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José Manuel Mireles Valverde
José Manuel Mireles Valverde (1958–2020), Mexican physician from Tepalcatepec, Michoacán; founder and spokesperson of the 2013 autodefensas against the Knights Templar cartel; imprisoned 2014–2017, acquitted 2018, later ISSSTE subdelegate; died of COVID-19.
Joseph Beyrle
Joseph Robert Beyrle, known as "Jumpin' Joe," was an American 101st Airborne paratrooper who fought for both US and Soviet armies against Hitler in World War II.
Joseph Broussard
Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil (1702-1765), Acadian resistance leader against British rule in Nova Scotia, Fort Beauséjour defender, exile to Louisiana via Saint-Domingue, first Acadian militia captain at Attakapas; 2022 National Historic Person.
Joshua Wheeler
Joshua Lloyd Wheeler (November 1975 – October 22, 2015), Cherokee Nation citizen from Roland, Oklahoma, was a U.S. Army Delta Force master sergeant and the first American killed in action against ISIS during Operation Inherent Resolve, in the Hawija hostage-rescue raid that freed about 70 hostages.
Julio Aro
Julio Aro is an Argentine veteran of the 1982 Falklands War who drove the identification of over 100 anonymous Argentine soldiers buried at the Darwin Cemetery.
Ken Rhee
Ken Rhee (Rhee Keun), former ROK Navy UDT/SEAL lieutenant and dual Korean-US SEAL training graduate, became a Korean TV personality via Fake Men and fought as a volunteer in Ukraine in 2022.
Kermit Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt (1889-1943), second son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was an author, explorer, and soldier who served in both British and U.S. armies in two world wars, founded the Roosevelt Steamship Company, and died by suicide in Alaska in 1943; distinct from his son Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the CIA officer.
Kim Jong Suk (김정숙)
Kim Jong Suk (김정숙), first wife of Kim Il Sung and mother of Kim Jong Il, was an anti-Japanese guerrilla who died in 1949; North Korea built her personality cult from the late 1970s as Mother of Revolution.
Kris Paronto
Kris "Tanto" Paronto, former Army Ranger and CIA Global Response Staff contractor, was a Benghazi annex security team member on September 11, 2012; co-author of 13 Hours, portrayed by Pablo Schreiber, and founder of the 14th Hour Foundation.
Lafayette G. Pool
Lafayette G. Pool, also known as Lafayette Green Pool, was an American tank commander credited with destroying 258 German armored vehicles, including 12 tanks, in 1944.
Last surviving United States war veterans
Last surviving United States war veterans: the final living US veteran of each war, from Daniel F. Bakeman (Revolutionary War, died 1869) to Frank Buckles (WWI, died 2011), with VA-verified Civil War namesakes Woolson and Crump and shrinking WWII cohorts.
Lauri Törni
Lauri Allan Törni (Larry A. Thorne, 1919–1965), Finnish Mannerheim Cross knight, Waffen-SS officer 1941 and 1945, and US Army Special Forces major killed in Vietnam; convicted of treason, pardoned 1948, buried at Arlington.
LaVoy Finicum
Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, Arizona rancher and spokesman for the 2016 Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation, was shot dead by Oregon State Police on January 26, 2016, at an FBI roadblock after fleeing a traffic stop; the shooting triggered an FBI agent's trial and a DOJ Inspector General review.
Léo Major
Léo Major (1921–2008), French-Canadian sniper of the Régiment de la Chaudière, single-handedly drove German forces from Zwolle on 13–14 April 1945, sparing the city bombardment; twice awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
Leonard Siffleet
Leonard George Siffleet (1916-1943), Australian sergeant of M Special Unit, executed by beheading at Aitape, New Guinea, on 24 October 1943; his execution photograph, found on a dead Japanese soldier, became one of WWII's best-known images.
Levison Wood
Levison Wood, British explorer, author, and TV presenter; Parachute Regiment veteran; walked the Nile in 2013-14 and the Himalayas, Americas, and Arabia in Channel 4 and Discovery series.
Lewis Nixon III
Lewis Nixon III (1918–1995), U.S. Army captain and Easy Company intelligence officer, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; D-Day, Market Garden, Varsity veteran; Band of Brothers figure.
List of snipers
List of snipers: named military marksmen including Timothy Murphy, Vasili Zaitsev, Simo Häyhä, Carlos Hathcock, and Rob Furlong, whose 2,430-meter shot in Afghanistan in March 2002 is the record confirmed in these sources.
List of United States Navy SEALs
List of United States Navy SEALs: notable current and former members of the Naval Special Warfare teams founded in 1962, spanning Vietnam veterans like Rudy Boesch, Medal of Honor recipients such as Michael P. Murphy, and recent losses including Chambers and Ingram.
Louis Till
Louis Till, father of Emmett Till, was a U.S. Army private executed by court-martial in Italy in 1945 for rape and murder; his LT signet ring later identified his son's body, and his 1955 disclosure was used against the Till family.
Lynndie England
Lynndie England (born 1982), US Army Reserve private of the 372nd MP Company, became the face of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse photos in 2004; convicted by court-martial in September 2005 and sentenced to three years.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Lyudmila Pavlichenko (Людмила Павличенко), "Lady Death," Soviet Red Army sniper of the 25th Rifle Division, credited with 309 confirmed kills at Odessa and Sevastopol, Hero of the Soviet Union, and 1942 Allied tour figure.
Madge Clifford
Madge Clifford, born Margaret Mary Clifford, was a Kerry member of Cumann na mBan who ran guns for the IRA during Ireland's War of Independence.
Mahmud Ahmad
Mahmud Ahmad is a name shared by several individually documented servicemen of the early twentieth century, including South Asian soldiers of the First and Second World Wars.
Manpreet Singh (soldier)
Colonel Manpreet Singh (died 2023), Indian Army officer and third-generation soldier, commanded 19 Rashtriya Rifles in Anantnag, Kashmir; Sena Medal recipient who refused a peace posting, killed in the Kokernag terrorist encounter with Major Ashish Dhonchak and DSP Himayun Bhat. Not the Agniveer soldier Amritpal Singh nor politician Manpreet Badal.
Manuel Artime
Manuel Artime (Manuel Francisco Artime Buesa, 1932–1977), Cuban physician and anti-Castro revolutionary, civil leader of Brigade 2506 at the Bay of Pigs, later headed the CIA-backed AMWORLD exile commando operation from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, 1963–1965.
Manuela Sáenz
Manuela Sáenz (Manuelita Sáenz, La Libertadora), Quito 1797 – Paita 1856, was an Ecuadorean independence figure, Order of the Sun recipient, Bolívar's archivist and ally, and savior of his life in 1828.
Marc Alan Lee
Marc Alan Lee (1978–2006), Navy SEAL of Hood River, Oregon, Charlie Platoon SEAL Team 3, first Navy SEAL killed in Iraq, died August 2, 2006 in Ramadi; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Valor, Purple Heart.
Mariya Oktyabrskaya
Mariya Oktyabrskaya (Мария Октябрьская) was a Soviet tank driver in the Red Army who, after her husband was killed in 1941, bought a T-34 named Fighting Girlfriend and became a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Mark Bingham
Mark Bingham was an American public relations executive and rugby player from San Francisco who fought back against the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.