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Nobuaki 'Warren' Iwatake (born 1923) is an American citizen who was drafted by the Imperial Japanese Army to serve as a radio operator and communications intercepter. Served 35 years as a translator at the American embassy
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WWII: Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. He was fishing with his father in immediate vicinity of the USS Utah when the Japanese attacked
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Three-time war veteran Bob Izumi though reluctant to share his past, has a very storied history worth telling, a story of service that spans WWII, the Korean War and the Vietnam. Awarded the Congressional Gold Medal
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German ww2 pilot
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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US Army, statesman, politician (1767-1845). 7th US President (1829-37)
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Medal of honor marines ww2
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WWII: Iwo Jima, 5th Marines, F Company
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WWII: ETO. 92nd Infantry Division. 'Buffalo Soldier'
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge; Battle of Bastogne (he is one of the Battered Bastards). B Company, 326th Airborne Engineering Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles)
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medal of honor air force vietnam war
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran of the HMS Savage & HMS Cassandra, which was torpedoed on 11 Dec 1944 by U-boat U-365. 62 men died in the attack and she was towed, first by the frigate Bahamas, then by a Soviet Navy tugboat to Murmansk
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WWII Fighter Pilot, 56th Fighter Group, 'Zemke's Wolfpack'
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Mike Jackson (6)Retired Royal millitary
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US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. Served from 1966 to 1970
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Rose Jackson (2)
WWII Nurse with 5th Evacuation Hospital -
(Born 1982) US Army Iraq War Veteran. Distinguished Service Cross Recipient
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'Tuskegee Airmen' & fighter ace of ww2
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GBE, CB, (27 September 1899 - 24 April 1993), Military Assistant Secretary to Winston Churchill's war cabinet and later a distinguished broadcasting executive, serving as the Director-General of the BBC from 1952-1960
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Born in 1924. He served in both the European and Pacific theaters during World War II, earning a Purple Heart and Bronze Star
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Retired American Colonel and author of If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Radio Operator (Iwo Jima)Born:1924
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Danish WWII Veteran
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Co I, 330th Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division
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United States Marine who earned the United States' highest military honor ' the Medal of Honor -' for his heroic actions on Iwo Jima during World War II. 'Private First Class Jacobson destroyed a total of sixteen enemy positions and annihilated appro
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American WWII - Pilot, USAAC, Member of combat mission 'Yamamoto Mission' in October 1942
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US Army General
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Military
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS Reuben James on October 31, 1941. Last known survivor of the disaster
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WWII: Served with the Afrikakorps and ended the war as a Company Commander in the Stabskompanie. Now 92
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French World War One Veteran
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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US Navy vet, born 1943. Two tours of Vietnam. Navy Seal UDT recovery teams for Apollo 12 and Apollo 13
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. 508th PIR, H Company, 82nd Airborne. 4 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts and the French Legion of Merit
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air force general
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Former British RAF Pilot Officer, WW II, Suvivor of 'The Great Escape'
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WWII veteran. 641 Ordinance Company. Black soldier who was court martialed during the war for questioning his superior. After he was honorably discharged in 1947 he became a mathematician and worked in the aerospace industry
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The real Great Escape artist from WWII, not the actor
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WW2 veteran. Aviator
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Survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis;
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Military - awarded Victoria Cross re holding a bridgehead on 7/8th August 1944, in Normandy, France
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Tuskegee Airman Pilot
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Gunnery Sergeant U.S. Marine Corps. Retired, Was featured on Making Money
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US WWII/Korean War Navy, born 1927. Peleliu, Leyte Battles of WWii, Inchon in Korea. Witness to Operation Crossroads atomic tests in 1946
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WWII WAC Corporal, born 1922. Rare Chinese-American woman WWII. Stationed at a NY hospital caring for injured servicemen, sometimes taking them to B'way shows or dancing to cheer them up. Widow of Chinese-American Army Air Corp navigator
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Last surviving member of 1st Battalion, Gambia Regiment
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WWII: Chief of Pharmacy Service with the Flying Tigers, 14th U.S. Army Air Forces. 95th Stationary Field Hospital in Kunming, the capital of the Hunan Province
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma
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Retired Polish pilot, Colonel of the Polish Army and Cosmonaut Backup Cosmonaut of Miros?aw Hermaszewski
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Flying Tigers-propeller specialist
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WWII: Fighter Ace, 5.5 victories
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Retired General
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WW2 Veteran
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WWII - D-Day. Virginia National Guard's 111th Field Artillery Battalion, 29th Infantry Division; landed in the first wave at Omaha Beach
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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US N. Carolina Lawyer, Politician (1836-1915). Confederate Army, arm maimed at Dewey's Bluff Battle. Gov. of NC (1879-85), US Senate (1864-95)
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US Army Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1969 to 1970
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Hickam Field
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Pilot in World War I and as an operations officer in World War II as well as commanding Officer of the 446th Bomb Group at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth/Participated in drafting the original Civil Air regulations
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(Born 1932) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Curtiss (AV-4). Breakfasting when the attack began, Jeffers mounted a .50-caliber gun and fired throughout the attack; the USS Curtiss was hit by a bomb and a downed Japanese aircraft
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in bellingham,wa but not now?
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Fighter ace
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WWII: ETO. Rhineland, Huertgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge, Remagen Bridge, Germany. Army Air Corps
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US Army deserter, held in North Korea from 1965-2004
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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JFK - Born 1943; one of the two Navy corps man present at the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy at the Bethesda Navy Hospital
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WWII - Commander of the 510th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, flying P-47s. Called Jenkins' Jerry Junkers, it was part of the 405th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force. D-Day and beyond; Silver Star
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 251st C/A Artillery, Camp Malakole; later in the Battle of Bougainville
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Lz xray 1965 nam1/7 cav a cowas in anglletion,tx but not now?
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Witness of first hydrogen bomb test: 'Ivy Mike' (Operation Ivy, 10.4 megatonnes of TNT) - October 31, 1952 19:14:59
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(born 28 February 1917 in Hackney, London, England) was the founder of the company that produced the first Vox Guitar amplifier
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WWII: PTO. US Navy Flight Nurse in the Pacific
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
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WWII: D-Day. Helmsman on the USS Augusta during the D-Day invasion
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Danish WWII Veteran
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WWII Veteran from Colorado Springs, Colorado. News story done on him ABC 13 KRDC July 31st 2023
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WW2 at D-Day/Enlisting Army on 4/1/1943/Sergeant 626th Engineer Light Equip. Co., JOB moving, bulldozing or rebuilding anything & everything, from small pillboxes to entire towns/Meritorious Unit Award/ Philippine Liberation Service Ribbon
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weapons officer on the Enola Gay during the Hiroshima Mission
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Danish WWII Veteran
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Former Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Former Vice Chairman
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Military
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WWII Army Air Corps, 393rd Bomb Squad, 509th Composite Group, born 1925. Clerk in the Intelligence Office on Tinian during Hiroshima/Nagasaki missions, worked with Paul Tibbets Responsible for preparation of information required for bombing missions
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Member of the Flying Tigers (AVG) & Fighter Ace (10.5 Vict) WWII.
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC. Purple Heart
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WWII: P-51 Mustang fighter pilot in the 487th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, 8th Air Force
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Navy, LST 823
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Operation HalyardLargest rescue of downed airmen in WWIIThe Forgotten 500
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Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941; recovering aboard a hospital ship in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, already in the water aboard a small shuttle boat as the attack began, Johann rescued men from the oil-slicked and burning waters
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Wwii: wasp
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Retired U.S. Navy - former Commanding Officer of the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), the USS Denver (LPD-9), and the Dragonfires (VS-29)
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92 Year old nose gunner on a B-24 bomber during WW2 & POW. Now lives in Montville, NJ
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Army General
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Centenarian (1896-2001). US WWI veteran. Drove a hospital truck in France during his service, and contracted/survived the 1918 Flu epidemic
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black sheep squadron
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Andrew Johnson (5) 17th president of the United States
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Arthur Johnson (2) Military
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Top Gun Crew Chief/Tuskegee Airmen?/99th PS & 332nd
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WWII Veteran, Tuskegee Airmen
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Charles Johnson (3)USAF General
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US WWII vet, born 1922. Served in the OSS, disrupting supply chains by parachuting into enemy areas in France and Germany, then into China
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, aboard U.S.S. Maryland when the attack took place. Also fought in the Korean War
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Tuskegee Airmen, Bomber/Navigator!
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Bomb Aimer, 617 Squadron (Dambusters)
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WW1 Veteran. Awarded Distinguished Service Cross for actions in Flexville, France
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Fighter Pilot Ace during WWII.(18 victories)
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Retired Navy Admiral
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air force general
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Pearl Harbor survivor (7 Dec 1941), USS Oklahoma
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WWII: Combat Information Center, USS Killen, DD-593. Battle of Surigao Strait (25 October 1944). Johnson's job was to figure out the torpedo trajectory for the attack that eventually sank the Japanese battleship Yamashiro
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4 Star General
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Member of Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron
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Manhattan Project/Oak Ridge worker, born in 1925. Worked as a 'Calutron Girl' during WWII, unknowingly helping to produce Uranium for the Hiroshima bomb
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ww 11 air force hero england
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British ace from WW2
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Former Chief of Naval Operations
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navy admiral
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WW2 Flying Ace
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Jonathan Johnson (3)Member of rescue Ship USS Bassett to the aid of the USS Indianapolis Survivors
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'Hidden Figure' African-American physicist and mathematician who made contributions to the US aeronautics and space programs with early application of digital electronic computers at NASA
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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US Army Veteran
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WWII SPAR, a female veteran in the US Coast Guard. Born in 1914
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Civilian worker, POW. Bronze Star with 'V' (awarded in combat). Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Journalist and Vegas PR career, born 1933. Korean War vet, guarded MacArthur. Raced cars, friends with James Dean. Danced in 'Jailhouse Rock' title number with Elvis, who became a friend since they shared an interest in martial arts
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medal of honor army ww11
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941
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USAF Desert Storm War Hero.Flew A-10
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WWII US Fighter Pilot, 56th FG, Zemke's Wolfpack
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Tuskegee Airman WWII
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WW2 vet, born 1921, and the last surviving member of Richard Byrd'sThird Antarctic Expedition in 1939. Also returned with Byrd on his 1946 and 1947 expeditions
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Robert Johnson (5) 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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Author; 'gidi gidi boom boom'/S/Sgt. Turret Gunner 15th Air Force, 449th Bomb Group WW2/One of Ploesti raiders, shot down on a mission to Romania
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack). Read his story at http://leftfieldperspectives.blogspot.co.at/2006/11/meet-doc-johnson.html
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Arkansas Lawyer, Politician (1814-1879) US Rep. (1847-53), US Senator (1853-61). Strong Southern supporter, served as Arkansas' Confederate Senator during the Civil War
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USMC General
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Iraq War POW
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Tuskegee Airmen, b. 1924
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World War II veteran. Was a North American Aviation test pilot during the Apollo Program. After the Apollo 1 fire, Mr. Johnson was asked by his employer North American Aviation to enter another module and try to figure out what happened Born 18.4.1925
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WWII - First Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) to qualify as instructors on electrically-operated .50-calibre machine gun turrets
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Retired USMC General born 1937
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WWII: ETO. P-51 Mustang pilot. 336th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group. 4.5 victories
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'Easy Company' 'Member ofa Band of Brothers'
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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: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Headquarters Squadron, 11th Bombardment Group, Hickam Field
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WWII: On board the USS Emmons on 6 June 1944 during D-Day. He also survived the 5 kamikaze planes that flew into the plane on 6 April 1945
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WWII veteran, participated in D-Day (748th Tank Battalion). Also a participant in FDR's New Deal Programs, the CCC and the WPA
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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 - Tuskegee Air(wo)man
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World war 2 fighter ace
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Doolittle Raiders 'Pilot Crew #5'
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Apollo 11: Pilot of the helicopter (#66) that recovered Neil Armstrong after Apollo 11 returned successfully
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Doug Jones (9)WW2 veteran (born: 1919). He was one of the last soldiers to get off the beach at Dunkirk. He also witnessed the last eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1944. He lives in Bolton, UK and recently celebrated his 100th birthday
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British ace from WW2
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Tuskegee Airmen WW2 '99th FS'
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; NAS Kanoehe Bay. He is the man working on and bending over a rope in the famous photograph of December 7, 1941, with wreckage and burning planes all around, trying to save a PYB
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British Union Leader. Born: 03/29/1913
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USMC Commander James Logan Jones Jr (b: December 19, 1943) is a retired Marine 4 star general who served from 1967 to 2007
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Born 1919 WW2 US Army Veteran
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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Johnnie Jones (2) WWII D-Day Veteran, Civil Rights attorney, Louisiana State Legislator
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(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Hunted and sunk German U-boats. Purple Heart Recipient
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Rosie The Riveter - Built WWII Airplanes
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US WWII Navy Pilot, born 1922. Flew off the USS Guadalcanal. Flew Wildcat, Hellcat, Corsair, F-4 and Fury
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Royal millitary
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British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
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Robert Jones (8)D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1925. He is now 89 and lives in the UK. He was a former machine gunner with the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry. Also known as Robert
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WWII: PTO. 1st Marine Division. Saw action saw action in New Guinea, Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa, and the Ryukyu Islands. 2 Bronze Stars
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Survivor Korean Death March/29th Regimental Combat Team/Captured at Oneui on July 26, 1950, marched 40 miles south of the Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW for 3 months & was one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured men
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(October 23, 1916 - April 15, 1998) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general and a highly decorated veteran of three wars, receiving the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart. He was a battalion commander in World W
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WWII: 7th Infantry Division; fought in the battles of Attu Island, Kwajelein, Leyte and Okinawa
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, E Company, 19th Infantry 24th Division, Schofield Barracks
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WWII Royal Navy veteran who famously absconded from his UK nursing home to attend the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings (2014)
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army general
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Cuban exile of the 1960's (Born: 1936), anti-Castro, and Bay of Pigs Invasion participant who is co-founder and president of the Cuban American National Foundation. Age: 80
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The oldest living female World War II Veteran and a former Army Nurse. She nursed soldiers who had been wounded on Iwo Jima during the brutal and bloody battle to capture the island. She is now 109 and lives in Buffalo, New York, U.S.A
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WWII - Navy. Served on the USS Hornet (CV-8) from her first to her last day, supporting the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and surviving the sinking in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 27 October 1942
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coast guard admiral
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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World War II German veteran
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army general
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WWII: US Navy. Survived the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay which was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tarawa (November 1943)
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Also known as Al JuchheimP-47 Thunderbolt Ace of WWII, 9 victories83rd Squadron/78th Fighter Group
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WWII: PTO. Navy. Battles/Campaigns: Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Peleliu, Angaur, Leyte, Lingayen, Wake and Okinawa. USS Pennsylvania
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100 year old World War II Navy veteran
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air force general
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German Panzer Granadier WWII
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Vice Admiral, Royal Navy Officer
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WWII veteran of Buna, Letye, Luzon campaigns. Born 1919
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WWII: ETO. 776Th AAA AW Battalion
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Danish WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal Campaign, Battle of Peleliu
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WWII (Navy) - Pearl Harbor and Okinawa
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Highly respected parasitologist, veteran of the Polish Armia Krajowa during World War II, poet, fisherman, translator and scientific administrator
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President Congo (2001-present), Army General
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Flying Tigers-clerk
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WWII veteran, Iwo Jima
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8th Armored Division
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American Spanish Civil War Veteran (1914-2009)- in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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German WWII Awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients
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German ww2 pilot
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26-year Navy career in the Cold War, Master Bomb Disposal Technician; he helped disarm an errant U.S. nuclear bomb off the coast of Spain from a B-52 bomber that crashed there after a mid-air collision in 1966
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US Navy. Last Battleship Captain in History (USS Missouri)
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WWII: PTO. Quartermaster on the USS Missouri; he steered the Mighty Mo into Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender
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vietnam war air force hero
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Female Soviet sniper during WW2. At 17 years old, she was one of the youngest to ever fight in the war
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(born Argentina on 1 October 1925) former French Resistance, specializing in forgery of identity documents, who later went on to assist Jewish emigration to Israel and then to forge identity documents for the National Liberation Front
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WW2 Veteran, Private that belonged to the 1st Infantry Division 26th Infantry Regiment. Fought in Belgium in 1944
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Worden. Survived her capsizing in January of 1943
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Air Force General
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WWII: D-Day, C-47 pilot 100th TCS, 441st TCG; flew 82nd AB into Ste. Mere-Eglise on D-Day. Also in Operation Market Garden
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WW2 Navy Seaman/Guam
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WWII: PTO. 457th Field Artillery Battalion, 11th Airborne Division
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Doolittle Raiders: Navigator on the #11 aircraft
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Retired USMC General
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII Fighter Ace (7.5 Victs)
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Finnish ace in WW2, 32 victories
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WWII: Medic in Company B, 169th Infantry, 43rd Division, who was shot in the head by a Japanese sniper at New Georgia and barely survived
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Indian army generel (retired), served in the Indo-Pakistani-War in 1971
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German Child, WWI Survivor
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USS Pueblo
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Surviving POW of the Colditz camp, is living in Great Britain
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Officer US Army Reserve (RET.) Notable for having commanded forces that operated Abu Ghraib & other prisons in Iraq in 2003 & 2004, at time of scandal related to torture & prisoner abuse. Commanded 3 prisons in Iraq & forces that ran them
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WWII - Fighter ace, U.S. Army Air Corps. Flew P51s over North Africa and Italy. 6 victories
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(born in 1920 in Oran, Algeria), was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. He was a leader of the Algiers putsch of 1942
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WWII: Reserve kamikaze pilot for the Japanese military. Now 92 and reportedly living in Osaka, Japan
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Marine Sergeant Major, recipient of the Navy Cross (second battle of Fallujah) Author of the book 'My Men Are My Heroes'
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Korean War Ace (6 kills) - USAF - POW Viet Nam - Air Force Cross recipient three times (flew the f-105 thunderchief)
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Retired New York State Assemblyman, a retired judge of the New York State Courts at every level, and a World War II veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Tern
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Author '395 Days'/Vietnam 3rd Marines Division called 'E' Echo Company & 1st Battalion 9th Marines, Charlie Company 2nd Platoon
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Wrote the book Why is Dad So Mad? (now a series) to help kids understand the PTSD he suffers following serving in the armed forces
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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WWII: US Navy. Survied the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Morton Katz was born on May 15, 1919. He became a lawyer in 1951, after serving in World War II. He is still active in Connecticut
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Retired USN Vice Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941 (coastal artillery battery)
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Last living American officer at the Surrender of Japan on board the USS Missouri on 2 September 1945. Born:1919. He is now 99
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa
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Finnish WW2 veteran. An Estonian volunteer who participated in the Finnish Continuation War. Lived in Chicago
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WWII: US Navy. PTO, USS Reid & USS Lowndes
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US Navy Sailor, survivor of the Israeli attack on USS Liberty in 1967
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Polish WWII Veteran
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941. USS Cassin
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Canadian centenarian war veteran
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WWII Air Force Veteran from Arizona. Just turned 97, was covered on a GMA episode for carrying 100lbs of weights and vigorously working out to stay healthy
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army general
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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John Kearney (3) WWII: PTO. USMC, 12th Defense Battalion. Battle of Peleliu
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Commander US Northern Command
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WWII - U.S. Marine Corps. Fought at Roi-Namur, Kwajalein Atoll, Iwo Jima, Saipan and Tinian
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WWII: Pear Harbor survivor (USS Nevada), Battle of Coral Sea survivor (USS Lexington)
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WWII: Tuskegee Airman, Trained to be a bomber pilot for the 477th Bombardment Group, he never saw combat as the war ended before he was deployed. Trained in T-6. B-25
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Military
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US WWII Marine, born 1924. Served in the Battles of Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Worked under Werner von Braun in the 50s, absorbed into the newly formed NASA. Knew and worked with astronauts back to the original 7. Retired in 1985
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Retired General
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Member of the famous Flying Tigers Squadron during WWII.
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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: German pilot. Leader of the IV. NJG 101 (Night fighters), in 1945 transferred to Oskar-Heinrich Bär's Jagdverband 44 (JV 44) (Air fighter unit flying the Me-262 - the world's first fighter jet). One of the last Me-262 pilots alive
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Holocaust Survivor, MS St. Louis
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Australian soldier born 1983, was awarded the Victoria Cross for actions in the Afghanistan War, the highest award in the Australian honours system
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US WWII Army Air Corps, born 1921. Groundcrew for B-17s flying out of England
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WWII: PTO. US Fleet Marine on the USS Enterprise;
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US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1953 to 1979. Went to Vietnam in 1970
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US Army Officer Ret (LTC). Deputy Provost Marshal during Operation Just Cause, Panama
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Weathergirl vietnam armed forces radio 1967-69
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Spingham 1974, publisher,Russum award
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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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Pearl Harbor veteran, born 1922, served on the USS West Virginia
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Chief Petty Officer (CTTC) on USS Pueblo when it was captured by the North Koreans in 1968, POW for 11 months
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WWII veteran, Iwo Jima
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Among the six men who raised the flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, recently identified by Marines
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Vietnam war army hero 'Medal of Honor Recipient'
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Military author
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Tank driver in the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa
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lz xray 1965 nam
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(Born 1925) US Army WW2 Veteran. Company D, 1st Battalion, 315th Infantry Regiment. Became a POW until he escaped on foot 600 miles. Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, born 1918,. Onboard the USS West Virginia during teh attack
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(Born 1925) US Marine Corps WW2 Veteran. 22nd Marines, 6th Marine Division, Company C. Battle of Okinawa and Guam
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marine corps general
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medal of honor navy vietnam war
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Lz xray 1965
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Medal of Honor Recipient-USMC-(Mar.11th,1970) Vietnam War
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US Politician, Louisiana (1830-1918) Studied law in Illinois, friends with Lincoln. Given New Orleans position in meeting with Lincoln before he left for Ford's Theater. Early 'carpetbagger' but elected its Gov., Congressman and Senator
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WWII: Navajo Code Talker
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WW2 Veteran:1st Seabee to Storm Beaches of Guam
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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John F. Kelly (2)
Marine Corps General (retired), Secretary of Homeland Security for Donald Trump -
Margaret Kelly (2)Worked at Bletchley Park during WWII as a code breaker
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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: 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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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Marine Corps 1st Defense Battalion, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Major General John Kelsey was the Director of Military Survey from 1972 to 1977
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navy admiral
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WWII: PTO. USS Doherty ( DE 14) and USS Dyson (DD572)
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Royal millitary
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navy admiral
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US WWII Merchant Marine, born 1927. Atlantic convoy to Murmansk, Russia in 1944. Switched to the Army, hit Italy by war's end, but saw no combat there
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WWII - She made history on 3 March 1945 she became the first US Navy flight nurse to fly an evacuation mission to an active battlefield: Iwo Jima
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WWII - C-47 Squadron Commander who flew paratroopers into their dropzones. Operation Husky (Sicily 1943); D-Day Normandy; CO of the 44th Troop Carrier Squadron after D-day; for Market Garden, General Gavin selected Kendig to be his pilot for the jump
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WWII: ETO. 351st Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Tailgunner on B-17 'The Brass Hat'. Flew at the end of the war (December 1944 to April 1945, incl. Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dortmund)
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Argonne
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war hero, Victoria Cross receiver, now living in Australia
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(April 18, 1913, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - November 1, 2003, Austin, Texas) was an American composer, author, educator, and professor/World War II, when he served as a bandmaster for the United States Army
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air force general
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Victoria Cross Recipient
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u.s. army deputy chief of state
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1980 Damascus, Arkansas incident a missile equipped with a nuclear warhead exploded in Damascus, Arkansas, in 1980. The silo was part of the 374th Strategic Missile Sq./He entered launch complex that day for readings of fuel concentrations
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Kevin Kennedy (3)Commander Afc21scr
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Sacramento
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WWII: Royal Canadian Navy. Escorted Arctic Murmansk convoys. With HMS Naiad, he was in the evacuation of Greece, the Battle of Crete, in Malta convoys, eventually torpedoed on 11 March 1942. Later HMNZS Gambia (Battle of Okinawa, Tokyo Bay)
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WWII - D-Day Utah Beach (4th Infantry Division, Battery B, 44th Field Artillery Battalion); also survivor of 'Exercise Tiger', the D-Day dress rehearsal, April 28, 1945, that turned into disaster as being attacked by German forces
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British' Born: 09/01/1908
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Lawyer, Judge, South African WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. First Battalion, 147th Infantry
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WWII: D-Day. Ranger. Pointe du Hoc
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WWII Bataan Death March Survivor, (1920-2022) Enlisted in the US Army in 1938, taken POW after the Death March. Then served 21 years in the US Air Force after WWII
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American former soldier, police officer, consultant, 40th Commissioner of the New York Police Department, author and convicted felon for which he obtained the presidential pardon in 2020
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WWII: PTO. Bougainville, Iwo Jima. 27th Marines, 5th Marine Division
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army general
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WWII: Drafted into the German Wehrmacht late in 1944, he was bombed out of two homes, strafed by British fighter planes, shot at and shelled on the European battlefields and eventually held as a POW - all before his 18th birthday
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WWII: Hump Flyer
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Joseph Kernan (2)USN Admiral
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4-Star General Born Sept 22, 1942 and served from 1968 to 2002
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Former under Secretary of Air Force
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. Battle of The Bulge. 78th Infantry Division
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2001 Blue Angels pilot
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medal of honor navy vietnam
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Former U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1989-2001)
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WWII German Tank Ace 100+ Kills
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Hulbert
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Commander, US NAVY Blue Angels
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Former General in the National People's Army (NVA) and Minister of Defense of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)
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John Kessler (2) World War II veteran and purple heart recipient, fought on D-Day. Two bronze stars for valor, two purple hearts, 5 combat stars, presidential citation, the French croix du guerre, the Belgian croix du guerre
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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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To receive MOH/Led several helicopter trips to help evacuate wounded soldiers near Duc Pho & returned to LZ without additional aerial support to rescue stranded soldiers pinned down by enemy fire. Helped save the lives of 40 soldiers
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US Army WWII vet, born 1921. Member of the segregated 761st Tank Battalion under Patton, known as the Black Panthers
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air force general
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Soviet canoeist, Olympic champion. Siege of Leningrad survivor which he joined the Red Army after the battle
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army general
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Served 26 years as a U.S. Marine - was a drill sergeant in WWII at Montford Point, served with the 11th Marines in the Korean War, and survived being in the 1st Battalion 9th Marines - nicknamed 'The Walking Dead' during the Vietnam War
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WWII: Marine Corps. Guadalcanal Campaign
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Born 17 March 1913 was a highly decorated Major in the Luftwaffe during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves during World War II
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WWII: Battle of Midway (USS Yorktown)
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navy admiral
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Finnish WWII Veteran. Trained with the Panzerfaust, a German anti-tank weapon. He ambushed a Soviet Tank, which took a hit and caught fire. His story is featured in this article: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/in-a-haunting-video-finnish-veterans-recall
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navy admiral
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Australian author, strategist, and counterinsurgency expert who is currently the non-executive Chairman of Caerus Associates. 2005-2006: was Chief Strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the US State Department
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tennessee; also Battle of Saipan, Iwo Jima
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WWII: Guam, Iwo Jima
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1915-1967 Folklorist/professor at SMU Dallas. Kilpatrick interviewed Cherokee folk healers in 60s, collected manuscripts of traditional medicine. Books including Friends of Thunder 1964 Walk in Your Soul 1965 Run Toward the Nightland 1967
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Served in the Navy Radar Man in WWII, also served in the Korean War. USS Hornet (CV-12), USS President Hayes (APA-20), USS Laning (APD-55), USS Cronin (DEC-704)
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WWII - Capt Kimball was the Lead Navigator of the 100th Momb Group ('The Bloody 100th') of the 8th Air Force in Europe; receiving Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with Three Oak Clusters, the Croix de Guerre. Also served in Korea
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group
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Military
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WWII: Radio operator on a B-24 Liberator as part of the 455th Bombardment Group stationed in Italy and was part of 29 bombing missions to various sites in the European Theatre of WWII
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Veteran: WW2. Landed on D - Day+1. Normandy. Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: D-Day. UK veteran. Wireless operator in a Sherman tank; B Company, East Riding Yeomanry, 27 Armoured Division. Landed on Juno Beach on LST 3204. Saw combat in France (incl. Pegasus Bridge and Caen) and later Belgium, Holland, Germany
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, at Kaneohe Bay
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Military historian and author
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WW2 USAAF fighter pilot ace 7 victories 347/359 FG
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII: PTO. USS Tennessee
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen
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army general
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African American/WW2 6888 Central Postal Battalion in US Army, know as Six Triple Eight
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Newscaster KBOX radio 1963, went live on the air moments after assassination & fired for it/Witnessed Oswald's shooting. Later, he covered the Jack Ruby trial/WW2 POW Corregidor/Wrote 'Alamo of the Pacific'
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WW2 Canadian airman and one of the escapers from German PoW camp 'Stalag Luft III' in 1944, which inspired the Hollywood movie 'The Great Escape'. He is now 91
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Flew the Hump during WWII, Author
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WWII ship Reuben James survivor
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WWII: ETO. P-47/P-51 Fighter Pilot. 75 missions. 513th Fighter Squadron, 406th Fighter Group. POW (April 1945)
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P-51 Mustang Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of the 354 Fighter Group
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British pilot from WW2
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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4-Star General
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WW2: Not a D - Day Veteran; landed on Omaha Beach June 16, 1944. Normandy. Battle of the Bulge. Buchenwald. 45th Evacuation Hospital
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air force general
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101st airborne division, ww2also 1st cav at lz ray nam in 1965
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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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Veteran of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4-8 May 1942), served on the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 3 remaining (as of 2022)
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WWII: PTO. Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor. Was 16-year-old on Dec. 7, 1941
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Medal of Honor Vietnam
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Pearl Harbor Survivor
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WW2 Army Vet/Bronze Star/Member of Company K, 143 Infantry Regiment, 36th Division/Battle of Cassino, Blood River picked by Gen. Mark Clark/National Guard Texas/National Commander DAV/Injured arm in battle/finished out war in Texas
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Admiral
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WWII: PTO. Reconnaissance scout in the Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. Battles of Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima
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Ww2 fighter ace - 5 Kills - USAAF
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Wwii: eto. pow
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WWII: ETO. 66th Infantry Division. Survivor of the sinking of the troopship SS Leopoldville on Dec. 24. 1944. She was torpedoed and sunk by the U-486. 763 soldiers died, together with 56 of her crew
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WW2 POW who built a pinhole camera from cardboard scraps & used smuggled-in photo supplies to take photographs of fellow malnourished Marines/risked death from Japanese captors to build the camera, to document the horrors the POW's endured
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WWII - Nurse in the Battle of The Bulge; served with the 16th General Hospital
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Lz xray 1965 namwas in belle vernon,pa but not now?
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JFK - USAF Pipe Band; played at various events in the Kennedy presidency, including the visit of the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Sean Lemass in October 1963 (where Kirkpatrick met JFK) and the funeral of JFK
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Fighter ace 11 1/2 kills
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German WW2 veteran (Born: 1925) and last survivor of a little-known wartime prison camp on Merseyside, UK. Now 91 and lives in Huyton, Merseyside, UK
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS St. Louis
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D-Day Veteran, WWII
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Retired General
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British army officer who fought in Malaysia and the Falkland War, later was Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen from 1983 to 1985
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One of the pilots who took part in the mission to shoot down Admiral Yamamoto's airplane during WWII
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Set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest freefall and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere.
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. He was wounded by a RPG in a firefight losing his leg. He was saved by Dale Edge who he finally got to meet him again in 2021 after over 53 years since the incident
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US Marine Corps veteran who did 4 tours in Iraq and was deployed in Afghanistan once. Escorted General George Casey on board base
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WWII: ETO. Last survivor of B-24 bomber 'Arsenic & Lace' that was shot down on December 17, 1944, over Olomouc (now Czech Republic). He was taken POW until end of the war (Stalag Luft 1)
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Survivor of the wreck of the USS Indianapolis
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: 46th Field Artillery Battalion in Northern Ireland on June 6, 1944 (he was NOT a Ranger at Point-du-Hoc and NO D-Day veteran as he admitted in late 2017). Earned Bronze Star/Purple Heart; seriously wounded in combat near Moselle on 17 Nov 1944
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WWII: HQ Co, 3rd Bn, 501st PIR, 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles).. D - Day, Operation Market Garden. Battle of the Bulge
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German WWII Veteran, Waffen - SS
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(Born 1922) US Army WW2 Medic. 90th Infantry Medic. Was at the Battle of the Bulge, Utah Beach, Belgium, and Germany. Purple Heart and Bronze Star Recipient
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WWII: CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Dobbin. Barely survived being bombed, later helped to pull men from the USS Arizona a.o. ships out of the water. Transferred to USS Mugford in 1943
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 17th Airborne Division. Purple Heart
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Wake island pilot ww2 vmf-211
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Polish WW2 veteran
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Retired USMC General
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BM3, USN, USS Wasatch (AGC-9) Crewmember on General MacArthur's Command Ship
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Major, USAAF, 454th Sqdn, 323rd Bomb Group, 9th AF B-26 Bombardier, 65 Combat Missions, including the Normandy Invasion. Shot down twice in one week
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Centenarian (1896-2000). US WWI veteran, served in France
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Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
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WWII: Flew his F4U Corsair with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 in support of the Battle of Okinawa. During operations he flew into Marine Corps history when he used his propellor to chop off the tail of Japanese aircraft
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Pearl Harbor/WWII Researcher & Author (Not USS Ward Vet!): 'Pearl Harbor: Awakening A Sleeping Giant'
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Retired General
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US WWII vet, born 1916. Horse cavalry in 1934, called back for WWII in the 331st Infantry regiment in the 83rd division as a Master Sergeant. Landed in Normandy couple weeks after D-Day, fought through Europe. Rode a horse in FDR's 1937 Inaugural Parade
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Grebe
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Soviet WWII Veteran
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Soviet WWII Veteran, Liberator of Mariupol
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Kaneohe Bay
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Noted German ecologist, pacifist, civil servant, politician and a co-founder of the Green Party in Germany. Served in the Luftwaffe during WWII
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa (AR-1)
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German officer in WWII, made daily briefings in the Führerbunker with Hitler
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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WWII: PTO. 11th Airborne Division. Wounded Leyte, Philippine Islands. Purple Heart
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Doolittle Raiders Co-Pilot Crew #13
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JFK: Military Academy at West Point Cadet representative at a White House reception in early 1961
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World War II veteran
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WWII: PFC Knowles was in the troops that liberated Reims, France, and guarded SHAEF (the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force) where Dwight Eisenhower was located, and witnessed the end of the war there
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Lz xray 1965
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British WWII frogman
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army general
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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An American classicist, author, and critic born in England. He was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Spanish Civil War veteran
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Secretary of the Texas Air National Guard. At the center of the George Bush service controversy
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Tuskegee Airmen
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US Army Air Force WWII vet (1926-2021). B-29 Tail Gunner in the South Pacific. HIs plane escorted the Enola Gay, and he witnessed Hiroshima from about a mile away in the air. Days later, he had the same role, witnessing Nagaski's bombing
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(Born 1938) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 4 Legion of Merits, Distinguished Flying Cross, 4 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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marine corps general
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ww 11 army hero (cmh)
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 95th Infantry Division
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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USS WWII Merchant Marine, born 1928. Part of a Murmansk Run in Nov/Dec of 1944
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WWII. ETO: Battle of Normandy. On Aug. 11th, 1944, he was shot through the neck while engaged in heavy combat, then taken POW and eventually sent back in an soldiers exchange. Company F, 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Aylwin
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, 5th Marines, Tank Batallion
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WWII Kogawa was born in Masuda City, Shimane in 1923. During World War II, he was stationed in Malay as a platoon leader for the 3rd Division of the Imperial Japanese Army. He was in an internment camp in Thailand before returning to Japan
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, WWII Veteran
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(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam and Desert Storm Veteran. Went to Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Iraq and many other places during his 24 year long career
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The most injured airman in US history due to injuries fighting in Kuwait
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Survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
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WWII: 486th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Belonged to the crew of B-24 Liberator 42-52508 'Libra', one of the 'Zodiac Bombers'. Tail gunner, 36 missions
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Lz-xray nam 1965
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Japanese fighter ace from WW2, 13 kills
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Military Interpreter (Red Army) Spanish Civil War Veteran. Born: 02/12/1920
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(Born 1926) US Army WW2 Veteran ETO. 89th Division, 354th Anti-Tank Unit. Helped in the liberation of concentration camp Ohrdruf. Bronze Star recipient
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; Seaman 1st Class, USS St. Louis. Last Staten Island Pearl Harbor survivor
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Iwo Jima. Saw the flag raising
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Vietnam veteran who fought in the navy for 33 and a half years and retired as a colonel
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Speaker, 21 year marine officer and author of From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava. Client success executive at AirStrip. Has appeared frequently on both network (Fox, NBC) and local television news
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WWII - 6th Naval Beach Battalion, Navy corpsman at Omaha Beach (D-Day), also in the Battle of Okinawa. His memories are incorporated into Max Hasting's epic book 'Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944'
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Operation Varsity. 17th Airborne Division
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WWII: German D-Day veteran, wireless operator in the 22nd Regiment, 21st Panzerdivision, stationed near Caen at time of D-Day
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Polish World War One Veteran Lives in Sierakowice Poland
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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Former German soldier in the 24th Panzer Division in World War II and the author of several books
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WWII: D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne Operation Market Garden. 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles), he was General Maxwell Taylor's radioman and later an accomplished WWII Author '(Hell's Highway', 'D-Day With The Screaming Eagles' a.o.)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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Japanese WWII Veteran, born 1927
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Donut Dolly in Vietnam
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German WWII-Pilot, Rammjager Ace, flew with 4/JG-3 and 3/JG-4 Sturmgruppe
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Greek Cypriot WWII veteran. Part of Cypriot Regiment
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Maurice L. Kowal was part of Lt/JG John F. Kennedy's orginal PT-109 crew, but, due to earlier injury, not aboard when PT-109 was sunk
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Last Polish World War 1 Veteran/Born:02/02/1900 Lives in Tursk, near Sulecin (Poland)
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Japanese WWII Veteran, was 87 in 2007
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WWII: US Navy. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Reid. Aleutian Campaign,
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Russian tank ace and veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad during WW2
