WWII: PTO. Arrived at burning Pearl Harbor on Dec. 12, 1941 on USS Mahan (DD-364). Served on several ships later bust mostly USS Claxton (DD-571) where he survived a Kamikaze attack on 1 November 194 missing him by 15 feet
WWII/Apollo: PTO, Fighter Pilot, 22 mission, Distinguished Flying Cross. Later Vice-President of Rocketdyne (built the rockets, incl. the Saturn V, for NASA)
1051st Quartermaster Company, provided food & clothing to Tuskegee Airmen. Recieved Gold Medal from President Bush with Tuskegee Airmen. Chaplin to Tuskegee Airmen East Coast Chapter. 'Bodyguard to Martin Luther King from Selma Alabama to Montgomery'
British war hero born 1920 who raised more than 30 million dollars to Corona charity by walking in his yard. 2020 fundraising walk..Also the oldest person to have a number 1 hit in the UK With song you will never walk alone
WWII: No. 138 (Special Duties) Squadron; dropping secret agents into occupied Europe, picking folks up, dropping supplies, cooperating with the French Maquis. Later bombing raids all over Europe
WWII: D-Day paratrooper. Flew into Normandy aboard C-47 Skytrain 42-92841 'Turf & Sport Special' and dropped to St. Mere-Eglise on June 6, 1944; Normandy (Hill 195), Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. 508th PIR, 82nd AB
WWII - Medic 82nd AB, 505th PIR made four combat jumps (Sicily, Italy, D-Day LaFiere Bridge, Holland), participated in six battle campaigns in the European Theatre of Operations. Bronze Star, Purple Heart
WWII - Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor, Navy Base, 11y; his father David Jay Morgan was serving on the USS Ward (fired 1st US shots in WWII), survived the attack and his name is engraved on the crew list by the gun memorial today
One of the survivors from Pearl Harbor; together with his brother, Albert, among the last living sets of brothers to serve in the United States Navy and survive the attack on Pearl Harbor aboard the same ship
Cpl. /One of three Marines that lowered the Embassy flag in Cuba the last time when the Embassy closed in 1961/ Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana 5+ decades raise the Stars and Stripes once again there
Otolaryngologist, US WWII Army Air Corps, born 1925. Served at end of WWII, used GI Bill to get doctorate. While with the US Public Health Service, he delivered Alaska's first baby, 30 minutes after Eisenhower announced it was a new state
WW2/From Bramble Edge in Dorset, Wren working in Newmanry Registration Room receiving German messages from intercept site at Knockholt, near Sevenoaks in Kent on punched paper teleprinter tapes, prepared for Colossus and logging the results
WWII: D-Day veteran from Norway. Served on the HNoMS Svenner which was sunk off Sword Beach, Normandy, at dawn on 6 June 1944, while supporting the British Army landings
Born 1942 US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. 1 Bronze Star, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, 1 Legion of Merit, and 1 Defense Superior Service Medal
WWII: PTO. Battle of Midway (June 1942), USS Hammann, DD-412. Survived the sinking of his ship when she was hit by a torpedo. He jumped overboard and would remain in the water for nearly 6 hours before being rescued. Also Korea/Vietnam
Born April 7, 1917 is a retired American soldier who served during World War II in the United States Army with the 11th Airborne Division between 1944 and 1945
Awarded 2 Silver Stars, 8 Air Medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and 2Purple Hearts, as well as the POW medal. Guest of Hanoi Hilton. Author/'The Hanoi Commitment'
WWII: D-Day, Utah Beach (Carentan). C Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Glider Infantry (aka 'Bastogne Bulldogs'), 101st AB. Also Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, all the way to Hitler's Eagles Nest in Berchtesgaden and Austria
WW2 vet, member of the Tuskegee Airmen, awarded Congressional Gold Medal; grandfather of basketball player Channing Frye. flew the pt-17, bt-13, at-10, c-47, c119, c-97, a-10
Dam Busters World War 2 VeteranPilot: F/L John Leslie Munro ? Born 1919 New Zealand. . Retired as Wing Commander. Still living in Te Kuiti in New Zealand where he was Mayor for several years.
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
WWII: 82nd Airborne Division, 505th PIR. It is confirmed by historians that Bob Murphy was the first guy out and on the ground on the 82nd's lift into Normandy
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Company A, 1st Separate Chemical Battalion, Schofield Barracks. Fought in Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge. Retired from the military in 1969 after 30 years of service
U.S. Army veteran, retired businessman, author and sought-after lecturer. In 1989, he was one of the most famous men in Panama, the leader of a plot to overthrow the dictatorship backed by Gen. Manuel Noriega
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
WWII: 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The Ghost Army used inflatable rubber tanks, wooden guns, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy
(Born 1941) US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, a Distinguished Flying Cross, and 2 Purple Hearts
Lz xray Vietnam/Decorations include Silver Star, Legion of Merit (1 OLC), Soldier's Medal, Bronze Star (1 OLC), Meritorious Service Medal (3 OLC), Air Medal (3OLC), Purple Heart, & Distinguished Unit Citation/Served twice in Vietnam between 1962 and 1965
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
Afghanistan and Iraq War US Marine Corps Veteran. Received the Silver Star for actions during
Operation Enduring Freedom. Silver Star and Purple Heart Recipient
WWII - D-Day. US Navy shipfitter who landed with LST (Landing Ship Tank) 501 at Utah Beach, after being redirected while approaching Omaha Beach due to heavy resistence
US WWII Army veteran, born 1916. Tank mechanic with 276th Armored Field Artillery in Patton's Third Army. Ardennes, Luxembourg, the Rhineland, Battle of the Bulge
Member of the WW2 761st Negro 'Black Panthers' Tank Battalion that worked with General George Patton. Recieved Silver Star & Purple Heart! Featured in book 'Brothers in Arms'!
WWII: CBI Theater. 3rd Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit Provisional aka Merrill's Marauders, a long-range penetration special ops warfare unit. Fought in the jungles of Burma, witnessed massive casualties and endured machine gun wounds
WWII: Radio man in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. They deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there. Less than 30 of the 1100 Ghost Army men are still living as of 2017
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
Hiroshima survivor. Japanese schoolgirl pressed into making combat boots for soldiers, she was on her way to work when the bomb hit. Mother died days later. Married an American soldier and moved to the US
Women's Royal Naval Service veteran who witnessed the surrendering of Hitler's Atlantic fleet of U-boat's on the banks of the River Foyle in Londonderry at the end of WW2. (Born:1924) She lives in Derryhale, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Last veteran of the Battle of Kufra. The battle from 31 January - 1 March 1941, resulted in the capture of Kufra by Free French Forces and the British Long Range Desert Group from the Italian and Libyan garrison
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
US Marine Sgt./Vietnam/Last out before the fall of Saigon/sent to attache office to guard millions of dollars before cash was burned & compound blown up by the Americans to keep the enemy from raiding it and obtaining classified documents
WWII: 837th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 33 missions (22 in B-24,11 in B-17) from 9 May to 9 September 1944. One of the few pilots to fly both the B-17 and the B-24. DFC w/ 4 Oak Leaf Cluster
WWII - 101st Airborne, 506th PIR, F Company. Paratrooper that landed in Normandy together with Easy Company. Fought at Carentan, Bastogne, Battle Of The Bulge. Completed his duty in Austria. Wounded twice. Pictured in a famous D-Day photo
WWII veteran of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian. Later served as a Presidential Honor Guard in the last days of FDR. FDR cancelled a dinner with the Guard members days before his death in Georgia
WWII: PTO. B-17 pilot. He was the last of MacArthur's personal pilots; among other flights, he flew Gen. MacArthur to the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
American general officer U.S. Army &Air Force/assistant chief of staff for operations (A-3) of the Twelfth Air Force, going to England with it the following month in support of Operation Husky, and to Algiers, North Africa in October 1942
WWII: Hobo in the 1930s, then 2 years at the CCC. In 1940, he was at the USS Oahu, a Yangtze River Patrol boat stationed at Shanghai, China. Departed for Corregidor end of 1941, was sunk by enemy gunfire 5 May 1942. POW, Hell Ship survivor
Fighter ace ww2 born 2/22/1920. 317th FS, 325th FG. He is credited with 8 confirmed victories. Awards include Distinguished Flying Cross and 15 Air Medals
WWII: PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8); Doolittle Raid witness (Apr. 1942); Battle of Midway (June 1942); Battle of Santa Cruz (Oct. 1942) when the Hornet was sunk (part of the salvage team who were the last men to leave the ship)
(Born June 21, 1921) is an American former field hockey player and a pilot in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II. Flew Stearman and AT-6 Planes
Spanish veteran (Born 1904) and the last surviving veteran of The Rif War of the 1920's, and one of the last of the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. As of August 2017, he became the world's oldest living man, and the 21st longest living man in documented h
WWII: USMC. Crew chief at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. He took care of the famous Vought F4U Corsair 'Number 13' that was flown by aces KennetH Walsh and Pappy Boyington. He knew both men very well. Later served on Guam and Iwo Jima
Retired Brigadier General. Canadian Member of Parliament for Carleton-Mississippi Hills. Minister of Defence 2006-2007, Minister of National Revenue 2007-2008
(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. UH-1 Huey pilot with Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 20th Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star, and 3 Purple Hearts
2/2/1911-2/16/1994 US Navy submarine commander WW2, Medal of Honor for service on Tang. Served Wahoo, as executive & approach officer. Participated more successful attacks on Japanese shipping than any other sub officer during war
(Born 1961) US Army Special Forces Veteran and Author. Participated in many operations during his career. He was in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Grenada. Bronze Star Recipient. Has written many books about the Revolutionary War
WWII: Last surviving Akwesasne Mohawk Code Talker during WWII. Fought in the South Pacific, New Guinea and Philippines theatres as one of 33 Mohawk code talkers
WWII: Serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, he was evacuated from Dunkirk (1940) on a ration boat filled with tins of pineapple, boxes and cigarettes
Kamikaze pilot WW2/Book, 'Memoirs of a Kamikaze', born on 11 December, 1926 in village Kitano Kotesashi. Odachi's graduation from elementary school coincided with Japan's occupation of China
US Centenarian, WWII and Civilian Conservation Corps vet, born 1917. CCC New Deal Program 1934-36 in Massachusetts, then an Army officer in the South Pacific during WWII
WWII - Fighter Ace (6 aerial victories, 17 ground victories, 155 missions) of the 2nd Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Group; received a citation for his escort action during Operation Tidal Wave (aka 'Ploesti Raid) in 1943
Japanese and American vet, born 1926 in the US. Raised in Japan, fought for Japan in the last days of WWII. Taken POW by Russia,18 months in a Siberian gulag. Released, later returned to the US, Served in the US Army during the Korean War
(Born 1925) WW2 and Korean War USAAF Veteran. Was in a B-24 Liberator and a tail gunner on a B-29. Witnessed the mushroom cloud from Nagasaki off in the distance in 1945. POW during the Korean War for 2 years
American Architect, born 1926. One of the last living apprentices to Frank Lloyd Wright. Drafted at the end of WWII, on a ship to Okinawa when it ended
Cold War: RB-47 reconnaissance pilot flying over the Barents Sea in July 1960, shot down by a Soviet MiG. He was held as prisoner and came home Jan. 27, 1961, greeted by President Kennedy
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; USS Arizona. survivor of USS Lexington as it was sinking during the Battle of the Coral Sea; took part in the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests after the war
Part of the first generation of female military pilots, eventually accumulating nearly 4,000 hours of flying time/Iraq/Running for Congress in 2020/aviation leader, commander
Japanese soldier from WW2 who hid in the jungle for 30 years refusing to surrender to the Allies; is now living in Brazil; author of 'No Surrender: My Thirty Year War'
U.S, Congressman (R) /Former Navy Seal from 1988 to 2014, small time actor/Drunk who gained coverage for verbally accosting & screaming profanities at several Senate Pages in the United States Capitol
Author 'VIETNAM Marine Infantry - One Year in Vietnam'/Trained as a corpsman he was attached to a Marine unit and saw duty on the front lines of the war
FBI agent, responded to the assassination attempt on George Wallace and interviewed Wallace during his recovery. One of the figures who helped head the investigation into possible group effort
WWII - His B-24 was shot down on a bombing mission to Ploesti in July 1944 (not the famous Ploesti Raid). For five weeks, with the help of locals and Serbian Chetniks, he escaped Nazis soldiers and was saved during 'Operation Halyard'
Former Colonel of the United States Marine Corps who served from 1975 to 2005. He did 3 tours as a commanding officer and 1 tour in Iraq in 2004. He graduated college in 1996 with 5 degrees (3 master and 2 undergraduate)
(Born 1945) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Company D, 229th Aviation Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division. POW from 1966 and then released in 1968. Recipient of a Purple Heart
American (1915-2008), served in the Spanish Civil War's Lincoln Brigade. Had joined the Communist party in the 1930s, later hassled by the FBI and HUAC. Left the party when he saw Stalin's actions. Worked also in the civil rights movement
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
(1905-1990) folklorist, author, & professor/Author; 'This Stubborn Soil' 'A Season of Weathering' 'Walking on Borrowed Land'/In 1942 joined the United States Army as a buck private & was assigned to the intelligence branch
Psychiatrist (Born: 1914) who served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven women Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II
Real life Rosie the Riveter; worked B-29 line in Wichita, KS. Volunteer on Doc restoration. Most of her original rivets from when she installed them at 18 years old were still sound
WWII: Served on the destroyer USS Dale (DD-353) from 1942-45. Battle of Komandorski Islands (Aleutians Campaign, March 1943), Central Pacific 1943/44 (Makin, Kwajalein, Eniwetok), 1944/45 Saipan, Guam, Battle of the Philippine Sea
WWII:_ PTO. Served on the submarine USS Finack. While on its 10th war patrol, the Finback -- with Andrew at the helm and the first man on deck -- rescued Lt. J.G. George Herbert Walker Bush
Palermo was part of the 2nd wave at Omaha Beach. He piled out of a Higgins boat, into a storm of bullets and bombs. This was followed by an hour dug into the bloody sand, while 2,500 men died around him
WWII Nazi War Criminal; was a guard at Trawniki labor camp; his US citizenship has been revoked but he originally couldn'tt be deported because no country would take him; has since been deported to Germany
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
WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
WWII US Army D-Day veteran, born 1924. Led wire-cutting group in the first wave on Omaha Beach. Claims to be the first man to reach the beach the morning of the attack
WWII: Eto. Battle of Normandy, Cherbourgh, Le Mans, Haguenau, Rhine. Not D - Day: Landed on Utah Beach on June 12, 1944. 314th Infantry 79th Infantry Division. Bronze Star. Reverend in Abingdon, Virginia
WWII Rosie the Riveter, photographed working with her sister Naomi Parker Fraley in WWII. Revealed in 2015 that her sister's photo was the inspiration for the iconic We Can Do It WWII Rosie poster
WWII: Guadalcanal campaign, Battle of Cape Gloucester. Korean War. Commended for his cour-age and coolness under fire by both his command-ing officers and the men that served with him, who dubbed him 'The Real John Wayne'. Silver Star