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
WW2 Air Gunner manning a ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress/French President Francois Hollande had installed him as a chevalier, chevalier you know is a knight in that country's Legion of Honor
Member of The Ritchie Boys was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War II. Holocaust survivor and now 97 years old
WWII: D-Day; Battle of the Bulge; 82nd Airborne Division (All-Americans), 505th paratrooper infantry (PIR), Company D; landed in the cemetery of St. Mere Eglise in France on D-Day
WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
U.S. Navy sailor serving as a radioman in the Coast Guard Flotilla 4/10, LCI-492 (landing craft infantry), that landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944
WWII - Contemporary witness of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion, July 17, 1944, Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, CA; 320 dead, 390 wounded, followed by mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.)
US Navy vet, born 1926. Naval reserves at the end of WWII, and the end of the Korean War. 'Atomic veteran' witness to the Operation Crossroads first peacetime tests of atomic bombs at the Bikini Atoll in 1946
WWII USMC - Battle of Corregidor (1942), awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart. Spent over 3 years as a POW and was awarded a 2nd Purple Heart. Also, served in the Korean War
WII: B-17 tail-gunner in the 524th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 21 missions beginning in February 1945, incl. Berlin, Schweinfurt, the Ruhr Valley
Legendary Marine; WWII (Guadalcanal, Guam, Bougainville, Iwo Jima), Korea (Pusan Perimeter, Inchon Landing, Seoul Recapture, 'Frozen Chosin' Reservoir). Knew Mike Mervosh, Chesty Puller, John Wayne
US WWII vet, born 1914. Son of Italian immigrants, he worked in a clerical office in Italy in WWII, where he found his family's dialect left him unexpectedly not understanding the language there
WWII: US Navy Higgins Boat Coxswain (driver) on D-Day. His LCVP picked up 35 men of the 1st Infantry Division from the USS Henrico and brought them into the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach. It was the 5th boat in the 1st wave at Omaha on 6:30 AM
Captured by Red Chinese during CIA - sponsored C-47 flight over mainland China during Korean War. POW nearly 2 decade battle of wills between the U.S. & China/He was released in December 1971. CIA awarded him the Distinguished Intelligence Cross
Was the second head coach of the Oakland Raiders. He played College football for Stanford at the Offensive Guard position. He was elected to the Stanford Athletics Hall o Fame He is also a World War 2 veteran, served in the US Marines
WWII: USS Navy. Crossed Atlantic from Boot Camp on The RMS Queen Mary; served on the HMS Ceres during D - Day, directing ships in and out at Omaha Beach
Col. Vietnam War/US Air Force, pilot/Pow six years/John McCain's cellmate two years/ His Air Force career flying the B-47 Stratojet, RB-66 and EB-66 Destroyer, T-38 Talon, and F-111 Aardvark aircraft
Radioman/Gunner on TBF Avenger, Torpedo Squadron 8, (VT-8). Battle of Midway, WWII, 4 June 1942. Of the six Avengers, Ferrier's was the only one to return. Ferrier was wounded along with his pilot, the top gunner was killed. He was awarded DFC & PH
JFK/Cold War: Member of Light Photographic Squadron 62 (VFP-62) that took the low-level pictures of the Russian missiles in Cuba during the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' in October 1962. Aviation electrician responsible
Jason Fettig is a United States Marine Corps colonel who is the music adviser to the President of the United States and the 28th director of the United States Marine Band 'The President's Own'
US WWII army vet (ETO, 287th Combat Engineers) and NASA engineer, born 1924. Project chief scientist and manager for Pioneer planetary missions 6-13. Pioneer 10 and 11 the first spacecrafts to Jupiter and Saturn, and the first to leave the solar system
Oldest Living Medal of Honor (Navy WW 2) Born: 07/23/1909.Lieutenant John William Finn (born July 23, 1909) is a retired officer of the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor in recognition of heroism and distinguished service during the Japan
WWII -Turret Gunner in the Torpedo Squadron of Carrier Air Group 11 (VT-11, sister quadron to the famous Sundowners VF-11) in the Pacific Theater; served on the USS Hornet (CV-12)
American Army officer for thirty years He was awarded the Soldierâ-?s Medal for heroism and the Bronze Star for valor before retiring as a Col in 1993. Author of The Final Invasion: Plattsburgh, the War of 1812's Most Decisive Battle
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
WWII Nurse, born 1923. First African American nurse to teach at Rhode Island College. Honored by Rhode Island Senate for lifetime work with children of Providence
SSgt, USA, 271st Regt., 69th Div., 2nd Army.
Combat Infantryman, Mechanic.
Awarded Two Bronze Stars
Battle of the Bulge, Siegfried Line and Leipzig
European Theater of Operations
(Born 1932) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 3 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
Rough Rider with T. Roosevelt, Diplomat under 6 Presidents (1873-1959) Roosevelt chose him as a diplomat to Cuba, other posts under Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover. Republican Party Nat'l Chair (1934-36)
WWII: Radio man in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. The Ghost Army deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there
WWII: PTO. USMC, 3rd Marine Air Wing. Driver for Brig.General Schilt. After the war, he trained recruits. At one point he was a stand-in for then actor Ronald Reagan in a WWII-themed movie when it came time for Reagan to jump out of a plane
Military Commander
Ferdinand Foch was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders and Artois campaigns of 1914-1916, Foc
US WWII vet, born in 1920. Served as a Navy WAVE in secret intelligence work involving Japanese merchant ships, though she refused to discuss details of her work even decades later
WWII: PTO. Marine Corps Fighter pilot (VMF-121) of the 'Cactus Air Force' at Guadalcanal 1942 who flew with J. Foss' 'Flying Circus'. In the mission that sank the Japanese battleship Hiei. Later Squadron Leader, VMF-533. Post-war test pilot
German WWII Soldier, born 1925 in Berlin. Drafted near war's end, soon taken POW by the US, shuttled to France & the USSR. Got medical degree, moved to the US. Radiology career. Medical officer in the US Air Force, later the Army Reserves
Aviation Radioman 2nd Class, USN, USS Hornet (CV-12)
SB2C Helldiver Radio Operator/Gunner
Distinguished Flying Cross
Shot down while bombing the battleship Yamato during the Battle of Okinawa.
Rescued by Destroyer
WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, 23rd Provisional Company, 6th Defense Battalion. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Was assigned to Midway Islands in 1942 to defend the atoll. Later in the Iwo Jima invasion and the postwar occupation of Japan
WWII veteran of the 3rd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, 36th Infantry Division. He fought throughout Europe from October of 1944 in Alsace-Lorraine, ending near the Austrian Alps when the war ended
American broadcast news executive. Created the groundbreaking Huntley-Brinkley Report, and was its producer until 1964. Served two tenures as president of NBC News. Mentored such journalists as Tom Brokaw, John Chancellor & Linda Ellerbee
Centenarian (1901-2002). One of the last living US WWI Marine veterans. Lied about age to join, sent to combat in France. Re-enlisted in WWII, served in the battle of Okinawa. Wounded in the trenches by an exploding shell in WWI, and hit in the neck with
WW2/From Haddenham in Buckinghamshire, member of the Women?s Royal Naval Service, Wrens. Worked on Colossus, world?s first digital electronic computer, which was developed at Bletchley but the existence of which was kept secret for decades
WWII: B-17 Ball Turrett Gunner, 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group (Bloody 100th). Shot down on his last mission on April 28, 1944 in B-17 #42-107024 (unnamed). POW at Stalag XI, Nürnberg, Stalag 17B, Krems, Austria
WWII: Reconnaissance Photographer at NAS Honolulu, working at Admiral Nimitz' Office. Took countless photos in the Pacific, incl. celebrities visiting the base, like Rene Gagnon (flag-raiser at M t. Suribachi) or actress Betty Hutton
WWII: Army Scout Veteran. Arrived in Normandy on Aug. 5, 1944, with the 80th Division and fought all through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Austria
WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
WWII: D-Day. Tech Sgt., 8th AF, 390th Bomb Group, 568th Squadron, 8th Air Force. Radio operator in a B-17 that bombed targets in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Shot down July 1944, POW in Stalag Luft IV
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and one of the most decorated soldiers and paratroopers of World War II. He also received the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, and three Purple Hearts
Former Corporal of the Canadian Forces, once held the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at 2,430 metres (2,657 yd, 12.08 furlongs, or 1.51 miles)
WWII: PTO. USMC fighter pilot. WIth Joe Foss at Guadalcanal (Cactus Air Force), later commanding the illustrious 'Black Sheep Squadron' and also serving in the Korean War