State Treasurer Returns Purple Heart To Daughter Of Veteran
(Decatur, IL) — A Purple Heart belonging to a World War Two Marine from Decatur is back with his family. Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs returned the Purple Heart to the daughter of Private First-Class Delbert Tuttle during a ceremony last month at the Decatur Civic Center. Tuttle earned the honor, along with the Silver Star, for wounds he suffered during the Battle of Saipan in the Pacific Theater in June 1944.
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