He had earned a Purple Heart, a European-African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with two bronze service stars, a combat infantryman badge, and the good conduct and World War II victory medals ...

Previously:York WWII vet, 100, to finally get his Purple Heart 80 years after his plane ... who never met their grandfather, accepted his medal on his behalf, capping a seven-year-long effort ...

For his service, he was awarded the prestigious Purple Heart medal ... seen the medal in 1972. Back then, he had been out of Vietnam for less than a year. When Bob’s father, WWII veteran ...