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Purple Heart In Hospital

S/Sgt. Ira M. Brown, Corning, Iowa, receives Purple Heart from Col. D. L. Clark, Standing bedside are Lt. Col. A. A. Leonidoff, Col. J. C. Kennedy, and Lt. Col. John Groupman. According to report in his hometown paper, The Adams County Free Press (Iowa), on March 15, 1945, S/Sgt. Brown had been wounded in battle, and had been a gunner 0n a B-25 stationed near Kunming, China. He had graduated in 1938 from the Corning High School, Adams County, Iowa.

S/Sgt. Ira M. Brown, Corning, Iowa, receives the Purple Heart from Col. D. L. Clark, his commanding officer. S/Sgt. Brown was a gunner on the B-25 "Wabash Cannonball." 

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S/Sgt. Ira M. Brown, Corning, Iowa, receives Purple Heart from Col. D. L. Clark, Standing bedside are Lt. Col. A. A. Leonidoff, Col. J. C. Kennedy, and Lt. Col. John Groupman.

According to report in his hometown paper, The Adams County Free Press (Iowa), on March 15, 1945, S/Sgt. Brown had been wounded in battle, and had been a gunner 0n a B-25 stationed near Kunming, China.

He had graduated in 1938 from the Corning High School, Adams County, Iowa.

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S/Sgt. Ira M. Brown, Corning, Iowa, receives the Purple Heart from Col. D. L. Clark, his commanding officer. S/Sgt. Brown was a gunner on the B-25 "Wabash Cannonball." 

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