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Colonel John Walter Ripley, 69 (1939 - 2008)
Annapolis, Md. - Retired Marine Col. John Ripley, who was credited with stopping a column of North Vietnamese tanks by blowing up a pair of bridges during the 1972 Easter Offensive of the Vietnam War, died at home at age 69, friends and relatives said Sunday. Ripley's son, Stephen Ripley, said his father was found at his Annapolis home Saturday after missing a speaking engagement on...
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General Robert H. Barrow, 86 (1922 - 2008)
ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. - Gen. Robert H. Barrow, commandant of the Marine Corps from 1979 until 1983, has died. He was 86. Barrow, a veteran of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars, died in his sleep Thursday at his home in St. Francisville, the Marine Corps said in a release Friday. It said a private funeral will be held Monday. Barrow was born in Baton Rouge on Feb. 5, 1922, and...
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Robert B. Nett, 86 (1922 - 2008)
COLUMBUS, Ga. - Col. Robert B. Nett, who won the Medal of Honor for heroism in combat in the Philippines during World War II and later served in the Korean and Vietnam wars, died Sunday. He was 86. Fort Benning spokeswoman Elsie Jackson said Nett died after a brief illness. Nett, a New Haven, Conn., native who enlisted in the Connecticut National Guard in 1940, was sent into combat on...
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Stanislav Hlucka, 88 (1919 - 2008)
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Maj. Gen. Stanislav Hlucka, considered one of the best Czech pilots of World War II, has died. He was 88. Hlucka, who was one of the last living Czech World War II fighters, died in Prague's military hospital overnight, the Czech Defense Ministry said Wednesday. Hlucka was born Oct 19, 1919 in the eastern village of Blazovice. He fled Czechoslovakia, which was...
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Robert R. Furman (2008)
ADAMSTOWN, Md. - Former Army Maj. Robert R. Furman, who secretly supervised an Allied roundup of top German scientists and European uranium stocks during World War II, died Oct. 14. He was 93. Furman also helped supervise construction of the Pentagon during his Army career from 1940 to 1946. Furman died at the Buckingham's Choice retirement community in Adamstown, said his granddaughter,...
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Richard Stephen Heyser, 81 (1927 - 2008)
APALACHICOLA, Florida - Richard Stephen Heyser, a U-2 spy plane pilot who took the first photos of ballistic missile launch sites during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, died Monday. He was 81. ...
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Ted Briggs, 85 (1923 - 2008)
London - Ted Briggs, the last survivor of the World War II sinking of British battle cruiser HMS Hood, has died, his naval association said Sunday. He was 85. Briggs died Saturday in a...
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John E. Taylor (2008)
WASHINGTON - John E. Taylor, who specialized in World War II intelligence documents at the National Archives, died Saturday. He was 87. Taylor died at his Chevy Chase, Md., apartment from...
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Nathan Green Gordon (2008)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ Nathan Green Gordon, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing 15 fellow airmen during World War II and later served 20 years as lieutenant governor, died Monday. He...
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Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala (2008)
Cairo, Egypt - Abdel-Halim Abu Ghazala, Egypt's former defense minister and a veteran of Arab-Israeli wars who was once touted as a possible successor to President Hosni Mubarak, has died at age...
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Fon B. Huffman (2008)
Sierra Vista, Ariz. - Fon B. Huffman, believed to be the last survivor of the 1937 Japanese attack on the gunboat USS Panay outside Nanjing, China, died Thursday. He was 95. Huffman died in...
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Howard Lee Baugh (2008)
RICHMOND, Va. - Lt. Col. Howard Lee Baugh, who flew scores of WWII combat missions as one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, died Saturday. He was 88. Baugh died at a suburban Richmond hospital...
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Edward Freeman (2008)
BOISE, Idaho - Edward Freeman, a former Army helicopter pilot awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroics during the Vietnam War and portrayed in the Mel Gibson movie "We Were Soldiers," died...
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Sherman Rose (2008)
DOTHAN, Ala. - Sherman Rose, who served as a flight instructor for the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 88. Rose died Wednesday at Southeast Alabama Medical Center, according to Sunset Funeral...
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Maudie White Hopkins (2008)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93. Hopkins,...
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Jack Emerson Brady (2008)
TACOMA, Wash. - Jack Emerson Brady, who survived the Bataan Death March in World War II and rose to the rank of major during 20 years in the Army, has died. He was 87. Brady died Aug. 11 after...
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James Hoyt (2008)
DES MOINES, Iowa -- James Hoyt, one of four U.S. soldiers who discovered the Buchenwald concentration camp as World War II neared its end, has died. Hoyt's wife, Doris, said he died Monday in...
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Margaret Ray Ringenberg (2008)
Following obituary provided by D.O. McComb & Sons Funeral Homes: Margaret J. (Ray) Ringenberg, 87, died Monday, July 28, 2008 at Jesuit Retreat House in Oshkosh, WI. Born in Fort Wayne,...
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Michael J. Daly, 83 (1924 - 2008)
Fairfield, Conn. - Michael J. Daly, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism as a 20-year-old lieutenant in World War II has died. He was 83. He died at his home Friday, according to a...
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Robert T. Herres, 75 (1932 - 2008)
San Antonio - Robert T. Herres, United States Air Force General who served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Gen. Colin Powell, has died. He was 75. Herres died Thursday at...
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Eric Dowling, 92 (1915 - 2008)
LONDON Eric Dowling, who helped plan the mass wartime breakout from a German prison camp that inspired the movie "The Great Escape," has died at 92. Peter Dowling said his father died at a...
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Robert Channing Seamans, Jr., 89 (1918 - 2008)
Beverly, Massachusetts - Robert C. Seamans Jr., a leading NASA manager during the race to the moon who later became secretary of the Air Force, died Saturday after a heart attack. He was 89. ...
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Sam Manekshaw, 94 (1914 - 2008)
NEW DELHI - India's most celebrated army chief, Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, has died, the defense ministry said. He was 94. Manekshaw had been in a military hospital in...
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Charles "Chuck" Dryden, 87 (1920 - 2008)
Lt. Col. Charles "Chuck" Dryden, one of the first of the pioneering black World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 87. Dryden died Tuesday in Atlanta of natural causes...
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Charles Willard Lindberg, 86 (1920 - 2007)
Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86. Lindberg spent decades explaining that it was his patrol,...
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Stewart Clah, 88 (1919 - 2007)
Stewart Clah, a Navajo code talker who helped confound the Japanese during World War II and was awarded a Congressional Silver Medal, has died. He was 87. Clah died Sunday in his sleep, his...
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Louis G. Hill, Jr., 90 (1916 - 2007)
Louis G. Hill Jr., one of the Tuskegee Airmen, who were the nation's first black military pilots, died April 25. He was 90. Hill died of complications from a stroke, said his wife, Vilma. He...
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Robert Rosenthal, 89 (1917 - 2007)
Robert Rosenthal, a World War II bomber pilot who twice survived being shot down in raids over Europe and later served on the U.S. legal team that prosecuted Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, has...
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Roberta Wohlstetter, 94 (1912 - 2007)
Roberta Wohlstetter, a military intelligence expert who said faulty U.S. analysis of intelligence signals enabled Japan to launch its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. Wohlstetter, 94,...
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Mary J. Forni, 91 (1915 - 2006)
A woman who had a key role in a little-known incident in World War II - when she spotted two Nazi spies who arrived by U-boat along the Maine coast - has died. Mary Forni, of Hancock, was 91. ...
