Warren Minor Christopher (born October 27, 1925) is an American diplomat and lawyer. During Bill Clinton's first term as President, Christopher served as the 63rd Secretary of State. Born in Scranton, North Dakota, Christopher graduated from Hollywood High School and attended the University of Redlands where he joined the local fraternity Kappa Sigma Sigma.

Norman Scott (10 August 1889 - 13 November 1942) was an admiral in the United States Navy, who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Scott was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Appointed to the Naval Academy in 1907, he graduated four years later and received his commission as Ensign in March 1912. During 1911-13, Ensign Scott served in the battleship "Idaho", then served in destroyers and related duty.

James Bradley (c. February, 1954-) is an American author, specializing in historical nonfiction chronicling the Pacific theatre of World War II. His father, John Bradley, was one of six men who became famous for being photographed raising the American flag on Mt. Suribachi. That photograph has gone on to be the most duplicated and reproduced photo ever taken.

Robert K. Morgan (July 31 1918 - May 15 2004) was a United States Air Force colonel and pilot, from Asheville, North Carolina, and the commander of the B-17 Flying Fortress "Memphis Belle" during World War II. Morgan attended the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and entered the Army Air Corps in 1940. He won his pilot wings and was commissioned a second lieutenant December 12, 1941, then after advanced training at Walla Walla, Washington, …

Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915) is a bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including "The Caine Mutiny", "The Winds of War", and "War and Remembrance". Herman Wouk was born in New York City into a Jewish family that had emigrated from Russia. After a childhood and adolescence in the Bronx and a high school diploma from Townsend Harris High School, he earned an B.A. from Columbia University in 1934, …

Gilbert Gude, a Republican, was a former U.S. Congressman who represented the Maryland's 8th congressional district from January 3, 1967, to January 3, 1977. Gude was born in Washington, D.C. and was educated in the public schools of Rockville, Maryland, and Washington. He attended the University of Maryland, obtained his B.S. degree from Cornell University in 1948, and his M.S. degree from George Washington University in 1958.

James Cline Quayle (May 25, 1921 - July 7, 2000) was an American newspaper publisher and businessman who owned several newspapers in the United States including the "Huntington Herald-Press" in Indiana and the "Wickenburg Sun" in Arizona. He was the father of Dan Quayle, the 44th Vice-President of the United States. Quayle was born in Joliet, Illinois, the son of Robert H. and Marie Cline Quayle.

Lieutenant Commander Mannert Lincoln Abele, USN was a World War II submarine commander who posthumously received the Navy Cross for his heroism in the Pacific Theater. Abele was born 11 July 1903 in Quincy, Mass., enlisted in the United States Navy 12 August 1920; was appointed midshipman in June 1922; and was commissioned ensign 3 June 1926 following graduation from the United States Naval Academy. He completed training at the Naval Submarine Base New London, …

Isaac Woodard, often written Isaac Woodward, was an African American WWII veteran whose maiming hours after being discharged from the U.S. military sparked national outrage and had a profound impact on the growing civil rights movement in the United States. Woodard, born March 8, 1919, enlisted in 1943 and served in the Pacific Theater as a longshoreman. He earned a battle star, for unloading ships under fire in New Guinea, and a Good Conduct Medal, …

Shirley Lewis Povich (July 15, 1905 - June 4, 1998) became a sports columnist and reporter for the Washington Post in 1923. His parents were Jewish migrants from Lithuania. Having grown up in coastal Bar Harbor, Maine, far from a major league team, the first game he ever saw was a game for which he wrote the game story. In 1975, he was recipient of the Baseball Writers Association of America's J.G. Taylor Spink Award, the Baseball Hall of Fame honor for sportswriters.

Earl V. Shaffer (November 8, 1918 - May 5, 2002), was an American outdoorsman and author known from 1948 as The Crazy One (and eventually as The Original Crazy One) for attempting what became the first documented hiking trip over the entire length of the Appalachian Trail (AT). He also worked as a carpenter, a soldier specializing in radar and radio installation, and an antique dealer.

Lee Lorch (born 1915) is a mathematician and was an early civil rights activist. He was born in New York City and graduated from Cornell University in 1935 and obtained his PhD in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1941. He did mathematically related work for the war effort in a "draft exempt" job but quit in 1943 to enlist in the United States Army. He saw service in India and the Pacific Theater of World War II before being demobilized in 1946.

Nobuo Fujita was a Warrant Flying Officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy who flew a floatplane from a long-range submarine aircraft carrier, the "I-25", and conducted the only wartime aircraft-dropped bombing on the continental United States. Using incendiary bombs, his mission was to start massive forest fires in the Pacific Northwest outside the town of Brookings, Oregon, on 9 September 1942, …

Colonel Walker Melville 'Bud' Mahurin (b. December 5 1918, Benton Harbor, Michigan) is a retired officer of the United States Air Force (USAF). During World War II, while serving in the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), he was a notable flying ace. Bud Mahurin was the first American pilot to become a double ace in the European Theater and the only ace to shoot down enemy planes in both the European & Pacific Theaters and the Korean War.

Jack Guthrie (13 November 1915-15 January 1948) was born Leon Jerry Guthrie in Olive, Oklahoma, USA. He was a cousin of Woody Guthrie and had a hit record on the country and western charts with a rewritten version of a Woody Guthrie song "Oklahoma Hills" (1945). At the time the record became a hit Jack Guthrie was in the U.S. Army and stationed in the Pacific Theater. As soon as he got out of the service he wrote and recorded more songs, …

Rear Admiral Philip Daly Gallery (1907 - 1973) was U.S. Naval officer who served with distinction on Naval destroyers in the Pacific Theater during World War II, rising to the rank of Rear-Admiral. Philip Gallery graduated from the United States Naval Academy. During World War II, he was in command of the USS Jenkins - earning the Legion of Merit and two Bronze Stars for his heroic service.

Herbert Sargent (July 15, 1923-May 6, 2005) was an Emmy-winning US television writer and producer for such comedy shows as "The Tonight Show" and "Saturday Night Live". He was best known for his work on the SNL news spoof "Weekend Update." Born in Philadelphia, he is the older brother of Academy Award winning screenwriter, Alvin Sargent. Raised in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, Herb Sargent studied architecture at Penn State University.

John William Middendorf II (born September 22 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland) was a Republican United States diplomat. Middendorf received a Bachelor of Naval Science from College of the Holy Cross in 1945 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1947. He also graduated from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration, receiving an M.B.A. in 1954. and served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, fighting in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

Karl Jay Shapiro was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 10 November 1913, the son of Joseph and Sarah Omansky Shapiro. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning United States poet, famous for his poetry written in the Pacific Theater while he served there during World War II. His collection "V-Letter and Other Poems", written while Shapiro was stationed in New Guinea, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945, while Shapiro was still in the military.

Robert Lissauer (2 May, 1917 - 14 October, 2004) was an American composer, author, and musicologist. Born in New York City Lissauer attended the Juilliard School and then worked with Irving Berlin on his musical "This Is the Army". From this production "Yanks A Poppin" was developed as a show that could be performed for troops in the field. As a soldier in World War II, Lissauer managed a production unit that traveled across the Pacific Theater.

Walter James Sabalauski (1910 - 1993) was born in Lithuania. His family moved to the United States while he was a small child. From 1929 to 1937, he boxed professionally while living in the Chicago area. An auto accident ended his career with an outstanding record of only two defeats in 33 bouts. Command Sergeant Major Sabalauski entered the U.S. Army in June 1941. During World War II, he served in the Pacific Theater, fighting on the beachheads of the Solomon Islands, …

General James F. Collins commanded the U.S. Army, Pacific from April 1961 until his retirement in 1964, and was President of the American Red Cross from 1964 until 1970. A graduate of the United States Military Academy, he gained his commission in 1927 into the Field Artillery. He later attended the National War College. He also worked in the Hawaiian Division before the outbreak of World War II, during which he served exclusively in the Pacific Theater.

Alexis Felix du Pont, Jr. (October 2, 1905 - December 30, 1996) was an American aviation pioneer, soldier, philanthropist, and a member of the prominent Du Pont family. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of Alexis F. du Pont (1879-1948) and Mary Chichester (1878-1965), he was known as Felix. He developed an interest in aviation as a boy and took up flying, something he would do well into his late eighties.

Liston Bryan Ramsey (1919 - 2001) was a prominent and influential member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for nearly four decades. He was born in 1919 in rural Madison County, located deep in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina. He was the valedictorian of his senior class at Marshall High School in 1936, and two years later he earned an associate's degree from Mars Hill College, …

Bill Robinson (October 4 1918 - April 3 2007) was an American sailor, author and editor well known in the national and international sailing communities for his 27 nautical books, speaking engagements, and contributions to nautical publications. Born William Wheeler Robinson in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Bill attended Princeton University from 1935 to 1939, graduating with a degree in English.

William Josiah Crow (b. January 22 1902, Uniontown, Pennsylvania - October 13 1974, Carlisle, Pennsylvania) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. William J. Crow was the son of United States Senator William E. Crow. He was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Pennsylvania Military College at Chester, Pennsylvania in 1922 and from Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1925.

John C. Mackie (born June 1, 1920) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Mackie was born in Toronto and immigrated to the United States from Canada in 1924 with his parents, who settled in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Southeastern High School in Detroit in 1938 and attended Lawrence Institute of Technology, 1938-1939. He received a B.S. in Engineering from Michigan State University in 1942 and an honorary LL.D. from the same school in 1965.

George Michael Leader (born January 17, 1918) was the governor of Pennsylvania from January 18, 1955 until January 20, 1959. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and a native of York County, Pennsylvania. Currently he is the only person from that county ever to be elected governor of the state. George Leader was the third child of Guy and Beulah Leader. He grew up on their York County poultry farm, and was educated in a one-room schoolhouse.

Frank M. Coffin was born in Lewiston, Maine on July 11, 1919. He was educated in Lewiston public schools and graduated from Bates College in 1940. Coffin graduated from Harvard Business School in 1943, and Harvard Law School in 1947. Coffin served in the Pacific Theater with the United States Navy as an ensign and later as a lieutenant from 1943-1946. He was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Lewiston, Maine and was later a law clerk for Federal judge, …

Lieutenant General Alan Shapley (February 9 1903 - May 13 1973) was a United States Marine Corps officer who survived the sinking of the USS "Arizona" during the World War II Attack on Pearl Harbor, and went on to serve with distinction in the Pacific Theater and later in the Korean War. He was awarded the Silver Star for his gallantry on December 7 1941, and later the Navy Cross for his extraordinary heroism during the Battle of Guam.

Robert Donald Taplett (1919 - December 17, 2004) was a highly decorated United States Marine who was most notable for commanding 3rd Battalion 5th Marines during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War for which he was awarded the Navy Cross - the second highest medal for valor in the United States Armed Forces. Taplett served with distinction in the Marine Corps for 20 years. He served aboard ship in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

William Brandon was an American writer and historian. Brandon was born in Kokomo, Indiana, but spent his childhood in various locales, including the Yucatán and New Mexico. He began working as a professional writer in 1938, although this was interrupted by his service as a photographer for the United States Army Air Forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II. During his long career Brandon published a variety of short fiction, essays, and poetry, …

James Shanahan joined ROTC at Niagara University and was commissioned in 1942 following his graduation. He was initially given a command in the 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He served as a platoon leader and company commender for this unit in the Pacific theater during the Second World War. Following the end of the war he returned to the United States to serve as an aide in the Truman White House.