From a Wall Street Journal story by Ginger Adams Otis headlined “A World War II Veteran Gets His Due—Nearly 80 Years after Surviving D-Day”:

A paperwork error made in the 1940s robbed a World War II veteran and D-Day survivor of his U.S. Army medals. Nearly 80 years later, the Army is coming to New York to fix its mistake.

On Tuesday, 97-year-old William Kellerman—who stormed the beaches of Normandy in 1944, made a bold escape when captured by German troops and survived sniper shots—will receive the Prisoner of War Medal and the Purple Heart long denied him.