Purple Heart is a United States 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. With its forerunner, the Badge of Military Merit, which took the form of a heart made of purple cloth, the Purple Heart is the oldest military award still given to U.S. military members; the only earlier award bein...
(Any of the text is written in Norwegian).* In this project it is stories about people mostly in the US (United States of America) who immigrated from Norway. It is added stories from Norway and Norwegians abroad. * In the profiles added to this project one find the stories about the specific person. Each person has his or her own story, and this story is unique for each and personal. The story...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Official Website The Wampanoag Indians under sachem Massasoit (or Ousamequin) were living in this area when the earliest Europeans arrived. The county seat is the town of Plymouth, the site of the first permanent European settlement in New England (1620); Plymouth Rock State Park commemorates the lan...
The Bougainville campaign was a series of land and naval battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II between Allied forces and the Empire of Japan, named after the island of Bougainville. It was part of Operation Cartwheel, the Allied grand strategy in the South Pacific. The campaign took place in the Northern Solomons in two phases. The first phase, in which American troops landed and held...