- Douglas MacArthur
Jean Marie Faircloth (December 28, 1898 in Nashville, Tennessee - January 22, 2000), was a socialite and philanthropist. After attending Ward-Belmont College, Faircloth married MacArthur on April 30, 1937. They remained married until the general's death in 1964. She called him "Sir Boss". In her later years she often gave speeches on her late husband's military career. She died at the age of 101 of natural causes on January 22, 2000 in New York City.
- Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (4 February 1902 - 26 August 1974), known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle," was an American pilot famous for the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic, from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, NY to Paris in 1927 in the "Spirit of St. Louis." In the ensuing deluge of notoriety, Lindbergh became the world's best-known aviator. Charles Lindbergh is a recipient of the Medal of Honor. In the years prior to World War II, …
- Herman Wouk
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, …
- Robert Morgan
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, …
- Warren Christopher
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
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.
- Samuel B. Griffith
Brigidier General Samuel B. Griffith (May 31, 1906 - March 27, 1983), was an officer and commander in the United States Marine Corps. Griffith entered the Marines in 1929 after graduating from the United States Naval Academy. He served in and commanded Marine units in the Pacific theater of World War II and retired from service in 1956. After his retirement, Griffith authored several books and numerous articles on military history and lectured widely.
- Bill Robinson
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.
- Fred Blassie
Fred Blassie (February 8, 1918 - June 2, 2003), better known as "Classy" Freddie Blassie, was an American professional wrestler and manager born in St. Louis, Missouri who was a popular wrestling villain. He was a master at antagonizing the crowd, and inspired legendary animosity.
- Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy (May 8, 1912 - May 19, 1993) was an award winning screenwriter born in Boston, Massachusetts. Murphy worked for Literary Digest in the 1930s before leaving in 1937 to work in the short film department at MGM. Murphy's first screenwriting credit was for providing the story for "Back in the Saddle", a 1941 Gene Autry western. While in the Army Air Forces during WWII, …
- Karl Shapiro
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.
- Wendell Fertig
Wendell Fertig (b.1900 - d.1975) was an American civil engineer in the Philippines, who became a leader of a guerrilla force in the Japanese-occupied Southern Philippine island of Mindanao during World War II. Fertig was commissioned as a Captain (reserve) in the United States Army Corps of Engineers at the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific theater (1941).
- Nobuo Fujita
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, …
- Shirley Povich
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.
- Akinosuka Oka
Akinosuka Oka was a colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army and a commander of Japanese troops during the strategically significant Guadalcanal campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II. Oka commanded a portion of Japanese troops from the 35th Infantry Brigade in a losing effort during the Battle of Edson's Ridge in September, 1942. He later successfully defended the Matanikau River area during the September, 1942 Matanikau action.
- Mannert L. Abele
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, …
- Ed Derwinski
Edward Joseph Derwinski (b. September 15 1926) was the first Cabinet-level United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, serving under President George H.W. Bush from March 15, 1989 to September 26, 1992.
- J. William Middendorf
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.
- Gene L. Coon
Gene L. Coon (7 January 1924 - 8 July 1973) was an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for his work on "Star Trek: The Original Series". Gene Coon served in the United States Marine Corps for four years in and after World War II, seeing combat in the Pacific theater and serving in China and in occupied Japan. Gene Coon wrote mainly for television.
- George M. Leader
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.
- Jack Guthrie
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, …
- Walter Tevis
Walter Tevis was an American novelist and short story author. His books became the sources for several major films.
- Art Arfons
Art Arfons (born February 3, 1926 in Akron, Ohio) was the world land speed record holder three times in 1964 - 1965 with his "Green Monster" series of jet-powered cars, after a series of "Green Monster" piston-engine and jet-engined dragsters. He subsequently went on to field a succession of "Green Monster" turbine-engined pulling tractors, before returning to land speed record racing.
- William Brandon
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, …
- Bruce van Voorhis
Bruce Avery Van Voorhis (29 January 1908 - 6 July 1943) was a United States Navy aviator who was shot down in the Pacific theater during World War II. For his heroic action on July 6 1943, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
- James F. Collins
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.
- John Hinde
John Hamilton Hinde (1914 - 4 July, 2006) was an Australian broadcaster and film reviewer. He worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for more than fifty years, in both television and radio. Hinde was also one of Australia's first foreign correspondents, reporting from the Pacific Theater during World War II. Upon his death he bequeathed $1 million to start a literary prize in honour of his late wife.
- Jeremiah O'Leary
Jeremiah O'Leary (d. 1993) was an American newspaper reporter and columnist. He served as a U.S. Marine in the Pacific theater during World War II and fought in the invasions of New Britain, Guam and Peleliu. He also served in Korea during the Korean War. After the war, he was a reporter for the "Washington Star-News" (later called the "Washington Star"), focusing on defense and foreign policy issues.
- Earl Shaffer
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.
- Isaac Woodard
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, …
- John C. Mackie
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.
- Philip D. Gallery
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.
- Walter James Sabalauski
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, …
- Alan Shapley
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.
- Herb Sargent
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.
- Gilbert Gude
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.
- Barry K. Atkins
Admiral Barry Kennedy Atkins (1911 - 15 November, 2005) was an officer of the United States Navy best known for his achievements as a destroyer captain in World War II. Atkins graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1932, and was commissioned as a career naval officer. He commanded the destroyer "USS Melvin" in the Pacific Theater of World War II, …
- James C. Quayle
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.
- Lee Lorch
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.
- Frank M. Coffin
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, …