Sunday, October 13, 2019

2: Greatest Allies

List Of Notable Surviving Veterans of World War 2 (Allies) - The Greatest Generation:

Branko Mamula: Born: May 30, 1921 (age 98) Yugoslav-born. Yugoslav Defense Minister (1982–1988.) (Served with the Yugoslav Partisans.)

Josip Manolić: Born: March 22, 1920 (age 99) Yugoslav-born Croatian. Politician; Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia (1990–1991.)( Served with the Yugoslav Partisans.)

Peter Marshall: Born: March 30, 1926 (age 93) American. Actor and TV personality (“The Hollywood Squares” from 1966 to 1981.) (Served in the US Army.)

Kenneth Mayhew: Born: January 18, 1917 (age 102) British. Knight of the Military William Order Recipient. (Served in the British Army.)

Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow: Born: March 20, 1921 (age 98) Senegalese. Director-General of UNESCO (1974–1987) (Served in the French Army, the Free French Army and the French Air Force.)

Francis Terry McNamara: Born: November 2, 1927 (age 91) American. Diplomat (Consul General in Cần Thơ, South Vietnam (1974-1975). As the Saigon Government collapsed in 1975, McNamara conceived, organized, and led an evacuation down the Mekong River at the helm of a small landing craft carrying 300 Vietnamese Consulate employees, members of their families, 18 Americans, and five Filipinos. Picked up at sea by a passing freighter, he became one of Vietnam's first "boat people.” He then went to Quebec City as Consul General during the separatist Parti Québécois' first challenge to Canadian unity. He was Ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipé (182-1984)Ambassador to Cape Verde (1989-1992.) (Served in the US Navy.)

Joseph Mendenhall: Born: January 15, 1920 (age 99) American. United States Ambassador to Madagascar (1972–1975)  (Served in the US Army.)

Giorgio Napolitano: Born: June 29, 1925 (age 94)  Italian. 11th President of Italy (2006–2015) (Served in the Italian Resistance.)

Oleg Ozerov: Born: June 17, 1922 (age 97) Soviet-born Russian. Soldier (Served in the Soviet Red Army and in the French Resistance.)

Karolos Papoulias: Born: June 4, 1929 (age 90) Greek.  President of Greece (2005-2015) (Served in the Greek People's Liberation Army.)

John Malcolm Patterson: Born: September 27, 1921 (age 98) American. Governor of Alabama (1959–1963) (Served in the US Army.)

Solomon Perel: Born: April 21, 1925 (age 94) German-born Israeli. Holocaust Survivor, Author. Subject of the film “Europa, Europa.” (Served in the German Wehrmacht to hide being Jewish.)

Prince Philip: Born: June 10, 1921 (age 98) Greek-born British. Former Prince of Greece. Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II (Served in the British Royal Navy.)

Wanda Półtawska: Born: November 2, 1921 (age 97) Polish. Subject of medical experiments in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, Author (Served in the Polish Resistance.)

Al Quie: Born: September 18, 1923 (age 96) American. Governor of Minnesota (1979–1983) (Served in the US Navy.)

Bhisadej Rajani: Born: January 20, 1922 (age 97) Thai. Member of the Thai Royal Family. (Served in the British Army.)

Carl Reiner: Born: March 20, 1922 (age 97) American. Film Director and Actor; TV's “Your Show of Shows”, “The Dick van Dyke Show. “ (Served in the US Army.)

Andrew Romanov: Born: January 21, 1923 (age 96) British-American. Pretender to the Russian throne. ( Served in the Royal Navy.)

Ted Schwinden: Born: August 31, 1925 (age 94) American. Politician; Governor of Montana (1976–1980) (Served in the US Army.)

Simone Segouin: Born: October 3, 1925 (age 94) French. Resistance Member (served in the French Resistance.)

Frank Shakespeare: Born: April 9, 1925 (age 94) American. Diplomat (Ambassador to Portugal from 1985 to 1986 and the Ambassador to the Holy See from 1986 to 1989.) President of CBS (1950-1969.) (Served in the US Navy.)

Meir Shamgar: Born: August 13, 1925 (age 94) Danzig-born Israeli.  President of the Israeli Supreme Court (1983-1995). (Served in the Haganah and the Jewish Insurgency.)

George P. Shultz: Born: December 13, 1920 (age 98) American. 60th U.S. Secretary of State (1982–1989) (Served in the US Marine Corps.)

Ronald Spiers: Born: July 9, 1925 (age 94) America. Diplomat;  Ambassador to Pakistan (1981–1983) (Served in the US Navy.)

Jack Steinberger: Born: May 25, 1921 (age 98) American. Physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1988) (Served in the US Army.)

Herb Stempel: Born: December 19, 1926 (age 92)  American. Game show contestant and whistleblower on the fraudulent nature of the industry, in what became known as the 1950s Quiz Show Scandals. (Served in the US Army.)

Larry Storch: Born: January 8, 1923 (age 96) American. Comedian and Actor; TV's “F Troop.” (Served in the US Navy.)

Tun Tin: Born: October 2, 1920 (age 99) Burmese. 6th Prime Minister of Burma (1988), General, Politician (Served in the Burma Independence Army.)

Ankica Tuđman: Born: July 24, 1926 (age 93) Croatian. First Lady of Croatia (1991-1999.) (Served with the Yugoslav Partisans.)

Brian Urquhart: Born: February 28, 1919 (age 100) British. Soldier, Diplomat. Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (1971-1985.) (Served in the British Army.)

George S. Vest: Born: December 25, 1918 (age 100) American. Diplomat. Ambassador to the European Community (1981- 1985.) Made a Career Ambassador in 1987. (Served in the US Army.)

Hershel W. Williams: Born: October 2, 1923 (age 96) American. Medal of Honor Recipient. (Served in the US Marine Corps.)

William Winter: Born: February 21, 1923 (age 96) American. Politician; Mississippi Governor (1980–1984) (Served in the US Army.)

Dale E. Wolf: Born: September 6, 1924 (age 95) American. Governor of Delaware (1992–1993) (Served in the US Army.)

Alex Xydias: Born: March 22, 1922 (age 97) American. Auto racing driver. (Served in the US Army Air Forces,)

Dmitry Yazov: Born: November 8, 1924 (age 94) Soviet-born Russian. Is the last Soviet Union Marshal created (1990) before the USSR collapsed in 1991. (Served in the Soviet Red Army.)

Chuck Yeager: Born: February 13, 1923 (age 96) American. Air Force officer & Test Pilot; first person to exceed the speed of sound in flight (1947.)(Served in the US Army Air Forces.)

Leszek Żukowski: Born: February 11, 1929 (age 90) Polish. President of World Association of Home Army Soldiers. (Served in the Polish Gray Ranks Paramilitary Scouting Association.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_surviving_veterans_of_World_War_II#V

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