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Military & Spies

Moe Berg

Baseball Player/Spy

Moe Berg was a major league baseball player, brilliant scholar and World War II spy.

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Wilhelm Frankl

Fighter Pilot, WW I

Wilhelm Frankl was a fighter pilot in the German Luftwaffe during World War I who amassed 20 victories and won the Blue Max, making him a German war hero.

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Frank Alexander de Pass

Lieutenant, British Army

World War I hero and first Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross.

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Maurice Rose

Maj. General, U.S. Army

Maurice Rose, from a family of rabbis, went on to become the highest ranking Jew in the United States Army.

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Ben L. Salomon

Captain, U.S. Army

During World War II, Ben Salomon, a dentist by trade, single-handedly fought off scores of Japanese soldiers on Saipan posthumously earning him the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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Adolphus Sterne

Captain, U.S. Military

Adolphus Sterne was a major player in the many battles by Texans against Mexico in the 1830s as well as a participant in the Cherokee Wars.

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