PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:      
	     
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	BOARD DATE:           15 September 1999                  
	DOCKET NUMBER:   AR1999015158

	I certify that hereinafter is recorded the true and complete record of the proceedings of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records in the case of the above-named individual.  

	Mr. Loren G. Harrell		Director	
	Mr. W. E. Schnupp		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Mr. James M. Alward		Chairperson	
	Mr. Ted S. Kanamine		Member	
	Ms. Kathleen A. Newman		Member	

	The applicant and counsel if any, did not appear before the Board.

	The Board considered the following evidence:

	Exhibit A - Application for correction of military 
                records
	Exhibit B - Military Personnel Records (including
	            advisory opinion, if any)

FINDINGS:

1.  The applicant has exhausted or the Board has waived the requirement for exhaustion of all administrative remedies afforded by existing law or regulations.

2.  The applicant requests that his DD Form 214, Report of Separation, be amended to show that he was awarded the Purple Heart.

3.  The applicant states that he was awarded the Purple Heart per General Order 308, HQ. Osaka General Hospital dated 7 September 1951.  In support of his request, he has provided a copy of his DD Form 214 and copies of his clinical records showing that he was wounded in the chest from fragments of an enemy hand grenade.

4.  The applicant’s military record shows that he sustained shrapnel wounds to the chest from an enemy hand grenade on 1 September 1951 in Korea.

5.  Army Regulation 600-8-22, Military Awards, provides, in pertinent part, that the Purple Heart is awarded for a wound sustained as a result of hostile action.  Substantiating evidence must be provided to verify that the wound was the result of hostile action, the wound must have required treatment by a medical officer, and the medical treatment must have been made a matter of official record.

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  The applicant’s record clearly shows that he was wounded as a result of enemy action in Korea on 1 September 1951.

2.  In view of the foregoing, the applicant’s records should be corrected as recommended below.

RECOMMENDATION:

That all of the Department of the Army records related to this case be corrected by:

	a.  showing that the individual concerned was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action with the enemy on 1 September 1951 in Korea; and

	b.  issuing to him the Purple Heart Medal and a correction to his DD Form 214 showing that he is entitled to same.

BOARD VOTE:  

_jma____  _tsk_____  _kan____  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		_James M. Alward______
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR1999015158	
SUFFIX		
RECON	YYYYMMDD	
DATE BOARDED	19990915	
TYPE OF DISCHARGE	(HD, GD, UOTHC, UD, BCD, DD, UNCHAR)	
DATE OF DISCHARGE	YYYYMMDD	
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY	AR . . . . .  	
DISCHARGE REASON		
BOARD DECISION	(GRANT)	
REVIEW AUTHORITY		
ISSUES         1.  107.00		
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