Purple Heart Medal for Pearl Harbor on November 7, 1941

This is an extremely rare award, which we have met for the first time. The medal was presented to the family of Private Ed.M. Harte of the United States Marine Corps, who died during the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Interestingly, the private was already wounded, as indicated by the twig on the ribbon. The medal is in its original case, with two types of straps. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a sudden combined attack by the air and submarine forces of the Japanese Navy on the American forces stationed at the naval base in Pearl Harbor (Hawaii Islands). The attack took place on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, and was the reason for the United States' entry into World War II. The Second World War. The attack on Pearl Harbor seriously undermined the naval and The United States Air Force on In the Pacific Ocean: two battleships were irretrievably lost, and the battleships California and West Virginia became operational again only in the summer of 1944. However, the American carrier forces remained fully operational, which affected the course of the war as early as June of the following year, during the Battle of Midway. 2,403 American military personnel and 68 civilians died in Hawaii; Japanese forces lost 29 aircraft — as well as all five ultra-small submarines that failed to damage US forces. After realizing the scale of what had happened in the city of Honolulu and its surroundings, panic began among the civilian population, as the Hawaiians expected the landing of Japanese troops directly on the archipelago. The next day, on December 8 — after President Franklin Roosevelt's speech calling the attack a "day of shame" — the U.S. Congress officially declared war on the Empire of Japan. Impressed by the Japanese success, three days later, Nazi Germany's Fuhrer Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States. Guarantee of authenticity.

The Purple Heart is a U.S. military medal awarded to all American military personnel who have died or been injured as a result of enemy actions. The Purple Heart sign was installed by George Washington in 1782. Officially, only three such awards were awarded, and it was no longer used until 1861. Initially, it was made simply from silk fabric, which was stretched over a silver heart-shaped bracket. In 1861, the U.S. Congress decided to establish the Medal of Honor, which thus became the highest distinction in the country only because there were no orders in the United States. The medal was made of gold in the form of a five-pointed star with a trefoil at the ends of its rays. Because of this, the Purple Heart was in second place in importance. The modern Purple Heart Medal was created on February 22, 1932, by a directive signed by the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, Douglas MacArthur, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington. It was stamped from tin covered with purple enamel. Until 1942, the Purple Heart was awarded only to members of the U.S. Army. At first, awards were made for military merit, and a combat wound was also regarded as a merit. Since 1943, the medal has been awarded exclusively for combat wounds. After the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Purple Heart was given to every seriously wounded person without much ceremony, simply according to the appropriate hospital lists.