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WWII: 327th Glider Regiment, 101st Airborne Div. Due to a shortage of gliders, he arrived in France only on D-Day+1, landed with his glider in Holland in Sept. 1945 (Operation Market Garden), also in the Battle of the Bulge near Bastogne
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Born March 1921 was a member (Navy WAVES) of an all-women's German code-breaking team during WW2
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WWII: One of the first WAC during the war. She wrote a book about her experience, titled 'First WAC'
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United States Navy - served from 1944 to 1975
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Filipino WWII Veteran, U.S. Army. In July 1942, his Filipino squad ambushed a train carrying Japanese troops, cutting off the officers' heads to present to their commanding officer; the Japanese captain on the train had brutalized Filipinos.
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WWII veteran, Schofield Barracks at Pearl Harbor
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WWII: Served as a medic in Europe, beginning with the Battle of Normandy, landing at Utah Beach a couple days after D-Day and spent his last days in Germany tending to the Jewish Holocaust survivors at Buchenwald
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: CBI. Member of HQ Company, White Combat Team, 1st Battalion of the Merrill's Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit
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WWII: D-Day, 101st Airborne 401st Glider Infantry Regiment but went ashore on a landing craft at Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944
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Brazilian Military/Political Leader. Born: 01/11/1920
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WWII: Medical Detachment, 3d Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division. Battle of the Bulge
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Emergency room technician, HS English and drama teacher, health care administrator, marketing executive, former Air Force member, professional actor, comic, and musician, author and professional speaker
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UK WW1 Veteran (1998-2006). The last trench veteran of the war, and the world's fifth last living veteran of WWI. Wounded at Passchendaele
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Italian WWII Navy Veteran from Sicily (1923-2022). Served in Italy and Africa before the Allies took over. Got his high school diploma at 31, then added college degrees between the ages of 96 and 98
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WWII: ETO. 8th AF, Carpetbaggers Special Operations
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talkers'
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Brigadier GeneralChief Of Staff US Central Command
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WWII: Pacific Theater 1941-1945. 1st Platoon, G Company, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division. Battle of Guna-Bona, Sanananda , New Guinea, Leyte, Philippines, Luzon. Silver Star, 2 Purple Hearts
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WWII Veteran, Fox Company, D-Day veteran
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WWII - D-Day. Fox Company, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne, flanked the famous Easy Company (Band of Brothers); also jumped at OperatÃon Market Garden
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Greek military man and one of the masterminds of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/9/67 - 1/68 -- Cam Ranh Bay 1/68 - 7/68 An Khe (1st Air Cav and 173rd Airborne)
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII: PTO. USS New Orleans
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WWII - 486th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, 'Bluenosed Bastards of Bodney'. P-51 pilot with 5 air to ground victories (a 'strafing Ace'). Also Flew PT-17, BT-13, AT-6, P-40 and P-47. He flew with his twin brother, Maj. Gen. Cuthbert 'Bill' Pattill
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Maj. Gen. Cuthbert 'Bill' Pattillo was a P-51 pilot in WWII. Flew with his twin brother, Lt. Gen. Charles 'Buck' Pattillo. Bill shot down a ME-262 German Jet. 6 days later, Bill was shot down himself, and became a POW to the Germans
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American ww2 pilot
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D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in London, UK. He was a paratrooper from the 9th Battalion Parachute Regiment
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Author, filmmaker and founder and executive director of the Patton Veterans Project nonprofit and CEO of Patton Productions, LLC. Grandson of General George S. Patton. Son of George Patton IV
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Tuskegee Airman
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son of ww11 army officer-military leader
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Wwii - wasp
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WWII - Crew member of the USS Saratoga ('Sister Sara') from 1941 until the end of WWII, survivor of the Kamikaze attack on 21 February 1945. when the Sara was hit by 6 Kamikaze in 3 minutes
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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Retired General
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WWII: USS Drexler survivor, which was sunk after attacks from a kamikaze on May 28, 1945
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Victorian cross, army aust. vietnam war hero. Also awarded the DSC and Silver Star from the United States
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Sergeant Major Delta Force Operation Inherent Resolve
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98 year old fighter ace WWII, Pacific theatre
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WWII vet of the Tarawa battle. Seen being carried off wounded in the 1945 Best Oscar Documentary Short 'With the Marines at Tarawa'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 4th Division, 24th Marines
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales on 10 December 1941
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British Ace w/six Vic's in WW2
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Royal military
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker.One of two surviving WWII Navajo Code Talkers. Born 04/28/1925
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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2007-09)
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WWII Fighter Ace (6 Victs.)- US Navy
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Robert Pearce (2)Aerographer's Mate 1st Class, USN, Fleet Air Wing 10 Weather Observer, flying through the eye of typhoons and participating in 50 missions in the South China Sea searching for downed aircraft. Pacific Theater of Operations
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Highly decorated British navy officer from WW2
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Peter Pearson (2)Royal millitary
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WWII: New Zealand fighter pilot and flying ace. Europe/No. 610 Squadron; North Africa, Malta, Sicily, Italy, Far East/No. 81 Squadron. 6 victories. Notable for having shot down aircraft from all 3 main Axis powers'ermany, Italy and Japan
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Former Army General
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Air Force General
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WWII: PTO. USS Enterprise (CV-6) 1942-1945
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WWII US Marines veteran, born 1925. Aboard the USS Missouri, he was part of the Japanese Surrender ceremony's honor guard on September 2, 1945
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WW2/B-17 'Miss Carriage' bombardier/306th BG/POW Stalag Luft 3 Sagan Silesia Bavaria Move/forced to march 300 miles and held for a year at the Nazi prison Stalag Luff 7 until liberated by troops under Gen. George Patton's in April 1945
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(Born 1939) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, 3 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Flight Lt., 'Royal Air Force Captain'
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Retired Admiral
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 6th Marine Division
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WWII - 9th Army Air Corps, 434 Troop Carrier Group, 71st Troop Carrier Squadron; Radio operator on C-47 42-24022 'Butch' , 3 trips on D-Day incl. first dropping 101st Airborne Pathfinders. Operation Market, Bastogne, Operation Varsity
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WWII - D-Day. Pathfinder paratrooper for the 101St Airborne (Screaming Eagles), one of the first men to jump into Normany
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WWII: PTO. 307th Bomb Group, 13th Air Force
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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: 5th Army, 91st Infantry Division, 362 Regiment, 1st Battalion, Company C, 2nd Platoon, 2nd Squad. Battle of Rome
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WWII: British Murmansk run veteran
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Mahan (DD-364) from April to December 1944 and survived the Kamikaze attack on Dec. 7, 1944 (Battle of Ormoc Bay) between Leyte and Ponson Island, when 3 out of 7 Kamikaze hit the ship
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WWII: Guadalcanal (Battle of the Tenaru) August 1942, Cape Gloucester, Pavuvu. 1st Marine Division
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Wwii navy
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British Major General, in charge of the Royal Artillery forces in the Falklands War and as a witness signed the Argentine surrender document
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WWII: PTO. Iwo Jima survivor
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Crewman USS Ward 139, the first American Ship to engage the Japanese in WW2 at Pearl Harbor, sinking their mini-submarine
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WWII: ETO. B-24 navigator at the end of the war in the same squadron as later senator and Democratic Party presidential nominee George Stanley McGovern: 741st Bomb Squadron, 455th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. Bombing missions to Austria
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USS Pueblo survivor, Korean POW
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WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, Original Band of Brothers; co-author of 'Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends'
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WWII: ETO. B-17G 'Angel in Di-Skies' aka 'Angel in Disguise' (#42-37906). 568th Bomb Squadron, 390th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 16 missions as a B-17 ball turret gunner. Shot down on Aug. 2, 1944, POW at Stalag Luft IV
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Member Of Band Of Brothers, 506th Easy Company WWII
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Navy USS Joseph T Hickman
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US Army Afghanistan War Veteran. Received the Army Distinguished Service Cross for actions on Nov. 1, 2010 when he was wounded by a suicide bomber while on patrol and refused medical treatment and went back into the line of fire
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U.S. Army 1942-1946
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(Born 1931) US Marine Corps Korean War Veteran. Served from 1950 to 1953. Wounded twice in combat and earned 2 Purple Hearts
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Soviet WWII Veteran, Infantry And Paratrooper ? Stalingrad, Caucuses, Crimea. Lives in Canada, possibly in Montreal, Born 1927 Malin, Ukraine
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Retired United States Army four-star general who last served as the chief operating officer of the federal COVID-19 response for vaccine and therapeutic
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, landing near to the town of Sainte-Mère-Église. 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Division, 82nd Airborne Division
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JFK - Honor Guard at the State funeral of President John F. Kennedy
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Air Force General
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Wwii: pto. us navy
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WWII: ETO. Ball-turret gunner. 533th Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group
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Retired General
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'Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Pilot'
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Centenarian (1896-2002). US WWI veteran, served in France
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America's first six star General. Led U.S. forces in the first World War
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa. Navy: Radio Operator on USS Eldorado (AGC-11), command ship for Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) in Idaho
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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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100 Year old WW 2 Codebreaker,
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Former general of the German Democratic Republic's army
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Enlisted US Air Force in 1942 during World War II. Peterburs served in 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, & he piloted a P-51 Mustang; on 10 April 1945, he shot down Walter Schuck's Me 262
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German ww2 pilot
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US WWII Marine, born 1924. 4th Marine Division, action at the Marshall Islands (Kwajalein), Iwo Jima, Saipan, and Tinian
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British Tornado pilot, was the first POW of the Gulf War in 1991
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John Peters (4)US Army Gulf War Veteran. Father to Andrew John Peters who was an Afghanistan War veteran and killed in action in Ukrainian War. Bronze Star Recipient
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One of the last five survivor's of the Sinking of the Bismarck, that sunk on 27 May 1941. He is now 93 years old and lives in Reinbek, Germany
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Nuse at ww2 nazi camp dascha
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Retired USMC General
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WWII: CBI. Of 1st Bn, 915 Winnipeg Grenadiers, who defended Hong Kong in December 1941. After the surrender, he was a POW until the end of the war. He is the last of the so-called 'Arden Seven'
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WWII: USS Augusta; Roosevelt and Churchill met aboard the Augusta on 9 Aug 1941. Peterson was assigned to the president's personal guard detail. He left the USS Augusta before D-Day and joined the Marines for Guam and Iwo Jima
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CIA spy
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WW1 Veteran/Born 1900/Lives in Spokane,Wa.
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale (DD-353). Later served on the USS Kalk (DD-611) from the Aleutians to Okinawa
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C.G. US Army Combined Arms Command; Director of the CIA (2011-)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4). Petretti hauled dead or horribly wounded young sailors into a motor launch
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WWII Italian Ace with 5 Victories
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Retired Russian Colonel who prevented a Worldwide Nuclear War in 1983 by not responding to a false alarm that the United States had launched a nuclear missile
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Russian military officer. Former Marshall of the Soviet Union
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WWII: ETO. 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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Congessional medal of honor in afghanastan- only 2nd one in 40+ years alive that got it
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. 24th Infantry Division, Wheeler Field
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WWII: B-29 tail gunner in the Pacific- and China-Burma-India-Theater. He was assigned to a B-29 crew stationed in Guam. His plane 'The Uninvited' was called 'the last plane to bomb Japan.'
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Vietnam Veteran Pilot
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WW2 veteran
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(Born 1927) US Army WW2 Veteran. 313 Combat Engineer Battalion in Italy. Saw Eisenhower twice
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World war 2 german fighter ace
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Italian WWII-Fighter Ace
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Crewmember USS Ward 139, the first American ship to engage the Japanese at Pearl Harbor when it sank thier mini-submarine
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 912th Field Artillery Battalion
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
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WWII: Merchant Marine veteran. Traveling the Atlantic and Pacific, his service includes D-Day (his ship was grounded as part of one of the Mulberry harbous) and one Murmansk run
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WWII D-Day veteran, Utah Beach in the second wave . 4th Division, 8th Infantry
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. helicopter gunner with the 71st Aviation Company in South Vietnam. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Bronze Star and Purple Heart
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Maryland. He was on the Maryland until March 1944 and also in the Battle of Tarawa since the Maryland was the flagship there
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu. Also Korean War
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge; liberation of Mauthausen camp (Austria). 11th Armored Div.. Phelps, as photographed sewings his pants with a sewing machine after the Battle of the Bulge, made it on the cover of the Yank magazine on Feb. 18, 1945
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Cardiologist who wrote a great book on his WWII experiences called The Other Side of Time (1987) which was reissued in 2002 as Our War For the World
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WWII German Major General
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WWII: 486th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force (Sudbury, England). He was a Nose Art artist who painted what became known as the 'Zodiac Bombers' because the aircraft featured (often frivolous) painting themed to the signs of the zodiac
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Distinguished Flying Cross for successful missions in the Raid on Rabaul
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps. Guadalcanal Campaign
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USN Admiral
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Ryan Phillips (4)Transported President George W. Bush to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, California on 1 May 2003. The flight officer was Lieutenant Ryan Phillips
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World War II Marine Corp veteran portrayed in the new mini-series 'The Pacific'. Also interviewed for Ken Burn's The War
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WWII Artist
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Aviator, WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) lives in Austin, TX
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WWII: Quartermaster, USS Laffey (DD-724), 'the ship that would not die'. D-Day and Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action), surviving four bombs, six kamikaze crashes, and strafing
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WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941 survivor; USS Arizona. Read his story at http://my.execpc.com/-dschaaf/phraner.html
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WWII, 101st Airborne, Orig. Band of Brothers
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Born 1922, WWII: Royal Canadian Navy 1942-1945, ammunition loader on a four - inch anti aircraft gun. Served on the Tribal Class destroyer HMCS Iroquois on several Arctic Convoys to Murmansk
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WWII: PTO. USS Reid (DD-369)
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WWII: Battle of Britain pilot
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WWII: D - Day, Omaha Beach; Battle of St. Lo; Battle of Brest; seriously wounded in each battle, he was sent home after Brest. Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division
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air force general
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WWII: ETO. Survivor of the sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville on Dec. 24, 1944
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army general
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WWII - Battle of Saipan
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WWII: Veteran of the USS Yorktown. Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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First responding Police Officer to Rosa Parks' bus arrest in 1955, born 1926. A motorcycle cop who was blocks away when the call came in, he knew he could get there quicker than the police car could. He arrived first, and helped in taking Parks off the bu
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 17th Airborne Division. Silver Star
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Centenarian (110) WW1 Veteran
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WWII: ETO. OSS: 'Jedburgh' espionage and guerrilla operation in Nazi-occupied France
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British glider pilot, born 1922
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British General, former C.O.of 3 Para during the Falklands War, knighted by the Queen
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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
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(Born 1926) US Army WW2 Veteran. He served as a minesweeper with the 290th Anti-Tank Company. Bronze Star Recipient
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WWII: CBI. 1 Bn (White Combat Team) of the Merrillâ-s Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit. Purple Heart. Bronze Star
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WWII Veteran
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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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French WWII Veteran, taken POW by the Germans
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Last living member of the Flying Tigers
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Repulse on 10 December 1941 off Malaya, an event in the war that often is named 'Britain's Pearl Harbor'. Survived the sinking of his next ship, HMS Spartan, in 1944. Also recused troops at Dunkirk
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WWII: Medical Detachment, 3d Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Hürtgen Forest
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Spanish Civil War veteran who served in the International Brigades (Born: 1915) Age: 101. Lives in France
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining. While Pinto trained to be a Navajo Code Talker with the U.S. Marines, World War II ended before he would be sent overseas
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Portugese army officer and politician, Military Governor of the Azores from 1974 - 1976
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Latvian WW2 hero, last living 'Forrest Brother', probably living in Riga, also known as J?nis P?nups
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Mr. Piper admitted in April 2018 that he was not a D-Day veteran
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WWII: D-Day veteran, 505th PIR
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WWII Veteran, Pacific Theater
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WWII: Battle of Attu veteran
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American WWII Fighter Ace (10 Victs.)
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WWII: PTO. Radioman/gunner in a Curtis Helldiver (SB2C), participated in many battles and also helped sink the Yamato
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Marine Supertintendent Royal Fleet Auxiliary
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WW2 /From Monmouth in Gwent, was a Foreign Office civilian & member of legendary Dilly?s Girls, a group of young women who worked alongside the great Bletchley Codebreaker Dilly Knox breaking Italian & German secret service Enigma messages
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Author/'Inside the Third House'/Pacific Theater WW2/Commissioned in military intelligence/2 governors named him the Master of Ceremonies for State Texas/Served inaugural committees for Governors Shivers, Connally, Daniel, Smith & Briscoe
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Soldier in the United States Army during the Korean War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on November 26, 1950
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medal of honor marines vietnam
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2014 Medal of Honor recipient
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Brazilian WWII Vet, survived Covid-19
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(Born 1982) US Army Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran. Recipient of a Silver Star, Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart
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WWII. Italian Fighter Ace
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Phelps
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6th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON)
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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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WWII: PTO. USS Astoria
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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Fmr commissioner of the IRS and former Civil War General
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Last living WWII veteran from French Guiana
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WWII Veteran, Tiger Tank
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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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Medal of Honor Recipient
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3 war vet-ww2/korea/nam-Retired COMMAND SGT. MAJOR- LZ X-RAY 1965. Depicted in the movie We Were Soldiers starring Mel Gibson and his character played by Sam Elliot
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WWII Veteran
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Played a crucial role in the development of Fort Drum in Northern New York
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air force general
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WWII: PTO. USS HOrnet (CV-8). Witness to the Doolittle Raiders taking off for Tokyo. He was on the Hornet from its initial launch in Norfolk, Virginia until its ultimate sinking on October 26, 1942 in the Battle of Santa Cruz
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WWII: USMC. GUadalcanal, Peleliu
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Survivor of the of HMS Royal Oak which was sunk by a German U-Boat at Scapa Flow in 1939
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WWII. PTO. Served on the submarine USS Skipjack, SS-184 (famous for the 'Battle for Toilet Paper')
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British Army officer best known for commanding the 5th Parachute Brigade, British 6th Airborne Division during the Battle of Normandy
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Former National Security Advisor (1985-1986)
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WWII US Navy WAVES veteran, born 1919. Worked in Washington, DC as one of the Navy's code-breaking 'Code Girls'
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WWII: ETO. Normandy, Northern France and Rhineland Campaigns. 79th Infantry Division. Bronze Star
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(Born 1921) USAAF WW2 Veteran. Served from 1942 to 1945. B-17 Pilot with the 365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group. He was shot down and was a POW from 1944 to 1945. Recipient of 1 Distinguished Flying Service Cross and a Purple Heart
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(Born 1924) USAAF WW2 Veteran. 18th Weather Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group
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air force general
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WWII veteran, born in the Ukraine and served in the Soviet Army (1942-45)
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
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WWII: Royal Canadian Navy 1942-1945. Served on the destroyer HMCS Huron (G24) protecting four Arctic convoys to Murmansk, also supported the D-Day landings in June 1944. Also served on the HMCS Pictou and HMCS Poundmaker
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German WWII awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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Director of the CIA, US House Representaive for Kansas, US Army (retired), Tea Party activist
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Fought at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. WWII Veteran featured in the HBO Miniseries 'The Pacific'. Pictured in the iconic Peleliu photograph of a Marine resting exhausted after 36 hours of combnat, helmeted head in his hands
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Flying Tigers-engineering specialist
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Philippine former Senate President. Secretary of National Defense under Ferdinand Marcos. Guerilla fighter during WWII
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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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Vietnam US Army Vet 1970-1971, 1st Calvary Infantry, ran patrols in hills and mountains
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1922) who was one the last soldiers to be drafted up for the conflict. He is also one of more than 200 living soldiers of 'La Quinta del Biberon' (Draft of the Baby's bottle)
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The last verified French World War One Veteran.Born: 12/07/1897
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 28th Marines, 5th MarDiv
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WWII: Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Okinawa. USS Balch
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USAAF Fighter Ace, 8th FG, 35th FS - 5 Kills
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First British soldier to land in France on D-Day
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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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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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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(Born 1967) US Marine Corps Gulf War and Iraq War Veteran. Was part of the unit that toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein. Recipient of a Silver Star and Purple Heart
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US Air Force pilot that was shot down in 1958 over Indonesia, was secretly working for the CIA helping the rebels to overthrow the Indonesian government
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Medal of Honor, USMC, World War II
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US Army 4 Star General
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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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JFK: Part of drill team that escorted President Kennedy's remains up the driveway to the North Portico when they arrived at the White House
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Served in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross
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George Porter (2)
Tuskegee Airman -
WWII: PTO. USS Bunker Hill 1943-1945, survivor of the Kamikaze attack on 11 May 1945
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WWII - 12th Armorded Division; led first squad across the Danube River via Dillingen Bridge
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WWII: USMC fighter pilot, Began flying with VMF-121 and transfered to VMF-111 flying the F4F Wildcat. Moved once again to VMF-121 and flew the F4U Corsair. He scored 3 victories during this time. Later returned flying the F6F & scored 2 more victories
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WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
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Cuban exile militant and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent (Born: 1928). He is considered to be 'one of the most dangerous terrorists in recent history'. Age: 88. He now lives in Miami, U.S.A
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Flying Tigers-armorer
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SS Commando, Peace activist
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WW2/served at the end of WWII in occuped Japan. On V-J Day, his ship was in the process of crossing the international dateline, and his witnessed historic celebrations among his fellow sailors
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US Marine/Fall of Saigon Vietnam/Guarded embassy and was on the 2nd to-last helicopter out/Presently a Lawyer
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Member of the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo--WWII
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'Royal Air Force Test Pilot for the Development Flights of the Man-Powered Aircraft Jupiter'
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USS Arizona survivor, Pearl Harbor
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WW2 - Ploesti Raid
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma. (1920-2006)
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World War 2 veteran. Tuskegee Airman
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WWII - Fighter Ace born 12/31/1920, 6 victories. VF-16 (USS Lexington CV-16). Flew Hellcat and F4Wildcat
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WWII: Pacific. Served on the USS John Penn (survived her sinking after a Japanese air attack on Aug. 13, 1943) and the USS President Hayes
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Military
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Pulitzer Prize Winning Jazz Pianist/Composer. Big Band/Jazz HOF/During World War II, Powell was drafted into the U.S. Army, but fought his battles from a piano stool, having been assigned to Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band from 1943 to 1945
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William Powell (3) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale
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WWII: ETO. Fighter pilot 328th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, 8th AF
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WWII: Served on the USS Balch from 1939-1943. Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway
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Member of the Band of Brothers, Easy Company 506th PIR 101st. Airborne
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(August 17, 1929 - August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident
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Last Female World War One Veteran (Canadian)Born: 05/10/1899
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WWII veteran, born 1925, served on the USS Bismarck Sea. Supported the Iwo Jima campaign, and survived the ship's sinking there by the Japanese
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WWII - D-Day veteran, wounded during the landing at Omaha Beach, laid out on the beach all night
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WW2 air ace - 9 Kills - US Navy - Navy Cross
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US Navy WAVE of WWII, born 1923. Began wartime service as a 'Rosie' in an ammunitions depot, 1942. Joined the Navy, served 1943-1945. Trained as an airplane mechanic, but due to biases against women, was given bookkeeper/supply work to do
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WWII - Witness to the Japanese bombardment of coastal targets near Santa Barbara, CA on February 23, 1942, an event that was the inspiration for the John Belushi movie "1941"
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Korean War - Frank Praytor is the Seargent that adoped and looked after a two-week old kitten, he named 'Miss Hap', during the height of the Korean War, as is pictured in a famous War photograph, dated October 18, 1952
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WWII: Served on LST-474 in the Pacific
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WWII veteran, 45th Infantry Division. Part of the campaigns of Italy: Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio. Saw Mussolini's body hung in an Italian square, and one of the first groups to liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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WWII vet. WAC 1943-1946 - Army Good Conduct medal, WAC Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Honorable Service Lapel Pin
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WWII: MTO. Operation Dragoon (Invasion of Southern France). US Army
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One of the last survivors to have served in FDR's top-secret Map Room
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group Manhattan Project Veteran Military Veteran
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A quarterback from West Jefferson, Ohio, he was the backup for Team Captain George Lynn on the 1942 Ohio State National Championship team. Paul completed Army Air Force pilot training and flew 64 combat missions in Europe during WWII
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WWII Nazi War Criminal. Born: 07/29/1913. Responsible for killing 335 Italian civilists in May 1944 at the Fosse Ardeartine
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Mapmaker at Camp Malakole. Since he was familiar with the locations, he was called to pick up his skipper to drive him to Pearl Harbor where they arrived during the second wave of the attack and got strafed
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WWII: 9th Armored Division Headquarters Company, Reconnaissance Patrols. Among the first Americans to dash across the Luddendorf Bridge at Remagen, and one of those who painted the famous sign at the bridge
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French military officer who was involved in the sining of the Rainbow Warrior in 1985
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Former US Navy SEAL, founder and former CEO of security company Blackwater, USA
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Alamo Scout Leader of WWII raid on Cabanatuan POW Camp
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WWII: Fighter Pilot, 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group
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Tom Pritchard (2) Australian WW2 veteran. Last living Rats of Tobruk, the first Allied troops to defeat German troops
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WWII: PTO. USS Nicholas
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, battle of Okinawa
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WWII: PTO. Poi-Namur, Kwajalein, Atoll, Marshall Island, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Tinian and Iwo Jima. USMC
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Montgomery
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach, 116th IR, 29th Division. DSC
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Ukrainian military officer
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WWII: One of the last 'Rats of Tobruk'. The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Rommel's Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk, Lybia
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WWII: D-Day, first wave. Gunner on LST-515. One of the few men left of disastrous Exercise Tiger (D-Day landing practice, April 28, 1944), when German E-Boats attacked the practicing LSTs and sank 2 LSTs,damaging 2 others, killing 746 men
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Retired USN Admiral
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Air Force General
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia
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Born Dec. 8, 1926. One of the most decorated military figures in history.With the Medal of Honor, Puckett will now have the following military citations: Medal of Honor (Korea) Distinguished Service Cross (Vietnam) Silver Star with first Oak Leaf Clu
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Author of My Final Re-Spot: A young sailor's misfortune on the flight deck of the USS Forrestal CV-59; American Naval veteran
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WWII - D-Day Omaha Beach; 1st Infantry Division; of the 38 men of his platoon, only 9 survived by the end of the war
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WWII: PTO. Edson's Raiders. Three Purple Hearts
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Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, is now living in Great Britain / England
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WWII - Navy veteran, observed the first flag raising in Iwo Jima, Japan, while aboard the LSM 241
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WWII: ETO. B-17 pilot. 379th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 35 missions, mostly over Germany (Merseburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen). Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters
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WWII: Serving with the Royal Army Service Corps, he was evacuated from Dunkirk (1940) in a frigate
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WW1 Veteran/Oldest pensioner - Deceased 2006
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WWII veteran who was stationed in Spain during the Spanish Ciivil War, while in the Navy. He helped in the evacuation of Americans from Spain at the time. Belved to the be the last surviving American assocated with that war.. Born 5/31/1918
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Bagley (DD-386)
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George Pyne (2) D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1920. He is now 94 and lives in Exeter, Devon, UK. He was on a landing craft when a mine exploded under it and survived. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
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WWII: ETO. 17th Airborne Division, Battle of the Bulge, Operation Varsity (March 1945)
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WWII: CBI. Combat cameraman of the Merrill's Marauders, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit. Post-war, he filmed the first television commercial ever and worked in Hollywood with Burt Lancaster, Alan Alda, Anthony Perkins, a.o
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US Army Air Corps stateside WWII plane mechanic, born 1916. Last living 1947 charter member of the North Dakota National Guard
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Army General
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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) (/ U.S. Marine Corps Guard
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US Army Col. (1884-1926). Wounded at Argonne in WWI, made aid-de-camp to Gen. Pershing in May 1918. Rode with him in the London victory parade, and continued as Pershing's aid after the war. Died unexpectedly of pneumonia at 41
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa
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Fighter ace
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dobbin
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American WWII Fighter Ace (5 Victs.) - USAAF
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 29th infantry division
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Filipino WWII veteran. Oldest member of the Hunter's ROTC Guerilla Unit of the Philippines. He was part of the liberation of Fort McKinley, USAFFE's headquarters
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Member of the crew of the ''Memphis Belle''--1st B-17 bomber during WWII to fly 25 missions!
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USN Admiral
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WWII PTO: HMAS Australia. Veteran of the First Battle of Savo Island (August 8-9, 1942), when the Allied forces werew crushingly defeated
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Poet, Vietnam War Veteran
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US WWII Tuskegee Airmen, born 1925. Served stateside as an airplane mechanic. Degree in accounting, then worked for Pan Am Airlines and later the Treasury Dept
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WWII Veteran, D-Day, Omaha Beach Normandy, France. 5th Rangers Battalion. Has an article about him on D-DAY Eyewitness Accounts Of WW2
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WWII: US Navy. Scotland; Russia; Caribbean
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Vice Admiral within the United States Navy and leader of the project to develop the Polaris missile system. Vice Admiral Raborn was also the 7th Director of Central Intelligence and the 5th Director of CIA
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Former Prime Minister of Fiji after leading a series of military coups
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WWII: PT boat gunner (PT-81) who saw action in the Aleutian Campaign and later in the Pacific, where he was severely wounded while defending a U.S. ammunition supply ship during a Japanese kamikaze attack, nearly losing an arm and a leg
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Robert Rackstraw (2) Private investigative team believe D.B. Cooper is an individual named Robert Rackstraw who flew helicopters in the Vietnam War and is now 73 and living in the San Diego area
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British folk-singer/songwriter, youngest known participant in D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1928. He is now 88 and lives in the UK
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WWII: Pearl Harbor Survivor, 7 December 1941, served on the USS California
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WWII, German Fighter pilot, Jagdgeschwader 51 (JG 51)
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WWII: B-24 bomber pilot of the 53rd Bomb Group, 753rd Squadron, 8th Air Force, who was instructed by none other than Jimmy Stewart himself
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air force general
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Born 1938 US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1972 to 1973. 2 Bronze Stars, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross, 1 Legion of Merit, and 1 Defense Superior Service Medal
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS McCawley (AP-10) off the coast of Guadalcanal Island, 30 June 1943
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Retired General
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Member of the AVG-Flying Tigers WWII--[3.5 victories]
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United States Army general, serves as the commanding general of United States Army Futures Command
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, aboard the USS Maryland. Fought the rest of the war in the Pacific front, witnessed the surrender of the Japanese from the deck of the USS Wilkes Barre (CL-103)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII air force hero & Ace (275 victories)
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Former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (1996-2000); Supreme Allied Commander Europe NATO (2000-03)
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Military
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WWII Pilot aboard the USS Enterprise - Took part in the 'Marianas Turkey Shoot), Commander of USS Independence, RADM, Navy Cross Recipient
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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WWII: 91st Coast Artillery, Philippine Scouts. POW. Bronze Star
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US WWII Navy corpsman (medic), born 1925. Cared for the wounded/dying thru the Iwo Jima battle, one dying in his arms. Saw flag raised on Mt. Suribachi. Ship burials at sea continued going back to Pearl Harbor, where they learned FDR died
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WWII German Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot Ace with 46 victories
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British Army officer, served in the Indonesia?Malaysia confrontation and Northern Ireland
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World War One Veteran
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WWII: ETO/PTO. USS Nevada (BB-36). D-Day, Southern France, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. Survived a Kamikaze hit and a bombardment from a shore battery that struck the ship on starboard side; one shell passed directly through his bunk on the 2nd deck
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navy admiral
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navy
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WWII: ETO. Radio Operator, 297th Combat Engineering Battalion. Normandy, northern France, Battle of the Bulge, Rhineland. Bronze Star
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International Brigade Rakosi Battalion, XIII Brigade
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WWII - Local Californian baseball icon; contemporary witness of the Port Chicago, CA, disaster in July 1944
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'Royal Air Force Group Captain Battle of Britain Museum Hendon'
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Retired Air Force General
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, aboard the USS Sacramento
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WWII Ace (10 Kills) 56th Fighter Group - USAAF - DSC
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Veteran of both World War 1 and World War 2
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medal of honor army vietnam
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1918-2010) , survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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Danish WWII Veteran
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WWII Army electrical engineer (b.1920) assigned to the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site. One of the last surviving witnesses of the first atomic explosion, the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945
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Norwegian WWII resistance fighter and politician
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WWII: PTO. 5th Air Force, 43rd Bomb Group, 63 Squadron
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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Iban Scout from Johore in Malaya, who won the British George Cross for gallantry
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WW II Sailor; survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
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(Born 1954) US Marine Corps Gulf War Veteran. 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion, 1st Marine Division. Received the Navy Cross. Retired as a Colonel
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinian. USMC
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa. First Marine Division
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII. PTO. USS John C. Butler. Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Leyte Gulf, a.o
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Tuskegee Airmen pilot
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WWII - Pearl Harbor. US Navy. The first diver to enter the sunken USS Arizona. Author of the book 'Descent into Darkness'. Born Oct. 18, 1920
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4-Star General: first Chief of Space Operations - United States Space Force. Currently oversees organizational stand-up & transfer of officers/enlisted personnel into the newest service branch. Previously was commander of US Space Command
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WWII: ETO. 333rd Squadron, 944th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. DFC
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WWII: 1st Bn, 27th Marine Regiment. Served in North Afric and the Pacific Theater
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Parachuted into Normandy France as part of the Normandy Invasion 6 June 1944 as well as a 95 year ols 75 years later
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(Born 1922) US Coast Guard WW2 Veteran. Utah Beach D-Day
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USN Flier. During World War II, he saw action in 11 battles in the Pacific theater and was awarded the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. He became a vice admiral in the Reserve in 1960
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Donut Dolly in Vietnam. Author
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Typhoon of 3 June 1945. US Navy, LST-1122
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WWII: PTO. Defense of Corregidor 1942. POW. Camp Cabantuan. Hellship Totori Maru. Osaka Camp #1, slave labor. Osaka Sakai Prison. 60th Coast Artillery
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US centenarian, born 2020. Served in the Civilian Conservation Corps (1938-39), then in the Air Force in Germany at the end of WWII (1945-46)
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WWII: Montford Point Marine (first African-American Marines), served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam
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WWII: US Navy. Aviation machinist mate aboard the escort carrier USS Petrof Bay in the Pacific ; his carrier was engaged in various battles, including Iwo Jima and Okinawa
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Battle of Stalingrad survivor
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS San Faancisco
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WWII - Flying Tiger Ace, 10.5 victories
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US WWII Army veteran, born 1923. 45th Infantry, saw action at Anzio and Operation Dragoon in South France. Later, a Phys Ed teacher and member of NYS Wrestling Hall of Fame
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WWII: D-Day. 24th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized). Landed on Utah Beach on June 6, 1944, advanced from Normandy to Cape de la Hague, then to Cherbourg, where he was wounded by an 88mm shell that blew his jeep into the air
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Born in 1898. Claims to have fought in the Mexican Revolution. Lives in Illinois, U.S.A
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(Born 1975) US Navy SEAL Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Severely wounded in Fallujah, Iraq by heavy fire in 2007. Author of books like The Trident and Overcome
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) who knew Richard Bong, Top American Ace of WWII
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Whitney
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101st airborne, c co- not band of brothers
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Sam Reed (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Former Secretary of the Air Force
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Last man out of the tunnel in the Great Escape during WWII
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air force general
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor. USS Ward, , which is credited with firing the first U.S. shots of World War II
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air ace usaf 475th squadron satan's angels
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World war 2 fighter ace- 6 kills - 530th FS, p-51, pt-22, p-40, c-45, bt-13, c-47, at-6, b-25,pq-13, b-26
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor
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German tank ace in World War 2, at least 17 tank kills (was awared the Ritterkreut after his 17th victory)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Utah. Later served on the USS St. Louis in the Battles of Kula Gulf and Kolombangara
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII French Resistance double agent and composer/lyricist (1922-2002). Co-wrote the Christmas classic 'Do You Hear What I Hear' with his wife in 1962
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Born 1942 US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. 2 Bronze Stars and Legion of Merit
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Pitcher for West Point he then pitched in 17 games for the U.S.A. in the 1993 World games. He pitched a couple of minor league games in 1996 for the Orioles but was recalled to military duty. He died in Afhanistan while serving
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Former general in the German Democratic Republic's army
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WWII - Pearl Harbor veteran. B-17 copilot arriving at Pearl Harbor by chance during the attack. Shot down by Japanese, landed at Hickam Field, the plane broke apart, shown in an iconic photo of the day
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Scottish Flight Lieutenant WW II was awarded the Victoria Cross for action during air combat over Dusseldorf, Germany on November 3, 1943
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WWII - contemporary witness of the Port Chicago disaster; largest US mainland munitions explosion, July 17, 1944, Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, CA. As of 2018, she is the oldest National Park Ranger in the United States, born Sept. 22, 1921
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, sunk by Kamikaze attack)
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Raleigh
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WWII veteran. Honored by the President during the 2019 State of the Union Address
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Commnader Military Sealift Command
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JFK: Military Academy at West Point Cadet representative at a White House reception in early 1961
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army general chief of staff
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Air Force General
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JFK - Member of The Old Guard, serving the Kennedy family and also Honor Guard at the funeral of John F. Kennedy
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WWII: PTO. 1st Marines Division. Battle of Cape Gloucester , Battle of Peleliu.Wounded twice
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Former general of the German Democratic Republic's army
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Korean War: Battle of Chosin Reservoir, US Marine Corps
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WWII Fighter Ace, F4F Wildcat Pilot - US Navy - 9 Kills - Navy Cross
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia. Surrender Tokyo Bay
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Known as 'Hitler's Favorite Test Pilot'. Hanna was a German Nazi test pilot who tested many different types of German planes throughout World War 2. She is also the author of The Sky My Kingdom
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Neosho (AO-23). Born July 8, 1919.
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commander 18th wing
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WWII PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8). Doolittle Raid
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US Air Force, Korea and Vietnam, born 1932. Served stateside during Korean War, then to Vietnam with the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing
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Military
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army general
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Air Force General
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WII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Trained for the Marine Air Corps, he never flew but had to endure sniper attacks at Okinawa where his CO was killed
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WWII: Soviet pilot during the Second World War, flew 307 missions and was named a 'Hero of the Soviet Union' in 1943. Now age 98 and reportedly lives in Russia
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WWII: Arctic convoy (Murmansk) veteran, D-Day veteran (HMCS Algonquin)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Thornton
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor at Schofield Barracks, 7 December 1941
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Centenarian - World War I Vet Born: 05/04/1901
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) called 'Sexy Rexy'. Last WASP of South Dakota and as an Oglala Lakota, she is the only female Native American to serve in the WASPs
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma, Navy Seaman First Class
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Air Force General
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WWII - Iwo Jima. Corporal in the Baker Co. 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of the 4th Marine Division, Also Roi-Namur, Saipan, and Tinian
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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
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Retired Navy Admiral
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Jim Reynolds (2)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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air force general
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WWII: Veteran (2nd Marine Division) of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. Served in Pearl Harbor, Luzon, Guadalcanal, the Northern Solomons, and Manila. Us Army
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(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Went to Oran, Africa, Sicily, Italy, and the Philippines during the war. USS Boise
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(Born 1986) US Air Force Afghanistan and Iraq War Veteran. Recipient of an Air Force Cross and 3 Purple Hearts
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WWII: ETO D-Day, Utah Beach, D Company, 359th Regiment (Heavy Weapons Unit), 90th Infantry Division. Also in Hill 122 (the Battle of Mont Castre and Le Plessis-Lastelle, July 3-12, 1944), and The Battle of Chamois (Falaise Pocket)
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C-47 pilot that dropped paratroopers near the town of St. Mere Eglise as part of the D-Day invasion of France; later also flew paratroopers into Operation Market Garden
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(Born 1948) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Wounded in the hip and later got the Purple Heart
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U.S. World War II D-Day veteran Tom Rice, from Coronado, California, parachutes in a tandem jump into a field in Carentan, Normandy, France, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. WWII: ETO. D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, Eagles Nest
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Air Force General
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Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11). Later on transport USS Kittson in the Battle of Okinawa
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US Army, WWII 11th Airborne Paratrooper, born 1927. Turned 18 in 1945, drafted, sent to Japan as part of the postwar occupation force. Had to leave school, but finally 'graduated' alongside his grandson in 2020
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Dave Richards (2)Retired Royal millitary
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WWII: MTO. Anzio. Darby's Ranger
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WWII US Navy (b. 1923) Served on USS Valve and USS Hitchiti. Marshall Islands, Leyte, Luzon, and Okinawa campaigns
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Retired 4 Star General
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(Born 1947) US Navy SEAL Vietnam War Veteran. Part of SEAL Team 1
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US Army Vietnam Veteran. Bronze Star Recipient
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Jack Richardson (3) WWII: PTO. Edson's 1st Marine Raider Battalion. Tulagi, New Georgia, and Guadalcanal (Battle of Bloody Ridge, first and second Matanikau, Tasimboko Raid)
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Retired United States Army lieutenant general
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Four-star general in the United States Army who is the commander of United States Southern Command
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British Army officer during the Troubles, before becoming General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland
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Member of the Flying Tigers (AVG) WWII
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Retired General
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Tuskegee Airman, flew P-40 and P-47 aircraft
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Former Surgeon General 1977-1981
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Oklahoma
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German ww2 pilot
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WWII & Korean War: Navy corpsman
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Son of WWI Hero Eddie Rickenbacker
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LCDR - US NAVY Blue Angels
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales
