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Florent Groberg
Florent Groberg is a French-born, naturalized American retired Army captain who received the Medal of Honor for stopping a suicide bomber in Afghanistan in 2012.
Floyd James Thompson
Floyd James "Jim" Thompson (1933–2002), U.S. Army Special Forces colonel, was captured in South Vietnam on March 26, 1964 and held 3,278 days, the longest of any American POW in history, released March 16, 1973.
Foday Kaba Dumbuya
Foday Kaba Dumbuya (about 1818 to 1901), also spelled Fodé Kaba Doumbouya, was a Jakhanke marabout and warrior who built a military-religious state in the Senegambia borderlands and Casamance.
Francesco Baracca
Francesco Baracca (9 May 1888, Lugo – 19 June 1918, Montello) was Italy's leading First World War fighter ace, with 34 victories in 63 combats. His black prancing horse emblem became Ferrari's logo and an Italian Air Force insignia.
Francis Crozier
Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier (1796–1848), Irish Royal Navy captain from Banbridge, County Down; Parry Arctic voyages 1821–27, captain of HMS Terror on Ross's Antarctic expedition 1839–43, and commander of the Franklin expedition after Franklin's 1847 death.
Francis Gary Powers
Francis Gary Powers, also known as Gary Powers, was an American CIA U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 and exchanged for a Soviet spy in 1962.
Francis Marion
Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox" (c. 1732–1795), was a South Carolina planter and Revolutionary War brigadier general whose guerrilla raids against British supply lines after the 1780 fall of Charleston, and his evasion of Banastre Tarleton, made him a famed partisan leader.
Francis Preston Blair Jr.
Francis Preston Blair Jr. (Frank Blair, 1821–1875), Missouri congressman, Union major general who helped keep Missouri in the Union, 1868 Democratic vice-presidential nominee, and U.S. senator 1871–1873.
Francisco Bolognesi
Francisco Bolognesi Cervantes was a Peruvian army colonel who commanded the defense of Arica in the War of the Pacific and died when Chilean forces stormed the Morro on 7 June 1880.
Francisco de Miranda
Francisco de Miranda (1750-1816), Venezuelan-born Precursor of Spanish American independence; served in Spanish, French, and Venezuelan armies; wrote federal constitutional projects; left the 63-volume Colombeia archive; died in Cádiz prison.
Francisco Hernández Girón
Francisco Hernández Girón was a Spanish conquistador and encomendero in Peru who led the last major encomendero uprising against royal authority from 1553 to 1554.
Francisco Javier Mina
Francisco Javier Mina (1789–1817) was a Spanish guerrilla leader from Navarre who fought the French in the Peninsular War and later the insurgency in New Spain.
Franciszek Kleeberg
Franciszek Kleeberg (1888–1941) was a Polish general who commanded Independent Operational Group "Polesie" in the Battle of Kock, the last battle of the 1939 campaign.
François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé
François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé (1739–1800) was a French general and colonial administrator who seized several British Caribbean islands and organized Louis XVI's 1791 flight from Paris.
François Darlan
François Darlan (1881–1942), French admiral of the fleet and Pétain's designated successor at Vichy, drove collaboration including the Paris Protocols, then switched to the Allies after Torch and was assassinated in Algiers by Bonnier de la Chapelle.
François Joseph Lefebvre
François Joseph Lefebvre, duc de Dantzig (1755-1820), French marshal and peer; sergeant in the gardes françaises who fought at Fleurus, backed 18 Brumaire, took Danzig's 1807 capitulation, and led the Old Guard in Russia and France.
François Joseph Paul de Grasse
François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse, was a French admiral whose fleet won the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781, leading to the British surrender at Yorktown.
François l'Olonnais
François l'Olonnais, born Jean-David Nau, was a French buccaneer based on Tortuga in the Caribbean who led the sack of Maracaibo in 1667 and was feared for torturing Spanish captives.
Frank Friday Fletcher
Frank Friday Fletcher (1855–1928), USNA class of 1875, was a U.S. Navy rear admiral who led the 1914 Veracruz landing and won the Medal of Honor; uncle of Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher and namesake of USS Fletcher (DD-445).
Frank Hamer
Frank Hamer (Francis Augustus Hamer, 1884-1955) was a Texas Ranger captain who led the 102-day manhunt and six-man posse that ambushed Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Louisiana on May 23, 1934, later winning a defamation suit over his 1967 film portrayal.
Frank Jack Fletcher
Frank Jack Fletcher (April 1885–1973), American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient at Veracruz 1914, commanded Task Force 17 at Coral Sea, Midway, and Eastern Solomons, the first three carrier battles; reputation later rehabilitated by Lundstrom.
Frank James
Frank James (Alexander Franklin James, 1843-1915), older brother of Jesse James, Confederate guerrilla with Quantrill at Lawrence, James-Younger Gang bank and train robber, acquitted at 1883 Gallatin trial, later Wild West showman.
Frank Merrill
Frank Dow Merrill (1903–1955), American major general, West Point class of 1929 and Japanese-language officer, commanded the 5307th Composite Unit, Merrill's Marauders, in Burma 1944, capturing Myitkyina airfield before heart trouble ended his field command.
Frank País
Frank País, also known as Frank País García, was a Cuban revolutionary leader who built the urban underground of Castro's Twenty-Sixth of July Movement and led the Santiago uprising of 1956.
Frank Ross McCoy
Frank Ross McCoy (1874–1954) was a United States Army major general and soldier-diplomat who chaired the Far Eastern Commission overseeing occupied Japan from 1945 to 1949.
Frank Serpico
Frank Serpico (born 1936) is a retired Italian-American NYPD detective who exposed department-wide bribery with David Durk, prompting the 1970 Knapp Commission; he was shot in 1971 and became the subject of Peter Maas's book and Sidney Lumet's 1973 film with Al Pacino.
Frank Wead
Frank Wilber "Spig" Wead (1895–1947) was a U.S. Navy aviator, test pilot, and Schneider Cup racer who, after a paralyzing 1927 fall, became a Hollywood screenwriter promoting naval aviation; John Wayne played him in The Wings of Eagles (1957).
Frank Wills (security guard)
Frank Wills (1948-2000), American security guard at the Watergate Office Building who discovered the June 17, 1972 break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters, triggering the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation; died poor in Augusta, Georgia.
Franklin Buchanan
Franklin Buchanan (1800–1874), first superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, resigned in 1861 to join the Confederate Navy, commanded CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads and CSS Tennessee at Mobile Bay, and became the Confederacy's ranking naval officer.
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf was an Austrian field marshal and chief of the Austro-Hungarian general staff from 1906 to 1917, a leading advocate of preventive war.