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Purple Heart awarded to Korean War veteran 73 years after injury
After 73 years and a long fight with the Army, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who was wounded in combat finally got his Purple Heart.
Archaeologists believe they’ve uncovered Revolutionary War barracks
Recovered artifacts at the Virginia site include chimney bricks and musket balls that were indented with soldiers’ teeth.
A jacket, a coin, a letter: Relics of Omaha Beach tell the D-Day story
Eighty years ago, Allied soldiers crossed the choppy waters of the English Channel to land on Normandy beaches to defeat Hitler’s regime.
By Frank A. Blazich Jr., Smithsonian Institution, The Conversation