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Belgian fighter ace from WW2
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Royal millitary
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Army General
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Iwo Jima. Later Korean War, Bay of Pigs
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa.2nd Marines, 2nd MarDiv
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Terry Bowden (2)One of the last lightermen a.k.a rivermen (Born: 1926) who worked at Royal Albert Dock, London during the 1940/50's. He is now 90 and lives in the UK
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American author and speech expert. Co-editor of GIG: Americans Talk About Their Jobs. Co-wrote the screenplay for the film Basquiat. Has appeared on CNN, The Daily Show, with Jon Stewart, the BBC, and many others
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American Female Vietnam War Troop Moral Booster (Donut Dolly)
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JFK - Witness to the famous Parking Lot Speech in Fort Worth by President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, pictured in a well-known photograph by Gene Gordon
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astronaut
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W W I I pilot, lawyer, Gov Clinton's Chief Of Staff, author
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English Female Former Political Activist And Suffragette. Participated In The 1926 General Strike And The Battle Of Cable Street In 1936
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inventor (added speed to modern microelec app's)
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Member of the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo --WWII 'Pilot Crew #12'
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Former president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and the American Academy for Environmental Protection.He was consultant on the film Soylent Green
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa. USS Presque Isle (LST-678, later renumbered APB-44). The Presque Isle was an auxiliary personnel barracks where sailors of sunk ships could stay until they could be reassigned
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member of pappy boyingtons Black sheep squardron
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WWII: MTO. Rome Arno, North Apennines and Po Valley. Co. A, 361st Infantry Regiment, 91st Division
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Astronaut
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navy admiral
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California political activist
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Witnessed assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas on 11/22/63/Moment of the assassination, was operating the Union Terminal Company's two-story tower, overlooking parking lot around north of grassy knoll, west of School Book Depository
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Man who called police from Officer Tippit's car to report that Officer Tippit had been shot. (Officer Tippit was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald)
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Dan Bowling (2)
Decorated World War II B-25 pilot -
WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Marine, 5th Division. Purple Heart
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Mission operation manager on the New horizon flight to the dwarf planet Pluto
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2024 Independent candidate for Vice President of the United States - running mate of his brother, Jay J. Bowman
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American Retired Four - Star Navy Admiral
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2024 Independent candidate for President of the United States
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge (ST. Vith, Moircy, a.o.), Koblenz, Rhine. 345th Infantry Regiment, 87th Infantry Division
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Tuskegee Pilot, flew the p-40, p-47. p-51
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WWII: PTO. Boatswain 2nd Class, U.S. Coast Guard. Served on 12 ships in the Pacific
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Registered Nurse at Parkland Memorial when President Kennedy brought there after the assassination
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WWII: Battle of Wake Island December 1941. POW until the end of the war
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Luzon. 33rd Infantry Division
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Convicted of selling US Spy Satellite secrets to the Soviet Union
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Martin Boyce (2)
Gay rights activist, veteran of the Stonewall uprising in 1969 -
South African Born English Retired Royal Navy Officer. Former Admiral of the Fleet. Crossbench Member House of Lords
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Retired COL, USAF. Board Member of American Fighter Ace Assn. Radar Intercept Officer in F-101B and Flew 234 combat sorties in RF-4C Phantom
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US Army Col. (1879-1919). Mexican border howitzer battery. Made aid-de-camp to Gen. Pershing in October 1917. French Legion of Honor. Died in France from the flu in 1919
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Retired 4 star Air Force General
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American Former Dallas Detective - Kennedy Assassination
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WWII American Air Force - Tuskegee Airmen (Class 45G)
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Lt. Lt. DFC, R.A.F. No. 195 Squadron, No. 3 Group, Bomber Command Lancaster Pilot, 33 Missions over Germany and France
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WWII Tuskegee Airmen
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Librarian. First African American librarian in the city of Philadelphia
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Early experimental research test pilot. Boyd is an engineering test pilot for NASA and USAF. F-111
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Aviator, f-16 program manager/ staff officer
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, Wheeler Field
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American Former Scientist. Researcher And Entrepreneur In Biotechnology. Member of National Inventors Hall of Fame
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American Former Stunt Woman - Wing - Walker That Performed Numerous Aerial Stunts Between 1921-29 Including Automobile - Airplane Transfers, And Parachute Jumps
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United States Army Green Beret, football player and actor
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American Former Biochemist, And Analytical Chemist. Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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(Born 1938) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, a Distinguished Flying Cross, a Purple Heart, and a Legion of Merit
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WWII: Marine Corps hero immortalized in HBO's 'The Pacific'. Fought at Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa. Silver Star
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JFK: Guarded the JFK gravesite at Arlington shortly after the funeral
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1st- was a flying tiger/ then led black sheep squadron-vmf-214- fighter ace- 28 kills/ medal of honor recipient ww2/ prisoner of war in ww2 in japanese pow camp for 20 months too
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American Lawyer. Most Famous Being Jeffrey Dahmer's Lawyer (1992)
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Canadian Former Chief of Defence Staff (1996)
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Canadian Former Physicist. Pioneer In The Field Of Laser Technology And Co - Inventor Of The Charge - Coupled Device
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WWII: PTO. Thirteenth Army Air Force
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American Author, Retired United States Air Force Officer, Command Pilot, Combat Veteran, Aviation Historian, And Former Director Of NASA
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One of the founders of 'The American Conservative Union'
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WWII: German officer awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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WWII - A seaman on the USS Taylor, he witnessed the surrender of Japan on Sept. 2, 1945 on board the USS Missouri as the USS Taylor had been selected to anchor next to the Missouri
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Longest held civilian POW during the Vietnam War. He spent almost 8 years as a POW
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WWII: US Navy. Survied the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea in the Battle of Iwo Jima
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Scientist; Manhattan Project (Trinity); was in charge of the final assembly of the Trinity test bomb in July 1945´
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor Survivor, USMC. Later Bougainville, Iwo Jima
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Texas entomologist. 21 research works with 681 citations and 378 reads
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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: PTO. US Navy 1941-1945
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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WWII: ETO. E Co., 262nd Reg., 66 Inf. Div. Eyewitness to the sinking of the SS Leopoldville by torpedo as he was aboard the HMS Cheshire, which was right behind in the convoy that should support the US troops in the Battle of the Bulge
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Editor Washington Post during the Watergate Investigation (One of three people who knew the identity of Deep Throat)
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Sole survivor of Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crash, which killed 26 others on board/Catapulted out of a hole torn into the aluminum fuselage
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Flag Raiser Iwo Jima
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Army General
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WWII - Iwo Jima survivor, corpsman
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(Born 1929) US Navy Korean and Vietnam War Veteran. POW in North Vietnam from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, 2 Distinguished Flying Cross, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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Don Brady (2) WWII: B-24 ball turret gunner in the 760th Bomb Squadron, 460th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. Flew 50 m issions from February to August 1944 (airfield Spinazzola). Missions include Austria, Germany, Bucharest, Ploesti
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Holocaust; Brady is a survivor of Auschwitz from Czechoslovakia, later became a Canadian businessman
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, Remagen. H Company, 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division
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Navy Admiral
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Medal of honor army vietnam war, born 1936
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American Female Social Activist - Prominent Advocate For Gun Control In The United States Of America
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
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Astronaut
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criminal defense attorney
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Centenarian and is an Italian-born Argentine cellist, composer, conductor, arranger and musical archivist who, in his early career, was principal cellist in the Colón Theatre orchestra in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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American politician & lawyer from New York State serving as the NY County District Attorney. 2021, became the 1st African American elected to that office/Indicted Donald J. Trump of criminal charges in New York court
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Retired General
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Author - To Sir With Love, also served in the RAF as a pilot in WWII
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British field marshal, also known as Baron Bramall, served as Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1979 and 1982
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Physicist with Richard Byrd, Byrd Antartic Expedition 2 Team
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English Female Former Centurion. One Of England's Longest Living People. Died 108 Years, Northampton, England 2012
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First African-American officer of the United States Marine Corps (Years of service 1943-1955)
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Navy Admiral
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South African Prison Guard to Nelson Mandela at Robben Island prison between 1978 and 1987. - Author of the book 'Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend' (2014)
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Polish Former Author - Novels - 'I Dared to Live', 'Roma, During Two Invasions', 'Between Two Worlds', 'Glimpses of West Africa'
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Astronaut
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Astronaut-flew on STS:8,51G,32,49.
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; also saw service in Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima
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German World War One survivor
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JFK - Witness to President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas; can be clearly seen and identified in the Zapruder film; gives speeches about his experiences that day
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German ww2 pilot
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USMC General
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WWII Era Veteran, Combat Engineering Battalion, 2nd Special Brigade Amphibious Engineers Years of service: 1945-47 Post war Japan Occupation
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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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WW2 Navy Service/Scientist/American physicist, government policy advisor
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Owner of the Virgin franchise - First Billionaire to go to Space
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. 75th Infantry Division, 289th Regiment. Purple Heart
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Physician who contracted the Ebola virus in Africa, then was airlifted to Emory University for treatment
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WWII: PTO. Morotai. 389th Anti Aircraft Artillery Bn, 13th AF
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WWII: PTO. He flew with the troop carrier units in oversea duty in the C-46 Combat Cargo Group in the South/Western Pacific-Australia to Japan
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WWII: Pilot of the 'Clay Pigeon', a C-47 that flew paratroopers into Normandy on D-Day and was shot down on Sept. 17, 1944, during Operation Market Garden
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 Dec 1941. USS Rigel
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Supercentenarian. Born 1906 she is the oldest person living in The Netherlands
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army general
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Lawyer, former union official, and Boston radio and television personality.
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Freelance historian and biographer who works under commission or sponsorship
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WWII: ETO A-Company, 282nd Engineering Combat Battalion, 3rd Army, Battle of the Bulge
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Holocaust; survived Auschwitz and became a professor in Croatia
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American Female WWII veteran, Coast Guard SPAR
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Lz- xray 1965 nam
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US WWII Navy veteran, born 1927. USS Indianapolis Survivor, one of the last 5 living as of 6/21
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Rancher who discovered the U.F.O pieces near Roswell
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(Born 1942) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 4 Silver Stars
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Royal Flying Corps in France during World War I/1921, Brearley founded West Australian Airways Ltd./ 1927, Brearley opened the Perth Flying School at Maylands
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Author/Mountaineer/Film Maker/'Seven Years in Tibet', IMAX 'Everest' & others
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WWII: 447th Bomb Squadron, 321st Bomb Group, 57th Bomb Wing, 12th Air Force. B-25 Mitchell pilot in the ETO/MTO. 68 missions along the German supply lines in the Brenner Pass between the border of Austria and Italy. Flew, among others, #43-27542 'Supersti
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Invented Automotive Airbags
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US army general
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JFK - assassination witness, clearly seen in the Zapruder film.
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As a 5 year old with his father, one of the closest witnesses to the Kennedy shooting in Dallas. Seen in the Zapruder film behind the limo
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WWII: PTO. South Pacific, New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa, and China. Navy corpsman. Purple Heart
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Korean War vet, US Army, born 1932. Served in Korea 1950-51 with the 2nd Division, 23rd Infantry. Jeep driver. Struck in the shoulder by shelling near the Naktong River in North Korea, received Purple Heart and back to combat a day later
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WWII: PTO. USMC. Roi and Namur, Saipan.Purple Heart
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WWII - Contemporary witness of the Port Chicago, CA, disaster in July 1944
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Scientist
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Jack Brennan (2)
Is a retired American Marine officer and political aide. He is best known as President Richard Nixon's post-resignation chief of staff. -
John Brennan (2)American government official who was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency/25 years with CIA included work as Near East & South Asia analyst, as station chief in Saudi Arabia, & as director of the National Counterterrorism Center
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WWII: 7th Armored Division, Company B 17th Tank. Battle of Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Remagen
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2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
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Tax Attorney, Candidate for 2006 U.S. Senate Seat in New York
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Holocaust Survivor, M.S. St. Louis
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Astronaut
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Aviator
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Certified enterprise architect who has led numerous DoD projects and a former member of the Space Shuttle/Spacelab Team, also author of 5 books
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Supercentenarian/Born:09/21/1896: Oldest Living Man in the World. One of four people living born in the year 1896
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Last surviving surgeon of the D-Day landings. He saved the lives of 1,000 troops in nine months in France. Born: 1913. He is now 103 and lives in Wickham, Hampshire, England
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Dale
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Led police to the movie theater where Lee Harvey Oswald was hiding
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Scientist
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Last living participant of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial (1920-2003). Picked as a four year old boy by the trial's judge to pull juror names out of a hat
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Tuskegee Airmen, WW2
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US WWII Army veteran, born 1917. Critically injured in the Battle of St Lo, not expected to survive. But now 106
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(Born 1925) US Army WW2 Veteran. Captured as a POW during the Battle of the Bulge and did hard labor and lost 70 pounds at time of his release. Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Legion of Honor recipient
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Retired German born toolmaker living in Pennsylvania; accused WII Nazi war criminal who worked at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
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Centenarian (1895-2001). US veteran of the Army expedition against the Pancho Villa raids in 1916, and then served in WWI in France. During the New Deal era, he worked for the Roosevelt's TVA
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air force general hero
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WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division, 227th Field Artillery Battalion
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NYT bestselling author and speaker. Appeared on PBS-TV's Stories from the Stage. Recorded voices on Beavis and Butthead. 4-time Moth StorySLAM champion. Has performed two award-winning, critically-acclaimed comedic solo shows
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NASA Administrator; Former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma
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WWII - WASP. Flew the P-38, P-51 and 18 more military and 6 civilian aircraft models
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Retired Air Force Test Pilot
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(Born 1940) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Silver Star recipient
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NASA astronaut (retired); Director of Kennedy Space Center 1997-2003. Flew F-100 in Vietnam
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American Civil Rights Activist .As A 6 Year Old In 1960, She Became First African - American Child To Attend An All - White Elementary School In The US South Civil Rights Movement In Louisiana, New Orleans
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William Bridges (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
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American Centenarian, born 1920. Served in the New Deal's CCC, then WWII's Battle of the Bulge (4th Armored Division), and the Korean War
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WWII veteran. Italian translator for General Patton. Received the Purple Heart after being shot in the spine during combat. Born 1919
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Former professor at the University of Montevallo in Alabama compiled The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader
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WWII: Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Hardy, which was sunk during the First Battle of Narvik, April 1940
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navy admiral
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Tuskegee Airmen
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American Female Dust Bowl Survivor - TV Mini - Series - 'The Dust Bowl' (2012)
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Last Survivor Of The HMS Hood
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Great Grandson of Herbert Hoover
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W.A.S.P. Pilot. Flew PT-19, BT-13, AT-6, AT-7, AT-11, C-78, B-25, B-26, SBD (A-24), SBC (A-25), and the P-47 towing target
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Canadian Female Former Inventor- Rocket Scientist Best Known For Her Development Of Rocket And Jet Propulsion Technologies. Inductee Inventor Hall Of Fame (2010)
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Scientist
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WWII: Company G, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Received a Bronze Star for action in the Battle of Remagen, March 28, 1945
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JFK/According to Bringuier, Lee Oswald visited him at his store & posed as friend of the Cuban exiles, offering to join the fight against Castro/ Bringuier's clothing store in New Orleans became the local headquarters for anti-Castro Cubans
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One of the founders of Blue Lives Matter ( police lives matter)
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Surry County Deputy who took part in the Michael Vick investigation
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American nuclear engineer and LGBTQ activist serving as the deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy In 2019, Brinton was the head of advocacy and government affairs at the non-profit LGBTQ
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LAPD Officer involved in the Rodney King Beating
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American Female Campaigner Running For Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, Virginia. Fired From Government Contracting Firm For Giving Donald Trump, In His Motorcade, middle Finger/Won seat on Loudoun County Board of Supervisors for Algonkian district
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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American Former Male Photographer. He Was Head Photographer To Shoot Movies (In 16-Millimetre Black - And - White Film) For The Trinity Test. The First Nuclear Weapon Detonation (July 1945)
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Science journalist, author and a Senior Writer at The NYT. Co-author of 8 books, including Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War. Won 2 shared Pulitzer Prizes, an Emmy award, and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
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WWII - D-Day. 82nd AB, 507th PIR, Division HQ; Aide to Gen.l Gavin. Saw heavy fighting in the Battle of La Fiere Causeway on June 9, 1944, bloodiest small unit combat of the initial landing days. Also Operation Market Garden. Purple Heart
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Participated 1964 Civil Rights protest at the Piccadilly Cafeteria on Commerce Street in downtown Dallas. Mr. Broadnax held a sign that included a picture of President Kennedy on one side and the hand-lettered words 'DID JFK DIE IN VAIN'
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JFK - Escorted Jackie Kennedy to the consecration of the Eternal Flame grave site March 15, 1967; popular through a photo that became an official postcard. Also served at the Pageant of Peace ceremony, Dec. 17, 1962 for JFK
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(Born 1967) Former US Army Major General who served from 1989 to 2023
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Rear Admiral
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American Female Author, Academic, And Former Military Officer. Novel - 'All In: The Education of General David Petraeus' (Co Writer With Vernon Loeb)(2012)
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NASA test pilot - high-altitude ER-2 Earth science aircraft and the C-20A, a modified Gulfstream III business jet that carries a sophisticated synthetic aperture radar on environmental science missions
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WWII: German Flying Ace, Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54) Grünherz (Green Heart), 81 victories
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A Dallas Police Patrolman on Nov. 24 , 1963 , Alvin was on duty in the Police Headquarters' basement and at Parkland when Oswald was taken there
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One of the last surviving construction workers who worked on The Shasta Dam, which began construction in 1938. He is now 99 and lives in Redding, California, U.S.A
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American Housewife Of A Mechanic At The Service Station On Jefferson Blvd, Dallas. Mary Saw A White Male Walk Past Her At A Fast Pace. She Later Identified Him, To FBI Agents, As Lee Harvey Oswald (John F. Kennedy Assassination 1963)
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Pilot of the Pride of Detroit
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nobel physics 1994
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US Army Vietnam, Gulf, and Iraq War veteran. Army career stretching to 39 years, 213th ASHC Black Cats
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Legal Clerk, Consumer Advocate,& Environmental Activist Instrumental In Building Case Against The Pacific Gas & Electric Company Of California in 1993. Movie Made About this & Julia Roberts Portrayed Erin Brockovich/2021 TV series based on her life Rebel
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2024 Constituion Party nominee for VPOTUS
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WWII: US Army; veteran of the Aleutian Islands Campaign; fought in the Battle of Attua (May 1943) called '19 Days of Hell'
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One of the last survivors of the Great Escape in WWII
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Surgeon who performed the first successful living-related liver transplant (1989)
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USMC General
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Noted Physician, Born in Barcelona, 05/18/1908
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Soviet WWII Female Pilot 'Night Witches'
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Numa Numa Dance
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Centenarian and American artist, and Professor Emeritus of Art, at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He was a 1946 Guggenheim Fellow
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Member of The Ritchie Boys (Born Nov. 11, 1923) was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War 2 now 97 years old
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marine corps general
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Charles Bronson (2) Famous UK prisoner,currently in HMP Wakefield.Is an author of many books
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Bronson was an eyewitness to the JFK Kennedy assassination. Her late husband, Charles Bronson, was filming in Dealey Plaza and caught the fatal head shot on film from a distance
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WWII: PTO. Gunner's Mate 2nd Class in PT-Boat squadrons MTB RON 16 and MTB RON 42 in the Southwest Pacific incl. Mios Woendi, Dutch New Guinea; Mindoro, P.I.; Brunei Bay, Borneo
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WWII: PTO. Battles of Tarawa, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, Civillian Witness to the Attack, born 1918
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physicist
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WWII - Fighter Ace, 13 victories, USAAF. 15th AF, 31st Fighter Group, 307th Fighter Squadron, based in San Severo, Italy. Test pilot after the war. Married singer Martha Tilton in 1953. Flew P-51, P-38, P-40, B-45, F-86 Sabre in Korea and F-100
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Oldest WW2 veteran Born September 12, 1909
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American Male Sled Dog Racer, Kennel Owner And Motivational Speaker - Yukon Quest Dog Sled Race Winner (1999). Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Runner Up (2002 And 2003). Henry Haln 200 Winner (1996)
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US WWII Naval Air Corps vet, born 1923. Jokingly signed up a buddy for the Blimp program to hear him complain, then got picked for it himself. At 99, possibly the last Navy Blimp pilot of WWII. Postwar career as a Texas preacher
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Chief Machinist Mate on the USS Liberty when it was attacked by the Israelis in 1967. Awarded the Silver Star for his actions
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American Abducted Female Teenager Who Was Freed By Police - Lancaster, California (2002)
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Part of crew on Air Force One when President Kennedy flew to Texas in 1963
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. B Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Regiment, 5th Marine Division. Purple Heart
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Famed entomologist and founder of the Montreal Insectarium
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British ace from WW2, 15 victories, Battle of Britain
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WWII US Navy (b. 1925) Joined 1943, first in his training class. Assigned to Adm. Bull Halsey's staff, clerical and radio duties. Switched to USS Missouri with Halsey, present for the onboard Japanese Surrender Ceremony
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Tug boat Hoga (YT-146
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Albert Brown (2) WWII - Bataan Death March survivor
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Tutored by Medgar Evers, Samuel Williams, J. Pious Barbour, & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as one of the 8 students in the only class Dr. King taught in his lifetime at Morehouse College/Known for activism, intellectual discipline, & oratory
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Flying Tiger-pilot and CAF flight instructor. The last surviving pilot of the Flying Tigers
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A Dallas Police Detective in 1963 , Charles and his partner accompanied witness Helen Markham to the police station to identify Lee Harvey Oswald in a line-up
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American Female Civil Rights Activist - President Of The 'Brown Foundation For Educational Equity, Excellence and Research', And Owner Of 'Brown & Associates, Educational Consulting Firm
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army general
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Astronaut
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American Female Relative Of A Deceased Celebrity. Sister Of Nicole Brown Simpson, Ex - Sister - In - Law Of O.J. Simpson
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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British former Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 different types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history
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Director of 1937 Love Life of a Gorilla. Also an explorer.
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Inventor of the Steadicam. Cinematographer
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Navy sniper vietnam 17 confirmed kills
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P-38 Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of the 55th Fighter Group
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Gordon Brown (3)
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Tuskegee Airmen, Flew PT-17 Stearman, B-47, P-51 and F-80 Jet. Flew 20 different plane types
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Was telemetry and communications specialist and part of the Apollo 11 team that maintained communication between mission control and the spacecraft
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air force general
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James R. Brown (2)Military air force general
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American Female Flight Aviator - First Long - Distance Solar - Powered Flight. Flew A Tiny Experimental Solar - Powered Aircraft, 'Solar Challenger,' 6 miles In 22 Minutes Near Marana, Arizona. (Dec. 3, 1980)
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American Former Female History Makers. Suffragette Marcher, And A Woman Voter In The 1920 Election. (1896-2003)
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Jennifer Brown (4)American Female Consultant. Award - Winning Entrepreneur, Speaker, Author And Diversity And Inclusion Expert. Founder of Jennifer Brown Consulting. Novel - 'Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace & The Will To Change' (2016)
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Joe Brown (2) English mountaineer who made many significant ascents in the Alps in the 1950's. In 1955, he was part of the team who made the first ascent of the third highest mountain in the world, Kangchenjunga in the in the Nepalese Himalaya
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Murdered grand ole opry star stringbean david akeman in 1973
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TV Judge
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American Female Investigative Journalist - Reporter That Broke The Jeffrey Epstein Sex Exploitation Case 2018 (Miami Herald)
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US WWII 5th Marines, Iwo Jima, born 1923. Served as Asst. Chaplain for his unit. Pressed into service treating wounded at Iwo Jima, with no medical training. Gave plasma and morphine shots to the wounded among the dead on the beach
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Larry Brown (6) Tuskegee Airmen
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Larry Brown (9) Tuskegee airman ww2. note this entry is not for the tuskegee airman, larry brown who was associated with the red tail project in minnesota. this person lives in texas and was still alive aged 93 in november of 2016
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American Former Female Campaigner For Equality In Education. Brown vs. Board of Education - The Little Girl Went To Segregated School In Topeka, Kansas, 1954
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Centenarian (1901-2007). Was last living US Navy veteran of WWI
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Lloyd Brown (2)Centenarian (Born 1923), Canadian WW2 Veteran
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English Female World's First Test Tube Baby. Married Name Is Mullinder And Lives And Works Near Bristol, England
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Hungarian Female Holocaust Survivor/Imprisonment in Auschwitz - Birkenau Concentration camp August 1944. Was one of a thousand Jewish Hungarian women who were transported to Allendorf, Germany, a sub - camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp
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NASA astronaut (retired); two space shuttle missions
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Killed grand ole opry star stringbean david akeman on november 10th 1973
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USCG Admiral
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Astronomer, born 1965. Discovered many objects in the far solar system, including Eris, which led to Pluto being downgraded to a 'Dwarf Planet' with Eris. Author of the book 'I Killed Pluto.'
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nobel medicine 1985
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Micheal Brown (2) D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in Chorleywood, Hampshire, UK. One of four surviving gliders from the Glider Pilot Regiment
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Canadian Female Whale Researcher
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American Female Army Medic Sargent. First Medic To Receive The Silver Star. First Woman In Afghanistan And Only The Second Female Soldier Since World War II To Receive The Silver Star. (2008)
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American Female Historic Person. Married Her Cousin Jerry Lee Lewis When She Was 13
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Pearl Harbor Survivor (1921?-2008). survived the explosion of the USS Shaw
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Phil Brown (4)A teen in '63 , Phil saw the motorcade on Houston Street and ran toward Triple Overpass after shots were fired .His father , Dep. Sheriff Richard Brown , served as Jack Ruby's dietician during his incarceration
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Philip Brown (3) JFK - Teenage witness to the assassination of President Kennedy at Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963
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American Female Author, Screenwriter, Activist, And Feminist - Novel - 'Rubyfruit Jungle'(1973), 'Six Of One'(1978), 'A Nose for Justice: A Novel'(2010), 'In Her Day: A Novel'(1976). Movie - 'The Slumber Party Massacre'(Writer)(1982) Plus Many More Books
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WW2 Pilot Tuskegee Airmen, Born 1922, 100th FS & 332nd FG!
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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William Brown (4) WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker, 1 of only 13 remaining
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American Female Historic Person - Civil Rights Activist; She Was A Member Of The Little Rock Nine, A Group Of Nine African American Teenagers Who Integrated Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas (1957)
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U.S. Army Four Star General, Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
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US Navy Ace VF-27 10.5 Victories - WWII
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US Air Force four-star general who serves as the chief of staff of the Air Force
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US African American Air Force General, Commander of Pacific Air Forces/Previously Commander of United States Central Command/Awarded the Bronze Star
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astronaut
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WWII Navajo Code Talker, he lives in Navajo N.M
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Author and attorney
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Attorney - Defended Ted Bundy and Benjamin Ng
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Robert Browne (2)
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American Female Lawyer, Environmentalist, Businesswoman, And Professional Speaker. 'Director Of The Office Of Energy And Climate Change Policy' (2009-2011). '8th Administrator Of The Environmental Protection Agency' (1993-2001)
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Judge - US Court OfAppeals
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American Historic Event Person - JFK - Attendee Of President Kennedy's Last Speech, Fort Worth, Pictured In The Crowd, 21st November 1963. Now A Real Estate Agent - Owner Of 'Phyllis Browning Company: San Antonio Real Estate' Texas
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Miss America 2022; Miss Alaska 2021, the first Miss Alaska to win the Miss America pageant; first Korean - American Miss America
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11th Earl of Elgin, and Scottish WWII vet, born 1924
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WWII: US Marine Corps, Iwo Jima, Purple Heart
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Scientist
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (12.5 WWII, 2 Korea, total=14.5 Kills) USAAF, 354 Fighter Group, 355 Fighter Squadron, 9AF - DSC
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Korean War Vet/US Army 1951-1953/Bronze Star Awarded/19th Engineer Combat Group/Saw Nagasaki Japan six years after the atomic bomb & saw a leveled blast field, just rubble
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Shaw
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WWII: ETO. P-47 pilot. 390th Squ., 366th Fighter Group, 9th AF. Stationed near Omaha Beach just in time to participate in the Normandy beachhead breakout battle, 70 combat missions destroying trucks, trains, artillery, supplies, 1 victory
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WWII: US Navy. PTO. USS Reid (DD-369)
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astronaut germany
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Olympic athlete.Brundage has been criticized for controversial decisions and statements relating to women and Jews in sports, primarily made during his earlier tenure as president of the United States Olympic Committee during the 1936 Summer Olympics in B
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USS Arizona survivor Pearl Harbor
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(Born 1969) US Army Gulf War Veteran. During the war his unit was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division was responsible for the initial breach of Iraqi defenses. Served in Operation Desert Sheild
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(Born 1940) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, a Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart
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WWII: 4th Marine Division, Iwo Jima
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French World War One Veteran, Deceased
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American judge, court of appeals from 2006-2011
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American Female Historic Person - Former Member Of The Manson Family. Mother Of Charles Manson's Son - Valentine Michael Manson (nicknamed 'Pooh Bear'). She Participated In The Murder Of Manson Associate Gary Hinman
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2/7/1893-1978 Pioneer public relations with promotion of aviation/When WW1 began, Harry took pilot training @ Deseronto Airport with Canadian Royal Flying Corps, Squadron 84 at Camp Mohawk/Parents were sailing on RMS Lusitania when it sank
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In 2023, Brus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Moungi Bawendi and Alexey Ekimov 'for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots'
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WWII: Manhattan Project
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WWII veteran, born 1925, B-29 navigator in the Army Air Corps. Enlisted in 1943, trained for 2 years, sent to Guam in June of 1945, flew a couple bombing missions. He was also sent to Tinian as a backup crew for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions, though
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Operations manager for KXOL radio Fort Worth in 1963, Bruton covered the President's visit to the city in 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald's death at Parkland Memorial Hospital, and Oswald's funeral the following day
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WW2 Ace - 15 Kills - USAAF - DSC
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10th president of Indiana University and organizer/charter member of American Psychological Association
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WW2 British Submarine Commander
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Bill Bryant (3) D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1925. He is now 89 and lives in the UK
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'Commanding Officer Royal Air Force Pilot, Hawker Hunter F Mk.5, Northolt, Middlesex'
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Lz xray 1965 nam
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Tuskegee airmen ww2
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WWII: ETO. D-Day. 82nd Airborne
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JFK - Rev. Baxton Bryant met and greeted Kennedy on his arrival at Love Field Dallas on November 22, 1963; can be seen shaking hands and talking to the Kennedys in several well-known photographs
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Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner, who joined the Navy in 1973 and became a member of the Navy's first flight-training class for women. In 1990, Mariner was named commander of the Navy 'Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron' at Naval Air Station Point
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German politician
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Commander US Army Human Resources Commnand
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WW2 1943-1945 B-17 Tail Gunner/shot down by German Jets on 3rd mission, only survivor/POW captured by Hitler Youth/POW Medal & Purple Heart/Honored 70 years after service/2005 met the German fighter pilot who shot down his plane
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Former general in the German Democratic Republic's army
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WWII: Survived the sinking of the USS Squalus in 1939
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Soviet WWII Vet
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National Security advisor to Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981
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WWII veteran, Gunner's Mate 2nd class, USS LST-627, Pacific Theater
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WWII: Survivor of the Bataan Death March (Philippines) on April 9, 1942
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medal of honor army vietnam
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(Born 1941) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. He was a POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars
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One of the Last Surviving Ground Crew Member from The Hindenburg Disaster. Born: 1920
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Centenarian/World War 1 Veteran
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WWII: MTO. Italy
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WWII German General & recipient of Knight's Cross
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captain of u.s.s. pueblo, captured by the north koreans
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Computer Scientist coined the word bytes
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Flight astronaut sts-51c,61a,29,48
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WW2 Luftwaffe Ace and Me262 pilot.
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Edward Bernard Peter Buck, known as Ed Buck, is an American political activist and donor to the Democratic Party.
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American Female Biologist - Best Known For Work On Olfactory System. Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine, Along With Richard Axel, For Their Work On Olfactory Receptors (2004)
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Model for the 'Willie Gillis' series of Post covers by Norman Rockwell
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Flight scientist
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USS Indianapolis survivor
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Flight astronaut sts 90
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WWII: RAF squadron member that filmed the sinking of the Tirpitz
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First person in history to be exonerated by DNA in a murder case in England
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WWII Veteran, 388th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force B17 Bombers ?Glory Girl? & ?Veni Vidi Vici? Tail Gunner
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Supercentenarian; Last surviving US World War 1 Veteran Born: 02/01/1901. Was one of 3 remaining WW1 Veterans. Deceased 2011
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Radio operator, 'Bockscar,' plane that dropped bomb on Nagasaki
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Former U.S. Senator from New York (1971-1977), WWII Veteran
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Analytical Chemist/Archaeologist - appeared on TV shows Mummy Forensics, Nova, Kingdom Of The Mummies
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cosmonaut
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American Female Rector And Author - Diocesan Bishop of Episcopal Dioceses of Washington D.C (2011- ) Washington's First Female Diocesan Bishop. Novel - 'Gathering Up Fragments Of Spiritual Practice' (2008), 'Receiving Jesus: The Way of Love' (2019)
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Retired American video game programmer and designer. He is best known for the Apple II games Raster Blaster (1981) and Pinball Construction Set (1983)
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WWII: witnessed the Warsaw Uprising of 1943. Lost all 7 siblings and parents in the Holocaust
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Jewish Soviet WWII veteran, probably living in Montreal, Canada
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Flight astronaut 1967 group 6 astronaut candidate, turned MD in Urology
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WWII: PTO. Fighter Pilot. USS Yorktown, Saratoga, Enterprise and Hornet. Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern Solomons, Santa Cruz and the first battle of the Philippine Sea, plus a month with the 'Cactus Air Force' on Guadalcanal,
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Brazilian Historic Person - One Of The Last Surviving Veterans Of The Contestado War, Which Was A Guerrilla War For Land Between Settlers And Landowners. The Latter Supported By The Brazilian State's Police And Military Forces 1912 to 1916
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Author and human/international law specialist, Holocaust survivor; grew up in the Jewish ghetto of Kielce (Poland) and later in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen
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National Geographic Fellow and NYT-bestselling author. Co-produced an Emmy Award-winning documentary & holds three Guinness records for endurance cycling. He is an explorer, speaker, business founder & was in a relationship w/ Cheryl Tiegs
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American Former Actress And Model - Miss America 1946. Movie - 'Queen of Outer Space' (1946), 'The Unearthly' (1957), 'Touchez Pas au Grisbi' (1954), 'Frogman Spy' (1954), 'A Night of Fame' (1949), 'Adorable Creatures' (1952). Plus Many More Roles
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WWII: Aviation mechanic for the Dauntless dive bomber of Lt. Daniel Iverson, one of the pilots who sank the Japanese carrier Hiryu in the Battle of Midway
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Navigator on the cassini spacecraft that studied the planet saturn
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William Buford (2) BATF Agent critically wounded at Branch Davidian shootout - Waco TX. Local Reporter used News Truck to transport him to EMS off site
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Former Manson Prosecutor, best-selling author of the books 'Helter Skelter', 'And The Sea Will Tell', 'Outrage', and 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder'
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Russian Scientist Who In 1978 Stuck His Head Into The Largest Particle Accelerator In Russia At The Time To Fix Something. The Accelerator Malfunctioned At Shot A Laser At His Head That Was Equal To 2,000 Greys. He Survived And Is Alive Tod
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Astronomer, planetary scientist, born 1958. Has been involved with the discovery and research in to many new minor planetary objects. Has done much work on Pluto, with the New Horizons mission, and the co-discovery of some of Pluto's moons
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President of El Salvador. Designed the 'iron fist' policy Of Palestinian heritage
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US WWII Army Air Corps B-17 gunner, born 1924. Shot down over Germany Feb 2, 1944, lost an eye in the explosion. One of the 4 survivors of his 10-man crew. Held POW until April 26, 1945
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WWII: PTO. U.S. Coast Guard; USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25)
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American Former Male Historic Person. American Organized Crime Boss And FBI Informant Who Led The Winter Hill Gang In The Winter Hill Neighborhood Of Somerville, Massachusetts
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astronaut
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Mountain climber, oldest person to successfully summit Mount Everest
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British U-Boat hunter of the costal command in WW2
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Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran, incl. Convoy PQ-16
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian
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Test pilot, of the 412th Test Wing
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Rancher that with help of citizens, backed off the US Federal Government's over reach by stealing 300 head of his cattle
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Serial killer
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WW2 veteran born 1913. Claims to have been a stuntman in films before the war. Made news when the cadillac given to him by Rita Hayworth when she died, was stolen
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Lz xray 1965 1st ground battle of nam
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WWII: Last living survivor of the sinking of the troop transport Dorchester, 3 February 1943. Of the 904 people on board, only 230 survived
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army general
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astronaut
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English - Born American Former Female Scientist. Observational Astronomer And Astrophysicist (1943-1990). Author Of The 'B2FH Paper' (1957)
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US Merchant Marine WWII vet, born 1926. Last survivor of the SS Henry Bacon sinking, the last ship sunk by the Luftwaffe in WWII, coming back from a Murmansk Run to Russia
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Night fighter ace of WW2, is living in Great Britain
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army general
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WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
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inventor anibody ladelung
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WWII - 5th Marines, Iwo Jima. He is the soldier in the famous photograph at the base of Suribachi Yama with the kitten on his helmet
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WW2 sgt., turret gunner
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WW 2 air ace - 6 Kills - USAAF
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Air Force General
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WWII - Fighter ace, AVG Flying Tigers
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Mountain climber
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World War II Veteran - Company A 506 pcht inf. Rgt. 101st airborne WWII. Wrote The Road to Arnhem, Currahee!, Beyond the Rhine.
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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WWII Veteran, mortar man in K-Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, the famous K-3-5 of HBO's The Pacific series. Bronze star recipient; fought in Peleliu and Okinawa. Wrote Islands Of The Damned with William Marvel
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Belgian Former Female Holocaust Survivor (World War 2)
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Austrian geophysicist and pioneer of space research
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Admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself during World War II and the Korean War, and who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower and Ke
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WWII: USS Enterprsie CV-6
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WWII: 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division. Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Remagen. In 1963, Burke began working for NASA, supervising development and construction of hazardous test facilities for Apollo hardware
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James Burke (4)Former police chief linked to long island serial killer
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2000 Presidential Medl of Freedom
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WWII: Marines squad leader, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, the famous K-3-5 of HBO's The Pacific series. Bronze star recipient; fought in Peleliu and Okinawa
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American Former Female Historical Figure - Survivor Of The San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
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Soldier in the United States Army during the Korean War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on October 28, 1951
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Michael Burke (2)NYPD world trade center bombing
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A U.S. Secret Service Agent who did advance work for the Houston leg of President Kennedy's trip to Texas in 1963
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US Army Vietnam War Veteran. Recipient of the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart. Author of Stolen Valor
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navy admiral
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Sheffield)
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Vietnam War/Fall of Saigon - Crew Chief of last US helicopter to leave Vietnam (Operation Frequent Wind) during the evacuation of Saigon on April 30, 1975
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US WWII Army Nurse, born 1925. Served 1944-45 on Tinian in the South Pacific
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American Female Civil Rights Movement Activist, Teacher, Social Worker, Jewelry Retailer, And Newspaper Editor. Freedom Rider (May 17?21, 1961)
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JFK - One of Jack Ruby's defense attorneys during his trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, Burleson remained part of the counsel until Ruby's death in 1967
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WWII: 407th Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, Flew 31 missions as a B-17 ball turret gunner between April 20, 1944 and July 17, 1944
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WWII: D-Day. 2nd Rangers. Pointe du Hoc
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Boeing engineer, born 1930, worked on the 1966 Lunar Orbiter, an early NASA unmanned probe to photograph and map the moon, and chose Apollo landing spots
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Northern Ireland Female Scientist And Author - Astrophysicist. Discovered The First Radio Pulsars (1967). Novel - 'A Quaker Astronomer Reflects: Can a Scientist Also Be Religious? (2013), 'An Introduction To The Sun And Stars' (2004). Plus One More Book
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US Army Col. (1876-1940). Philippine front during the Spanish - American War; Mexican border, 1915-16; Adj. General in AEF HQ during WWI
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Student in 1963 , Gary saw the motorcade and then went to Texas Theatre where he witnessed arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
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Deniz Melissa Burnham is a lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve and NASA astronaut candidate
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American Female Activist - National Organization Women For Racial And Economic Equality, As Well As With The Sisters Against South African Apartheid, Genes And Gender, And Women's International League For Peace And Freedom (1980's-1990's)
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Brian Burns (2)Military
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Isham 'Rusty' Albert Burns Jr was born on July 24, 1925 and became a Tuskegee airman in the Second World War
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Australian Former Female Aviatrix. The First Woman To Parachute From An Aeroplane On Australian Soil (1937), And Held The Title Of Being The Youngest Female Pilot In Australia For 15 Years (1937-1952)
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WWII: Battle of Britain, RAF. Blenheim mid-upper turret gunner
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WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (Gunner on SS Rathlin) of the ill-fated Convoy PQ-17
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Scientist
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US lawyer, politician (1756-1836). Third US Vice President (1801-1805), under Jefferson. Killed Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel
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newsmaker (princess di's butler)
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Major 82nd Airborne Division, 504th PIR, I-Company WWII; Operation Market Garden; Battle of The Bulge. Author: 'Strike and Hold'. Portrayed by Robert Redford as Major Cook in 'A Bridge Too Far'. TV special 'Man & Moment: Moffatt Burriss & the Crossing.'
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Dallas motocycle policeman in '63 , David found a piece of bone on Elm St. in Dealey Plaza
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Witness to Lee Harvey Oswald arrest/Worked as ticket collector at the Texas Theater who also ran the concession stand
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American Former Female Civil Rights Activist, Wounded On 'Bloody Sunday' In Selma March In 1965. In 1968, Martin Luther King Hid Overnight At Her House In Greensboro After A Speech Two weeks Before His Assassination, As The KKK Searched The Area For Him
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WWII: PTO. Company B, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. Pearl Harbor survivor, Guadalcanal campaign
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Co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 & author of Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War which won the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award
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Test pilot for McDonnell aircraft. First pilot to test fly F-15 in 1972
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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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Subject of 'The Big Short'; American investor and hedge fund manager
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astronaut
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air force general
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JFK - Member of the Blue Key Society of Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Lafayette (now ULL) who met and got photographed with future President Kennedy at the Crowley Rice Festival in 1959
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Congressional Medal of Honor recipient WWII
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Retired Royal military, current CEO of eWATERpay
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'Tuskegee Airmen'
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Charles Burton (3) Palm Beach County canvassing board chairman & Palm Beach County Judge during the 2000 Election
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US Marine Corps, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit
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Lawyer/politician (1888-1964). Mayor of Cleveland, US Senator, Supreme Court Justice. Part of the Brown vs. Board of Education Decision during his Court tenure
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Daughter of Heinrich Himmler, is living in Munich, Germany
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German ww2 ME262 pilot born 1924. Was never in the Wehrmacht; author - The last of the few: An Me.262 Pilot remembers, flew the buckner 181, 131, fw 44, ar 66, f-13, w33, w34, ju86, ju88, ju52, me110, me210, me40, me262, klemm 35, sg38, kranich
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Michael Busch (3)Planetary scientist. Researcher with SETI
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WWII German Major
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WWII/ETO: Waist Gunner, 100th Bomb Group, 350th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force ('Bloody 100th'). Shot down on his 34th mission on July 29, 1944, flying in B-17 42-31537 'Randie Lou' (aka 'Buffalo Gal'); became a POW until May 1, 1945
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Four Time Winner of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race
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USN Admiral
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Clergyman at Alcatraz
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George Prescott Bush , Commissioner of the Texas General Land member of the Bush family, he is the oldest child of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a nephew of former President George W. Bush, and a grandson of former President George H. W. Bush
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Medal of Honor, US Army, World War II
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Medal of Honor recipient WWII
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American engineer, inventor and science administrator known for his work on analog computers, for his role as an initiator and administrator of the Manhattan Project
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Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) 7
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American Historic Person - Survivor Of Hartford Circus Fire 168 Deaths, Arson (1944). 10 Years Old At Time Of The Fire. Published Her Account In 'Courant' (Local Newspaper)
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Inventor, Pong, Founder Of Atari
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Author 'My Wars B-17s to F-4s WWII to Vietnam' Retired as Colonel in 1974, flew 43 types of airplanes during his military career, including 28 missions in B-17 during WWII. Flew B-24, B-25, B-26, B-29, B-57, RC-121, F-4
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Medusa. He survived strafing attacks while serving aboard the USS Medusa at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941
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Centenarian/World War 1 Veteran
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Test pilot D-558, X-4, X-5, M2F1
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. USMC
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Colonel; U.S.A.F. Rt. (Cessna Pilot, flew 240 missions over Ho Chi Minh Trail during Vietnam War/Awarded Silver Star, The Distinguished Flying Cross & Air Medal with 16 Oak Clusters) Turnaround eight days
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WWII: Battle of the Bulge. Liberation of Buchenwald
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Paul Butler (2) American lawyer, and current law professor of Georgetown. He is a leading criminal law scholar, particularly in the area of race and jury nullification. He has written 2 books including Chokehold: Policing Black Men
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(Born 1938) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1965 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 2 Legion of Merits, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
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One of last surviving Tuskegee Airman born May 21st 1922/Sargent/Mechanic
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Driver for Dudley M. Hughes Funeral Home who picked up Officer Tippitt on Nov. 22 , 1963 in Dallas , Texas
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American Female Author, And Actress. Former Wife Of Joey Buttafuoco, Shot In The Head By Amy Fisher (1992). Novel - 'Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know'(2009)
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Korean War Ace, Pilot - USAF - 7 Kills - youngest ace in Korea (flew the f-80, f-86, f9f, f-100, and f-105)
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Worked for richard nixon. handled tape recording system/Head of the FAA & ex-Haldeman aide, Butterfield disclosed existence of a tape-recording device in the Oval Office. The disclosure, made in July 1973 during the Senate Watergate Committee hearings
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Chief Marine Superintendent Royal Fleet Auxiliary