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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
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army general
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WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS Columbia
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(Born 1929) US Marine Corps Vietnam War Veteran. 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines. During Operation Napoleon/Saline and at the Battle of Dai Do where he was seriously injured. For his actions at Dai Do Weise was awarded the Navy Cross
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army general
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navy admiral
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WWII: PTO. 228th Signal Operations Company. Philippines 1940, POW
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Daughter of Otto Skorzeny, famed nazi commando
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WWII: PTO. Gunner on escort carrier USS Anzio
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa
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German ww2 pilot
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Fighter ace world war 2- 5 kills flew the p-38
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Pearl Harbor survivor, served on the USS Maryland. Helped to drill through the hull of the next-door capsized USS Oklahoma to save men on board
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Retired General And Former U.S. Air Force Chief
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 4th Marines Division
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WWII - survived the Battle of Kohima, 1944
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Navy veteran, author, and candidate for Congress from NJ
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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WWII. Merchant Marine. Trips to the Mediterranean, Suez Canal, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf
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Fighter ace world war 2 vmf-323 death rattlers- 5 kills
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Landing Ship, Tank (LST) 1035
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WWII Marine vet at Iwo Jima (1922-2016). Led the platoon attack on Mt. Suribachi that planted the first flag on the summit. His platoon became one of the most decorated in US history
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WWII US Marine, born 1925. Okinawa combat, with the 6th Marine Division
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WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1922, he was the youngest Spitfire pilot
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Air Force Chief of Staff (2012-Present)
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WWII - Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. USS Arizona survivor
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WWII Battle of the Bulge veteran, Nuremberg Trials guard for Field Marshal Hermann Goering
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-6 victories, US Navy, VF-16
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Former Navy SEAL, wrote novel, Men In Green Faces.
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U.S.S. Arizona survivor (Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941)
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WWII: USS Helena
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WWII: Merchant seaman in the 'Murmansk runs' of World War II
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Known in WWII as the One man army or the Ghost of Bataan
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Fighter Ace - Korean War - USAF - 5 Kills
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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medal of honor army korean war
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A 99-year-old war heroine who worked on the top secret preparations for the D-Day landings, has followed in Captain Tom's footsteps by walking 100 laps of her Dedham garden
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WWII Pilot Ace- Flew the P-38 & P-40--[14 victories]- DSC
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Rick West (2)
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) 12 -
WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1998-2000)
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USS Arizona Survivor - Pearl Harbor
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Tuskegee airman
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WWII: PTO. USS Balch (DD-363). Saw Pearl Harbor arriving on Dec. 8, 1941; his ship was in Task Force 18 (Doolittle Raid), saved nearly 600 sailors of the USS Yorktown when she sank in the Battle of Midway; supported the Guadalcanal campaign
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WW 2 vet/USN/Mechanic in Navy, stationed in the South Pacific and the Philippines
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Naval Air Station Kaneohe
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Retired US Army General
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falklands war hero
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Medal of Honor Army Vietnam
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army general
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Army General, Chief of Staff of the USA army (1974-1976) Born: 09/15/1916
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WWII: USS Intrepid. On the flight deck aboard the USS Intrepid when she was hit by 2 kamikazes
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WW2 veteran. A decorated soldier whose military career lasted through the Vietnam War. He became an anti-nuclear activist. Father of former bassist of the Talking Heads Tina Weymouth
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Centenarian (1895-2001). US WWI veteran. Sent to France, marched to the front just as the war ended
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WWII: Battle of Midway
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Army general
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Women's Army Corps
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, New Guinea campaign, Battle of Saipan
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Company G, 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division
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WWII: ETO. Truck driver in the Red Ball Express, 104th Infantry, 3rd Battalion, 26th Yankee Division. Taken POW while supplying the front lines in November 1944
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WWII Veteran, wounded in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, Battle of the Bulge. Glider pilot
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WWII: Medic, 1st Infantry Batallion, 10th Armored Division, 3rd Army. Battle of the Bulge
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 6th Marine Division
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63rd Inspector General of the Army. Served as Chief of Staff, CENTCOM during OIF and OEF
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WW2 US Army Veteran. 97th Infantry Division
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US WWII Marine vet, born 1915, wounded by a grenade at Iwo Jima. One of the last living workers who built the Hoover Dam in the 1930s
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Major US Army Ret - Buffalo Soldier during WWII. Author - Give Me My Spirit Back; The Last of the Buffalo Soldier
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OSU end from River Rouge, MI, Played on Ohio State's first National Championship team in 1942. After military service, finished his career with Michigan and became the only player to win national championships with 2 different schools when they won in '48
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(Born 1980) Afghanistan War Veteran. Squad Leader with Company A, 1st Battalion, 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173d Airborne Brigade. Distinguished Service Cross recipient for actions in Khost Province, Afghanistan in 2008
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Pearl Harbor Veteran, USS Schley
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Kenneth White (3)
Ww2 veteran -
Former Army Sgt, to recieved the Congressional Medal of Honor on May 13, 2014, for his actions during a dismounted movement in mountainous terrain in Aranas, Afghanistan, on Nov. 9, 2007
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Phillip White (3)Vietnam veteran who was in the 23rd Americal Division. Purple Heart recipient for being injured by a NVA grenade
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WWII: USS Balch (DD-363), USS Boston (CA-69), USS Bladen (APA-63). Naval engagements include Marshall-Gilbert and Wake Islands, Midway, Guadalcanal-Tulagi, Eastern Solomons, Marshall Island, Kwajalein, Majuro, Eniwetok, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
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test pilot air force general
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, Operation Varsity. 507th Parachute Infantry, 17th Airborne Division
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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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
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navy admiral businessman
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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. Returned to the United State/New York in 1965
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navy admiral
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WW2 Dunkirk Veteran (Born:1920) was a medic with the Royal Army Medical Corps and tended the wounded as the troops of the British Expeditionary Force withdrew towards the coast. Now 96 and lives in Laindon, Essex
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Born March of 1945. Australian Vietnam Veteran that was with the Australian SAS,7RAR, and 3RAR
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1965 lz-xray
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Tuskegee Airmen (Would have to be 83 years old or older if lied about age & entered at age 16 to become an Airmen)
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WWII: Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. An electrician, Whitney was on break from his job when he saw the last plane fly over the mountain. He worked salvage duty on the electrical portions of various ships for the next month
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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WW2 POW forced to work on the bridge at Burma Siam Railroad that was featured in the film 'Bridge Over the River Kwai'
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WWII: Battle of Midway pilot
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WWII/UK: In the rear guard at the Battle of Dunkirk, he was left on the beach and eventually managed to jump on board a Dutch fishing boat back to England. Later as a paratrooper, he was in Operation Market Garden (Battle of Arnhem)
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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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Spy/Hot wars/cold wars & a few sub-war dust-ups/Served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense, the CIA, and the White House
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army general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland
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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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US Marine, Korean and Vietnam Veteran, born 1929. Pusan, Inchon, Seoul, and one of the Chosin Few in Korea, Purple Heart. Silver Star in Vietnam. National President of The Chosin Few organization
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
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US Army WWII veteran, born 1919. CCC member, 1938-40, and made an Army supply sargeant thanks to his CCC experience for WWII's Saipan battle
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German ww2 pilot JG 11
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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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Born in 1922 in Bloomfield, Nebraska. Served in the US Army during WWII. Fred was assigned to the Station Hospital at Fort Des Moines without going through typical basic training
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Lufftwaffe ace 133 victories in wwII
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WWII German Knights Cross Recipient
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Savo Island (USS Vincennes)
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WWII: Fighter Ace, 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF
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Lz xray 1965 nam 1st cav
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
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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: Bataan Death March
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WWII: Sailor B.C. Wilborn manned an anti-aircraft gun during the attack upon Pearl Harbor; later surviving amultiple Kamikate attack at the USS Columbia on 6 January 1945 when he earned a Purple Heart; Race Horse Owner
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII - D-Day, in the first wave at Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division, 115th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, E Company, First Scout of the 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WWII: Torpedo Bomber pilot, Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, USS Yorktown (CV-5), USS Enterprise
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Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
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British soldier involved in the Bloody Sunday massacre, living with his wife Linda somewhere in rural Belgium
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German U-boat commander (Born: 1914) in the Atlantic during WW2 (Submarine U-704) Lives in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany. Now 103
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Playwright, screenwriter, author of fiction & nonfiction books/WW 2 Wilk served First Motion Picture Unit of the US Army Air Forces/ wrote the novelization of Beatles' cartoon Yellow Submarine/Wrote Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
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WWII: Served on the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) which sank the Japanese aircraft carrier HIJMS Shinano, on 29 November 1944
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WWII: ETO. B-17 co-pilot, 351st Bomb Group. Shot down, Dutch Undeground, POW
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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Former U.S. Naval officer, first Commanding Officer of the USS Nautilus
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WWII: British pilot of the Battle of Britain, flew with the Duxford Wing (served with inspirational Second World War flying ace Sir Douglas Bader) and joined No 19 Squadron in October 1940 and later joined 234 and 165 Squadrons
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WWII: ETO. 745th Squadron, 456 Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. B-24 pilot. Distinguished Flying Cross, European-Asian Eastern Ribbon, Air Medal with 2 Oakleaf Cluster. 51 Combat missions incl, missions to Ploesti
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Neil Wilkinson (2)HMS Intrepid crew member during Falkland Islands War, his actions are the base for the play 'San Carlos Hilton'
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(Born 1957) US Air Force Veteran. Was in Cold War, Invasion of Panama 1989-1990, Somalia 1993, and Haiti 1994. Air Force Cross Recipient
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navy admiral
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Biographical Information Name: Conrad J. Will State of Birth: PA Home State: NJ Gender Male War or Conflict World War, 1939-1945 Military Status Veteran Dates of Service 1943-1945 Entrance into Service Enlisted Branch of Serv
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Served as a guard for Pope John Paul in 1987 Persian Gulf War, 1991 with Army in Saudi Arabia Operation Desert Storm, Operation Desert Shield
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WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia 1944-1946
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US Army WWII vet, born 1917. Served in the 738th Artillery of Patton's Third Army, through France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. Toured Buchenwald concentration camp after its liberation. Career as a dentist
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Commander US Pacific Fleet
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WWII US Army, born . 9th Armored Div., assistant tank driver. Battle of Remagen in March 1945, first tank to cross the Rhine into Germany
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Last surviving veteran of the Second Battle of El Alamein during WW2. He is now 95 and lives in Rotherwick, Hampshire, England
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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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WWII Veteran; Marine - Tank Driver; Iwo Jima
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WWII: PTO. USS Teton. Surrender Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945
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Served in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve during WW2 born 3/1/1921
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WWII: PTO. US Army Air Corps. Gunner, B-29 Flying Fortress
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Fighter ace ww2 1/19/1919
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Charles Williams (2) Tuskegee Airmen
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US Army WW2 Veteran. Was in Holland, Germany, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and France. A recipient of 2 Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star
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WW II 27 May 1944 - Missing in Action Shot down by flak in northern France, east of St. Leger.Belly-landed plane in sugar-beet field and evaded capture with the help of the French Resistance. Born: 10/17/1921
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Tuskegee Airmen
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WWII Perl Harbor veteran. B-17 flight member flying over Pearl Harbor by chance during the attack. Shot down by Japanese, landed at Hickam Field. Plane broke apart, shown in an iconic photo of the day
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Tuskegee Airmen, In 1948, Williams was recalled to military service during the Berlin Airlift. President Harry Truman integrated military service in 1949 & Eldridge Williams departed for his first integrated assignment on the island of Okinawa
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British ace from WW2
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doolittle's radiers crew #15 co-pilot
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Congressional Medal of Honor, USMC, WWII
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Wwii army sgt
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Centenarian (1895-2002). British WWI veteran, last living pilot of the Royal Flying Corps. Bombed German trenches in France, later had his Sopwith Camel shot down over Greece. Second last living pilot to have been in WWI dogfights
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medal of honor navy vietnam
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James Williams (6)Last of the Buffalo Soldiers, before they were disbanded in 1951
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army general
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Sailor of the United States Navy during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the most highly decorated enlisted man in the history of the United States Navy
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'B-25 Tuskegee Airmen' 'Class of 43-J'
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Louis Williams (3) Medal Of Honor
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Matthew Williams (3)United States Army Master Sergeant-Medal of Honor
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USN Admiral
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marine corps general
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Peter Williams (2)Navy Admiral
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WWII - Medic at the 7th Fighter Command ambulance on Iwo Jima
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F9 Pilot in both Korean and Vietnam War
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Willie Williams (2)usmc general
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WWII: ETO. B-24 'Liberator' in the 453rd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Distinguished Flying Cross. First mission on D-Day. Flew 35 combat missions incl. 3 to Berlin. His operations officer was Jimmy Stewart
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pyro
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
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Author/Inventor/U.S. Air Force Cold War spy, nearly getting shot down by Russian MIGs, and landing in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis/makes his fortune working for computer software magnate Bill Gates
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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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'Royal Air Force 2nd Pilot Flight Lt.'
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Military seal team 3 charlie platoon
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WWII: ETO. B-17 Tail Gunner, 303rd Bomb Group
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US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1965 to 1968
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Former Army Ranger and pararescueman,host of Military Channel show Triggers & Special Ops
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WWII - Pilot of the famous Sundowners squadron (VF-11) of Carrier Air Group 11 in the Pacific Theater; one of the rare 'Silver Eagles' (which was an Enlisted Pilot)
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WWII veteran, army medic at Guam and Okinawa. Worked with MOH Desmond Doss, of 'Hacksaw Ridge' note, at Okinawa
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WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battles of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan
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WWII: PTO. Marine Corps fighter pilot of squadron VFM-451 (USS Bunker Hill). Flew 52 mission from January to May 1945 in the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the defense of the Bunker Hill and raids to Tokyo. 1 victory. DFC
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WWII: US WWII veteran who captured Japan's Tojo
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Mac Donough
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Canadian WW One Veteran
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British war hero, Victoria Cross receiver
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Frank Wilson (3) Actor/'Breaker Morant' 'Black Robe'/Australian Army in 1943, to escape the wartime Manpower Directorite and being placed in a 'useful' job, becoming a signalman in the 7th Division, 2nd AIF. Serving in Papua New Guinea & Borneo
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D-Day Survivor
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United States Marine who earned the United States-? military highest award, the Medal of Honor, for heroism as a platoon sergeant of a rifle platoon in Korea on the night of 23-April 24, 1951
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Tuskegee Airman
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navy admiral
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 Dec 1941. USS Dale (DD-353), among the first ships to leave the harbor and one of those who remained undamaged. Mr. Wilson was at a machine gun firing at the Japanese planes. The USS Dale shot down 1 enemy
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British WWI And WWII Veteran
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General Johnnie Edward Wilson retired United States Army four-star general who served as Commanding General, United States Army Materiel Command from 1996 to 1999
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Retired Army General
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(Born 1978) US Navy Afghanistan War Veteran. Served as a corpsman with Marines. Recipient of the Navy Cross for actions during Operation Enduring Freedom
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medal of honor marines ww11
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WWII: ETO. 17th Airborne Division, 193rd Glider Infantry Regiment. Battle of the Bulge
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Robert Wilson (3)Decorated former US Army General, Cmdr usa installation management command, CEO Robert Wilson Consulting
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WWII: CBI. Merrill's Marauders. Later Army general educator
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Tuskegee Airman
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Tuskegee Airman
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William Wilson (2) Medal Of Honor
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1905-1990. Lafayette halfback in the College Football HOF, before becoming a Brigadier General in the Marine Corps
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One of the last WW2 Arctic convoy veterans. He is now 91 and lives in Biggin, Derbyshire, England
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Rigel (AR-11)
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WWII - Member of the 101 airbourne div. company E 506 parachute regiment (Band of Brothers); was with the 'Easy' from D-Day to Eagle's Nest. It was him who cut the German flag off the wall of the German Army barracks at the Eagle's Nest, Berchtesgaden
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Lz xray 1965
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4 Star General, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; CO of the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) which was on her way back home during the September 11 attacks who, without authorization, did a 180 degree turn to take station in the Arabian Sea
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Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Pennsylvania machine gunner
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USS Helm, 7 December 1941
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Carlson's Raider, Company 'E' 2nd Raider Bn., later 2nd Battalion, Company 'E' 28th Marines. Makin Island, Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Iwo Jima
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Centenarian (1897-2007). Last female US veteran of WWI. Served as a Navy 'Yeomanette' stateside from 1917-1919
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World War II Major of the 101st Airborne during the D-Day Invasion
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Former United States Army officer, original Band of Brothers. Born: 01/21/1918
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Wwii:wasp
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. 3 Bronze Stars
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WWII: ETO. Sniper in the 40 Royal Marine Commando, 3 Commando Brigade, in Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania, Italy, an expert at picking off German machine-gunners, not killing but wounding them which was the order
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Navy Rear Admiral (ret.)
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army general
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USMC General
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WWII: Survivor of the Battle of the Coral Sea (4-8 May 1942) from the USS Lexington which was lost during the battle. Later served on the USS Card in the North-Atlantic
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WWII: Royal Navy veteran of the Arctic convoys (HMS Martin)
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Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest ranking position in the Canadian Forces 1980-1983
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WWII: ETO. Fighter pilot, 4 victories, 106 missions. Distinguished Flying Cross with cluster, Silver Star
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC, First Tank Battalion
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WWII: ETO. B-25 pilot
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JFK - Honor Guard in President Kennedy's funeral; served at official functions for JFK and even got to talk to him once
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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WWII: C-47 pilot D-Day (101st AB, later 82nd AB); also flew support missions until the end of the war in the rest of France, Holland and Germany
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4-Star General
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Tuskegee Airmen
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(Born 1934) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Recipient of the Air Force Cross and Distinguished Service Cross
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WWII German Stuka Pilot - 405 missions Eastern Front 1943-45 born 1923
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WWII USS Hornet (CV-8) plankowner (original crewmember), participant in the Doolittle Raid, and a survivor of the sinking of the Hornet at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC
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US Army Afghanistan War Veteran. Awarded the German Medal of Honor for saving a wounded German soldier
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Wwii: wasp
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WWII: ETO. Army Air Corps. Tech Sgt. B-17 Top Turret Gunner. 390th Bomb Group, 570th Bomb Squadron. Shot down on 28 May 1944 in B-17 #4232089 'Mountaineer' on a mission to Berlin, Germany, crashing at Holzhausen, 16 miles east of Magdeburg. POW
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WWII - Fighter Ace, Hellcat F4F, born 2/4/1921; VF-2, 7 victories. Flew 7 different types of military airplanes (N-25-3 Stearman, F4 Wildcat
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Korean War: Battle of Chosin Reservoir, US Army
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Last Lakota Code-Talker, WWII
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WWII: US Marine Corps, Guadalcanal
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 251st Coastal Artillery
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air force general
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USAF General
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First Woman 4-Star General Born in 1958
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Navy Seal recovery team, first to grab the Apollo 11 capsule and attach anchor cables and a flotation device before the astronauts emerged. Later served in Vietnam, battled addictions, and became a preacher
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Ww2 luftwaffe ace
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WWII: Marine of the famous K-3-5, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Battles of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu
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WWII: ' Filthy Thirteen'. D-Day
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WWII: Homefront/Atlantic: USS Moberly (PF-63). On May 6, 1945, the Coast Guard-manned frigate USS Moberly, sank the German U-853 in the Atlantic off Block Island, R.I, as the last U-boat sunk in the European War. There were no survivors
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WWII: Operation Oblivion, the last of the 13 Chinese Canadian veterans who signed up for the covert mission to land in Japan-occupied China. Trained for 4 months but never entered combat as the war ended before they could be used
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WWII Flying Tigers lives in Quincy, Massachusetts
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air force general
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Wwii: pto. usmc. iwo jima
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; mess hall, Pearl Harbor
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Vietnam Veteran
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 96th Infantry Division
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Shop 51 at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, but dispatched to the USS Shaw (DD-373) and onboard at the time of the attack. Later an USAAF B-29 pilot
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WW2 Wasp. Author of We Were Wasps
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US Army WWII era vet, born 1927. Army officer school in 1944, became Paymaster for the Tuskegee Airmen in 1946. Became a Boston lawyer and social activist. Appointed a Brig. General in 2022 by Massachusetts Governor
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army general
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Father of professional golfers Tiger Woods and Cheyenne Woods. Served 2 tours of duty in Vietnam & retired w/ the rank of lieutenant colonel. Broke the Big Eight Conference (then the Big Seven Conference) 'color barrier' in baseball in 1951
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American POW, was captured by the Germans after the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and escaped from POW camp in April 1945
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WWII Bomber pilot,Navigator, 90th Bomb Group, 320 Bomb Squadron
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WWII: Marines veteran of the Battes of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa. Also in the Korean War. Later duty for Truman and Eisenhower
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British Admiral, Royal Navy, Commander of the South Atlantic Task Groups in the Falklands War
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navy admiral england
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USAF General
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Military
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Last living (confirmed and verified) Civil War veteran (1850-1956). Served in the Union Army as a drummer boy in a Minnesota regiment. 3 others claiming to be Confederate vets who lived passed him were later found to most likely be false claims
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: D-Day. USS Arkansas at Omaha Beach. Responsible for the radar at the ship's combat information center. The USS Arkansas engaged German shore batteries off Omaha Beach
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(Born 1983) US Marine Corps Iraq War veteran. Received the Navy Cross for actions during Operation Iraqi Freedom
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Vietnam War Veteran-Forward Air Controller At Dak Seang Special Forces Camp
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(Born 1946) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Air Force Cross and Silver Star Recipient
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Helm
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WWII: Spitfire Fighter Pilot in WWII, seeing much action, particularly at the Dieppe Raid
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WWII: US home front; WASP
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Air Force General
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the HMS Repulse on 10 December 1941 off Malaya when also HMS Prince of Wales was sunk, an event in the war that often is named 'Britain's Pearl Harbor'
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Member of rescue Ship USS Bassett to the aid of the USS Indianapolis Survivors
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Navy Admiral
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British ace from WW2, 12.25 victories
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air force general
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WWII Marine, Iwo Jima, Guam
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WWII: 153 Battalion, Tavistock, 51st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery. Phoney War 1939/1940; Dunkirk, Operation Torch (French North Africa), Tunisia (Kasserine Pass), Italy (Monte Cassino); ended the war in Klagenfurt, Austria
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(Born 1935) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Air Force Cross and Bronze Star Recipient. Retired as a lieutenant colonel
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John Wright (8) WWII: PTO. Army Air Corps. 13th Air Force, 307th Bomb Group, 424th Squadron
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WWII Veteran, won a centenarian racing competition
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Member of the Flying Tigers (AVG) WWII
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medal of honor army vietnam
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WWII - Medic of the 501st PIR, 101st Airborne Division. Combat jumps into D-Day and Operation market Garden, also at Bastogne
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WWII flew a P-51 Mustang (three confirmed aerial victories, one of which was against a Me-262 ? the eighth to have ever been shot down). Brigadier General. AKA: 'Mormon Mustang'
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WWII: Anti-aircraft gunner on the USS Enterprise (CV-6) from 1944 to 1945, survived multiple Kamikaze attacks
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Wilbur Wright (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Oglala
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2000 Presidential Medal of Freedom
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WWII: Pacific Theater. USS Killen, DD-593. USS Selfridge
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WWII - 82nd Airborne, 505th PIR. Combat jumps: Salerno, Normandy (D-Day, St. Mere Eglise), Operation Market Garden
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Polish World War One Veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa (AR-1)
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS John Penn on August 13, 1943, also took part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Private first class. dates of service: november 1959 - february 1960. ger. occupation into berlin during russian blockade
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Former general of the German Democratic Republic's army
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(Born 1924) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Combat Air Crewman in Patrol Bombing Squadron VP-63. He was sent to Mediterranean, North Atlantic, Bay of Biscayne, Africa, England, and Gibraltar
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Hiroshima survivor. 8yo, knocked out in her garden by the blast. Woke to mother calling family together, 'Let's all die together!' Began to learn English at 80, so she could tell her story to more people
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Uday Hussein's Body Double; Basis of movie 'The Devil's Double' based off his Book
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Russian/Soviet WWII Veteran
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Member of 442 combat team
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Served in K Company with U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. His unit liberated German-held towns in Italy and France
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army general
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US Woman Marine of WWII, born 1923. Served 1944-46 at a Post Exchange at Parris Island, SC where male Marines where trained and sent overseas. Career working for the NYS Mental Health Department
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air force general
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Farragut
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WWII (Pacific Theater) - Survivor of the sinking of the USS Astoria during the Battle Of Savo Island, 9 August 1942
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WW II pilot One of only two Chinese American Fighter Pilots in WWII
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SR-71 Blackbird pilot
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WWII - Yellin is the fighter pilot who flew the 1st land-based fighter mission (from Iwo Jima) over Japan on Apr. 7, 1945, as well as the last mission of WWII on Aug. 14, 1945, and witnessed the last US death of the war, his best friend
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WWII: D-Day. Ranger
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army general
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WWII: US Merchant Marine. Served on a T/2 oil tanker in the South-Pacific, including in the Battle of Okinawa
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WWII veteran, one fo about 200 men on the Remagen Bridge as it collapsed after repeated attacks by German forces trying to prevent its use as an Allied route in to Germany. Ran from the trembling bridge, hitting the river bank as 28 others were killed, an
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot). BT-13, PT-19 and B-25
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US WWII Army Air Corps radioman, born 1925. Flew over Hiroshima the day after the bomb hit, and also witnessed the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, as part of the air support for Bockscar, the plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki
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vietnam war air force hero
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world war 2 fighter ace (5 kills) of the 359th Fighter Group - USAAF
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Born 1923 Japanese-American WW2 veteran of the 442nd infantry regiment
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WWII: Japanese spy in Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941; rented a flat overlooking the harbour, taking notes on Fleet movements + security measures, dived in the harbour, rented planes to observe military installations
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WWII Japanese fighter pilot; Pearl Harbor, Midway
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Japanese WWII Navy plane navigator, born 1918. Last living survivor of the Japanese attack force on Pearl harbor
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Nuclear Test Photographer, Stood directly under a exploding nuclear warhead July 19, 1957
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
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Australian WWII Veteran
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Tuskegee Airman nicknamed 'The Fox'
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Passing ammunition on board the USS Pennsylvania shortly before the attack
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WWII Home Front: She was a 'Rosie The Riveter' on '5 Grand', the 5,000th B-17 built after Pearl Harbor which carried the signatures of all the people who built her
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WWII: CBI Theater. Hump flyer
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WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. 1st Marine Division. Pictured in the iconic photo of the Peleliu landing
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Ken Young (3)WW2 US Navy Lieutenant who was in the Battle of Okinawa. He went to countries Japan, Philippines, and New Guinea
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Born December 31, 1978. Played College Basketball for Hargrave Military Academy. Was drafted by the Detroit Pistons 2nd round 1998. Played in NBA 1998-1999, and played in other pro leagues around the world till 2005
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(Born 1923) WW2 Women Airforce Service Pilot. Served from 1942 to 1946. Flew PT-17, BT-13, AT-6
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Hiroshima survivor Hiroko Tsutsumi, then 18 years old. Later married an American, moved to the US, and became known as Rose
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Author of trapped at pearl harbor and survior of the sinking of the oklaboma
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War vet Subject of 'Body of War' documentary
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Australian World War One Veteran
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor
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WWII: Phone Connector during WWII, once connected President Franklin D. Roosevelt and General MacArthur
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British Major-General, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers from 1974 to 1979, also known as Tony Younger, was awarded the DSO and OBE
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WWII: PTO. Army Air Corps. Battles of Philippine Sea, Luzon
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WWII - 3rd Army. Battle of the Bulge, liberation of Austrian Mauthause-Gusen concentration camp
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Algerian football player, ASO Chlef, won the ALP1 championship in 2011 as well as the World Military Cup championship for Algeria in 2011 too
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Sailor of the Samuel B. Roberts, Battle off Samar 25 October 1944. He was featured in WWII in HD on the history Channel
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WWII U.S. Navy fire controlman 2nd class - served aboard the USS Philippine Sea (CV-47), USS Texas (BB-35), and the USS MacKenzie (DD-614)
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WWII: Sonarman in Mount 52, the 2nd 5-inch gun forward of the USS Laffey (DD-724 aka The Ship That Would Not Die). D-Day, Battle of Normandy (Cherbourgh) fire support, Battle of Okinawa (Apr 16, 1945 action, hit by 4 bombs and 6 Kamikaze)
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US Army WWII vet, born 1919. 158th Bushmasters, served in the Philippines, Australia, Germany. Rare survivor of both the 1918 Flu as an infant, and Covid-19 as a centenarian
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Fighter ace
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'WW2 Navajo Indian 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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Olympic runner 1936 Olympics, WWII pilot & POW
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Dir of Air,Space and Info
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Military, Air Force Major
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WWII: CBI theater. C-46 pilot, 15 'Hump' round-trips
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US Secret Service for Candidate George Wallace; was unintentionally shot in the neck during the assassination attempt on Wallace
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Female Polish soldier during the Warsaw Uprising. Wrote a book about her experiences
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WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Oakland from 1942 to 1946. Was in many battles in the Pacific incl. Coral Sea, Guam, Iwo Jima and Okinawa; near the USS Bunker HIll when she was hit by 2 Kamikaze; watched the surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay
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Major - USMC, US NAVY Blue Angels
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US Army WWII vet, born 1923. Served from Normandy (days after D-Day) through the Bulge and the end of the war in the 550th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion
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Polish Freedom Fighter during WWII
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JFK related/Frogman in the Bay of Pigs/Chaired the foreign language department at East Tennessee University from 1973 to 1993/Writes textbooks
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medal of honor army air corps ww11
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US Army SSG - Silver Star recipient
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WWII: Coast Guard, West Lock Disaster, Saipan, Guadalcanal & Philippines
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WWII veteran, landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, 1944
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa
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Retired Navy Admiral
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President of Upper Volta (Now Burkina-Faso), 1980-1982, army officer
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WWII: ETO. 5th Army, 36th Texas Division, 141st Regiment, Co I, 3rd Platoon. Battle of Monte Cassino, Operation Diadem (Velletri, Marched into Rome behind General Clark), Invasion of Southern France. Taken POW, spent 95 days in 5 camps)
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge
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air force general
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WWII: ETO. D-Day, 5th wave
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WWII: Marines veteran of the Battles of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian
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Former Airbus senior vice president for engineering, and French fighter pilot in the Indochina war, is living in France
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One of Airbus founders & 1st President. Fought for French Resistance WW2. 1944 made commander of the Free French air forces in London, going on to become chief of staff of the French Forces of the Interior under General Koenig
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US Army SSgt. victim of November 5, 2009 shootings at Fort Hood
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WASP - WWII Female Aviator, Flew the cub pt-17, bt-13, at-6, t-6, c-54
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group Manhattan Project Veteran Military Veteran. Project Alberta. Army technician servicing the fusing electronics on the two Atomic Bombs on Tinian Island in the Western Pacific
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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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'Easy Company' 'Member of a Band of Brothers'
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Lz xray 1965
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-5 victories, US Navy, VF-11/18/17 USS Intrepid & USS Hornet
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General, United States Marine Corps (Retired)
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US WWII WAVES Navy vet, born 1920
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Retired Navy Admiral
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WWII German Knights Cross Recipient
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German ww2 pilot
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Radio annoucer who announced propaganda to the allied troops during WWII. One of the 'Axis Sallys.' Last known to be living in Italy
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(Born 1941) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Bronze stars and a Legion of Merit
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Warsaw Uprising veteran, born 1929
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USCG Admiral
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Navy Admiral
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Bloodline/Son of Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, also Navy
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WWII era USSR Military lives in Israel now
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WWII Navy veteran; USS Colhoun (DD-801) survivor (6 April 1945, Kamikaze attack)
