The ceremony at the legion hall, in Lyons’ words, “corrected a long-standing oversight” to “two of our Air Force brothers,” Pressel and the late Maj. Richard Olson, a native of Chicago ...

Pressel's military documents were destroyed in a fire, which is one of the reasons he didn't receive the award sooner. During Wednesday's ceremony, the family of Major Richard Olson was also ...

Pressel had finished a bombing run in Germany ... He added that his captors took his watch and never returned it. Major Richard Olsen received a Purple Heart posthumously at the same ceremony.

On Feb. 7, 1945, Harold “Bud” Pressel was perched over a pair of .50-caliber guns in a Plexiglas turret mounted on the tail of a B-24 Liberator over Floridsdorf, Germany. The heavy bomber ...

Though, Pressel said “they took my watch and I didn’t get that back.” A second Purple Heart was presented to the grandchildren of the late Major Richard Olsen. “Though they never met in ...