Grand Rapids WWII pilot’s Purple Heart found in Georgia junkyard

WWII veteran's Purple Heart saved from scrapyard

By Julie Dunmire Click here for updates on this story     GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (WXMI) — At a memorial on Grand Rapids Community College’s campus, veterans are honored. The name of one of those veterans is the focus of this story: David T. McMahon. McMahon’s Purple Heart was recently saved from a Georgia scrapyard. “A gentlemen that works at the scrapyard, junk yard, he ran across a Purple Heart in a World War 2 case,” local history buff Steve …

Grand Rapids WWII pilot’s Purple Heart found in Georgia junkyard

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – After a Grand Rapids World War II veteran’s medal was found in a Georgia junk heap, a local historian dug up everything he could to return it to his last surviving relatives.