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Wasp wwii pilot
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Lakeland Flying Tigers AAA
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Vietnamese Minister of Justice during the Vietnam War era, now living in Exile in France
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army general
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WWII: Finnish Fighter Ace
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WWII: Rosie the Riveter for Ford Motor Company, who, as part of an all - female crew, installed a de - icer on the tails of B-25 bombers
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Hiroshima survivor, born in 1926 in California, moved to Japan at age 6. Drafted into the Japanese army during WWII, he was helping to dig an air raid shelter into a hill about a mile and a half from Hiroshima's center when the bomb hit. He emerged to see
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge and other major battles. 740th Tank Battalion ('Daredevil Tankers')
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Coast guard author
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation. Interrogated numerous Nazi officials involved in art operations, incl. Albert Speer and Walter Hofer. At Berchtesgaden, he worked to recover the objects from Hermann Göring's collection
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Figher ace iwo jima p-51
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Former Soviet military leader, doctor of technical sciences, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
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WWII: ETO. Falaise Pocket, Battle of the Bulge, Maginot Line, 'West Wall', Rhine crossing, Nuremberg, Austria. 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Blue Ridge Infantry Division
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Spanish Civil War veteran (Born: 1917) was a volunteer of the Republican army, becoming an official. He fought in Madrid and the Battle of Teruel. One of the last surviving Republican officers. Now 99
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WWII: Nurse on hospital ship USS Solace
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Author/Retired Brigadier General
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Retired General
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Fought at Iwo Jima.Veteran featured on the HBO miniseries The Pacific
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Harold has been cited in several books and publications chronicling the history of the war for heroism in the battle of Sugar Loaf Hill on Okinawa. Purple Heart
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, Army Medical Department
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, 101st Airborne Division
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WWII: Escaped the German Army in the 'Miracle of Dunkirk', May/June 1940. 13th Lysander Squadron RAF, but dispatched to the Royal Signals of the Army before Dunkirk as they were in need of wireless operators like him
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WWII: Signalman on HMS Palomares in the ill-fated PQ17 arctic convoy in July 1942 when 25 of 36 ships were lost to enemy actions
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American aviator, notable for being in the late summer and early fall of 1976 the first person in history to successfully fly a homebuilt aircraft around the world. World War II Veteran
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Founder of Enterprise Rental cars, pilot aboard the USS Enterprise during WW2
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Medal of honor army vietnam, born 1937
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Pearl Harbor Suvivor 'Battleship California'
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Army Captain Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient. Was awarded by President Biden in September of 2023 for his actions Ap Go Cong, South Vietnam in 1968. (Born 1942)
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WW2 veteran who helped plan the D-Day landings in June 1944. Also the first woman to get the Legion d'Honneur. She is now 98 and lives in London, UK
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Army General
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TV/movie actress of the 1960s + 70s: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Peter Gunn, Dragnet (1958), Flight = 1 ep. 'Enemy Agent' of: 'Gen. Kenny that introduced the episodes was the commander of the 5th Air Force under MacArthur in WWII'; + 'Three Men in a Boat'
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WWII: Merchant Marine. Arctic convoys
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942; also a Malta convoys veteran
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Thomas Taylor (5)(Born 1923) US Coast Guard WW2 Veteran. Worked on a destroyer escort
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS California
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WWII: PTO. USS Bannon, USS West Virginia, USS Alabama
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French Freedom Fighter WW2 Born c. 1916
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Retired General
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WWII: PTO. USS Laurens APA-153, USS George K. MacKenzie DD-836
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WWII Veteran from Kansas. He served in the 98th Infantry Division at the end of WWII as a replacement for the original infantry and trained for deployment in Japan. He was one of 15,000 replacements for the Division at the end of the war.
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WWII: PTO. Bataan Death March
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Spanish soldier, tried a coup-etat in Spain in 1981 but failed
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Afghanistan and Iraq War Army Veteran
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(Born 1950) US Marine Crops Vietnam Veteran. A combat engineer with Company D, 11th Engineer Battalion of the 3rd Marine Division. POW from 1968 to 1973
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941; survived the sinking of 4 ships in WWII
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Navy radioman third class stationed at Ford Island
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WWII - Bataan Death March Survivor/192nd Tank Battalion, U.S. Army,made to march for 8 days after his capture/Former professor of economics at Arizona State University
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Soviet War Veteran (Red Army) Born: 07/12/1915
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1919, he joined 615 RAuxAF in March 1938. Called up in 1939, he flew on Beaufighters throughout the Battle of Britain. He is now 96 and lives in Wheldrake near York, UK
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WW2 Veteran. D-Day June 6 1945
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US AF pilot during the Berlin Air Lift 1948
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Last survivng Tahitian WWII veteran
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British WWI soldier. Born: 06/23/1903
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Abingdon'
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WWII D-Day veteran, served on LCT transporting troops and supplies to the beaches under heavy fire. Also met Babe Ruth as a 5 year old in 1928 when his uncle played for the Red Sox
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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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Japanese WWII Veteran, born 1921, secretary general of the Chugoku Kikansha Renrakukai (Chukiren) until it was dissolved in 2002
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Vietnam war army hero 'Medal of Honor'
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa
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Doolittle's Raiders crew #7 Engineer/Gunner
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Fighter ace world war 2 6 1/2 kills
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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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Pearl Harbor Survivor; sight-setter on a battery gun of the USS Ward, the ship that fired the first American shots in WWII and sank a Japanese submarine on Dec. 7, 1941
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Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Flying Training School Cranwell
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 1st Marine Division. Battle of Peleliu
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US Air Force SR-71, U-2 and RB-57F Test Pilot
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army general
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Air force General
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US Marine Corps 4 Star General
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US WWII Navy vet, born 1925. Served on the USS Bush. Hit and sunk by kamikazes at Okinawa. Last living survivor of the sinking
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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WWII: MTO/ETO. US Navy. Sicily, Naples, Sardinia
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(Born 1943) US Army Band player during Vietnam. Played in the band for fallen soldiers funerals
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WWII ETO: D-Day. Operation Market Garden, Bastogne, Battle of the Bulge. 101st Airborne Division
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Tuskegee Airman
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Fighter ace
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US Navy Admiral
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WWII: CBI theater, Hump flyer
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of the USS Mannert Abele in the Battle of Okinawa
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Navy Admiral
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US Centenarian, born 1912. Lived through the 1918 Flu and COVID-19. WWII Navy veteran, patrolled the Aleutian Islands
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WWII: B-24/B-17 bombardier in the 839th Squadron, 487th Bombt Group, 8th Air Force (Lavenham base). 30 missions (incl. D-Day) from 6 May to 5 November 1944. Wounded twice: 14 October 1944 at Cologne and 5 November 1944 at Ludwigshafen
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WWII: Piloted B-4, B-17 and P-51 planes in the 839th Squadron, 487th Bombardment Group, 8th AF(Lavenham base). 30 missions (including D - Day) from 6 May to 5 November 1944. Wounded twice: 14 October 1944 at Cologne and 5 November 1944 at Ludwigshafen
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Served on the USS Tennessee prior to WWII and the USS Missouri during WWII, ultimately witnessing the end of WWII/His story got 5 million views on facebook
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JFK - Honor Guard in the State funeral of President Kennedy; also stood Death Watch and as such pictured in the famous photograph of Jackie and Caroline Kennedy kneeling at the coffin
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F-86 Sabre pilot assigned to the 39thFighter Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter Interceptor Group during the Korean Conflict. Besides gaining 2 aerial victories over MiG-15s
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; Naval Housing, Ford Island. Thompson was 13 on Dec. 7, 1941. His father was stationed on the seaplane tender Curtiss, anchored in Pearl Harbor
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John Thompson (6)
WWII: Guadalcanal. Led an air attack on Japanese forces at Guadalcanal's Bloody Ridge -
Fighter ace 31st fighter group
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US Army Vietnam War Veteran. 25th Infantry. Purple Heart Recipient
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American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973 from the 5th Congressional District of Georgia. World War II Veteran
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US Vietnam Vet, born 1947. Co. B, 504th Military Police 'Roadrunners', served in Pleiku, Vietnam
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air force general
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Former Governor of Nebraska (1979-1983)
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Remagen. 78th Infantry Division
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(February 11, 1953 - May 24, 1986), (Lt Cmdr, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot and a NASA astronaut candidate.Thorne was killed in an aircraft accident of a stunt plane -in which he was a passenger- on May 24, 1986
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WWII: Tuskegee Airmen. Crew chief for the 332nd Fighter Group
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USAF General
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Medal of Honor, US Navy Vietnam, born 1949
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'British'
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Dep Asstiant Secretary of Defense
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Air Force Medal of Honor Recipeint - Vietnam
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Survivor of the Mai Lai Massacre
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navy admiral
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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US Army General
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air force general
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)
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WWII: PTO. One of the two Marines smoking in the famous photo from the Battle of Peleliu
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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Pilot of Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the A-Bomb on Hiroshima
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WWII: D-Day, etc., 82nD AB, 505th PIR
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US Admiral
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Member of the Annex Security Team that fought the Battle of Benghazi, Libya, from September 11 to September 12, 2012. 13 Hours Movie Basis
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P-61 Pilot during WWII-(15 victories)
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WWII - Monuments Men, 2nd (post-VE-Day) generation, in Japan
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Vietnam/UH-60 Medivac Pilot Huey Cobra Medical Ambulance
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Son of Charles Tigard, Founder of Tigard, Oregon Born 1909 WWII veteran
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Clerk/typist for the Nuremberg Trials after WWII. Subject of the documentary 'The Typist', as the trial's last living typist
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Tuskegee Airmen/477th Bomber Group/'LA Chapter'
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMT Lancastria during Operation Ariel (17 June 1940). It is estimated that there were 6.500 fatalities, representing a greater loss of life than the Titanic and Lusitania disasters combined
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(June 11, 1906 - September 23, 1992) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces
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La Drang Valley, LZ-Xray Vietnam Way
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WWII Veteran, F Co, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division) Has a video on YouTube you can checkout 'The Day I Was Saved By A German Medic' December 2nd, 1944
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Us airman, fighter ace in spanish was in 36-38
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CCC. WWII: PTO. 2nd Marine Division. Fought in the battles of Okinawa, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian and Tarawa
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Air Force General
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Former Prime Minister of Thailand, Army General
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Member of the Band of Brothers / 506th Easy Company
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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WWII: ETO, tail gunner on B-17 42-31720 'The Blue Blazing Blizzard' (379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force). His B-17 was shot and exploded at 25.000 feet while on a raid to Ludwigshafen, Sept 8, 1944; survived, was taken POW
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Lz xray nam 1965
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Battle of Remagen. 303rd Medical Battallion, 78th Infantry Division
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German WWII Veteran
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Desert Storm/Shield US Army Veteran. Served from 1979 to 2000
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WWII - D-Day, Ranger 5HQ, in the 1st Wave on Omaha Beach
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WW2/from Poole in Dorset, Wren in Bletchley Park Naval Section working on ?Allied Plot?. A chart of the world covering all 4 walls & Wrens plotted the movement of all the allied ships and their German, Italian and Japanese opposite numbers
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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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Supercentenarian (1889-2002), one of the last Italian WWI veterans, and at the time of his death, the world's oldest man
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WW II Japanese propogandist 'Tokyo Rose'
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WWII: ETO. 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Fought in the famous 'Battle of the Lost Battalion'
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Navajo Code Talker/3rd Battalion/9th Regiment
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker
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WW2 Navajo Code Talker
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One of the first five African American F-4 Phantom II pilots to serve under the famed Tuskegee Airman Gen. Daniel 'Chappie' James
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Retired Israeli Air Force officer. During WWII he served in a group of Palestinian Jewis Royal Air Force pilots. Back in Israel he served in the Israeli Air Force
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. Company A, 2nd Rangers Battalion; landed near to the heavily fortified village of Vierville where he was seriously wounded while getting ashore
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WWII: PTO. B-24 Liberator nose gunner, 40 missions
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WW2, Korean & Vietnam Wars/Medal of Honor Recipient & Awarded Purple Heart U.S. Army/Rank Colonel/1st lieutenant in Company I, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. At Saulx de Vesoul, France location for actions awarding him MOH
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WWII: D-Day, USS Barnett (APA-5), Utah Beach. Wounded in Operation Husky (Sicily, July 1943). Later in the Invasion of Souther France (August 1944) and also in the Battle of Okinawa. Purple Heart, French Legion of Honor Medal
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WWII: USMC fighter pilot of VMF-214 'The Swashbucklers'. Southwest Pacific and Guadalcanal to join Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 214, known as the 'Swashbucklers.' Guadalcanal, Solomon and Russell Islands
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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 Vet, lives in Wisconsin
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Czech who took part in The Great Escape from Stalag Luft POW camp
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USMC General
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WWII: PTO. US Navy Flight Nurse in the Pacific
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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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3rd Most Successful German U-Boot Commander WWII
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Finnish World War 2 Hero. Birth Name: Lauri Allan Torni. aka. Larry Thorne Born: 05/28/1919
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(Born 1924) US Mairne Corps WW2 and Korean War Veteran. In Guam, Major General Graves Erskine, head of the 3rd Division, presented the Purple Heart
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Artist and veteran of the Spanish Civil War
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Original Rosie the Rivier in WW2 posters saying ' We Can Do It' over 100 yrs. old
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WWII: 4th Marine Division. Iwo Jima. Bronze Star. Purple Heart
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navy admiral
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WWII: ETO. 8th Air Force Fighter Pilot
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WWII: USS Yorktown, Battle of Midway
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Lz xray 1965 nam was in windham,oh but not now
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WWII, Berlin Air Lift 1948. He was a radio operator and Assistant Chief of Operations for the Berlin Air Lift
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Tuskegee Airman born May 1919
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WWII: ETO. Nose Art artist for the 32nd Bomb Squadron
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Cavaly officer civil war, lawyer, us ghose of reprsenatives, colorado
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navy admiral
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WWII. PTO: Fire Controlman 3rd Class on Escort Carrier USS Vella Gulf (CVE-111). Credited with shooting down 3 Japanes 'Zeros' in the last weeks of the war. Visited atom-bombed Nagasaki during occupation duty
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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
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navy admiral
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marine corps general
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Rcaf fighter ace world war 2 -401 sq
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Founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of Sriracha sauce/Vietnamese businessman and former Major in the army of South Vietnam
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One of the last surviving '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 the Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk in WW2. He is 96 and lives in Brassall, Australia
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. B Battery 515th Coast Artillery (Anti-aircraft)
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Original Rosie the Riviter in wwii posters saying ' we can do it' over 100 yrs old lives in Pennsylvania
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WWII: PTO. SBD Bomber Pilot. U.S.S. Yorktown, U.S.S. Enterprise and the U.S.S. Saratoga
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WWII: B-17 bomber pilot (B-17G Flying Fortress My Mary Myrtle 42-97827), 8th Air force, 1st Division, 457th Bomb Group, 751st Sqdn.; flew 20 missions to Berlin a.o. places between the end of 1944 and June 1945
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Australian WWII veteran and one of the few surviving members of Z-Special unit, the group of Special Forces that assisted downed American airmen. Now lives in Clapham, South Australia. Sometimes known as Jonathan Tredrea
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Retired General
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One of the last survivors of German battleship Bismarck that was sunk on 27 May 1941. He and Otto Peters are now the two last survivors. He is now 90 and lives in Germany
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US Marine, born 1928. WWII (Okinawa) and the Korean War (Chosin Reservoir)
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WWII: Atlantic/PTO. USS Barber 1943-1946
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tangier (AV-8); manned a machine gun to shoot at incoming Japanese planes. Later saw service in Guadalcanal, Battle of Midway, Wake Island, Battle of the Coral Sea, a.o. Also invasion of Inchon (Korean War)
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(Born 1932) US Korean War Navy Veteran. Served on the USS Gayuga Count. Was put on a operation and helped save over 3400 Korean refugees
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. In the 2nd wave as part of 6th Engineer Special Brigade
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WWII: ETO. 355th Bomb Squadron, 350th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Waist-gunner/Ball-turret gunner on B-17 'Heaven And Earth'. 35 combat missions, including the huge Berlin raid on Feb. 3, 1945
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navy admiral
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WWII - Iwo Jima, 5th Marine Division, Headquarters Company; radio operator working with the Navajo Code Talkers. Later occupation duty in Japan
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WW2 Navy fighter Ace, VF-29 - 7 Kills
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Ralph Talbot
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WWII: ETO. 17th Airborne Division. Fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and landed in a glider in Operation Varsity (24 March 1945, largest airborne operation in history to be conducted on a single day and in one location)
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Fighter ace 63rd FS, Halesworth
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Former President of the US
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WWII German Knights Cross Recipient
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American writer, born 1947. Military family, descended from Thomas Jefferson. 'Dress Gray', novelist. Village Voice writer, stumbled upon the 1969 Stonewall uprising, and one of the first journalists to cover it
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USMC General
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division. Was captured at the fourth day of the battle and spend the rest of the war as a POW in Czechoslovakia
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US Vietnam POW, born 1935. Held for 7 1/2 years, from July 1965 to February 1973. Photo featured on Time 12/7/70 cover on POWs
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WWII: PTO. Navajo code Talker
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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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Japanese WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO/ETO. Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor and later a member of the Varsity Victory Volunteers, 442 Regimental Combat Team, and the Military Intelligence Service. He was the first Japanese American to graduate from Yale Law School
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 306th Headquarters Intelligence Detachment, XXIV Corps
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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; 320 dead, 390 wounded, followed by mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.)
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WWII: ETO. P-47 Thunderbolt pilot. OOer 100 missions. Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross
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Dutch officer of the Royal Army and Knights of the Military Order of William, the highest order of chivalry of the Netherlands
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Tuskegee Airmen, WWII
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(Born 1939) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Flew the F-105. 12th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 18th Tactical Fighter Wing. Shot down in 1965 in Vietnam and recused
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Lz xray 1965 nam, k.i.a. 1969 nam
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WWII: D-Day veteran, Omaha Beach, POW (escaped)
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor; 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division
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WWII: Aviation Machinist assigned to Torpedo Squadron (VT) 8 (USS Hornet): Doolittle Raid, Battle of Midway. Later on USS Kitkun Bay in the Battle of Leyte
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WWII Pacific Marine vet (born 1924), featured in iconic WWII photo, covered in dirt after a fight in the Marshall Islands, and holding a cup of coffee in front of him
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Finnish WWII Veteran
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Nigerian WWII Veteran
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US Navy vet, born 1927. Witness to Operation Crossroads atomic tests in 1946
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy Merchant Marine veteran; was in the disastrous PQ-17 convoy (27 June - 10 July 1942) when 24 out of 35 ships were sunk by Nazi - German forces
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WWII: ETO/PTO: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Tennessee. Later D-Day veteran
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Army General
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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WWII: Pacific Theater, Battles of Buna-Gona (Papua), Sanananda and the Driniumor River and at the battles of the upper Ormoc Valley (Leyte) and Luzon in the Philippines.Company G, 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division
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army general
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World War 1 veteran
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WWII: D-Day. 29th Division of the 115th Infantry
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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Naval Officer who wrote a book on the Kennedy Assasination Bloody Treason: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1997)
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WW2 air ace - 7 Kills - USAAF
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa (Sugar Hill Loaf). C Company, 1st Battalion, 29th Regiment, 6th Marine Division
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Radio Operator at Pearl Harbor December 7th 1941 (Responded to Radar observations of Japanise Planes with 'Don't worry about it')
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu & Okinawa
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Member of Flying Tigers, WWII
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Navy Admiral
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Ueda worked for the Wakayama Prefectural Office. He served in the Japanese navy during the World War II. He also witnessed Hiroshima bombing
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USS Indianapolis Survivor/PFC
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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: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Helena
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, Navy Hospital Ship USS Solace (AH-5), medical corpsman
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: Navy medical corpsman, POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. D-Day (Utah Beach). Navy signalman second class who carried members of the 4th Infantry Division to Utah Beach
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WWII Rosie (1924-2024). Literally a WWII Riveter, on B-26 bombers, until Navy boyfriend married her on leave. Also, catcher on the company softball team. Born in Swedesburg, Iowa, she ran the Swedish American Museum for decades
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Pearl Harbor survivor (born 1919), one of the last from the USS Utah
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor. 25th Infantry Division. Later saw combat in Guadalcanal, Vella Lavella and Luzon
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Witold Urbanowicz (30 March 1908 17 August 1996) was a Polish fighter ace of the Second World War. According to the official record, Witold Urbanowicz was the second highest-scoring Polish fighter ace, with 17 confirmed wartime kills and 1 probable, not
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Japanese pow worked on the bridge over river kwai,death railway and survived bombing at Nagasaki; author of the book 'The Forgotten Highlander'
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Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, veteran of The Battle of Arnhem
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USN Vessel
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USN Vessel
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WWII: 11 war patrols as an officer on submarines USS Drum and USS Runner II
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WWII: D-Day+1; 175th Reg., 29th Infantry Division, Omaha Beach. Also in the Battles of St. Lo and Brest
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WWII: ETO. 793rd Military Police Battalion, Company B. Landed at Utah Beach 3 weeks after D-Day. His battalion mainly was responsible to guard the supply lines of the Red Ball Express. Also guarded Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill
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Former soldier in the Japanese Imperial Army and a prisoner of war in the Soviet labour camps, who came to media prominence in April 2006 after it was found that he had been living voluntarily in Ukraine for six decades after the end of World War II. He h
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American Photographer and WW2 Veteran
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WWII - Navy's youngest beachmaster at Omaha Beach in Normandy during the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion
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Russian survivor of Auschwitz. Lives in the Russian city of Ryazan
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Vietnam/U.S. Marines Master Gunnery Sgt./On-board last helicopter leaving the U.S. Embassy at fall of Saigon/Lives Vista, CA
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(Born 1931) US Navy Korean War Veteran
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Ace(ww2)
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Finnish WWII Veteran, served in the army in a unit with the specialized task of stringing telephone wire behind the Finnish lines, so the different units could communicate with each other. Lives in Canada
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World War 2 Veteran Aged: 100
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Worked at Bletchley Park during WWII as a code breaker
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SSgt, USAAF, 757th Bomb Sqdn. 459th Bomb Group, 15th AF B-24 Gunner European Theater
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS California, Korean War
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Finnish general. He is the former Chief of Defence of the Finnish Defence Forces from 1983 to 1990. He was the last Finnish Chief of Defence to have served in the Continuation War(War against Soviets during WWII)
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WWII Veteran, 100 Years old
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Eighth President 1837-1841
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: D-Day veteran, 5th Ranger Battalion
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Vietnamese General, later minister of Defense, might be living in the USA, in Vietnamese Tran is the lastname and Van Don the first names
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Aylwin
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland. Later served on different ships in many battles, including Guadalcanal, Russell Islands, Peleliu, Midway Atoll, Solomon Islands and Tarawa
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Petty Officer Third Class/Navy Cross/Book written about Nguyen's heroism was later adapted into 1988 movie named 'Bat 21'. In 1999, after classified information released, second book, 'The Rescue of Bat 21' published. Nguyen later emigrated to the U.S.
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Navigator of the Enola Gay Crew. Born: 02/27/1921
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Bocks Car Crew, Navigator, WW II, Nagasaki
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Retired Major General of the Air Force. Born 7/8/1915 was deputy inspector general at US Air Force Headquarters in DC
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WW2 fighter ace from South Africa
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US Marines, WWII, born 1927. Sent as part of the postwar occupation of Japan, including Nagasaki a couple months after the bombing
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Navy Admiral
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{1887-1973}Was a general in the U.S. Marine Corps. He Commanded the 1st Marine to victory in its first ground offensive of WWII. For his actions during the Solomon Island campaign, he received the MEDAL OF HONOR. Served as the marines18th Commandant
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British Army officer during the Second World War, fought in Operation Market Garden, is portrayed by Michael Byrne in 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977), was born in 1911
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WWII: PTO. 34th Infantry Regiment (the 'Leyte Dragons'), 24th Infantry Division (the 'Victory Division'). New Guinea, Philippines. Saw MacArthur return to the Philippines
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WWII Navy veteran, Battle of Attu, PTO until the end of the war
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining
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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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World War 2 veteran. Served aboard the USS Seahorse, that was headed to Pearl Harbor when it was bombed
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Retired USMC General
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WWII: PTO. Witnesses the Surrender of Japan on the Missouri from the USS Sirona
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WWII veteran, born 1924. Served in the Merchant Marines on the SS James Woodrow, including a Murmansk Run convoy mission
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medal of honor marines vietnam
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Former Director of the White House Military Office (2021-2022)
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WW2/Received the Victory Medal, the American Theater Ribbon, the Women?s Army Auxiliary Corps Service Ribbon and a Good Conduct Medal/Age 102
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United States Navy rear admiral, a Navy SEAL officer and former member of SEAL Team ON
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WWII veteran (born 1918), Army Air Corps (1939-46), flew 117 combat missions in Asia and the Pacific. Commander of the 'Show of Force' B-29 fly-over of planes at the Japanese Surrender Ceremony on the USS Missouri in 1945. Flew B-10, B-15,B-17, B-18, B-19
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Tuskegee Airmen mechanic Born July 7, 1920.He is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal (in 2007) and of the National Defense Service Medal in 2019, for his service in the Korean War
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She was the first woman to deploy with an Air Force bomber unit, and the first woman to reach the rank of brigadier general from the comptroller field. In 2000, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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Director of Air Force Recruiting
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Member Of The Flying Tigers (AVG) During WWII
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Veteran of the Mexican Revolution. Poncho Villa's driver
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WWII: Royal Navy veteran of the HMS Glasgow. Operation Stonewall, D-Day, Battle of Cherbourg
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WWII Fighter Ace (11 Victs.), Dive Bomber Pilot at Coral Sea awarded 3 Navy Cross medals during WWII
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United States Navy rear admiral and surface warfare officer who serves as the commander of Navy Recruiting Command since April 3, 2020. He previously served as the senior military assistant to the 76th United States Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spence
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German World War One survivor
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'Vietnam War'/Air Force & Army/Joined 1966/Worked support to bombers/Chaplin Army Reserve Desert Storm
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Detroit
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co-pilot memphis belle
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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WWII: PTO. 5th Air Force, 90th Bomb Group, 320th Squadron
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Tinian, Saipan and Iwo Jima. 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion 25th Marines, 4th Division. 3 Purple Hearts
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D-Day. 101st Airborne, 501st PIR. 2nd combat jump at Operation Market Garden (September 1944), also in the Battle of The Bulge. Bronze Star, Purple Heart
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army general
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army general
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WWII: Survivor of the Battle of Coral Sea (1942), USS Sims
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Diplomat and WWII veteran. Was Ambassador to the European Union during the Reagan administration
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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USS Oklahoma survivor - Pearl Harbor attack
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Retired United States Army four-star general who last served as the 18th commanding general of the United States Army Materiel Command
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US Army Vietnam Veteran. Air Cavalry
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WWII Navy vet, born Nov 11, 1915. Participated in Okinawa, Ie Shima, Iwo Jima, New Guinea campaigns. Served as the ship's Chaplain while on the USS Ganymede, possibly the last to work as a full Chaplain in WWII
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Spy/Serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in US Department of Defense/Served Army Special Forces as non & commissioned officer & Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary operations officer elite Special Activities Division
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Member of the French Maquis in WW2
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Former President of Argentina 1976-1981, Army General, is under house-arrest
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(Born 1980) US Marine Corps Afghanistan and Iraq War Veteran. Navy Cross Recipient
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WWII: ETO. Ammunition chief of the 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion 9th Armored Division. Battle of the Bulge
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South African general born in 1933, last Boer general alive
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WW2/RdM2/C, USS Chatelain that captured the U-505
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the AT-10, BT-13
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Military
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Centenarian (1901-2001). US WWI veteran, enlisted underage. Served in France with the Heavy Artillery/Howitzers
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge and other major battles. 740th Tank Battalion ('Daredevil Tankers')
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American attorney
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WWII: CBI theater, 'Hump Flyer' (5th Ferry Group ATC Air Transport Command). Completed 174 crossings of the Hump in 650 hours, stationed at Sookerating AFB in India
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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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Italian fighter ace from WW2
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Fighter ace
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WWII: PTO. USS Shangri-la. He was a tail gunner on a Helldiver. His squadron flew over the battleship Missouri during the signing of the Peace treaty at the end of WWII
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WWII: among a handful of youth from the Hashomer Hatzair. She escaped just as the Nazis stormed the Warsaw Ghetto and executed everyone left. Currently living is Israel
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Last surviving participant of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Iwo Jima. Later fought in Korea (Chosin Reservoir) and Vietnam
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WWWII - Iwo Jima. 23rd Marines, 4th Division. Also fought in the Marshall Islands, Saipan and Tinian
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, France, Belgium, Germany. 35th Infantry Division, 134th Infantry Regiment, Company L
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US Army WAAC/WAC vet of WWII, born 1921. Served stateside, ended up at Lubbock Army Airfield in Texas. Posed for a recruitment poster, but it was unused due to the war ending
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WWII: 17th Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group. Joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. Survivor of the Bataan Death March. Hell ship survivor (Tottori Maru ), POW (Cabanatuan; Mukden, China; Kamioka, Japan)
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Military
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Fomer U.S. General and Commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe
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Wwii: pto. usmc
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WWII veteran, born 1917. A Navy seabee, he survived being buried in an avalanche while on Attu Island in Alaska, and later served in the Philippines and construction on Tarawa. His career as a surveyor into his late 90s led to fame as Indiana's oldest act
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Attempted to assassinate Hitler.
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German Ambassador in London 1970-77. WWII received Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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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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Last survivor of the July 20 Plot that attempted to assassinate Hitler
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German WWII veteran who was taken POW at the fight for the Remagen Bridge,later to escape in the last days of the war. Years later, he immigrated to the US. At a retirement home in Florida, he discovered his friend and neighbor was a US Army vet who fough
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German WWII Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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German ww2 pilot
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Joachim von Ribbentrop's daughter
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German tank ace of WWII (14 victs), Awarded the Knight's Cross - Son of former foreign minister of Nazi-Germany Von Ribbentrop
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Joachim von Ribbentrop's daughter
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The oldest son of Claus von Stauffenberg, a conpirator that attempted to kill Hitler in the July 20 plot
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WWII: PTO. Navy: USS Bataan. Battles of Iwo Jima, Guam and the of the Philippine Sea
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German WW2 Resistance Fighter/ Born: 1904
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WWII: PTO. USS Kline APD 120, Underwater Demolition Team 11 (UDT-11)
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battle of Tarawa
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navy aviator (blue angels) hero
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WWII: ETO. Bomber pilot, 100th Bomb Group, 8th AF
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Born Feb.14, 1958, 4 Star General
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WWII Fighter Navy Ace (19 Victs.)
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WWII: PTO. USS Hornet (CV-8). Witness to the Doolittle Raiders taking off of the Hornet for Tokyo
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army general
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Czech pilot ace who fought for France in the Battle of France and for Britian in the Battle of Britain
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U.S. Army
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WWII: Marines (E-2-6, 2nd MarDiv), Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania; later in the battles of Guadalcanal and Tarawa and Bariki (last part of Battle of Tarawa)
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Senior commander in Royal Australian Air Force. Wackett introduced parachutes to the Australian Air Force and made the country?s first free fall parachute descent from a military aircraft in Australia on May 27, 1926
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WW2 Veteran:442nd Regimental Combat Team,'E' Company
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Longest Living Buffalo Soldier. Born: 1908
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Devonshire)
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(November 1, 1955-August 31, 1991), pilot of 'Boston', involved in the U.S. Army's first round-the-world flight
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103 Walmart worker & meet Sam Walton, Served in the Air Force during World War II serving in India and China/Flew the Hump, Himalaias/After landing a job with Walmart back in 1983, he still works five day a week at a the location in his hometown
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Centenarian (1899-2007), one of the last US WWI veterans, and the last living US Marine of WWI
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WWII: Dunkirk/D-Day. British Royal Engineers soldier, who, during the Dunkirk evacuation, helped to construct a pier made of abandoned lorries on the beach at La Panne. On June 6, 1944, he returned to France, landing at Sword Beach
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army general
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Congressional Medal of Honor, US Navy, 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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Australia's most decorated WW2 War hero. Code name: The White Mouse. Born: 08/12/1912
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WWII: PTO. USS South Dakota
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air force general
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Overcame massive claustrophobia/ fear of heights to become a fighter pilot. Flew missions in Iraq, SE Asia, & Kosovo during Operation Allied Force. Awarded numerous prestigious medals. Author and professional speaker
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WWII: PTO. Army Air Corps. 307th Bomb Group, 13th Air Force
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Burke Waldron began his military service in July 1943 in Pearl Harbor and was part of both the Makin Island and Saipan invasions
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) #3
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British George Cross recipient
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Edwin Walker (3) 11/10/1909-10/31/1993 US Army officer fought in WW2 & Korean. Known for ultra-conservative political views & criticized by Ike for promoting a personal political stand while in uniform/Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to kill him 4/10/1963
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
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WWII: 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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Jim Walker (3)272nd Military Police Co.Vietnam
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach (Ranger); wounded in Carentan
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british army comm.-in-chief
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Oldest WWII veteran. Born 2/5/1909. Served in the Women's Voluntary Service. Lives in Kingwood, Oxfordshire, England
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Retired United States Army four star general who served as Commander, Allied Land Forces South East Europe (COMLANDSOUTHEAST) from 1977 to 1978
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William Walker (2)Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
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American photographer (1905-97) Made iconic D-Day photos, until shrapnel destroyed his left leg which had to be amputated. Post-war career as illustrative photographer for Life, Sat. Evening Post, Time, and others
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army general
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Royal millitary
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WWII - Paratrooper of Fox Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne (Screamin' Eagles). Combat jumps at D-Day and Market Garden. Was in the Battle of the Bulge, helped capture Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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Georgia centenarian, born 1911. Born in Oklahoma and a Dust Bowl survivor. Believed to be the US' oldest living Eagle Scout. Army Captain in WWII, commanded 4416th Quartermaster Company.in Europe and on their way to the Pacific when the war ended
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WWII - 82nd Airborne, 507th PIR. Combat jump into Normandy(D-Day), fought for 21 days, then captured, escaped near Paris, joined the French Resistance, captured again until the end of the war (Stalag 12A and at a camp near Leipzig)
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Lz xray & lz albany 1965 nam 2/7th cav
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WW2 US Navy serving from 1943 to 1965 as a E5 Air Traffic Controller. Was in battles Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. (Born 1927)
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor; Chief Petty Officer USS Whitney (AD-4)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor December 7, 1941, USS Pennsylvania; was with 'Communication Force'. Was in 6 Pacific landings including Iwo Jima
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Full name is George Peter Walls, Lieutenant General who served as the Commander of the Military of Rhodesia, and later Zimbabwe, is living in exile in Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Staff Sgt. James Harley Wallwork DFM (21 October 1919 - 24 January 2013) British soldier, member Glider Pilot Regiment achieved notability as pilot of 1st Horsa glider to land at Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944 WW2
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First Responder 9/11 Terrorist Attack September 11, 2001
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Joe Walsh (5) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. A 3rd Defense Battalion Marine, Walsh manned anti-aircraft guns during the attack. Later served on Johnston Atoll
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WWII American Fighter Pilot Ace
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WWII: 2nd Ranger Bn, D-Day, Pointe du Hoc
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USMC four-star general who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. 2 Navy Crosses for extraordinary heroism during World War II. ('Walt's Ridge')
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Lives in the UK or New Zealand
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air force general
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Veteran, WWII Korea and Vietnam, 31 years of active duty
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British U-Boat hunter of the costal command in WW2
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, USS Pennsylvania. born 1918
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 6 victories (and 12 probables); flew the P-38 and P-47. Wingman to America's highest-scoring air ace Richard Bong
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Curtiss (AV-4)
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Veteran of WWII and the Korean War. Participated in the five European Campaigns of WW II, including Normandy, the Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge. Memoir 'Country Boy Gone Soldiering' was published in 1999
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Wheeler Field
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WWII: Served aboard the USS San Francisco from Pearl Harbor until 'The 3rd Battle of Savo Island' off Guadalcanal in 1942. During the encounter he was seriously wounded
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Usmc sniper vietnam - confimed killed 63author DEAR MOM- A SNIPERS WAR
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Peter Ward (3) WWII: British Arctic Convoy and D-Day veteran
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WWII: B-17 ground crewman in the 100th Bomb Group ('The Bloody Hundredth')
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WWII submarine Skipper and Admiral last known to be living in FL
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WWII, Pearl Harbor Survivor
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Downed by enemy fire on mission, badly injured endured 3 week's hell In hellish Vietnam Jungles. When his captain revealed his membership in the Ku Klux Klan, their situation that took a roll putting him on the road to becoming a general
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(Born 1990) US Army Afghanistan War Veteran. Recipient of the Army Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during Operation Enduring Freedom
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French survivor of Auschwitz and heroine of the French Resistance. She moved to Manchester, England
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Special Agent in charge, Norfolk Field Office, NCIS
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(Born 1941) US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. As a Marine aviator flew over 100 combat missions in Southeast Asia. POW 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Donut Dolly Vietnam War/Lai Khe - First Infantry Division - July 1969-October 1969. An Khe - Fourth Infantry Division - October 1969-January 1970, Program Director. Da Nang - Third Marine Division/24th Corps - January 1970-August 1970, Unit Director
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Army paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division and Author
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WWII veteran, born 1924, one of the last few living vets to have served as an Assistant Chaplain in the war
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Retired General
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WWII: Canadian air force pilot who participated as a pilot in the Dieppe Raid
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Tuskegee Airmen ww2
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WWII: Served on the USS. Enterprise CV-6 (a.k.a. 'The Big E' and 'The Galloping Ghost') from 1942 to 1945
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; USS MacDonough (DD-351). Well-known Southern Utah public figure nicknamed 'The Flag Man'
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WWII. Worked at Bletchley Park as a code breaker of the enigma
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Navy Seal with Seal Team Six, Silver Star (Somalia), author, chiropractor
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WWII: He saw action in the South Pacific from 1942-46, piloting massive PBY and PBM seaplanes, hunting submarines, rescuing sailors and downed airmen, almost losing his own life in a kamikaze attack. Later Assistant Secretary of Commerce
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Politician, Founding father, (1732-1799). 1st US President, Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
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Buffalo Soldier, one of a few still alive
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Tuskegee Airman
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air force general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Was stationed with the 98th Coast Artillery at Schofield Barracks, but had traveled to the Navy yard that morning, where he witnessed the attack
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WWII: Pearl Harbor suvivor, US Navy Pearl Harbor firefighting group
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC Platoon Leader. Silver Star, Gold Star
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war hero, Victoria Cross receiver; later became a High Court judge and was knighted in 1971
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WWII: PTO. Fighter Pilot (USS Yorktown)
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Canadian World War 2 Veteran (Canadian Forces 1929-1953. Born: 07/13/1912
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Soccer player for Bristol Rovers 1945-1963. Served in the Royal Navy during WWII
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WWII - British sailor on HMS Vindex; several trips to Murmansk, Russia, during the Arctic Convoys of WWII; occupation duty in Hiroshima starting only weeks after the a-bomb
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. 6th Naval Battalion
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'Tuskegee Airmen' 'The Fighting 99th Squadron' the original Tuskegee group!
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United States Marine Corps private who received the Medal of Honor for his actions on Iwo Jima during World War II. He single-handedly killed 90 enemy soldiers, thus enabling his plat
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tangier
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battle of Tarawa
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Served time in the British Army before pursuing a career in corporate technology. Author of the Awakened Trilogy, Don't Move, First Activation, and the Invasion series
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WWII: Air Force pilot; flew the 101st Airborne on D-Day
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Pearl Harbor Survivor 'Was on weekend pass & headed to Scholfield Barracks where he was stationed with the 289th Regiment when the attacks started'
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US Navy SEAL Vietnam War Veteran. Bronze Star and Legion of Merit Recipient
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US Army Vietnam Veteran
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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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WW2/From Wythall Worcestershire, member of Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Worked on German police messages in Mansion @ Bletchley Park. Messages revealed beginning of the Holocaust with the massacres of 1,000s of Jews on eastern front
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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. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
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John Webb (3) D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in London, UK. He was with the 5th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment
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US Air Force brigadier general. Photographed with Obama in White House Situation Room during raid on bin Laden's compound
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma, born 1918
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WW2 Veteran-Combat Infantryman 54th Armored Infantry Battalion Of The 10th Armored Division
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WWII: Marine Corps fighter pilot in the South Pacific
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WWII Naval Pilot (Born 1915). Pearl Harbor survivor, stationed at Kaneohe Bay Air Station. Witness to MOH John Finn's actions. Later served across the Pacific for the remainder of the war
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United States Army commander who served in Asia during World War II from October 1943 to the end of the war. Previously, he helped plan the Normandy Invasion
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WWII: PTO. US Army Air Corps. Guam
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Founding member of the German counter-terrorist force GSG 9
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WWII: PTO. Served aboard the USS South Dakota (BB-57). Luzon, Leyte, Philippines in general, Formosa, Okinawa
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WWII: PTO. Served in the United States Army in the South Pacific during World War II from November 29, 1944 to October 25, 1946
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WWII: Marine Corps flamethrower 'Flaming Joe' in the Battle of Iwo Jima, fought there for all 36 days of the battle. 5th Marine Division, 28th Marines, 3rd Battalion Headquarters Demolition Platoon. Flagraiser Ira Hayes was his friend
