Shelby Dawson will be awarded the Purple Heart on January 6, 2018. The process usually takes up to 180 days but the US Navy told the I-Team, due to Dawson's health issues, it is "rushing" the process.

According to military records, D’Amelio was a seaman 2nd class who served in the US Navy and went missing in action when the USS Little sank in the Solomon Islands on September 5, 1942, during WWII.

80 years later, veteran of WWI and WWII receives Purple Heart at the Navy Reserve Readiness and Mobilization Fort Worth Command. Posted: September 10, 2024 | Last updated: March 1, 2025 ...

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Clara Cunningham Osborne, sister of Navy Seaman First Class James Cunningham, who was awarded a posthumous Purple Heart for his service during World War II.

Ensign Rubin Keltch was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and the Purple Heart, which was lost until recently. NEW YORK — A lost Purple Heart medal is being returned to the family of a New ...

A World War II sailor’s family will be reunited with his Purple Heart medal that was accidentally donated to a Goodwill in Tucson, Arizona.

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OTTAWA, Ill. — A Purple Heart medal, lost for decades, has been returned to a World War II soldier's family in Illinois. The (Kankakee) Daily Journal reports the medal belonged to William T ...

EXETER — Ann Darby Reynolds’ story of receiving a Purple Heart for her service as a nurse during the Vietnam War has been told by others in the past. Now, it is being told for the first time ...

The mystery of a lost Purple Heart awarded to a Dorchester sailor killed in World War II appears to be solved, ... awarded after Farren died while serving in the US Navy in the Pacific in 1944, ...

May 1, 2013: World War II veteran Charles Bledsoe, 88, left, talks with U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., as he's awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star for injuries sustained in combat at the ...

SHOWS US WHY THIS IS SUCH A CHALLENGE TO TRACK THIS DOWN. >> WHEN SOMEONE FOUND THIS PURPLE HEART, THE DIRECTOR OF VETERAN SERVICES IN EDINBURGH THOUGHT FINDING ITS OWNER WOULD BE EASY. >> ON THE ...