List of notable surviving veterans of World War II
This is a list of notable surviving veterans of World War II (1939–1945).
List
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Veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fortunato Abat |
Politician, diplomat, general |
Philippine Commonwealth Army |
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Henry Abraham |
Academic |
US Army |
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S. Daniel Abraham |
Businessman, philanthropist |
US Army |
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David Campion Acheson |
Lawyer, government official |
US Navy |
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Anatoliy Achkasov |
Hero of the Soviet Union |
Red Army |
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Robert Adair |
Physicist, sportswriter |
US Army |
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Theo Adam |
Singer |
Heer |
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Valdas Adamkus |
President of Lithuania |
Lithuanian resistance |
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Lee Adams |
Musician |
US Army |
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Ben Agajanian |
American football player |
US Army |
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Daniel Akaka |
Politician |
US Army |
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Hans Albert |
Philosopher |
Heer |
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Charlie Aldrich |
Musician |
US Navy |
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Frank Allen |
Australian rules football player |
Royal Australian Navy |
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Marshall Allen |
Musician |
US Army |
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Marty Allen |
Comedian |
US Army Air Corps |
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Wolfgang Altenburg |
General |
Kriegsmarine |
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Walter Althammer |
Politician |
Heer |
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Ashot Amatuni |
Soviet Army lieutenant-general; Hero of the Soviet Union |
Red Army |
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Nicholas Amer |
Actor |
Royal Navy |
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Fergus Anckorn |
Magician |
British Army |
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Bud Anderson |
Fighter pilot |
US Army Air Forces |
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Michael Anderson |
Film director |
British Army |
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Richard Lloyd Anderson |
University professor |
US Naval Air Corps |
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William S. Anderson |
president and chairman of the NCR Corporation |
Royal Hong Kong Regiment |
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Mark Andrews |
Politician |
US Army |
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Roger Angell |
Journalist |
US Army |
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Jonas Algirdas Antanaitis |
Politician |
Lithuanian partisans |
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Ray Anthony |
Bandleader and trumpeter |
US Navy |
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Alexandr Antsupov |
Hero of the Soviet Union |
Red Army |
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Joe Arenas |
Football player |
US Army |
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Moshe Arens |
Politician |
US Army |
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George Ariyoshi |
Governor of Hawaii (1974-1986) |
US Army |
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Raymond Armstrong |
Military officer |
South African Air Force |
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Stanisław Aronson |
Order of Polonia Restituta recipient |
Home Army |
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Anatoliy Artemenko |
Soviet Air Force major-general; Hero of the Soviet Union |
Red Army |
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Horace Ashenfelter |
Athlete |
US Army Air Forces |
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Mikhail Ashik |
Soviet Army colonel; Hero of the Soviet Union |
Red Army |
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Vasily Astafyev |
Soviet Army colonel; Hero of the Soviet Union |
Red Army |
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Roy Austen-Smith |
RAF air marshal |
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
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B
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert L. Backman |
Lawyer, politician |
U.S. Army |
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Peter Badie |
Jazz bass guitarist |
US Navy |
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Thomas Baird |
Royal Navy admiral |
Royal Navy |
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Zorawar Chand Bakhshi |
Indian Army officer |
British Indian Army |
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Richard Baker |
Broadcaster & radio personality |
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve |
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Ronald James Baker |
Academic administrator |
Royal Air Force |
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Russell Baker |
Author & columnist |
US Navy Reserve |
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Ken Bald |
Comic book artist |
US Marine Corps |
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Walter Balderson |
Television pioneer |
US Navy |
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Vincent Ball |
Actor |
Royal Australian Air Force |
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John Banks (activist) |
Activist, writer |
British Army |
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Paul Bannai |
Politician |
US Army |
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Russell Bannock |
Aviator & test pilot |
Royal Canadian Air Force |
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Bob Barker |
Game show host |
US Navy |
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Doug Barnard, Jr. |
American politician; Georgia representative (1977–1993) |
US Army |
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Dave Bartholomew |
Musician, songwriter, & music producer |
US Army |
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Harry Basch |
Actor & author |
US Army Air Forces |
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Phil Batt |
29th Governor of Idaho |
US Army Air Forces |
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Former head of Bauer Group |
Heer |
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Herbert Baumann |
Composer |
Heer |
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Hugh Beach |
Army general |
British Army |
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Ed Bearss |
American historian |
US Marine Corps |
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Léonel Beaudoin |
Politician |
Canadian Army |
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Beryl Beaurepaire |
Feminist |
Royal Australian Air Force (Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force) |
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Julius W. Becton, Jr. |
American military officer, former FEMA director |
US Army Air Corps |
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Berkley Bedell |
Politician; Iowa representative (1975–1987) |
US Army |
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Harry Belafonte |
American singer |
US Navy |
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Liri Belishova |
Albanian politician |
National Liberation Movement |
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Wendell Bell |
Futurist |
US Navy |
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V.J. Bella |
American politician |
US Marine Corps |
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Tony Bennett |
Singer |
US Army |
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Roy Bentley |
Football player |
Royal Navy |
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Paul Berg |
Chemist |
US Navy |
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Alan Bergman |
Songwriter |
US Army |
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Conway Berners-Lee |
Mathematician, computer scientist |
British Army |
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Walter Bernstein |
Screenwriter; The Front, Semi-Tough |
US Army |
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Tommy Best |
Football player |
Royal Navy |
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Rasammah Bhupalan |
Social activist |
Indian National Army |
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George Athan Billias |
Historian |
US Air Force |
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Max Bingham |
Politician |
Royal Australian Navy |
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Herbert Binkert |
German football player |
Heer |
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Jens Bjerre |
Author, filmmaker, explorer |
Danish Resistance |
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Benjamin B. Blackburn |
Politician |
US Navy |
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Eric Blackwood |
Aviator |
Royal Canadian Air Force |
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George W. Blair |
Politician |
US Army Air Forces |
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George Blake |
Spy |
Dutch Resistance |
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Henry W. Bloch |
Businessman; co-founded H&R Block tax preparation company |
US Army Air Corps |
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Hans Blohm |
Photographer and author |
Kriegsmarine |
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Hans Blum |
Singer and Songwriter (Henry Valentino) |
Kriegsmarine |
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Robert Bly |
Poet |
US Navy |
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Philipp Bobkov |
First deputy KGB chairman (1985–1991) |
Red Army |
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Vittore Bocchetta |
Sculptor, painter & academic |
Italian Resistance |
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Paul Bocuse |
Chef |
French Army |
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1929 |
Archeologist, author |
Volkssturm |
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Gottfried Böhm |
Architect |
Heer |
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Daoud Bokhary |
c. 1919 |
Businessman |
British Indian Army |
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Vladimir Boltyansky |
Mathematician & educator |
Red Army |
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Yuri Bondarev |
Writer |
Red Army |
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Gianni Bongioanni |
Film director, screenwriter, cinematographer |
Royal Italian Army |
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John Tyler Bonner |
Educator |
US Army Air Corps |
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George Boscawen, 9th Viscount Falmouth |
British hereditary peer, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (1977-1994) |
British Army |
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Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma |
French businessman; prince of the House of Bourbon-Parma |
US Army |
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Cliff Bourland |
Olympic sprinter |
US Navy |
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Scotty Bowers |
Author |
US Marine Corps |
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Alan Stephenson Boyd |
Government official; Secretary of Transportation (1967–1969) |
US Army Air Forces |
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Cloyd Boyer |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
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Petr Braiko |
Hero of the Soviet Union |
Soviet partisans |
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Edwin Bramall |
Field Marshal |
British Army |
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Eric Bransby |
Artist |
US Army |
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Lewis M. Branscomb |
Scientist |
US Navy |
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T. Berry Brazelton |
Pediatrician, columnist, and television host |
US Navy |
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David Briggs |
1917 |
Headmaster of King's College School, Cambridge |
British Army (medic) |
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Tony Britton |
Actor |
British Army |
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Ivor Broadis |
Football player |
Royal Air Force |
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Hugo Broch |
World War II flying ace |
Luftwaffe |
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Manuel Bromberg |
Artist, professor |
US Army |
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William Broomfield |
Politician; Michigan representative (1957–1993) |
US Army Air Corps |
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Mel Brooks |
Director, actor, producer |
US Army, Corporal, Battle of the Bulge |
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Bobby Brown |
Football player |
Royal Navy |
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Bobby Brown |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
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Bud Brown |
Politician |
US Navy |
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Jim Brown |
Sportsman, politician |
Royal Australian Air Force |
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June Brown |
Actress |
Royal Navy |
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Ronald Brown |
Bishop |
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve |
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Mervyn Brown |
Diplomat, historian |
British Army |
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Stephen Brown |
Judge |
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve |
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Andrew Bruce |
11th Earl of Elgin |
British Army, Scots Guards |
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Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury |
British peer, businessman |
British Army |
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Günter de Bruyn |
German Author |
Wehrmacht |
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Ashley Bryan |
Children's book writer & illustrator; Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum |
US Army |
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Arthur E. Bryson |
Control theorist |
US Navy |
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James L. Buckley |
Politician; New York senator (1971–1977) |
US Navy |
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Carl Olaf Bue Jr. |
Federal judge |
US Army |
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Ken Buehler |
National Basketball Association Player |
US Navy |
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Veljko Bulajić |
Film director |
Partisans |
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Romus Burgin |
Author |
US Marine Corps |
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Jack Burke, Jr. |
PGA professional golfer |
US Marine Corps |
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Charles Burrell |
1920 |
Musician |
US Navy |
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Alexander Butterfield |
Military officer |
US Army Air Forces |
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George H. W. Bush |
41st U.S. President |
US Navy, Lieutenant |
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Brendan Byrne |
Politician; governor of New Jersey (1974–1982) |
US Army Air Corps |
C
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Emil Cadkin |
Film score composer |
US Army Air Forces |
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Fred Caligiuri |
Baseball player |
US Army |
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Arnold Callin |
Manx politician |
Royal Navy |
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William G. Callow |
Judge |
US Marine Corps |
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Thomas D. Calnan |
Author, prisoner-of-war |
Royal Air Force |
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Joseph Campanella |
Actor |
US Navy |
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E. S. Campbell |
Survivor of the sinking of the SS Henry Bacon, author |
US Merchant Marine |
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Mortimer Caplin |
Tax attorney, educator, and IRS Commissioner (1961–1964) |
US Navy |
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Robert Cardenas |
General |
US Army Air Forces |
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Eric Carle |
Children's author & illustrator |
Dug trenches on the Siegfried Line |
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Lou Carnesecca |
Basketball coach |
US Coast Guard |
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William Keir Carr |
Aviator; Canadian Air Forces commander (1975–1978) |
Royal Canadian Air Force |
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Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington |
Politician; Father of the House of Lords (2007–present) |
Grenadier Guards |
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John Carrick |
Politician |
Australian Army |
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Jimmy Carter |
39th U.S. President |
US Navy |
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Desmond Cassidi |
Admiral |
Royal Navy |
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William J. Castagna |
Federal judge |
US Army Air Forces |
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Jean-Gabriel Castel |
1925 |
Law professor |
French Resistance |
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Neus Català |
Ravensbrück concentration camp survivor |
French Resistance |
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Raymond Cauchetier |
Photographer |
French Air Force |
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George Cawkwell |
Academic |
Fiji Infantry Regiment |
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George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil |
Businessman |
Royal Navy |
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Jordan Cekov |
Journalist |
People's Liberation Army of Macedonia |
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Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont |
Historian. U.K. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (1964-1970), senior life peer of the British House of Lords, British Army lieutenant-colonel. |
British Army |
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Robert Foster Chapman |
Federal judge |
US Navy |
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Tony Charmoli |
Choreographer & TV dancer |
US Army Air Forces |
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Eugene Chelyshev |
Indologist & academician |
Red Army |
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Saul Cherniack |
Politician, lawyer |
Canadian Army |
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Don Cherry |
Singer & golfer |
US Army Air Corps |
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J. D. Chesswas |
1919 |
Author, linguist |
British Army |
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Kenneth O. Chilstrom |
Air force officer |
US Army Air Corps |
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Georges-Emmanuel Clancier |
Poet, writer |
French Resistance |
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Edward Clark |
Artist |
US Army Air Forces |
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Ramsey Clark |
66th US Attorney General |
US Marine Corps |
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Marthe Cohn |
Author, spy |
French Army |
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[...] Cole |
Baseball player |
US Army |
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Warrington Colescott |
Artist |
US Army |
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Colin Collindridge |
Football player |
Royal Air Force |
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Ena Collymore-Woodstock |
Solicitor, magastrate |
Auxiliary Territorial Service |
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Don Colo |
American football player |
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Leon Comber |
1921 |
Author |
British Indian Army |
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Forrest Compton |
Actor |
US Army |
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Jim Conacher |
Hockey player |
Canadian Army |
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Clint Conatser |
Baseball player |
US Coast Guard |
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Fred Cone |
American football player |
US Army |
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Samuel Conti |
Federal judge |
US Army |
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Charles H. Coolidge |
Soldier; Medal of Honor recipient |
US Army |
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John Thomas Copenhaver, Jr. |
Federal judge |
US Army |
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Anton Coppola |
Opera conductor & composer |
Bandmaster in the US Army |
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Roger Corman |
Filmmaker & actor |
V-12 Navy College Training Program |
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Carl Corley |
Author, illustrator |
US Marine Corps |
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Hugh Cortazzi |
Diplomat, author and Japanologist. British Ambassador to Japan (1980–84), President of the Asiatic Society of Japan (1982–1983), Chairman of the Japan Society of London (1985–95) |
Royal Air Force |
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Mary Cosh |
Journalist, historian, author |
Women's Royal Naval Service |
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Jack Costanzo |
Percussionist |
US Navy |
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John J. Creedon |
Former President and CEO of MetLife |
US Navy |
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Jack Crimian |
Baseball player |
US Army |
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James Cross |
Diplomat, kidnapped during the October Crisis |
British Army |
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John Cruickshank |
Recipient of the Victoria Cross |
British Army |
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Peter Cundall |
Host of Gardening Australia (1969–2008) |
British Army |
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Iris Cummings |
Olympic swimmer, Aviator |
Women Airforce Service Pilots |
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Hugh Cunningham |
Lieutenant general, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operational Requirements) (1976-1978) |
British Army |
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Francis S. Currey |
World War II Medal of Honor recipient |
US Army |
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Jal Cursetji |
Chief of Naval Staff, India (1976–79) |
Royal Indian Navy |
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Patrick Cusick |
1921 |
Civil engineer, city planner |
US Navy |
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Donald L. Custis |
Surgeon General of the United States Navy |
US Navy |
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Zbigniew Czajkowski |
Fencer |
Polish Navy |
D
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Vahe Danielyan |
Soldier, Soviet concentration camp survivor |
Red Army |
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Henry Danton |
Dancer, teacher |
British Army |
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Don Marion Davis |
Actor |
US Army |
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Philip J. Davis |
Mathematician |
US Army Air Forces |
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Bob Dawson |
Football player |
Australian Army |
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John Gunther Dean |
Diplomat |
US Army |
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Billy DeMars |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
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Alfred Dennis |
Politician |
Australian Army |
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Frederick B. Dent |
Politician |
US Navy |
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Vincent DeRosa |
Musician |
US Army Air Corps |
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Gene Derricotte |
American football player |
US Army |
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Louis A. DeSimone |
Bishop |
US Army |
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Richard DeVos |
Businessman, philanthropist |
US Army Air Corps |
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George Dickson |
Football player |
US Army |
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Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby |
British hereditary peer, Lord Lieutenant of Dorset (1984-1999) |
British Army |
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Harrison Dillard |
Track and field athlete |
US Army |
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John Dingell |
Politician |
US Army |
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David Dinkins |
Politician |
US Marine Corps |
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John William Ditter, Jr. |
Federal judge |
US Naval Reserve |
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Neagu Djuvara |
Historian, essayist, philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat. |
Romanian Land Forces |
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Đỗ Mười |
Prime Minister of Vietnam |
Việt Minh |
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Klaus von Dohnanyi |
Politician, First Mayor of Hamburg |
Volkssturm |
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Bob Dole |
US Senator (1969-1996); 1976 Republican vice-presidential nominee; 1996 Republican presidential nominee |
US Army |
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Vladimir Dolgikh |
Political figure |
Red Army |
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Haddon Donald |
Politician |
New Zealand Army |
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Gregor Dorfmeister |
Journalist writer |
Volkssturm |
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Bob Dorough |
Jazz pianist, composer & singer |
US Army |
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Kirk Douglas |
Actor |
US Navy |
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Hugh Downs |
Journalist and TV host |
US Army |
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Keith Doyle |
Politician |
Royal Australian Air Force |
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Nick Drahos |
American football player |
US Army |
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General |
Volkssturm |
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Roy Drinkard |
Businessman |
US Marine Corps |
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Roger Du Boulay |
Diplomat and civil servant |
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
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Richard L. Duchossois |
Sports businessman |
US Army |
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Alene Duerk |
Director of United Services Life Insurance Company |
US Navy |
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Patrick Duffy |
President of the NATO Assembly |
Fleet Air Arm |
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Margot Duhalde |
Pilot |
Air Transport Auxiliary |
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Leo J. Dulacki |
General |
US Marine Corps |
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Charles Duncan, Jr. |
Entrepreneur, statesman, and administrator |
US Army Air Corps |
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David Douglas Duncan |
Photojournalist |
US Marine Corps |
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Winfield Dunn |
Politician; Governor of Tennessee (1971–1975) |
US Navy |
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Author |
Wehrmacht |
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A. Hunter Dupree |
Historian |
US Navy |
E
veterans
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
George J. Eade |
U.S. Air Force General |
US Army Air Corps |
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James Eberle |
Admiral |
Royal Navy |
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John Eden |
Conservative MP, nephew of Anthony Eden |
2nd Gurkha Rifles |
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Allan Edwards |
Cricketer |
Australian Army |
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Edwin Edwards |
Governor of Louisiana (1972–1980, 1984–1988; 1992–1996); congressman from Louisiana (1965-1972) |
US Navy |
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James Francis Edwards |
World War II flying ace |
Royal Canadian Air Force |
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Warren William Eginton |
Federal judge |
US Army |
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John Ehle |
Writer |
US Army |
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Herbert Ehrenberg |
German politician |
Heer |
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Manfred Eigen |
Biophysical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
Heer |
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Eberhard Eimler |
General |
Volkssturm |
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Lawyer |
Heer |
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Larry Eisenberg |
Writer |
US Air Force |
||
Tim Elkington |
Pilot |
Royal Air Force |
||
Princess Elizabeth |
Queen of the Commonwealth Realms |
Colonel-in-Chief, Grenadier Guards and Auxiliary Territorial Service |
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Bump Elliott |
American football player and coach |
US Marine Corps |
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Farmer and author |
Volkssturm |
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Diet Eman |
Author |
Dutch Resistance |
||
William A. Emerson |
Businessman |
US Marine Corps |
||
Robert Engman |
Sculptor |
US Navy |
||
Erhard Eppler |
Politician |
Heer |
||
Shlomo Erell |
1920 |
Commander of the Israeli Navy |
Merchant Navy (United Kingdom) |
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Jerald Ericksen |
Mathematician |
US Navy |
||
Carl Erskine |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
||
Vladimir Etush |
Actor |
Red Army |
||
David Evans |
Politician |
Royal Australian Air Force |
||
David Evans |
Chief of the Air Staff of the RAAF (1982-1985); writer and defense consultant |
Royal Australian Air Force |
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Daniel Evans |
Military officer |
Royal Air Force |
||
Daniel J. Evans |
Politician; 16th Governor of Washington (1965-1977) |
US Navy |
||
Charles Evers |
Civil rights activist |
US Army |
||
Douglas Everett |
Senator and lawyer |
Royal Canadian Navy |
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Author |
Volkssturm |
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Anthony Eyton |
Artist |
British Army |
F
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Max Falkenstien |
Sports announcer |
US Army Air Corps |
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Hungariologist |
Volkssturm |
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Paul Farnes |
World War II flying ace; one of "The Few" surviving pilots of the Battle of Britain |
Royal Air Force |
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Edward L. Feightner |
Rear Admiral |
US Navy Reserve |
||
Victor Feldbrill |
Conductor & violinist |
Royal Canadian Navy |
||
Nicholas Felice |
Politician |
US Army |
||
George E. Felton |
Computer scientist |
Royal Air Force |
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Benjamin B. Ferencz |
Lawyer; last living prosecutor at Nuremberg Trials |
US Army |
||
Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
Poet |
US Navy |
||
Robert H. Ferrell |
Historian |
US Army Air Forces |
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David Ferry |
Poet & professor |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Edward Field |
Poet & author |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Frank Field |
Meteorologist |
US Army Air Forces |
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Nathaniel Fiennes |
British hereditary peer, businessman |
British Army |
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Paul Findley |
Politician; Illinois representative (1961–1983) |
US Navy |
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Bernhard Fisch |
German writer |
Wehrmacht |
||
Oskar Fischer |
Minister of foreign affairs of the German Democratic Republic |
Wehrmacht |
||
Leonard Everett Fisher |
Children's writer & illustrator |
US Army |
||
Ed Fitz Gerald |
Major League baseball player |
US Army |
||
Jimmy Fitzmorris |
Businessman, politician |
US Army |
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Sergio Flamigni |
Politician & writer |
Italian Resistance |
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François Flohic |
Admiral |
Free French Naval Forces |
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James Foort |
Inventor, artist |
Royal Canadian Air Force |
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Jim Forbes |
Politician |
Australian Army |
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Doug Ford |
Golfer |
US Coast Guard |
||
Loretta Ford |
Nurse, Academic |
US Army Air Forces (nurse) |
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Wieland Förster |
Painter and writer |
Volkssturm |
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Maurice Sanford Fox |
Geneticist & molecular biologist |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Sonny Fox |
Television host |
US Army |
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William Frankland |
Immunologist |
British Army |
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John Franzese |
Underboss of the Colombo crime family |
US Army |
||
Donald M. Fraser |
Mayor of Minneapolis (1980–1993) |
US Navy |
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Jesse Freitas Sr. |
Football player |
US Army |
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George Carr Frison |
Archaeologist |
US Navy |
||
Russell Freeburg |
Editor of the Chicago Tribune |
US Army |
||
John P. Fullam |
Judge |
US Naval Reserve |
||
Edward Simons Fulmer |
Knight of the Military William Order |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Andrew Fulton |
Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy (1980-1983) |
Royal Canadian Navy |
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Richard Fulton |
Mayor of Nashville (1975–1987) |
US Navy |
G
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Billy Gabor |
Basketball player |
US Army Air Corps |
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Cornelius Edward Gallagher |
Politician; New Jersey representative (1959–1973) |
US Army |
||
Norman Garbo |
Author & lecturer |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Dave Garcia |
Baseball player & coach |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Makhmut Gareev |
Historian & military scientist |
Red Army |
||
Bernard Garfield |
Bassoonist |
US Army |
||
Stanley Michael Gartler |
Biologist & geneticist |
US Army Air Forces |
||
William H. Gates, Sr. |
Philanthropist and father of Bill Gates |
US Army |
||
Philippe de Gaulle |
Inspector General, Senator and son of leader Charles De Gaulle |
Free French Naval Forces |
||
Theodore H. Geballe |
Physicist |
US Army |
||
Milton Gendel |
Photographer |
US Army |
||
James George |
Diplomat |
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve |
||
Tuomas Gerdt |
Last living recipient of the Mannerheim Cross |
Finnish Army |
||
Former minister (1972-1974); Compagnon de la Libération |
Free French Army |
|||
Jacques Gernet |
Sinologist |
French Expeditionary Corps |
||
Oldest living German veteran of WW2 |
Luftwaffe |
|||
Andrée Geulen-Herscovici |
Member of the Comité de Défense des Juifs, helped rescue almost one thousand Jewish children |
Belgian Resistance |
||
William Gianelli |
Government official |
US Army |
||
Hutton Gibson |
Writer; father of Mel Gibson |
US Army |
||
Roy Gibson |
Aerospace engineer |
British Army |
||
Lewis Gilbert |
Film director |
Royal Air Force |
||
Alastair Gillespie |
Politician |
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve |
||
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
French politician; President of France (1974-1981) |
Free French Army |
||
I. Leo Glasser |
Judge |
US Army |
||
Roy J. Glauber |
Physicist |
US Army |
||
Manolis Glezos |
Politician & writer |
Greek Resistance |
||
Charles Y. Glock |
Sociologist |
US Army |
||
Fred Gloden |
American football player |
US Navy |
||
Bill Gold |
Film poster designer; Yankee Doodle Dandy, Casablanca |
US Army |
||
Harry E. Goldsworthy |
Lieutenant General |
US Army |
||
Wiesław Gołas |
Actor |
Gray Ranks |
||
Alfred T. Goodwin |
Judge; 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (1971–1991) |
US Army |
||
John Goodwin |
Theater publicist |
Royal Navy |
||
Bert I. Gordon |
Film director; Village of the Giants, Empire of the Ants |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Bernard F. Grabowski |
Politician; Connecticut Representative (1965-1967) |
US Army |
||
René Henry Gracida |
Bishop |
Flying Tigers |
||
Henry Graff |
Historian |
US Army |
||
Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet |
British Ambassador to Iraq (1974-1977), British Ambassador to Iran (1979-1980), British Ambassador to North Atlantic Council (1982-1986) |
British Army |
||
Ted Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton |
Politician |
British Army |
||
David E. Grange, Jr. |
General |
US Army |
||
Anatoli Granovsky |
1922 |
Defected NKVD agent, author |
Red Army |
|
Architect |
Wehrmacht |
|||
Henry Gray |
Blues singer & pianist |
US Army |
||
Bill Grayden |
Politician |
Australian Army |
||
Bill Greason |
Baseball player |
US Marine Corps |
||
Martin Greenberg |
Poet, translator |
US Armed Forces |
||
Maurice R. Greenberg |
CEO of American International Group (1967–2005) |
US Army |
||
Shecky Greene |
Comedian |
US Navy |
||
Paul Greengard |
Scientist |
US Navy |
||
John Gridunov |
Cosmonaut |
Soviet Air Force |
||
Stu Griffing |
Olympic rower |
US Army |
||
Oskar Groning |
Soldier & "the accountant of Auschwitz" |
Waffen SS |
||
Werner Grossmann |
Former East German deputy leader of the Ministry of State Security |
Volkssturm |
||
Johnny Groth |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
||
Jacob W. Gruber |
Anthropologist, archaeologist, historian, educator |
US Army |
||
Doris Grumbach |
Writer |
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service |
||
Gu Changsheng |
Academic |
National Revolutionary Army |
||
Frank Joseph Guarini |
Politician; New Jersey Representative (1979-1990) |
US Navy |
||
James Gunn |
Science fiction writer & editor |
US Navy |
||
Cinematographer |
Volkssturm |
|||
Richard K. Guy |
Mathematician |
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
H
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bill Hachten |
Football player |
US Army |
||
George Haigh |
Professional footballer |
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
||
Harber H. Hall |
Politician |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Ralph Hall |
Politician; Texas representative (1981–2015) |
US Navy |
||
Gail Halvorsen |
US Air Force pilot; Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber" |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Eric P. Hamp |
Linguist |
US Army |
||
political caricaturist |
Volkssturm |
|||
William O. Harbach |
Author, television producer and director |
US Coast Guard |
||
William Harbison |
Aviator |
Royal Air Force |
||
Reinhard Hardegen |
U-boat commander |
Kriegsmarine |
||
Chuck Harmon |
Baseball player |
US Army |
||
Sheldon Harnick |
Lyricist (Fiddler on the Roof) |
US Army |
||
Bert J. Harris Jr. |
Politician |
US Army Air Corps |
||
J. F. C. Harrison |
Professor, author |
British Army |
||
Freddie Hart |
Country musician |
US Marine Corps |
||
Wolf C. Hartwig |
Film Producer |
Interpreter, Heer |
||
R. James Harvey |
Politician & jurist |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Karl-Günther von Hase |
German ambassador in London, 1970-1977 |
Heer |
||
Don Hasenmayer |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
||
Harry G. Haskell, Jr. |
Politician; Delaware representative (1957-1959) |
US Coast Guard |
||
Jock Haswell |
1919 |
Author |
British Army |
|
Hau Pei-tsun |
Taiwanese general and politician; Premier of the Republic of China (1990-1993) |
National Revolutionary Army |
||
Chris Haughey |
Baseball player |
US Army |
||
Helmut Hauptmann |
Writer |
Heer |
||
Roy T. Haverkamp |
U.S Ambassador to Grenada (1984-1986) |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Sara Payne Hayden |
1919 |
Aviator |
Women Airforce Service Pilot |
|
Bernice Falk Haydu |
Aviator |
Women Airforce Service Pilot |
||
Bill Hayes |
Actor |
US Naval Air Corps |
||
Anna Mae Hays |
General, Nurse |
US Army |
||
Robert Hébras |
Oradour-sur Glane massacre survivor |
French Resistance |
||
Val Heim |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
||
Bert Hellinger |
Psychotherapist |
German Armed Forces |
||
Paul Hellyer |
Engineer and politician |
Canadian Army |
||
James Hennessy |
Diplomat, prison official |
British Army |
||
Admiral |
Volkssturm |
|||
Laurin L. Henry |
Researcher |
US Navy |
||
Werner Herrmann |
U-Boat commander |
Kriegsmarine |
||
Johnny Hetki |
Baseball player |
US Army |
||
Howard Hibbett |
Translator, Academic |
US Army |
||
Pentland Hick |
Businessman |
British Army |
||
Felicity Hill |
RAF air officer; Director of the Women's Royal Air Force (1966-1969) |
Royal Air Force |
||
Elwood Hillis |
Indiana congressman (1971–1987) |
US Army |
||
Historian |
Volkssturm |
|||
Mike Hoare |
Mercenary |
British Army |
||
Philip H. Hoff |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Hilmar Hoffmann |
Cultural worker |
Heer |
||
Hal Holbrook |
Actor |
US Army |
||
Ernest Hollings |
Politician; South Carolina governor (1959–1963) and senator (1966–2005) |
US Army |
||
Earl Holliman |
Actor |
US Navy |
||
James L. Holloway III |
Navy admiral |
US Navy |
||
A. Linwood Holton, Jr. |
Politician; governor of Virginia (1970–1974) |
US Army |
||
Tony Honoré |
Lawyer, jurist |
British Army |
||
Olivia Hooker |
Psychologist |
US Coast Guard Women's Reserve |
||
Thomas W. Horton |
Pilot |
Royal New Zealand Air Force |
||
János Horváth |
Politician |
Hungarian Resistance |
||
A. E. Hotchner |
Writer |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Amo Houghton |
New York congressman (1987–2005) |
US Marine Corps |
||
Euan Howard |
Politician; 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal |
Royal Navy |
||
Lee Howard |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
||
Michael Howard |
Historian |
British Army |
||
Walter Huddleston |
Politician; Kentucky representative (1973-1985) |
US Army |
||
Harry Hughes |
Politician; 57th Governor of Maryland (1979-1987) |
US Navy |
||
Tom Hughes |
Politician |
Royal Australian Air Force |
||
Johan van Hulst |
Politician |
Dutch Resistance |
||
Edwin Hunt |
Queen's Bargemaster |
British Army |
||
Francis Huré |
Ambassador, writer |
Free French Army |
||
David Hurst |
Actor |
British Army |
||
Earl Hutto |
Florida congressman (1979–1995) |
US Navy |
||
Dayton Hyde |
1925 |
Author |
US Army |
|
Harold Hyman |
American Civil War historian |
US Marine Corps |
||
Hyun Soong-jong |
Prime Minister of South Korea (1992-1993) |
Imperial Japanese Army |
I
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Paul Robert Ignatius |
Government official |
US Navy |
||
Robert F. Inger |
Herpetologist |
US Army Corps of Engineers |
||
Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside |
British hereditary peer |
Royal Navy |
||
Albin F. Irzyk |
General |
US Army |
||
Daniel Ivin |
Writer |
Partisans |
||
Nobuaki Iwatake |
1923 |
Soldier & translator |
Imperial Japanese Army |
J
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Joe M. Jackson |
Air Force Colonel; Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Alex Jarratt |
Chancellor of the University of Birmingham (1983-2002) |
Fleet Air Arm |
||
Fred Jarvis |
General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers (1975-1989) |
British Army |
||
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg |
Luxembourgian ruler (1964–2000) |
British Army |
||
Alexander Jefferson |
Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Edward B. Jelks |
Archaeologist |
US Navy |
||
William A. Jenkins |
Admiral |
US Coast Guard |
||
Richard Jeranian |
Painter, draftsman, lithographer |
French Air Force |
||
Norman Jewison |
Filmmaker |
Royal Canadian Navy |
||
Johnny Johnson |
Last surviving British member of the Dambuster Raids |
Royal Air Force |
||
Merv Johnson |
Politician |
Canadian Army |
||
Bill Johnston |
Golfer |
US Navy |
||
Edmund Jones |
Politician |
US Army |
||
Raymond Jones |
Architect |
Royal Australian Navy |
||
George Joseph |
Founder of Mercury Insurance Group |
US Army |
||
Howie Judson |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
||
James Jungius |
Admiral |
Royal Navy |
||
Alex Jupp |
Politician |
Canadian Army |
K
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rajan Kadiragamar |
1922 |
Admiral |
Royal Ceylon Navy |
|
Otto Kaiser |
Old Testament scholar |
Heer |
||
Bernard Kalb |
Journalist |
US Army |
||
Adolfo Kaminsky |
French World War II resistance fighter |
French Resistance |
||
Stanislaw Kania |
First Secretary of the Polish United Worker's Party |
Polish Resistance |
||
James Karen |
Actor |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Michael Karkoc |
War criminal |
Waffen SS |
||
Bentley Kassal |
Lawyer, politician, judge |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Kashmir Singh Katoch |
Indian military advisor |
British Indian Army |
||
Walter Kaufmann |
Writer |
Australian Army |
||
William J. Keating |
Publisher & politician |
US Navy |
||
Ed Keats |
Admiral |
US Navy |
||
James M. Keck |
General |
US Arm Air Forces |
||
Donald Keene |
Japanologist and translator |
US Navy |
||
Everett A. Kelly |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Donald M. Kendall |
Businessman |
US Navy |
||
Sydney Kentridge |
Lawyer, judge |
South African Army |
||
Asghar Khan |
Aviator & military historian |
British Indian Army |
||
Kim Chol-man |
1918 |
Politician, general |
Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army |
|
Clive King |
Author |
Royal Navy |
||
Elisabeth Kirkby |
Actress, writer, broadcaster |
Auxiliary Territorial Service |
||
Henry Kissinger |
Statesman, Secretary of State (1973–1977), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
US Army |
||
Charles Kittel |
Physicist, professor |
US Navy |
||
Wolfgang Klausewitz |
Zoologist |
Heer |
||
Wilhelm Knabe |
Politician, Founder of the Green Party |
Luftwaffe |
||
Ted Knap |
Journalist |
US Army |
||
Herbert Köfer |
Actor |
Wehrmacht |
||
Joseph P. Kolter |
Politician; Pennsylvania representative (1983-1993) |
US Army |
||
Fred Kornet |
General |
US Army |
||
Sergei Kramarenko |
Air Force officer |
Soviet Air Force |
||
Ken Kranz |
Football player |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Politician |
Volkssturm |
|||
Hardy Krüger |
German actor |
Heer |
||
Larry Kwong |
Hockey player |
Canadian Army |
L
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Max Labovitch |
Hockey player |
Canadian Army |
||
David Lacy-Scott |
Cricketer |
British Indian Army |
||
Robert J. Lagomarsino |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Bruce Laingen |
Diplomat & academic |
US Navy |
||
Archie Lamb |
Diplomat, writer and businessman |
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
||
Frank L. Lambert |
Chemist, professor |
US Army |
||
Jo Lancaster |
Aviator |
Royal Air Force |
||
George W. Landau |
Ambassador |
US Army |
||
Geoffrey Langlands |
Major, educator |
British Army |
|
|
Claude Lanzmann |
Film director |
French Resistance |
||
Lyndon LaRouche |
Economist & perennial presidential candidate |
US Army |
||
I. H. Latif |
Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force |
Royal Indian Air Force |
||
Phyllis Latour |
Legion of Honour recipient, member of the Special Operations Executive |
Women's Auxiliary Air Force |
||
Don C. Laubman |
World War II flying ace |
Royal Canadian Air Force |
||
Paul Laxalt |
American politician; Nevada governor (1967–1971) and senator (1974–1987) |
US Army |
||
Anthony Lazzaro |
Academic |
US Navy |
||
Norman Lear |
Film & television producer; All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Jim Leavelle |
Police detective; Lee Harvey Oswald's escort when shot by Jack Ruby |
US Navy |
||
Peter Le Cheminant |
Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff |
Royal Air Force |
||
Leon M. Lederman |
Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
US Army |
||
Mervyn Lee |
Politician |
Royal Australian Navy |
||
Stan Lee |
Comic book writer; co-created Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and X-Men |
US Army |
||
Lee Teng-hui |
Republic of China (Taiwan) President |
Imperial Japanese Army |
||
Hannie van Leeuwen |
Politician |
Dutch Resistance |
||
George N. Leighton |
Jurist |
US Army |
||
James F. Leonard |
Diplomat |
US Army |
||
Lawrence LeShan |
Psychologist; pioneer of mind-body therapy |
US Army |
||
Anatoli Levitin |
Painter & art educator |
Red Army |
||
Marv Levy |
Football coach |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Bernard Lewis |
Islamic and Middle Eastern historian |
Royal Armoured Corps and Intelligence Corps |
||
Peter Lichtner-Hoyer |
Sportsman & Colonel |
|||
Lawrence Lindemer |
Politician |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Liu Zhenhua |
1921 |
General |
National Revolutionary Army |
|
Baritone |
Wehrmacht |
|||
Hans Lipschis |
Born in Lithuania. Former cook in a concentration camp, accused by SWC of war crimes |
Waffen-SS |
||
Peter Lloyd |
Aviator |
Australian Army |
||
Nina Lobkovskaya |
Sniper |
Red Army |
||
Logie Bruce Lockhart |
Writer, journalist, rugby union footballer |
British Army |
||
Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge |
Writer |
Free France |
||
Georges Loinger |
France Resistance |
Free France |
||
[...] Long |
Politician |
Royal Australian Air Force |
||
Frank LoVuolo |
Football player |
US Army |
||
Douglas Lowe |
RAF air marshal; Chief of Defence Procurement (1982-1983) |
Royal Air Force |
||
Bill Lucas |
Olympic long-distance runner |
Royal Air Force |
||
William R. Lucas |
Fourth director of the Marshall Space Flight Center |
US Navy |
||
Albert Ludwig |
Politician |
Canadian Army |
||
Johnny Lujack |
Football player |
US Navy |
||
Tom Luken |
Ohio congressman (1977–1991) |
US Marine Corps |
||
Ted Luscombe |
Bishop, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (1985-1990) |
British Indian Army |
|
|
Reimar Lüst |
Astrophysicist, director of ESA |
Kriegsmarine |
||
John Lysak |
Olympic canoeist |
US Marine Corps |
M
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alan Brock MacFarlane |
Politician, lawyer, judge |
Royal Canadian Air Force |
||
Pessie Madan |
Chemist, physicist, engineer |
British Indian Army |
||
Dayton S. Mak |
Ambassabor |
US Army |
||
Branko Mamula |
Yugoslav Defense Minister (1982-1988) |
Partisans |
||
George Mandel |
Author |
US Army |
||
Morton Mandel |
Businessman |
US Army |
||
Marion Mann |
Physician, pathologist |
US Army |
||
Robert Mann |
Violinist; Juilliard String Quartet co-founder |
US Army |
||
John Manners |
Cricketer; naval officer |
Royal Navy |
||
Josip Manolić |
Politician; prime minister of the Republic of Croatia (1990–1991) |
Partisans |
||
Leroy J. Manor |
Air Force general |
US Army Air Forces |
||
[...] Manville |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
||
Robert Marchand |
Cyclist |
French Army |
||
Gino Marchetti |
Football player |
US Army |
||
Marc L. Marks |
Politician |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Theologist, author |
Volkssturm |
|||
Karl Heinz Marquardt |
Artist and author |
Heer |
||
John Otho Marsh, Jr. |
Politician |
US Army |
||
Peter Marshall |
TV personality & actor |
US Army |
||
Dewey Martin |
Actor |
US Navy |
||
Mac Martin |
Bluegrass musician |
US Navy |
||
Jaswant Singh Marwah |
Journalist, author |
British Indian Army |
||
Anthony Mason |
Judge; ninth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia |
Royal Australian Air Force |
||
Joe Masteroff |
Playwright |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Robert D. Maxwell |
Soldier, Medal of Honor recipient |
US Army |
||
Kenneth Mayhew |
Knight of the Military William Order |
British Army |
||
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow |
Director-general of UNESCO (1974-1987) |
French Army |
||
Jim McCabe |
Politician |
Australian Army |
||
Les McClements |
Sportsman |
Australian Army |
||
James W. McCord, Jr. |
American politician |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Mike McCormack |
Politician; Washington representative (1971–1981) |
US Army |
||
Lloyd McCuiston |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Charles McGee |
Air Force officer |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Billy McKee |
1921 |
Leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army |
Irish Republican Army |
|
Francis Terry McNamara |
Diplomat |
US Navy |
||
David McNee |
Police officer. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (1977-1982) |
Royal Navy |
||
Henry R. McPhee, Jr. |
Special assistant to President Dwight Eisenhower |
US Navy |
||
Robert D. McWethy |
Submariner, arctic navigator |
US Army |
||
Kirke Mechem |
Composer |
US Army |
||
Howie Meeker |
Hockey player, sports announcer, & politician |
Canadian Army |
||
James Megellas |
Army officer |
US Army |
||
John Melcher |
Politician; Montana representative |
US Army |
||
Joseph Mendenhall |
United States Ambassador to Madagascar (1972-1975) |
US Army |
||
Walter Mengden |
Lawyer & politician |
US Navy |
||
Bill Mercer |
Sportscaster, educator, & author |
US Navy |
||
Sheila Mercier |
Actress |
Women's Auxiliary Air Force |
||
Jan Merlin |
Actor & author |
US Navy |
||
A. L. Mestel |
Pediatric surgeon |
US Navy |
||
Johann Baptist Metz |
Theologian, Professor of Fundamental Theology |
Heer |
||
Harald Metzkes |
German painter |
Heer |
||
Ed Mickelson |
Baseball player |
US Army Air Forces |
||
J. William Middendorf II |
Diplomat & politician |
US Navy |
||
Larry Miggins |
Baseball player |
US Merchant Marine |
||
Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina |
Order of Lenin recipient |
Soviet Navy |
||
Bob Miller |
Baseball player |
US Army |
||
R. Burnett Miller |
Mayor of Sacramento, California |
US Army |
||
Frank Miller |
Singer |
US Army |
||
Jim Miller |
Australian rules football player |
Australian Army |
||
John Millett |
Poet, editor |
Royal Australian Air Force |
||
William Milliken |
Governor of Michigan (1969–1983) |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Newton N. Minow |
FCC chairman (1961–1963) |
US Army |
||
Wataru Misaka |
Basketball player |
US Army |
||
Wayne Mixson |
Politician; Florida governor (1987) |
US Navy |
||
Hiroshi H. Miyamura |
Soldier |
US Army |
||
Sanford K. Moats |
General |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Hans Modrow |
Prime Minister of East Germany |
Heer |
||
Fenton Mole |
Baseball player |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Dee Molenaar |
Mountaineer, author, artist |
US Coast Guard |
||
Jürgen Moltmann |
Protestant theologian |
Wehrmacht |
||
William Moncrief |
Businessman, billionaire |
US Naval Reserve |
||
Thomas S. Monson |
Religious leader, author and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) |
US Naval Reserve |
||
Henry Moore |
1921 |
Bishop of Cyprus and The Gulf |
British Army |
|
Bobby Morgan |
Baseball player |
US Army |
||
Henry Morgenthau III |
Author |
US Army |
||
Robert M. Morgenthau |
Lawyer; New York County District Attorney (1975–2009) |
US Navy |
||
Shigehiro Mori |
General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1986-1987), Chief of Staff, JASDF (1983-1986) |
Imperial Japanese Army |
||
Edgar Morin |
Philosopher & sociologist |
French Resistance |
||
Jan Morris |
Historian |
British Army |
||
Joseph Wilson Morris |
Lawyer & federal judge |
US Naval Reserve |
||
Milton Morris |
Politician |
Royal Australian Navy |
||
Ben R. Mottelson |
Physicist |
US Navy |
||
John Llewellyn Moxey |
Film and TV director |
British Armed Forces |
||
Mineralogist |
Hitlerjugend |
|||
Henry J. Muller |
1917 |
General |
US Army |
|
Charlie Munger |
Business magnate; vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Walter Munk |
Oceanographer |
US Army |
||
Sumio Murai |
February 1925 |
General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1983-1984), Chief of Staff, JGSDF (1981-1983) |
Imperial Japanese Army |
|
Tomiichi Murayama |
Prime Minister |
Imperial Japanese Army |
||
David H. Murdock |
Billionaire & businessman |
US Army |
||
Tony Murray |
Businessman, billionaire |
French Army |
|
|
Jack Myers |
American football player |
US Navy |
||
Samuel L. Myers Sr. |
Economist |
US Army |
||
N
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Yasuhiro Nakasone |
Prime Minister of Japan (1982-1987) |
Imperial Japanese Navy |
||
Giorgio Napolitano |
11th President of Italy (2006–2015) |
Italian Resistance |
||
Guy Natusch |
Architect |
Royal New Zealand Navy |
||
Author |
Home Army |
|||
John Neale |
Bishop |
British Army |
||
William Joseph Nealon, Jr. |
Federal judge |
US Marine Corps |
||
Wendell Nedderman |
Engineering educator |
US Navy |
||
Lucien N. Nedzi |
Politician |
US Army |
||
Tom Neil |
World War II flying ace |
Royal Air Force |
||
Joan Neiman |
Senator |
Royal Canadian Navy (Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service) |
||
Ira Neimark |
Businessman, author |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Don Newcombe |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
||
John Lang Nichol |
Politician |
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve |
||
Frederick M. Nicholas |
Lawyer |
US Army |
||
[...] Nichols |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Howard Nielson |
Utah congressman (1983–1991) |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Artturi Niemelä |
Homesteader and politician |
Finnish Army |
||
George Nigh |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Ian Nish |
Academic; specialist in Japanese studies |
British Army |
||
Peter L. Nissen |
Aviator and businessman |
Norwegian resistance movement, Royal Norwegian Air Force |
||
Irv Noren |
Baseball player |
US Army |
||
Francis W. Nye |
Air Force general |
US Army Air Forces |
O
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
René de Obaldia |
Playwright & poet |
French Army |
||
Helmut Oberlander |
Ethnic German from Ukraine. Accused of war crimes by SWC |
Heer |
||
Hunter Pitts O'Dell |
Civil rights activist |
US Merchant Marine |
||
Makoto Ogawa |
February 1917 |
Pilot |
Japanese Imperial Army |
|
David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie |
Scottish peer, Lord Chamberlain of the Household |
British Army |
||
Len Okrie |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
||
1924 |
former president of World Association of Home Army Soldiers, Order of Polonia Restituta recipient |
Home Army |
||
Jiro Ono |
Sushi Chef |
Japanese Imperial Army |
||
David Oreck |
Entrepreneur |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Giuseppe Ottaviani |
Masters athlete |
Italian Air Force |
||
Richard Arvin Overton |
Oldest living US veteran of WW2 |
US Army |
P
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Frank D. Padgett |
Judge |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Boris Pahor |
Writer & publicist |
Royal Italian Army |
|
|
Paik Sun-yup |
First four-star general in the South Korean military |
Manchukuo Imperial Army |
||
Owen M. Panner |
Attorney & jurist |
US Army |
||
John Papworth |
1921 |
Clergymen, writer, activist |
British Army |
|
Peter Paret |
Historian |
US Army |
||
Rudolph Pariser |
Physicist & polymer chemist |
US Army |
||
Douglas H. Parker |
Law school professor |
US Navy |
||
Raymond Parkinson |
Psychiatrist & politician |
Royal Canadian Air Force |
||
Johnny Pate |
Bass player & arranger |
US Army; played with the 218th AGF Army Band |
||
Alastair Craig Paterson |
1924 |
Civil engineer |
British Army |
|
John Malcolm Patterson |
Governor of Alabama (1959–1963) |
US Army |
||
Charles C. Pattillo |
Air Force general |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Art Paul |
Graphics designer |
US Army |
||
"Sunshine" Sonny Payne |
Radio presenter |
US Army |
||
Philip Pearlstein |
Modern Realist painter |
US Army |
||
Thomas Pearson |
Army general & officer |
British Army |
||
Robert Newton Peck |
Author |
US Army |
||
Raymond E. Peet |
Admiral |
US Navy |
||
Johnny Peirson |
Hockey player |
Canadian Army |
||
William Merriweather Peña |
Architect |
US Army |
||
Roland Penner |
Politician |
Canadian Army |
||
Edwin Pepping |
Soldier, Easy Company |
US Army |
||
Simon Perchik |
Poet |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Sinologist, Marxist |
Volkssturm |
|||
Nehemiah Persoff |
Actor; Some Like It Hot, Yentl |
US Army |
||
Jack Petchey |
Businessman |
Royal Navy |
||
Prince Philip |
Duke of Edinburgh |
Royal Navy |
||
Leslie Phillips |
Actor |
British Army |
||
Muriel Phillips |
1921 |
Author |
US Army (nurse) |
|
William Phipps |
Actor |
US Navy |
||
Lawrence W. Pierce |
Lawyer & federal judge |
US Army |
||
Derek Piggott |
Aviator & flight instructor |
Royal Air Force |
||
Richard Pipes |
Historian |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Bill Pitman |
Musician |
US Armed Forces |
||
Janko Pleterski |
Politician, diplomat, & historian |
Partisans |
||
Wanda Półtawska |
Subject of medical experiments in Ravensbrück concentration camp, author |
Polish Resistance |
||
Martin Pope |
Physical chemist |
US Armed Forces |
||
Aris Poulianos |
Anthropologist & archaeologist |
Greek People's Liberation Army |
||
Lasse Pöysti |
Actor, director, theatre manager and writer |
Finnish Army |
||
Donald Prell |
Venture capitalist & futurist |
US Army |
||
Robert I. Price |
Admiral |
US Coast Guard |
||
Reg Pugh |
Football player |
British Army |
||
William Pulgram |
1921 |
Architect |
US Army |
|
Alexander Pylcyn |
World War II Order of the Red Banner recipient |
Red Army |
Q
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Al Quie |
Governor of Minnesota (1979–1983) |
US Navy |
R
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Marv Rackley |
American baseball player |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Alfred Radley |
1924 |
Clothing manufacturer |
Royal Navy |
|
Bhisadej Rajani |
Member of the Thai royal family |
British Army |
||
James Ramsden |
Former Member of Parliament (1954-1974), last British Secretary of State for War (1963-64) |
British Army |
||
Georg Ratzinger |
Catholic priest |
Reichsarbeitsdienst & Luftwaffe |
||
Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger |
Pope Benedict XVI, the 265th Pope |
Luftwaffenhelfer |
||
Arthur Ravenel, Jr. |
Politician |
US Marine Corps |
||
Ronald C. Read |
Graph theorist |
Royal Navy |
||
Manuel Real |
Judge |
US Navy Reserve |
||
Thomas Morrow Reavley |
Judge |
US Navy |
||
Hartman Rector, Jr. |
Mormon missionary |
US Navy |
||
Sumner Redstone |
Chairman & CEO of Viacom |
US Army |
||
Ogden R. Reid |
Politician & diplomat; New York Congressman (1963–1975) |
US Army |
||
Carl Reiner |
Film director & actor; TV's Your Show of Shows, The [...] van Dyke Show |
US Army |
||
Keith Remington |
Politician |
Second Australian Imperial Force |
||
Vasily Reshetnikov |
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force |
Soviet Air Forces |
||
Gene Reynolds |
Actor & TV writer, producer, & director |
US Navy |
||
Milton P. Rice |
Politician |
US Navy Reserve |
||
George Barclay Richardson |
Economist |
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve |
||
Fred Richmond |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Madeleine Riffaud |
Poet, journalist, & war correspondent |
French Resistance |
||
Jim Riffey |
Basketball player |
US Army |
||
John Rigas |
CEO of Adelphia (1952–2002) |
US Army |
||
Basil Rigg |
Cricket player |
Australian Army |
||
Fred Risser |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Sidney Rittenberg |
First American to join the Communist Party of China, journalist, consultant, author |
US Army |
||
Owen W. Roberts |
Diplomat |
US Army |
||
Eddie Robinson |
American baseball player, coach, and manager |
US Navy |
||
Lorraine Rodgers |
Pilot |
Women Airforce Service Pilots |
||
Richard Rohmer |
Military writer; Ultimatum |
Royal Canadian Air Force |
||
Heinz Rökker |
World War II flying ace |
Luftwaffe |
||
Charles P. Roland |
Historian |
US Army |
||
Joachim Rønneberg |
Broadcaster |
1st Lt., Norwegian Independent Company 1 |
||
Fred B. Rooney |
Politician |
US Army |
||
Clemens C. J. Roothaan |
Physicist |
Dutch resistance |
||
Clive Rose |
Diplomat |
British Army |
||
Professor of economics |
Heer |
|||
Justus Rosenberg |
1921 |
Professor |
French Resistance |
|
Allen B. Rosenstein |
Systems engineers |
US Navy |
||
Joe Rosenthal |
1921 |
Artist |
Canadian Army |
|
Dovey Johnson Roundtree |
Civil Rights Activist |
US Army |
||
J. Roy Rowland |
Georgia congressman (1981–1995) |
US Army |
||
Mayor of Salzgitter |
Heer |
|||
Gerd Ruge |
German journalist, author and filmmaker |
Heer |
||
Donald Russell |
Author, Academic |
British Army |
||
Jim Russell |
Racing Driver |
Royal Air Force |
||
John Russell |
Olympic equestrian |
US Army |
||
William Russell |
Actor |
Royal Air Force |
||
Robert F. Ruth |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
F. James Rutherford |
Science professor, radar officer |
US Navy |
||
John Ruthven |
Wildlife painter |
US Army |
||
Bob Ryland |
1920 |
Tennis player |
US Army |
S
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alexander Sachal |
Artist |
Red Army |
|
|
John Safer |
Sculptor |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Guy Sajer |
Military writer |
Wehrmacht |
||
Ed Samcoff |
Baseball player |
US Marine Corps |
||
Sangharakshita |
Buddhist teacher & writer |
Royal Signal Corps |
||
Ugo Sansonetti |
Cavalry officer, masters athlete |
Royal Italian Army |
||
Frank Saucier |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
||
Henry Sayler |
Politician |
US Arm Air Forces |
||
Robert H. Scarborough |
Vice Admiral |
US Navy |
||
Norman Scarth |
1925 |
Blogger & political candidate |
Royal Navy |
|
Businessman, former CEO of Krombacher Brauerei |
Wehrmacht |
|||
Art Schallock |
Baseball player |
US Navy |
||
Carl Scheib |
Baseball player |
US Army |
||
Richard Schifter |
Lawyer |
US Army |
||
Rolf Schimpf |
German television actor |
|||
Ambrose Schindler |
American football player |
US Navy |
||
Representative of the Vereinigung Heimatvertriebener Deutscher Studenten |
Volkssturm |
|||
Helmut Schlesinger |
President of the Deutsche Bundesbank |
|||
John R. Schmidhauser |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Wolf Schneider |
Journalist |
Luftwaffe |
||
Red Schoendienst |
Major League baseball player |
US Army |
||
Ray Schofield |
Sportsman |
Royal Australian Air Force |
||
Samuel A. Schreiner Jr. |
Writer |
US Army |
||
Horst Schulze |
Actor and opera singer |
Heer |
||
Member of Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate |
Wehrmacht |
|||
Bernard L. Schwartz |
CEO of Loral Corporation (1972–2006) |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Ted Schwinden |
Politician; Governor of Montana (1976–1980) |
US Army |
||
Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski |
Aviator |
27th Home Army Infantry Division |
||
Vin Scully |
Sportscaster |
US Navy |
||
Author |
Wehrmacht |
|||
Vic Seixas |
Tennis player |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Sen Sōshitsu XV |
Hereditary master of the Urasenke chanoyu school |
Imperial Japanese Navy |
||
Ralph Senensky |
TV director & writer |
US Army |
||
Doc Severinsen |
Trumpeter |
US Army |
||
Whitney North Seymour, Jr. |
Politician |
US Armed Forces |
||
Bobby Shantz |
Baseball player |
US Army |
||
Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples |
British peer |
Women's Auxiliary Air Force |
||
Kendall Shaw |
1924 |
Painter |
US Navy |
|
Art Shay |
Photojournalist |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Jack Sheedy |
Sportsman |
Royal Australian Navy |
||
Thomas D. Shepard |
c. 1925 |
Politician |
US Army |
|
Shep Shepherd |
Musician |
US Army |
||
Harry W. Shlaudeman |
US ambassador to Nicaragua (1990–1992) |
US Marine Corps |
||
Robert G. Shulman |
Biophysicist |
US Navy |
||
George P. Shultz |
60th U.S. Secretary of State (1982-1989) |
US Marine Corps |
||
Władysław Siemaszko |
Author, Lawyer |
Home Army |
||
Charlie Silvera |
Baseball player |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Ed Simons |
Musician, conductor |
US Navy |
||
John K. Singlaub |
Army general |
US Army |
||
Joe Sinnott |
Comic book artist |
US Navy |
||
Arthur Smith |
Football player |
British Army |
||
Gordon A. Smith |
Artist, teacher |
Canadian Army |
||
Helen Smith |
Baseball player |
US Army |
||
Jeffrey G. Smith |
General |
US Army |
||
Neal Edward Smith |
Politician; Iowa representative (1959–1995) |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Walter Smith |
March 1920 |
Director General of the Ordnance Survey |
British Army |
|
William James Lanyon Smith |
Second World War recipient of the Distinguished Service Order; naval officer |
Royal New Zealand Navy |
||
Robert M. Solow |
Economist |
US Army |
||
Gerhard Sommer |
Soldier |
Waffen-SS |
||
Mihai Șora |
Philosopher, writer |
French Resistance |
||
Alexei Sorokin |
Politician & admiral |
Soviet Navy |
||
Cecil Souders |
Football player |
US Navy |
||
Pierre Soulages |
Painter and sculptor |
|||
Robert Hitchcock Spain |
Bishop |
US Navy |
||
Alex Spanos |
Real estate developer, majority owner of the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). |
US Army Air Forces |
||
John Spellman |
Governor of Washington (1981–1985) |
US Navy |
||
Arnold Spielberg |
Electrical engineer |
US Army |
||
Ronald Spiers |
Diplomat; US Ambassador to Pakistan (1981–1983) |
US Navy |
||
Peter Spoden |
Night fighter ace |
Luftwaffe |
||
Richard T. Spooner |
1925 |
Author |
US Marine Corps |
|
Rosemarie Springer |
Olympic equestrian |
Wehrmacht (nurse) |
||
Gus Stager |
c. 1927 |
Swimmer |
US Army |
|
Wilfried Stallknecht |
Architect and designer |
Heer |
||
Jeremiah Stamler |
Cardiologist |
US Army |
||
Janez Stanovnik |
Politician & economist |
Partisans |
||
Deryck Stapleton |
RAF air marshal |
Royal Air Force |
||
Epaminondas Stassinopoulos |
Astrophysicist |
Greek Resistance |
||
Jack Steinberger |
Physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1988) |
US Army |
||
Herb Stempel |
Game show contestant |
US Army |
||
Willis H. Stephens, Sr. |
Politician |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Guy Stern |
Literary scholar |
US Army |
||
Jonathan Sternberg |
Conductor, academic |
US Army |
||
Chuck Stevens |
Baseball player |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Clarence F. Stephens |
Mathematician, professor |
US Navy |
||
John Paul Stevens |
U.S Supreme Court Justice |
US Navy |
||
William Stoltzfus |
Diplomat |
US Naval Air Corps |
||
Galen L. Stone |
Diplomat |
US Army |
||
Larry Storch |
Comedian and Actor; TV's F Troop |
US Navy |
||
Paul Streeten |
Economist, professor |
British Commandos |
||
Thomas James Stretch |
Chaplain, one of the first people to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp |
British Army |
||
Paul Stuffel |
Baseball player |
US Army |
||
John Hale Stutesman |
U.S State Department Consul |
US Army |
||
C. D. Subbaiah |
Fighter pilot, air marshal |
Indian Air Force |
||
J. Denis Summers-Smith |
Ornithologist, Mechanical engineer |
British Army |
||
Jackie Sutton |
Boxer |
Royal Air Force |
||
Grigory Svirsky |
Writer |
Soviet Air Force |
||
John Swinton |
British Army general |
British Army |
T
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gorō Takeda |
General; Chief of the Joint Staff of the JSDF (1979-1981), Chief of Air Staff, JASDF (1978-1979) |
Imperial Japanese Army |
||
Angel Martín Taboas |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico |
US Armed Forces |
||
Cyril Tamplin |
Cricketer |
British Armed Forces |
||
Takuma Tanada |
1919 |
Biologist |
US Army |
|
Jiro Tanaka |
Aircraft & automotive engineer |
Imperial Japanese Army |
||
Endel Taniloo |
After the war survived a Soviet POW camp. Well-known sculptor |
Estonian Legion |
||
Hoyt Patrick Taylor, Jr. |
Politician |
US Army |
||
Maurice Taylor |
Bishop |
British Army |
||
Nicholas Taylor |
Politician, businessman, & geologist |
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve |
||
Robert L. Taylor |
1924 |
Founder & president of Antique Airplane Association |
US Navy |
|
Frédéric Jacques Temple |
Poet, writer |
French Expeditionary Corps |
||
Wayne Terwilliger |
Major League baseball player |
US Marine Corps |
||
Robert E. Thacker |
1918 |
Aviator & test pilot |
US Army Air Forces |
|
Mikis Theodorakis |
Songwriter & composer |
Greek Resistance |
||
Wayne Thiebaud |
Pop art painter |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Ward Thomas |
TV executive |
Royal Air Force |
||
Fletcher Thompson |
Politician & lawyer |
US Army Medical Corps & US Army Air Corps |
||
Tim Thompson |
Major League baseball player |
US Army |
||
Charles Thone |
Politician; governor or Nebraska 1979–1983 |
US Army |
||
Georg von Tiesenhausen |
Rocket scientist |
Member of the "von Braun rocket group" at Peenemünde |
||
John Tillard |
Cricket player |
British Army |
||
Tun Tin |
6th Prime Minister of Burma (1988), general, politician |
Burma Independence Army |
||
Prem Tinsulanonda |
16th Prime Minister of Thailand (1980-1988), politician, Regent of Thailand (2016), general |
Royal Thai Army |
||
Christopher Tolkien |
Editor, novelist, and academic |
Royal Air Force |
||
Dan Tolkowsky |
Commander of the Israeli Air Force |
Royal Air Force |
||
Seymour Topping |
Journalist, professor |
US Army |
||
Fritz Tornow |
Adolf [...]'s personal dog handler, Führerbunker occupant |
Heer |
||
Aldo Tortorella |
Journalist & politician |
Italian Resistance |
||
Zollie Toth |
American football player |
|||
Simon Towneley |
Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (1976-1997) |
British Army |
||
Gilbert R. Tredway |
Historian |
US Army |
||
Cinematographer |
Volkssturm |
|||
Vance Trimble |
Journalist |
US Army |
||
Charley Trippi |
Football player |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Katerina Traykova Nurdžieva |
Activist |
Partisans |
||
John Treacher |
Admiral |
Royal Navy |
||
Joe Turkel |
Actor |
US Army |
||
Ralph Turlington |
Politician |
US Armed Forces |
||
Pete Turnham |
Politician |
US Army |
||
James Wesley Turpin |
c. 1928 |
Founder of Project Concern International, physician, activist |
US Navy |
U
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Yosh Uchida |
Sports businessman, entrepreneur, & engineer |
US Army |
||
Ragnar Ulstein |
Journalist, writer |
Norwegian Army |
||
Brian Urquhart |
Soldier & diplomat |
British Army |
V
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Tony Vaccaro |
Photographer |
US Army |
||
Jean Valentine |
1924 |
Bombe operator |
Royal Navy |
|
Jaakko Valtanen |
General |
Finnish Defence Forces |
||
Donald West VanArtsdalen |
Federal judge |
Canadian Army 1940–42 |
||
Ebert Van Buren |
Football player |
US Army |
||
[...] Van Dyke |
Actor and comedian |
US Army Air Corps |
||
[...] Van Orden |
Admiral |
US Navy |
||
Neil D. Van Sickle |
Air force general |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Morris Venezia |
Survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, eyewitness to gas chambers |
Greek Resistance |
||
Henri Vernes |
Action and science-fiction writer |
|||
George S. Vest |
Diplomat |
US Army |
||
Claude Vigée |
Poet |
French Resistance |
||
Weston E. Vivian |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Hans-Jochen Vogel |
Politician |
Wehrmacht |
||
W
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Henry Waddell |
Artist |
US Army |
||
John Waddy |
Author & military advisor |
British Army |
||
Jim Wade |
American football player |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Clint Walker |
Actor |
US Merchant Marine |
||
Mort Walker |
Comic strip writer & artist; Beetle Bailey |
US Army |
||
Murray Walker |
Formula One motorsport commentator & journalist |
British Army |
||
Martin Walser |
Writer |
Heer |
||
Maxwell "Max" William Ward |
Aviator |
Royal Canadian Air Force |
||
Ellsworth Wareham |
Physician |
Royal Canadian Navy |
||
John Warner |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Neal Watlington |
Major League Baseball player |
US Army |
||
Billy Watson |
Child actor |
US Army |
||
Donald J. Watt |
1918 |
Author |
Australian Army |
|
Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne |
Author, sniper |
Red Army |
||
James H. Weaver |
Politician; Oregon congressman (1975–1987) |
US Navy |
||
Wilse B. Webb |
October 1920 |
psychologist and sleep researcher |
US Army Air Forces |
|
Chick Webster |
Hockey player |
Canadian Army |
||
William H. Webster |
3rd F.B.I. Director, 10th C.I.A. Director and Chairperson of the Homeland Security Advisory Council |
US Navy |
||
Ulrich Wegener |
Counter-[...] expert |
Luftwaffe |
||
1912 |
Wrestler |
Heer |
||
Jack B. Weinstein |
Federal judge |
US Navy |
||
Jimmy Weldon |
Voice actor & ventriloquist |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Geoffrey Wellum |
Author & aviator |
Royal Air Force |
||
Murray Westgate |
Actor |
Royal Canadian Navy |
||
Wally Westlake |
Major League baseball player |
US Coast Guard |
||
Leonard Wexler |
Federal Judge, Eastern District of New York |
US Army |
||
Ralph Weymouth |
Admiral, anti-nuclear weapon activist |
US Navy |
||
Jack Whitaker |
Sportscaster |
US Army |
||
John White |
1924 |
Art historian |
Royal Air Force |
|
G. William Whitehurst |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Architect and professor |
Wehrmacht |
|||
Stephen Wilkinson |
Musician |
Royal Navy |
||
E. J. Williams |
1918 |
Politician |
Canadian Army |
|
Joseph G. Williams |
Musician |
US Army |
||
Hershel W. Williams |
Marine |
US Marine Corps |
||
Stan Williams |
1919 |
Motorcycle racer |
Royal Air Force |
|
Gayraud Wilmore |
Historian, theologian, educator |
US Army |
||
Dennis Wilson |
1920 or 1921 |
Poet |
British Army |
|
Graeme Wilson |
1919 |
Academic, translator |
Royal Navy |
|
William Winegard |
Politician |
Royal Canadian Navy |
||
Charley Winner |
Football player |
US Army Air Forces |
||
William Winter |
Politician; Mississippi governor (1980–1984) |
US Army |
||
Tex Winter |
Basketball coach |
US Navy |
||
Graham Winteringham |
1922 |
Architect |
Royal Navy |
|
Louis Witten |
Theoretical physicist |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Alex Wizbicki |
American football player |
US Marine Corps |
||
Harris Wofford |
Politician |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Dale E. Wolf |
Governor of Delaware (1992-1993) |
US Army |
||
Lester L. Wolff |
US House of Representative member from New York |
US Air Force Auxiliary |
||
Hoy Wong |
Bartender |
US Air Force |
||
Woody Woodbury |
Comedian & actor |
US Marine Corps |
||
Morgan Woodward |
Actor |
US Army Air Corps |
||
Peregrine Worsthorne |
Journalist, writer, & broadcaster |
British Army |
||
Herman Wouk |
Author; The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War |
US Navy |
||
Ken Wright |
Politician |
Royal Australian Air Force |
||
Wu Ningkun |
September 1920 |
Academic |
National Revolutionary Army |
|
Vice President of the Bundestag |
Luftwaffe |
X
veteran
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Xydias |
Auto racing driver |
US Army Air Forces |
Y
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sol Yaged |
Jazz clarinetist |
US Army |
||
Abraham Yakin |
Artist |
Royal Navy |
||
Yang Side |
General, public servant |
National Revolutionary Army |
||
George Yankowski |
Major League baseball player |
US Navy |
||
Eric Yarrow |
Businessman, shipbuilder |
British Army |
||
Dmitry Yazov |
Soviet Union Marshal |
Red Army |
||
Chuck Yeager |
Air Force officer & test pilot; first person to exceed the speed of sound in flight |
US Army Air Forces |
||
Bill Yoast |
1924 |
High school football coach subject of the book and movie Remember the Titans |
US Army Air Forces |
|
Tom York |
TV personality |
US Navy |
||
Jim Youel |
Football player |
US Navy |
||
Patrick Yu |
Lawyer |
British Army |
|
Z
veterans
Veteran |
Birth |
Notability |
Service |
Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Donald Zec |
Journalist |
British Army |
||
Franco Zeffirelli |
Film director and producer; Romeo and Juliet, Jesus of Nazareth |
Italian resistance movement |
|
|
Charles Zentai |
Warrant officer. Accused of war crimes by SWC |
Royal Hungarian Army |
||
Roger H. Zion |
Politician |
US Navy |
||
Ciril Zlobec |
Poet, writer, & journalist |
Partisans |
||
Louis Zorich |
Actor |
US Army |
||
President of World Association of Home Army Soldiers |
Gray Ranks |
See also
- List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars
Notes
Israel and the Philippines were not independent nations during the war. Israel was considered British Palestine. The Philippines was considered The Commonwealth of the Philippines.