He was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Military Valor:
- Audie Murphy
- Ernie Pyle
- Salvador Dali
- Frank Sinatra
- Ernest Hemingway
Daily Quiz for April 1, 2008
He was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Military Valor:
He was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Military Valor:
Nobel Prize winning writer Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Military Valor after being wounded in the leg by shrapnel in July 1918. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899, Hemingway enlisted in a Red Cross ambulance unit in 1917 during World War I. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and served on the Italian front. After WWI he reported from the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War for American newspapers. His book Farewell to Arms was based on his experiences in WWI. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.