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Lee Chisholm Colodzin knew little about her uncle, 2nd Lt. David McMahon until this spring. The World War II fighter pilot died in a plane crash a few years before she was born. "I learned more about ...
Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs' Operation Purple Heart reunited a lost Purple Heart with the family of WWII veteran Edward Gorski Jr. during a ceremony in Geneva. Gorski, wounded in the Battle of ...
A Purple Heart medal found in a Georgia junkyard is returned to a family member of the World War II veteran who earned the honor.
The Illinois treasurer’s office returned a Purple Heart Thursday to the grandson of a WWII Battle of the Bulge veteran.
Winnebago County Marine veteran Roy Rogers’ time in the military came to an end with a 15-month hospital stay at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital in Waukegan, IL.