General Ira Clarence Eaker (April 13, 1896 - August 6, 1987) was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. On April 30, 1945, General Eaker was named deputy commander of the Army Air Forces and Chief of the Air Staff
WWII - Pacific; one of only two torpedo plane pilots of Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) to survive after attacking the Japanese aircraft carriers during the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942.
Gunnery Sgt/One of three Marines that lowered the Embassy flag in Cuba the last time when the Embassy closed in 1961/ Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana 5+ decades raise the Stars and Stripes once again there
WWII: ETO. 26 missions as a B-17 ball turret gunner, his first mission being on D-Day. On his last mission his plane was shot down forcing an emergency landing in Switzerland
WWII - Fighter Ace, 7 victories. Europe, 56th Fighter Group ('Zemke's Wolf Pack'), 62nd Fighter Sqadron. Few the P-40, P-47, P-51, F-84, F-100. Also served in Korea (23 January 1951, 'Mig alley')
(Born 1947) US Army Vietnam Veteran. Saved comrade Fred Kjorlien in a firefight in Vietnam. Fred had lost his entire leg from a RPG and Dale was keeping him calm. The two final reunited in 2021 after 53 years after the event took place
WWII: D-Day nurse (Special Advance Group 56). Arrived at the the Royal Victorian Hospital outside Southampton, mid-February 1944 and prepared for D-Day; treated the first D-Day casualty 4 days after June 6, 1944
WWII: Canadian / RAF Flying Ace, at least 19 victories, though assumed to have a much higher score, even by Nazi-German's war records. Highest scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign
WWII: ETO. 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. 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment. POW until the end of the war
WWII: Red Army.Throughout the war, Efremova served as a nurse along the front lines in field hospitals. She is now 96 and lives with her daughter in Yakutsk, Russia
Navy radioman on a Pacific landing craft during WWII. Took part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. There at MacArthur's return, where he was entrusted to help bring 50 cases of whiskey to the officer's club
WWII - D-Day, Pointe-du-Hoc. 2nd Ranger Battalion. Scaled a 100-foot cliff while taking constant fire from German troops to take out six 155mm guns at Pointe-du-Hoc
Retired German Air Force General. He was Inspector of the Air Force, the senior Air Force appointment, and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe. German WWII Veteran
US Lawyer, Politician, Founding Father (1745-1807). CT delegate to Continental Congress, helped write US Constitution. US Senator, close ally of Alexander Hamilton. Selected by G. Washington as the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor. US Army staff sergeant and photographer who took the first air-to-air photographs of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, taken from on board a B-17 which happened to be flying in on December 7, 1941
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Served in the Admiral?s Band on the USS Pennsylvania. He was 'armed' with a French horn readying himself to play morning colors when the Japanese attacked
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Honolulu. Moved to Hawaii and devotes his time to identify sailors buried in unmarked graves; recognized by the National Park Service for his efforts
Survivor Korean Death March/29th Regimental Combat Team/Captured Oneui on 7/26/1950, marched 40 miles south of Manchurian border, some 600 miles. POW for 3 months & was one of 23 survivors of 1,500 captured men/Recipient of the Purple Heart
US Navy WWII pilot, born 1921. Flew supplies and mail across the Pacific theater. Flew many Bataan Death March survivors home to Hawaii. Hit spots including Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Saipan, Okinawa, Midway, Wake and the Aleutians. Flew C-47, C-54, PBY, SBD Dive
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
WW2 WASP appointed Squadron Commander for the 6th Ferry Command/only woman during war to be awarded the Air Medal for her service/Flew medium-size bombers A-20, A-26 and B-25, the cargo craft DC-3, C-54 & mighty B-17 Flying Fortress bomber
Actor: House, Full Metal Jacket, Mississippi Burning, Toy Soldiers, Body Snatchers, Naked Gun 33 1/3, Seven, Murder in the First, Toy Story, Dead Man Walking, Saving Silverman, The Frighteners, Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Navajo Bougainville Code Talker/2nd All-Navajo Platoon 297/Stationed in Guadalcanal, Guam, Iwo Jima and other Pacific locations for just over two years
Australian Coast Watcher in Pacific theatre in WW II/Chiefly remembered for playing significant part in rescue of future President John F. Kennedy and his surviving crew after Torpedo Boat, PT-109, was sunk by enemy action in August 1943
WW2 2nd Armor Light Recon Tank Gunner/WIA POW/Advised to movie 'Fury',
was in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Belgium, Holland and Germany/Lives in Upper Providence, PA./Age 97
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tennessee (BB-43). Winner of the Jitterbug contest at Bloch Arena on Dec. 6, 1941, during the semi-finals of the Battle Of The Bands 1941
WWII: British Atlantic convoy veteran (USA to UK), Arctic veteran (aboard the HMS Wanderer, in the disastrous PQ-17 convoy) and D-Day veteran (escort convoys to the landings)