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Henri Salmide (2010)
The Associated Press BORDEAUX, France A former German officer who helped save Bordeaux's port from destruction by Nazi forces in World War II has died. Henri Salmide, born Heinz Stahlschmidt, died Tuesday at the age of 92, Alain Moga, the deputy mayor of Bordeaux, said. The Germans had a plan to blow up the Bordeaux port before they retreated toward the end of the war. ...
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John Babcock, 109 (1900 - 2010)
SPOKANE, Wash. (Associated Press) - The oldest Canadian veteran of World War I has died at the age of 109. John Babcock died Thursday in Spokane, where he has lived since 1932, according to a statement from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. "I was deeply saddened to learn today of the death of John Babcock, Canada's last known First World War veteran," Harper said. "As a nation, we...
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Frederick C. Weyand, 93 (1916 - 2010)
HONOLULU (Associated Press) - Former Army Chief of Staff Frederick C. Weyand, the last commander of U.S. military operations in the Vietnam War, has died. He was 93. Weyand (WHY-and) died of natural causes Wednesday night at the Kahala Nui retirement residence in Honolulu, stepdaughter Laurie Foster said Thursday. The general oversaw the withdrawal of U.S. military forces...
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Lt. Col. Lee A. Archer, 90 (1919 - 2010)
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman considered to be the only black ace pilot who also broke racial barriers as an executive at a major U.S. company and founder of a venture capital firm, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 90. His son, Roy Archer, said his father died at Cornell University Medical Center in Manhattan. A cause of...
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Kermit Tyler, 96 (1913 - 2010)
The Associated Press SAN DIEGO An American pilot who dismissed initial reports of what turned out to be the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died at age 96. Kermit Tyler was the Army Air Forces' first lieutenant on temporary duty at Ft. Shafter's radar information center in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, when two privates reporting seeing an unusually large blip on their radar screen,...
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Lew Allen Jr., 84 (1925 - 2010)
(Associated Press) PASADENA, Calif. - Retired Air Force Gen. Lew Allen Jr., who led the mammoth National Security Agency through a period when congressional scrutiny brought its domestic...
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Col. Jack Pitchford, 82 (1927 - 2009)
JACKSON, Miss. - Retired Air Force Col. Jack Pitchford, a fighter pilot from Mississippi who survived seven years in the notorious Vietnamese prison camp known as the "Hanoi Hilton," has died. He...
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Henry Mayor "Hank" Bourgeois (2009)
COVINGTON, La. (AP) - One of the last surviving aviators from World War II's famed Black Sheep Squadron has died in Covington, La. Henry Mayor "Hank" Bourgeois was 88. Bourgeois joined...
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Huang Tingxin (2009)
The Associated Press BEIJING — The last Chinese veteran of the 1944 liberation of France has died, state media reported Wednesday. Huang Tingxin had been an officer aboard the British...
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Bernard Harding (2009)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down, died...
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Lee Hu-rak (2009)
By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea Former South Korean spy chief Lee Hu-rak, who brokered the signing of a historic 1972 peace document with North Korea following...
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Willard Varnell Oliver, 88 (1921 - 2009)
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (Associated Press) - Willard Varnell Oliver, a member of the Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language...
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Juan Almeida Bosque, 82 (1927 - 2009)
By WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press Writer HAVANA ( Associated Press ) - Juan Almeida Bosque 9/11/2009 Juan Almeida Bosque, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro since the start of his...
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Mohamed Seineldin (2009)
Mohamed Seineldin, a former army colonel who led failed military uprisings against two elected governments seeking to prosecute dictatorship-era human rights abuses in Argentina, died...
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Robert Decatur (2009)
BILOXI, Miss. - Former Tuskegee Airman Robert Decatur, who went on to become a judge and civil rights lawyer, has died. He was 88. Decatur died at his home in Titusville, Fla., on Aug...
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Earl Haig (2009)
By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer LONDON — Earl Haig, who developed his gift for painting as a prisoner of war in World War II, has died at age 91. Art helped Haig move out of the...
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Bela Kiraly, 97 (1912 - 2009)
By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary - Bela Kiraly, one of the military leaders of Hungary's short-lived anti-Soviet revolution in 1956, has died, the government said....
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H. M. Cummings (2009)
COLUMBUS, Ohio - H.M. Cummings, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the country's first group of black military pilots and crew, died Thursday. He was 90. Cummings, who had been sick with...
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Kenneth L. Reusser, 89 (1920 - 2009)
CLACKAMAS, Ore. - Retired Marine Corps Col. Kenneth L. Reusser, a highly decorated Marine aviator who was shot down in three wars, has died at age 89. Reusser, who died June 20 and was...
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Roger Terry, 87 (1921 - 2009)
LOS ANGELES - Roger Terry, whose conviction for "jostling" a superior was reversed 50 years after he and other Tuskegee Airmen attempted to enter a whites-only officer's club, died Thursday....
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George E. Wahlen, 84 (1924 - 2009)
ROY, Utah (AP) _ George E. Wahlen, a Medal of Honor recipient wounded during the battle of Iwo Jima, died Friday. He was 84. Wahlen's family said he died of lung cancer at the U.S. Veterans...
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Ret. Vice Adm. James F. Calvert, 88 (1920 - 2009)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Retired Vice Adm. James F. Calvert, a submarine pioneer and author who served in the Navy during World War II before going on to be superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, died...
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Willie K. Begay, 88 (1921 - 2009)
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - Willie K. Begay, a Navajo Code Talker who was part of the original group recruited to develop what became an unbreakable code that confounded the Japanese during World War II...
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Thomas Claw, 87 (1922 - 2009)
PARKER, Ariz. - Thomas Claw, one of an elite group of Navajo Marines who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, has died. He was 87. Claw...
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Charles Albury, 88 (1920 - 2009)
ORLANDO, Fla. - Charles Albury, co-pilot of the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, died May 23. He was 88. Albury died in a hospital after suffering for years from congestive...
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Christopher F. Randolph (2009)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Christopher F. Randolph, a Vietnam veteran who served as president and chief executive of a foundation that helps the children of Marines go to college, died May 22. He was 64. ...
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John Brown, Jr. (2009)
PHOENIX , Arizona - John Brown Jr., a Navajo Code Talker who was part of the original group recruited to develop what became an unbreakable code that confounded the Japanese during World War II,...
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Newt Heisley (2009)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Newt Heisley, the designer of the POW/MIA flag adopted by Congress in 1990 as a symbol of the nation's concern for those missing during military actions in...
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Col. Harold E. Fischer, Jr., 83 (1925 - 2009)
Col. Harold E. Fischer, an ace fighter pilot whose high-profile captivity became a symbol of heightened tensions between the U.S. and China at the end of the Korean War, has died. He was 83. ...
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Elisha Ray Nance, 94 (1914 - 2009)
ROANOKE, Va. - Elisha Ray Nance, the last survivor of a Virginia National Guard company that had high D-Day losses on Omaha Beach, died Sunday. He was 94. Nance died in Bedford, said a...
