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Title: Air Medal and Purple Cross
Description: Jimmy Ley was posthumously awarded two Purple Hears and an Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters for sustaining wounds resulting in death during a combat mission and for meritorious achievement while participating in five bombardment missions over active enemy occupied territory, respectively. The two medals were mounted and framed by Jimmy's parents.
PID: grinnell:27770

Title: Army Air Corps patch
Description: Jimmy's Army Air Corps patch.
PID: grinnell:27763

Title: Distinguished Flying Cross medal
Description: Jimmy Ley was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying cross "for extraordinary achivement while serving as an Engineer-Gunner on a B-26 airplane on twenty-five bombardment missions over enemy occupied Continental Europe. Description taken from the framed description of Jimmy's commendations. The medal was mounted and framed by Jimmy's parents.
PID: grinnell:27769

Title: Jack Pilgrim
Description: Jack Eugene Pilgrim with his dogs. Jack Pilgrim was the first serviceman from Grinnell to die in World War II.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:17377

Title: Joan
Description: Joan (last name unknown), the wartime girlfriend of Jack Eugene Pilgrim who died in an explosion upon the USS Natchez in New York City harbor in 1942.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:17381

Title: Purple Heart Certificate
Description: A Purple Heart certificate posthumously awarded to Jimmy Ley on 18 September 1945.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:27767