The Purple Heart, which was recently found in a salvage yard in Georgia, was posthumously awarded to Colodzin's uncle, World War II fighter pilot David T. McMahon, who died during service in the ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A Sulphur man who signed up for the Navy in World War 2 came home with a Purple Heart presented by the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet. 98-year-old William ...

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 Brief. The mystery of how a Purple Heart medal ended up in a Georgia scrapyard when the recipient's family in Michigan received it 80 years ago is a step closer to being solved.

After a few months, Lt. Stanford’s niece Joyce Stanford-Crooks got an email telling her that they had found her uncle’s Purple Heart. Her uncle, a fighter pilot, died in a crash during the war ...

Funeral services were held in Denver on Wednesday for a World War II veteran on what would have been his 103rd birthday.

A WWII veteran’s sons hope to give his long-lost Purple Heart medal to his grandson, who also served in the Army and had a special bond with him.

When it’s planted in the ground, purple heart’s leaves will turn brown in winter when temperatures drop below freezing around them. Most of the leaves and stems will freeze, but some won’t ...

The Purple Heart is a U.S. military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those wounded or killed while serving on or after April 5, 1917, with the U.S. military.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A Sulphur man who signed up for the Navy in World War 2 came home with a Purple Heart presented by the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet. 98-year-old William Covington ...