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  1. navy admiral
  2. Landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day June 6th 1944 with the 29th Division, 111th Artillery Battalion
  3. WWII - Co-pilot of the B-17 "Big Yank", 483rd Bombardment Group, 840th Bombardment Sq. Base: Sterparone, Italy; on March 24, 1945, they flew the longest escorted European bombing mission to Berlin, credited for destroying 3 Me-262's
  4. WWII: Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
  5. WWII: USS Indianapolis Survivor; author of the book 'Out of the depths'
  6. WWII: PTO. USMC. Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. Fought side by side with Chesty Puller
  7. British ace from WW2
  8. WWII: Merchant Marine
  9. Flying Tigers-headquarters staff
  10. David Harris  (9)
    Journalist/author. Known chiefly for anti-war activist during Vietnam War. Notably as leading opponent of Draft. 1967 Harris found organization called the Resistance, which persuaded men of draft age to refuse to cooperate with Selective Service System
  11. WWII: British Fairey Swordfish pilot who conducted U-boat searches to protect merchant ships during the Murmansk Runs,
  12. 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
  13. 4 Star General
  14. US Politician, Tenn. (1818-97) House 1849-53, Gov. of TN 1857-62 and then its Confederate Gov.; US Senate 1877-97. In a split state, responsible for its Confederate alliance, sending troops and acting on the staffs of Southern Generals
  15. Tuskegee Pilot
  16. (Born 1949) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Served as a rifleman with Company D, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment in South Vietnam. Captured as a POW in June 1969 and was a POW for 135 days until being released by his captors
  17. (Born 1940) Vietnam War Veteran
  18. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vega
  19. Viet nam war hero,last address was north decota
  20. Tuskegee Airmen
  21. 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
  22. Staff Sgt. US Army (Ret.), Author, Motivational speaker
  23. WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (WWII-9 Kills) US Navy, VF-17/18
  24. army general
  25. Former Corporal of Horse (CoH) of the Household Cavalry of the British Armed Forces. He holds the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at a range of 2,475 m (2,707 yd)
  26. WWII - D-Day; C-47 pilot who flew paratroopers of the 501th PIR (101st Airborne , 'Screaming Eagles') into Normandy
  27. Military
  28. US WWII Navy WAVES vet, born 1920
  29. WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
  30. army general
  31. US Military Officer, Politician (1773-1841). 9th US President (1841). Died just 31 days into his term of office
  32. WWII: D-Day. USS Augusta (task force flagship at Omaha Beach). Also in the Arctic Circle and the Mediterranean Sea. Had dinner with President Truman onboard the Augusta
  33. Vietnam War Veteran-SS Mayaguez Incident(Last Official Battle of The Vietnam War)
  34. WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured. Canada's oldest and longest-serving officer
  35. WWII: Marine veteran of the Battles of Tarawa (1943) and Guadalcanal. 33 years in the Marine Corps, also served in Korea and Vietnam
  36. John Hart  (6)
    Born John Stewart Hart in New Brunswick, Canada, 1916; WWII Battle of Britain pilot, one of only 7 remaining. Reported to be living in Canada as of 2015
  37. WWII: ETO. D-Day. 439th Troop Carrier Group, 9th Air Force
  38. WWII: PTO. Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps serving on the USS Enterprise until the end of WWII
  39. WWII: 82nd Airborne. Battle of the Bulge. Operation Varsity
  40. WWIIO: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Purple Heart. 4th Marine Division (23rd Marines, 1st Battalion, Company A)
  41. US WWII Army vet,1st Armored Division ambulance driver in North Africa and Italy, born 1920
  42. Retired Army General
  43. Pioneer military aviator who survived 10 days in Alaska's wilderness after crashing in around-the-world flight attempt in 1924/1941 commanded an around-the-world flight of 24,600 miles set record of 121 hours & 55 minute
  44. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
  45. US WWII Army vet, born 1924. Served as a paratrooper in the Alsace campaign in France
  46. James Harvey  (2)
    Tuskegee Airmen Flew PT-17, BT-13, A-26, P-40, P-47, P-51, F-80, F-86, F-89, F-94 and the F-102
  47. 18th Field Artillery Brigade
  48. WW2 Marine/Served in Iwo Jima, Bougainville, Vella Lavella & Solomon Islands Campaigns/Silver Star Recipient/95 Years old in 2019/Loves the Marine Core with a passion
  49. SS camp guard
  50. Band of brothers 101st/506th pir ww2
  51. navy admiral
  52. Danish-born soldier and writer who has written pseudo-autobiographical novels based on his experiences in World War II
  53. WWII: Screaming Eagles paratrooper who served from D - Day to the end of the war in Austria. 506th PIR
  54. Former head of the Australian Defence Force and a WW2 and Korea veteran, knighted by the Queen in 1976, living in Australia
  55. WWII: US Marine Corps. One of the first Black Marines (Montford Point Marines) who served in the Pacific in WWII
  56. Lz xray 1965
  57. marine corps general
  58. army general
  59. air force general
  60. Saboteur from the U.S.S. Barb WWII
  61. Deep Freeze: he operated a quad-radar unit and built the control tower
  62. Child Actor, WWII Vet Appeared in 1921 Charlie Chaplin film 'The Kid' playing The Kid as an even younger kid/Tank mechanic with the 2nd Armored Hell on Wheels Division
  63. Usmc sniper nam-93 confirmed kills
  64. Vietnam vet, born 1943. Team leader of the UDT-11 frogmen who recovered the Apollo 11 Command Module. He opened the hatch and shook the hand of Neil Armstrong, the first out, welcoming him back home. He then scrubbed each astronaut with a disinfectant
  65. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. USS Worden
  66. WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Tucker
  67. Philanthropist. World War 2 Colonel under President Eisenhower.Founder of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies.And Grace Hauenstein Library. Author of book 'Intelligence Was My Line: Inside Eisenhower's Other Command'. Born: 03/20/1912
  68. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
  69. 'Empire Carpets' Spokesman, Famous US Commercial Jingle That Sings The Digits: 1-800-588-2300, Also WW II Vet & Barbershop Quartet Singer
  70. 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
  71. WWII - 355th Fighter Group, 354th Fighter Squadron, European Theater, 5 victories. Also flew in the Korean War
  72. Ww2 fighter ace, f6f hellcat
  73. WWII: US Navy. PTO, USS Reid
  74. Congressional Medal of Honor recipient - WWII
  75. Storyteller, recording artist
  76. WWII - US Navy Flying Ace, 14 victories
  77. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Sacramento
  78. 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
  79. WWII/ETO: 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Remagen (wounded by shrapnell while running across bridge)
  80. Military
  81. WWII: CBI. Battle of Hong Kong veteran. POW until the end of the war
  82. WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
  83. UK WWII Army vet, born 1925. Reached Normandy weeks after D-Day, unit surrounded by German forces, taken POW for 10 months. Forced labor in a Polish coal mine, then marched for weeks until US Army arrived to free them
  84. Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
  85. WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, US Marines Corps
  86. National Security Agency Director (1999-2005); CIA Director (2006-2009) retired United States Air Force four - star general
  87. WWII WASP -womens army service pilot, Flew the pt-17, at-6, bt-13, uc-78
  88. Bill Hayes  (4)
    WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
  89. WWII veteran, last known survivor of the Coast Guard's USS Taney, which responded to the attack on Pearl Harbor, though the Taney itself was stationed near Honolulu when the attack began
  90. 19th President of the United States. Served from 1877-1881. He was a General in the Civil War and was wounded five times
  91. WWII US Fighter Pilot
  92. WWII: 159th Port Company. Served as a cook in Port Moresby, Australia, before a reassignment to New Hebrides. As of July 2019, Haymon is the second oldest WWII veteran in America, having been born 8 November 1909
  93. Captain and Iwo Jima Vet -USMC
  94. US Marines, WWII/Chinese Civil War/Korea/Vietnam, born 1930. Enlisting in 1945, he was sent to China to help return Japanese soldiers at wars end, and then to Okinawa to rid remaining (and still fighting) Japanese there
  95. Survivor, sinking of USS Indianapolis. Rank of Captain. Was chief medical officer of the ship
  96. WWII: US Navy. Survived the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay which was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tarawa (November 1943)
  97. B. February 16, 1920 was the first woman in the U.S. Military to be promoted to a general officer rank. She was promoted on June 11, 1970, after being appointed by President Richard Nixon on May 15, of that year.
  98. US Navy, Vietnam era, born 1947. Met Navy vet husband while working at a stateside shipyard, soon married. Pregnant, successfully fought against then-mandatory immediate dismissal for any pregnant vet. Worked until birth was close
  99. navy admiral
  100. Vietnam era US Navy vet (1965-71), born 1948. Served on the USS North Hampton, working on global communication innovations and improvements during the Vietnam War. Palmyra, NY town historian with his Navy vet wife
  101. WWII: PTO. Battle of Saipan. US Navy
  102. WW2 RAF pilot (RNZAF) fighter ace 5 victories battle of britain deceased
  103. Admiral, United States Navy, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations 1978 - 1982
  104. WWII: Battle of the Bulge. Bronze Star
  105. WWII Veteran, Africa & Italy, including the Battle of Monte Cassino
  106. British ace from WW2, 5 victories
  107. (Born 1945) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Served on the USS Rangell as a signalman
  108. POW Camp: Stalag Luft 4-- Stalag Luft 1 Prisoner
  109. Navy Admiral
  110. Former Nazi Hitler Youth Commander
  111. (Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. 1st Calvary Division. Recipient of the Bronze Star
  112. WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24, 1944
  113. WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
  114. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia (BB-48); one of two men who survived the direct hit of a Japanese bomb on Turret No. 3; lived through 13 sea battles in World War II; saw combat in the Korean War
  115. WWII - D-Day. 29th Infantry Division, 3rd Battalion, 115th Regiment, Company I
  116. WWII - flight engineer and top turret gunner, "Flying Tigers", 22nd Bombardment Squadron
  117. WWII - Codebreaker; cracked Russian and German codes; does not speak or read any other language than English
  118. WWII: Arctic convoy veteran on the merchant tanker 'British Promise', carrying highly explosive airplane fuel during three convoys
  119. WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, Original Band of Brothers; co-author of 'Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends'
  120. Retired General
  121. Battle Zone Combat Rescue Pilot that fought for women's rights to fight in combat/Running for Senator for Texas
  122. (Born 1946) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. While serving aboard the USS Canberra, Hegdahl was blown overboard off the deck of the ship in the Gulf of Tonkin and was taken as a Prisoner of War by the North Vietnamese. POW from 1967 to 1969
  123. US Marine, 2 Vietnam tours of duty. Stationed on the USS Hornet in 1969 during it's Apollo 11 recovery, served as a guard of the crew and later, the command module. Held a rifle at attention as Nixon welcomed the quarantined crew back
  124. Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
  125. WWII: 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Broup; Herbert Heilbrun piloted a B-17 Flying Fortress and was escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen. 32 missions including Linz, Austria, and Brux, Czechoslovakia, After the war test pilot at Wright Field, Dayton Ohio
  126. Born 1940 US Navy Vietnam War Veteran. Was a became a POW in 1966. Bronze Star, 3 Leigon of Merit?s, Purple Heart, and a Silver Stat recipient
  127. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Army Air Corps, 31st Bomb Squadron, Hickam Field. Then B-17 pilot Europe. 78 fighter-unsupported missions over Italy, Austria, Hungary, Germany (Leader for the 2nd Bombd Group, 20th Squ). DFC, Purple Heart
  128. WWII: Belgian-born Air Gunner on Blenheim with 235 Sqn Coastal Command during the Battle of Britain
  129. USMC General
  130. Retired General
  131. WWII German Luftwaffe PILOT BRIGADIER GENERAL(1913-1992) He won the Knight's Cross & He was Commodore of IV./ KG 51 & 30
  132. US Marine Corps WW2 Veteran. Was at the invasion of Saipan and the battle of Iwo Jima. Got the Bronze Star for his actions at Saipan
  133. army general
  134. World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, 82nd Airborne Division
  135. (Born 1948) US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1968 to 1973. Recipient of a Bronze Star and 2 Purple Hearts
  136. USS Indianapolis Survivor
  137. WWII: Battle of the Atlantic. He survived the sinking of the USS Block Island (CVE-21) that was the only US aircraft carrier sunk by Nazi Germany on 29 May 1944 by U-549 by 3 torpedo hits
  138. Wwii:wasp
  139. Super Bowl Sunday 1969 he hijacked United Airlines flight to Havana. A former Green Beret, his mission to get Fidel Castro. Reds boarded a 727 from Miami forced pilot to fly to Cuba. He had the pilot send a message, 'Tell Fidel, El Rojo is coming.'
  140. WWII: PTO. USS McFarland, USS Bradford. He was aboard the USS McFarland on the night of Dec. 6, 1941. On the night watch, he reported a flare no one could identify (now thought to be from a Japanese mini-sub assisting the Pearl attack)
  141. WWII: ETO. Arctic Convoy veteran, serving on the HMS Kent
  142. Ret. Lt. General of the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. STS-54 (1993) ,STS-64 (1994) , STS-78(1996) ,STS-101 (2001) - ExpediciÃ-³n 2 (2001)
  143. WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. He is now the last verified surviving aircrew of the Battle of Britain. He lives in a retirement home near Dublin, born 17-07-1919
  144. Former Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada from 2001 to 2004
  145. Tuskegee Airmen
  146. WWII US Navy WAVE veteran, born 1921. Joined the Navy after her husband became a Flying Tiger in the war. Did clerical duties in DC through the war
  147. WWII: CBI. Lt. Col. bombardier on the bomber that destroyed the famous 'Bridge on the River Kwai'
  148. Retired U.S. Navy - former Commanding Officer of the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and the USS Juneau (LPD-10)
  149. WWII: USS Helena
  150. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma
  151. US WWII Montford Marine, born 1925. Tour of duty through Philippines, Saipan, Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
  152. WWII: PTO. SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber Pilot. USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)
  153. Retired USMC General
  154. Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
  155. army general
  156. army general
  157. Last survivor of the sinking of HM Submarine Truculent that sank in the Thames Estuary, with 64 men dead and only 15 survivors, in January 1950. Born: 1925. He lives in Chatham, Kent, UK
  158. WW2/79th Regiment, demolition squad, His company had 3 platoons that were involved with communications, ammunitions and engineering/Henley's regiment was headed to capture the seaport town of Cherbourg France when D-Day invasion had begun
  159. German ww2 veteran and pow and author
  160. WW2 Fighter Pilot (B: 1922) in the United Kingdom Air Force from 1941 to 1945 and at age 100 ran 100 miles to support young men and women in service
  161. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Ford Island
  162. WWiI: Battle of Attu veteran
  163. WWII: Merchant Marine
  164. Pierre Henry  (2)
    Tuskegee Airmen
  165. Pearl Harbor survivor, born 1920. Served in the Navy on the USS Helena from 1939 to 1942. Became a Fire Chief Control Technician after the war
  166. WWII vet - served as part of a black/African American unit that didn't fight combat in battle of Iwo Jima but still saw the raising of the flag. Survived COVID-19 at the age of 100
  167. Black WWII US Army vet (1923-2020), spent decades fighting his biased 'blue discharge' release. Finally upgraded to an honorable discharge in 2019. Died of COVID-19 in 2020
  168. USS Indianapolis Survivor
  169. Finish WWII Veteran
  170. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Antares
  171. American WWI balloonist, Craig Herbert of the 2nd Balloon Company
  172. WWII: Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge
  173. medal of honor army vietnam
  174. 9th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON 9), from 1998-2002
  175. WWII: Germany, Wehrmacht, Knights Cross
  176. Retired Navy Admiral
  177. medal of honor army korean war
  178. Doolittle's Raiders crew #8 Navigator/Bombadier/Nose Gunner
  179. WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Later Submarine Service (USS Finback, USS S-27, USS Picuda, USS Amberjack). He was onboard S-27 when it grounded and sunk off Amchitka
  180. World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Army 348th Engineer Combat Battalion
  181. WWII: PTO. Navy, USS Santee
  182. Vietnam War correspondent
  183. Lz xray 1965
  184. 11 year old witness to the 1945 Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion. Helping his dad work on the car, he saw the mushroom cloud in the distance. Survived cancer, but lost many family and friends in the area downwind of the test site
  185. medal of honor army ww11
  186. air force general businessman
  187. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Detroit (CL-8)
  188. WWII: PTO. Navy, USS Ancon. Witness to the surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945
  189. United States Naval Reserve officer and a recipient of America's highest military decorationâ-'the Medal of Honor-'for his actions in World War II
  190. Col, U.S. Army (Ret.) is an author and retired counterintelligence officer with extensive interrogation experience in three wars (Vietnam, Operation JUST CAUSE, and Operation DESERT STORM/Fall of Saigon evacuee
  191. WW2 Luftwaffe Ace. 'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'German'
  192. WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Pennsylvania
  193. WWII: 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, 8th AF ('Bloody Hundredth'). Homebase: Thorpe Abbots, UK. Tail gunner on 'Heaven Sent,' a B-17 Flying Fortress (43-38414); flew 33 missions including Merseburg and Hamburg
  194. USS Indianapolis survivor from De Leon Springs, Florida
  195. Army General
  196. Retired Army General, author, speaker, CNN Analyst
  197. Romanian WWII Veteran
  198. One of the Original Rosie The Riveters
  199. Former WWII German General
  200. U.S. Army National Guard soldier, Recipient of the Silver Star
  201. air force general
  202. Vietnam Veteran. Was in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970
  203. One of six remaining survivors from the U.S.S. Arizona as a result of the Pearl Harbor attack. He is supposed to live in Las Vegas
  204. WWII Veteran, his Army Air Corps unit provided air cover for Army General George S. Patton. Hetzel was a part of five major battles in the war in Europe with the Battle of the Bulge being his last
  205. The last survivor of the Bismarck, WWII, former German Navy soldier, resides in Essen-Steele/Germany
  206. Former British Royal Air Force commander
  207. Military
  208. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pelias. Went on to serve in both the Atlantic and Pacific campaigns, including seven successful round-trip escorts aboard the USS Hissem and the USS O?Reilly to Europe and North Africa
  209. WWII: ETO. 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group. 4 victories. Silver Star, 4 DFC's, 13 Air Medals
  210. Son of Nazi Leader from WWII
  211. WW2/Korea/Vietnam Veteran Pilot
  212. 'Red Devil' paratrooper Major Tony Hibbert -WWII
  213. US Marine Corps Sniper Vietnam Veteran. In 1966 he was wounded (and later got the Purple Heart) by mortar fire by the VietCong (Born 1945)
  214. air force general
  215. Tuskegee Airman born August 6, 1925
  216. Former baseball player for the 1956 Detroit Tigers. Also was a member of the US Armed Air Force
  217. Vietnam War: US employee who helped evacuate Vietnamese people who had worked for the USA in the last days of the war
  218. WWII US Army veteran, born 1917. Went through Africa, Italy, and in France worked with the French Resistance. Helped in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp
  219. Current United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
  220. Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 9 kills
  221. WWII: PTO. Luzon, Northern Solomons, New Guinea. Bronze Star, Purple Heart. 43rd ?Winged Victory? Division, 169th Infantry Regiment
  222. WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Whitney
  223. WWII: PTO. Served in the USS Bennington (Iwo Jima, Okinawa)
  224. WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Military Intelligence Service, 96th Division. Grew up on Okinawa and used his Okinawa dialect to convince local non-combatants hiding inside to surrender peacefully and without harm during the battle
  225. American conservative political activist, author, and former U.S. Navy SEAL. Regular commentator on Fox News, CNN, and Newsmax. Best known for promoting the birther conspiracy theory about Barack Obama
  226. Tuskegee Airmen 'LA Chapter'
  227. Retired USMC General
  228. Tuskegee Airmen 'LA Chapter' B-25 Pilot with 477th Medium Bomber Group!
  229. WWII: MTO/ETO. Landed in North Africa, Sicily and southern France. 431st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, 44th Anti-Aircraft Brigade
  230. Navy Captain; Part of the Blue Angels
  231. Pearl Harbor survivor at the Naval Air Station on Ford Island. Born in 1921 in Oklahoma, he also survived the dust bowl of the 1930s
  232. WWII: PTO. USS Washington
  233. British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
  234. US Politician, Georgia (1823-82) Confederate Gov. of Georgia 1862-65, US House 1875-77, US Senate 1877-82. Named 'The Peerless Orator.' Close friend to Jefferson Davis who spoke at Hill's Statue dedication in Atlanta after his death
  235. Bill Hill  (2)
    WWII Pearl Harbor survivor, Schofield Barracks
  236. Billy Hill  (2)
    Member of 'The Essex', a R&B group, the only active duty military personnel to record a number one hit while on active duty ('Easier Said Than Done', 9 July 1963)
  237. Clint Hill  (2)
    Born: 1932. Ex Secret Service Agent in President Kennedy's motorcade during the assassination. Hill is the last surviving passenger of the presidential limousine which arrived at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963
  238. Fighter ace- Flying Tigers
  239. WW2, and was stationed in Normandy, France
  240. (born 12 December 1915) is a retired British Royal Air Force officer. From 1966 to 1969, she served as Director of the Women's Royal Air Force
  241. WW2 air ace - 8 Kills - USAAF
  242. WW2 - US Navy Fighter Ace, VF-5 - 7 Kills
  243. Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
  244. army general
  245. WWII: Merchant Marine. Murmansk Run, Pacific, Mediterranean, White Sea, Africa, Middle East
  246. WWII - WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)
  247. British fighter ace from WW2
  248. Tuskegee Airmen
  249. navy admiral
  250. Royal millitary
  251. British U-Boat hunter of the costal command in WW2
  252. Former Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces, 2005 to 2008
  253. WW2 - Fighter Ace - USAAF - 365-FG - POW - 5 Kills
  254. Navy fighter ace ww2
  255. The only known British survivor of the International Brigades who fought with left-wing forces against General Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. He now lives in Australia
  256. WW2 Veteran:1923rd Quartermaster Truck Company/After D - Day invasion 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division/Served D - Day, Normandy, Belgium, Germany & Rhine River
  257. German WWII Veteran, Battle of Stalingrad
  258. 'Patton Trooper member for mechanized calvary company WW2'
  259. air force marshal england
  260. WWII Veteran
  261. WWII: ETO. 70th Infantry Division, C Company, 276th Regiment. Battle of the Bulge
  262. WWII/JFK - Iwo Jima survivor; also fought at Choiseul Island Raid (1943), serving directly under Charles Krulak, later Marine Corps commander), Land Battle of Vella Lavella (1943). During the Raid on Choiseu, he met John F. Kennedy
  263. New Zealand Military - awarded the Victoria Cross at Kalamai, Greece, on 28th/29th April 1941
  264. WWII combat veteran who served as a Quartermaster aboard the USS Blessman DE69/APD48 crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans numerous times. He participated in the landings at Normandy, Lingayen Gulf and Iwo Jima
  265. WWII - US Marines, Iwo Jima 1945. Purple Heart. Was hit by shrapnel as he stepped off the Higgins Boat onto Iwo, got his wounds patched by corpsman John Bradley, one of the famous flag-raisers. Hipps guarded both flag-raisings
  266. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
  267. Japanese WWII Veteran, retired Japanese Naval Commander, CEO - Task Force Japan L.L.C
  268. Japanese WWII Veteran, Kamikaze Pilot, born 1928
  269. Dutch WWII veteran. Last surving member of the No. 320 Netherlands Squadron RAF
  270. WWII Veteran, Who Was A Front-Line Bomber Against The Nazis, Royal Canadian Air Force
  271. Co-pilot of the 16th B-25 in the Doolittle Raid in WWII, spent three years as a POW. Born: 03/03/1920
  272. Retired General
  273. Politician
  274. WWII: PTO 132nd Infantry Regiment, 23rd Infantry Division. Battle of Guadalcanal, Bronze Star
  275. WWII: D-Day veteran from Norway
  276. WWII: ETO. 445th Bomb Group (Jimym Stewart's group), 701st and 703rd Bomb Squadrons
  277. Singaporean WWII vet, born 1920. Last surviving Singaporean pilot of the Flying Tigers. Served in the Chinese American Composite Wing, assigned to the 14th US Air Force. 18 B-25 missions. Career as Captain with Malaysia-Singapore Airlines
  278. former Marine Corps General
  279. Mercenary leader of 'The Wild Geese,' known for military battles in Africa and the Indian Ocean, full name is Thomas Michael Hoare
  280. air force general
  281. WWII - D-Day Omaha Beach. Co A, 115th Inf., 29th Div
  282. Dutch WWII veteran. Was in Dutch East Indies and Indonesian Revolution
  283. WWII: Pearl Harbor Survivor, 7 December 1941
  284. Jerry T. Hodges Jr was born on June 29, 1925 in Tennessee. He became one of many Tuskegee Airmen. He went into WW2 from 1944 to 1945 and became a businessman after the war
  285. Supercentenarian (1888-2003), one of the last black US WWI veterans. Served as a stevedore in France and knew Gen. Pershing
  286. WWII - Contemporary witness "Operation Elster", a Nazi German mission to gather intelligence on and sabotage the Manhattan Project. Nazi agents landed in Maine on Nov. 30, 1944. Herbert's brother's vigilance led to their fast arrest
  287. He is a WWII veteran and currently resides in Ontario,
  288. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks/Wheeler Field
  289. Retired Navy Admiral
  290. WWII: Battle of the Atlantic. He survived the sinking of the USS Block Island (CVE-21), the only US aircraft carrier sunk by Nazi Germany on 29 May 1944. Served on the next USS Block Island (CVE-106) until the end of the war
  291. WWII: PTO. Serving as Quarter Master during WWII on the USS Alabama, he steered the battleship through 8 major battles and a typhoon
  292. US Realtor/Businessman, born 1943. Ambassador to Portugal (2005-2007), Republican operative. Met Eisenhower in the Oval Office while a military cadet in 1953
  293. (Born 1941) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1971 to 1973. Recipient of Defense Superior Service Medal, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, and 3 Purple Hearts
  294. Air Force General
  295. German ww2 pilot
  296. navy admiral
  297. WWII: PTO. USS Navy. USS Bailey. Battle of the Komandorski Islands
  298. Four-star general in the US Army who currently serves as chief of the National Guard Bureau
  299. WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Combat medic, Company C, 312th Medical Bn, 87th Infantry Division
  300. D-Day landings veteran. He lives in the UK. Also a Fleet Air Arm Veteran
  301. WWII: D-Day, USS Arkansas
  302. Robert Holden  (2)
    WWII: Served on the submarine USS Finback in the Pacific
  303. navy admiral
  304. WWII Pearl Harbor survivor (PBY - Squadron VP23/ Ford Island), Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal, later B-24 flight engineer for anti - submarine patrols off the coast of France. Born December 13, 1921
  305. devil dog defender (wake island) marines ww11
  306. WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal, the Northern Solomon Islands and Luzon. 35th Infantry
  307. Tuskegee Airmen
  308. WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining. He served duties on the island of Roi Namur, Kwajalien, Tinian, Saipan and Iwo Jima
  309. former Air Force General
  310. WWII: Captain of the 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group (England-based)
  311. Centenarian (1899-2004). US Army WWI veteran in France. Cannoneer on the Western front, later in the war rode a Harley motorcycle as a dispatcher
  312. WWII: CBI. Member of the Merrill?s Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit. Bronze Star
  313. Centenarian (1898-2004). One of the last living Canadian WWI vets and the last Canadian to see combat in WWI
  314. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Phoenix
  315. 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
  316. WWII German officer
  317. Retired Army General
  318. British Journalist WW2 reported on the outbreak of WWII. Lives in Hong Kong. Born: 10/10/1911
  319. WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, 6th Defense Battalion. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Mr. Hollis was assigned to Midway Islands in 1942 to defend the atoll. Born Nov 4 1924
  320. WWII - Witness to the Japanese bombardment of coastal targets near Santa Barbara, CA on February 23, 1942, an event that was the inspiration for the John Belushi movie "1941"
  321. American WWII-Pilot, P-51, First black helicopter pilot in the U.S. Air Force
  322. WWII - West Point graduate, a World War II fighter ace, and the commander-in-chief of the Strategic Air Command (SAC)
  323. Former Chief of Navy Operations (1974-1978)& commander of 1st nuclear sub
  324. WWII: Tuskegee Airman
  325. air force general
  326. WWII: 11th Armored Division, 1943-1946. Advanced through Germany and overran both Mathausen and Gusen. A Finnish immigrant, Holma was preparing to leave for D-Day but was pulled off the loading ramp to avoid fighting his birth country
  327. One of the lead pilots on the Yamamoto Mission in WW2. Lives in the SF Bay Area.
  328. WWII - Pacific Theatre; last survivor of the sinking of the USS Juneau (sank at Battle of Guadalcanal)
  329. WWII airman, served in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, helping with various covert operations and missions in Europe
  330. WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
  331. George 'Sonny' Holt has flown in B-25s, RB-57s, RB-66s, B-47s, and the B-58
  332. Early experimental research test pilot for the X-1 aircraft and other aircraft. In 1952, Holtoner became the commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base
  333. Tuskegee Airmen, WWII
  334. Australian WWII veteran
  335. WWII and Korea, 101st Airborne, C Company, 506th P.I.R. - POW during WWII
  336. 101 Squadron Lancaster pilot and veteran of 32 operations, WWII pilot
  337. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Block Recreation Center, Oahu
  338. Lt. Gen. Commander Of 1st U.S. Army, Spearheaded Aid In New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina Clean-up
  339. USAF General
  340. (Born 1946) US Army Vietnam Veteran. 220th Aviation Company in South Vietnam from September 1968 to March 1969, when he was wounded in combat. Silver Star Recipient
  341. Doolittle Raider, Pilot Crew #2
  342. 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
  343. Retired USMC General
  344. 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
  345. WWII: Battle of Midway pilot
  346. air force general
  347. 'Tuskegee Airmen' '99th Fighter Squadron' 'Class of 44-J'!
  348. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, 24th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks. Later later fought in the jungles of New Guinea
  349. WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. US Navy, LST-940
  350. Vietnam War Veteran:Air Force
  351. WWII: MTO. Battle of Salerno, Battle of Monte Cassino. 36th Infantry Division
  352. WWII: CBI. Assiniboine code talker 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
  353. air force general
  354. WWII: D-Day. 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He is the paratrooper on the famous Life cover dated August 14, 1944
  355. Air Force General, Co-Author with Tom Clancy
  356. Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
  357. Wwii: wasp
  358. Former member of the SAS involved in the 1980 Iranian Embassy Siege
  359. WWII: Navy. Served in 5 ships, survived being torpedoed while on the USS Benham and survived the sinking of the USS Helena in the Battle of Kula Gulf
  360. Steve Horton  (3)
    Military Air Force Thunderbirds, 52nd Fighter Wing Vice Commander (Spangdahlem Air Force Base in Germany)
  361. New Zealand RAF pilot in WWII
  362. doolittles raiders crew #10 gunner
  363. USS Indianapolis Survivor
  364. Air force general. Top graduate of the first Air Force Academy graduating class in 1959. Also the first USAFA graduate to come back as superintendent
  365. WWII: Marine Corps chaplain in the Pacific
  366. Nazi general
  367. WWII: US NAvy Ace who led the attack at the Yamato (the largest battleship ever built) on April 7, 1945, that eventually sank her
  368. 41st Judge Advocate General of The U.S. Navy
  369. Retired Royal military, current member of The House Of Lords
  370. British Army officer who was Commading General Officer in Northern Ireland during the 'Troubles'
  371. Retired Navy Admiral
  372. WWII: PTO. Nurse on the hospital ship USS Comfort which was hit by a Kamikaze
  373. WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
  374. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant when he led an eighteen-man reconnaissance patrol in a fierce battle against a battalion of Viet Cong in June 1966. As a result of his heroic actions, Howard became the sixth U.S. Marine to be awarded the Nation?s highest
  375. First four-star female Navy Admiral
  376. Medal of Honor 'US Army Vietnam'
  377. Former Football player. Played 4 seasons for the New York Yankees, and Cleveland Browns as a running back. Also is a World War 2 veteran
  378. retired Navy admiral/deputy assistant of National Security Affairs under President George Bush Sr., PhD, NATO commander, author
  379. WWII Veteran
  380. Retired General
  381. WWII: PTO. USMC 1943-1945. Battle of Peleliu. After the war, friend to actors like Roy Rogers, Michael Landon, Charles Ingalls, Jonathan Smith or George Lindsey
  382. WW II Sailor; office/survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
  383. WWII: CBI. Member of the Merrill's Marauders, aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long-range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
  384. WWII served as commanders of 2nd Battalion/13th Armor Regiment (1943)/13th Armor Regiment (1943?44); 1st Armored Division, Italy (44?45)/ Bri. Gen. in 1952 Assistant Commanding Gen., 2nd Armored Div., European Command, until 1954
  385. WWII American Merchant Marine Veteran World War 2
  386. Ukrainian Soldier, 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine. On the first day of the invasion, Snake Island was attacked. After a Russian Warship demanded that he surrender, he famously responded 'Russian Warship, Go F*** yourself. Taken POW
  387. WWII: Served with the 101st Medical Regiment attached to 52nd Field Hospital at Guadalcanal
  388. ETO: 302nd Signal Operation Battalion
  389. WWII: CBI. Member of 475th Infantry Regiment of the MARS Task Force. His job was to block the Burma road so the Japanese could not use it
  390. WWII: D-Day. Landed with LST-510 on Omaha Beach around noon of June 6, 1944. 90-millimeter artillery gunner of Battery B of the 110th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion. The 110th AAA would be credited as the first US unit to enter Paris
  391. WWII - Navajo Code Talker
  392. Author, Died on the RMS Lusitania
  393. WWII: CBI. US Army Air Corps, 10th AF. Radar operator and technician for the fighter planes P-40 and P-47
  394. Retired USMC General
  395. CAPT - USMC, US NAVY Blue Angels C-130 'Fat Albert' Pilot
  396. WWII: Hudgins joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos after writing a letter to Dorothy McKibbin as a chemist and metallurgist with the Special Engineer Detachment. He was born in 1924
  397. Korea, Vietnam: Captain Hudner received the Medal of Honor for his actions in trying to save the life of his wingman, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War, by intentionally crash-landing his plane
  398. WWII, flew Lancaster bomber
  399. John Hudson  (2)
    USAF General
  400. WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, Bronze Star, Purple Heart
  401. WWII - D-Day, Paratrooper of 507th PIR who, due to being dropped quite away from his dropzone, ended up fighting together with the famous Easy Company (Band of Brothers)
  402. WWII. ETO. D-Day, Omaha Beach. 5th Rangers Battalion
  403. WWII: PTO. USS Hancock, b. 1928
  404. WWII: 486th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Belonged to the crew of B-24 Liberator 42-52508 'Libra', one of the 'Zodiac Bombers'
  405. WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
  406. United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decorationâ-'the Medal of Honorâ-'for his actions in World War II
  407. (Born 1935) US Marine Corps Aviator Vietnam Veteran. Flew UH-1E, VMO-6, VMO-1, OV-10, O-2B, and AH-1J throughout his service. Navy Cross Recipient
  408. Last survivor of the USS Panay Age 93
  409. WWII US Army, born 1921. Training as a nurse in 1944 when her husband shot down, killed in Europe. Went on to serve as a nurse in the Philippines thru the war's end
  410. WWII: ETO. 82nd Airborne Division, 505th PIR, 3rd Bn. Three combat jumps: Sicily, Salerno, and D-Day in Normandy. Battle of the Bulge
  411. Bill Hughes  (2)
    One of the last crew members and survivors from the sinking of RMS Lancastria in 1940 during WW2. He is now 93 and lives in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, UK
  412. John Hughes  (4)
    Pearl Harbor born 1921, was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received at the Battle of the Bulge
  413. Ken Hughes  (2)
    Watergate Expert and author of, Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate and Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War and the Casualties of Reelection
  414. USS Indianapolis Survivor
  415. US Army officer. Former Director of the (DIA) Defense Intelligence Agency (1996-1999)
  416. WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 78th Infantry Division
  417. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Utah, 7 December 1941. Also witnessed the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Gasconade and participated in the JFK investigation
  418. navy admiral
  419. British WWII Rear Admiral
  420. WWII - WASP (Women Army Service Pilot)
  421. WW2 fighter ace from South Africa
  422. JFK/LBJ - Presidential helicopter pilot from 1959 to 1967, Barney flew with Kennedy and later became a friend of LBJ; his wife, Libby, was curator at the LBJ National Park for 24 years. They maintained a close friendship with Lady Bird
  423. US Army Air Corps, WWII, born 1920. Colorblind, prevented from becoming an Army pilot. Given duties preparing planes for flight. Midnight shift readying planes for morning D-Day attack. Career as aircraft mechanic and pilot
  424. coast guard admiral
  425. WWII: Commander of the Combat Information Center of the USS Laffey ('The Ship That Would Not Die'). D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action)
  426. USS Ward - Pearl Harbor
  427. Major General, Army Reserves; Represented United States as a former International President of the Confederation Interallie des Officers de Reserve (COIR) (NATO Nations);awarded 1994 U.S. Secretary of Defense Medal for Distinguished Service
  428. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Ward
  429. WWII: PTO. 2nd Marine Division, 6th Regiment. Battle of Saipan, Battle of Tinian
  430. Retired USMC General
  431. WWII: ETO. Tank driver, 8th Armored Division. Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Rheinberg (March 1945, his was one of only 3 tanks of 18 tanks in the battalion that survived the battle). Also served briefly under the command of Gen. Patton
  432. Technical Advisor: Armageddon, The Rock, Con Air, Gone In 60 Seconds, Enemy Of The State, More. Supervising Military Advisor: Tears Of The Sun. Other Work: Owner/Operator of Global Studies Group Inc., Owner/Operator of International Security Solutio
  433. WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
  434. Fox News Military Analyst
  435. WWII: PTO. US Navy. USS McCord. Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Korea. Halsey's Typhoon
  436. Military
  437. WW 2 Army veteran. Male nurse in the hospital unit in Salisbury, England. Born in 1923
  438. D-Day WW2 veteran
  439. WWII veteran, gunner on a B-29 crew. 33 bombing missions over Japan, shot down a Zero Japanese plane. Part of the fly-over of B-29s at the Japanese Surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
  440. (Born 1947) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of a Silver Star, Bronze Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, and a Purple Heart
  441. WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
  442. US Army General
  443. air force general
  444. USS Indianapolis survivor
  445. U.S. Representative from Texas (2015-??)
  446. P-38 Lightning Ace during WWII-[9 victories] Member of the 82nd Fighter Group - USAAF
  447. Wii: pto. uss lcs(l)(3)63
  448. WWII: PTO/MTO. Navy. US Blatchford
  449. American centenarian, (1899-2003). One of the last US veterans of WWI, and one of the last surviving visitors to the 1904 St Louis World's Fair
  450. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor; Fort Shafter. Injured in the Battle of Guadalcanal
  451. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Arizona
  452. WW2 Veteran : Radio Operator/Gunner For The 490 Bomb Group
  453. Baron Hutchinson of Lullington (Born: 1915) British lawyer and WW2 veteran. He was the Labour candidate in the 1945 election and worked on the defense team in the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960. He is also the oldest living life peer
  454. WWII: Last living Monuments Woman, served starting in March 1946 in Japan, spent the war in Japan and was a witness to the bombing of Tokyo
  455. 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
  456. WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Nevada
  457. D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1925. He is now 89 and lives in Maidstone, Kent, UK
  458. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
  459. Pearl Harbor survivor/ USS Pennsylvania, was ferrying ammunition to an anti-aircraft gun aboard the USS Pennsylvania on Dec. 7, 1941, when a bomb hit. Born March 17, 1925
  460. WW 2 vet, one of first to enter the Buchenwald Death Camp as liberator/Dates of Service 1944-1946 Branch of Service Army Location of Service European Theater; Pacific Theater Highest Rank Private First Class
  461. North Korean spy agent and writer, responsible for the airlines bombing of Korean Air Flight 858, wrote a book named 'The Tears of My Soul'
  462. German ww2 pilot
  463. WW2 Iwo Jima Marine/Combat engineer, had the job of sneaking up and hurling satchels loaded with explosives into Japanese machine-gun nests and caves/Witness Iwo Jima flag raising
  464. WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC. Bronze Star
  465. MIS (Military Intelligence Service) in WWII, Korea; CIA in Vietnam (one of the last to leave Saigon.)
  466. Japanese WWII Veteran Served aboard the Yahagi in the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII
  467. P-38 and P-51 Ace during WWII-[7.5 victories] Member of the 1st and 20th Fighter Group
  468. navy admiral
  469. US WWII veteran and the last surviving airman rescued by the Dayak tribesmen in 'The Airmen and the Headhunters' story. Now lives in Friendswood, Texas with his wife Mary
  470. Japanese WWII Veteran
  471. WWII: PTO. Marine Corsair fighter pilot of the USS Bunker Hill
  472. WWII WAAC/WAC, female army veteran. Born 1919
  473. US AF pilot during the Berlin Air Lift 1948
  474. World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Navy, USS Arkansas
  475. WW2 Marine Iwo Jima L Company 3rd Battalion 4th Marine Division who joined in 1939 and retired in 1971 with the rank of colonel. He got the Silver and Bronze star, the Purple Heart, and Legion of Merit
  476. Royal millitary
  477. medal of honor army korean war
  478. WWII - PFC in the 90th Infantry Division in General Patton's army, known as 'Machine Gun Pete', who saw action in the liberation of Pilsen and western Czechoslovakia. A repeat special guest at the yearly Pilsen Liberation Festival.
  479. medal of honor navy, vietnam
  480. WWII: USS Houston survivor and former Death Railway POW
  481. Author - 'Yocona Puff Adder', received the Medal for Military Merit; National Defense Service Medal; Vietnam Service and Campaign medals; selection as Battalion Soldier of the Month in the 101st Airborne Division; and promotion to E-5 in only 18 months
  482. Military
  483. Japanese WWII Veteran. Aged 16 in 1945
  484. Laos freedom fighter vietnam- fought from 1962-1975-lives in minnesota somewhere
  485. Retired 4-Star General Born Nov. 7, 1927
  486. French military, chief of staff of the Armee de Terre
  487. USMC Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of VMF-211
  488. Former Army Sniper during the War on Terror. 75th Ranger Regiment. He was the very first African American sniper to serve in his Battalion. Author of Way Of The Reaper and the owner of HardShoot
  489. Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
  490. WWII: PTO. USS Enterprise (CV-6), USS Colhoun (DD-801). Battle of The Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, Doolittle Raid, Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa (survived the sinking by Kamikaze of the USS Colhoun)
  491. Retired U.S. Army Brigadier General (Born: 01/02/1917). Tank Battalion Commander in George S. Patton's Third Army. Recipient of the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Service Cross. Operation Overlord, Battle of the Bulge
  492. WWII: PTO. USS San Jacinto (CVL-30)
  493. WWII: ETO. D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, North Africa, Sicily, England, Germany, France. 70thTank Battalion Division
  494. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Entered the service in 1934, was transferred from Bataan to Pearl Harbor. Stationed at Fort Shafter during the attack, Iscovitz defended the island using a machine gun
  495. The first woman to command a U.S. Navy vessel (USS Opportune)
  496. WWII - Pfc Ison, 1st Marines, shown in one of the most iconic Marines and actually WWII photograph, dashing across 'Death Valley', May 10, 1945, during the Battle Of Okinawa. http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/dashes.jpg
  497. Official UK Government Censor through WWII. Monitored phone calls between Churchill and Roosevelt
  498. WWII: Battle of Britain RAF pilot
  499. Japanese WWII Veteran
  500. Japanese WWII Veteran. Served in the Imperial Japanese Navy