Medal, Purple Heart, Sgt. Francis Vickers, 70th Infantry Division, WIA France

€475.00
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Nice genuine WWII US Purple Heart Medal, coming in its original case with ribbon bar and lapel badge. Name Francis S. Vickers has been engraved on the reverse.

Various original documents related to the award of the above-mentioned medal and to the promotion of its recipient to the rank of Sergeant, or dealing with some furlough, complete this lot.

Francis Stuart Vickers was born on October 31, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri and joined the US Army on May 15, 1944 (ASN 37640448). He went on to serve with the 70th Infantry Division, deployed to Europe and was wounded in action in February 1945 at Wasselone, north-west of Strasbourg, France. he was discharged on May 29, 1946 as a Sergeant and passed away on April 23, 1998.

https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&cat=all&tf=F&q=37640448&bc=&rpp=10&pg=1&rid=6810483

Illustration documents not mentioned above are available in digital format only.

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