Oklahoma POW honored with Purple Heart 80 years after service in WWII
STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) – An Oklahoma family’s decades-long fight to get their father his military honors is finally over. Nearly 80 years after Elmer “Red” Vanover was released from a prison camp in the Philippines, he was awarded a Purple Heart for his sacrifice and service.
His son, Tim, said it was a sense of closure for his family.
Vanover made a life in Vinita. First as a farmer, then working for the turnpike.
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