Certificate posthumously awarding the Purple Heart to Staff Sergeant William Friedkas, 1944

Certificate posthumously awarding the Purple Heart to Staff Sergeant William Friedkas of the U.S. Army, "for military merit and for wounds received in action resulting in his death July 6, 1944." The award was presented in Washington, D.C. on November 10, 1944. Friedkas' only brother, Sergeant Nathan Friedkas, a photographer in the U.S. Army, was also killed in action during the war.