In a heartfelt ceremony at the World War II Memorial in Decatur, Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs returned a lost Purple ...

After 24 years since its disappearance, a family from Central Illinois was reunited with a Purple Heart from World War II.

A long-lost Purple Heart medal earned by a KC native is now in safe hands. Olivia Acree shares the story of how it was ...

It’s a complete mystery how this World War II-era Purple Heart ended up in a Coweta County junkyard. It was only recently discovered. Now, slowly, local veterans and a historian are finding the ...

Daughter Carolyn Peckham accepted the Purple Heart during a small private ceremony on Oct. 29, at the World War II Memorial outside the Decatur Civic Center, according to Frerichs' office.

This heart found its way back home. A New Jersey woman whose uncle bravely fought in World War II got her late relative’s long-lost Purple Heart back after the award was spotted at a Texas flea ...

Air Force Brig. Gen. Dean Sniegowski, left, pins a Purple Heart on Malcolm Champagne, 102, for wounds received as B-17 navigator during a 1943 bombing raid over Germany, during a Sept. 15, 2023 ...

For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock from preparations for the invasion of Japan that was expected to cost ...

Purple Heart of WWII hero finds home in Springfield by: Taylor Knight. Posted: Sep 19, 2024 / 05:43 PM EDT. Updated: Sep 19, 2024 / 05:43 PM EDT. by: Taylor Knight.

The Purple Heart belonging to U.S. Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. David T. McMahon is pictured alongside a portrait of him published in The Grand Rapids Press after his death in 1945.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reduced the conviction of a Worcester man found guilty of stealing a Purple Heart from a World War II veteran’s son in a 2014 burglary.

Illinois State Treasurer returns a WWII veteran's lost Purple Heart to his family in a ceremony, marking the 15th such return ...