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  1. American astronomer and Proffesor of astrophysical and planetary sciences. He is best known for discovering Saturn's elusive F ring
  2. U.S. Army
  3. WWII: Marines (E-2-6, 2nd MarDiv), Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania; later in the battles of Guadalcanal and Tarawa and Bariki (last part of Battle of Tarawa)
  4. American Lawyer and New York State politician. He was Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals from 1985 to 1992, when he was forced to resign following a scandal.
  5. Senior commander in Royal Australian Air Force. Wackett introduced parachutes to the Australian Air Force and made the country?s first free fall parachute descent from a military aircraft in Australia on May 27, 1926
  6. Former Secret Service Special Agent/COO of Teneo Risk and serves as the Global Head of Security for Teneo/ CNN Law Enforcement Analyst/News Media Contributor
  7. WW2 Veteran:442nd Regimental Combat Team,'E' Company
  8. Longest Living Buffalo Soldier. Born: 1908
  9. WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran (HMS Devonshire)
  10. Actor/River Biologist/Extreme Fisherman - River Monsters
  11. United States Air Aces
  12. (November 1, 1955-August 31, 1991), pilot of 'Boston', involved in the U.S. Army's first round-the-world flight
  13. 103 Walmart worker & meet Sam Walton, Served in the Air Force during World War II serving in India and China/Flew the Hump, Himalaias/After landing a job with Walmart back in 1983, he still works five day a week at a the location in his hometown
  14. History's Tallest Man
  15. Former Dallas Policeman and Texas Ranger, drove the Congressional Car with James Wright in the JFK Dallas motorcade
  16. Dallas attorney in 1963, Waggoner saw the President's motorcade on Main Street. In March 1964, as the guest of an assistant district attorney, he observed closing arguments in the Ruby trial
  17. NASA - Research Aerodynamics and Propulsion Branch Chief
  18. Centenarian (1899-2007), one of the last US WWI veterans, and the last living US Marine of WWI
  19. George Wagner  (2)
    WWII: Dunkirk/D-Day. British Royal Engineers soldier, who, during the Dunkirk evacuation, helped to construct a pier made of abandoned lorries on the beach at La Panne. On June 6, 1944, he returned to France, landing at Sword Beach
  20. Honor Guard For Ex Presidents\Lives in Miami Fla
  21. army general
  22. World Champion female stunt pilot
  23. Norwegian physicist and tv host--contestant on norways dancing with the stars 2020
  24. Congressional Medal of Honor, US Navy, WWII
  25. Quest for Antonia winner
  26. 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
  27. Flight astronaut, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
  28. Australia's most decorated WW2 War hero. Code name: The White Mouse. Born: 08/12/1912
  29. Inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie, which she invented in 1930
  30. WWII: PTO. USS South Dakota
  31. air force general
  32. Overcame massive claustrophobia/ fear of heights to become a fighter pilot. Flew missions in Iraq, SE Asia, & Kosovo during Operation Allied Force. Awarded numerous prestigious medals. Author and professional speaker
  33. WWII: PTO. Army Air Corps. 307th Bomb Group, 13th Air Force
  34. Burke Waldron began his military service in July 1943 in Pearl Harbor and was part of both the Makin Island and Saipan invasions
  35. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
  36. German author and historian. He is also a German WWII Veteran. He was drafted first into the Reichsarbeitsdienst (auxiliary force), then the Luftwaffenhelfer (child soldier in the air force) and finally into the regular Wehrmacht (the German military)
  37. American physician-scientist who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  38. 1983 Nobel Peace Prize; Former President of Poland 1990-1995
  39. Astronaut
  40. 2016 Socialist Party USA nominee for Vice President, 2020 Green Party nominee for Vice President
  41. Miss America 1947
  42. Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) #3
  43. Dallas Police Officer in 1963 , helped to arrest Oswald at the theatre
  44. astronaut
  45. British George Cross recipient
  46. astronaut
  47. Edwin Walker  (3)
    11/10/1909-10/31/1993 US Army officer fought in WW2 & Korean. Known for ultra-conservative political views & criticized by Ike for promoting a personal political stand while in uniform/Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to kill him 4/10/1963
  48. 'Tuskegee Airmen'
  49. 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
  50. George Walker  (3)
    One of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, who's escapades were chronicled in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
  51. Is a Canadian astronomer and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia. He was a member of the first group to report on the detection of extrasolar planets, and pioneered some of the techniques for extrasolar planetary searches
  52. 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
  53. Jim Walker  (2)
    JFK/Photographed Kennedy motorcade and /was at Dealey Plaza in Dallas that fateful November day in 1963, when Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy. longtime director and actor with the CRIGHTON PLAYERS
  54. Jim Walker  (3)
    272nd Military Police Co.Vietnam
  55. nobel chem. laureate 1997
  56. WWII: D-Day, Omaha Beach (Ranger); wounded in Carentan
  57. british army comm.-in-chief
  58. Oldest WWII veteran. Born 2/5/1909. Served in the Women's Voluntary Service. Lives in Kingwood, Oxfordshire, England
  59. Roboticists Rich Walker of Shadow Robot Co. in England led the assembly of the bionic man from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world/First Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes
  60. Cardiologist
  61. Retired United States Army four star general who served as Commander, Allied Land Forces South East Europe (COMLANDSOUTHEAST) from 1977 to 1978
  62. Astronaut
  63. Saboteur from U.S.S. Barb WW II
  64. One of the last surviving witnesses of Germany's Zeppelin raids in the UK, from 1914-1918. She is now 101 and lives in a care home near the town of Darlaston in the West Midlands of England
  65. American photographer (1905-97) Made iconic D-Day photos, until shrapnel destroyed his left leg which had to be amputated. Post-war career as illustrative photographer for Life, Sat. Evening Post, Time, and others
  66. army general
  67. Royal millitary
  68. Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire/Has fear of some tents even today, and serious claustrophobia
  69. WWII - Paratrooper of Fox Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne (Screamin' Eagles). Combat jumps at D-Day and Market Garden. Was in the Battle of the Bulge, helped capture Hitler's Eagle's Nest
  70. Journalist, photographer, historian and author
  71. American journalist, born 1936. Reporter who covered the Selma civil rights marches, including 'Bloody Sunday' in 1965 for the Selma Times-Journal. Decades later served as the president of the Selma Chamber of Commerce
  72. Georgia centenarian, born 1911. Born in Oklahoma and a Dust Bowl survivor. Believed to be the US' oldest living Eagle Scout. Army Captain in WWII, commanded 4416th Quartermaster Company.in Europe and on their way to the Pacific when the war ended
  73. Test Pilot - F/A-18. Boeing
  74. WWII - 82nd Airborne, 507th PIR. Combat jump into Normandy(D-Day), fought for 21 days, then captured, escaped near Paris, joined the French Resistance, captured again until the end of the war (Stalag 12A and at a camp near Leipzig)
  75. (born 1 September 1918) is a British educationalist who founded the first all-age Montessori school in GB and the Gatehouse Learning Centre. Benemerenti Medal, conferred by Pope John Paul II. Member of the Order of the British Empire
  76. Lz xray & lz albany 1965 nam 2/7th cav
  77. WW2 US Navy serving from 1943 to 1965 as a E5 Air Traffic Controller. Was in battles Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. (Born 1927)
  78. American historian and author, as well as the Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency
  79. WWII Pearl Harbor survivor; Chief Petty Officer USS Whitney (AD-4)
  80. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor December 7, 1941, USS Pennsylvania; was with 'Communication Force'. Was in 6 Pacific landings including Iwo Jima
  81. Creator of 'Little Nellie' Autogyro
  82. Historian, Author (Route 66: the Mother Road, Pretty Boy: the Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd), Pulitzer Prize Nominee, voice of 'Sherrif' in Cars
  83. Full name is George Peter Walls, Lieutenant General who served as the Commander of the Military of Rhodesia, and later Zimbabwe, is living in exile in Eastern Cape, South Africa
  84. Member of the Little Rock Nine; group of African-American students who enrolled in all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Awarded Congressional Gold Medal in 1999
  85. Staff Sgt. James Harley Wallwork DFM (21 October 1919 - 24 January 2013) British soldier, member Glider Pilot Regiment achieved notability as pilot of 1st Horsa glider to land at Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944 WW2
  86. Former Chief Concorde Pilot with British Airways
  87. First Responder 9/11 Terrorist Attack September 11, 2001
  88. Guinness world record distance of arrow shot with feet
  89. American oceanographer, explorer and marine policy specialist
  90. Joe Walsh  (5)
    WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. A 3rd Defense Battalion Marine, Walsh manned anti-aircraft guns during the attack. Later served on Johnston Atoll
  91. WWII American Fighter Pilot Ace
  92. WWII: 2nd Ranger Bn, D-Day, Pointe du Hoc
  93. Irish airline CEO, CEO of the International Airlines Group and British Airways, formerly CEO of Aer Lingus
  94. USMC four-star general who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. 2 Navy Crosses for extraordinary heroism during World War II. ('Walt's Ridge')
  95. Former Payload Specialist Astronaut
  96. WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Lives in the UK or New Zealand
  97. air force general
  98. Dallas Sherriff - witness to the JFK assassination
  99. Veteran, WWII Korea and Vietnam, 31 years of active duty
  100. British U-Boat hunter of the costal command in WW2
  101. WW2 Pilot, born 11 February 1919) is a United States Army World War II veteran and a centenarian
  102. Astronaut
  103. Only living individual present when John Dillinger's gang visited/overtook the Little Bohemia Lodge in Wisconsin, April 19-21, 1934. Was not present during police raid on April 22, 1934
  104. Pearl Harbor Survivor, USS Pennsylvania. born 1918
  105. WWII - Fighter Ace, 6 victories (and 12 probables); flew the P-38 and P-47. Wingman to America's highest-scoring air ace Richard Bong
  106. astronaut
  107. Former Vaudeville dancer in the Whirl of Splendor act, 1925-30. Born 1905. Shared the bill with Milton Berle, Edgar Bergen, others. Witness to a 1919 lynch mob in Omaha
  108. Royalty
  109. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941, USS Curtiss (AV-4)
  110. Veteran of WWII and the Korean War. Participated in the five European Campaigns of WW II, including Normandy, the Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge. Memoir 'Country Boy Gone Soldiering' was published in 1999
  111. Reality TV Judge: The People's Court, Judge Wapner's Animal Court
  112. President of Nauru
  113. Original Organizer from Occupation of Alcatraz
  114. WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor. Wheeler Field
  115. Frank Ward  (2)
    One of the last living ground crewmen part of the Hindenburg disaster. Then a 17 year old there to grab the lines to pull the ship to earth
  116. WWII: Served aboard the USS San Francisco from Pearl Harbor until 'The 3rd Battle of Savo Island' off Guadalcanal in 1942. During the encounter he was seriously wounded
  117. American lawyer and judge. He become known for his efforts to challenge the racially discriminatory practices at the University of Georgia School of Law
  118. Usmc sniper vietnam - confimed killed 63author DEAR MOM- A SNIPERS WAR
  119. One of the Edmund Hillary group, 1953 Mt. Everest feat
  120. Peter Ward  (3)
    WWII: British Arctic Convoy and D-Day veteran
  121. Iran Hostage Crisis/Communications officer CIA
  122. WWII: B-17 ground crewman in the 100th Bomb Group ('The Bloody Hundredth')
  123. Justice of the Peace who tried to stop the removal of President Kennedy's body from Dallas
  124. WWII submarine Skipper and Admiral last known to be living in FL
  125. First woman to become a pilot with a major Australian airline
  126. American Serial Killer
  127. WWII, Pearl Harbor Survivor
  128. 2024 Green Party nominee for Vice President
  129. Downed by enemy fire on mission, badly injured endured 3 week's hell In hellish Vietnam Jungles. When his captain revealed his membership in the Ku Klux Klan, their situation that took a roll putting him on the road to becoming a general
  130. Is a centenarian and also an internet celebrity
  131. (Born 1990) US Army Afghanistan War Veteran. Recipient of the Army Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during Operation Enduring Freedom
  132. French survivor of Auschwitz and heroine of the French Resistance. She moved to Manchester, England
  133. Special Agent in charge, Norfolk Field Office, NCIS
  134. San Francisco-based architect
  135. (Born 1941) US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. As a Marine aviator flew over 100 combat missions in Southeast Asia. POW 1967 to 1973. Recipient of a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
  136. Donut Dolly Vietnam War/Lai Khe - First Infantry Division - July 1969-October 1969. An Khe - Fourth Infantry Division - October 1969-January 1970, Program Director. Da Nang - Third Marine Division/24th Corps - January 1970-August 1970, Unit Director
  137. Explorer - longest raft voyage in history
  138. Army paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division and Author
  139. WWII veteran, born 1924, one of the last few living vets to have served as an Assistant Chaplain in the war
  140. Retired General
  141. Dallas firefighter in 1963, Warnock was sent to the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository immediately after the assassination. His memories of the sniper's perch differ from those of police investigators
  142. WWII: Canadian air force pilot who participated as a pilot in the Dieppe Raid
  143. US Supreme Court Chief Justice (1953-1969), and previously the 30th Governor of California. Led the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and headed the Warren Commission investigation of the Kennedy assassination
  144. James Warren  (2)
    Tuskegee Airmen ww2
  145. 2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine
  146. WWII: Served on the USS. Enterprise CV-6 (a.k.a. 'The Big E' and 'The Galloping Ghost') from 1942 to 1945
  147. WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941; USS MacDonough (DD-351). Well-known Southern Utah public figure nicknamed 'The Flag Man'
  148. 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
  149. Israeli-American Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for 'the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems'
  150. WWII. Worked at Bletchley Park as a code breaker of the enigma
  151. The world's first cyborg
  152. Navy Seal with Seal Team Six, Silver Star (Somalia), author, chiropractor
  153. Photographer/Explorer
  154. WWII: He saw action in the South Pacific from 1942-46, piloting massive PBY and PBM seaplanes, hunting submarines, rescuing sailors and downed airmen, almost losing his own life in a kamikaze attack. Later Assistant Secretary of Commerce
  155. Politician, Founding father, (1732-1799). 1st US President, Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
  156. Buffalo Soldier, one of a few still alive
  157. McDonald's worker arrested for adding phlegm to sweet tea
  158. Tuskegee Airman
  159. air force general
  160. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Was stationed with the 98th Coast Artillery at Schofield Barracks, but had traveled to the Navy yard that morning, where he witnessed the attack
  161. American geologist and Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work in the fields of cosmochemistry, meteoritics and astrophysics
  162. WWII: Pearl Harbor suvivor, US Navy Pearl Harbor firefighting group
  163. Five-time Emmy winning cinematographer and underwater film producer who was the world's first cameraman to film the Great White shark
  164. Hilary Swank played her in the movie 'Conviction'. She went to and graduated from law school to prove that her brother Kenny was innocent of murder
  165. JFK - After his famous visit to Berlin, JFK stopped in the UK for less than a day to meet with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at his country estate; Waters took his chance and made a few very rare photographs of Kennedy driving by
  166. Went to jail for murder but was proven innocent by DNA; Movie conviction is based on his story
  167. Actor: Law & Order, The Killing Fields, Heaven's Gate, Capricorn One, The Great Gatsby, Lincoln, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Interiors, Serial Mom, I'll Fly Away, Nixon, Shadow Conspiracy, The Newsroom, Grace and Frankie
  168. WWII: PTO. Battle of Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC Platoon Leader. Silver Star, Gold Star
  169. James Watkins  (2)
    WW2 Flying Ace USAAF 49th FG - 12 Kills - DSC
  170. NASA Astronaut
  171. war hero, Victoria Cross receiver; later became a High Court judge and was knighted in 1971
  172. WWII: PTO. Fighter Pilot (USS Yorktown)
  173. Canadian World War 2 Veteran (Canadian Forces 1929-1953. Born: 07/13/1912
  174. Soccer player for Bristol Rovers 1945-1963. Served in the Royal Navy during WWII
  175. One of the last survivors of the SS Morro Castle disaster that took place in 1934 when the ship caught fire and burned, killing 137 passengers and crew members. He is now 97 and lives with his wife Jeanne in U.S.A, maybe Wrentham, Massachusetts
  176. Convicted Killer, Member Of Manson Family
  177. English supercentenarian and the third oldest person in the United Kingdom. Born in 1900
  178. Flight aviator
  179. Member of the Tuskegee Airmen
  180. Jack Watson  (2)
    Radio Dispatcher for Dallas County Sheriff's Dept. on Nov. 22. Following the assassination he relayed info. from the Dallas Police Dept. and co-ordinated movement of the Deputy Sheriffs
  181. nobel prize 1962
  182. 17 year old sailed solo aroung the world
  183. WWII - British sailor on HMS Vindex; several trips to Murmansk, Russia, during the Arctic Convoys of WWII; occupation duty in Hiroshima starting only weeks after the a-bomb
  184. Civil rights leader
  185. Paul Watson  (2)
    One of the founders of Green Peace, Captain of the Sea Shepard on tv reality show 'Whale Wars', animal activist for whales, seals, turtles, etc
  186. WWII: ETO. D-Day. 6th Naval Battalion
  187. 'Tuskegee Airmen' 'The Fighting 99th Squadron' the original Tuskegee group!
  188. United States Marine Corps private who received the Medal of Honor for his actions on Iwo Jima during World War II. He single-handedly killed 90 enemy soldiers, thus enabling his plat
  189. The only african american pilot to fly the SR-71 Blackbird
  190. Spanish Civil War Veteran, International Brigade, Lives in London. Born: 1913
  191. astronaut
  192. Author and American abortion rights activist who was the first African American and the youngest president ever elected of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the first woman since Margaret Sanger to hold the position
  193. WW2 fighter ace - VF-18 - 10 Kills - Navy Cross
  194. Heather Watts  (2)
    One of the last survivors from the sinking of SS Athenia. The SS Athenia was the first British ship to be sunk by Nazi Germany in World War II. She is now 77 and lives in Nova Scotia, Canada
  195. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Tangier
  196. WWII: Lancaster bomber pilot of the 101 (Special Duties) Squadron at Ludford Magna in Lincolnshire, served from November 1943 incl. the Battle of Berlin, Munich and survived the disastrous Nuremberg raid on 30th March 1944 when 97 aircraft were lost
  197. World War 2 historian and author
  198. WWII: Marine Corps veteran of the Battle of Tarawa
  199. Creator Of Redwood National Park. Born: 09/17/1906
  200. Anthony Wayne  (2)
    Member of the famed U.S. Antarctic Service Expedition, often referred to as Rear Admiral Richard Byrd's third Antarctic Expedition. He is now 98 and lives in Niskayuna, Schenectady County, New York, USA. Born: 1915
  201. White House Secretary during the Kennedy Administation. Known as Fiddle
  202. Served time in the British Army before pursuing a career in corporate technology. Author of the Awakened Trilogy, Don't Move, First Activation, and the Invasion series
  203. WWII: Air Force pilot; flew the 101st Airborne on D-Day
  204. Tuskegee Airmen
  205. Pearl Harbor Survivor 'Was on weekend pass & headed to Scholfield Barracks where he was stationed with the 289th Regiment when the attacks started'
  206. Historian/Photographer/Author/'Time Was in Mineral Wells A Crazy Story but true...'
  207. Bill Weaver  (2)
    SR-71 test pilot; survived catastrophic breakup of SR-71 at 78,000 ft at Mach 3.18
  208. Interviewer, at age 11 was the youngest person to interview a sitting American President (Barack Obama)
  209. Project scientist on the New Horizon mission to the dwarf planet Pluto
  210. Ruby Ridge, Idaho standoff against Federal Agents
  211. Ruby Ridge
  212. Thomas Weaver  (2)
    US Navy SEAL Vietnam War Veteran. Bronze Star and Legion of Merit Recipient
  213. US Army Vietnam Veteran
  214. WWII. PTO. Served on the submarine USS Skipjack, SS-184 (famous for the 'Battle for Toilet Paper')
  215. Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron
  216. Betty Webb  (2)
    WW2/From Wythall Worcestershire, member of Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Worked on German police messages in Mansion @ Bletchley Park. Messages revealed beginning of the Holocaust with the massacres of 1,000s of Jews on eastern front
  217. Optometrist from British Columbia believes heâ-?s invented the holy grail of corrective lenses: A device that lets you see â-?three times better than 20/20 visionâ- without wearing any contacts or glasses at all â-' for an entire
  218. Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Most ended up returning to the US; a maximum of 7 are still alive
  219. John Webb  (3)
    D-Day landings veteran. Born: 1924. He is now 90 and lives in London, UK. He was with the 5th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment
  220. New Zealand based artist, author and social media giant. Her work has been recognised by many mainstream celebrities such as Ed Sheeran, Tyra Banks, etc. She is a mental health advocate and battles depression and anxiety
  221. US Air Force brigadier general. Photographed with Obama in White House Situation Room during raid on bin Laden's compound
  222. B. 2/17/1956) Civil rights activist known as Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Smallest Freedom Fighter's co-author of Selma, Lord, Selma. 9-year-old, took part attempt march across Edmund Pettus Bridge on 3/7/1965 march, known as Bloody Sunday
  223. Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Oklahoma, born 1918
  224. astronaut
  225. Robert Weber  (2)
    WW2 Veteran-Combat Infantryman 54th Armored Infantry Battalion Of The 10th Armored Division
  226. WWII: Marine Corps fighter pilot in the South Pacific
  227. Defeo serial killer attorney
  228. 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
  229. WWII Naval Pilot (Born 1915). Pearl Harbor survivor, stationed at Kaneohe Bay Air Station. Witness to MOH John Finn's actions. Later served across the Pacific for the remainder of the war
  230. Jean Webster  (2)
    The fifth oldest person in England and the oldest born in Northern Ireland (Born: 1906) Her father worked as a riveter on the Titanic. She also survived the 1918 flu pandemic. She recently celebrated her 111th birthday. Lives in Northern Island
  231. Spacecraft operations manager for the spacecraft cassini that studied the planet saturn
  232. cononer kennedy assassination expert
  233. Lawyer Roe V. Wade
  234. United States Army commander who served in Asia during World War II from October 1943 to the end of the war. Previously, he helped plan the Normandy Invasion
  235. Egyptologist- TMP
  236. Former Mobster and member of Whitey Bulger's Winter Hill Gang of Boston. Author - Brutal, Where's Whitey, Hunted Down
  237. WWII: PTO. US Army Air Corps. Guam
  238. Founding member of the German counter-terrorist force GSG 9
  239. WWII: PTO. Served aboard the USS South Dakota (BB-57). Luzon, Leyte, Philippines in general, Formosa, Okinawa
  240. Inventor on 14 U.S. patents related to online financial services
  241. 'Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
  242. NASA Flight director
  243. Mountain climber, first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest
  244. Has worked on the Hubble telescope
  245. nobel physics laureate 1979
  246. One of the famous 'Chicago 7' war protesters, 1968
  247. Scientist
  248. Actress: charm school instructor in 'A League of Their Own'
  249. WWII: PTO. Served in the United States Army in the South Pacific during World War II from November 29, 1944 to October 25, 1946
  250. WWII: Marine Corps flamethrower 'Flaming Joe' in the Battle of Iwo Jima, fought there for all 36 days of the battle. 5th Marine Division, 28th Marines, 3rd Battalion Headquarters Demolition Platoon. Flagraiser Ira Hayes was his friend
  251. Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; staff member of The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission
  252. army general
  253. WWII: PTO. US Navy, USS Columbia
  254. Experimental Test Pilot, Lockheed
  255. American supercentenarian (Born: 1909) She is also one of the last survivors of the 'Great Flood of 1913'. Lives in Fortville, Indiana, USA
  256. Judge who presided over the Menendez Brothers murder trial and the trial of the police officers accused of beating Rodney King
  257. (Born 1929) US Marine Corps Vietnam War Veteran. 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines. During Operation Napoleon/Saline and at the Battle of Dai Do where he was seriously injured. For his actions at Dai Do Weise was awarded the Navy Cross
  258. army general
  259. navy admiral
  260. WWII: PTO. 228th Signal Operations Company. Philippines 1940, POW
  261. Holocaust Survivor/Said her mother, three younger siblings, and older brother were all murdered soon after in the gas chambers/Testified in War Crimes trial against 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' Oskar Groening
  262. American physicist. In 2017, Weiss was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, 'for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves'
  263. Israeli political scientist and politician; 1992-1996 speaker of the Knesset; 2001-2003 Israeli ambassador in Poland
  264. Daughter of Otto Skorzeny, famed nazi commando
  265. Was at Terezin Concentration Camp when she was a child. Survivor of the Holocaust
  266. Current director of the Genoscope and one of the pioneers of the sequencing and analysis of the genomes
  267. Navy's Blue Angels Pilot
  268. WWII: PTO. Gunner on escort carrier USS Anzio
  269. American physician-scientist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for his contributions to RNA biology with his research colleague Katalin Karikó
  270. astronaut
  271. WWII: PTO. Survivor of the massive Kamikaze attack on the USS Lindey on April 12, 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa
  272. German ww2 pilot
  273. Bob Welch  (3)
    Reporter/cameraman WBAP-TV/Covered attempted shooting Gen. Edwin Walker. November 22, at Love Field, Trade Mart & Parkland, captured only sound recording of announcement of President Kennedy's death. In 1964, he covered the Jack Ruby trial
  274. Bob Welch  (4)
    Last known survivor (Born: 1929) of the 15-strong gang who took part in The Great Train Robbery on August 8 1963, one of the biggest crimes of the 20th century. He is now 87 and lives in the UK
  275. Fighter ace world war 2- 5 kills flew the p-38
  276. Pearl Harbor survivor, served on the USS Maryland. Helped to drill through the hull of the next-door capsized USS Oklahoma to save men on board
  277. Retired General And Former U.S. Air Force Chief
  278. WW II Pilot 6 victories born 1923
  279. WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 4th Marines Division
  280. businesswoman/physician
  281. WWII - survived the Battle of Kohima, 1944
  282. Navy veteran, author, and candidate for Congress from NJ
  283. Physiologist
  284. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Argonne
  285. WWII. Merchant Marine. Trips to the Mediterranean, Suez Canal, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf
  286. Fighter ace world war 2 vmf-323 death rattlers- 5 kills
  287. Pioneering aviatrix, journalist (1908-2002). Co-founder of 'Ninety-Nines' women's group with A. Earhardt, worked with Wiley Post, first female parachutist from a damaged plane, White House reporter (1963-77), 1 of 3 women reporters on Nixon's China trip
  288. WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Landing Ship, Tank (LST) 1035
  289. WWII Marine vet at Iwo Jima (1922-2016). Led the platoon attack on Mt. Suribachi that planted the first flag on the summit. His platoon became one of the most decorated in US history
  290. WWII US Marine, born 1925. Okinawa combat, with the 6th Marine Division
  291. JFK - Secret Service for Caroline & John Kennedy Jr
  292. WW2 Battle of Britain pilot. Born in 1922, he was the youngest Spitfire pilot
  293. Flight attendant aboard US Airways flight 1549 that landed in the Hudson River
  294. Air Force Chief of Staff (2012-Present)
  295. WWII - Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. USS Arizona survivor
  296. WWII Battle of the Bulge veteran, Nuremberg Trials guard for Field Marshal Hermann Goering
  297. WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-6 victories, US Navy, VF-16
  298. 'Pad Leader'/'Fuhrer of the Pad' Mercury & Gemini Space Flights & Apollo Missions 1967-1975
  299. Former Navy SEAL, wrote novel, Men In Green Faces.
  300. U.S.S. Arizona survivor (Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941)
  301. WWII: USS Helena
  302. WWII: Merchant seaman in the 'Murmansk runs' of World War II
  303. JFK: He was a member of the 4-H Club that President John F. Kennedy met at the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. 7 March 1961
  304. Known in WWII as the One man army or the Ghost of Bataan
  305. His life was the basis for the 2018 film White Boy Rick
  306. Founder, 'Democracy 21.' US watchdog group
  307. Fighter Ace - Korean War - USAF - 5 Kills
  308. Titanic survivor
  309. WWII: PTO. USMC. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
  310. medal of honor army korean war
  311. Mathematician known for mathematical modelling shape of Earth, & work on development of satellite geodesy models that incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS) inducted into the US Air Force HOF in 2018
  312. James West  (3)
    Inventor
  313. Inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
  314. Jason West  (2)
    Former Green Party mayor of New Paltz, NY
  315. American writer, comedian and activist. Author of the essay collection Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman & a contributing opinion writer for The NYT. Was an executive producer/writer for the show, Shrill, the Hulu adaptation of her memoir
  316. A 99-year-old war heroine who worked on the top secret preparations for the D-Day landings, has followed in Captain Tom's footsteps by walking 100 laps of her Dedham garden
  317. WWII Pilot Ace- Flew the P-38 & P-40--[14 victories]- DSC
  318. Rick West  (2)
    Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) 12
  319. Serial Killer - Convicted of 10 Murders with her Husband Fred West, there house became a thing of legend known as 'The House of Horrors' There backyard help the corpses of several girls they had killed including one of there own daughters they stated left
  320. Hiroshima survivor. 13 years old, working in a factory to support the war effort when the bomb hit. Her widowed mother died in the blast and her grandparents died of radiation sickness weeks later. She became sick but recovered and later married an Americ
  321. WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
  322. U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1998-2000)
  323. USS Arizona Survivor - Pearl Harbor
  324. Tuskegee airman
  325. JFK - DPD Captain in the Lee Harvey Oswald, J.D. Tippit investigation
  326. Worked at the TSBD Nov..22 1963 JFK
  327. WWII: PTO. USS Balch (DD-363). Saw Pearl Harbor arriving on Dec. 8, 1941; his ship was in Task Force 18 (Doolittle Raid), saved nearly 600 sailors of the USS Yorktown when she sank in the Battle of Midway; supported the Guadalcanal campaign
  328. WW 2 vet/USN/Mechanic in Navy, stationed in the South Pacific and the Philippines
  329. Assistant Supervisor in the operating room at Parkland Memorial at the time of President Kennedy's assassination
  330. American video game programmer and software developer, known for 1983's Archon: The Light and the Dark, originally written for the Atari 8-bit family
  331. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. Naval Air Station Kaneohe
  332. Sex Therapist
  333. World record hips
  334. One of the last surviving member's of the 1953 Everest Expedition. He is now 87 and lives in Cumbria, UK with his wife, Sally. He and George Lowe are now the only two surviving members of the 1953 Everest Expedition
  335. Retired US Army General
  336. falklands war hero
  337. astronaut
  338. An American ornithologist and avian paleontologist; Secretary of the Smithosonian (1944-1952)
  339. United States Air Aces
  340. Member of The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) a work relief program for young men from unemployed families, started on 03/21/1933, by Pres. F.D.R. As part of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, designed to combat unemployment during the Great Depression
  341. Invented the ATM
  342. Medal of Honor Army Vietnam
  343. army general
  344. Connecticut Probate Judge, an attorney, an author, an award-winning talk radio host and the creator and executive producer of The Lisa Wexler Show, which airs weekdays 10 a.m. - noon on WICC600 a Connoisseur media station
  345. Army General, Chief of Staff of the USA army (1974-1976) Born: 09/15/1916
  346. WWII: USS Intrepid. On the flight deck aboard the USS Intrepid when she was hit by 2 kamikazes
  347. WW2 veteran. A decorated soldier whose military career lasted through the Vietnam War. He became an anti-nuclear activist. Father of former bassist of the Talking Heads Tina Weymouth
  348. Reported from NBC affiliate WBAP-TV in Fort Worth about President Kennedy's assassination
  349. Centenarian (1895-2001). US WWI veteran. Sent to France, marched to the front just as the war ended
  350. WWII: Battle of Midway
  351. Army general
  352. Women's Army Corps
  353. Coined term black hole
  354. British engineer (Born: 1927) who was instrumental in Britain's successful development of rocket launchers and hovercraft. He worked on the Black Arrow rocket programme. He is now 89. Lives in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK
  355. Tuskegee airmen ww2
  356. Astronaut
  357. 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
  358. WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, New Guinea campaign, Battle of Saipan
  359. WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Company G, 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division
  360. WWII: ETO. Truck driver in the Red Ball Express, 104th Infantry, 3rd Battalion, 26th Yankee Division. Taken POW while supplying the front lines in November 1944
  361. WWII Veteran, wounded in the Battle of Iwo Jima
  362. Astronomer
  363. WWII: ETO. D-Day, Battle of the Bulge. Glider pilot
  364. WWII: Medic, 1st Infantry Batallion, 10th Armored Division, 3rd Army. Battle of the Bulge
  365. Mark Whitacre is an Ivy League Ph. D. and the highest - ranked executive of any Fortune 500 company to become a whistleblower in US history, and is responsible for uncovering the ADM price - fixing scandal in the early 1990's
  366. NASA physicist, trained astronaut (never went to space)
  367. WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 6th Marine Division
  368. 63rd Inspector General of the Army. Served as Chief of Staff, CENTCOM during OIF and OEF
  369. test pilot
  370. WW2 US Army Veteran. 97th Infantry Division
  371. Azellia White (June 3, 1913) was an American aviator who was the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license in Texas
  372. Bill White  (6)
    US WWII Marine vet, born 1915, wounded by a grenade at Iwo Jima. One of the last living workers who built the Hoover Dam in the 1930s
  373. Carol White  (2)
    Director of Correspondence for George HW Bush
  374. Major US Army Ret - Buffalo Soldier during WWII. Author - Give Me My Spirit Back; The Last of the Buffalo Soldier
  375. UK Garter Principal King of Arms, born 1961. Various peerage and royal duties. As senior herald, proclaimed Charles III the new King to the world, and later, the titles of Elizabeth II as her coffin was lowered at her funeral service
  376. Astronaut
  377. OSU end from River Rouge, MI, Played on Ohio State's first National Championship team in 1942. After military service, finished his career with Michigan and became the only player to win national championships with 2 different schools when they won in '48
  378. (Born 1980) Afghanistan War Veteran. Squad Leader with Company A, 1st Battalion, 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173d Airborne Brigade. Distinguished Service Cross recipient for actions in Khost Province, Afghanistan in 2008
  379. Cowboy, guano miner, cave explorer, and park ranger for the National Park Service. He is best remembered as the discoverer, early promoter and explorer of what is known today as Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
  380. Jerry White  (4)
    Author/historian - London in the Twentieth Century: A City and its People (2001) and Rothschild Buildings
  381. Joe White  (4)
    Pearl Harbor Veteran, USS Schley
  382. Joshua White  (2)
    Invented trip sceen projection process with a overhead projuector, a clock face, water and oil
  383. Kenneth White  (3)
    Ww2 veteran
  384. Former Army Sgt, to recieved the Congressional Medal of Honor on May 13, 2014, for his actions during a dismounted movement in mountainous terrain in Aranas, Afghanistan, on Nov. 9, 2007
  385. JFK - Assistant Special Counsel to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
  386. Intern assigned to the surgery section of the Emergency Room at Parkland Memorial in '63 , Martin helped to save President Kennedy's life
  387. Phillip White  (3)
    Vietnam veteran who was in the 23rd Americal Division. Purple Heart recipient for being injured by a NVA grenade
  388. WWII: USS Balch (DD-363), USS Boston (CA-69), USS Bladen (APA-63). Naval engagements include Marshall-Gilbert and Wake Islands, Midway, Guadalcanal-Tulagi, Eastern Solomons, Marshall Island, Kwajalein, Majuro, Eniwetok, Iwo Jima, Okinawa
  389. test pilot air force general
  390. WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge, Operation Varsity. 507th Parachute Infantry, 17th Airborne Division
  391. Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
  392. WWII: One of the last 'Rats of Tobruk'. The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Rommel's Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk
  393. navy admiral businessman
  394. Prosecuted the case against the LAPD officers that beat Rodney King
  395. Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Returned to the United State/New York in 1965
  396. navy admiral
  397. Born November 1, 1953, American video game designer and programmer: Blackjack, Star Ship
  398. 1960's activist. 'The Weatherman,' group
  399. Whistleblower
  400. WW2 Dunkirk Veteran (Born:1920) was a medic with the Royal Army Medical Corps and tended the wounded as the troops of the British Expeditionary Force withdrew towards the coast. Now 96 and lives in Laindon, Essex
  401. Born March of 1945. Australian Vietnam Veteran that was with the Australian SAS,7RAR, and 3RAR
  402. 1965 lz-xray
  403. USS Indianapolis Survivor
  404. Tuskegee Airmen (Would have to be 83 years old or older if lied about age & entered at age 16 to become an Airmen)
  405. Deputy Associate Administrator - Common Explorations Systems Directorate (CESD). Artemis Program
  406. WWII: Civilian Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. An electrician, Whitney was on break from his job when he saw the last plane fly over the mountain. He worked salvage duty on the electrical portions of various ships for the next month
  407. Tuskegee airmen ww2
  408. American astronaut
  409. Winner of the Largest Powerball Jackpot Ever 300 Million!
  410. WW2 POW forced to work on the bridge at Burma Siam Railroad that was featured in the film 'Bridge Over the River Kwai'
  411. Jim Whittaker  (2)
    An American mountaineer. First American to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1963)
  412. WWII: Battle of Midway pilot
  413. British-American chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 with John B. Goodenough and Akira Yoshino
  414. Lawyer shot by Dick Cheney
  415. 10 year old witness to the 1937 Hindenburg crash. Son of an airstation employee, he was about 100 yards away, so close the paint on his family's car blistered from the heat
  416. Politics
  417. WWII/UK: In the rear guard at the Battle of Dunkirk, he was left on the beach and eventually managed to jump on board a Dutch fishing boat back to England. Later as a paratrooper, he was in Operation Market Garden (Battle of Arnhem)
  418. WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers',
  419. Chief NASA engineer of the 'Lunar Laser Ranging Program', the very last Apollo project active since July 21, 1969 and still going on, measuring the distance between earth and moon repeatedly
  420. Spy/Hot wars/cold wars & a few sub-war dust-ups/Served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense, the CIA, and the White House
  421. Was standing at the corner of Cedar Springs Rd. and Harwood St . to watch President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov . 22 , 1963
  422. German pilot
  423. army general
  424. WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland
  425. Sri Lankan born Astronomer and Mathematician. He was a student and collaborator of Sir Fred Hoyle and is best known for his work on cosmic dust. He now lives in Cardiff, Wales, UK
  426. One of the last witnesses to the Hindenburg Crash of 1937
  427. 2006 genius award winner
  428. French art historian, living in Paris France, granddaughter of Pablo Picasso
  429. 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
  430. American aerospace researcher
  431. (Born 10 April 1916) was a German chief engineer on a U-boat in World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was born in Kiel.
  432. US Marine, Korean and Vietnam Veteran, born 1929. Pusan, Inchon, Seoul, and one of the Chosin Few in Korea, Purple Heart. Silver Star in Vietnam. National President of The Chosin Few organization
  433. Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, WWII
  434. Canadian astronomer and professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is best known for the discovery of Earth's second moon and the orbits of minor planets in the Solar System
  435. JFK - NBC cameraman riding in Camera Car 1, (10th car in Kennedy's motorcade); as the shots fell, he jumped from the car in front of the TSBD and ran towards the assassination scene while fiming, he himself ending up in many famous photos
  436. One of the news cameramen you see running in Malcolm Couch's film, shot this film as he jumped from one of the camera cars following the limo and ran towards the grassy knoll at the JFK assassination
  437. Archbishop of Warsaw
  438. nobel physics laureate 2001
  439. US Army WWII veteran, born 1919. CCC member, 1938-40, and made an Army supply sargeant thanks to his CCC experience for WWII's Saipan battle
  440. German ww2 pilot JG 11
  441. nobel med. laureate 1995
  442. 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
  443. Born in 1922 in Bloomfield, Nebraska. Served in the US Army during WWII. Fred was assigned to the Station Hospital at Fort Des Moines without going through typical basic training
  444. Lufftwaffe ace 133 victories in wwII
  445. Nobel Prize-winning author, Holocaust survivor, Nobel for Peace - 1986
  446. nobel med. laureate 1981
  447. WWII German Knights Cross Recipient
  448. Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer
  449. WWII: PTO. Battle of Savo Island (USS Vincennes)
  450. whistle blower,told truth about tobacco companies. movie The Insider
  451. WWII: Fighter Ace, 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF
  452. Supercentenarian/Born: 02/09/1898
  453. Lz xray 1965 nam 1st cav
  454. Historian, folklorist, writer & teacher. Developed Foxfire Project, writing project led to magazine & series of best-selling Foxfire books, 12 vols. Based on articles Georgia high school students wrote. 1986 Georgia Teacher of the Year
  455. WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia
  456. 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
  457. WWII: Bataan Death March
  458. WWII: Sailor B.C. Wilborn manned an anti-aircraft gun during the attack upon Pearl Harbor; later surviving amultiple Kamikate attack at the USS Columbia on 6 January 1945 when he earned a Purple Heart; Race Horse Owner
  459. Tuskegee Airman
  460. WWII - D-Day, in the first wave at Omaha Beach. 29th Infantry Division, 115th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, E Company, First Scout of the 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon
  461. Israeli biochemist. He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science
  462. USS Indianapolis survivor
  463. Author historian
  464. Astronaut
  465. Nobel Laureate Physics
  466. Dennis Bryan Harvey 'Dick' Wildish CB (born 24 December 1914) is a retired vice admiral in the Royal Navy. He was born in Kent and is the son of Rear Admiral Sir Henry William Wildish, who also served in the Royal Navy
  467. Leader of the, 'American Family Association,' and activist
  468. Oxford mathematician, proved Fermat's Last Theorem
  469. WWII: Torpedo Bomber pilot, Battle of Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, USS Yorktown (CV-5), USS Enterprise
  470. Tuskegee Airmen Pilot
  471. British soldier involved in the Bloody Sunday massacre, living with his wife Linda somewhere in rural Belgium
  472. WWII - Fighter Ace, 5 victories. ETO. 309th FS, 31 FG
  473. German U-boat commander (Born: 1914) in the Atlantic during WW2 (Submarine U-704) Lives in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany. Now 103
  474. Retired Secret Service For JFK/Kennedy Detail
  475. NASA/MIT: Electrical Engineer, first at the Polaris Weapon System, then joining the Apollo project very early. Responsible for incorporating system components into the spacecraft as the guidance, navigation, and control on board system
  476. Playwright, screenwriter, author of fiction & nonfiction books/WW 2 Wilk served First Motion Picture Unit of the US Army Air Forces/ wrote the novelization of Beatles' cartoon Yellow Submarine/Wrote Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
  477. WWII: Served on the submarine USS Archerfish (SS-311) which sank the Japanese aircraft carrier HIJMS Shinano, on 29 November 1944
  478. Former head of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International in Rwanda. In 1994, he was the only American who chose to remain in the country after the genocide began/Saved about 400 people from Gisimba Orphanage
  479. Graduate of Swarthmore College, retired teacher born 1945 author of Book 'Flying Too Close to the Sun' 1960's radical in USA injured along with Kathy Boudin in the 1970 Greenwich Village w 11 street NYC townhouse Explosion-currently resides in Brooklyn NY
  480. British Computer Scientist. Born: 06/26/1913
  481. WWII: ETO. B-17 co-pilot, 351st Bomb Group. Shot down, Dutch Undeground, POW
  482. nobel med. laureate 1962
  483. JFK - Patrolman with the Dallas Police Department in 1963, Wilkins was involved in the initial search of the TSBD. He was among those who first discovered the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle in the northwest corner of the sixth floor
  484. Roy Wilkins  (3)
    08/30/1901-09/08/1981 American Postage Stamp made from his image/Prominent civil rights activist from the 1930s-1970s. Wilkins' most notable role was his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  485. WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
  486. One of the oldest people in England (Born: 1908) Recently celebrated her 109th birthday. Also one of the last surviving witnesses of Germany's Zeppelin raids in the UK and met King George V. She lives in Hethersett, Norfolk, England
  487. Former U.S. Naval officer, first Commanding Officer of the USS Nautilus
  488. WWII: British pilot of the Battle of Britain, flew with the Duxford Wing (served with inspirational Second World War flying ace Sir Douglas Bader) and joined No 19 Squadron in October 1940 and later joined 234 and 165 Squadrons
  489. WWII: ETO. 745th Squadron, 456 Bomb Group, 15th Air Force. B-24 pilot. Distinguished Flying Cross, European-Asian Eastern Ribbon, Air Medal with 2 Oakleaf Cluster. 51 Combat missions incl, missions to Ploesti
  490. HMS Intrepid crew member during Falkland Islands War, his actions are the base for the play 'San Carlos Hilton'
  491. (Born 1957) US Air Force Veteran. Was in Cold War, Invasion of Panama 1989-1990, Somalia 1993, and Haiti 1994. Air Force Cross Recipient
  492. navy admiral
  493. Physicist, author, and professor
  494. Biographical Information Name: Conrad J. Will State of Birth: PA Home State: NJ Gender Male War or Conflict World War, 1939-1945 Military Status Veteran Dates of Service 1943-1945 Entrance into Service Enlisted Branch of Serv
  495. Served as a guard for Pope John Paul in 1987 Persian Gulf War, 1991 with Army in Saudi Arabia Operation Desert Storm, Operation Desert Shield
  496. WWII: PTO. USS West Virginia 1944-1946
  497. US Army WWII vet, born 1917. Served in the 738th Artillery of Patton's Third Army, through France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. Toured Buchenwald concentration camp after its liberation. Career as a dentist
  498. Commander US Pacific Fleet
  499. One of two of Holocaust last living survivors of Nazi death camp Treblinka/Estimated that between 800.000 and 1.2million prisoners were taken to Treblinka/Lives in Israel
  500. Author/Assistant Council Warren Commission