US Submariner Marion "Turk" Turner, was Japanese POW

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Pat Carry
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US Submariner Marion "Turk" Turner, was Japanese POW

Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:04 pm

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Re: US Submariner Marion "Turk" Turner, was Japanese POW

Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:08 pm

it took 7 decades to get his purple heart.isnt something wrong here?
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Re: US Submariner Marion "Turk" Turner, was Japanese POW

Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:09 am

agent86 wrote:it took 7 decades to get his purple heart.isnt something wrong here?

Thats seems to happen quite often. A veteran of the Korean conflict just received his purple heart here in the Chicago area last week. Most probably the chaos of war just gets in the way of such things at the time it happens.
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