Colonel O.W. Howland of San Antonio, Texas, adjutant general of the Ninth U.S.

Colonel O.W. Howland of San Antonio, Texas, adjutant general of the Ninth U.S. Air Force, pins the Purple Heart on Lieutenant Colonel Michael Murphy of Lebanon, Indiana, leader of the first glider formation to drop behind the German defenses in Normandy. Colonel Murphy leans on the arm of Air Evacuation Nurse Lieutenant Pearl E. Platt of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, while receiving the citation at an English airfield before taking off for the United States, where he will receive medical care in a hospital near his home.