Silver Star posthumously awarded on December 28, 1950 to Sergeant First Class Joe D. Carter for gallantry in action in Pusan-Dong Korea on September 4, 1950.
Purple Heart posthumously awarded on February 12, 1951 to Sergeant First Class Joe D. Carter for wounds received in action resulting in his death September 4, 1950.
John David Rogge Sr. was born July 14, 1920, in Payette, Idaho. While helping Morrison Knudson to build an airbase on Wake Island, he, along with many others, was captured by the Japanese in 1941. The correspondence in the collection is mainly to...