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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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President of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
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Mexican supercenterian (Born: 1905) One of the world's oldest people. She lived with those who participated in the Mexican Revolution. She lives in San Jerónimo, Guerrero, Mexico
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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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Oldest Living Person in the World. Known as Dona Quita. Born: 07/09/1896. One of four remaining people alive born in the year 1896. Lives in Brazil
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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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International scientist, astronomer, UFO expert, author
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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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American judge and lawyer. Was a member of the NYC Council representing the 22nd District, from 2002 to 2013. Served as Chair of the Council's Public Safety Committee. Son of former New York City Council Speaker, Peter Vallone Sr
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*Doomsday Mom* accused of murdering her two children
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS California, Korean War
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Physicist and author
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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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Famous Astrophysicist with his work in magnetospheric physics. Responsible for helping the NASA Program to get off the ground.
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Oldest Person/Netherlands - Deceased 2005
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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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NASA lead flight director
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WWII: D-Day veteran, 5th Ranger Battalion
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astronaut
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nobel physics laureate 1984
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High profile murder suspect
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One of six teens that went to JFK Airport to see the Beatles in 1964 and Ringo Starr took a picture of them. Pictured in Starr's book 'Photograph'
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One of Anne Frank's friends lives in Amsterdam
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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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One of oldest people in the world. Born 1895 Lives in the Netherlands.
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1950's Quiz Show Scandal Contestant
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Aylwin
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Tulsa Race Massacre survivor
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Governement
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Born: 21/04/1976 Belgian scientist
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Employee of Gawlers Funeral Home , John helped prepare Pres. Kennedy's body for viewing and burial
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Artist, Apollo 15 'Fallen Astronauts' Sculpture
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astronaut
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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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Convicted Killer, Member of the 'Manson Family'
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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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Political Consultant and a candidate to go to Mars
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youngest female pilot to fly across america
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Bocks Car Crew, Navigator, WW II, Nagasaki
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Born: 20/06/1965 (Bornem) Belgium Viroligist
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Member of the Ulster County Historical Society's Bevier House Museum. Working to preserve the history of the wonderful town she calls home
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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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belgian mountaineer
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Attorney/Host of 'On the Record with Greta Van Susteren'
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WW2 fighter ace from South Africa
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One of the last survivors of The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest tornado in American history that occured on Wednesday, March 18, 1925. She is now 98 and lives in Mount Vernon, Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A with her grandson Timothy Gist
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Centenarian American physicist and author of textbooks on thermodynamics. Chair of the physics department at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1972 and President of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, from 1972 to 1987
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Climate specialist
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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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Astronaut
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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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nobel med. laureate 1982
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Convicted Murderer: On November 21, 2004, while on a hunting trip in northern Wisconsin, Vang shot eight people, who were also hunting in the area. Six were killed and two were left wounded
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Flight astronaut
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Humanitarian
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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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Irish Taoiseach, prime minister; first gay man, youngest person, and first member of an ethnic minority to hold that post in Ireland; Fine Gael politician
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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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Studys Vampires
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nobel med. laureate 1989
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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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Artist, poet, scientist specializing in linguistics & writer; 'Me & Lee' 'When the Clouds Came Flying By: Poems for Kids & Classrooms' 'A Dangerous Thing to Do: Poems for Intelligent Readers' 'David Ferrie' /Lee Harvey Oswald's girlfriend Summer of 1963
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United States Navy rear admiral, a Navy SEAL officer and former member of SEAL Team ON
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Last survivor of the SS Chelyuskin disaster. A Soviet steamship reinforced to navigate through polar ice that became ice-bound in Arctic waters during navigation along the Northern Maritime Route from Murmansk to Vladivostok. He is now 87
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(1952-2002) Was a Soviet cosmonaut. He flew as the Commander on Soyuz T-14 to the Salyut 7 space station, for part of the long-duration mission Salyut 7 EO-4. He spent 64 days 21 hours 52 minutes in space. He died of cancer at the age of 50
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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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Vaughan Medical
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JFK - Campaign staffer for Kennedy in the early 1950s
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Antarctic explorer, Byrd expedition 1927
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A retired research scientist from the Global Hydrology and Climate Center of the Marshall Center. He received his BSME in 1951, his MSME in 1959 from Clemson University, and continued additional graduate studies in Environmental Sciences at the University
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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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Miss Puerto Rico 1948. That same year she became the first Latina to compete in the Miss America Pageant
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Charles Lacy Veach (September 18, 1944 - October 3, 1995) was a USAF fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. He flew on STS-39 & STS-52.Lacy Veach died in Houston, Texas, on October 3, 1995, of cancer. He is interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the
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JFK - Veasey drove one of the press cars in the Kennedy Dallas motorcade. Following the assassination, he was assigned guard duty for Gov. Connally at Parkland Memorial Hospital
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student protester (in the famous pictures of the shooting of students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State)
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Took the Pulitzer Prize winning photo 'Burst of Joy'
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Veteran of the Mexican Revolution. Poncho Villa's driver
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French lawyer and politician who served as Minister, first president of the European Parlement, former member of the Constitutional Council of France, survivor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
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German Army. Verfied Veteran of World War 2. Lives in Germany. Born: 01/15/1903
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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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Escobar Hitman known as Popeye
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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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nobel physics laurate 1999
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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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climber
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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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Belgian meteorologist Born: 14/01/1987 (Aarschot) Be'lgium He works for the Belgian army and he works also for radio MNM and Television (EEN VRT)
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Child survivor of the Holocaust
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french laywer to saddam hussein
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co-pilot memphis belle
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Bartolomeo Vernace (born around 1950) known as 'Bobby' 'Bobby Glasses' and 'Pepe', is a high ranking mobster in the Gambino crime family
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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Trial attorney, author, and law professor at Louisiana State University. Veron?s earlier works of fiction earned him the title of 'master of fiction' fromUSA Today, andTravel and Leisure Golfmagazine called him 'The John Grisham of Golf.'
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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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Adventurer. Guinness World Record's Hall of Fame
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Russian Lawyer that meet with Donald Trump Jr. to give him damaging material on Hillary Clinton to tamper with the 2016 Presidential election
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Grumman Structural Engineer for the Apollo missions, born 1937. Worked on the triangular cabin windows on the Lunar Module of Apollo 11, as well as the LM's tanks, thermal blanket and wiring
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German politician
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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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SR-71 pilot
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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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Female French aviator, Concorde pilot
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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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Flight astronaut
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BP well site leader from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, pleaded guilty to ?negligently causing the massive oil spill,? /Transocean oil rig Deepwater Horizon that blew up in 2010, the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history
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Austrian Cosmonaut
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Former German Pilot, Member of the Crew of the 'Landshut'
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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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Living in the Russian city of Minsk when Lee Harvey Oswald defected to the Soviet Union. Vigushin was acquainted with both Oswald & his future wife, Marina Prusakova, & he practiced at the same firing range as Oswald between 1960 & 1961
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Cosmonaut
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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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Cosmonaut
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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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Survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake/Born 1903
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Author & White House correspondent for the New York Post in the early 1960s, Viorst attended press conferences and had contact with President Kennedy. Later he interviewed Marguerite Oswald and Warren Commission chief counsel Lee Rankin
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astronaut
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Aviator/Writer
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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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astronaut
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One of nine surviving veterans of Spanish Civil War. Born: September 19, 1920. .Esperantist, served with the 26th Division (Spain)
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Civil rights leader
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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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Spanish Civil War Veteran 'International Brigade' Born: 01/26/1913
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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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Worked for John Kennedy from 1958 to 1963, in his Press Office. Helped with his speeches, occasionally signed his name for him on items, and was waiting on Air Force One when he was shot in Dallas. Appeared on Antiques Roadshow with her mementos
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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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Cosmonaut
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Cosmonaut
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Russian cosmonaut. Soyuz 7 & 11. Died in the landing of Soyuz 11
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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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Verified German World War 2 Veteran (German Army) Lives in Germany. Born: 09/13/1902
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russia cosmonaut
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Italian aviator that boasts 80 years of uninterrupted flight activity. Born October 13, 1914
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Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. He was the first Jewish cosmonaut to enter space, preceding Judith Resnik in the United States
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Attempted to assassinate Hitler.
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German-born rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, & leading figure in development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II & the United
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Former NASA Mission Controller
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Baron und Sportler
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Naturalist/Ethnographer
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German anatomist who invented the plastination technique to preserve specimen and is heavily involved in its promotion. He developed the Body Worlds exhibition of human bodies and body parts
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German Ambassador in London 1970-77. WWII received Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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Author and historian
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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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nobel physics laureate 1985
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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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The Sun Maid raisins girl
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Von Moltke was a member of the the Kreisau Circle, an anti-Nazi resistance group co-founded by her husband Helmuth, who was executed for treason in 1945. Born: 03/29/1911
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German WWII Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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Aero-Space Scientist for NASA
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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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German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte). He is considered the ace-of-aces during World War I, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories.Richthofen was a member of an aristocratic family wit
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German attorney and author
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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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One of the oldest people in the world. Born 1895
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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/American rocket scientist, born 1914. German WWII vet, and last living member of the Werner Von Braun team for the US Army and NASA. Produced the first complete design of the lunar rover while at NASA
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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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NASA - Chief Technologist at the Armstrong Flight Research Center
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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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Guinness Book Of World Records Hall of Fame holder for having the highest I.Q. in the world - 228 / 'Ask Marilyn' column - Parade Magazine; married to Dr Robert Jarvik
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Helped hide Anne Frank
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astronaut
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astronaut NASA . STS-57 (1993), STS-63 (1995), STS-83 (1997), STS-94 (1997) and STS-99 (2000)
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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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Record holder surviving the highest fall without a parachute, was flight attendant on JAT Airlines flight 367, which exploded on January 26, 1972 with her on board
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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
