Purple Heart

The Purple Heart was instituted in 1782 by George Washington and is the first American decoration. Originally it was awarded for bravery in action, currently it is awarded to those wounded or killed in action, in the latter case posthumously.
An Oak Leaf Cluster is added when a previously wounded person already has a Purple Heart.
The decoration is a purple, heart-shaped badge with bronze edges. It depicts in relief a bust of George Washington wearing the uniform of a general in the Continental Army.
On the reverse side is the inscription: "For Military Merit" with the recipient's name below.
It is estimated that for World War II 1,076,245 Purple Hearts were awarded.

Grid List

Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Awards
O'Flaherty, William J.
O'Connell, Melvin Donald	06-06-1911	10-12-1941
Olson, John Walter	24-12-1915	09-10-1942
Oliver, Bernard J.		25-02-1945
Onana, Ralph Wheeler (O'Nan)	06-10-1935	01-11-1965	more
O'Connell, Phillip B. "Phil"		28-10-1942
Otton, Robert Aubrey	05-03-1926	19-02-1945
Osborne, John Donald	07-10-1917	17-12-1944
O'Grady, David Thomas	25-03-1924	17-12-1944
Olson, Robert O.
O'Arie, Nic	10-07-1918	13-04-1945
Oskamp, Clifford G.	00-00-1920	17-08-1943
O'Brien, Gordon		09-02-1945
Organski, Zorack
O'Brien, James	18-06-1923	15-06-1945
Otsuka, Jiro	06-04-1923	03-06-1944
Obregon, Eugene Arnold	12-09-1930	26-09-1950
Oliver, Thomas W.	17-03-1923	17-12-1944
O'Connor, James Joseph	16-09-1928	17-03-1945
Ouellette, Raymond L.	21-03-1921	20-05-1943
O'neill, Clarence			more
Ohman, Daniel Victor	04-03-1918	30-07-1943
Oyabu, Harumatsu		21-04-1945
Otani, Douglas K.	13-10-1916	02-06-1944
Oshiro, Sam Y.	16-02-1921	01-11-1944
Okamoto, Tomiso	18-02-1924	06-07-1944
Oba, Snichi	27-02-1922	21-08-1944
Onouye, Hiroji	01-03-1890	30-04-1944
Ogden, Hayes Chick	00-00-1918	12-08-1944
O'Meara, William A.		02-01-1945
O'Meara, Thomas F.		12-01-1945
Ott, Edward V.	16-02-1915	19-02-1999
Orvin, Louis Ernest, Jr. "Lukie"	20-03-1922	04-12-2008
O'Dea, Cifford J. "John"		12-04-1945
Ortiz, Louis	00-00-1925
O'Brien, Terence M.		03-03-1945
Olsen, Barney		10-02-1945
Oakley, Benjamin T.
O'Bryant, Virgil L.
Opalenik, Steven Henry	11-08-1916	22-02-1945
Odom, Millard		20-11-1943
Oland, Carl Warner	00-00-1922	13-09-1943
O'Grady, Martin J.		30-04-1945
Oglensky, David		25-02-1945
Owens, Claude Calvin	23-12-1920	30-11-1944
Ofchinick, Richard P.		18-09-1944
Ogden, Edward L.		13-04-1945
O'Daniel, John W., Jr.		20-09-1944
Ownes, Estile, I.
Owens, Robert, V.
Ostrom, Charles E.		20-09-1944
Ostrander, Dean, L.
Ostenrude, Ervin
Osiek, Leonard F.		31-07-1944
Ortiz, Robert, I.
ONeill, Rich, J.
Olson, Halbert E.
Olmstead, Earl, G.
Ogden, Raymond
OConnor, Thomas, F.
OBerry, Louie, A.
O'Leary, Frank		23-11-1944
Odum, Jerry L.		25-02-1945
Olson, John E., Jr.		22-12-1943
Orsini, Joseph J.	22-10-1925	12-04-1945
Owens, Robert Gordon, Jr.	13-02-1917	31-10-2007	more
Ottinger, George Malone		24-03-1945	more
Otter, Bethel Veech	12-09-1914	06-05-1942
Osmus, Wesley Frank	02-09-1918	04-06-1942
Ortiz, Pierre (Peter) Julien	05-08-1913	16-05-1988	more
Orleck, Joseph	22-06-1906	09-09-1943
Oldendorf, Jesse Barett "Oley"	16-02-1887	27-04-1974	more
Oakley, Thomas Benjamin Jr.
Oskins, Robert D.
Ozbourn, Joseph William	24-10-1919	30-07-1944	more
Owens, Robert Allen	13-09-1920	01-11-1943
Otani, Kazuo	02-06-1918	15-07-1944
Ono, Frank H.	05-06-1923	06-05-1980
Olson, Truman O.	13-10-1917	30-01-1944
Olson, Arlo L.	20-04-1918	27-10-1943
Okutsu, Yukio	03-11-1921	24-08-2003
O'Kane, Richard Hetherington "Dick"	02-02-1911	16-02-1994	more
O'Hare, Edward Henry "Butch"	13-03-1914	26-11-1943	more
Ogden, Carlos Carnes	09-05-1917	02-04-2001	more
O'Brien, William J.	00-00-1899	07-07-1944

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