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Zivia Lubetkin	Her granddaughter, Roni Zuckerman, became the Israeli Air Force's first female fighter pilot in 2001.
Charles B. McVay III	In October 2000, the United States Congress passed a resolution that Captain McVay's record should reflect that'' he is exonerated for the loss of the USS Indianapolis.''
William H. Rupertus	Major General Rupertus' decorations included : In 1945, the U. S. Navy destroyer was named in his honor.
Timur Apakidze	On July 17, 2001 during an air festival in honor of the 85th anniversary of Naval Aviation Maj. Gen. Apakidze's Su-33 crashed while performing manoeuvres.
Barney M. Giles	Giles stepped outside of established bomber doctrine during World War II to develop long-range capabilities for fighter aircraft Barney McKinney Giles was born on a farm near Mineola, Texas in 1892 to Richard Portlock Giles and Louisa (Read) Giles.
Matthieu Borsboom	Vice admiral Matthieu Borsboom (born 1959) is a Royal Netherlands Navy officer who is Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy, Admiral Benelux, and has served with the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
Theodore Schwan	On May 16, 1877, Lt. Gen. Sheridan directed his brother Lt. Col. Michael V. Sheridan to retrieve the bodies of Custer and his officers.
Oscar Monthan	In these early years of the Army Air Corps (according to the History of the 8th Air Force, July -- December 1948) Lt. Oscar Monthan was known as one of the best and foremost engineers.
James J. Raby	His son, John Raby, also became a Rear Admiral, and was awarded the Navy Cross in 1942 for action in the occupation of French Morocco.
Francisco Montes de Oca y Saucedo	In 1982 he was promoted to the rank of General Brigadier (MC).
Peter Welch	He also frequently introduces and supports legislation to help Vermont veterans, such as the April, 2009 resolution to honor Captain Richard Phillips, a navy captain from Underhill Vermont, who was kidnapped by Somali pirates but returned safely.
Samuel Franklin Cody	Adjacent to Cody's own grave marker is a memorial to his only son, Samuel Franklin Leslie Cody, (father of a son also called S. F. Cody) who joined the Royal Flying Corps and'' fell in action fighting four enemy machines'' in 1917.
Albert T. Harris	She was launched on 16 April 1944, sponsored by Mrs. J. D. Harris, the mother of Lt. (j. g.) Harris, and commissioned on 29 November 1944 at the New York Navy Yard, Lt. Comdr. Sidney King in command.
William Guy Carr	His experiences in the submarine fleet in the First World War became the subject of By Guess and By God (1930), prefaced by his superior, Admiral S. S. Hall of the Submarine Service.
Les Munro	One, postmarked `` Scampton, 17th May 2008'', was signed by the six surviving crew members who flew on the raid, and the other, postmarked `' 617 squadron, Scampton'' was signed by Munro alone.
William H. Strayer	He was one of four men, along with Sergeant John H. Foley, First Sergeant Leroy Vokes and civilian scout William F.'' Buffalo Bill'' Cody, awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action against a Miniconjou Sioux raiding party at the Loupe Fork of the Platte River on April 26, 1872.
John S. McCain, Jr.	John S. McCain, Sr. | John S.'' Slew'' McCain, Sr. and John S.'' Jack'' McCain, Jr. on board a U. S. Navy ship in -LSB- -LSB- Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945.
George Patton IV	In the years after his 1980 retirement, Patton turned an estate owned by his father located north of Boston into the Green Meadows Farm, where he named the fields after Vietnam soldiers who died under his command.
Eric Tindill	He became the oldest living All Black on 8 October 2001, on the death of Ray WIlliams, and was the last surviving All Black who played a Test before World War II.
Robin Olds	General Olds is remembered as the Class Exemplar of the Academy Class of 2011, which had begun Basic Cadet Training, the first step towards becoming Air Force officers, two days before Olds' funeral.
Myra Clark Gaines	At the time they married, the General was known as the `` Hero of Fort Erie'' from his victories in the War of 1812 and celebrated in various states with medals for bravery.
Alexander Patch	Ribbon bar with the list of General Alexander M. Patch ´ s decorations : In August 1945, Patch returned to the United States to take command of the Fourth Army, but he was soon hospitalized with lung problems.
Murray Kane	In 1943, Kane formed The Crew Chiefs Around the same time, his rank was changed to that of Corporal.
Vernon Baker	Baker was the only living black American World War II veteran of the seven belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor when it was bestowed upon him by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Rafael Peralta	On April 24, 2006, William Lansdowne, chief of police for the San Diego Police Department posthumously awarded Sgt. Peralta the honorary title of San Diego police officer for his heroism in Iraq.
Alexander Wilkinson	For these actions, Wilkinson was awarded the George Medal (GM) on 8 July 1941, as was the Royal Engineer officer, Major Arthur Henry Musgrave Norris who subsequently cleared the remainder of the minefield, and Regimental Sergeant Major Ernest Joseph Legg (West Surreys) and Lance-Sergeant Harry Fred Hardy (RE) who assisted.
William S. Pye	His awards included the Navy Cross for his service in World War I. Pye was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 9 June 1880.
Nancy Hart Douglas	Likewise the Official W. V. Adjutant General Report on the 9th W. V. do not show any casualties for July 18 -- 25, 1862 After the war, Hart married the former Ranger Joshua Douglas, and they lived in Spring Creek and Richwood, West Virginia during the remainder of their lives.
George Alan Vasey	He became the fourth most senior Australian officer to die in the Second World War, after General Sir Cyril Brudenell White (who died in another Hudson crash in 1940), Lieutenant General Henry Wynter, and Major General Rupert Downes (who died in the same plane crash as Vasey).
Thomas Percy Middleton	Captain Thomas Percy Middleton (born 10 May 1893, date of death unknown), Distinguished Flying Cross was an English World War I fighter ace credited with 27 victories while flying a two seated fighter.
Oswald A. Powers	Powers was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for his'' self-sacrificing gallantry and fortitude... in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service...'' The U. S. Navy destroyer escort USS'' Oswald A. Powers'' (DE-452), launched in 1943 but never completed, was named for Ensign Powers.
Alfons Nagler	This article is a part of Wikipedia : WikiProject Biography/Military -- Vizefeldwebel Alfons Nagler, also Alfons Nagler, (born 4 August 1893, date of death unknown) was a World War I flying ace credited with ten aerial victories.
Frank Baldwin	Buffalo Bill in 1891 Rank and organization : Captain, Company D, 19th Michigan Infantry.
Robert Harold Davidson	Davidson was awarded the following : In 1976, Davidson retired as President and Chief Operating Officer of PVO International of Boonton, New Jersey, and San Francisco, California ; soybean processors and marketers.
Stanley A. McChrystal	His retirement ceremony was held on July 23, 2010, at Fort McNair in Washington D. C. During this ceremony, McChrystal was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey and the Defense Distinguished Service Medal by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Jason Dunham	In a formal ceremony in Scio on 23 March 2007, Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter officially announced the naming of DDG-109 after Dunham.
Theodore Stark Wilkinson	Vice Admiral Theodore Stark Wilkinson ´ s ribbon bar : In 1952, the destroyer leader was named in his honor.
Jennifer Jo Cobb	In early 2011, Cobb partnered with U. S. Army Family and MWR Command to launch Driven 2 Honor, a promotion honoring women in the U. S. Military.
John Newham	Newham was one of ten surviving veterans of the squadron belatedly presented with the US Air Medal in Canberra on 27 June 2011, for meritorious service in the Korean War.
Thomas Elliott (flying ace)	Second Lieutenant Thomas Elliott (17 March 1898 -- unknown) was a First World War British flying ace credited with eleven aerial victories, all while flying as an observer in the Bristol F. 2 Fighter.
John Baxter Kinne	With a rank of captain, Kinne commanded an ambulance company in France in World War I. John Kinne died in Aberdeen Washington July 19, 1954 and was inturned at Fern Hill Cemetery in Aberdeen, Washington.
Shirley Temple	In January 1950, Temple met Charles Alden Black, a WWII United States Navy intelligence officer and Silver Star recipient who was Assistant to the President of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company.
Curtis W. Howard	Howard was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for his'' self-sacrificing gallantry and fortitude... in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service...'' The U. S. Navy destroyer escort USS'' Curtis W. Howard'' (DE-752), launched in 1944 but never completed, was named for Lieutenant, junior grade, Howard.
Hector E. Pagan	Brigadier General Hector E. Pagan (born 1957) is a United States Army officer who is the first Hispanic of Puerto Rican descent to become Deputy Commanding General of the U. S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Peter Pace	Peter Pace (born November 5, 1945) is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as the 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the first Marine appointed to the United States' highest-ranking military office.
Norman Francis Vandivier	Vandivier (DER-540) was laid down at the Boston Navy Yard on November 8, 1943 as a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort DE-540 ; launched on December 27, 1943 ; and was sponsored by Mrs. Mary Hardin Vandivier.
Henry Grethel	When Henry was 12, his older brother, Sergeant Frederick W. Grethel, Jr., 22, a glider pilot during World War II, was killed in action on June 19, 1944, in the American airborne landings in Normandy.
John J. Pershing	On October 2, 1922, amidst several hundred officers, many of them combat veterans of World War I, Pershing formally established the Reserve Officers Association (ROA) as an organization at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D. C. ROA is a 75,000-member, professional association of officers, former officers, and spouses of all the uniformed services of the United States, primarily the Reserve and United States National Guard.
Gustave Whitehead	A large headstone replaced the bronze marker of his grave with a formal dedication ceremony on August 15, 1964 attended by elected officials, members of every branch of the armed services, Clarence Chamberlain - famed aviator, CAHA, the 9315th Air Force Reserves Squadron, and surviving members of his family, his three daughters, and his assistant Anton Pruckner, commemorating Whitehead as'' Father of Connecticut Aviation''.
Gertrude Noone	The honorary title of oldest known living military veteran passed to Gertrude Noone on July 25, 2009, following the death of British World War I veteran Harry Patch.
Marian Allen	On Wednesday 4 April 1917, Marian Allen and Arthur Greg said goodbye for the last time as Arthur Greg left Charing Cross for Boulogne to join 55th Squadron.
Robin Olds	Days later, on July 21, 2001, Olds was enshrined at Dayton, Ohio, in the National Aviation Hall of Fame class of 2001, along with test pilot Joseph H. Engle, Marine Corps ace Marion E. Carl, and Albert Lee Ueltschi.
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort	Gort was present when his son-in-law, Major William Sidney, received the VC from General Alexander on 3 March 1944 in Italy.
John Otto Siegel	On May 28, 1935 the New York chapter of the Red Cross writes a letter on behalf of John Otto Siegel to the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, Washington D. C. requesting a duplicate Medal of Honor be issued.
Samuel S. Coursen	On June 21, 1951, Coursen's young 14 month-old son, Samuel, Jr., of Morristown, New Jersey was presented the award in a Pentagon ceremony by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and General of the Army Omar N. Bradley.
Kenneth Whiting	A plaque there reads :'' `` Whiting Field, named in honor of Capt. Kenneth Whiting, U. S. Navy, Pioneer in Submarines and Aviation, Naval Aviator No. 16, Father of the Aircraft Carrier in our Navy, Died on Active Duty on April 24, 1943.''
Abhay Kumar	Along with a few young IFS officers, he started IFS Day celebrations on the raising day of the Indian Foreign Service in 2011 to deepen the espirit de corps in the service.
Robert E. Galer	Following the presentation of the Medal of Honor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House on March 24, 1943, Maj. Galer was ordered to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, where he served as Assistant Operations Officer.
Akhtar Abdur Rahman	In 1988, he was killed in the mysterious plane crash along with President Zia and many other high-ranking officers of the Pakistan and United States Armed Forces, including United States ambassador Arnold Lewis Raphel.
Donald R. Heath	In October 1954 Heath and Lieutenant General John W.'' Iron Mike'' O'Daniel were authorized to begin a crash program to improve `` the loyalty and effectiveness of the Free Vietnamese Forces.''
John T. Downey	In late June 1998, CIA Director George Tenet awarded Downey and Fecteau the CIA Director's Medal for their service to their country, in a private ceremony described in an Associated Press article on July 3, 1998.
George Kenney	In 1948 she married Edward C. Hoagland Jr., a fighter pilot in World War II and later in Korea, who eventually retired from the USAF at the rank of lieutenant colonel.
William Stephenson	On 8 August 2008, Stephenson was recognized for his work by Major General John M. Custer, Commandant of the U. S. Army Intelligence Corps.
William Maxwell Wood	The USS William M Wood Association was formed in 1994 and currently has an active living shipmate directory of over 1,600 former crew of USS William M. Wood (DD-715).
Marie Marvingt	On 20 February 1955, her eightieth birthday, Marvingt was flown over Nancy by a U. S. Air Force officer from Toul-Rosières Air Base in an American fighter jet.
Thomas Tingey Craven (US Navy admiral)	In the aftermath of the Honda Point Disaster in September 1923, Admiral Tingey defended Captain Edward H. Watson, Commanding Officer of Destroyer Squadron 11, during the courts martial proceedings.
Jeptha Wade	He volunteered as an assistant to retired Secretary of the Army John McCloy in the formation of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under the Kennedy Administration before returning to Choate, Hall & Stewart in 1961.
Harvey C. Barnum, Jr.	Colonel Harvey Curtiss Barnum, Jr. (born July 21, 1940), is a retired United States Marine Corps officer who received the Medal of Honor for valor during the Vietnam War.
Beverly Burns	In 2003, she received a Certificate of Appreciation from USAF General John W. Handy for outstanding support for Operation Iraqi Freedom while serving as a member of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet.
John Drayton Baker	John Drayton Baker (born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on May 31, 1915) was an American Naval aviator who was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions during World War II.
Paul D. Harkins	On April 2, 1951 Harkins, commandant of cadets and head of the tactical department at West Point, was informed by a first class cadet that a classmate had told him that there was a group of cadets, mainly among the football team, who were involved in a cheating ring.
James Armand Meissner	The club was recognized, with the assistance of Alabama's adjutant general Colonel Hartley A. Moon, as the 135th Observation Squadron on 21 January 1922 under Meissner's command.
Kevin C. Kiley	Kevin C. Kiley (born October 18, 1950) was the 41st Surgeon General of the United States Army and commander of the U. S. Army Medical Command, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Hugh John Casey	In August 1982, a new building at the Humphreys Engineer Center at Fort Belvoir was dedicated in his honor by Dorothy and the Chief of Engineers, Lieutenant General Joseph K. Bratton.
George Stephen Morrison	Admiral Morrison was the keynote speaker at the decommissioning ceremony for Bon Homme Richard, his first ship as an admiral, on July 3, 1971 in Washington D. C., the same day his son, rock musician Jim Morrison, died in Paris, France at age 27.
Thomas Boyne	Boyne died in 1896 and was buried at the United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery in Washington, D. C. Rank and organization : Sergeant, Company C, 9th U. S. Cavalry.
William Neil McKechnie	The London Gazette of 18 October 1929, gives the following details in announcing the award to Group Captain McKechnie of the Empire Gallantry Medal :'' On 20 June 1929, an aeroplane piloted by Flight Cadet C. J. Giles crashed on landing at RAF College Cranwell and burst into flames.
Charles E. Wilhelm	General Charles E. Wilhelm (born August 26, 1941) is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served two combat tours of duty in Vietnam.
James M. Masters, Sr.	Masters was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 1 June 1933, One of Masters's instructors, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. (nicknamed'' Bayonet Tony'') took the young Marine under his wing to teach him in close combat.
Bruce P. Crandall	On April 15, 2011, Col. Bruce Crandall (retired), was inducted as an honorary member of 1st Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment.
William R. Caddy	/ S / HARRY S TRUMAN The Marine Corps League's detachment # 124, the William R. Caddy Detachment (Quincy, Massachusetts), was named in honor of the Marine Corps' Medal of Honor recipient in 1946.
Siegfried Sassoon	Sassoon's other service medals went unclaimed until 1985 when his son George obtained them from the Army Medal Office, then based at Droitwich.
William Sidebottom (RAF officer)	Lieutenant William Sidebottom (born 11 October 1893, date of death unknown) was a World War I flying ace credited with fourteen aerial victories.
Lesley J. McNair	McNair, Frank Maxwell Andrews, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Millard Harmon, all lieutenant generals at the time of their deaths, were the highest-ranking Americans to be killed in World War II ; McNair and Buckner were both promoted posthumously to general, on July 19, 1954, by Act of Congress.
Wallace Terry	Fellow reporters admired his rescue, along with The New Republic correspondent Zalin Grant, of the bodies of four newsmen killed by the Viet Cong on May 5, 1968, during the Mini-Tet Offensive in Saigon, following directions from ambush survivor Frank Palmos and New Zealand military personnel.
Edward L. Feightner	On May 20, 1972, former VF-11 skipper Feightner delivered introductory remarks at the Red Rippers change of command ceremony commemorating 45 years as the Navy's oldest continuous fighter squadron.
James D. La Belle	His mother was presented the Medal of Honor by BGen William E. Riley, then Director of Marine Corps Public Information, in ceremonies on July 21, 1946 in Minneapolis.
Richard Schiff	He also played Col. / Brig. Gen. Robert Laurel Smith in the 1998 HBO TV movie The Pentagon Wars, based on the real-life development of the US Army's Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.	right | thumb | 155px | Magee's Grave, Scopwick Part of the official letter to his parents read :'' Your son's funeral took place at Scopwick Cemetery, near Digby Aerodrome, at 2:30 P. M. on Saturday, 13 December 1941, the service being conducted by Flight Lieutenant S. K. Belton, the Canadian padre of this Station.
Leroy A. Mendonca	In 2001, the'' Bob Hope'' - class roll on roll off vehicle cargo ship was commissioned in the Military Sealift Command, and named in honor of Sergeant Mendonca.
Robert Olds	Among his 23 classmates were Majors Frank M. Andrews, George H. Brett, and Willis H. Hale, all of whom would become senior leaders of the Army Air Forces, and John F. Curry (one of his sponsors to the Regular Army in 1920), who would become school commandant several years later.
Charles Kingsmill	On 3 January 2011 a portrait bust of Admiral Sir Charles Kingsmill was presented at Navy Headquarters, Department of National Defence in Ottawa to Vice-Admiral Dean McFadden to mark the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Navy.
Theodore Roosevelt	His eldest son Ted received the Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Normandy in 1944.
Grant F. Timmerman	The Medal and also a Bronze Star earned earlier in the Saipan campaign, were presented to his parents on July 8, 1945, the first anniversary of his death, in their home by Col Norman E. True of the Marine Barracks in Great Lakes, Illinois.
Henry Wrigley	In March 1971, he was among a select group of surviving founding members of the RAAF who attended a celebratory dinner at the Hotel Canberra to mark the service's Golden Jubilee ; his fellow guests included Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams, Air Vice Marshal Bill Anderson, Air Commodore Hippolyte De La Rue, and Wing Commander Sir Lawrence Wackett.
George Kenney	On 8 May 1946, Kenney publicly presented the Medal of Honor to the family of Thomas B. McGuire, Jr, the second-highest scoring US fighter pilot, who had been killed in action.
John Kotelawala	In 1985 a national defence academy for training of Officers for all three Defence services in Sri Lankan was established in his estate Kandawala, which he gifted.
P. W. Crummey	In March 1942, P. W. Crummey received a letter from Newfoundland's Commissioner of Defence L. E. Emerson informing Aircraft Detection Corps (Newfoundland) would be administered by the Royal Canadian Air Force as a unit of the Canadian Aircraft Identity Corps.
Owoye Andrew Azazi	thumb | right | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, right, and Gen. Owoye Andrew Azazi, Chief of Defense Staff for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, walk through an honor cordon into the Pentagon 24 June 2008 to attend a meeting.
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn	Arthur maintained a wider role in the empire for instance, from 1912 until his death, serving as Colonel-in-Chief of the Cape Town Highlanders Regiment but the Connaughts remained in Canada after the beginning of the global conflict, with Arthur emphasising the need for military training and readiness for Canadian troops departing for war, and giving his name to Connaught Cup for the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, to encourage pistol marksmanship for recruits.