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WWII: PTO. USS Laffey ('The Ship That Would Not Die'). D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action in the worst Kamikaze attack in history)
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(Born 1933) US Navy Korean War Veteran. Served from 1952 to 1956. Apart of Destroyer Divison 51 in Korea
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Retired Navy Admiral
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U.S. Navy Waves 1943-1945
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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Veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad. Resident of Orenburg Oblast
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King of Jordan (1999-present)
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WWII Japan Pilot that bombed Pearl Harbor
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Brigadier general in the United States Air Force. Assistant coach for US Air Force Academy football 1963-1968
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WWII: PTO. Corsair fighter pilot assigned to 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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(born 23 June 1925) is a physicist whose research in the 1960s in the USA on germanium-silicon alloys led to the technology used to power space probes such as the Voyager spacecraft.Served in the Royal Air Force during WWII
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Commander-In-Chief U.S. Central Command
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Auschwitz Holocaust survivor
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Became known as 'The Ghost of Bataan' due to the fact that General Douglas McArthur asked him to stay in the Philippines after the raid at Cabanatuan to locate the mass graves of thos who died in the Bataan Death March. Born: 07/31/1913
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Australian WWI Vet (1898-2003). Last living witness to the Red Baron being shot down. Second last surviving Australian WWI vet
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Member of the Hitler Youth and Luftwaffe pilot during World War II who converted to Judaism after the war and moved to Israel
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(born August 15, 1924) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Thompson Medical, whose main product is Slim-Fast, a diet program. Also served during WWII
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A Rosie the Riveteer WWII
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(September 15, 1914 - September 4, 1974) was a general in the United States Army who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968?72 which saw U.S. troop strength in Vietnam fall from a peak of 543,000 to 49,000. He served as Chief of Staff
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army general
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Robert Abrams (2)United States Four Star Army General
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WWII: PTO. USS Yorktown
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US Navy/Joined in Philippines/Served WW2, Korea & Vietnam/Served Merchant Marines the end of WW2/Philippine by birth
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American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War/WW1 Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Radio operator in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Decorated USMC officer born 1980 -Bronze and Silver Star and Purple Heart . Graduated from Tufts University served in the Obama Administration as a USMC platoon during fighting in Falluja Iraq -author of several best selling fiction and non fiction books
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Ww2 veteran
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army general
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WWII - Europe, Italy. 320th Bomb Group. Distinguished Flying Cross
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USO performer, WW2
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6th Baronet GCVO, CB, DSO, MC & Bar 3/11/1897 in London 4/8/1988) British Army general in WW2 commanded Guards Armoured Division from 9/12/1942 until the end of war. Mentioned in Despatches four times during his military career
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Jonathan Adair (born 27 October 1963), better known as Johnny Adair or Mad Dog Adair, is an Ulster loyalist and the former leader of the 'C Company', 2nd Battalion Shankill Road, West Belfast Brigade of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF)
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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British WWII Veteran, helped liberate Denmark
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co.1/7 cav
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Chris Adams (4)
Author & retired United States Air Force officer/Distinguished Service Medal/Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command 1983 accepted an appointment as Associate Director @Los Alamos National Laboratory/Brazos River Authority Board of Directors -
Colonel in the Medical Corps during World War 2, Korea and Vietnam
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George Adams (4)
WWII Pearl Harbor survivor -
WWII Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel
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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; Born May 19th 1925
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USS Wren (DD-568)
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Medal of Honor recipent - WWII
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Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group!
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge, Germany
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air force general
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WWII - 505th Parachute Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. Four Combat jumps incl. D-Day and Operation Market Garden; also Battle of the Bulge
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navy admiral
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Former Israeli Military General
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WW2/Corporal/7th Armored Division under General Patton/Battle of the Bulge and Battle of Metz/Turns 100 July 20th 2017/Threw out 1st pitch Military Appreciation Night at Busch Stadium baseball game/loyal Cardinal/s fan
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WWII - D-Day, stormed Utah Beach; only officer of his unit to survive Operation Overlord
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Vietnam veteran, will receive the Medal of Honor on Sept 15, 2014
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US Army Major General. Iraq and Afghanistan veteran. Recipient of Army Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (4), Bronze Star Medal (4), Purple Heart
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Retired General - USMC
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German tank ace of WW2
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American mechanical engineer most famous for having taken the only well-exposed color photograph of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945 at the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico. He is now 88
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Highly decorated German officer in World War II. Eckart also was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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Vietnam War U.S. Marine Corps from 1964 to 1967/Has memories of China Beach
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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Maltese WWII veteran. Part of Royal Malta Artillery during the Siege of Malta
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Israeli Mathematician, served in the British Army's Jewish Brigade during WWII
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(Born 1940) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from Late 1972 to 1973. Recipient of a Distinguished Flying Cross, a Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Ww2 101st airborne one of the 4 filthy 13 survivors left alive
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John 'Jack' Agnew, one of the original members of a U.S. Army unit that operated behind enemy lines in World War II and is often credited with having loosely inspired the novel and movie 'The Dirty Dozen,'
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Fighter pilot that escorted Air Force One on September 11, 2001
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
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Lx xray 1965 nam
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Japanese WWII Veteran of Pearl Harbor
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Japanese WWII Veteran Iwo Jima
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Retired General - US Army
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WW II Navy veteran; survivor of the USS Indianapolis disaster
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US WWII veteran, born 1920. 10th Mountain Division, heavy machine gunner in major battles of Apennines Mountains and Po Valley, Italy
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WWII: 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 100th Infantry Battalion. Joined in 1944 and served primarily in Italy until 1946
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(1930-2000) President of Syria from 1971 to 2000. Upon his death he was succeeded by by his son Bashar al-Assad
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WWII - Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Schofield Barracks, 19th Coast Artillery
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WWII veteran, served on the USS Missouri, injured during an April 1945 kamikaze hit on the ship. Witnessed the Japanese Surrender ceremony on the ship several months later
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Philosopher, German WWII Veteran born 8 February 1921
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air force general
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French WWII fighter ace, 23 victories moved to the US after the war
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WWII: Sonarman on the USS Kalk who served in the North Atlantic and Pacific Theaters
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Co-pilot on a B-29 that accompanied the Enola Gay, also the Bockscar's navigator for the Nagasaki bombing, WWII
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WWII: PTO. UMSC. Battle of Tarawa
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air force general
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Former Secretary of the Air Force (1986-1988)
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Spanish fighter ace from WW2
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WWII Pilot - Tuskegee Airmen; B-25 Bomber Pilot (flew the b-25, pt-17, bt-13, and at-10, b-10
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Military author
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 101st Airborne Division
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air force general
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Former Secretary of the Army (1977-1981)
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Fighter Ace, F-14 Tomcat pilot
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Highly decorated combat ace of World War II (born 1912-)
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president azerbaijan army general
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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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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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WWII: PTO. US NAvy. USS Thatcher. Last survivor of the Thatcher and survivor of 2 Kamikaze attacks
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WWII: PTO. USS Thatcher
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WWII: A Crew Chief assigned to the 4th Fighter Group, 334th Fighter Squadron in England, he also painted 65 nose art designd on WWII fighter aircraft
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/Served in Vietnam: 07/67 - 11/67 Cu Chi - 25th Inf. Div. Served in Vietnam: 11/67 - 03/68 Cam Rahn Bay - Army Served in Vietnam: 03/68 - 07/68 Lai Khe - 1st Inf. Div. (Returned to Viet Nam and Thailand with USO1971-73)
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Retired US Marine Corps General/Deputy Commander of U.S. Central Command 2014, President Barack Obama appointed General Allen as Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL
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American free jazz saxophone player born 1924. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and EVI. Also served during WWII
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Perry Allen (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Retired General - US Army
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS California
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WWII Ace (5 kills) 5th September 1944 - Destroyed 5 aircraft, to become 'An Ace in a Day' - USAAF
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Vietnam Veteran:1st Lieutenant Troop B,1st Squadron,1st Calvary Regiment,Medal of Honor
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air force general
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German Sniper (World War Two)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Raleigh
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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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We were soldiers- lz-xray-
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British WWI (World War I) Veteran Born: 06/06/1896
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US Politician, Iowa (1829-1908) House 1863-71, Senate 1873-1908. Honorary Iowa Lt. Col. in Civil War. Pushed for harsher treatment of defeated South. Declined offers of 4 Presidents, remained powerful Senator, known as 'Mr. Republican'
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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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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1970 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, a Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Crew Member/USS Menhaden (SS-377) US Navy Balao-class submarine. Launched 1944, Operated out of Pearl Harbor until 1946 And then decommissioned & re-fitted as remotely controlled, unmanned acoustic test vehicle known as 'Yellow Submarine'
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WWII: PTO. Radar specialist on the USS Monterey (CVL-26); later on the USS Hancock and then USS Intrepid (Battles for the Philippines and Okinawa)
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Last French Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1921)
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One of the nine surviving Spanish Civil War Veterans Born:1919. Joined in 1936. In 2016, declared embassador by Valencia's Government during the October 9th Awards, aka Jose Alumudever Mateu
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US WWII veteran, born 1926, served on the USS Missouri, witnessed the Japanese Surrender ceremony
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Spanish Civil War survivor (Born: 1925) who witnessed the air raid over Gernika in 1937. Also witnessed the the siege of Leningrad in 1941 and 1942. Now 91
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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WWII veteran, b. 1923. Pearl Harbor survivor on the USS California. Later at Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Saw MacArthur return to the Philippines, the flag go up on Iwo Jima, and the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay
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Tuskegee airman
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Retired German general, lives in Bremen, Germany
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Politician, German WWII Veteran
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Received Congressional Medal of Honor 03/18/2014 for his actions in Viet Nam
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WWII: D-Day, Radio Operator, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach ('first jeep out'). Fought also at Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge. Also served in Korea and Vietnam
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Jose Alvarez (2) 'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Spain' Born: 08/04/1919
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1919) Nationalist Army. Served in Barcelona. also a writer. Age: 97. Lives in Spain
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Author and former U.S. Navy officer. Was the first U.S. pilot to be downed and detained during the Vietnam War and spent over 8 years in captivity, making him the second longest-held U.S. POW. Appointed to many roles under Ronald Reagan
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WWII - Operation Overlord; Navy man on LST-133, the first LST to reach the beach on D-Day+1; struck by a mine a few days later while delivering troops and ammunition. Met Queen Elizabeth and President Obama at 70th D-Day anniversary
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JFK - Honor Guard at Kennedy funeral on 25 November 1963; Marines
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peace medal vietnam war
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American WWII - Pilot, USAAC, Member of combat mission 'Yamamoto Mission' in October 1942
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president uganda army field marshal
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Spy/Former Israeli military intelligence major who was convicted of espionage in 1987. Amit is thought to have spied for the United States and a European NATO country, though this has never been confirmed by the Israeli government
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4 Star General Born Nov 12, 1946
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WWII Ace - 5.5 Victories - USAAF
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American veteran (1910-2007), served in the Spanish Civil War's Lincoln Brigade (seriously wounded in March 1937), and the US Army in WWII
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WWII fighter ace (5 kills) flew the f6f-hellcat, f4-u corsair
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Fernando Macarro Castillo (Born: 1920) is a Spanish poet. Released in 1962, was a political prisoner who spent time in the prisons of the Franco dictatorship. Age: 96. Lives in Spain
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 39 victories, living in Japan
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WW2 Iwo Jima Marine (23rd Marines, 4th Marine Division), age 94 in 2020
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WW2 British veteran and prisoner of war, who experienced the horrors of the River Kwai. Born December 1918
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Skiing, gold medal military patrol event with his swiss team, olympics 1948
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WWII: Iwo Jima veteran
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Flying Tiger-crew chief, named Jacobson in 1941-42
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Aleutian Islands, WWII
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Flew P-61 Black Widows for the 425th FS in WWII. Was awarded the Purple Heart, 2 Air Medals and an Oak Leaf Cluster. Born May 26, 1918 and died April 19th 2003
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Montford Point Marine
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World War II Medal of Honor Recipient, WWII.
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(Born 1988) Afghanistan War Veteran. Company B, 3d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. Purple Heart and Distinguished Service Cross Recipient
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WWII - Fighter Ace, USAAF, 17 Kills victories. 8th Air Force, 357th Fighter Group, 363rd Fighter Squadron('The Yoxford Boys'), stationed in UK
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US Army General and Actor
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World War 2 American General ,born 1919
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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army general
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, in the second wave. 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
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WWII: PTO. USS Washington
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 6th Marine Division
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Centenarian/WW1 Veteran
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WWII - D-Day. UK Royal Engineers, 591 Para Squadron, 6th British Airborne Division. Dropped in at Pegasus Bridge, wounded after 5 weeks of fighting in Normandy
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James Anderson (8) WWII: PTO. USMC. Battles of Peleliu and Okinawa. Purple Heart, Bronze Star
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WWII Ghost Army
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USS Arizona survivor; veteran of Pearl Harbor
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Former Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada
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Marcus Anderson (2)Military air force general
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WWII: D-Day. Landed at Normandy in LST-264
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1st Sergeant C co, 6th Ranger Battalion during the Great Raid WWII
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WWII: Survivor of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4?8 May 1942), a corporal of the Marine Corps Detachment (assigned to Battery 4, Gun 10) aboard the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Wheeler Field,
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Wayne Anderson (3)Lz xray 1965 nam
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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commander of nautlius (1st atomic submarine)
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Fighter Ace in WWII
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WWII Veteran, Bulge, Africa, Sicily, Normandy
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WWII: PTO. Leyte, Surigao Straits, Luzon, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Japan. USS West Virginia
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal; New Guinea; Cape Gloucester, New Britain; Peleliu. Korean War: Inchon, Korea, 'Chosen' Campaign
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French pilot and general born 1922, first Woman to fly a Helicopter in a Combat Zone
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Wwii: pto. us navy
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Andy Andrews (3) WWII: ETO. D-Day. Fought from Omaha Beach in Normandy through France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany and into Czechoslovakia at the war's end. 3 Bronze Stars, 3 Purple Hearts
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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WWII: D-Day. 671st Bomb Squadron, 416th Bomb Group, 9th Bomber Command, 9th Air Force - Army Air Corps/Air Force. Flew bombing missions (Douglas A-20 Havoc) on D-Day and beyond
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WW 2 air ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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WWII Veteran, coast to coast run
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WW1 british army hero victorian cross
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British Vice-Admiral
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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(Born 1950) US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1969 to 1973. He had 4 Purple Hearts and 4 Bronze Stars with a V device
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation. Participated in the retrieval and restitution of stolen Jewish property
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Victoria Cross recipient from New Zealand, received the award for bravery under fire during the Afghanistan conflict in 2004
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US Army Korean War Veteran
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WWII: One of the youngest fighter pilots who flew with the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain, and was one of the aircrew known as 'The Few'
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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US Navy Admiral
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Israeli historian, author, retired IDF brigadier General & a former Soviet partisan
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Swedispilot born 1918, was shot down and injured by Sovjet, while searching for a missing swedish plane
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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D-Day landings veteran. Born in 1924 and lives in North London, UK. He was a paratrooper in the 7th Battalion Parachute Regiment and fought to take and keep Pegasus Bridge, which was key to the allied advance
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Oldest living George Cross recipient, living in Great Britain
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(Born 1942) US Marine Corps Aviator Vietnam Veteran. Flew a CH-46 through most of the war. Was a POW from 1967 to 1973. Received the Bronze Star
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: Radio operator and gunner of a PBY Catalina seaplane, participated in the battles of Midway, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guam and Guadalcanal. Distinguished Flying Cross (2x)
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Polish photographer and veteran of World War II. He is a veteran of the Luftwaffe and the German Army
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WWII: ETO. Ploesti Raid. 564th Bomb Squadron, 389th Bomb Group
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WWII: Bomber pilot in Europe
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Survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp during WW 2. In famous Buchaewald photo
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Lt. Gen. serving as the Director of Staff of the Office of the Chief of Space Operations of the Space Force. She is the service's first female general officer, the first female Air Force general officer to transfer to the Space Force
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WWII veteran
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Author, motivational speaker and former United States Marine Corps officer who was the first African - American female naval aviator in the Marine Corps and the first African American female combat pilot in the U.S. Armed Forces
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WWII: C Company, 2nd Medical Battalion, 2nd Marine Division. Battle of Tarawa, Battle of Saipan
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Was embedded with Joint Special Operation Forces in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He published extensively on the Iraq War through the Winchester (VA) Star and is the winner of a Pushcart Prize
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Military
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vietnam war marine corps hero
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air force general
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air force general
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(Born 1922) WW2 fighter pilot. P-38 pilot who was a part of the 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group
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5-Star General
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Military
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Steven Arnold (3)Military
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Britsh barrister, fought in WW2 and wrote various books
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WWII: ETO. Technician 5th grade (T/5), gunner/radio operator in an armored vehicle. 76th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop (mechanized), 76th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes-Alsace, Rhineland, Central Europe. Near Chemnitz, Saxony, on VE day
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Spanish ace from WW2
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Royal millitary
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Fort Shafter, Battery E, 64th Coastal Artillery
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Military
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Was trapped inside the USS Oklahoma but eventually rescued
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Oldest Person in Finland/Last World War 1 Veteran of Finland Born: 08/04/1897/(lives in Jarvenpaa, Finland)
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Ascani, a retired Air Force major general, flew an F-86 Sabre jet at 628.698 mph at the National Air Races in Detroit in 1951. He later oversaw development of a supersonic bomber. Fred J. Ascani, a retired Air Force major general and former test pilot at
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, USS Oklahoma. (1922-2013)
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American Peace Corps administrator, including its 1967-69 deputy director, and author of more than 30 books, primarily non-fiction children's literature, which received over 40 awards
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WWII: Navy Veteran of the USS Tisdale (DE-33), 'The Lucky T', of many battles, like Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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navy admiral england
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weaponeer on Bockscar WWII
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WWII: US Navy. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid
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British colonial officer, later associate of Ugandian president Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada, is now living in Wimbledon, London
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Former colonial officer and associate of presidents Obote and Amin in Uganda in the the 1960s and 70s. Born 1924. He currently lives in Wimbledon, London. His nickname is: 'The White Rat'
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(Born 1951) US Army Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. Recipient of a Bronze Star and Purple Heart
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US WWII/Vietnam vet, born 1921. Ship sank by mine hit, then wounded at Anzio. Fought through France/Germany. Military career, ended up in the Brinks Hotel bombing in Vietnam Christmas Eve 1964, featured in Life Magazine
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Major General Edward B. Atkeson, USA Ret
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US WWII Navy gunner, born 1922. Pearl Harbor Survivor on the USS W. Virginia, with two brothers. Later saw action in the Philippines
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Medal of Honor WWII, for actions on the Villa Verde Trail,Luzon Island, Philippines. He fired over 400 rounds over a period of 4 hours as the only remaining soldier at a position that was being heavily assaulted
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Peleliu
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US Army WW2 Veteran. Captured as a POW in a farm house in France in 1944 and did labor in camps. Bronze Star and Purple Heart Recipient
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Canadian WWII Fighter Ace
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Last known surviving contributor to the war effort in Inuit communities during World War II, particularly the drive to collect animal bones and carcasses for the Allied munitions effort
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Aerospace research Test Pilot. Col., USAF, Ret.; Bachelor of Sciene in Chem,, University of Virginia, 1959; Master of Science in Engineering Administration, unsuccessful application NASA astronaut group 3; 1963 as military astronaut - class-3 selected
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US Army WWII veteran, born 1925. Served in the Battle of the Bulge and the Hurtgen Forest, his feet suffering permanent damage from frostbite. Assigned as an MP later in his war service
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Member of French Resistance. WWII
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Member of the French Resistance. WWII. Born: 07/31/1914
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: PTO. Medic on Navy Hospital ship USS Mercy
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Israeli Ace Fighter Pilot from the Arab-Israli war. Combination of four Egyptian planes in 1948 & two German planes in WW2 makes him a Flying Ace
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: ETO. 445th Bomb Group (Jimym Stewart's group), 703rd Bomb Squadron
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Madame Jacqueline Auriol (November 5, 1917-February 11, 2000) was a French aviatrix who set numerous world speed records. Auriol became one of the first female test pilots after earning her military pilot license in 1950
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Retired French Army Brigadier General, who fought during World War II, the First Indochina War and Algerian War. Is still living in France!
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WWII Flying Ace (5 Victories); 506th Fighter Group - 457th Fighter Squadron; Iwo Jima, Osaka, Tokyo. Called 'The Last Fighter Ace of WWII' Age 97
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US Secretary of Defense, Retired United States Army general, 12th commander of United States Central Command
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Retired Army General and Current Secretary of Defense (2021-)
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BBC Weather
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Solace
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American WWII Fighter Ace (6 Victs.)- USMC - Navy Cross
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Woman Pilot first woman to fly a B-29, in 1944
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Commander Installation Mgmt Command korea
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army general
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British air ace from WW2 with 5 victories
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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(Born 1945) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. Recipient of 4 Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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marine corps general
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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Retired Air Force General
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Centenarian - Canadian WWI Veteran. Born 07/23/1900
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/December 67 - October 68 (Saigon) Assistant Director: July 69 - July 70
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Military
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Helicopter Pilot/Vietnam War/Made five trips to the enemy territory, rescuing 126 troops
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WWII: Navy veteran who served on the USS Saratoga, Enterprise, Lexington
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Retired Army National Guard Brigadier General
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Born in 1925, Bach is a Psychologist & WWII Veteran who served in the European Theatre of Operations during WW2. He later joined the Research Center For Mental Health at New York University in 1956. He was awarded the Heinz Hartmann award for his research
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WWII - B-24 Pilot who flew 35 missions ion Europe
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navy admiral
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Major General, US Army
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Retired German general
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WWII veteran, Utah politician and General Authority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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medal of honor army vietnam
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navy admiral
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British ace from WW2
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Widow of WWII hero Douglas Bader
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WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941. Navy petty officer 3rd class, aviation mechanic with Patrol Squadron 22.
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army general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island, VP-22
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Lz xray 1965 b co. 1/7 cav
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, a.o. Survived the Kamikaze attack on the USS Bennett. Purple Heart
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Retired Admiral born 1924
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Italian WWII veteran, born 1923
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Retired General - US Army
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII - Paratrooper of H Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: USS Laffey. D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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USS Pueblo
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WWII - WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)
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Flying Tigers-crew chief
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(Born 1943) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, a Legion of Merit, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII: ETO, navigator of B-17 Chow-Hound (Serial # 42-31367), 91st Bomb Group, 322nd Squadron
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oglala
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Whitney (AD-4)
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Air force general - Retired 2002
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African - American female WWII vet, born 1918. Served in the WACs. Made a parachute jump for fun at the age of 102
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Pearl Harbor survivor of Ft. Shafter, and one of the few Civilian Conservation Corps survivors, serving 1939-41 in Washington State
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Originally stationed aboard the U.S.S. Schley and at the time of the attack was on the Naval Air Station
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US Army Air Corps, 453rd Bomb Group
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC. Purple Heart
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Battan death march survivor ww2
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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WWII: British D-Day veteran of the 12th Yorkshire Parachute Regiment
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WW 2 air ace - 6 Kills - USMC - Navy Cross
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks. 'A' Company, 804th Aviation Engineers
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Charles Baker (2) WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Military
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medal of honor US army, Vietnam War
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air force general
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WWII - Iwo Jima. Seabee with the 4th Marine Division, built Motoyama No. 2 airfield
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Canadian World War II veteran and academic administrator (U of PEI)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Served on the USS Ralph Talbot during the attack, and was on board during the landing on Guadalcanal and the Battle of Savo Island in 1942
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One of the pilots who took part in the mission during WWII to shoot down Admiral Yamamoto's aircraft
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Liberator of the Dachau concentration camp at the end of World War II
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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US WWII Merchant Marine, born 1926. One of the 10 Merchant Marines to represent the surviving 1500 at the official Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in 2022
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Broadcaster, Russian WWII Veteran
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WWII: Bataan Death March (9 April 1942)
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WWII: ETO. 350th Bomb Sqdn, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Radio Operator/Gunner of B-17 #42-3413 'Hard Luck'. POW
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US Navy aerial gunner
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Italian WWII pilot and ace, finnishing the war with five victories, born 26. December 1919
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(Born 1939) US Navy Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII pilot (Hell's Angels)
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navy admiral
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Korean war ace - 5 Kills - USAF
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS Mellette APA156. Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Japanese Surrender Tokyo Bay
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(Born 1948) Former US Navy Vice Admiral. Served from 1969 to 2005
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Former U.S. Army soldier - WWII, Korean War, was assigned to Operation Castle - a series of nuclear weapons tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Published 10 books. Mauser expert - History Channel's 'Tales of the Gun' series
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WWII: PTO. Army Air Corps. 27 missions as a B-29 navigator. Distinguished Flying Cross
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William Ball (2)Military
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medal of honor, navy, vietnam war
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Curtiss
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(Born 1934) US Army Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1961 to 1962. Recipient of a Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star, and Purple Heart
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German ww2 pilot
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US Marine veteran, born 1931, of the Korean War. Fought in the 'Frozen Chosin' battle
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Navy Admiral
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A Russian political and military figure, Yury Nikolaevich Baluevsky is the Deputy Secretary of Russia's Security Council, the First Deputy Defense Minister, an army general, and a former head of Russia's General Staff
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American journalist at The Washington Post. Frequently appears on the Meet the Press and the PBS program Washington Week. Co-wrote The Battle for America 2008 with the late Pulitzer Prize winner Haynes Johnson. Served in the military
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WWII pilot - Battle of Britain
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Since 2006, is the First Sea Lord of the United Kingdom, the most senior serving officer in the Royal Navy
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Romanian WWII Veteran, born August 20 1922
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ww 11 army hero
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WWII - Fighter Ace USAAF, 5 victories (3 on Jan. 14, 1945); 8th Air Force, 357th Fighter Group, 354th Fighter Squadron. 'The Yoxford Boys', stationed in England
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WWII fighter ace - 10 Kills - USAAF - DSC
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WWII Veteran, D-Day Veteran, Fox Company
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Retired General
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Canadian WWII Fighter Ace - R.C.A.F.'s top night fighter and the second highest scoring Canadian fighter pilot of WWII; also a 'V1 Ace'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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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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WWII: Rose The Riveter
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation. 66th Infrantry Division; witness of the sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville on 24 Dec 1944 (torpedoed by a German U-boat; 763 soldiers died). Served as a Monuments Men after V-E-day in Austria
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(Born 1931) US Army Korean War Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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WWII Ace--[5 victories]- Was one of the Pilots who shot down Japanese Admiral Yamamoto's airplane during WWII
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WWII: ETO/MTO. 451st Bomb Group, 724th Squadron, 15th AF. His plane was hit by a German 88 on Oct. 13, 1944, while over Vienna, Austria, and had to bail out. He became a POW, eventually held at Stalag Luft #7A near Moosburg, Germany,
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US Marine Corp, Medal of Honor Recipient Korea
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Raleigh
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US WWII Army vet (1913-2021). Stationed in Alaska in WWII, honored as a fan by the LA Dodgers when he turned 108
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WWII: ETO. Regiment, 78th Infantry Division. Battle of Hurtgen Forrest, Battle of Remagen
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. D Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion. Pointe du Hoc
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Bataan Death March Survivor
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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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British pilot in WW2
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient - WWII
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Paratrooper involved in 'Operation Dragoon' during WW2. born on 09/01/1924
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Former General in the Canadian Forces, Military Advisor to the UN Sec. General & head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations from 1992 to 1997, & Chief of the Defence Staff in Canada from 1997 t
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British ace from WW2, 11 victories, Battle of Britain
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WWII: US Navy. USS Hornet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid, Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands); survived the sinking of the Hornet in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942
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P-47 and P-51 Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of the 325th Fighter Group
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Highly decorated German tank ace of WW2
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11 year old Civilian Pearl Harbor Witness, born 1930. Father worked at the Harbor. Raced on his bike, saw bombs dropping, bullets near his feet. Told 'We're at war! Run for safety!' Served as island messenger on his bike in the days after
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Cassandra)
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US WWII D-Day veteran, born 1926. Knocked out by an explosion, spent the first night filled with shrapnel and wracked in pain until he was picked up the next afternoon. Later served in the Philippines
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Ben Barnes (2) WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran; later served on the HMS Glasgow on D-Day, in the Battle of Cherbourg and beyond
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
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507th p i r - ww 2
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Assistant weaponeer on Bockscar during Nagasaki mission
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Tinian, Okinawa
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WWII Pilot Ace-5, USAAF
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WWII Veteran, As a radar operator on a B-29 nicknamed The Great Artiste, he and other crew members accompanied a plane known as Bockscar to Japan, where it dropped the second atomic bomb and hastened the end of World War II
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
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WWII: PTO. B-29 Navigator, 505th Bomb Group, Tinian Island. 23 missions over Japan
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WWII: USS Enterprise (CV-6)
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American Writer And Commentator. Former Army Kiowa Helicopter pilot. Iraq & Afghanistan Veteran
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Flew in hundreds of combat helicopter missions in Vietnam during the 1960s. Honored with war medals for helping to extract dozens of wounded Americans from fields and jungles/1st Cavalry Division, 15th Medical Battalion Medevac platoon
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U.S. Coast Guard Honor Guard for JFK Death; in the Casket Team (Kennedy pallbearer)
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medal of honor, marines vietnam
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Bolivia' Born: 1921
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Australian WWII Ace 12 v
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Most decorated soldier in the Vietnam War. Has been called the Puerto Rican Rambo. He earned 38 military decorations during his career. Born April 7, 1937
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coast guard admiral
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Manuel Barrios (2) WWII: I Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR). D-Day (wounded by a grenade after a couple of days), back for the Siege of Bastogne (Battle of the Bulge), made it to the Eagle's Nest and ended the war in Austria
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marine corps general
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co 1/7 cav
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Soviet WWII Veteran, Translator for the Red Army, interrogated German Prisoners during the Battle of Stalingrad, born 1922
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WWII - Hitler's Nazi poster boy for propaganda in the late 1930s. Chosen at the age of four, his face appeared on postcards, books and campaigns for Nazi Germany
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Australian WWII ace
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WWII: Manhattan Project
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US WWII veteran, born 1920. Joined the CCC in 1938 in Washington State. Served as a clerk in the Air Transport Command in India during WWII
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. He flew on Hurricane's throughout the Battle of Britain. He now lives in Western Australia
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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8th Armored Division
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Schley
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WWII Rosie and SPAR (1923-2024) Worked two years at Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant, drilling rivet holes for B-24s. Then joined the Coast Guard's Women SPARs
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WWII: Pacific. Air Force pilot. Battle of Okinawa. Saw the Yamato sink
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CIA operative gathered on-the-ground intelligence on Cuba's military defenses in preparation for Bay of Pigs invasion. After JFK abandoned invading troops on beach at Playa Girón, Basulto says, he abandoned the CIA operatives on the island
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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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WWII. ETO. Pilot, 63 Fighter Squadron, 56 Fighter Group
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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 in Burma. Bronze Star
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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She is Major John Howard's daughter, the British Officer who fought in Pegasus Bridge during WWII
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Enigma code breaker of WWII, along with future wife, Mavis Batey
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Enigma code breaker of WWII
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navy admiral england
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Retired USMC General
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WWII: Witness of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, ordered to a firefighting party for the Cassin and Downes destroyers. Later Fighter Pilot for VF-1 on USS Bennington CV-20 (missions to Japan)
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WWII: British D-Day (Gold Beach) veteran. Royal Engineers. Spent much of the first few days of the landings lying on his stomach defusing mines
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Pearl Harbor Survivor
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Navy Veteran
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Tuskegee Airmen ww2
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. Served aboard the USS Patterson as a chief gunners mate
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WWII - D-Day. 116th Infantry, Dog Green Sector, Omaha Beach. Author
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August 27, 1918- March 20, 2008) was an American aviatrix who became the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Force jet aircraft as a test pilot during WWII as a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots program/WASP
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WASP/First American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War II
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WWII PTO: Marine Raider of 'Carlson?s Raiders'. Makin Island Raid (17?18 August 1942), Guadalcanal Campaign
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WWIOI: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 2nd Marine Air Wing
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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WWII: D-Day. Ranger. Pointe du Hoc
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WWII: CBI theater, C?109 pilot, 80 'Hump' round?trips
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WWII: British soldier evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940, later served in North Africa (notably El Alamein) and Italy campaign
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Canadian Victoria Cross receiver from WW2
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Retired General - USAF
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(Born 1925) US Merchant Marine/Army/Air Force WW2 and Vietnam Veteran. Merchant Marine 1943 to 1944, US Army from 1944 to 1946, US Air Force 1951 to 1974
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ww11 navy hero author (run silent run deep)
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Bougainville, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima. Purple Heart. USMC
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WWII: PTO. USMC. 'Buffalo' amphibious vehicle driver, in the 3rd Marine Division
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Retired British General, who served in WW2 and saw active service in France 1944 and in Java 1946
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941, serving on USS Hull. Later fought in the battles of Bourgainville, Salamua-Lea, Guadalcanal, Wake Island, Attu-Kiska, Wake Island again, and Tarawa. Born July 6, 1921
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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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WWII - 1st Marine Division Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, Battle of Okinawa
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WWII: D-Day. 101st Airborne (Screaming Eagles), 501st PIR , D-Day Pathfinder, Battle of Carentan, Battle of the Bulge. Became a POW and escaped
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Retired USMC General
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: Arctic convoy veteran (HMS La Malouine) in 3 convoys including the ill-fated PQ-17 in July 1942
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On D-Day, June 6, 1944, 73,000 American forces descended on the beaches of Normandy. Bearden was a 21-year-old sergeant in the Army's 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Wrote; 'To D-Day and Back'
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British WW2 pilot, 'Battle of Britain'
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Noted Civil War and World War II Historian. WWII Marine, 3rd Raider Battalion (Battle of Guadalcanal), Chief historian for the National Park Service 1981 - 1994
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WW II Nurse, 1st Lt., aka Jean Crooks
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(Born 1914) US Army WW2 Veteran. Went to Fuji Islands, Guadalcanal, and the Philippines. Bronze Star Recipient
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: D-.Day, 508th PIR, medic, POW
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Canadian World War II veteran and politician
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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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Ploesti Air Raid --- WWII
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WWII: Marine Corps, 1st Raider Battalion. Tulaghi, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian. Fired the first shot against the Japanese occupied South Pacific Island of Tulagi on August 7, 1942
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Army veteran and local theater actor
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam War Veteran. Recipient of a Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart
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Former Navy SEAL, Christopher Beck, who is transgender and now goes by the name Kristin Beck
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air force general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pyro
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
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USAF Jet fighter Ace during the Korean War--[5 Migs shot down]! fle the p-80, f-86, f-89, f-84, f-104, t-33, t-28, t-6
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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Former Marine General
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Retired USMC General
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Retired General - US Army
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marine corps general
