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Articles to start

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Songs

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WWI

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WWII

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Other

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People

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Historians

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Former servicemembers
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  • Mark DePue, historian & retired military officer
  • Paul H. Herbert, historian, retired Army colonel, and Executive Director of the Cantigny First Division Foundation
  • Robert C. Doyle, historian & retired naval intelligence officer
Military historians
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Military people

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Currently serving
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  • Eric Wesley (soldier), Brigadier General, currently Deputy Commanding General (Support) and Acting Senior Commander of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division
  • Joseph Streff, current Alaska Army National Guard commander
Veterans
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World War I & World War II Leaders & Personalities
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  • Richard L. Alexander, WWII ace
  • Charles Cooper King, British Army officer and author
  • John Walter Beresford Merewether, Indian Army officer and author of The Indian Corps in France
  • Charles Boswell Norman, British Army officer and author of Battle Honours of the British Army
  • Walter Francis Stirling, Lt. Col., D.S.O., M.C.
  • Daniel J. Canty, 1880-1968, served with 9th Mass. Infantry, N.G. and was Instructor of Bugles for Service Schools
  • William E. R. Covell, Director of Fuels and Lubricants, Office of Quartermaster General (1943–1944); Commanded Services of Supply China-Burma-India Theater (1944–1945)
  • Thomas J. Hanley Jr., Commanded Air Service Command, Army Air Forces China-Burma-India Theater (1944–1945), Eleventh Air Force (1946–1948)
  • Thomas G. Hearn, Chief of Staff China-Burma-India Theater (1944); Commanded Infantry Replacement Training Center (1944–1945)
  • James A. Lester, Commanded 24th Division Artillery, XIV Corps Artillery, 24th Infantry Division
  • Leroy H. Watson, Commanded 3rd Armored Division (1943–1944), 29th Infantry Division (1944–1945)
  • Arthur A. White, Chief of Staff, U.S. Seventh Army (1944–1945); Commanded 75th Infantry Division and 71st Infantry Division (1945–1946)
  • Carl C. Bank, Artillery Officer Allied Forces Headquarters, North African Theater of Operations (1942–44); Commanded 13th Field Artillery Brigade (1944–1945)
  • Frederic W. Boye, Served in China (1944–1945)
  • Charles M. Busbee, Commanded 102nd Division Artillery (1942–1946)
  • Michael F. Davis, Commanded 78th Flying Training Wing (1944–1945), Army Air Force Central Flying Training Command (1945–1946)
  • Reese M. Howell, Commanded 4th, 17th, and 13th Field Artillery Brigades (1940–1944); Assistant Division Commander 82nd Airborne Division (1944); Commanded 9th Infantry Division Artillery (1944–1946)
  • Pearson Menoher, Chief of Staff XV Corps and Seventh Army (1943–1945); Commanded 24th Infantry Division in the Korean War (1949–1950)
  • Lehman W. Miller, Chief of Military Mission to Brazil (1940–1942); Commanded Engineer Replacement Training Center, Fort Belvoir (1942–1944)
  • Earl L. Naiden, Chief of Staff, Ferry Command, China-Burma-India Theater of Operations (1942); Chief of Staff Tenth Air Force (1942)
  • Barney Oldfield, COL USAF and author; served in public affairs; here's the link to his obit http://articles.latimes.com/2003/apr/28/local/me-passings28.3
  • Hume Peabody, Commandant Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics (1942–1944); Commanded III Tactical Air Command (1942–1944)
Other
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  • Amanda Mathew, the first woman to lead a deployed combat arms platoon
  • Louis Auguste Adrian, (1859-August 1933) French Army officer and intendant-general who designed the helmet worn by French soldiers during WWI
  • Michael Calhoun, 22nd adjutant general for Florida and the first African American adjutant general for Florida
  • Paul Swiergosz, United States army officer
  • Pryce Lewis, Union spy during the Civil War ; see Spies for the Blue and the Gray and Spies & Spymasters of the Civil War
  • Ruth Hammond Broe, Colonel in USMCR, received posthumously the The Colonel Julia E. Hamblet Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for her work in furthering "the recognition of the history of women who have earned the title Marine"
  • Sean Parnell (soldier)
  • William J. Reilly, U.S.N. during WWI who had his portrait featured on WWI music scores

Musicians

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Artists

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Authors

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Journalists

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Scientists

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  • Ian Hurd, assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University
  • James Schwoch, Associate Professor at Northwestern University in both the Center for International and Comparative Studies and the Department of Communication Studies
  • Lester E. Fisher, zoologist and program guest on Pritzker Military Presents

Activists

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Public servants

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  • Edward G. Buikema, Regional Director of Region V of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  • Harold B. Hinton, former Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs ‎
  • Jeffrey Murawsky, current candidate for undersecretary of health at the Department of Veterans of Affairs
  • Richard E. Friedman, served as the Regional Director (Midwest) for the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and was President and Chair, National Strategy Forum, Inc.
  • Cortez Trotter, was Executive Director, Office of Emergency Management and Communications for the city of Chicago

Other

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Literature

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Events

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Ships

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Organizations

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Military formations

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Articles to improve

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Military history articles needing citations

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Translations

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Especially into French, Spanish, German, and Russian

Any of the above articles, plus

  1. ^ http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-donald-casey-obituary-20160410-story.html
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