Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1798 - 2007. Official Military Personnel Files, 1885 - 1998.
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Adams, Brock, 1927-2004
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Jacobs, Fenno, 1904-1975
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Bruce, Lenny, 1925-1966
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Borgnine, Ernest, 1917-2012
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Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but relaxed voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. A popular performer, he also appeared as a guest on numerous talk shows and as a panelist on several game shows. Borgnine's film career began in 1951, and included supporting roles in China Corsair (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Vera Cruz (1954), Bad Day at Black Rock (1...
Rickles, Don, 1926-2017
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Donald Jay Rickles (May 8, 1926 – April 6, 2017), nicknamed the Merchant of Venom and Mr. Warmth, was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He became known especially for his insult comedy. His film roles include Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) with Clark Gable, Carl Reiner's Enter Laughing (1967), the Clint Eastwood-led Kelly's Heroes (1970), and Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995) with Robert De Niro. From 1976 to 1978, Rickles had a two-season starring role in the NBC television sitcom C.P.O. Shar...
Furlong, William Rea, 1881-1976
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Wallin, Homer N. (Homer Norman), 1893-1984
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Shaw, Artie, 1910-2004
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Doby, Larry, 1923-2003
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Lawrence Eugene Doby (December 13, 1923 – June 18, 2003) was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball's color barrier and the first black player in the American League. A native of Camden, South Carolina and three-sport all-state athlete while in high school in Paterson, New Jersey, Doby accepted a basketball scholarship from Long Island University. At 17 years of age, he began his professional...
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975
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Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States. His work is strongly associated with the Midwestern United States, the region in which he was born and which he called home for most of his life. He also studied in Paris, lived in New York City f...
O'Neil, Buck, 1911-2006
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John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil Jr. (November 13, 1911 – October 6, 2006) was a first baseman and manager in the Negro American League, mostly with the Kansas City Monarchs. After his playing days, he worked as a scout and became the first African American coach in Major League Baseball. In his later years he became a popular and renowned speaker and interview subject, helping to renew widespread interest in the Negro leagues, and played a major role in establishing the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum i...
Lear, Charles Byrd, 1916-1946
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Charles Byrd Lear (July 2, 1916-October 28, 1946) was the first African American Warrant Officer in the United States Navy. He was part of a group which became known as the Golden Thirteen, the thirteen African American enlisted men who became the first African American commissioned and warrant officers in the United States Navy. Charles Byrd Lear was born in Keokuk, Iowa, on 2 July 1916, the son of Cole A. and Naomi (Mills) Lear. He attended Keokuk High School, and prior to enlisting in th...
Donovan, James B. (James Britt), 1916-1970
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James Britt Donovan (February 29, 1916 – January 19, 1970) was an American lawyer and United States Navy officer in the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency), ultimately becoming general counsel of the OSS, and an international diplomatic negotiator. Donovan is widely known for negotiating the 1960–1962 exchange of captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and American student Frederic Pry...
Haley, James A., 1904?-1977
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Retired Navy Captain James A. Haley was an officer, pilot, and aeronautics authority in the U.S. Navy. Born in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1904 or 1905, Haley graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1927 and learned to fly in 1930 as he received his wings at Pensacola, Florida. Haley was a pilot on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ranger during the 1930s and was serving with the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics at the outbreak of World War II. From 1944 to 1945 he was stationed at Pearl Harbor...
