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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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WWII. PTO. USMC. Bougainville, Iwo Jima, Guam. Korea: Inchon / Chosin Reservoir. Vietnam
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WWII. ETO. D-Day, Utah Beach. Battle of Hurtgen Forest. POW
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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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WWII Veteran, U.S. Army 86th Infantry Division, 318th Anti - Tank Battalion, Luzon and Leyte Gulf. Pacific Theater of Operations. Apparently not in combat as the 86th Infantry Division was only on its journey to the Pacific when Japan capitulated
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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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WWII: ETO. B-17 Navigator, 301st Bomb Group, 419th Bomb Squadron. Flew 51 bombing missions in Germany, Austria, Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania
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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
