AWARD TO AMERICAN WOUNDED
AUCKLAND, Feb. 1
Forty-two members of the United States Army forces serving in-,, the South Pacific were awarded the Purple Heart at a mass parade held at ~a service hospital. All awards were., for wounds received in action against the enemy in the Solomon Islands fighting. The purple and whit" barred ribbon of the medal was pinned on- the men by Colonel Frank V. Schneider, commanding officer of the United States troops in New Zealand. Some of the men received their awards at a parade in the hospital compound. Others received thetn in bed. A band played during the "ceremony. '■'"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 27, 2 February 1943, Page 4
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104AWARD TO AMERICAN WOUNDED Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 27, 2 February 1943, Page 4
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