Van Heck was awarded several military medals, including a Purple Heart. According to the DPAA, the remains of nearly 1,700 previously unidentified U.S. soldiers killed in World War II have been ...

A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted ... In November 1943, Marine Corps Sgt. Robert F. Van Heck, 25, of Chicago ...

A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted for over eight decades after he was killed in the Pacific, the Defense Department ...

By Paul Szoldra Updated on Feb 23, 2021 The Battle of Iwo Jima, which began Feb. 19, 1945, was one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history, as former Cpl. Don Graves knows firsthand and ...