commander; over 100,000 tons sunk; 24th most successful commander in World War II.Born: 03/18/1913
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Mountaineer and one of the last surviving team members of the 1955 Kangchenjunga expedition. He now lives in New Zealand
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa
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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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Peter Harding (2)Military british air force marshall
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navy admrial
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Honolulu, 7 December 1941
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WWII Pilot - Tuskegee Airmen. B-29, B-36, P-47, P-51, B-57, KC-97 and AC-119K
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Last living black US WWI veteran (1894-2006) Son of ex - slaves
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Convicted British Serial Killer - 'Beast of Manchester.'
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 6.5 victories. VF-17. Ace-in-A-Day. ff-1, f6f-3, f6f-5, f9f-2, f9f-5, f9f-8t, f11f-1, f4u-1, fj-3, fj-3m, f4d-1, sbd, sbc-5, fh-1, f2h-2
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Bell X-1 PILOT, Early experimental research test pilot for the X-1 aircraft, and program manager for the Lifting Body program! Survived crash landing in F-94C in 1954
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Was the motorcycle cop trailing JFK's car when he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963
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WWII: PTO. 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines. Seen in a famous photo of the Battle of Okinawa storming Wana Ridge
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World War II ace
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Doug witnessed both President Kennedy's inauguration and funeral and later advocated for a local memorial to the late president that was realized in 2012
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Military
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Female Concorde Pilot
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot) (flew the pt-19, BT-13, AT-6, BT-13n and B-17)
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Pioneering stewardess and WWII nurse, born 1916. Special duty nurse for Air Force Gen. Hap Arnold, after having been one of Delta's first ever stewardesses from 1940-43
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navy admiral
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French physicist. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland
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Landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day June 6th 1944 with the 29th Division, 111th Artillery Battalion
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WWII - Co-pilot of the B-17 "Big Yank", 483rd Bombardment Group, 840th Bombardment Sq. Base: Sterparone, Italy; on March 24, 1945, they flew the longest escorted European bombing mission to Berlin, credited for destroying 3 Me-262's
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WWII: Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
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Last surviving health care member associated with the Tuskegee Syphilis Study during the years of 1932 to 1972
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WWII: USS Indianapolis Survivor; author of the book 'Out of the depths'
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Mr. Jimmy of the April 2010 disaster, when the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. Fought side by side with Chesty Puller
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Austrian explorer and author of Seven Years in Tibet
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British ace from WW2
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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Wireless/Mobile/Cell Phone Co-Inventor
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former NASA astronaut
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Bill Harris (2)Bill/Emily Harris arrested.. Did their prison time, and now are free. (Patricia Hearst kidnapping)
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United States Air Aces
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United States Air Aces
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Flying Tigers-headquarters staff
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David Harris (9) Journalist/author. Known chiefly for anti-war activist during Vietnam War. Notably as leading opponent of Draft. 1967 Harris found organization called the Resistance, which persuaded men of draft age to refuse to cooperate with Selective Service System
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WWII: British Fairey Swordfish pilot who conducted U-boat searches to protect merchant ships during the Murmansk Runs,
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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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4 Star General
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US Politician, Tenn. (1818-97) House 1849-53, Gov. of TN 1857-62 and then its Confederate Gov.; US Senate 1877-97. In a split state, responsible for its Confederate alliance, sending troops and acting on the staffs of Southern Generals
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Tuskegee Pilot
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Convicted in the slaying of Herman Tarnower author of the Scarsdale Diet
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(Born 1949) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Served as a rifleman with Company D, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment in South Vietnam. Captured as a POW in June 1969 and was a POW for 135 days until being released by his captors
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(Born 1940) Vietnam War Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vega
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Viet nam war hero,last address was north decota
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Tuskegee Airmen
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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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Wife Tuskegee Airman/NASA's highest ranking black female in 1973 when she was fired for seeking equal opportunity for blacks at NASA/Author 'The Harlem Princess'
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Supercentenarian. Oldest living man in the United States. 75th oldest person in the World. Born 03/31/1901
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Staff Sgt. US Army (Ret.), Author, Motivational speaker
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (WWII-9 Kills) US Navy, VF-17/18
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One of the original prosecutors of Nazi crimes after World War II
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army general
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Craig Harrison (2)Former Corporal of Horse (CoH) of the Household Cavalry of the British Armed Forces. He holds the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at a range of 2,475 m (2,707 yd)
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WWII - D-Day; C-47 pilot who flew paratroopers of the 501th PIR (101st Airborne , 'Screaming Eagles') into Normandy
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Military
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US WWII Navy WAVES vet, born 1920
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WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
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army general
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US Military Officer, Politician (1773-1841). 9th US President (1841). Died just 31 days into his term of office
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WWII: D-Day. USS Augusta (task force flagship at Omaha Beach). Also in the Arctic Circle and the Mediterranean Sea. Had dinner with President Truman onboard the Augusta
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Vietnam War Veteran-SS Mayaguez Incident(Last Official Battle of The Vietnam War)
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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. Canada's oldest and longest-serving officer
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WWII: Marine veteran of the Battles of Tarawa (1943) and Guadalcanal. 33 years in the Marine Corps, also served in Korea and Vietnam
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American Pilot,Astroaut, Born:10/20/1921
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John Hart (6) Born John Stewart Hart in New Brunswick, Canada, 1916; WWII Battle of Britain pilot, one of only 7 remaining. Reported to be living in Canada as of 2015
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Witnessed the murder of David Blakely by Ruth Ellis outside the Magdala Pub in London in 1955. He was 8 years old at the time when he heard the shot that lead to Ruth Ellis, being the last woman to be hanged in Britain. He lives in the UK
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British economist and the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Together with Bengt R. Holmström, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016
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Medical Researcher
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. 439th Troop Carrier Group, 9th Air Force
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Flight astronaut sts-41c
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Britsh scientist / television presenter- 'what the romans did for us' and inland revenue advert.
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Holocaust Survivor 16 years when arrived in Auschwitz
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Owner and President of Treasure Town, formed the Treasure Town YouTube channel in August 2017
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WWII: PTO. Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps serving on the USS Enterprise until the end of WWII
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Donald Trump accuser; makeup artist
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Pilot British Aerospace
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top fighter ace in the world- 353 kills in ww2 on russian front
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NASA research pilot. Flies the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a modified Boeing 747SP with the worldâ-?s largest airborne astronomical observatory
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American astronomer, author, and writer who was the first person to convince the mainstream science that the Earth had once been hit by a planet sized body (Thea), creating both the moon and the Earth's 23° tilt. He also has an asteroid named after hi
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WWII: 82nd Airborne. Battle of the Bulge. Operation Varsity
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WWIIO: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Purple Heart. 4th Marine Division (23rd Marines, 1st Battalion, Company A)
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astronaut
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US WWII Army vet,1st Armored Division ambulance driver in North Africa and Italy, born 1920
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Nobel medicine laureate 2001
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Canadian pilot who got lost in the north west terriotories and was found after 31 days
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Prosecuted the murder case against Timothy McVeigh
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Retired Army General
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Pioneer military aviator who survived 10 days in Alaska's wilderness after crashing in around-the-world flight attempt in 1924/1941 commanded an around-the-world flight of 24,600 miles set record of 121 hours & 55 minute
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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David Harvey (3) Economics Professor. CUNY
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American serial killer who claims to have murdered 87 people. The official estimates of the number of people he murdered range anywhere from at least 37 to 57 deaths
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US WWII Army vet, born 1924. Served as a paratrooper in the Alsace campaign in France
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Tuskegee Airmen Flew PT-17, BT-13, A-26, P-40, P-47, P-51, F-80, F-86, F-89, F-94 and the F-102
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American string theorist, University of Chicago, co-discoverer of the heterotic string
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18th Field Artillery Brigade
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WW2 Marine/Served in Iwo Jima, Bougainville, Vella Lavella & Solomon Islands Campaigns/Silver Star Recipient/95 Years old in 2019/Loves the Marine Core with a passion
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Pathologist. Did autopsy on Albert Einstein. Kept his brain.
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American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is best known as the originator of the inflationary universe theory.He lives in the U.S.A
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Lieutenant colonel USAF WW2 Tuskegee airmen
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Flight (scientist)
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SS camp guard
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Super Centenarian oldest person in Saga Prefecture, Japan. 2nd oldest person in the world born 11/20/1896. One of three people living born in the year 1896
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Band of brothers 101st/506th pir ww2
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navy admiral
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American intelligence officer, serving as the acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency. She joined the CIA in 1985. February 2017 she was appointed by President Donald Trump as Deputy Director of the CIA, and March 2018 Director
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Diver/Scientist/Director. Born: 01/23/1919
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Underwater model, wife of pioneer diver Hans Hass
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British computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher. Hassabis and John M. Jumper were awarded half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with for their protein folding predictions
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Danish-born soldier and writer who has written pseudo-autobiographical novels based on his experiences in World War II
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Leading German oceanographer and climate modeller. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
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WWII: Screaming Eagles paratrooper who served from D - Day to the end of the war in Austria. 506th PIR
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Former head of the Australian Defence Force and a WW2 and Korea veteran, knighted by the Queen in 1976, living in Australia
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WWII: US Marine Corps. One of the first Black Marines (Montford Point Marines) who served in the Pacific in WWII
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Flight (Scientist)
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Lz xray 1965
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marine corps general
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army general
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Minnesota State Attorney General (1999-2007)
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air force general
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Saboteur from the U.S.S. Barb WWII
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Deep Freeze: he operated a quad-radar unit and built the control tower
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Child Actor, WWII Vet Appeared in 1921 Charlie Chaplin film 'The Kid' playing The Kid as an even younger kid/Tank mechanic with the 2nd Armored Hell on Wheels Division
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Usmc sniper nam-93 confirmed kills
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American real estate investor, author and philanthropist from NYC. Along with his now ex-wife Jane Rosenthal, and Robert De Niro, he co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Institute. Chairman of Turtle Pond Publications
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Vietnam vet, born 1943. Team leader of the UDT-11 frogmen who recovered the Apollo 11 Command Module. He opened the hatch and shook the hand of Neil Armstrong, the first out, welcoming him back home. He then scrubbed each astronaut with a disinfectant
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. USS Worden
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Tucker
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Scientist who put the breaks on light down to 38 m.p.h
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Astronaut; STS-7, STS-51A, STS-26
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Philanthropist. World War 2 Colonel under President Eisenhower.Founder of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies.And Grace Hauenstein Library. Author of book 'Intelligence Was My Line: Inside Eisenhower's Other Command'. Born: 03/20/1912
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Writer from California. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, he attended Oxford University and started speechwriting as an intern in the Obama White House. He went on to join the U.S. Department of State's Policy
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Former resistance fighter and noted explorer from Norway
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'Empire Carpets' Spokesman, Famous US Commercial Jingle That Sings The Digits: 1-800-588-2300, Also WW II Vet & Barbershop Quartet Singer
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Nobel chemistry laureate 1985. Born: 02/14/1917
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Physicist - CERN experiments
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One of the last surviving players of the first three Little League teams, formed in 1939 in Williamsport, PA. Born in 1926
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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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WWII - 355th Fighter Group, 354th Fighter Squadron, European Theater, 5 victories. Also flew in the Korean War
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Ww2 fighter ace, f6f hellcat
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Author/ A Woman I Know
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WWII: US Navy. PTO, USS Reid
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Egyptologist / Archaeologist
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient - WWII
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Storyteller, recording artist
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Astronaut
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Canadian clergyman. Since 1977, he has served as Senior Pastor of Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, a vibrant, inclusive & progressive church openly affirming for LGBT parishioners, & is one of Canada's leading gay rights activists
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British born marine engineer and submarine designer.He also designed the one-man microsubmersible Mantis, which he himself piloted in the James Bond film 'For Your Eyes Only'. As late as 2007, he held the world solo dive record of 3,000 feet (910 m)
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Professor also was guest in a Simpsons Episode, Star Trek: The Next Generation
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WWII - US Navy Flying Ace, 14 victories
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Sacramento
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Inventor of the Palm Pilot
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Racing driver
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Ray Hawkins (2) Cuffed Lee Harvey Oswald at the movie theater after he was apprehended
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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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Avation pioneer who held most of the city to city speed records in the states. gave airehart her first ride in an airplane
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Astronaut
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WWII/ETO: 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Remagen (wounded by shrapnell while running across bridge)
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Military
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(July 11, 1904 - March 5, 1979) American particle physicist/Assigned by JFK to be Atomic Energy Commissioner
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WWII: CBI. Battle of Hong Kong veteran. POW until the end of the war
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Works with Cloning; Co-founder and former CEO of the now defunct Genetic Savings & Clone, Inc
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
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British Engineering Professor on the developement of jet engine. Born: 05/22/1913
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Pioneering Gay Rights activist (1912-2002). 'Father of the Gay Rights Movement', co-founded The Mattachine Society in 1950. Also an activist for labor, communist, and Native American issues
