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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: Jimmy Ley to Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ley - August 7, 1942
Description: After completing his first two weeks at Sheppard Field, Jimmy writes about the heat and his postal correspondence with family and friends.
Date Created: 1942
PID: grinnell:11566

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

Title: Purple Heart Certificate
Description: A Purple Heart certificate posthumously awarded to Jimmy Ley on 21 September 1948.
Date Created: 1948
PID: grinnell:27768