Robert Morin Shoemaker was born on February 18, 1924, in Almont, Michigan and died on June 21, 2017. He was a U.S. Army general and former commander of the United States Army Forces Command (FORSCOM). Shoemaker was also an inductee into the Aviation Hall of Fame. He died at a hospital in Harker Heights, Texas. ..
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Captain Arthur J. Jackson was born on October 18, 1924 and died on June 14, 2017. He was a United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his actions on Peleliu during World War II. He single-highhandedly destroyed 12 enemy pillboxes and killed 50 enemy soldiers. On September 30, 1961, during the time ..
Lieutenant General Samuel Vaughan Wilson was born on September 23, 1923 and died on June 10, 2017. He was also known as “General Sam”. He completed his active military career in the fall of 1977, having divided his service almost equally between special operations and intelligence assignments. He was also appointed the President of Hampden-Sydney ..
Edward Victor was born in 1939, in the Bronx, New York City and died on June 7, 2017. He was an American literary agent. He was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, who ran a photographic equipment store. Following his graduating from Dartmouth College, Victor attended the University of Cambridge on a Marshall scholarship in ..
Dai Zijin was born on March 26, 1916, in Shanghai and died on May 18, 2017. He was a Chinese aviator. Zijin survived the World War II as one of the few native Chinese aviators. Zijin was in the Flying Tigers. He hailed from a decent background, Dai spent his early life in Shanghai. After ..
Shulamit (Shula) Cohen-Kishik (also Shulamit Kishik-Cohen) was born in 1917 and died on May 21, 2017. She was an Israeli spy. Cohen-Kishik worked to rescue Jews from Arab countries. Cohen-Kishik was noted for her missions in Lebanon and work for the Mossad. During 2007, on the 59th Independence Day of the State of Israel, Cohen-Kishik ..
Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko was born on December 3, 1934, and died on May 17, 2017. He was a Soviet cosmonaut. He flew on the Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, and Soyuz 37 missions. He was raised in the Northern Caucasus settlement of Ventsy-Zarya in the Gulkevich district. He had four siblings, an older brother, Boris, two ..
Major General David Crichton Alexander was born on November 28, 1926 and died on January 5, 2017. He was a senior Royal Marines officer. Alexander was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and joined the Royal Marines in 1944. He served in the East Indies Fleet, and with 45 Commando, and in Malaya, Malta, and the ..
Wilburn Kirby Ross was born on May 12, 1922, in Strunk, Kentucky and died on died May 9, 2017. He was an American WWII veteran. Ross was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military’s highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II. Wilburn K. Ross pased ..
Chen Tingru was born on January 1914, in Lianshui, Jiangsu, China and died on April 27, 2017, in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. He was a Chinese veteran. n Lianshui, Jiangsu In the 2015 China Victory Day Parade, he was well known for sitting in the first row of the veteran formation as the most senior veteran. ..