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2. The Purple Heart - Wikipedia

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   The Purple Heart is a 1944 American war film, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, directed by Lewis Milestone, and starring Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Don "Red" Barry, Sam Levene and Trudy Marshall. Eighteen-year-old Farley Granger had a supporting role. The film is a dramatization of the "show trial" of a number of US airmen by the Japanese ...

3. Purple Heart - Wikipedia

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   The original Purple Heart, designated as the Badge of Military Merit, was established by George Washington – then the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army – by order from his Newburgh, New York, headquarters on 7 August 1782. The Badge of Military Merit was only awarded to three Revolutionary War soldiers by Washington himself.

4. Battle of Carentan - Wikipedia

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   Hundreds wounded. 800+ KIA. The Battle of Carentan was an engagement in World War II between airborne forces of the United States Army and the German Wehrmacht during the Battle of Normandy. The battle took place between 6 and 13 June 1944, on the approaches to and within the town of Carentan, France. [1]

5. Veteran to be honored 70 years after refusing a Purple Heart

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   (Reuters) - An 89-year-old U.S. World War Two veteran who was wounded when his plane crashed in occupied France in 1944 is due to be honored on Saturday with a medal he declined 70 years ago.

6. WWII veteran surprised with Purple Heart 70 years later - AOL

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   A World War II veteran was finally awarded a Purple Heart Thursday after earning it 70 years ago. And the whole ceremony was one big surprise. Chris Henry told WLUK: "It is our honor to present to ...

7. WWII soldiers posthumously receive Purple Heart medals 79 ...

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   Army records indicate only two of the 31 ever received Purple Heart me. ... They five had been inducted in January 1944 after the MIS, desperate to get more recruits, sent a team to Hawaii to find ...

8. John Steele (paratrooper) - Wikipedia

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   Battles/wars. World War II. Operation Overlord. Awards. Bronze Star. Purple Heart. Private John Marvin Steele (November 29, 1912 – May 16, 1969) was the American paratrooper who landed on the pinnacle of the church tower in Sainte-Mère-Église, the first village to be liberated by the United States Army during Operation Overlord on June 6, 1944.

9. Annie Fox (nurse) - Wikipedia

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   Nationality. American. Occupation (s) Officer, US Army Nurse Corps. Maj. Annie G. Fox (August 4, 1893 – January 20, 1987) was a Canadian-born American, the first woman to receive the Purple Heart for combat. [1] She served as the chief nurse in the Army Nurse Corps at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941.