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John O'Brien (6)
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WWII: USMC. Crew chief at Henderson Field, Guadalcanal. He took care of the famous Vought F4U Corsair 'Number 13' that was flown by aces KennetH Walsh and Pappy Boyington. He knew both men very well. Later served on Guam and Iwo Jima
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Phoenix (CL_46)
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WW 2 air ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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William O'Brien (2) D - Day landings veteran. Born: 1917. Also known as Admiral Sir William O'Brien
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battle of Okinawa
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Navy Admiral
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WWII: U.S. Navy WAVES Nurse
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Worked at Bletchley Park during WWII as a code breaker
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World War II Veteran, D-Day Invasion, US Army, Heavy Machine Gunner
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army general
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Retired Brigadier General. Canadian Member of Parliament for Carleton-Mississippi Hills. Minister of Defence 2006-2007, Minister of National Revenue 2007-2008
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(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. UH-1 Huey pilot with Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 20th Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star, and 3 Purple Hearts
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Billy O'Dell (2) 'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII/ETO: B-17 ball turret gunner of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group)
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air force hero
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2/2/1911-2/16/1994 US Navy submarine commander WW2, Medal of Honor for service on Tang. Served Wahoo, as executive & approach officer. Participated more successful attacks on Japanese shipping than any other sub officer during war
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USMC Ace during WWII-[7 victories] Member of VMF-323
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(Born 1961) US Army Special Forces Veteran and Author. Participated in many operations during his career. He was in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Grenada. Bronze Star Recipient. Has written many books about the Revolutionary War
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The Major and the Minor (1942), Military Academy (1940) and Mountain Rhythm (1943)
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WWII: PTO. USMC. 4th Raider Battalion (personal radio operator for Col. James Roosevelt). Guam
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Former General & Commander Air Force Logistics Command
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medal of honor marines vietnam
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WWII. ETO. Surgical nurse of the 78th hospital train, tending to combat wounded including those from the Battle of the Bulge
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FBI Agent operative true story Robert Hanssen Russian spy case, movie Breach
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WWII: Arctic convoy duty on the HMS Sumba
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Professional Speaker, Swift boat commander in Vietnam during 1969 and 1970
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Ww2 fighter ace
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Ex-SEAL who revealed himself as bin Laden shooter
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WWII: Last surviving Akwesasne Mohawk Code Talker during WWII. Fought in the South Pacific, New Guinea and Philippines theatres as one of 33 Mohawk code talkers
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air force general businessman
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WWII: Serving with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, he was evacuated from Dunkirk (1940) on a ration boat filled with tins of pineapple, boxes and cigarettes
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WWII: British Murmansk Run veteran (Arctic convoys)
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german pilot of second world war
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UK WW1 Veteran
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Romanian WWII Veteran
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WWII: PTO. US Navy. Battles off Philippine Sea, New Guinea, Luzon
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Kamikaze pilot WW2/Book, 'Memoirs of a Kamikaze', born on 11 December, 1926 in village Kitano Kotesashi. Odachi's graduation from elementary school coincided with Japan's occupation of China
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U.S. General
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army general
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US Centenarian, WWII and Civilian Conservation Corps vet, born 1917. CCC New Deal Program 1934-36 in Massachusetts, then an Army officer in the South Pacific during WWII
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German ww2 pilot
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'F-16' & 'F-111' Test Pilot!
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. USS Neosho (AO-23)
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Hiroshima survivor, born in 1931 in Canada, moved to Japan when he was nine. Survived Hiroshima at 14, and then moved back to Canada
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WWII - Fighter Ace (6 aerial victories, 17 ground victories, 155 missions) of the 2nd Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Group; received a citation for his escort action during Operation Tidal Wave (aka 'Ploesti Raid) in 1943
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Japanese and American vet, born 1926 in the US. Raised in Japan, fought for Japan in the last days of WWII. Taken POW by Russia,18 months in a Siberian gulag. Released, later returned to the US, Served in the US Army during the Korean War
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president biafra/army general
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WWII: ETO. Veteran of the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team
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Japanese WWII Veteran
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Hiroshima bomb survivor
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
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Member of Pappy Boyington's VMF-214 ''Black Sheep Squadron''
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U.S. Army Air Corps 1939-1945
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Polish WWII Veteran, lives in Canada
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WWII Flying Tigers, Judge in the Charles Manson Case
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(Born 1925) WW2 and Korean War USAAF Veteran. Was in a B-24 Liberator and a tail gunner on a B-29. Witnessed the mushroom cloud from Nagasaki off in the distance in 1945. POW during the Korean War for 2 years
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WWII Ace[17 victories] and shot down four jets in Vietnam
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WWI era Veteran Lives in Chicago
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Military leader in Bay of Pigs invasion force
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One of three surviving WWII Navajo Code Talkers; he lives in Phoenix. Born: 1923
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American Architect, born 1926. One of the last living apprentices to Frank Lloyd Wright. Drafted at the end of WWII, on a ship to Okinawa when it ended
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'Spain' Lives in Barbastro, Born: 1919
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co-pilot bockscar b-29 that dropped the bomb on nagasaki japan in ww2
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Tuskegee Airman
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WWII: D-Day veteran, 505th PIR, 82nd AB
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Cold War: RB-47 reconnaissance pilot flying over the Barents Sea in July 1960, shot down by a Soviet MiG. He was held as prisoner and came home Jan. 27, 1961, greeted by President Kennedy
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(Born 1931) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1953 to 1976 and retired as a Colonel. Recipient of an Air Force Cross and Silver Star
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WASP Pilot during WWII, flew the p-40, bt-13, at-6, at-11, uc-78, a-24, sbd, p-51, p-38, a-20, c-2, p-14, p-39
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; USS Arizona. survivor of USS Lexington as it was sinking during the Battle of the Coral Sea; took part in the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests after the war
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coast guard admiral educator
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(Born 1924) US Army WW2 Veteran
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USN Admiral
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WWII - Navy
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Part of the first generation of female military pilots, eventually accumulating nearly 4,000 hours of flying time/Iraq/Running for Congress in 2020/aviation leader, commander
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS Reid, 11 December 1944
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Italian flying ace of WWII
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Japanese WWII Veteran, chef and owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a Japanese sushi restaurant in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
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Japanese soldier from WW2 who hid in the jungle for 30 years refusing to surrender to the Allies; is now living in Brazil; author of 'No Surrender: My Thirty Year War'
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British WWII veteran. Served in the Women's Auxillary Corps in the Indian Air Force. Flew a glider at 99 years old for charity
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army general
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WWII: ETO. B-17 Bombardier in the 390th Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron
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U.S, Congressman (R) /Former Navy Seal from 1988 to 2014, small time actor/Drunk who gained coverage for verbally accosting & screaming profanities at several Senate Pages in the United States Capitol
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Author 'VIETNAM Marine Infantry - One Year in Vietnam'/Trained as a corpsman he was attached to a Marine unit and saw duty on the front lines of the war
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Military, Pearl harbour survivor, West Mifflin 98th Coast Art, Battery F, artillery
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FBI agent, responded to the assassination attempt on George Wallace and interviewed Wallace during his recovery. One of the figures who helped head the investigation into possible group effort
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Congressional Medal of Honor, US Army, WWII
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Former Packers Defensive End. Played 1949-1951. Also is a World War 2 veteran
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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WWII: D-Day. Ranger. Pointe du Hoc
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(Born 1986) US Army Iraq War Veteran. Distinguished Service Cross Recipient
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WWII - His B-24 was shot down on a bombing mission to Ploesti in July 1944 (not the famous Ploesti Raid). For five weeks, with the help of locals and Serbian Chetniks, he escaped Nazis soldiers and was saved during 'Operation Halyard'
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. USMC
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Guam, Battle of Iwo Jima
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US Army Afghanistan War Veteran and YouTuber
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Former Colonel of the United States Marine Corps who served from 1975 to 2005. He did 3 tours as a commanding officer and 1 tour in Iraq in 2004. He graduated college in 1996 with 5 degrees (3 master and 2 undergraduate)
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(Born 1945) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Company D, 229th Aviation Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division. POW from 1966 and then released in 1968. Recipient of a Purple Heart
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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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Commander Mid Atlantic Regional Maintance Center
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WWI veteran
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WWII Rosie the Riveter
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American (1915-2008), served in the Spanish Civil War's Lincoln Brigade. Had joined the Communist party in the 1930s, later hassled by the FBI and HUAC. Left the party when he saw Stalin's actions. Worked also in the civil rights movement
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Russian military pilot, downed Korean Air Lines (Korean Air) flight 007
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Captain Joellen Drag Oslund, USNR (Ret.) The U.S. Navy?s Fourth Woman Naval Aviator and First Woman Helicopter Pilot on April 19, 1974
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor aboard the USCG Kukui, 7 December 1941
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 575th Field Artillery, 7th Army
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WWII: Battle of Midway, USS Balch
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USN WWII Wave, in the communications department, she learned of the end of WWII several hours before it was announced
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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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German ww2 pilot
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navy admiral england
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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army general
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Retired General
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WWII: Served in the Pacific Theater
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Worked as a 'Rosie the Riveter' woman worker in airplane plants during WWII, starting in 1942. Still active and on the job in 2014 when in her 90's
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. PT boat cook
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Algerian WWII Veteran, 109 years old. During WWII he fought in the French Army and participated in the invasion of Italy and Germany
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hal moore rto in lz xray-ia drang valley battle-we were soldiers fame
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. B Battery 200th Coast Artillery
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Dutch WWII Resistance. As a teenager she and her sister Truus would flirt with Nazi Collaborators and lead them to their deaths
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Dutch WWII Resistance. As a teenager she and her sister Freddie would flirt with Nazi Collaborators and lead them to their deaths
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Fighter ace F-86 Sabre ace of the Korean War
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WWII: PTO. Marshall Islands, the Philippines, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. USS New Jersey (BB 62)
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Mark Owen (2)Participated in the mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden
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WWII: Battle of Attu
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Air Force General
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Ww2 Fighter ace3 war vet ww2/korea/nam
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navy admiral
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William A. Owens (2) (1905-1990) folklorist, author, & professor/Author; 'This Stubborn Soil' 'A Season of Weathering' 'Walking on Borrowed Land'/In 1942 joined the United States Army as a buck private & was assigned to the intelligence branch
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WWII: Australian veteran, 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion. Palestine, Libya, Greece, Crete, Syria, Tobruk
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Psychiatrist (Born: 1914) who served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven women Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II
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doolittle's radiers, crew #3 navigator
