1: Greatest Allies

List of Notable Surviving Veterans of World War II (Allies) - The Greatest Generation: 

Benjamin Abeles: June 23, 1925 (age 94)  Austrian-Czechoslovak born British.  Physicist  whose research in the 1960s in the USA on germanium-silicon alloys led to the technology used to power space probes such as the Voyager spacecraft. Arrived in the UK in 1939 on one of the Kindertransport missions. (Served in the British Royal Air Force.)

Valdas Adamkus: Born: November 3, 1926 (age 92) Lithuanian. President of Lithuania 1998-2003, 2004-2009.  (Served in the Lithuanian Resistance.)

Bud Anderson: Born: January 13, 1922 (age 97) American. Fighter pilot (Triple ace of World War II. He was the highest scoring flying ace in his P-51 Mustang squadron.) Wing Commander during the Vietnam War and then Test Fighter Pilot. (Served in the US Army Air Forces.)

Valérie André: Born: April 21, 1922 (age 97)  French. General, neurosurgeon, aviator  first female member of the Military to achieve the rank of General Officer, in 1976, as Physician General. In 1981, she was promoted to Inspector General of Medicine. A helicopter pilot, she is the first woman to have piloted a helicopter in a combat zone.  (Served in the French Resistance.)

George Ariyoshi: Born: March 12, 1926 (age 93)  American. Governor of Hawaii (1974–1986)  (Served in the US Army.)

Stanisław Aronson: Born: May 6, 1925 (age 94) Polish-born Israeli.  Order of Polonia Restituta Recipient. After escaping from a train bound for Auschwitz he became a member of the Kedyw group (Patrole) that carried out executions of Nazi collaborators and traitors sentenced by the Polish Underground Courts. He also took part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. He later moved to Israel and became a Lieutenant Colonel of the Israeli Defense Force and took part in the 1947–1949 Palestine War, the Yom Kippur War and the 1982 Lebanon War (Served in the Polish Home Army.)

Yitzhak Arad: Born: November 11, 1926 (age 92) Polish-born Israeli. Historian, author, retired IDF Brigadier General, Director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993. He specialized in the history of the Holocaust. (Served in the Soviet Partisans.)

Victor Balashov: Born: December 24, 1924 (age 94) Soviet-born Russian. Broadcaster. From 1947 to 1996 he worked for Soviet Central Television. (Served in the Soviet Red Army.)

Walter Balderson: Born: September 19, 1926 (age 93) American. Television pioneer. Participated in the advent of color television beginning in the early 1950s and later was one of the first editors to use videotape for instant replay on network television sports events. (Served in the US Navy.)

Bob Barker: Born: December 12, 1923 (age 95) American. Game show host (“The Price Is Right” from 1972 to 2007 and “Truth or Consequences” from 1956 to 1974.) (Served in the US Navy.)

Phil Batt: Born: March 4, 1927 (age 92) American. 29th Governor of Idaho from 1995-1999.  (Served in the US Army Air Forces.)

Julius W. Becton, Jr.: Born: June 29, 1926 (age 93) American. Military officer, former FEMA director. (Served in the US Army Air Corps.)

Harry Belafonte: Born: March 1, 1927 (age 92) American. Singer (“The Banana Boat Song.”) (Served in the US Navy.)

Tony Bennett: Born: August 3, 1926 (age 93) American. Singer (“I Left My Heart In San Francisco.”) (Served in the US Army.)

Jens Bjerre: Born: March 16, 1921 (age 98) Danish. Author, filmmaker, explorer. (Served in the Danish Resistance.)

Eric Blackwood: Born: December 7, 1921 (age 97) Canadian. Aviator. Founder of Eastern Provincial Airways. (Served in the Royal Canadian Air Force and the British Royal Air Force.)

George Blake: Born: November 11, 1922 (age 96) Dutch-born British, Soviet, Russian. Spy (A Double Agent for the Soviets he was discovered in 1961 and sentenced to 42 years in prison he fled to the USSR in 1966 after escaping a British jail.  (Served in the Dutch Resistance and the British Royal Navy.)

Mervyn Brown: Born: September 24, 1923 (age 96) British. Diplomat, historian. Consul in Laos (where he was prisoner of the Pathet Lao for a month), Ambassador to Madagascar 1967–70,  High Commissioner to Tanzania and concurrently Ambassador to Madagascar (this time non-resident) 1975–78,  and High Commissioner to Nigeria and concurrently Ambassador to Benin 1979–83. (Served in the British Army.)

William Keir Carr: Born: March 19, 1923 (age 96) Canadian. Aviator; Canadian Air Forces Commander (1975–1978.) (Served in the Royal Canadian Air Force.)

Jimmy Carter: Born: October 1, 1924 (age 95) American. 39th U.S. President 1977-1981. Governor of Georgia 1971-1975. (Served in the US Navy.)

Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont: Born: December 5, 1919 (age 99) British. Historian, UK Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (1964–1970), politician. (Served in the British Army.)

Ramsey Clark: Born: December 18, 1927 (age 91) American. 66th US Attorney General 1967-1969. (Served in the US Marine Corps.)

Marthe Cohn: Born: April 13, 1920 (age 99)  French. Author (“Behind Enemy Lines”), Nurse, Spy (for the Allies in Nazi Germany) and Holocaust Survivor. Decorated with the Croix de Guerre in 1945. (Served in the French Army.)

Charles H. Coolidge: Born: August 4, 1921 (age 98) American. Soldier; Medal of Honor recipient. (Served in the US Army.)

James Cross: Born: September 29, 1921 (age 98) Irish-born British.  Diplomat, kidnapped during the Quebec October Crisis of 1970.  (Served in the British Army.)

John Cruickshank: Born: May 20, 1920 (age 99) British. Recipient of the Victoria Cross. (Served in the British Army and the Royal Air Force.)

James Cumes: Born: June 23, 1922 (age 97). Australian. Diplomat High Commissioner to Nigeria (1965–1967), Ambassador to Belgium (1975–1977),  Ambassador to Austria and Hungary (1977–1980) and Ambassador to the Netherlands (1980–1984), economist, author. Served in the Australian Army.)

Peter Cundall: Born: April 1, 1927 (age 92) English-born Australian. Host of Gardening Australia (1969–2008.) (Served in the British Army.)

Donald L. Custis: Born: July 23, 1917 (age 102) American. Surgeon General of the United States Navy 1973-1977. (Served in the US Navy.)

Vahe Danielyan: Born: January 14, 1920 (age 99) Ottoman-born, Soviet, Armenian. Soldier, Soviet Concentration Camp Survivor. (Served in the Soviet Red Army.)

Bob Dole: Born: July 22, 1923 (age 96) American. US Senator (1969–1996); 1976 Republican vice-presidential nominee; 1996 Republican presidential nominee. (Served in the US Army.)

Kirk Douglas: Born: December 9, 1916 (age 102) American. Actor (“Spartacus”) (Served in the US Navy.)

Hugh Downs: Born: February 14, 1921 (age 98) American. Journalist and TV host (“Today” from 1962–71, “Concentration” from 1958–69, and anchor of “20/20” from 1978–99.) (Served in the US Army.)

Winfield Dunn: Born: July 1, 1927 (age 92) American. Politician; Governor of Tennessee (1971–1975.) (Served in the US Navy.)

Edwin Edwards: Born: August 7, 1927 (age 92) American. Governor of Louisiana (1972–1980, 1984–1988; 1992–1996); Congressman from Louisiana (1965–1972.) (Served in the US Navy.)

James Francis Edwards: Born: June 5, 1921 (age 98) Canadian. World War II flying ace. (Served in the Royal Canadian Air Force.)

Queen Elizabeth II: Born: April 21, 1926 (age 93) British. Queen of the 16 Commonwealth Realms (since 1952) and Head of the Commonwealth of Nations. (Served in the Grenadier Guards and the Auxiliary Territorial Service.)

David Evans: Born: June 3, 1925 (age 94) Australian. Chief of the Air Staff of the RAAF (1982-1985); writer and defense consultant. (Served in the Royal Australian Air Force.)

Daniel J. Evans: Born: October 16, 1925 (age 93) American. Politician; 16th Governor of Washington (1965–1977.) (Served in the US Navy.)

Paul Farnes: Born: July 16, 1918 (age 101) British. World War II flying ace; one of "The Few" surviving pilots of the Battle of Britain. (Served in the British Royal Air Force.)

Benjamin B. Ferencz: Born: March 11, 1920 (age 99) American. Lawyer; last living prosecutor at Nuremberg Trials. (Served in the US Army.)

Andrew Fulton: Born: January 23, 1927 (age 92) Canadian. Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy (1980–1983.) (Served in the Royal Canadian Navy.)

Arnald Gabriel: Born: May 31, 1925 (age 94) American. Conductor of the US Air Force Band (1964-1985.) (Served in the US Army.)

Jacek Gałązka: Born: April 28, 1924 (age 95) Polish-born American.  Publicist, émigré activist and President of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America (1999–2008.) (Served in the Polish Armed Forces in the West.)

Samuel Rhea Gammon III: Born: January 22, 1924 (age 95) American. Ambassador to Mauritius (1978-1980.) (Served in the US Army.)

Makhmut Gareev: Born: June 23, 1923 (age 96) Soviet-born Russian. Historian and Military Scientist. Military Adviser to the President of Egypt in the 1970s and to President Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1989–1991. President of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences. (Served in the Soviet Red Army.)

Philippe de Gaulle: Born: December 28, 1921 (age 97)  French. Inspector General, Senator and son of leader Charles De Gaulle. (Served in the Free French Naval Forces.)

James George: Born: September 14, 1918 (age 101) Canadian. Diplomat (High Commissioner to Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 1960–64, Ambassador to France, High Commissioner to India and Ambassador to Nepal 1967–72, and Ambassador to Iran and the Gulf States 1972–77. (Served in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve.)

Andrée Geulen-Herscovici: Born: September 6, 1921 (age 98) Belgian. Member of the Comité de Défense des Juifs, helped rescue almost 1,000 Jewish children. Made a Righteous Among the Nations in 1989.  (Served in the Belgian Resistance.)

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: Born: February 2, 1926 (age 93) French. French politician; President of France (1974–1981.) (Served with the Free French Army and the French Resistance.)

Manolis Glezos: Born: September 9, 1922 (age 97) Greek. Politician & writer. He  climbed on the Acropolis in German-occupied Athens and tore down the Swastika. (He served in the Greek Resistance.)

Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet: Born: July 15, 1926 (age 93) British. Diplomat (Ambassador to Iraq 1974–77, Ambassador to Iran 1979–80,  Ambassador and Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels 1982–86. (Served in the British Army.)

Anatoli Granovsky: Born:1922. Soviet-born Swedish. Defected NKVD agent, author. (Served in the Soviet Red Army.)

Gail Halvorsen: Born: October 10, 1920 (age 99) American. US Air Force pilot; Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber. (Served in the US Army Air Forces.)

Ian Hamilton: Born: September 13, 1925 (age 94) British. Lawyer, Scottish nationalist, participated in the removal of the Stone of Scone in 1950. (Served in the British Army.)

George Hardy: Born: June 8, 1925 (age 94) American. Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen. (Served in the US Army Air Forces.)

Hau Pei-tsun: Born: July 13, 1919 (age 100) Taiwanese. General and politician; Premier of the Republic of China (1990–1993.) (Served in the National Revolutionary Army.)

Robert Hébras: Born: June 29, 1925 (age 94) French. Oradour-sur Glane Massacre Survivor. (Served in the French Resistance.)

A. Linwood Holton, Jr.: Born: September 21, 1923 (age 96) American. Politician; Governor of Virginia (1970–1974.) (Served in the US Army.)

Francis Huré: Born: October 5, 1916 (age 103) French. Ambassador (in Cameroon (1965–1968), in Israel (19681973), then in Belgium (1973–1980.) writer. (Served in the Free French Army.)

Paul Robert Ignatius: Born: November 11, 1920 (age 98) American. Government official (Secretary of the Navy between 1967 and 1969.) (Served in the US Navy.)

Alexander Jefferson: Born: November 15, 1921 (age 97) American. Pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen. (Served in the US Army Air Corps.)

Johnny Johnson: Born: November 25, 1921 (age 97) British. Last surviving British member of the Dambuster Raids. (Served in the British Royal Air Force.)

Marshall Johnston: Born: July 20, 1922 (age 97) Australian, Diplomat (Ambassador to Burma (1966–1967), Ambassador to Israel (1970–1972), Ambassador to Cambodia (1972–1975), Ambassador to Thailand (1975–1978), Ambassador to Iran (1978–1979), Ambassador to Greece (1980–1984.) (Served in the Australian Army.)

Adolfo Kaminsky: Born: October 1, 1925 (age 94) Argentinian-born French. French World War II Resistance Fighter (He forged papers that saved the lives of more than 14,000 Jews.) (Served in the French Resistance and the French Army.)

Stanislaw Kania: Born: March 8, 1927 (age 92) Polish. First Secretary of the Polish United Worker's Party 1980-81.) (Served in the Polish Resistance.)

Henry Kissinger: Born: May 27, 1923 (age 96) German-born American. Statesman, Secretary of State (1973–1977), and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient (1973). (Served in the US Army.)

Sergei Kramarenko: Born: April 23, 1923 (age 96) Soviet-born Russian. Air Force officer. For his service in Korea became a holder of the Title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He achieved several high command positions in the USSR and was also Air Force advisor in Iraq and Algeria in the 1970s. The last living Soviet flying ace of Korean War.(Served in the Soviet Air Force.)

Archie Lamb: Born: October 23, 1921 (age 97) British. Diplomat, writer and businessman. Ambassador to Kuwait 1974–77 and to Norway 1978–80. (Served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.)

Phyllis Latour: Born: April 8, 1921 (age 98)  British-French. Legion of Honour Recipient. (Served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, the Special Operations Executive and in the French Resistance.)

George J. Laurer: Born: September 23, 1925 (age 94) American. Developer of the barcode. (Served in the US Army.)

Nina Lobkovskaya: Born: March 8, 1924 (age 95) Soviet-born Russian. Sniper (with 89 confirmed kills.) (Served in the Soviet Red Army.)

William R. Lucas: Born: March 1, 1922 (age 97) American. Fourth director of the Marshall Space Flight Center 1974-1986.  (Served in the US Navy.)

Bernt H. Lund: Born: August 14, 1924 (age 95) Norwegian. Civil Servant, Diplomat, Politician.  Imprisoned in the Grini concentration camp and i the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Ambassador to Namibia from 1990 to 1992. (Served in the Norwegian Resistance.)

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