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** Douglas Munro, 22. He was the ONLY Coast Guardsman to win the Medal of Honor. Which he got during Guadalcanal, by drawing enemy fire to himself while juggling the evacuation of 500 Marines.
* Werner Göring, the nephew of Luftwaffe chief, Hermann Göring. Werner was borned in the United States, joined the USAAF, and flew B-17s...with Jack Rencher, who was considered as "uniquely qualified" and was ordered to shoot him if the latter ever attempted to land in Germany. However, Rencher related that Göring was a first rate pilot, and that was the only time he was less eager to rain destruction on Germany was when Cologne was their target, since his grandmother lived there. Nevertheless, Göring who stated that Rencher could have been easily excused from the mission, pressed on and carried it out.
* ULTRA - The German and Japanese codes being decrypted, as well as the huge deception effort to make sure the Germans did not find out. It's Generally believed to have shortened WW2 by two years.
** Resulting in the creation of the world's first electronic computer.
* USS Enterprise (CV-6) was the first ship that gain the Presidential Unit Citation (Which is the highest honor for a US unit) and participated in tons of major actions than any other US ship (20 battle stars). During one point, it was the only battle-ready carrier in the Pacific. Plus, it was the only foreign vessel to receive the Royal Navy's British Admiralty Pennant during it's 400 year history awards.
** The name was also re-used for the world's first nuclear carrier and a certain [[Star Trek]] vessel.
** That time, the ''Enterprise'' was also the sole Allied Carrier in the Pacific, her captain hoisted a sign containing three words that sums up his crew's determination: "''Enterprise vs. Japan.''
** During the later part of the war, the Japanese became so obsessed with destroying the ''Enterprise'' that any time they spotted an American carrier, it was almost inevitably reported as an "Enterprise-class" carrier. Regardless, by this point, the ''Enterprise'' was the sole surviving ship of her class (which was actually the ''Yorktown''-class), and the majority of American fleet carriers are now the ''Essex''-class, which are larger and more power.
* The Doolittle Raid.
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