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
Centenarian (1899-2001). US WWI Army veteran, served in the ambulance corps in France. Later became a freelance writer, writing books in the 1920s, including WWI experiences. One of 8 WWI vets profiled by Life magazine on the 80th anniversary in 1998
Former member of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a prisoner of war in Cuba for 18 months; former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association. Now an attorney in Miami.
Turkish Air Force Captain who in 1959, took the first photograph of a strange formation on Mount Ararat, believed to be the remains of Noah's Ark. He was still alive in 2007, not sure if he still is now
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
real-life Vietnam war hero turned actor - often typecast as General, Cpt., Lt., Col. in film: Platoon (1986), Casualties of War (1987), Born On The Fourth Of July (1989), JFK (1991), Saving Private Ryan (1997), Band of Brothers (t.v. mini-series, 2001)
General Ira Clarence Eaker (April 13, 1896 - August 6, 1987) was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. On April 30, 1945, General Eaker was named deputy commander of the Army Air Forces and Chief of the Air Staff
WWII - Pacific; one of only two torpedo plane pilots of Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) to survive after attacking the Japanese aircraft carriers during the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942.
Gunnery Sgt/One of three Marines that lowered the Embassy flag in Cuba the last time when the Embassy closed in 1961/ Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana 5+ decades raise the Stars and Stripes once again there
WWII: ETO. 26 missions as a B-17 ball turret gunner, his first mission being on D-Day. On his last mission his plane was shot down forcing an emergency landing in Switzerland
WWII - Fighter Ace, 7 victories. Europe, 56th Fighter Group ('Zemke's Wolf Pack'), 62nd Fighter Sqadron. Few the P-40, P-47, P-51, F-84, F-100. Also served in Korea (23 January 1951, 'Mig alley')
(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Saved comrade Fred Kjorlien in a firefight in Vietnam. Fred had lost his entire leg from a RPG and Dale was keeping him calm. The two final reunited in 2021 after 53 years after the event took place
WWII: D-Day nurse (Special Advance Group 56). Arrived at the the Royal Victorian Hospital outside Southampton, mid-February 1944 and prepared for D-Day; treated the first D-Day casualty 4 days after June 6, 1944
WWII: Canadian / RAF Flying Ace, at least 19 victories, though assumed to have a much higher score, even by Nazi-German's war records. Highest scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign
WWII: ETO. 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. 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment. POW until the end of the war
WWII: Red Army.Throughout the war, Efremova served as a nurse along the front lines in field hospitals. She is now 96 and lives with her daughter in Yakutsk, Russia
Navy radioman on a Pacific landing craft during WWII. Took part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. There at MacArthur's return, where he was entrusted to help bring 50 cases of whiskey to the officer's club
WWII - D-Day, Pointe-du-Hoc. 2nd Ranger Battalion. Scaled a 100-foot cliff while taking constant fire from German troops to take out six 155mm guns at Pointe-du-Hoc
Retired German Air Force General. He was Inspector of the Air Force, the senior Air Force appointment, and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. German WWII Veteran
US Lawyer, Politician, Founding Father (1745-1807). CT delegate to Continental Congress, helped write US Constitution. US Senator, close ally of Alexander Hamilton. Selected by G. Washington as the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. US Army staff sergeant and photographer who took the first air-to-air photographs of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, taken from on board a B-17 which happened to be flying in on December 7, 1941
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Served in the Admiral?s Band on the USS Pennsylvania. He was 'armed' with a French horn readying himself to play morning colors when the Japanese attacked
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Honolulu. Moved to Hawaii and devotes his time to identify sailors buried in unmarked graves; recognized by the National Park Service for his efforts
Survivor Korean Death March/29th Regimental Combat Team/Captured Oneui on 7/26/1950, marched 40 miles south of Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW for 3 months & was one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured men/Recipient of the Purple Heart
US Navy WWII pilot, born 1921. Flew supplies and mail across the Pacific theater. Flew many Bataan Death March survivors home to Hawaii. Hit spots including Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Saipan, Okinawa, Midway, Wake and the Aleutians. Flew C-47, C-54, PBY, SBD Dive
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
WW2 WASP appointed Squadron Commander for the 6th Ferry Command/only woman during war to be awarded the Air Medal for her service/Flew medium-size bombers A-20, A-26 and B-25, the cargo craft DC-3, C-54 & mighty B-17 Flying Fortress bomber
Actor: House, Full Metal Jacket, Mississippi Burning, Toy Soldiers, Body Snatchers, Naked Gun 33 1/3, Seven, Murder in the First, Toy Story, Dead Man Walking, Saving Silverman, The Frighteners, Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Navajo Bougainville Code Talker/2nd All-Navajo Platoon 297/Stationed in Guadalcanal, Guam, Iwo Jima and other Pacific locations for just over two years
Australian Coast Watcher in Pacific theatre in WW II/Chiefly remembered for playing significant part in rescue of future President John F. Kennedy and his surviving crew after Torpedo Boat, PT-109, was sunk by enemy action in August 1943
WW2 2nd Armor Light Recon Tank Gunner/WIA POW/Advised to movie 'Fury',
was in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Belgium, Holland and Germany/Lives in Upper Providence, PA./Age 97
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tennessee (BB-43). Winner of the Jitterbug contest at Bloch Arena on Dec. 6, 1941, during the semi-finals of the Battle Of The Bands 1941
WWII: British Atlantic convoy veteran (USA to UK), Arctic veteran (aboard the HMS Wanderer, in the disastrous PQ-17 convoy) and D-Day veteran (escort convoys to the landings)
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
WW2 Air Gunner manning a ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress/French President Francois Hollande had installed him as a chevalier, chevalier you know is a knight in that country's Legion of Honor
Member of The Ritchie Boys was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War II. Holocaust survivor and now 97 years old
WWII: D-Day; Battle of the Bulge; 82nd Airborne Division (All-Americans), 505th paratrooper infantry (PIR), Company D; landed in the cemetery of St. Mere Eglise in France on D-Day
WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
U.S. Navy sailor serving as a radioman in the Coast Guard Flotilla 4/10, LCI-492 (landing craft infantry), that landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944
WWII - Contemporary witness of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion, July 17, 1944, Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, CA; 320 dead, 390 wounded, followed by mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.)
US Navy vet, born 1926. Naval reserves at the end of WWII, and the end of the Korean War. 'Atomic veteran' witness to the Operation Crossroads first peacetime tests of atomic bombs at the Bikini Atoll in 1946
WWII USMC - Battle of Corregidor (1942), awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart. Spent over 3 years as a POW and was awarded a 2nd Purple Heart. Also, served in the Korean War
WII: B-17 tail-gunner in the 524th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 21 missions beginning in February 1945, incl. Berlin, Schweinfurt, the Ruhr Valley
Legendary Marine; WWII (Guadalcanal, Guam, Bougainville, Iwo Jima), Korea (Pusan Perimeter, Inchon Landing, Seoul Recapture, 'Frozen Chosin' Reservoir). Knew Mike Mervosh, Chesty Puller, John Wayne
US WWII vet, born 1914. Son of Italian immigrants, he worked in a clerical office in Italy in WWII, where he found his family's dialect left him unexpectedly not understanding the language there
WWII: US Navy Higgins Boat Coxswain (driver) on D-Day. His LCVP picked up 35 men of the 1st Infantry Division from the USS Henrico and brought them into the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach. It was the 5th boat in the 1st wave at Omaha on 6:30 AM
Captured by Red Chinese during CIA - sponsored C-47 flight over mainland China during Korean War. POW nearly 2 decade battle of wills between the U.S. & China/He was released in December 1971. CIA awarded him the Distinguished Intelligence Cross
Was the second head coach of the Oakland Raiders. He played College football for Stanford at the Offensive Guard position. He was elected to the Stanford Athletics Hall o Fame He is also a World War 2 veteran, served in the US Marines
WWII: USS Navy. Crossed Atlantic from Boot Camp on The RMS Queen Mary; served on the HMS Ceres during D - Day, directing ships in and out at Omaha Beach
Col. Vietnam War/US Air Force, pilot/Pow six years/John McCain's cellmate two years/ His Air Force career flying the B-47 Stratojet, RB-66 and EB-66 Destroyer, T-38 Talon, and F-111 Aardvark aircraft
Radioman/Gunner on TBF Avenger, Torpedo Squadron 8, (VT-8). Battle of Midway, WWII, 4 June 1942. Of the six Avengers, Ferrier's was the only one to return. Ferrier was wounded along with his pilot, the top gunner was killed. He was awarded DFC & PH
JFK/Cold War: Member of Light Photographic Squadron 62 (VFP-62) that took the low-level pictures of the Russian missiles in Cuba during the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' in October 1962. Aviation electrician responsible
Jason Fettig is a United States Marine Corps colonel who is the music adviser to the President of the United States and the 28th director of the United States Marine Band 'The President's Own'
US WWII army vet (ETO, 287th Combat Engineers) and NASA engineer, born 1924. Project chief scientist and manager for Pioneer planetary missions 6-13. Pioneer 10 and 11 the first spacecrafts to Jupiter and Saturn, and the first to leave the solar system
Oldest Living Medal of Honor (Navy WW 2) Born: 07/23/1909.Lieutenant John William Finn (born July 23, 1909) is a retired officer of the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor in recognition of heroism and distinguished service during the Japan
WWII -Turret Gunner in the Torpedo Squadron of Carrier Air Group 11 (VT-11, sister quadron to the famous Sundowners VF-11) in the Pacific Theater; served on the USS Hornet (CV-12)
American Army officer for thirty years He was awarded the Soldierâ-?s Medal for heroism and the Bronze Star for valor before retiring as a Col in 1993. Author of The Final Invasion: Plattsburgh, the War of 1812's Most Decisive Battle
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
WWII Nurse, born 1923. First African American nurse to teach at Rhode Island College. Honored by Rhode Island Senate for lifetime work with children of Providence
SSgt, USA, 271st Regt., 69th Div., 2nd Army.
Combat Infantryman, Mechanic.
Awarded Two Bronze Stars
Battle of the Bulge, Siegfried Line and Leipzig
European Theater of Operations
(Born 1932) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 3 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
Rough Rider with T. Roosevelt, Diplomat under 6 Presidents (1873-1959) Roosevelt chose him as a diplomat to Cuba, other posts under Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover. Republican Party Nat'l Chair (1934-36)
WWII: Radio man in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. The Ghost Army deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there
WWII: PTO. USMC, 3rd Marine Air Wing. Driver for Brig.General Schilt. After the war, he trained recruits. At one point he was a stand-in for then actor Ronald Reagan in a WWII-themed movie when it came time for Reagan to jump out of a plane
Military Commander
Ferdinand Foch was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders and Artois campaigns of 1914-1916, Foc
US WWII vet, born in 1920. Served as a Navy WAVE in secret intelligence work involving Japanese merchant ships, though she refused to discuss details of her work even decades later
WWII: PTO. Marine Corps Fighter pilot (VMF-121) of the 'Cactus Air Force' at Guadalcanal 1942 who flew with J. Foss' 'Flying Circus'. In the mission that sank the Japanese battleship Hiei. Later Squadron Leader, VMF-533. Post-war test pilot
German WWII Soldier, born 1925 in Berlin. Drafted near war's end, soon taken POW by the US, shuttled to France & the USSR. Got medical degree, moved to the US. Radiology career. Medical officer in the US Air Force, later the Army Reserves
Aviation Radioman 2nd Class, USN, USS Hornet (CV-12)
SB2C Helldiver Radio Operator/Gunner
Distinguished Flying Cross
Shot down while bombing the battleship Yamato during the Battle of Okinawa.
Rescued by Destroyer
WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, 23rd Provisional Company, 6th Defense Battalion. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Was assigned to Midway Islands in 1942 to defend the atoll. Later in the Iwo Jima invasion and the postwar occupation of Japan
WWII veteran of the 3rd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, 36th Infantry Division. He fought throughout Europe from October of 1944 in Alsace-Lorraine, ending near the Austrian Alps when the war ended
American broadcast news executive. Created the groundbreaking Huntley-Brinkley Report, and was its producer until 1964. Served two tenures as president of NBC News. Mentored such journalists as Tom Brokaw, John Chancellor & Linda Ellerbee
Centenarian (1901-2002). One of the last living US WWI Marine veterans. Lied about age to join, sent to combat in France. Re-enlisted in WWII, served in the battle of Okinawa. Wounded in the trenches by an exploding shell in WWI, and hit in the neck with
WW2/From Haddenham in Buckinghamshire, member of the Women?s Royal Naval Service, Wrens. Worked on Colossus, world?s first digital electronic computer, which was developed at Bletchley but the existence of which was kept secret for decades
WWII: B-17 Ball Turrett Gunner, 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group (Bloody 100th). Shot down on his last mission on April 28, 1944 in B-17 #42-107024 (unnamed). POW at Stalag XI, Nürnberg, Stalag 17B, Krems, Austria
WWII: Reconnaissance Photographer at NAS Honolulu, working at Admiral Nimitz' Office. Took countless photos in the Pacific, incl. celebrities visiting the base, like Rene Gagnon (flag-raiser at M t. Suribachi) or actress Betty Hutton
WWII: Army Scout Veteran. Arrived in Normandy on Aug. 5, 1944, with the 80th Division and fought all through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Austria
WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
WWII: D-Day. Tech Sgt., 8th AF, 390th Bomb Group, 568th Squadron, 8th Air Force. Radio operator in a B-17 that bombed targets in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Shot down July 1944, POW in Stalag Luft IV
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and one of the most decorated soldiers and paratroopers of World War II. He also received the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, and three Purple Hearts
Former Corporal of the Canadian Forces, once held the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at 2,430 metres (2,657 yd, 12.08 furlongs, or 1.51 miles)
WWII: PTO. USMC fighter pilot. WIth Joe Foss at Guadalcanal (Cactus Air Force), later commanding the illustrious 'Black Sheep Squadron' and also serving in the Korean War
WWII: ETO. I Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment), 101st Airborne. Camp Toccoa, D-Day, Operation Market Garden (seriously wounded on Sept. 18, 1944 near Eindhoven which meant the end of the war for him)