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Navajo Code Talker (born 1926) of the 1st Marine Division 2nd Battalion
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Wife of Navajo Code Talker Thomas H. Begay
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Notah Begay (2)
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker - 1 of only 3 remaining (as of 2022)
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
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air force general
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Victoria Cross recipient from Great Britain, was awarded the VC in 2005
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Panzer Captain and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross who was on the intelligence staff of the Sixth Army during the Stalingrad encirclement
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Military
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano (born 23 February 1961), also known as Don Berna or Adolfo Paz, is a former leader of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia paramilitary group, as well as the leader of The Office of Envigado cartel
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WWII: Esther was one of the last survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She survived because she was a player in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
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Deep Freeze: an officer on the U.S.S. Arneb
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Native of Belgium, returned to Antwerp after the war
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
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World War II Medal of Honor
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Military
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World War II Army veteran from 1942-1946. Part of 91st airborn that jumped over North Africa and Italy
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Served in the Navy during WWII in the Pacific Theater and was aboard the USS Lexington in May, 1942, when it was torpedoed during the Battle of Coral Sea
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WWII: Battel of Okinawa. 77th Division. Distinguished Service Cross for the battle for Ishimi Ridge
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Pilot Vietnam War/Astronaut
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Retired United States Army four-star general
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Will become the first living Medal of Honor recipient for the war in Iraq for his heroism during the second battle of Fallujah in November 2004
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WWII: Iwo Jima survivor; H Company, 3rd Battalion, 26th Regiment, 5th Division. Recipient of 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of Liberty ship SS John A. Johnson (by Japanese torpedo) on 30 October 1944
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101st Airborne, 506 PIR, Easy Company (AKA 'The Band of Brothers' - WWII
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Retired General
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C-47 pilot for 101st band of brother flew support for them
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(Born 1923) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Personal friend of JFK during his time in the Navy. Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor (1963-1965) and Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1975-1987)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII WAVES female vet, born 1923. Top Secret Ultra clearance, gathered info from/prepared reports for upper command of decoded German messages. Learned of D-Day from a just-decoded msg from Germany's Donitz, saying they'd just been invaded
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WWII: MTO/ETO. Quartermaster on the Landing Craft, LST 1. Africa (Arzew and Bizerte), Italy (Palermo, Anzio, and Sicily), and Normandy on D-Day
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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army general
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British WWII Veteran, RAF
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WWII: PTO. Battled of Okinawa. K Co, 3rd Bn, 5th Marine Regiment (3/5)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland
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US WWII Army Air Corps B-29 gunner (1925-2023). Flew over Nagasaki hours after the bombing as part of an Army photo mission. Flew in the Japanese Surrender Ceremony Flyover weeks later
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. Ranger. Purple Heart recipient shot in the thigh while storming Omaha Beach
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa. Hq-2-6, 2nd MarDiv
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WWII - Flying Tigers (AVG) P-51 pilot
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USN Admiral
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Spanish Civil War survivor (Born: 1924) Wife of Josep Pons. Remembers how she left Barcelona in 1939 during the massive retreat towards France. Now 92
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co, 1/7 cav
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. Italy 1944-1945. US Army Air Force, 459th Bombardment Group. Distinguished Flying Cross
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Military
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Asst.Secretary of Defense
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German Luftwaffe ace of WWII, 93 victories
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Pilot
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US Army Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1968 to 1969
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WWII: ETO/D-Day. Radio operator on B-24 Liberator 'The Hard Way' (44-40242), 854th Bomb quadron, 491st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 31 missions from June 2, 1944 to Sept. 9, 1944, including D-Day and Hanover, Sept. 9, 1944
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Phillip Bennett (2) Former Australian General, Chief of the Australian Defence Force 1984-1987
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Retired Admiral
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa. Corpsman with D-1-2, 2nd MarDiv. He was in the 2nd wave to Red Beach #2 on Tarawa-D-Day; arriving in a Higgins boat, he had to wade over 500 yards to the shore under devastating fire
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WWII US Army D-Day veteran, born 1926. Part of the Dachau concentration camp liberation, and later a guard at the Nuremberg Trials
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WWII: PTO. Nurse in the Battle of Okinawa. Later 23 years with the CIA
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Wwii: wasp
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WWII: Evacuation of Dunkirk. 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Marched almost 120 miles to the beaches near Dunkirk to escape the German advance in May 1940. Eventually he found a rowing boat and was picked up by a navy ship
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WWII: PTO. Underwater Demolition Team
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Member of the 101 airbourne div. company E 506 parachute regiment
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Centenarian (1895-2004). One of the last US WWI vets. Wounded while serving about a year in France
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: ETO, top turret gunner and engineer of B-17 Chow-Hound (Serial # 42-31367), 91st Bomb Group, 322nd Squadron
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Fighter ace born 12/27/1919
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WWII - Operation Overlord. 279th Port Company, 505th Port Battalion. Landed between Utah and Omaha Beach on D-Day+1 still under constant fire; his unit was responsible to get the beach organized and to get supplies inland
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(Born 1971) US Army Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Served from 1989 to 2014
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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Joseph Stalin's Interpreter
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Last living member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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WWII PTO: Co B, 1st Raider Bn, then 4th Marines. Fought at Guadalcanal (Bloody Ridge), Guam, Saipan, Bouganville, New Georgia, Okinawa. Guard duty at USS Missouri on the day the Japanese signed the surrender in Tokyo Bay. 2 Purple Hearts
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Military Contractor held captive by Al-Queda. Beheaded by Al-Zarawi in Internet video by Al-Queda
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WWII - USS Tennessee (1940-1942) and Submarine Base in 1943. Treasurer for P.T.Com Orchestra for 18 years
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US Army Sergeant who was held prisoner in Afghanistan for five years
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Benjamin Berger (2) WWII: Ranger that landed at Omaha beach on D-Day (Pointe du Hoc); before D-Day, he served in North Africa and Italy
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Four-star general currently serving as the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
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French holocaust survivor and member of the Résistance during World War 2, living in the French city of Saint-Étienne
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WWII: 3rd Marine Division, Wounded in the battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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WWII: US Navy, anti-aircraft gunner. Survived the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay which was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tarawa (November 1943) and also his next ship (USS Salamaua) being hit by a Kamikaze
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. Air Warning Service Company, US Army Signal Corps
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Operation Deep Freeze: GCA officer to guide incoming aircraft to land on ice
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. First Marine Division. Guadalcanal, Peleliu
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Main focus in the Canadian wait for me daddy photo he was the little boy reaching for his daddy
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WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, Original Band of Brothers. Note: He isn't the author of that book mentioned - these were 'Will Bill' Guarnere and 'Babe' Heffron: http://www.amazon.de/Brothers-Battle-Friends-William-Guarnere/dp/0425224368
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Author and former CIA officer and Directorate of Operations between October 1982 and June 2005. Served as a CIA Station Chief on 3 separate occasions and led several of CIA?s most important counterterrorism deployments
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Buna-Gona, Battle of Luzon. 32nd Infantry Division
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WWII - CpL (Tech 5), USA, 78th Quartermaster Bn., 78th Infantry Div., 3rd Army. Landed at Normandy on D-Day. Battle of the Bulge veteran. European Theater of Operations
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C-47 pilot, flew101st band of brothers
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WWII - Pilot 91st Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group; with his C-47 #43-15213 he flew paratroopers of Dog Company, 506th PIR, 101st AB into D-Day (Stick #64). Specialist in towing/rescueing Gliders, carrying D-Day wounded out to safety
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Vietnam War - Marines pilot who flew Ambassador Martin out of the American Embassy during the fall of Saigon to the Vietcong, April 30, 1975. Helicopter 'Lady Ace 09'
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Author: 'Make the Kaiser Dance: Living Memories of a Forgotten War: The American Experience in World War'
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WWII: Last living survivor of the sinking of the SS Arandora Star, 2 July 1940
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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WWII: 14th Armored Division, Company B Mortar Squad; he fought in the ETO, capturing a succession of small towns in France and into the Italian mountains. He was injured three times
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Bocks Car Crew, RCM Observer, WW II, Nagasaki
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WWII: Battle for Tarawa
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WWII: B-17 pilot, 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 28 missions from June to August 1944, most in 'Little Miss Mischief' (B-17 42-97880), including France, Munich, Merseburg, Brandenburg, Peenemunde
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Former director of Naval Criminal Investigative Service AKA NCIS/With NCIS, Betro served as the Special Agent Afloat aboard the USS John F. Kennedy as well as the USS Enterprise/Did cameo on long running TV series NCIS
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Fighter Ace - Korean War - (5 Victs)- USAF
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Berlin Air Lift 1948; Brigadier General Betinger was one of those planning and supervising the Air Lift
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army general
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WWII: Battle of Midway (June 1942), USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady'). Severely wounded during the battle. Later, he served on the submarines USS Bashaw and USS Sea Robin
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Fox News military analyst
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WWII U.S. Navy quartermaster - served on the USS Bowfin (SS-287)
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WWII Fighter Ace (9 Kills) - Ace in a Day - Flew P-51's - USAAF, 376th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group, 8th Air Force (Europe)
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor
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Medal of Honor recipient, France, WWII
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Army
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Real brother of Bielski partisans. Last living Bielski brother from WWII
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WWII: 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. The Ghost Army deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there
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WWII Luftwaffe Recipient of the Knights Cross
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WWII - tail-gunner on the 'Necessary Evil', the nickname of the B-29 Superfortress that accompanied the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Helena. Served on the USS Helena from Pearl until the Battle of Kula Gulf (1943), when she was sunk by Japanese torpedoes, fighting, a.o., in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Cape Esperance
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French military officer who fought in the Indochina war. Born: 02/14/1916
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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Tuskegee Airmen, flew the b-25, b-29, b-52, b-24, b-50, b-17, b-47
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navy admiral
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WWII Veteran From Williamsville, New York. Good Conduct Medal, a European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 2 bronze service stars, a World War II Victory Medal, an Honorable Service Lapel and a Sharpshooter Badge with Rifle Bar
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WWII: Living in the Polish town Zdrowa, Bik witnessed the first attack on the Westerplatte peninsula. He escaped 2 forced labor camps, and was sent to the Gross-Rosen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps before his 1945 liberation
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker, participated in Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa
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US WWII Army bomber pilot/OSS vet, born 1923.14 missions in Europe, then transferred to an OSS cover unit in Italy. Dropped OSS agents and spies in various areas, including flights turned down by the RAF as too risky. Still flying at 97
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WWII - Pacific. 4th Marine Division. Fought in the battles of Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima
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WWII: Corporal in Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, who survived the Malmedy Massacre on 17 December 1944
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Military
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'Doolittle Raiders 'Bombardier Crew #11'
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John Bird (2)Navy Admiral
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Congresstional Medal of Honor and former Cherokee Nation Supreme Court justice
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Honolulu
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, Civillian Witness to the Attack
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Italian flying ace of WWII
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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Frank E. Birtciel was a fighter pilot assigned to the 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force during World War II
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Italian World War 1 Veteran Born: 10/07/1900 Lives in Dignano, Italy
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Austrian World War One Veteran
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Commander 509th Bomb Wing
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Jerry Bishop (2)Vietnam veteran. Flew Boeing B-52 Bomber planes and survived over 100 combat missions
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the b-24
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WWII - D-Day, 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One), 16th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, Omaha Beach. Mr. Bistrica actually is pictured in one of the most iconic photographs of the war
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WW II Veteran; survivor of the USS Indianapolis disaster
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
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Danish WWII veteran. Part of the battalion that was immediately dispatched when German invasion looks imminent
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One of the children saved by Nicholas Winton in the 'Kindertransport' before WWII broke out
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(Born 1933) Air Force Korean War Veteran. K2 Korea
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Korean War veteran
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Known as Sir Jeremy Black, a British Royal Navy admiral who served as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command from 1989 to 1991
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Joseph Black (2) WWII: ETO. 57th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force
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Bill Blackburn (2) Flying Tiger-crew chief
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WWII - US Fighter Ace, 11 victories, of the Jolly Rogers, VF-17 Squadron; Pacific Theater
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WWII: Battle of Midway
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Born 1925, Blackwell served in the U.S. Navy from 1943-1946 during WWII. He later became a maritime administrator in 1969. In 1971 Blackwell became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs
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Retired USMC General
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WWII veteran wo went on to become a songwriter whose credits include two songs recorded by Elvis (Give me the right' and 'Put the blame on me'),
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Dennis Blair (3)Dennis Cutler Blair (born February 4, 1947) is the former United States Director of National Intelligence and is a retired United States Navy admiral who was the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific region
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Don Blair (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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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: UK pilot, Squadron Leader, DFM (Distinguished Flying Medal). Was the RAF's World War poster boy. Currently lives in Brentwood, Essex
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. US Army, Fort Kamehameha
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Survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941aboard the USS St. Louis and went on to earn Navy combat stars in Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal and Luzon
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WWII Pilot Ace-- Flew Spifires and Mustangs-[14.5 victories]
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Fighter Pilot Ace during WWII[flew the P-51 Mustang]
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 82nd Airborne. Also Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: Fighter pilot with the 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group
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US WWII veteran, saw action in the Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima, b. 1924
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WWII: D-Day Invasion, Medic, 326th Medical Battalion, 101st Airborne Division; also in the Battle of the Bulge and Bastogne and witness to General McAuliffes' famous 'Nuts' quote; Operation Market Garden and served all the way to Berchtesgaden
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USS Pueblo
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Director and Head of Talent at Schmidt Futures. Served 5 years as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps. Serves on the board of Operation Gratitude. Co-author of Union: A Democrat, a Republican, & a Search for Common Ground
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US fashion designer. He was a member of the Ghost Army in WWII
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Navajo Code Talker 5th Marine Division (Born 1917)
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WWII: D-Day, landed on eastern half of Omaha Beach, 6:30 AM, June 6, 1944, with the 1st Infantry Division. Before Normandy, he fought in the Tunisian campaign in North Africa, and was a part of the invasion of Sicily, in 1943
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medal of honor arme korean war
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U.S. Marines 1942-1945. Landed on Guam in 1944 with the 3rd Marine Division
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(Born 1921) USAAF WW2 Veteran. 487th Fighter Squadron of the 352nd Fighter Group in England from July 1943 to August 1945
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Korean War Ace - USAF - 10 Kills - DSC, P-40, P-47, P-51 Mustang, P-80, F-86, F-100, F-102, A-7, F-104, F-106, F-4, and F-111
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Rifleman, 4th Infantry Division
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(Born 29 August 1916) Norwegian military officer, known for his resistance work during World War II
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WWII: His 28-year Air Force career included piloting 25 B-17 missions out of England in WW II, and working at the Pentagon and Boeing Aircraft
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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WWII: PTO. Radar Technician aboard the USS Enterprise
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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American WWII - Radioman And Gunner In VT-11 (Torpedo Squadron, Sister Squadron Of The Famous Sundowners) Of Carrier Air Wing Eleven (Pacific Theater)
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Retired USMC General
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WWII: 603rd Engineers Camouflage Division, The Ghost Army used inflatable rubber tanks, wooden guns, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Walter Blum (2)WW2/D-Day Army among 1st to face cannon & machine-gun fire awaited on beaches of Normandy/Member amphibious 1st Engineer Special Brigade sent in to clear lanes through obstructions & lay wire-mesh roadbeds, allowing tanks & troops to beach
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WWII - Survivor of the sinking of the USS Quincy (CA-39) in the Battle Of Savo Island, 9 August 1943
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Fighter ace born 12 /25/1921
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German Luftwaffe ace of WWII, 60 victories
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WWII: PTO. Navy corpsman. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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(born November 15, 1918 in Sassari, Sardinia) is an Italian sculptor, painter, and academic. Bocchetta was a member of the anti-fascist Italian resistance movement during World War II
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WWII. ETO: He took part in the retreating fights in France in the summer of 1940, and then joined the RAF, 312 Squadron. 26 operational flights. Last surviving Czech WWII pilot
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Soviet machine gunner, Fought in battles of Moscow and Stalingrad during WW2. Currently lives in Philadelphia, PA
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WWII flying ace with the 357th scored 14 kills which included two of the new ME 262's
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vietnam war air force hero
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; Army Air Corps, 804th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Bugle Master. Turned down an offer to spend the night of 6th to 7th Dec on the Arizona which most probably saved his life
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Iwo Jima
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Israeli flying ace, pilot
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Author of FIRST SEAL - Founder of the US Navy SEALs
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Former Waffen-SS member
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German WWII Fighter Ace
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Military
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German ww2 pilot
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Military
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WWII: PTO. 112th Calvary Regiment Of The Texas Army National Guard. Battle of Driniumor River (10 July ? 25 August 1944) of the Western New Guinea campaign. Battle of Leyte, Batttle of Luzon
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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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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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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group
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Oldest Man in France born 1910. WW2 veteran of the Free Corps
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WWII: PTO. B-17 tail-gunner
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Born 1919, Bokhary served in the British Indian Army for four years as a logistics expert, and came to Hong Kong with the army on the first British ship after the surrender of Japan ended the occupation of Hong Kong. He became a businessman
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WWII: ETO. Army Air Corps, 99th Bomb Group, 247th Squadron. 51 missions
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WWI British Commonwealth One of the last female veterans of that war
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Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Bolcar was born in 1917. He served in the Eighth U.S. Army Air Corps, 702nd Bomb Squadron, 445th Bombardier Group during WW2
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Officer in the German Army (Wehrmacht Heer) who wrote about his experiences during World War II
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WW2 fighter ace- Served aboard the USS Randolph from 2/16/1945-5/14/1945 as a member of VMF-12 flying the F6F Hellcat. He is officially credited with 5 confirmed victories.
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Retired Brigadier General:The Horse Soldiers
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Retired General
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American author, historian, and retired a lieutenant general of the United States Army
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US WWII Army vet (1923-2022) Saw action in Normandy, the Rhineland, the Bulge, and at the Remagen Bridge. In his 90s, sketched scenes of his memories of WWII that he donated to charity auctions
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WWiII: Navigator on a B-17 'Wolf Wagon. Flew 30 missions, including 2 missions D-Day. 388th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force
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WWII - Flying Tigers, served a total as 34 years as a figher pilot
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WWII veteran, born 1921. 16th Squ.,16th Bomb Group. Bataan Death March survivor. Author of several books, incl. one on his Bataan experience. POW at Camp O'Donnell, Philippines, later moved to Manchuria; liberated by Russian Army Aug. 1945. Purple Heart
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WWII U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate - served aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). Witnessed the formal surrender of Japan
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WWII/Korea - Black Sheep Squadron; 12 victories
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WWII: Merchant seaman in the 'Murmansk runs' of World War II
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Centenarian (1900-2002). French immigrant, WWI French Naval vet and WWII French Infantry vet. 1918 Flu survivor who was almost given up for dead on a troop ship
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Tarawa. Motor machinist mate 2nd class, USS Sheridan (APA-51)
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 12th Defense Battalion. Battle of Peleliu
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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air force general
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Member of the famed ''Flying Tigers'' before and during WWII, a Major General, Ace (9 victories)
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USCG Admiral
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US WWI veteran, born 1924. Served in Italy at Anzio, Rome, the Po Valley, and witnessed the abuse of Mussolini's body in the public square by Italian citizens
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LTC, USAAF, 773 Bomb Sqdn, 463rd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force B-17 Pilot, 30 missions over Italy as Sqdn. Leader. Hickam Field, Hawaii - Pearl Harbor Survivor Distinguished Flying Cross
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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WWII Fighter Ace (5 Victs)Member of the Flying Tigers
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WWII combat nurse (1918-2019). Landed on Utah Beach on D-Day+6, following the front lines through out the war, and earning 5 battle stars
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WWII: USS Yorktown, CV5; USS Saratoga, CV3. Naval battles of Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal. Senior yeoman to Admiral Frank Fletcher
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Born 1924, Booker served in the British Royal Navy from 1940-1954 during WWII and peacetime. He later became a well-known Engineer and is known for his book A History Of Engineering Drawing published in 1963
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English Former Male British Royal Air Force Navigator Pilot During World War 2
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USMC General
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Montford Point Marine (the very first African Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corps)
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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Waffen SS Knights Cross Holder
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Survivor of the wreck of the USS Indianapolis
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Walter Borchert (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Survived her capsizing in January 1943
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ww2 german knights cross/german cross in gold/ 4 tank destoyer badges
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fighter air ace korean war
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WWI: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Oklahoma. Hardly escaped the sinking ship and being strafed by Japanese pilots after jumping into the harbor. Pictured exactly 3 years later in a popular War Bond Drive photograph
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American World War 2 Fighter Ace , 5 Vic - Navy Cross, flew the f6f hellcat, corsair, wildcat, cougar, panther, fury
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One of nine surviving veterans of Spanish Civil War. Born: December 20, 1918.Also survivor of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp
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Last Italian World War One Veteran
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Danish WWII Veteran
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French Supercentenarian Born 1911. As a nurse during WWII she participated in the Allied Invasion of Italy
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Vietnam War; Radio Operator in the Ia Drang Valley with Hal Moore, subject of 'We Were Soldiers' with Mel Gibson
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WWII - Paratrooper of the 82nd AB Division (All Americans), 505th PIR, who had four combat jumps: Sicily, Italy, Normany (D-Day) and Holland (Market Garden). He's currently the subject of a documentary in the works (Four Jumps For Freedom)
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USMC. WWII, China Marines, Korea, and Vietnam
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Colonel, WWII & Vietnam Vet, writer
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WWII veteran, Battle of the Bulge
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Chief Petty Officer (CTMC) on USS Pueblo when it was captured by the North Koreans in 1968, POW for 11 months. Retired as Master Chief (CTMCM)
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WWII: PTO. USS San Jacinto
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'Tuskegee Airmen' 'First Black Air Traffic Controller'
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Pearl Harbor Survivor - USS Oklahoma
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Member of the famed''Black Sheep Squadro'' VMF-214
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Doolittle's Raiders crew #13 Navigator
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Age 90/Wren in WW2 aided in the Allied cipher-breaking efforts at Bletchley Park
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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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Royal millitary
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Army General
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Iwo Jima. Later Korean War, Bay of Pigs
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa.2nd Marines, 2nd MarDiv
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American Female Vietnam War Troop Moral Booster (Donut Dolly)
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W W I I pilot, lawyer, Gov Clinton's Chief Of Staff, author
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Member of the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo --WWII 'Pilot Crew #12'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa. USS Presque Isle (LST-678, later renumbered APB-44). The Presque Isle was an auxiliary personnel barracks where sailors of sunk ships could stay until they could be reassigned
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member of pappy boyingtons Black sheep squardron
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WWII: MTO. Rome Arno, North Apennines and Po Valley. Co. A, 361st Infantry Regiment, 91st Division
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navy admiral
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Dan Bowling (2) Decorated World War II B-25 pilot
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Marine, 5th Division. Purple Heart
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American Retired Four - Star Navy Admiral
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge (ST. Vith, Moircy, a.o.), Koblenz, Rhine. 345th Infantry Regiment, 87th Infantry Division
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Tuskegee Pilot, flew the p-40, p-47. p-51
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WWII: PTO. Boatswain 2nd Class, U.S. Coast Guard. Served on 12 ships in the Pacific
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WWII: Battle of Wake Island December 1941. POW until the end of the war
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Luzon. 33rd Infantry Division
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South African Born English Retired Royal Navy Officer. Former Admiral of the Fleet. Crossbench Member House of Lords
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Retired COL, USAF. Board Member of American Fighter Ace Assn. Radar Intercept Officer in F-101B and Flew 234 combat sorties in RF-4C Phantom
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US Army Col. (1879-1919). Mexican border howitzer battery. Made aid-de-camp to Gen. Pershing in October 1917. French Legion of Honor. Died in France from the flu in 1919
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Retired 4 star Air Force General
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WWII American Air Force - Tuskegee Airmen (Class 45G)
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Lt. Lt. DFC, R.A.F. No. 195 Squadron, No. 3 Group, Bomber Command Lancaster Pilot, 33 Missions over Germany and France
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WWII Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, Wheeler Field
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United States Army Green Beret, football player and actor
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(Born 1938) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, a Distinguished Flying Cross, a Purple Heart, and a Legion of Merit
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WWII: Marine Corps hero immortalized in HBO's 'The Pacific'. Fought at Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa. Silver Star
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JFK: Guarded the JFK gravesite at Arlington shortly after the funeral
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1st- was a flying tiger/ then led black sheep squadron-vmf-214- fighter ace- 28 kills/ medal of honor recipient ww2/ prisoner of war in ww2 in japanese pow camp for 20 months too
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Canadian Former Chief of Defence Staff (1996)
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WWII: PTO. Thirteenth Army Air Force
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WWII: German officer awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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WWII - A seaman on the USS Taylor, he witnessed the surrender of Japan on Sept. 2, 1945 on board the USS Missouri as the USS Taylor had been selected to anchor next to the Missouri
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Longest held civilian POW during the Vietnam War. He spent almost 8 years as a POW
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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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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor Survivor, USMC. Later Bougainville, Iwo Jima
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
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WWII: PTO. US Navy 1941-1945
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII: ETO. E Co., 262nd Reg., 66 Inf. Div. Eyewitness to the sinking of the SS Leopoldville by torpedo as he was aboard the HMS Cheshire, which was right behind in the convoy that should support the US troops in the Battle of the Bulge
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Flag Raiser Iwo Jima
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Army General
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, corpsman
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(Born 1929) US Navy Korean and Vietnam War Veteran. POW in North Vietnam from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, 2 Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Don Brady (2) WWII: B-24 ball turret gunner in the 760th Bomb Squadron, 460th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. Flew 50 m issions from February to August 1944 (airfield Spinazzola). Missions include Austria, Germany, Bucharest, Ploesti
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, Remagen. H Company, 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division
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Navy Admiral
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Medal of honor army vietnam war, born 1936
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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Retired General
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Author - To Sir With Love, also served in the RAF as a pilot in WWII
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British field marshal, also known as Baron Bramall, served as Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1979 and 1982
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First African-American officer of the United States Marine Corps (Years of service 1943-1955)
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; also saw service in Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima
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German World War One survivor
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German ww2 pilot
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USMC General
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WWII Era Veteran, Combat Engineering Battalion, 2nd Special Brigade Amphibious Engineers Years of service: 1945-47 Post war Japan Occupation
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WWII: CBI. Member of Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 75th Infantry Division, 289th Regiment. Purple Heart
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WWII: PTO. Morotai. 389th Anti Aircraft Artillery Bn, 13th AF
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WWII: PTO. He flew with the troop carrier units in oversea duty in the C-46 Combat Cargo Group in the South/Western Pacific-Australia to Japan
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WWII: Pilot of the 'Clay Pigeon', a C-47 that flew paratroopers into Normandy on D-Day and was shot down on Sept. 17, 1944, during Operation Market Garden
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. USS Rigel
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army general
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WWII: ETO A-Company, 282nd Engineering Combat Battalion, 3rd Army, Battle of the Bulge
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American Female WWII veteran, Coast Guard SPAR
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Lz- xray 1965 nam
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US WWII Navy veteran, born 1927. USS Indianapolis Survivor, one of the last 5 living as of 6/21
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(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 4 Silver Stars
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WWII: 447th Bomb Squadron, 321st Bomb Group, 57th Bomb Wing, 12th Air Force. B-25 Mitchell pilot in the ETO/MTO. 68 missions along the German supply lines in the Brenner Pass between the border of Austria and Italy. Flew, among others, #43-27542 'Supersti
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US army general
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WWII: PTO. South Pacific, New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa, and China. Navy corpsman. Purple Heart
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Korean War vet, US Army, born 1932. Served in Korea 1950-51 with the 2nd Division, 23rd Infantry. Jeep driver. Struck in the shoulder by shelling near the Naktong River in North Korea, received Purple Heart and back to combat a day later
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Roi and Namur, Saipan.Purple Heart
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WWII - Contemporary witness of the Port Chicago, CA, disaster in July 1944
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Jack Brennan (2)
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WWII: 7th Armored Division, Company B 17th Tank. Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Remagen
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Holocaust Survivor, M.S. St. Louis
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Last surviving surgeon of the D-Day landings. He saved the lives of 1,000 troops in nine months in France. Born: 1913. He is now 103 and lives in Wickham, Hampshire, England
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale
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Tuskegee Airmen, WW2
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US WWII Army veteran, born 1917. Critically injured in the Battle of St Lo, not expected to survive. But now 106
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(Born 1925) US Army WW2 Veteran. Captured as a POW during the Battle of the Bulge and did hard labor and lost 70 pounds at time of his release. Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Legion of Honor recipient
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Retired German born toolmaker living in Pennsylvania; accused WII Nazi war criminal who worked at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
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Centenarian (1895-2001). US veteran of the Army expedition against the Pancho Villa raids in 1916, and then served in WWI in France. During the New Deal era, he worked for the Roosevelt's TVA
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air force general hero
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division, 227th Field Artillery Battalion
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Retired Air Force Test Pilot
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(Born 1940) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Silver Star recipient
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American Centenarian, born 1920. Served in the New Deal's CCC, then WWII's Battle of the Bulge (4th Armored Division), and the Korean War
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WWII veteran. Italian translator for General Patton. Received the Purple Heart after being shot in the spine during combat. Born 1919
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WWII: Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Hardy, which was sunk during the First Battle of Narvik, April 1940
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navy admiral
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Last Survivor Of The HMS Hood
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W.A.S.P. Pilot. Flew PT-19, BT-13, AT-6, AT-7, AT-11, C-78, B-25, B-26, SBD (A-24), SBC (A-25), and the P-47 towing target
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WWII: Company G, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Received a Bronze Star for action in the Battle of Remagen, March 28, 1945
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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WWII - D-Day. 82nd AB, 507th PIR, Division HQ; Aide to Gen.l Gavin. Saw heavy fighting in the Battle of La Fiere Causeway on June 9, 1944, bloodiest small unit combat of the initial landing days. Also Operation Market Garden. Purple Heart
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JFK - Escorted Jackie Kennedy to the consecration of the Eternal Flame grave site March 15, 1967; popular through a photo that became an official postcard. Also served at the Pageant of Peace ceremony, Dec. 17, 1962 for JFK
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(Born 1967) Former US Army Major General who served from 1989 to 2023
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Rear Admiral
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American Female Author, Academic, And Former Military Officer. Novel - 'All In: The Education of General David Petraeus' (Co Writer With Vernon Loeb)(2012)
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WWII: German Flying Ace, Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54) Grünherz (Green Heart), 81 victories
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US Army Vietnam, Gulf, and Iraq War veteran. Army career stretching to 39 years, 213th ASHC Black Cats
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WWII: US Army; veteran of the Aleutian Islands Campaign; fought in the Battle of Attua (May 1943) called '19 Days of Hell'
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One of the last survivors of the Great Escape in WWII
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USMC General
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Soviet WWII Female Pilot 'Night Witches'
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Member of The Ritchie Boys (Born Nov. 11, 1923) was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War 2 now 97 years old
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marine corps general
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WWII: PTO. Gunner's Mate 2nd Class in PT-Boat squadrons MTB RON 16 and MTB RON 42 in the Southwest Pacific incl. Mios Woendi, Dutch New Guinea; Mindoro, P.I.; Brunei Bay, Borneo
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Tarawa, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, Civillian Witness to the Attack, born 1918
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 13 victories, USAAF. 15th AF, 31st Fighter Group, 307th Fighter Squadron, based in San Severo, Italy. Test pilot after the war. Married singer Martha Tilton in 1953. Flew P-51, P-38, P-40, B-45, F-86 Sabre in Korea and F-100
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Oldest WW2 veteran Born September 12, 1909
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US WWII Naval Air Corps vet, born 1923. Jokingly signed up a buddy for the Blimp program to hear him complain, then got picked for it himself. At 99, possibly the last Navy Blimp pilot of WWII. Postwar career as a Texas preacher
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Chief Machinist Mate on the USS Liberty when it was attacked by the Israelis in 1967. Awarded the Silver Star for his actions
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. B Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Regiment, 5th Marine Division. Purple Heart
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British ace from WW2, 15 victories, Battle of Britain
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WWII US Navy (b. 1925) Joined 1943, first in his training class. Assigned to Adm. Bull Halsey's staff, clerical and radio duties. Switched to USS Missouri with Halsey, present for the onboard Japanese Surrender Ceremony
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Tug boat Hoga (YT-146
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Albert Brown (2) WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
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Flying Tiger-pilot and CAF flight instructor. The last surviving pilot of the Flying Tigers
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army general
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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British former Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 different types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history
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Navy sniper vietnam 17 confirmed kills
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P-38 Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of the 55th Fighter Group
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Gordon Brown (3)
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Tuskegee Airmen, Flew PT-17 Stearman, B-47, P-51 and F-80 Jet. Flew 20 different plane types
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air force general
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James R. Brown (2)Military air force general
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US WWII 5th Marines, Iwo Jima, born 1923. Served as Asst. Chaplain for his unit. Pressed into service treating wounded at Iwo Jima, with no medical training. Gave plasma and morphine shots to the wounded among the dead on the beach
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Larry Brown (6) Tuskegee Airmen
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Centenarian (1901-2007). Was last living US Navy veteran of WWI
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Lloyd Brown (2)Centenarian (Born 1923), Canadian WW2 Veteran
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USCG Admiral
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Micheal Brown (2) D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in Chorleywood, Hampshire, UK. One of four surviving gliders from the Glider Pilot Regiment
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American Female Army Medic Sargent. First Medic To Receive The Silver Star. First Woman In Afghanistan And Only The Second Female Soldier Since World War II To Receive The Silver Star. (2008)
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1921?-2008). survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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William Brown (4) WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining
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U.S. Army Four Star General, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
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US Navy Ace VF-27 10.5 Victories - WWII
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US Air Force four-star general who serves as the chief of staff of the Air Force
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WWII Navajo Code Talker, he lives in Navajo N.M
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11th Earl of Elgin, and Scottish WWII vet, born 1924
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WWII: US Marine Corps, Iwo Jima, Purple Heart
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (12.5 WWII, 2 Korea, total=14.5 Kills) USAAF, 354 Fighter Group, 355 Fighter Squadron, 9AF - DSC
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Korean War Vet/US Army 1951-1953/Bronze Star Awarded/19th Engineer Combat Group/Saw Nagasaki Japan six years after the atomic bomb & saw a leveled blast field, just rubble
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Shaw
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WWII: ETO. P-47 pilot. 390th Squ., 366th Fighter Group, 9th AF. Stationed near Omaha Beach just in time to participate in the Normandy beachhead breakout battle, 70 combat missions destroying trucks, trains, artillery, supplies, 1 victory
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WWII: US Navy. PTO. USS Reid (DD-369)
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USS Arizona survivor Pearl Harbor
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(Born 1969) US Army Gulf War Veteran. During the war his unit was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division was responsible for the initial breach of Iraqi defenses. Served in Operation Desert Sheild
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(Born 1940) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, a Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart
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WWII: 4th Marine Division, Iwo Jima
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French World War One Veteran, Deceased
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WWII: Manhattan Project
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WWII veteran, born 1925, B-29 navigator in the Army Air Corps. Enlisted in 1943, trained for 2 years, sent to Guam in June of 1945, flew a couple bombing missions. He was also sent to Tinian as a backup crew for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions, though
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WW2 Ace - 15 Kills - USAAF - DSC
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WW2 British Submarine Commander
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Bill Bryant (3) D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1925. He is now 89 and lives in the UK
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Pilot, Hawker Hunter F Mk.5, Northolt, Middlesex'
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. 82nd Airborne
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Commander US Army Human Resources Commnand
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WW2 1943-1945 B-17 Tail Gunner/shot down by German Jets on 3rd mission, only survivor/POW captured by Hitler Youth/POW Medal & Purple Heart/Honored 70 years after service/2005 met the German fighter pilot who shot down his plane
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Former general in the German Democratic Republic's army
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS Squalus in 1939
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Soviet WWII Vet
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WWII veteran, Gunner's Mate 2nd class, USS LST-627, Pacific Theater
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WWII: Survivor of the Bataan Death March (Philippines) on April 9, 1942
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medal of honor army vietnam
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(Born 1941) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. He was a POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars
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Centenarian/World War 1 Veteran
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WWII German General & recipient of Knight's Cross
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captain of u.s.s. pueblo, captured by the north koreans
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WW2 Luftwaffe Ace and Me262 pilot.
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WWII: RAF squadron member that filmed the sinking of the Tirpitz
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WWII Veteran, 388th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force B17 Bombers ?Glory Girl? & ?Veni Vidi Vici? Tail Gunner
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Supercentenarian; Last surviving US World War 1 Veteran Born: 02/01/1901. Was one of 3 remaining WW1 Veterans. Deceased 2011
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Former U.S. Senator from New York (1971-1977), WWII Veteran
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WWII: witnessed the Warsaw Uprising of 1943. Lost all 7 siblings and parents in the Holocaust
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Jewish Soviet WWII veteran, probably living in Montreal, Canada
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WWII: PTO. Fighter Pilot. USS Yorktown, Saratoga, Enterprise and Hornet. Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern Solomons, Santa Cruz and the first battle of the Philippine Sea, plus a month with the 'Cactus Air Force' on Guadalcanal,
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Brazilian Historic Person - One Of The Last Surviving Veterans Of The Contestado War, Which Was A Guerrilla War For Land Between Settlers And Landowners. The Latter Supported By The Brazilian State's Police And Military Forces 1912 to 1916
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WWII: Aviation mechanic for the Dauntless dive bomber of Lt. Daniel Iverson, one of the pilots who sank the Japanese carrier Hiryu in the Battle of Midway
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US WWII Army Air Corps B-17 gunner, born 1924. Shot down over Germany Feb 2, 1944, lost an eye in the explosion. One of the 4 survivors of his 10-man crew. Held POW until April 26, 1945
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WWII: PTO. U.S. Coast Guard; USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25)
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British U-Boat hunter of the costal command in WW2
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran, incl. Convoy PQ-16
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WW2 veteran born 1913. Claims to have been a stuntman in films before the war. Made news when the cadillac given to him by Rita Hayworth when she died, was stolen
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Lz xray 1965 1st ground battle of nam
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WWII: Last living survivor of the sinking of the troop transport Dorchester, 3 February 1943. Of the 904 people on board, only 230 survived
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army general
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US Merchant Marine WWII vet, born 1926. Last survivor of the SS Henry Bacon sinking, the last ship sunk by the Luftwaffe in WWII, coming back from a Murmansk Run to Russia
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Night fighter ace of WW2, is living in Great Britain
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army general
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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WWII - 5th Marines, Iwo Jima. He is the soldier in the famous photograph at the base of Suribachi Yama with the kitten on his helmet
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WW2 sgt., turret gunner
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WW 2 air ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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Air Force General
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WWII - Fighter ace, AVG Flying Tigers
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World War II Veteran - Company A 506 pcht inf. Rgt. 101st airborne WWII. Wrote The Road to Arnhem, Currahee!, Beyond the Rhine.
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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WWII Veteran, mortar man in K-Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, the famous K-3-5 of HBO's The Pacific series. Bronze star recipient; fought in Peleliu and Okinawa. Wrote Islands Of The Damned with William Marvel
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Admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself during World War II and the Korean War, and who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower and Ke
