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US Army General
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island. U.S. Navy 1941-1971
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US brewer, politician, Revolutionary War officer, Second Continental Congress member (1736-1829). Perfect penmanship led to writing Washington's Army General commission and the original Declaration of Independence signed by the delegates
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General from Cuba, involved in the Cuban revolution 1959, is now living in Miami, Florida USA
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Judge that presides over the Timothy McVeigh murder trial
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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Japanese woman who sent a set of traditional dolls to US President John F Kennedy more than 50 years ago/Caroline Kennedy played with the dolls as a child and now has the set on display at her official residence in Tokyo/Lives in Kitami
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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WWII - fought with the legendary K/3/5. Fought at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Cape Gloucester, Borgen Bay, Talasea and Peleliu as a Marine. Also received a Purple Heart
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Author and former attorney. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his first book Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
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Don Matthews (2)Commanding officer of the Canadian desert cats in the gulf war
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World War 1 Veteran Born:1903
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WWII: USMC, flamethrower. Battle of Iwo Jima. He is pictured in a famous photo from the battle
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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commander 48th fighter wing
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Payload specialist, NASA
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WWII Finnish Ace Pilot
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Astronaut; Apollo 16, STS-4, STS-51-C
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U. S. Marine Corps Four Star General during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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US WWII veteran, born 1924. Participated in the Normandy campaign, and the Battles of St Lo and Brest, where he was shot by Germans
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Infantry Captain in the US Army, motivational speaker, and author of Sugar Milk: What One Dad Drinks When He Can?t Afford Vodka
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American veteran (1916-2011). Served in the Spanish Civil War's Lincoln Brigade, and in the US Army during WWII. Joined the Young Communist League in the 1930s
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Ukrainian lawyer
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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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4 Aerial Victories, WWII. 3X DFC
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First female F-35 pilot
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 1st Marine Division: Radio operator and repairman for an amphibious tractor battalion. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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army general
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Serial Killer - Basis for 'Hannibal Lecter' One of the most dangerous men in Britain
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Born 18 March 1970 in St. Wendel, Saarland, German European Space Agency astronaut and materials scientist, who was selected in 2015 to take part in space training. In September 2021 scheduled for SpaceX Crew-3
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inventor (co-invented fiber optic wire)
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WWII: One of the last Filipino Bataan Death March survivors
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French General born in 1918, Chief of the French Defence Staff from 1971 - 1975
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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Holocaust Survivor portrayed in film 'Memoirs of Holocaust' Writing Teacher!
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navy admiral
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Author of the book 'The Training and Experience of a Quaker Relief Worker'. Worked as a relief worker in post-war Germany during the aftermath of WW2. Born: 1920. Lives in West Hagley, Worcestershire, England. Now aged 96
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103 kills- nam usmc sniper
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Australian Antarctic Explorer
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WWII: ETO. 6th Armored Division, Company B. Battle at Han-sur-Nied, Battle of the Bulge. Unregistered POW believed to be the last living American Nazi slave laborer
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Dallas Police Sergeant in 1963
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JFK - Honor Guard at Kennedy's funeral; also stood guard at JFK's grave after the funeral, was 70 in 2013
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Fighter ace 357th fighter sq
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Jeffrey Epstein associate
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Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, WWII United States Army
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WWII - Fighter Ace (8 victories) of the famous Sundowners Squadron (VF-11 of Carrier Air Group Eleven, Pacific Theater)
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World War II Army veteran Carl May( Born March 25, 1923) celebrated his 100th birthday by climbing back in the pilot's seat
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WWII: ETO. Tail gunner in B-24 'Wild Pussy' (B-24H-15-FO #42-52529). 786th Squadron, 466th Bomb Group, 8th AF. 31 combat missions (Feb. 6 1944-Aug. 16, 1944), incl. 2 to Berlin and 2 on D-Day, almost being killed on his last one to Hamburg
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Melissa May (2)Distinguished Flying Cross Recip, Fighter Pilot, Airline Pilot/Combat-Proven, Officer 20+ years successful leadership experience in US Air Force. Over 4,000 flight hours in Air Force F-16s, Boeing 737s & aviation aircraft in 10+ countries
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WWII veteran (Born 1925), shrapnel broke thorough his thigh during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest in Nov. 1944. During 40 months of difficult recovery, often near death, he met with a visiting Helen Keller, which left him awed and inspired
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Ww2 fighter Ace - 7 kills - US Navy
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navy admiral
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JFK - Honor Guard 'Casket team', one of Kennedy's pallbearers
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WWII: British D-Day (Sword Beach) vet, 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Later injured while fighting in the Netherlands. He is the last living knight from WWII of the exclusive Military William Order, the highest honour of the Netherlands
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Bill Maynard (2)
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World War One Veteran
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September 3, 1910 - February 19, 1996 American soprano, concert singer, founder of the Harlem School of the Arts/noted 1st African American to sing at a presidential inauguration, performing at President Harry Truman's inaugural gala 1949
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, Kaneohe NAS. On guard watch at Hangar 3, he emptied the Colt 45 he'd been issued at a Japanese Zero plane that strafed the ground around him, though he didn't hit the grinning pilot
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Flight astronaut
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navy admiral
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Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He is co - laureate of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Jim Peebles and Didier Queloz
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WWII Veteran
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Evolutionary Biologist
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Inductee in National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Former PM of Poland
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Author of The Betrayal, a memoir about his 2-year undercover infiltration of the Cali Cartel and underworld figures in Panama. Executive Producer of the major motion picture ?The Infiltrator.? Spent 27 years as a federal agent in three U.S. agencies
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She helped rescue Winter the Dolphin from the movie Dolphin Tale
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WWII: US Navy veteran, ETO
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South African activist. Mother of former South African President Thabo Mbeki
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Kenyan WWII Veteran
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POW Camp: Luft #1 Prisoner
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Soldier/Mercenary/Author
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, Navy Hospital Ship USS Solace (AH-5); later, serving on the USS Samaritan (AH-10), in the Battles of Midway and Iwo Jima
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Navy Admiral
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Canadian serial killer
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Astronaut
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Flight astronaut sts-58,74,92
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Sharon Christa McAuliffe (September 2, 1948 - January 28, 1986) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In 1985, she was selected from more than 11,000 ap
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army general
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WWII: ETO. 347th Regiment, 87th Division. Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. Bronze Star
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Governor of Virginia (2014-2018); Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (2001-05)
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WW2 Veteran:F Company,502nd Infantry Regiment,101st Airborne Division
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astronaut
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Centennial Veteran
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Retired General Born May 25, 1922
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Centenarian/Oldest Working American/Born:1902
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WWII Veteran was in the 761st Tank Battalion
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Pennsylvania supreme court justice
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army general
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Dallas Police Lieutenant stationed at the Trade Mart, later part of team that investigated shooting of Oswald. Also served in the Marine Corps in the Korean War and was one of 'The Chosin Few'
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One of the original four who took part in the Woolworth sit-ins
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WWII: D-Day. Navy gunner on the USS Augusta (Admiral Kirk's flagship for D-Day, also carrying Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, providing fire support on D-Day and beyond)
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United States Air Aces
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astronaut-first astronaut to use the manned manuevering unit[free and untethered space walking] feb. 1984
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Prosecuted the case against Jeffrey Dahmer
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Was in the Texas Theatre and took photos when of Lee Harvey Oswald being apprehended and taken out of the theatre
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Dennis McCarthy (2)United States Secret Service agent who dove toward John Hinckley Jr who had just shot President Ronald Reagan, landing atop the would-be assassin while others helped subdue him
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marine corps general
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, 116th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division
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WWII: 1st Marine Division, he participated in the assault and capture of the islands of Guadalcanal and Peleliu, and Cape Gloucester
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On February 21, 1945, as a captain, he earned the Medal of Honor on Iwo Jima, while leading an assault team across exposed ground to wipe out positions holding up the advance of his company
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JFK - Niece of the Ambassador Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and Charles and Margaret Kennedy Burke, cousin of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Edward Moore Kennedy
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navy admiral
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Thomas McCarthy (3)Firefighter, 9/11 survivor
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Secret Service Agent shot by John Hinckley Jr. during the attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981
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Member of the famed ''Black Sheep Squadron''-VMF-214 during WWII, Ace (5 Victs.)
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Gave birth to the worlds first septuplets
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WWII USAAF, Fighter Pilot Ace-5.5 victories, 80/56 Fighter Group, 61 Fighter Squadron
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WWII Army - Battle of the Bulge, D-Day and was one of the first troops to reach and liberate an estimated 21,000 emaciated prisoners at Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. Lives in Lancaster, Ohio
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navy admiral
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General and U.S. Commander in Afghanistan
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Astronaut Born June 7 1979
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker and author of Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers
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WW1/former U.S. Navy Rear Admiral
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Vietnam Vet, USMC. Author of Living Proof. Motivational Speaker
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Explorer, First person to row single handed across the North Atlantic Ocean
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WWII: Navy pilot shot down in the Battle of Midway
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vietnam war army hero (cmh)
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JFK - Witness to the Kennedy motorcade in San Antonio, 21 November 1963; 'immortalized' in a rather unique photograph of that day that shows JFK in the motorcade and McClellan standing on a pickup truck waving at the President
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor (USS Helena CL-50). Also served on the USS Helena in the Guadalcanal Campaign and survived the sinking of the USS Helena after she was hit by a torpedo in the Night Battle of Kula Gulf, 6 July 1943
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was one of the surgeons working on November 22, 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was brought to Parkland
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Centenarian (1899-2008). One of the last women alive who voted in 1920, a 1918 Flu survivor, and the oldest Olympic torch bearer on the road to Salt Lake City in 2002
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WWII: US Navy. Code Breaker
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Part of drill team escort for President Kennedy's remains when they arrived at the White House
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2022 candidate for MO US Senate, waved guns at protestors
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Waved guns at protestors
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MOHR/Medal of Honor Recipient/Army/Vietnam War 1969 Battle of Nui Yon Hill/Pentagon credits him for saving ten men in his unit
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Medal Of Honor
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Member of the Band of Brothers, 506th Easy Company WWII
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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Little Girl Who Got Trapped in Texas Well in 1987
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Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron-[7 victories] WWII- Ace
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Spitfire Ace during WWII-[8 victories] Member of Eagle Squadron and the 9th TAC
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Retired Star-Telegram columnist Jon McConal & in 1963 he was at the time of the JFK assassination, one of Lee Harvey Oswald's Pallbearers
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Black History/One of the most powerful survivor's story from the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
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A student at Jesuit High School in Dallas in 1963, McCone and friends were at Love Field for the president's arrival and later went to Parkland Memorial Hospital after learning of the shooting
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Chemnist
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Air Force General
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Activist/Founder of Earth Day. Born: 03/22/1915
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Gay activist; husband of Jack Baker; in Minnesota 1971 they became the first same-sex couple to marry in the US
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Was the medical officer of the day at the Pentagon on Nov.22/63 . Later he worked in the pathology department at Parkland Memorial and was present for Jack ruby's autopsy
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Battle of St. Lo (Silver Star). 29th Division, 116th Infantry, Company K
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US Army General
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United States Army General who is current chief of staff of the Army
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Doolittle's Raiders 'Navigator Crew #4'
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Medal of Honor, US Navy, World War II
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astronaut
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Currently is the, Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer
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B.7/26/1924 Former CIA agent, later involved, as electronics expert, in Watergate burglaries which precipitated the Watergate scandal. Arrested during the second break-in to DNC Headquarters. Wrote; 'A piece of tape; the Watergate story: fact and fiction'
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WW2 Fighter Ace - 11 Kills - USAAF
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Retired USMC General
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Captain of AA96, also known as the Windsor incident
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newsmaker - Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Decision
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Juror in the Jack Ruby Murder Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald from the assassination of JFK/Should be about 90 years old is still alive
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US Army General
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US Army Air Corps WWII veteran. Bombadier on a B-29 crew based in Saipan, flew 13 missions over Japan. Part of the fly-over during the Japanese Surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Former Austin, TX police officer. One of three responsible for stopping Charles Whitman's mass killing at Univ Texas - Austin
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Military, Marine Staff Sgt
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Navy Admiral
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US centenarian (1903-2011), contracted and survived the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. Entire family delirious with fever, nursed by healthy family boarders. Became a banker, dealt with the 1929 Stock Market crash and the Great Depression
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WWII: ETO. France, Germany, Austria, 86th Blackhawk Infantry Division. PTO: Luzon
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Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at The New York Times. Author of Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
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WWII/ETO: Staff Seargent at the 3393 Quartermaster Truck Co of the Red Ball Express, a famed truck convoy system (and one of the biggest logitics operations of the war) that supplied the Allied forces on their way through Europe
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African-American author of Freedom's Child: The Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter which describes her return to VA to learn her family history, as well as stories of her grandfather, CSA General John R. Jones
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'Tuskegee Airmen' '100th Fighter Squadron; Overseas Pilot, POW'
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Born 3/5/2021, flew P-51 Mustang fighters in Europe throughout WW II until was shot down in 1945 and taken prisoner, awarded Purple Heart & Distinguished Flying Cross/Renaissance Marquisâ-? favorite residents still has a few stories to tell
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WWII Veteran. Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1961-94) Was Speaker of the Arkkansas House of Representations (1981-83)
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former NASA astronaut - Astronaut STS- 34
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Canadian Scientist best known for demonstrating with James Till the existence of stem cells
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Navy Admiral
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Historian & Author of 'Truman' & 'John Adams'
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Tech Sgt. USAAF, 391st Bomb Sqdn., 34th Bombardment Group, 8th AF B-17 Engineer/Top Turret Gunner 30 Missions over Europe Distinguished Flying Cross
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WWII OSS veteran, born 1925. Piloted a submersible boat to spy on the Japanese coast for the planned invasion, before Japan surrendered
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Flight scientist, NASA
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Pearl harbor survivor
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USS Arizona veteran of Pearl Harbor
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A Deputy-Sheriff with the Dallas County Sheriff's office in '63 , he helped to search the 6th floor of the TSBD after the assassination
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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(Born 1931) US Navy Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Navy Cross Recipient
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WWII: USS Gridley (DD-380 ). Entered Pearl Harbor on 8 December 1941, the morning after the attack, together with the USS Enterprise. Also served in the Aleutian Campaign in 1942
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(Born 1937) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Silver Star recipient
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Retired Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. He served in the Medical Corps and from 1992-1995 was Commander of the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia. Appeared on the US reality show Mole 2: The Next Betrayal
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. USS Indiana
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Survivor from The Lusitania
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John McDermott (3) WWII Army veteran. Now lives in Denville, NJ
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Longtime attorney for WWE
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US Air Force General
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nobel chem.laureate 2000
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Apollo astronaut, Commander of Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions
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Canadian physicist. He was jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Takaaki Kajita
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Master Sergeant Bob McDonald is a member of the US Army Chorus and an anthem singer for the Washington Capitals and Washington Nationals. During his free time, McDonald also performs concerts
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navy admiral
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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One of the pioneers of underwater swimming in Britain and author of many books on diving
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Police Captor of Lee Harvey Oswald
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navy admiral
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Vietnam infantry platoon leader in the legendary 173d Airborne Brigade, military theorist who has helped shape the post-Cold War army?s thinking, author of Platoon Leader, The Defense of Hill 781, and The Limits of Glory
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Served prison time for Whitewater controversy. Her refusal to answer '3 questions' for grand jury about whether President Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial led her to receive a jail sentence of 18 months for contempt of court
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WWII: Tail gunner in B-17 'Hell's Belle', shot down over Germany in 1943, where he was subsequently captured and interned in Stalag 17B in Austria. Wrote 'A Tail Gunner's Tale' about his experience. 1923-2002
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WWII: ETO. 405th Fighter Squadron, 371st Fighter Group, 9th Air Force. P-47 Thunderbolt pilot shot down on 20 Sept 1944 near Cobern, Germany. POW at Stalag Luft 1 (of Hub Zemke fame) where he was the last man to leave when it was liberated
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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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army general
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Ensign, USN, Landing Ship Tank, USS LST-981 Purple Heart, D-Day Veteran
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Dallas historian/Was recent graduate of Southern Methodist University and working at university when she decided to go see the presidential motorcade. Years later, as Dallas historian, she worked on photographic research for The Sixth Floor
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In 1963, McElroy was a funeral director and embalmer at Oneal Funeral Home in Dallas. He was at Parkland Memorial Hospital when the presidential limousine arrived, and he later helped carry President Kennedy's casket into the hospital
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Member of the famous Doolittle Raiders-Surprise bombing of Tokyo during WWII 'Pilot Crew #13'
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WWII - of the legendary K/3/5 marines, fought at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu; author of 'Hell in the Pacific'
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WWII: B-17 bomber pilot in the Pacific. Bomber Barons, 5th BG, 13th AF. 58 missions. Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon
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WWII: PTO. Dive bomber pilot in combat from Guadalcanal through the Philippines campaign. 113 mission. Korean War
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Centenarian
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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: 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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Co-inventor of popular drugs in tetrahydropyridimine family such as pyrantel, morantel & oxantel. Drugs commonly used for the treatment of intestinal parasitic worms, most popularly in veterinary fields for pin, round, and heart worms
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WWII: CBI theater. C-46 Pilot, 26 'Hump' round?trips
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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US WWII vet, born 1921. Army Air Corps, 54th Fighter Squadron mechanic. Worked in the Alaska Aleutian Islands for 28 months, 9 of them in Attu
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Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
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WW II pilot tuskegee airmen. Flew P-40, P-39, P-47, P-51 (WWII), F-51(Korea) and RF4-c (Vietnam)
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WW2 Air ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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F-22 Raptor Pilot
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navy admiral
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Former Ghost Hunters Academy star
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WWII: US Navy veteran, USS Balch. Battle of Midway
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Military uss nevada surivor
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Medal of honor marines Vietnam
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(November 19, 1925 - March 3, 1999) was a United States Naval officer who received the Medal of Honor for his actions while in command of the USS Liberty when it was attacked by Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean on June 8, 1967 during the Six-Day War
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WWII: PTO. Last survivor of the sinking of the HMAS Perth in the Battle of Sunda Strait, 1 March 1942. 2 years POW in Thailand/ Burma, then the unmarked POW transport Rakuyo Maru was sunk on 12 Sept. 1942. POW again; Kawasaki camp, Tokyo
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1933 Chicago World's Fair child participant, born 1927. Contestant in the 'Baby Doll Parade' at the Fair, with her late twin sister Emily
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Marine Aviator. First female Marine to fly an F/A-18 on a combat mission. She flew 89 combat missions
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John McGrath (2) Member of the 101 airbourne div. company E 506 parachute regiment
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POW of War - VietnamAuthor of 'Prisoner of War: 6 years in Hanoi'which give a graphic account of the terribl punishments endured by the US Soldiers (and Heroes!!)
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Navy.Deck, Second Division - Assault Boat Coxswain May 1976 - January 1978
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world war 2 fighter ace -5 victories, US Navy, VC-10 - Navy Cross
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Convicted American drug trafficker and organized crime figure
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1 of 3 People who in 2006 went on expedition to the river Nile to find its Source (where it really starts) and found it and becouse of this the river Nile became the longest river in the world
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Irish'
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Spanish Civil War Veteran, Irish Brigade, Lives in Bandera
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Ambulance driver for O'Neal's Funeral Home in Dallas and helped bring President Kennedy's body to Air Force One
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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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JFK- Marine Honor Guard in the funeral of President Kennedy; also met JFK at Camp David
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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James McIlroy (2)
WWII: 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge -
Tuskegee Airmen ww2
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WWII Battle of Britain pilot, one of only 6 remaining
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Tornado on 'Gladiators (UK 2008), Royal Marines Commando since the age of 16, having served in Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Somalia and the Gulf.member of the Commando Display Team and is a Marines middleweight boxing champion.
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Girl featured in Dorothea Lange's famous photo 'Migrant Mother' with her mother and two of her siblings; taken in 1936 during the Great Depression
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Flight aviator
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WWII: Served on LST-474 in the Pacific
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Patrick McIntyre (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. Ghost Army
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WWII: CBI (China-Burma-India) theater. C-46 pilot, 90 round trips over the 'Hump'
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Flight scientist, Chief Scientist for Astrobiology at the Johnson Space Center
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Michael McKay (2)Astronaut
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navy admiral
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII/JFK - US Air Force General who started as a test pilot flying well over 100 different airplanes, served in Europe starting January 1944; leading 40 P-38 fighter planes on D-Day, 370th Fighter Group; met JFK in 1962 at Vandenberg Air Force Base
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'Tuskegee Airmen' (both Maintenance Chief & Pilot)
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. Radar Operator at Opana Radar Station; they detected the incoming Japanese planes on Dec. 7, 1941, but were told by their superiors to disregard the sighting. He was at the station at the time of the attack
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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Military ace WW1
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JFK/Jackie Kennedy's Former Assistant/Her new book, Jackie's Girl: My Life With The Kennedy Family, the former first lady?s assistant, Kathy McKeon, revealed details of the 13 years she spent with the Kennedy clan
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American WWII Marine veteran of Guadalcanal and Tulagi, born in 1922. Pictured in a popular photo being carried on a stretcher after being injured at Guadalcanal
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He pressed the button that started the The Trinity Test, July 16, 1945; born 1912
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Retired Army General
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Four-star USAF veteran General Craig Richard McKinley (b:1952) Chairman of ANSER Board & National Chair of ESGR, with a distinguished career in leadership and service
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WWII - Ace, 5 victories. Pacific Theater. Flew the Hellcat
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Time team
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Military, 15th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. 1st Platoon, L Co., 16th Inf. Regt., 1st Infantry Division. First man to step on Omaha Beach
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Civil Rights Leader/Vice president of Washington, D.C. chapter of NAACP, position held until 1969/co-founded the American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE)
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Computer hacker
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marine corps general
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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army general
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Cold War: RB-47 navigator flying over the Barents Sea in July 1960, shot down by a Soviet MiG. He was held as prisoner and came home Jan. 27, 1961, greeted by President Kennedy
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DPD , one of two forward mid motorcade motorcycle officers in President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov.22 , 1963
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WWII: 92nd Bomb Group, 8th AF. Decorated combat pilot. Lead bomber on the Second Raid on Schweinfurt, 14 October 1943. Founded the West Virginia Air National Guard
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Mark McLaughlin (2)Author of western train adventures and local historian
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Centenarian and community volunteer (b. 1909) who became known for her joyous dancing as a then-106 year old with the Obamas during a White House meeting
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1 of 3 People who in 2006 went on expedition to the river Nile to find its Source (where it really starts) and found it and becouse of this the river Nile became the longest river in the world
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS Squalus in 1939
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WWII: CBI. Last surviving officer of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit. Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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Sgt. New York PAPD, World Trade Center attack Survivor, subject of movie World Trade Center
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Former member of the Black Panther Party, who was found guilty of murder of New York Panther Alex Rackley in 1970 and released in the 1980's
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Vietnam Veteran who made bombs for aircraft carriers. He was a Aviation Ordanceman PO2 (AO2) from 1968 to 1972
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Navy Admiral
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American WWII-Pilot, Sole Surviving Pilot Of The 'Lost Squadron'
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Herbert Raymond McMaster ) is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General who served as the 26th United States National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018. He is also known for his roles in the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi
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Flight sicentist nasa flight director tranquility flight
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1960s civil rights activist/organized a boycott against a chain of stores (OK Supermarkets) that was exploiting and disrespecting the community where it relied on its profits
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Squad Leader with Company B, 3rd Battalion of the 21st Infantry Regiment in South Vietnam. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Bronze Star and Purple Heart
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Police Detective in Dallas 0n Nov. 22 , 1963 when President Kennedy was assassinated
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astronaut
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Sean McMorrow (2)NASA - Associate Director for Mission Support,
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Last surviving members of the WWII Flying Tigers
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WWII: ETO. D - Day (Utah Beach, 2nd wave), Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge. Trained with 519th Ordnance, served in combat with 546th Ordnance
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Born 1940 US Army Vietnam War Veteran. POW 1967 to 1973. 1 Legion of Merit and 2 Bronze Stars
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Test pilot
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Author - Bravo Two Zero, Immediate Action
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air force general
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Served on U.S.S. Pennsylvania
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(October 21, 1950 - January 28, 1986) was a physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L
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Dallas high-school student & Dallas Times Herald employee 1963, saw motorcade on Stemmons Freeway & gave an official a ride to Parkland Memorial Hospital. He graphically recalled the condition of the backseat of the presidential limousine
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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 nearly 400 sailors and airmen were killed and more than 260 wounded
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JFK - Staff Assistant for Congressional Liaisons in the Kennedy administation; started workinf for Kennedy in the 1950s; also oversaw the arrangements for President Kennedy?s funeral in 1963
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Entertainment Attorney
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A labor official who saw John Hinckley Jr attempting the assassination of President Ronald Reagan, and helped Alfred Antenucci and Secret Service agents subdue Hinckley and wrestle him to the ground
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WWII: PTO. War criminals guard in the Japanese trials, guarding the 'Beat of Bataan', General Masaharu Homma
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Former Australian General, Chief of Defence Force Staff 1982-1984
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Sheriff: McLennan County, TX. Waco siege
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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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Was one of the Greensboro Four. On February 1, 1960, they sat down at a segregated lunch counter in the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's store, challenging the store's policy on segregation. This event was a major milestone in the African-American
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army general
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Historian
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Sergeant, USA, Pathfinders, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne, 'Filthy 13' member SGT McNiece was 1 of 2 members of the 101st that made all 4 jumps, Normandy (D-Day), Holland, Bastogne, & Germany
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Co-Investigator on the New horizon flight to the dwarf planet Pluto
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Monaghan
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air force chief of staff
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WWII: PTO. Fighter Pilot, 2 victories. VMF-441 Blackjacks (Wildcat), VMF-323 Death Rattlers (F4U Corsair). Korea: VMF-214 the Black Sheep F4U Corsair)
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WWII US Navy veteran and Eisenhower White House aide, born 1925. One of the last living Eisenhower White House staff members
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Tuskegee Airmen & 761st Tank Battalion Member
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WWII - Pacific. Fighter Ace, 5 victories; US Navy (USS Essex). F6F-5 Hellcat 'Death & Destruction'
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Historian
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Test pilot
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Recognized as the founder of National Grandparents Day
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor; USS Oklahoma
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(Born 1922) US Army WW2 Veteran. Company D, 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Divsion. Utah Beach, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe. Recipient of a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Former Commander of the United States Special Operations Command (2011-2014)
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Flight aviator, pilot
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Attorney, author and retired FBI Special Agent undercover art expert who teamed up with Joe Pistone - the real 'Donnie Brasco' - to recover millions in stolen art
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Member of the 'Clinton 12', where a dozen students became the first to integrate a school in the South in the fall of 1956
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Oklahoma City Bomber (1968-2001), tried and executed for the 1995 terror attack
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Testified to Warren Commission that as a Bus Driver for the City of Dallas, about 12:40pm when he picked up a man, who told him that the President had been shot, and then a woman. The woman did not believe that the President had been shot
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WWII: ETO. Normandy (his first battle was St. Lo), Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, Central Europe. HQ Company, 3rd Battalion, 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division. Honor Guard for Pres. Truman, Antwerp, Belgium, 1945
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One of 3 New York Firefighters who raised the flag at Ground Zero
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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Novelist, travel writer, and adventurer
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Female pilot during WWII
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astronaut
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Test pilot
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Capt. U.S. Navy & Author of The Sixth Fleet
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battles of Saipan, Tarawa, Tinian and Okinawa
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United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II
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Former president and COO and a director of Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold. Member of the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, the American Mining Congress, and the Montana Tech Foundation
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WWII: Survivor of the Malmedy massacre(17 December 1944)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Saipan. US Navy
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WW2 engineer who worked at the BBC during the early years of television during the 1950's
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American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of though
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clergyman/army general
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One of the last surviving veterans of The Contestado War, which was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners that lasted from 1912 to 1916. She is now 102 and lives in Caçador, Saint Catarina, Brazil
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One of the last British lighthouse keepers before automation took over. He serviced 22 lighthouses across the British Isles from the 1950's to 1998. He is now 70 and lives in the UK
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physicist, entrepreneur, and trained astronaut
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Former Skinhead, now anti-racism activist
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Former U.S. Attorney General (1985-1988)
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Most decorated Officer in the 82nd. Airborne
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WWII: US Figher Ace, 4th Fighter Group, 334th Fighter Squadron (England-based)
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WW2 Veteran-Battle Of The Bulge/Tank Gunner & Medic For General Patton's Tank Corps
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World War One Veteran & oldest man in Germany
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Fighter ace 6th Night Fighter Sqd
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army general
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German Flying Ace Of World War 2
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U.S. Astronaut, Selected in NASA Astronaut Group 21 in 2013
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American chemist, born 1933. Served as the Launch and Flight Weather Officer for the first US satellite, Explorer I in 1958. Made the call to it for two days to avoid high upper winds. Worked on the 1st Intercontinental ballistic missile. Also a champion
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German ww2 pilot
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(Mexician Revolution) Last Living Member of Emiliano Zapata's Ejercito Libertador del Sur. Born: 1899
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LA City Controller. Also ran for Congress 3 times
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Danish chemist was awarded one third of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Karl Barry Sharpless, 'for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry'
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Former director of Keweenah Research Center
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2021 Libertarian nominee for NJ Governor
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WWII soldier who announced the war in Europe had ended
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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WW2 veteran and the last survivor of the sinking of HMS Saracen, a British submarine sunk on 13 August 1943. He is now 91 and lives in a care home in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England
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Harry Melling (2) Ww2 veteran
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20 military awards and decorations including the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Meritorious Citation
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2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
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US WWII Navy vet (1921-2023). Served on the USS Hopewell, as a Fire Controlman. Saw action in the S. Pacific, including Leyte, Luzon, and the Marshall Islands
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Historian, Faculty Associate, German, Nordic, and Slavic Studies at University of Wisconsin - Madison, guest on 'The UnXplained with William Shatner'
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NASA astronaut (retired); flew on STS-41 and STS-49
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WWII: C Co, 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry, 29th Division. D-Day+1 Omaha Beach, Battle of St. Lo (June 16, 1944 - Hill 108 'Purple Heart Hill'). Fought in Normandy, Holland, Belgium, Germany
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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impact scientist
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astronaut
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu
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Test Pilot of Space Ship One, first private venture spacecraft to reach space
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Media lawyer and columnist.
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NASA Astronaut of STS-129
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Scientist
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Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1992
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Samar. USS Heermann
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20 years US Navy/earned 3 Silver Stars, Bronze Star, Navy Commendation & 13 battle stars/Retired Rear Admiral WW2/author of two World War II submarine history books http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/cgmendenhalljr.htm
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Flight aviator
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US WWII veteran, born 1926. Survivor of the USS Bismarck Sea's sinking at Iwo Jima
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Spy/Former CIA chief of disguise and specialist in clandestine photography/Living under cover and serving tours in Europe, South Asia and the Far East. She has been a practicing fine art photographer
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WWII: ETO. Battle of Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge, Guard at the Nuremberg trials. 1st Infantry Division. Bronze Star with three Battle Stars, Purple Heart
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Subject of the film Argo
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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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'Member of a Band of Brothers' '101st Airborne Division, 506th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Easy Company'
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Tuskegee Airmen, fighter aircraft maintenance
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The Menendez Brothers: Convicted of Murdering their parents
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Retired General
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Retired General
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JFK - Filmed the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, 22 November 1963, incl. the Texas Schoolbook Depository and the police in front of it
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Mentzel saw the Kennedy motorcade in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Her late husband, Dallas police patrolman W.D. Mentzel, was assigned to the area in Oak Cliff where Officer J.D. Tippit was killed
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WWII: USMC, featured in the HBO series 'The Pacific'
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German Astronaut; first foreign citizen to fly on a space shuttle
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Miss America 1949; the only Miss America to marry and divorce during her reign
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JFK Related witness Nov. 22 1963
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Pilot
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Civil Rights Mississippi
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JFK - Secret Service agent in the 'Kiddie Detail'; taught John Jr. how to salute at Kennedy's funeral. Also served Eisenhower, Humphrey, Nixon
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WWII: PTO. Escort carrier - USS Attu (CVE-102). Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa; saw the USS Bunker Hill burn. 2 Bronze Stars
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Vietnam veteran; US Secret Service serving for Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton (SAIC); 19th Director of the United States Secret Service
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American soldier, and recipient of the Medal of Honor during World War II
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American mafioso,member of the US Cosa Nostra and former head of the Philadelphia Crime Family which controls organized crime as far as Southern New Jersey
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Mafiosa, high ranking solider in the Gambino family
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WW2/Seaman USS Submarine USS Dace
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WWII: Marine Raider of Co H, 1st Raider Battalion, later 4th Marines 6th Division. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Guam, Battle of Okinawa
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nobel chemistry laureate 1984
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Canadian Infantry, awarded the Victoria Cross on 19th August 1942 for gallantry at Dieppe, France
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army general
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WWII: D-Day. 82nd AB, 508th PIR, HQ Company, 1st Battalion. Also Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge.Silver Star
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Former Marine, Porn star, author,' Secrets of a Gay Marine Porn Star'
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Developed artificial surfactant which has saved the lives of tens of thousands premies (premature birth babies) since the 1980s;
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WWII - Iwo Jima conqueror, C Company, 24th Regiment, 4th Marine Division. Also fought in the Battles of Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian, after WWII in Korean War and Vietnam War
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Last surviving witness to the German surrender of WWII
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Retired White House ChefBorn July 8, 1944
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WWII: PTO. Fighter Pilot. Battle of Okinawa. Distinguished Flying Cross
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Royal millitary
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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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Former Payload Specialist Astronaut
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German historian who specializes in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. He is also a German WWII Veteran, as from May 1944 till the end of World War II he served in anti-aircraft auxiliary forces in the engineering corps
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Holocaust Survivor, MS St. Louis
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antarctic explorer / author / lecturer
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Former Navy SEAL, speaker, and author
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NASA Astronaut
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WWII: ETO. 508th PIR, 82nd Airborne Division. Wounded in Operation Market Garden near Nijmegen, Netherlands, he was left for dead. Captured by the SS, he became a POW (Stalag XII-A, Stalag VII-A), was interrogated by Heinrich Himmler
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Inventors hall of fame
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Iran Hostage Crisis/444 days of captivity as a hostage in Iran/Political Officer
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group Manhattan Project Veteran Military Veteran
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Flight aviator
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F-22 test pilot
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navy admiral
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German painter and graphic artist. He is also a German WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid
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Conductor of The USAF Band that played at JFK's funeral, also met Kennedy on Apr. 23, 1963
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Supercentenarian and the oldest verified living person born in Mexico and the oldest person in California. Now lives in San Diego
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One of only twelve known survivors of the Khmer Rouge imprisonment in the S-21 Tuol Sleng camp, where more than 16,000 Cambodians were sent for execution
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Social psychologist University of Zurich, Recognized as Frank, the world's first real bionic man and star of the popular documentary 'The Incredible Bionic Man,' which premiered on the Smithsonian channel in October, 2013
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Bob Meyer (3)NASA's SOFIA program manager
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Test pilot
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Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Afghanistan
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Lz-xray-idarag valley-we were soldier- is a ret general
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One of the founders of, 'The American Conservative Union.'
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George Meyer (2) WWI balloonist, George Meyer part of the 14th Observation Balloon Company within the 5th Balloon Squadron
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USS. Utah survivor (Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941); served later on USS Detroit CL-8 and watched the surrender ceremony onboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Also Battles at Attu, Kiska, Iwo Jima and Okinawa
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Mountaineer
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United States Air Aces
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US Army Col. (1869-1955). Wounded in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, served on the Mexican border, then WWI
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POW Camp: Stalag 7A Prisoner
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII veteran and car designer, born 1926. Served on the USS Bunker Hill, surviving 2 kamikaze attacks, once jumping off board to avoid a fire that killed hundreds. Later gained fame as the designer of the classic dune buggy car, named the Meyers Manx, rid
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Medal of Honor Recipient-(29,Nov.1950)-Korean War
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; Fort Kamehameha
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Bulgarian beauty queen, suspected in the death of her boyfriend Nikolai Dimov
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WWII/JFK: Served in the Marine Corps in the Pacific, 2 Purple Hearts. Invited and chaired the famous meeting of the Houston Ministerial Association for Sen. John F. Kennedy to allay fears about a Catholic president
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former NAACP president
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South African WWII Veteran
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WWII: 82nd Airborne, made all 4 combat jumps (Sicily, D-Day, Market Garden, Varsity)
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Baseball / 1954-55 / Shortstop that Appeared in 17 Games / Carrer Cut Short When he Joined the Service. WWII Veteran
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Edward Stanley Michael (May 2, 1918 â-' May 10, 1994) was a United States Army Air Forces officer 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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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot and Spitfire pilot in the RAF. Born in 1920, he joined 234 Squadron at St Eval in September 1940. He was taken POW and interned in various camps including Stalag Luft III. He is now 96 and lives in the UK
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Vestal
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Owner of radio station WRAJ in Anna , Ill , in '63 , Don reported news of JFK's assassination and was one of the earliest to broadcast the name of suspect Oswald
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astronaut
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Nobel laureate 1988 in Chemistry
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Nazi during WW2. As of 2010 resides in Kiel in Germany
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French General, fought in the French maquis
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2011 inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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(Born September 22, 1918) is an American entomologist born in Pasadena, California. He is a leading expert on bees, his magnus opus being The Bees of the World
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WW2 Veteran-Battle of The Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Chicago (CA-29), which was sunk by air attack during the Battle of Rennell Island, 30 January 1943
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Military, Secretary of the Navy
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United States diplomat and secretary of the Navy
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WWII Missouri veteran who took a knee to show solidarity with football players
