Military

Explore the fascinating world of celebrities who have served in the military. Discover their military backgrounds and intriguing stories.

Harry Bernard Allen

One of Britain's last official executioners

Canadian astronaut

Soviet military figure, Guards Lieutenant General of Artillery, Hero of the Great Patriotic War

William Calcraft

A famous English executioner of the 19th century

Albert Pierrepoint

Hereditary executioner; Great Britain's State Executioner

Herberts Cukurs

Latvian executioner

Flight commander of the 123rd Fighter Aviation Regiment

Aleksandr Voloshin

Hero of the Soviet Union

Kazakh commander

Herbert Huppertz

German Luftwaffe pilot ace

Gunter Kutzschebauch

GDR naval figure, vice admiral

Lavrentiy Tsanava

Soviet counterintelligence officer

Azerbaijani military leader, khan and politician

Soviet intelligence officer, Hero of the Soviet Union

August Dieckmann

German Waffen SS officer during World War II, recipient of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.

Jean Dominique Compans

One of the commanders of the French Grand Army

Lawrence Sullivan (Sul Ross)

Confederate army cavalryman

Sniper, Hero of the Soviet Union

Alexey Burdeyny

Soviet military figure, Colonel General, Hero of the Soviet Union

Juan Senen Contreras

Spanish general.

State executioner of France from 1951 to 1976.

British and Latvian military leader.

Commander of Philip II and Alexander the Great.

American balloonist who, together with his crew, was the first to cross the Pacific Ocean in a Double Eagle V balloon in November 1981,

Mihail Guryanov

Commissar of the partisan detachment, Hero of the Soviet Union

Pavel Mashtakov

Participant of the Great Patriotic War

SS-Oberscharführer during World War II

Napoleon's comrade-in-arms, Marshal of France, Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moscow (1812).

Frank Frederick Borman

Brigadier General, United States Air Force.

Member of the underground organization 'Young Guard'.

Political and military figure of the GDR, Colonel General (1966).

Vitaliy Beluyzhenko

Colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union

Haim Krasnokutsky

Major General, Hero of the Soviet Union

Alexander Kutsenko

Soviet military leader, military educator, major general

German military officer, field marshal general

Aleksander Letuchij

Bomber pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, Heroes of the Soviet-Finnish war

Nikolay Biryukov

Soviet military leader, lieutenant general

Margareta Bolli

Soviet intelligence officer

Vladimir Zaimov

Bulgarian military leader, artillery general

Kirill Orlovskiy

One of the leaders of the partisan movement in Belarus.

Janis Teodors Indans

German tank ace of World War II

Deputy Commander of the 2nd Guards Order of Lenin, Twice Red Banner, Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky

Valeriy Chistyakov

Major General of the Soviet Army

Alexander Konstantinov

Colonel of the Border Troops of the KGB of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union.

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