IN SCR0042

Honors Purple Heart recipients First Sergeant Gregory Swanson and World War II veteran Leonard Wayne McIntosh for their military service, sacrifice, and courage.

Leonard Wayne McIntosh served three years in the United States Army's 3rd Infantry Division from 1942 to 1945 during World War II, fighting in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Germany, and Austria for 531 consecutive days of combat.

McIntosh was injured by a German bombing in southern France but never received a Purple Heart from the federal government because his war service records were destroyed in a 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center in Saint Louis that destroyed 16 to 18 million Official Military Personnel Files.

First Sergeant Gregory Swanson, a member of the Indiana Army National Guard's 387th Military Police Company, was injured in Afghanistan in 2012 when his armored truck was attacked by insurgents with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms, and was awarded a Purple Heart.

First Sergeant Swanson awarded his Purple Heart to Leonard Wayne McIntosh posthumously on January 29, 2014, and the Secretary of the Senate is directed to transmit copies of the resolution to both individuals.