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Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner, 49 (1962 - 2012)
The Associated Press FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A 49-year-old brigadier general died Friday in Afghanistan of apparent natural causes, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. soldier to die there, the military said Saturday. Fort Hood announced Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner's death in a statement posted on its website. Hildner had commanded the 13th Expeditionary Sustainment Command at Fort Hood...
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Sgt. Jimmie Begay, 86 (2012)
The Associated PressWINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Another Navajo Code Talker has died.Thurmon Begay says his father, Sgt. Jimmie Begay of Sawmill, died Wednesday after a fall. He was 86.Begay was one of about 420 Navajos trained to transmit messages in a code based on the then-unwritten Navajo language. The Code Talkers sent thousands of messages without error on Japanese troop movements,...
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Keith Little (2012)
FELICIA FONSECA, The Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Keith Little envisioned a place that would house the stories of the Navajo Code Talkers and where people could learn more about the famed World War II group who used their native language as a weapon. His family now hopes to carry out his dream of a museum near the Arizona-New Mexico border that also will hold wartime...
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Marciano Villagra, 93 (2011)
The Associated PressASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — A former guerrilla who battled two of Paraguay's military-led governments has died at age 93.Marciano Villagra led Paraguay Communist Party guerrillas in various actions, including the brief takeover of the town of Piribebuy in 1947. He went into hiding after Gen. Alfredo Stroessner took power in 1954.His daughter Irina Villagra said he died Monday...
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Gen. Ralph E. Haines, Jr., 98 (1913 - 2011)
The Associated PressFORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — An Army spokesman says a four-star general has died of natural causes in San Antonio at age 98.Spokesman Don Manuszewski says retired Gen. Ralph E. Haines Jr. died Wednesday at San Antonio Military Medical Center. Manuszewski says Haines had been the oldest living four-star general.Haines was vice chief of staff of the Army from 1967 to 1968....
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Alfanso Cano, 63 (1948 - 2011)
VIVIAN SEQUERA, The Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Alfonso Cano was a bespectacled middle-class intellectual who rose from chief ideologist to maximum leader of the Revolutionary Armed...
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Tadeusz Sawicz, 97 (1914 - 2011)
MONIKA SCISLOWSKA, The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish World War II airman, believed to be the last surviving Polish pilot from the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 97...
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Jorge Martinez Busch, 75 (1936 - 2011)
The Associated PressSANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile's navy says the last man to lead the force under dictator Augusto Pinochet has died of a heart attack. Retired Adm. Jorge Martinez Busch was 75...
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Brian Kelley, 68 (2011)
The Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Veteran counterspy Brian Kelley, who broke a code on how Moscow communicated with its agents and was mistakenly hounded later by the FBI, has died. He was 68...
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Sandor Kepiro, 97 (1914 - 2011)
PABLO GORONDI, The Associated PressBUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Sandor Kepiro, a former officer in a Hungarian special security force who was recently acquitted of Holocaust-era war crimes charges,...
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Ralph D. Albertazzie, 88 (1923 - 2011)
The Associated Press MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A retired Air Force colonel who piloted Air Force One for President Richard Nixon and flew Henry Kissinger on a historic secret mission to begin...
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Albert "Doc" Brown, 105 (1905 - 2011)
JIM SUHR, The Associated PressST. LOUIS (AP) — A doctor once told Albert Brown he shouldn't expect to make it to 50, given the toll taken by his years in a Japanese labor camp during World War II...
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John Shalikashvili, 75 (1936 - 2011)
MANUEL VALDES, The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili, an immigrant who rose to the top job in the Pentagon where he advised President Bill Clinton over...
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Aleksy Kowalik, 95 (1915 - 2011)
The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Aleksy Kowalik, one of the three surviving heroes of Poland's first World War II battle has died. He was 96. Kowalik's daughter Jadwiga Bucz told...
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Vladislav Achalov, 65 (2011)
The Associated PressMOSCOW (AP) — Vladislav Achalov, a former Soviet general who supported two botched anti-Kremlin coups and recently organized a protest against the government's military reform,...
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Maj. Gen. John R. Alison, 98 (1912 - 2011)
The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — John R. Alison, a World War II fighter pilot who helped lead a daring and unprecedented Allied air invasion of Burma, has died, a son said Wednesday. ...
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Claude Stanley Choules, 110 (1901 - 2011)
KRISTEN GELINEAU, The Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — The last known combat veteran of World War I was defiant of the tolls of time, a centenarian who swam in the sea, twirled across dance floors...
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Lloyd Oliver, 87 (1923 - 2011)
The Associated PressCAMP VERDE, Ariz. (AP) — Lloyd Oliver wasn't much of a talker, but it was clear that he was proud to have his native language serve as a key weapon during World War II. As part...
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Frank Buckles, 110 (1901 - 2011)
VICKI SMITH, The Associated Press MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — He didn't seek the spotlight, but when Frank Buckles outlived every other American who'd served in World War I, he became what his...
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Florence Green, 110 (1901 - 2011)
DANICA KIRKA, The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Florence Green never saw the front line. Her war was spent serving food, not dodging bullets. But Green, who has died at age 110, was the last...
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Ed Mauser, 94 (1916 - 2011)
TIMBERLY ROSS, The Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A member of the "Band of Brothers" who fought in some of World War II's fiercest European battles, Ed Mauser shunned the limelight and kept...
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Liu Huaqing (2011)
The Associated PressBEIJING (AP) — Liu Huaqing, the father of the modern Chinese navy, has died at age 95.Liu died Friday morning of an undisclosed illness, state broadcaster CCTV said. No other...
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Maj. Richard "Dick" Winters, 92 (1918 - 2011)
RON TODT, The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Even as Parkinson's disease began taking its toll on Dick Winters, who led his "Band of Brothers" through some of World War II's fiercest...
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Jan Wiener, 90 (1920 - 2010)
The Associated PressPRAGUE (AP) — Jan Wiener, a Czech Jew who fought in the British air force during World War II after fleeing Nazis in Germany and Czechoslovakia, has died. He was 90 years old...
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Mihai Chitac (2010)
ALISON MUTLER, The Associated PressBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Former Romanian army general Mihai Chitac, convicted of trying to suppress the 1989 anti-communist revolution in a western city where...
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Israel Tal (2010)
DIAA HADID, The Associated PressJERUSALEM (AP) — Israel Tal, a decorated war hero and the creator of Israel's renowned "Merkava" tank, died in the Israeli town of Rehovot on Wednesday. He was age...
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Allen Dale June, 91 (2010)
The Associated Press WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Allen Dale June, one of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their...
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Micky Burn, 97 (1912 - 2010)
JILL LAWLESS, The Associated PressLONDON (AP) — Micky Burn, a British journalist, novelist and World War II commando who flirted with fascism, embraced communism and helped save the life of Audrey...
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Marcel Albert, 92 (1917 - 2010)
JAMEY KEATEN, The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Marcel Albert, a widely decorated World War II flying ace hailed as a hero of the French "Normandie-Niemen" squadron based in the Soviet Union,...
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Bill Millin, 88 (1922 - 2010)
The following article courtesy of The Wall Street Journal The Times of London As piper to a British army unit, Bill Millin was ordered to play "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" on his bagpipes as...
