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air force general
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Society Lady
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pyro
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. 1st Marine Division
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AP photographer photographed burning airship Hindenburg 15 pics, from 1st flare-up, rescue of survivors & picture of Lou Gehrig wiping away a tear as the fatally ill first baseman bade farewell to Yankee teammates & fans at Yankee Stadium
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USAF Jet fighter Ace during the Korean War--[5 Migs shot down]! fle the p-80, f-86, f-89, f-84, f-104, t-33, t-28, t-6
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Pennsylvania
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Former Marine General
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inventor (ph acidity testing meter)
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9/11 - Retired NY firefighter who bluffed his way to Ground Zero on Sept. 14, 2001, and ended up on Time magazine in iconic photograph next to President George W. Bush
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Retired USMC General
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Retired General - US Army
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marine corps general
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WWII Manhattan Project
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(Born 1945) US Navy Vietnam Veteran. POW 1969 to 1973. Recipient of a Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star, and 2 Purple Hearts
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nobel physics laureate 1987
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (WWII-10.5 Kills) US Navy, VF-17
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Governor of Arkansas (2007-15), Former State Attorney General
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Vietnam Vet/Participated in Battle of La Drang, highlighted in the book 'We Were Soldiers Once...And Young'/Artillery with Infantry, carried radio in battle/Awarded one Purple Heart, two Bronze Stars
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9-year-old girl kidnapped in New York by a friend of the family, and held in an underground bunker from December 28, 1992, to January 13, 1993. Author of Buried Memories
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History, civil rights in UK
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One of the last survivors (Born: 1917) from the sinking of RMS Lancastria, that sank in 1940 during WW2
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Test pilot, F-35, F-117 and F-22 Raptor
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British bomber pilot from WW2
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British pilot from WW2, living in Great Britain
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Navajo Code Talker (born 1926) of the 1st Marine Division 2nd Battalion
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Wife of Navajo Code Talker Thomas H. Begay
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Notah Begay (2)
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker - 1 of only 3 remaining (as of 2022)
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker
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air force general
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Apollo 11 and later: One of the engineers who designed the astronaut backpacks for all Apollo missions
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space engineer nasa administrator (81 & 85)
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Victoria Cross recipient from Great Britain, was awarded the VC in 2005
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Film historian, commentator on various classic DVDs
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astronaut
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Panzer Captain and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross who was on the intelligence staff of the Sixth Army during the Stalingrad encirclement
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Military
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Management Professor, Author, Speaker, Consultant and Advocate for Working Parents
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Rocket Scientest on Werhner von Braun's Team at Fort Bliss Texas, 1946/Operation Paperclip was code name for 1945 Office of Strategic Services, Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency recruitment of German scientists from Nazi Germany to US after VE Day
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French lawyer, teacher, and author, born 1924. Served as a legal secretary to the French judge during the Nuremberg Trials. Later worked for the UN and the World Health Organization
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medal of honor army vietnam war
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Dallas Police motorcycle officer in '63 , was at Dallas Trade Mart and Parkland Hospital on day of assassination
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German Avatarix
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Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano (born 23 February 1961), also known as Don Berna or Adolfo Paz, is a former leader of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia paramilitary group, as well as the leader of The Office of Envigado cartel
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WWII: Esther was one of the last survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. She survived because she was a player in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
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Author of several Space Publications/Early NASA Official/Director of advanced programs and plans
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Deep Freeze: an officer on the U.S.S. Arneb
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Defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 with a MiG-25 Foxbat
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Korean War: One of the 'Non-Repatriated 23' who didn't return to the US after the end of the Korean War. Native of Belgium, returned to Antwerp after the war
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Iran Hostage Crisis Survivor (Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Vice consul
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Born 1916.Last living female 'Monuments Men' of the 2nd wave of Monuments Men which began their work after the war had ended. She is related to writer Virginia Woolf
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OR nurse supervisor at Parkland Memorial when President Kennedy brought in after assassination
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World War II Medal of Honor
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Military
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George Bell (2)Tallest man in the USA
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Graham Bell (3) Retired engine driver and fireman who drove all six of the iconic British locomotives; The Mallard, Dominion of Canada, Dwight D Eisenhower, Union of South Africa, Sir Nigel Gresly and Bittern. Born: 1923. He is now 93 and lives in the UK
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Chief of Staff under Gov. Ernest Vandiver, judge from 1961-76, U.S. Attorney General from 1977-79
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World War II Army veteran from 1942-1946. Part of 91st airborn that jumped over North Africa and Italy
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Served in the Navy during WWII in the Pacific Theater and was aboard the USS Lexington in May, 1942, when it was torpedoed during the Battle of Coral Sea
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WWII: Battel of Okinawa. 77th Division. Distinguished Service Cross for the battle for Ishimi Ridge
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Pilot Vietnam War/Astronaut
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Retired United States Army four-star general
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former cosmonaut from Slovakia, now working as military attaché in Moscow, Russia
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English professor, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner.
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Will become the first living Medal of Honor recipient for the war in Iraq for his heroism during the second battle of Fallujah in November 2004
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WWII: Iwo Jima survivor; H Company, 3rd Battalion, 26th Regiment, 5th Division. Recipient of 2 Purple Hearts
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Celebrity Attorney. 'The King of Torts'. Author. Actor - Star Trek '68 (Gorgon in the 'And the Children Shall Lead' episode)
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WWII: PTO. Survived the sinking of Liberty ship SS John A. Johnson (by Japanese torpedo) on 30 October 1944
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Test pilot
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P-47 and XF-91 test pilot
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101st Airborne, 506 PIR, Easy Company (AKA 'The Band of Brothers' - WWII
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Retired General
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C-47 pilot for 101st band of brother flew support for them
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Liborio Salvatore 'Barney' Bellomo (born January 8, 1957) is a high ranking caporegime (captain) and street boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City. Bellomo is one of the fastest rising Mafia members in the United States today, becoming a capta
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(Born 1923) US Navy WW2 Veteran. Personal friend of JFK during his time in the Navy. Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor (1963-1965) and Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1975-1987)
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Apostolic Administrator of Dili, East Timor (1988-2002); 1996 Nobel Peace Laureate
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Astronaut born Sept 9, 1957; has not traveled into space; retired 1991
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Scientist
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Russian cosmonaut, Voskhod-2 (With Alexeij Leonov)
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Historian/biographer. Taught at Yale University. Two Pulitzer Prize's John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy (1949) won the Pulitzer Prize for its sequel, John Quincy Adams and the Union (1956)
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Holocaust Survivor/Author - Subject of the film 'Fanny's Journey' based on her autobiography 'The Journey of Fanny Ben-Ami'
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Grammy award-winning violinist & UN Goodwill Ambassador. Style is a fusion of classical, Hip-Hop, soul & dance. Collaborated with Kanye West, Jay Z, Alicia Keys, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, Patti Labelle, Janet Jackson, and John Legend
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American born artist and cybernetics scientist. He works and resides in Perth, Western Australia
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Concert pianist and professor of music. She is a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the United Kingdom where she has taught the piano and the Alexander technique since 1975. Ben-Or is a Holocaust survivor
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(born January 3, 1943), He served as an assistant U.S. attorney from 1968 to 1973, including the turbulent period of the Watergate scandal. Mr. Ben-Veniste was a leading figure in the prosecution of this scandal. He served as chief of the Watergate Task F
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nobel medicine laureate 1980
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS West Virginia
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII WAVES female vet, born 1923. Top Secret Ultra clearance, gathered info from/prepared reports for upper command of decoded German messages. Learned of D-Day from a just-decoded msg from Germany's Donitz, saying they'd just been invaded
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JFK - Secret Service, served from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson
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WWII: MTO/ETO. Quartermaster on the Landing Craft, LST 1. Africa (Arzew and Bizerte), Italy (Palermo, Anzio, and Sicily), and Normandy on D-Day
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US Geologist, born 1938. Grumman Aerospace (1968-72), worked on the team that developed the Apollo lunar module landing feet 'pods'
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Shark and Deep Water Award-Winning Conservationist. Was married to late Author, Peter Benchley
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS West Virginia
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army general
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British WWII Veteran, RAF
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WWII: PTO. Battled of Okinawa. K Co, 3rd Bn, 5th Marine Regiment (3/5)
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Maryland
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US WWII Army Air Corps B-29 gunner (1925-2023). Flew over Nagasaki hours after the bombing as part of an Army photo mission. Flew in the Japanese Surrender Ceremony Flyover weeks later
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Former baseball player for the California Angels; known for his survival of oral Cancer
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WWII - D-Day, Omaha Beach. Ranger. Purple Heart recipient shot in the thigh while storming Omaha Beach
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa. Hq-2-6, 2nd MarDiv
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WWII - Flying Tigers (AVG) P-51 pilot
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Centenarian and is an Italian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church. He is the oldest ltalian Roman Catholic bishop
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USN Admiral
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Invented, wrinkle free cotton
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Spanish Civil War survivor (Born: 1924) Wife of Josep Pons. Remembers how she left Barcelona in 1939 during the massive retreat towards France. Now 92
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Lz xray 1965 nam b co, 1/7 cav
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WWII: Wake Island Defender: POW, Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941
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Flies the only flying Gee Bee R-2
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Helped in the development of the Wellness Community in 1982, which focused on the social and emotional health of cancer patients
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WWII: ETO. Italy 1944-1945. US Army Air Force, 459th Bombardment Group. Distinguished Flying Cross
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Military
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Asst.Secretary of Defense
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Started the first 401k Account
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German Luftwaffe ace of WWII, 93 victories
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Pilot
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US Army Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1968 to 1969
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Worlds Oldest bridesmaid born 1902
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NASA scientist and engineer
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WWII: ETO/D-Day. Radio operator on B-24 Liberator 'The Hard Way' (44-40242), 854th Bomb quadron, 491st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 31 missions from June 2, 1944 to Sept. 9, 1944, including D-Day and Hanover, Sept. 9, 1944
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19 year old stripper who was arrested for bringing a pistol into the Jack Ruby Trial court room for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald the man suspected in the assassination of JFK
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Hawaii State Attorney General (2003-present)
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Twenty two year employee with Allyn and Bacon publishing company, Bennett was working on the third floor of the Texas School Book Depository in 1963. Standing on Elm Street, she witnessed the assassination of J.F Kennedy
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Phillip Bennett (2) Former Australian General, Chief of the Australian Defence Force 1984-1987
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American attorney, represented President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal. Also Caspar Weinberger during the Iran-Contra scandal, etc. Brother of William J. Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education
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Writer, activist, and political commentator
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Retired Admiral
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WWII: Battle of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa. Corpsman with D-1-2, 2nd MarDiv. He was in the 2nd wave to Red Beach #2 on Tarawa-D-Day; arriving in a Higgins boat, he had to wade over 500 yards to the shore under devastating fire
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WWII US Army D-Day veteran, born 1926. Part of the Dachau concentration camp liberation, and later a guard at the Nuremberg Trials
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attorney women's activist
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JFK: Designed and carved the inscriptions for the John F. Kennedy Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery.Also carved gravestones for Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, George Balanchine, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial
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WWII: PTO. Nurse in the Battle of Okinawa. Later 23 years with the CIA
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Convicted Murderer: Convicted double murderer of his mother, tobacco heiress Margaret Benson; and his brother (actually his nephew but later adopted), tennis player Scott Benson
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Wwii: wasp
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WWII: Evacuation of Dunkirk. 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Marched almost 120 miles to the beaches near Dunkirk to escape the German advance in May 1940. Eventually he found a rowing boat and was picked up by a navy ship
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Second last surviving adult crewman (an engine mechanic) of the Hindenburg's 1937 crash (1909-2003)
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Paul Bentley (2) JFK - Dallas police detective who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald 80 minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
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WWII: PTO. Underwater Demolition Team
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Member of the 101 airbourne div. company E 506 parachute regiment
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Deepwater Horizon Explosion Survivor/Crew Cook
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Centenarian (1895-2004). One of the last US WWI vets. Wounded while serving about a year in France
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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WWII: ETO, top turret gunner and engineer of B-17 Chow-Hound (Serial # 42-31367), 91st Bomb Group, 322nd Squadron
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Fighter ace born 12/27/1919
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WWII - Operation Overlord. 279th Port Company, 505th Port Battalion. Landed between Utah and Omaha Beach on D-Day+1 still under constant fire; his unit was responsible to get the beach organized and to get supplies inland
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Great-Granddaughter of American Socialite, philanthropist, and survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, Margaret Brown, better known as 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' She is a Titanic Historian
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socialite
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(Born 1971) US Army Iraq and Afghanistan War Veteran. Served from 1989 to 2014
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Pioneer Medical Doctor, Holocaust Survivor. Developed endoscopic and laparoscopic techniques that are now in widespread use to diagnose and surgically treat diseases of the kidneys, colon and gallbladder
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(1921-1995) Was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968.was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union twice, first time on October 26, 1944 for his military service during World War II, and second time for his space flig
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Scientist/Entomologist - Focuses on the Chemical Reactions between Herbivore Insects and tere Host Plants
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor 7 December 1941. Schofield Barracks
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Joseph Stalin's Interpreter
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Last living member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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WWII PTO: Co B, 1st Raider Bn, then 4th Marines. Fought at Guadalcanal (Bloody Ridge), Guam, Saipan, Bouganville, New Georgia, Okinawa. Guard duty at USS Missouri on the day the Japanese signed the surrender in Tokyo Bay. 2 Purple Hearts
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Worlds fastest reader (1990)
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Military Contractor held captive by Al-Queda. Beheaded by Al-Zarawi in Internet video by Al-Queda
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nobel chemistry laueate 1980
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WWII - USS Tennessee (1940-1942) and Submarine Base in 1943. Treasurer for P.T.Com Orchestra for 18 years
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WW2 POW private 28th Bomb Squadron, U.S. Air Force, was captured on southern Philippine island of Mindanao & sent to Davao penal colony/ spent two years in brutal labor scooping ore into open furnaces at a steel mill in the city of Toyama
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US Army Sergeant who was held prisoner in Afghanistan for five years
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Author, one of the founders of the make a wish foundation
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JFK - US Secret Service; Kennedy detail; was in Dallas; also served under Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan; was present when Ronald Reagan was shot
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Benjamin Berger (2) WWII: Ranger that landed at Omaha beach on D-Day (Pointe du Hoc); before D-Day, he served in North Africa and Italy
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Four-star general currently serving as the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
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Oldest World War 2 Veteran from Germany (German Army) Born: 03/13/1901
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U.S.District Judge Southern District Of West Virginia
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Professor at the Wharton School of the Univ of Pennsylvania, internationally bestselling author of Contagious, Invisible Influence, and The Catalyst. He is a world-renowned expert on change, word of mouth, viral marketing, social influence
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An employee of the Peacock Jewel Co. in Dallas , Berger sold Zapruder the Bell & Howell home movie camera used to film Pres. Kennedy's assassination
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French holocaust survivor and member of the Résistance during World War 2, living in the French city of Saint-Étienne
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inventor (pulsar watch)
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WWII: 3rd Marine Division, Wounded in the battle of Iwo Jima
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Infamous spy, sentenced to life was released a few years ago
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WWII: Merchant Marine
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Astrochemist, researches formation of stars and planets
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WWII: US Navy, anti-aircraft gunner. Survived the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay which was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tarawa (November 1943) and also his next ship (USS Salamaua) being hit by a Kamikaze
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WWII: Bataan Death March survivor. Air Warning Service Company, US Army Signal Corps
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Operation Deep Freeze: GCA officer to guide incoming aircraft to land on ice
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nobel medicine laureate 1982
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS California
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German ww2 pilot
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Retired New York City firefighter, featured in numerous books and documentaries
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She wrote the book my true story of the holocaust
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WWII Veteran
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Serial Killer, Son of Sam
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WWII: PTO. First Marine Division. Guadalcanal, Peleliu
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Astronomer
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NASA/MIT/Draper: Software Engineer starting to work on the Apollo program in 1962 (incl. Apollo 11) who wrote the Lunar Ascent Program
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Commanding Officer and flight leader for the Blue Angels, U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron
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Author and American economist. served 2 terms as the 14th Chair of the Federal Reserve, from 2006 to 2014. Oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the late-2000s financial crisis, for which he was named the 2009 Time Person of the Year
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Nanny of the Robert Kennedy family (not the president) Born: 06/18/1908
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French Physician and Haematologist
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Main focus in the Canadian wait for me daddy photo he was the little boy reaching for his daddy
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Canadian serial killer and rapist, known for the murders he committed with his wife Karla Homolka
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WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, Original Band of Brothers. Note: He isn't the author of that book mentioned - these were 'Will Bill' Guarnere and 'Babe' Heffron: http://www.amazon.de/Brothers-Battle-Friends-William-Guarnere/dp/0425224368
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Inventor/creator of the World Wide Web
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American attorney, energy industry lobbyist, and government administrator. Currently serves as the 53rd United States Secretary of the Interior
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One of the first at the scene to cover the North Hollywood shootout
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Author and jewelry historian, jewelry expert and collector of period and modern jewels
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American motivational speaker, life coach, and author. Founder of HerFuture.com, a social networking and mentoring website for women. In 2009, she was featured in The NYT as a 'guru' for the next generation
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Adventure Enthusiast/Explorer, Host Of 'theHistory Channel's 'Digging For The Truth'
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Author and former CIA officer and Directorate of Operations between October 1982 and June 2005. Served as a CIA Station Chief on 3 separate occasions and led several of CIA?s most important counterterrorism deployments
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Buna-Gona, Battle of Luzon. 32nd Infantry Division
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (9 Kills) US Navy, VF-15 'Satan's Playmates'
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Social Activist Clergyman
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Anti war activist niece of Danial Berrigan
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Centenarian and a Spanish-Basque Bishop of the Catholic Church. He is the oldest Spain Roman Catholic bishop
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WWII - CpL (Tech 5), USA, 78th Quartermaster Bn., 78th Infantry Div., 3rd Army. Landed at Normandy on D-Day. Battle of the Bulge veteran. European Theater of Operations
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C-47 pilot, flew101st band of brothers
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WWII - Pilot 91st Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group; with his C-47 #43-15213 he flew paratroopers of Dog Company, 506th PIR, 101st AB into D-Day (Stick #64). Specialist in towing/rescueing Gliders, carrying D-Day wounded out to safety
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Vietnam War - Marines pilot who flew Ambassador Martin out of the American Embassy during the fall of Saigon to the Vietcong, April 30, 1975. Helicopter 'Lady Ace 09'
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Author: 'Make the Kaiser Dance: Living Memories of a Forgotten War: The American Experience in World War'
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Former chair lady, US Commission on Civil Rights
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(born 11 June 1916) is a New Zealand dendrologist who founded Hackfalls Arboretum at his farm in Tiniroto, Gisborne. The arboretum is now known for having one of the largest collections of Mexican oaks in the world
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WWII Fighter Pilot Ace-5 victories, US Navy, VF-29, flew the n25, snj, f4f wildcat, corsair, and f6f hellcat
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Supercentenarian Born 1907
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WWII: Last living survivor of the sinking of the SS Arandora Star, 2 July 1940
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Italian World War One Veteran.
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2nd fastest eater in the world....guiness world record holder
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WWII: 14th Armored Division, Company B Mortar Squad; he fought in the ETO, capturing a succession of small towns in France and into the Italian mountains. He was injured three times
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American chemist was awarded one third of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly with Morten P. Meldal and Karl Barry Sharpless, 'for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry'
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Canada's oldest person Born 1891
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Bocks Car Crew, RCM Observer, WW II, Nagasaki
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French supercentenarian born 1898
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WWII: Battle for Tarawa
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WWII: B-17 pilot, 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. 28 missions from June to August 1944, most in 'Little Miss Mischief' (B-17 42-97880), including France, Munich, Merseburg, Brandenburg, Peenemunde
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American Model - Miss America 1951. Accomplished Opera Singer, Political Activist, And Lecturer; her refusal to pose in a swimsuit inspired the pageant's sponsor to create the rival Miss USA pageant
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nobel physics laureate 1967 helped develop a-bomb
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'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker'
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Former director of Naval Criminal Investigative Service AKA NCIS/With NCIS, Betro served as the Special Agent Afloat aboard the USS John F. Kennedy as well as the USS Enterprise/Did cameo on long running TV series NCIS
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Fighter Ace - Korean War - (5 Victs)- USAF
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Berlin Air Lift 1948; Brigadier General Betinger was one of those planning and supervising the Air Lift
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army general
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American poet, memoirist, and teacher. As a result of a carjacking he committed at the age of 16, he was sentenced to over 8 yrs in prison. He has since gone on to author several award-winning works
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WWII: Battle of Midway (June 1942), USS Yorktown (CV-5, 'Fighting Lady'). Severely wounded during the battle. Later, he served on the submarines USS Bashaw and USS Sea Robin
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American physicist. He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Stefan Hell and William E. Moerner.[
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Witness to the JFK assassination, took several pictures of the scene
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Geneticist/Nobel prize Winner
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U-2, SR-71 pilot
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Civil rights leader
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Fox News military analyst
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WWII U.S. Navy quartermaster - served on the USS Bowfin (SS-287)
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WWII Fighter Ace (9 Kills) - Ace in a Day - Flew P-51's - USAAF, 376th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group, 8th Air Force (Europe)
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WWII Pearl Harbor survivor
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American space tourist. Half-brother of Jeff Bezos, with whom he flew to the edge of space (suborbital flight) as part of the Blue Origin NS-16 mission on July 20, 2021
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Is a centenarian and an Indian film singer, actor in Malayalam cinema. Known for over 12 films
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Co-Creator of Universal Serial Bus (USB) Technology
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American serial killer. Bianchi and his cousin Angelo Buono, Jr., together are known as the Hillside Stranglers
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NASA - The artist who did the mission logos for the Mercury missions "Friendship 7" (Glenn), "Aurora 7" (Carpenter) and "Sigma" (Schirra); first and only woman to ascend the launch gantry and go inside the room that surrounded the vehicle
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Recruited by John Glenn to design and hand-paint the insignia on the outside of his Mercury spacecraft
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Archaeologist and Historian, Professor of Mediaeval Archaeology, Oxford University.
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Medal of Honor recipient, France, WWII
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Army
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Daughter of president Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden
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Survivor of 1944 Hartford Circus Fire
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First aid tech working Police headquarters 11/24/1963, 1st to examine Lee Harvey Oswald after was shot. After riding in an ambulance with Oswald to Parkland Hospital, returned to police headquarters conducted examination of Jack Ruby
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Real brother of Bielski partisans. Last living Bielski brother from WWII
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WWII: 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. The Ghost Army deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there
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WWII Luftwaffe Recipient of the Knights Cross
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WWII - tail-gunner on the 'Necessary Evil', the nickname of the B-29 Superfortress that accompanied the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, USS Helena. Served on the USS Helena from Pearl until the Battle of Kula Gulf (1943), when she was sunk by Japanese torpedoes, fighting, a.o., in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Cape Esperance
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astrologist (jacqueline bigar's stars)
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French military officer who fought in the Indochina war. Born: 02/14/1916
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WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the SS Leopoldville on December 24, 1944
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American Businessman and Aerospace Engineer
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Dallas police officer in '63 testified to the Warren Commission about Oswald seen driving Jack Ruby's car
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Tuskegee Airmen, flew the b-25, b-29, b-52, b-24, b-50, b-17, b-47
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Brains behind the 'Great Train Robbery'
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navy admiral
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WWII Veteran From Williamsville, New York. Good Conduct Medal, a European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 2 bronze service stars, a World War II Victory Medal, an Honorable Service Lapel and a Sharpshooter Badge with Rifle Bar
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WWII: Living in the Polish town Zdrowa, Bik witnessed the first attack on the Westerplatte peninsula. He escaped 2 forced labor camps, and was sent to the Gross-Rosen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps before his 1945 liberation
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Professor - Department of Archaeology at The University of Oslo
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WWII - Navajo Code Talker, participated in Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa
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US WWII Army bomber pilot/OSS vet, born 1923.14 missions in Europe, then transferred to an OSS cover unit in Italy. Dropped OSS agents and spies in various areas, including flights turned down by the RAF as too risky. Still flying at 97
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WWII - Pacific. 4th Marine Division. Fought in the battles of Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima
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libraian of congress writer historian
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Flight (scientist) von braun rocket team
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WW2 fighter ace - 5 Kills - US Navy
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WWII: Corporal in Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, who survived the Malmedy Massacre on 17 December 1944
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Malaysian Cosmonaut, Soyuz TMA-11
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Founder of al-Quada
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Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at woodstock
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American author, playwright, poet and feminist activist. She is the eldest daughter of Barry Bingham, Sr., patriarch of the Bingham family of Louisville, KY which dominated the news media of the city and state for most of the 20th century
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Military
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Civilian Astronaut, Space Ship One pilot
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nobel physics laureat 1986 scanning microscope
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'Doolittle Raiders 'Bombardier Crew #11'
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writer social activist
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Inventor - The first reliable, low-cost, mass produced respirator
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John Bird (2)Navy Admiral
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Pallbearer for JFK Funeral
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Australian Aviation Pioneer
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Congresstional Medal of Honor and former Cherokee Nation Supreme Court justice
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Holocaust survivor, writer, poet, translator and activist
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Honolulu
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Test pilot
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Flight (aviator) 1965 group 4 astronaut candidate
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Pearl Harbor Survivor, Civillian Witness to the Attack
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Indian-Swiss spokesperson
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In 1995, he and the organisation were awarded the Right Livelihood Award 'for their resolute defence of Hungary's Roma minority and effective efforts to aid their self-development.'
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Italian flying ace of WWII
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WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island
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Frank E. Birtciel was a fighter pilot assigned to the 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force during World War II
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Italian World War 1 Veteran Born: 10/07/1900 Lives in Dignano, Italy
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Austrian World War One Veteran
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Commander 509th Bomb Wing
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Leading canadian ace in WW1. shot down 72 planes
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nobel medicine laureate 1989
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Jerry Bishop (2)Vietnam veteran. Flew Boeing B-52 Bomber planes and survived over 100 combat missions
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WWII veteran WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot)Flew the b-24
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U.S.District Judge Western District Of Pennsylvania
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WWII - D-Day, 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One), 16th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, Omaha Beach. Mr. Bistrica actually is pictured in one of the most iconic photographs of the war
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WW II Veteran; survivor of the USS Indianapolis disaster
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American serial killer who, in 1979, kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered five young women over a period of five months. He committed his crimes in California with the help of his accomplice, Roy Norris
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Vestal
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NASA - Chief Engineer at the Armstrong Flight Research Center
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Danish WWII veteran. Part of the battalion that was immediately dispatched when German invasion looks imminent
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Dutch Astronomer. Born: 04/12/1914
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Ph.D., founded the Eleanor Roosevelt Project and chairs its advisory board. She is a director of the Roosevelt Instititue, human rights chair of the No Limits Foundation, Research Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington Univers
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One of the children saved by Nicholas Winton in the 'Kindertransport' before WWII broke out
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(Born 1933) Air Force Korean War Veteran. K2 Korea
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She sewed the US flag, what was brought from Neil Armstrong with the Apollo mission and was flaged on the moon
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Korean War veteran
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James Black (3) Scottish Nobel laureate who pioneered the rational design of drugs and, in the process, developed the first widely used drugs for treating heart disease and blocking stomach acid production
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nobel medicine laureate 1988
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Known as Sir Jeremy Black, a British Royal Navy admiral who served as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command from 1989 to 1991
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Joseph Black (2) WWII: ETO. 57th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force
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Attorney and author whose husband spent almost seven years as a Prisoner of War in Vietnam
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Aviator test pilot during the Korean War
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Bill Blackburn (2) Flying Tiger-crew chief
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Nobel Prize 2009 of Medicine
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WWII - US Fighter Ace, 11 victories, of the Jolly Rogers, VF-17 Squadron; Pacific Theater
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guinness world record holder for the longest time aloft for paper airplanes -27.6 seconds
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WWII: Battle of Midway
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'Courageous Eight' member who registered black voters in Selma in the 50s-60s. All others are verified passed, but can't find much information on Mr. Blackmon. Possibly/plausibly deceased
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March' a riveting story about a teenager during the Civil Rights Movement and more specifically during the march From Selma, Alabama to Montgomery
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Born 1925, Blackwell served in the U.S. Navy from 1943-1946 during WWII. He later became a maritime administrator in 1969. In 1971 Blackwell became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs
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She is the Launch Director for the Artemis I mission
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Retired USMC General
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WWII veteran wo went on to become a songwriter whose credits include two songs recorded by Elvis (Give me the right' and 'Put the blame on me'),
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Astronaut
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NASA astronaut (retired) STS 29,33,43,58 79/81
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JFK - Wife of former US Ambassador to Denmark, William Blar; they met President Kennedy on 11 April 1961 at the White House
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Dennis Blair (3)Dennis Cutler Blair (born February 4, 1947) is the former United States Director of National Intelligence and is a retired United States Navy admiral who was the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific region
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Don Blair (2) WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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91 year old Guinness Record Holder for Water Skiing. Born: 01/22/1915
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WWII: UK pilot, Squadron Leader, DFM (Distinguished Flying Medal). Was the RAF's World War poster boy. Currently lives in Brentwood, Essex
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Lead Prosecutor for the 1980 Murder trial against serial killer Ted Bundy for the murder of Kimberly Leach. Ted Bundy was found guilty and sentenced to death
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WWII Fighter Pilot Aviation Ace (WWII-5 Kills) US Navy, VF-2/10
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Is an African American civil rights activist who was one of the Greensboro Four. On February 1, 1960, they sat down at a segregated lunch counter in the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's store, challenging the store's policy on segregation. This eve
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Former British spy known for having been a double agent in the service of the Soviet Union. Discovered in 1961 and sentenced to 42 years in prison, he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966 and fled to the USSR
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WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941. US Army, Fort Kamehameha
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Survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941aboard the USS St. Louis and went on to earn Navy combat stars in Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal and Luzon
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WWII Pilot Ace-- Flew Spifires and Mustangs-[14.5 victories]
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Fighter Pilot Ace during WWII[flew the P-51 Mustang]
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House Select Committee on Assassinations Chief Counsel/Law Professor/Author: wrote a best-selling book on the Kennedy assassination; Authored the 1970 RICO Act;
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Federal Aviation Administrator (2002-present)
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WWII: D-Day paratrooper, 82nd Airborne. Also Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge
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Missouri woman who is serving ten years in prison after murdering her mother who forced her to portray herself as terminally ill for years,
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WWII: Fighter pilot with the 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group
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Survivor, expert, activist and one of the country?s pre-eminent voices on the subject of bullying. She is the author of The New York Times bestselling memoir, Please Stop Laughing At Me? One Woman?s Inspirational Story
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Civil rights activist, born 1952. 'Bloody Sunday' and the Selma March to Montgomery, co-founder of the Voting Rights Museum in Selma
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US WWII veteran, saw action in the Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima, b. 1924
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WWII: D-Day Invasion, Medic, 326th Medical Battalion, 101st Airborne Division; also in the Battle of the Bulge and Bastogne and witness to General McAuliffes' famous 'Nuts' quote; Operation Market Garden and served all the way to Berchtesgaden
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One of the UK's oldest people (Born: 1914) and a survivor of the '1918 flu pandemic' a.k.a Spanish Flu. She is now 102 and lives in Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK
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American political analyst who served as press secretary for Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and as a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group
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USS Pueblo
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Criminal: Convicted in 2001 of murder for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.The bombing killed four young African-American girls. Blanton was thirty-three years old at the time of the bombing.
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YouTube star who started in 2005 and activist for the LGBTQ+ community (Born 1990)
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Director and Head of Talent at Schmidt Futures. Served 5 years as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps. Serves on the board of Operation Gratitude. Co-author of Union: A Democrat, a Republican, & a Search for Common Ground
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Explorer
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US fashion designer. He was a member of the Ghost Army in WWII
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Navajo Code Talker 5th Marine Division (Born 1917)
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WWII: D-Day, landed on eastern half of Omaha Beach, 6:30 AM, June 6, 1944, with the 1st Infantry Division. Before Normandy, he fought in the Tunisian campaign in North Africa, and was a part of the invasion of Sicily, in 1943
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Episcopal priest who was special assistant for religious affairs to D.C. mayors Marion Barry and Sharon Pratt Kelly. Blaxton wrote articles for publications and spoke at conferences on a variety of subjects
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medal of honor arme korean war
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Photojournalist, (1935-2021). UPI Movietone News, filmed Lee Harvey Oswald shooting. Later with CBS, covered Chicago 1968 Dem. Convention riots, Nixon, Tiananman Square, and was Charles Kuralt's On The Road cameraman
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President Texas NAACP/ties enabled him to make substantial changes, which include his handling of racial discrimination complaints against the Austin DPS that dismantled racial barriers that prevented minorities from becoming Texas Rangers
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U.S. Marines 1942-1945. Landed on Guam in 1944 with the 3rd Marine Division
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(Born 1921) USAAF WW2 Veteran. 487th Fighter Squadron of the 352nd Fighter Group in England from July 1943 to August 1945
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Korean War Ace - USAF - 10 Kills - DSC, P-40, P-47, P-51 Mustang, P-80, F-86, F-100, F-102, A-7, F-104, F-106, F-4, and F-111
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WWII: ETO. Battle of the Bulge. Rifleman, 4th Infantry Division
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Ww 2 air ace '10 Vic's' - USAAF - DSC
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(Born 29 August 1916) Norwegian military officer, known for his resistance work during World War II
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Time Team Pottery Specialist
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WWII: His 28-year Air Force career included piloting 25 B-17 missions out of England in WW II, and working at the Pentagon and Boeing Aircraft
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Nanette Konig-Blitz (born 6 April 1929) is a Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivor and former classmate of Anne Frank. She has lived in São Paulo, Brazil since 1953
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1999 nobel laureate for physiology/medicine
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American Sex Therapist, Author, Filmmaker, Cable TV Talk Show Host, And Cultural Commentator
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WWII: Survivor of the disastrous PQ 17 Arctic Convoy, July 1942
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nobel physics lauireate 1981
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WWII: PTO. Radar Technician aboard the USS Enterprise
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WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
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Astronaut
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Director, Holocaust Memorial Museum
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American WWII - Radioman And Gunner In VT-11 (Torpedo Squadron, Sister Squadron Of The Famous Sundowners) Of Carrier Air Wing Eleven (Pacific Theater)
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Retired USMC General
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Inventer. Many of her inventions helped person's with disabilities. Born: 11/24/1914
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American journalist, commentator, and op-ed columnist for The New York Times. In April 2021 Blow began hosting Prime with Charles M. Blow, a primetime show on the Black News Channel
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Iran Hostage Crisis/Economics Officer Specializing in Oil
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U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Team
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WWII: 603rd Engineers Camouflage Division, The Ghost Army used inflatable rubber tanks, wooden guns, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy
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America's first african american astronaut. STS-8 , STS-39, STS-53 , STS-61
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USS Indianapolis Survivor
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Invented Lasik Surgery Technique; Inventor Hall of Fame inductee
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Walter Blum (2)WW2/D-Day Army among 1st to face cannon & machine-gun fire awaited on beaches of Normandy/Member amphibious 1st Engineer Special Brigade sent in to clear lanes through obstructions & lay wire-mesh roadbeds, allowing tanks & troops to beach
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Scientist. Nobel Prize in Medicine 1976. Identified Hepatitis B virus & developed the diagnostic test & vaccine for it. Professor of Medicine & Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania since 1977
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Holocaust Survivor, survived three different Death Camps (Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen), Participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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Canadian Businessman & Philanthropist
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WWII - Survivor of the sinking of the USS Quincy (CA-39) in the Battle Of Savo Island, 9 August 1943
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German politican
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Fighter ace born 12 /25/1921
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Criminal Defense Attorney Featured On Fox News
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German Luftwaffe ace of WWII, 60 victories
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Known for a 1993 incident in which his wife severed a portion of his penis with a kitchen knife; John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut (1994), Frankenpenis (1996)
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American Astronaut; STS-6, STS-51-D, STS-51-J
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Soviet secret serviceman, former leader of the KGB police forces
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WWII: PTO. Navy corpsman. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawa
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(born November 15, 1918 in Sassari, Sardinia) is an Italian sculptor, painter, and academic. Bocchetta was a member of the anti-fascist Italian resistance movement during World War II
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WWII. ETO: He took part in the retreating fights in France in the summer of 1940, and then joined the RAF, 312 Squadron. 26 operational flights. Last surviving Czech WWII pilot
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Soviet machine gunner, Fought in battles of Moscow and Stalingrad during WW2. Currently lives in Philadelphia, PA
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WWII flying ace with the 357th scored 14 kills which included two of the new ME 262's
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WW11 Pilot
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chief test pilot (b-1)
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JFK - A post-assassination witness on Nov, 22, 1963, he was standing at Stemmons Freeway near the Hi-Line Drive exit and, not knowing Kennedy had been shot, watched the motorcade race by
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vietnam war air force hero
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WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor; Army Air Corps, 804th Engineer Aviation Battalion, Bugle Master. Turned down an offer to spend the night of 6th to 7th Dec on the Arizona which most probably saved his life
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WWII: USMC. Battle of Bougainville, Battle of Iwo Jima
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Israeli flying ace, pilot
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Holocaust survivor: 'Mengele twin' in Auschwitz, went on widely publicized journey to find his birth relatives
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astronaut
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Author of FIRST SEAL - Founder of the US Navy SEALs
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Former Waffen-SS member
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German WWII Fighter Ace
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Military
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astronaut
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Inventor of the board game Words from Words
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German ww2 pilot
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Military
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WWII: PTO. 112th Calvary Regiment Of The Texas Army National Guard. Battle of Driniumor River (10 July ? 25 August 1944) of the Western New Guinea campaign. Battle of Leyte, Batttle of Luzon
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Writer, Civil Right Activist. Born: 06/27/1915
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Activist, Writer. Born 1918; Was the first lady of Costa Rica during President Jose Figueres Ferrer first term. After divorcing him she moved back to the United States. Is the subject of the documentary Married to the Revolution,
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John Clifton 'Jack' Bogle is the founder and retired CEO of The Vanguard Group
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WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
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'Born 1913' Captain, fighter pilot, test pilot on the Me-163 and Squadron Commander of 2./JG 400.
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Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo
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WWII: PTO. 509th Composite Group
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nobel physics 1975
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Oldest Man in France born 1910. WW2 veteran of the Free Corps
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WWII: PTO. B-17 tail-gunner
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Mountain climber
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American lawyer and educator
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Born 1919, Bokhary served in the British Indian Army for four years as a logistics expert, and came to Hong Kong with the army on the first British ship after the surrender of Japan ended the occupation of Hong Kong. He became a businessman
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WWII: ETO. Army Air Corps, 99th Bomb Group, 247th Squadron. 51 missions
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WWI British Commonwealth One of the last female veterans of that war
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Doctor at Parkland Memorial in 1963 who provided care for Governor Connolly
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Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Bolcar was born in 1917. He served in the Eighth U.S. Army Air Corps, 702nd Bomb Squadron, 445th Bombardier Group during WW2
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Author; former US Secret Service agent - the first African-American Secret Service agent assigned to the Presidential Protective Division, appointed by John F. Kennedy in 1961
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Astronaut - Former NASA Administrator
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Oldest Person in the World /Born : 1890 - Deceased 2006
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Officer in the German Army (Wehrmacht Heer) who wrote about his experiences during World War II
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WW2 fighter ace- Served aboard the USS Randolph from 2/16/1945-5/14/1945 as a member of VMF-12 flying the F6F Hellcat. He is officially credited with 5 confirmed victories.
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Retired Brigadier General:The Horse Soldiers
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Retired General
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American author, historian, and retired a lieutenant general of the United States Army
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NASA Exploration Ground Systems Manager. Artemis I
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American Jurist
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US WWII Army vet (1923-2022) Saw action in Normandy, the Rhineland, the Bulge, and at the Remagen Bridge. In his 90s, sketched scenes of his memories of WWII that he donated to charity auctions
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WWiII: Navigator on a B-17 'Wolf Wagon. Flew 30 missions, including 2 missions D-Day. 388th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force
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WWII - Flying Tigers, served a total as 34 years as a figher pilot
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WWII veteran, born 1921. 16th Squ.,16th Bomb Group. Bataan Death March survivor. Author of several books, incl. one on his Bataan experience. POW at Camp O'Donnell, Philippines, later moved to Manchuria; liberated by Russian Army Aug. 1945. Purple Heart
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Tuskegee Airman- Pilot
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WWII U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate - served aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). Witnessed the formal surrender of Japan
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WWII/Korea - Black Sheep Squadron; 12 victories
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Former Georgia State Attorney General 1965-81
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Test pilot
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Scientist
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WWII: Merchant seaman in the 'Murmansk runs' of World War II
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WW 2 fighter ace, 5 kills
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Former NASA pilot - F/A-18, F-15, F-15 ACTIVE, T-38, DC-8, T-34C, King Air, and Predator. Flew F/A-18 in the US Navy. Became VP in Boeing Corp. after leaving NASA
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Centenarian (1900-2002). French immigrant, WWI French Naval vet and WWII French Infantry vet. 1918 Flu survivor who was almost given up for dead on a troop ship
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WWII: PTO. Battle of Tarawa. Motor machinist mate 2nd class, USS Sheridan (APA-51)
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Danish Resistance Fighter. Born 03/08/1912. Lives in Charlottenlund
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WWII: PTO. USMC, 12th Defense Battalion. Battle of Peleliu
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Born In Singapore, English Female Socialite, International Adventurer And Activist, Who Came To Prominence After Climbing The Summit Of Mount Everest On 15 May 2004, Making Her The Fourth British Woman To Do So. Awarded OBE in 2006
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WWII - 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, Easy Company. As an Easy member he is one of the 'Band of Brothers'
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air force general
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Took photographs during the Kennedy motorcade in Dallas on Nov.22 , 1963 . Later testified during trial of Clay Shaw
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Member of the famed ''Flying Tigers'' before and during WWII, a Major General, Ace (9 victories)
