In the hard-fought campaign to liberate the Philippines during World War II, 22-year-old Army Cpl. Henry Van Der Noord of ...

This story first appeared in the Newnan Times-Herald about a Purple Heart medal found in a local scrapyard. A local historian tracked the name on the medal to David T. McMahon, a World War II pilot ...

Purple Heart recipient, retired Sgt. Lonnie Gaudet received a standing ovation during a special tribute at the Savannah ...

After a Grand Rapids World War II veteran’s medal was found in a Georgia junk heap, a local historian dug up everything he ...

SPRINGFIELD - Ahead of Memorial Day, Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced the return of a Purple Heart medal to the ...

Van Der Noord’s Purple Heart medal had been missing for years until it was recovered from an unclaimed safe deposit box submitted to the Illinois State Treasurer’s Office in 2020. Illinois State ...

U.S. Sen. Jim Banks and Fort Wayne Mayor Sharon Tucker presented the Purple Heart to a military veteran and Summit City native during a ceremony in Fort Wayne Tuesday.

Retired U.S. Army Pfc. Justin Oaks, a former military police officer and current Glenville, Pennsylvania resident, was ...

McMahon's Purple Heart was recently saved from a Georgia scrapyard. “A gentlemen that works at the scrapyard, junk yard, he ran across a Purple Heart in a World War 2 case,” local history buff Steve ...

We have an update on that mysterious Purple Heart medal discovered in a Newnan junkyard 80 years after the soldier’s death following World War II.