Gov. David Ige (left) receives a tour of the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center’s summer exhibit titled “One Puka-Puka: The Purple Heart Battalion” from center board member David Fukuda on ...

The Purple Heart is awarded to military members who are injured and killed in combat, through an act of terrorism or by friendly fire. It acknowledges the physical sacrifice of service to the nation.

A Purple Heart has no engravings that would identify ... The infantryman and his battalion pushed from France through the Rhineland toward Austria, facing brutal cold, sleep deprivation and ...

The battalion earned the moniker “The Purple Heart Battalion” because of the high number of casualties it suffered in its first five months in battle in Italy. There are approximately 12 ...

David Lyons pinned the Purple Heart onto Harold “Bud” Pressel ... George Patton’s armored battalion in April 1945. Olson remained in the Air Force until his retirement in 1961, continuing ...

A soldier who went missing in action during an aquatic mission in World War II has been accounted for, military officials ...

The battalion heads for Europe ... childhood with his grandfather – a man whose uniform he is now wearing. Purple Heart Warriors is the latest season in Dramas, the home of immersive ...

George Patton’s armored battalion in April 1945 ... Harold 'Bud' Pressel's purple heart before it was presented at the American Legion in Dallastown Jan. 29, 2025. “It’s a legacy ...