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Edward J. Perkins was a diplomat who became the first Black U.S.

Reginald Brewster was a lawyer who served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as a Tuskegee Airman, the legendary group of black pilots and support staff.Brewster served in England and France during the war as the secretary to the base commander.

This group of “Gold Rush” miners is like none of their predecessors on the top-rated Discovery series.“Gold Rush” returns Friday for Season 11 with a two-hour episode (8-10 p.m.) and a new mining boss: Fred Lewis, a former special forces medical sergeant and linguist who’s assembled a team of five veteran pals to dig for gold in a ghost town near Sumpter, Ore.“They’ve all overcome obstacles,” says Lewis, 42, who took a bullet to the helmet in Afghanistan.

Alexander Horanzy was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II who was a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor.Horanzy was stationed with the 24th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks on December 7, 1941, when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor.

William Gates Sr. was a lawyer and philanthropist who was the father of Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates.Born and raised in Washington state, Gates was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and earned his law degree at the University of Washington after the war.

Malcolm Nettingham was one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, the group of elite Black pilots and airmen who fought in World War II.Nettingham was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1944, while the U.S.

Robert Kehoe was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II who was honored with the Distinguished Service Cross for his work with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to aid the French Resistance.Kehoe joined the Army Signal Corps as a radio operator when the U.S.

th anniversary event held in Normandy.  Pickett joined the U.S. Army at the age of 18.

Col. Steve dePyssler was a U.S.

A.C. “Tony” King was a U.S.

Jim Jarvis was a U.S. Navy veteran who was the oldest remaining survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

When Air Force Senior Master Sgt. John Pighini watches movies about the Vietnam war, he sees things that few others do. And the details bother him.