The purple heart is an award for soldiers who have been killed or wounded while in service. If a soldier is wounded more than once, the soldier receives an oak leaf cluster for each successive injury.
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do you want a list of people that won a Purple Heart with the oak leaf cluster? In Vietnam in 1967
One oak leaf cluster for 2 AAM.....if you only have one then there is no oak leaf...it's an oakleaf for each additional one.
The Oak Leaf Cluster is not a medal. It is a small pin in the shape of an oak leaf that is issued for the 2nd (and 3rd and 4th) time you receive a medal. If you earned a Purple Heart Medal for being wounded, then the second time you would be issued "an oak leaf to the Purple Heart Medal". Campaign Medals were issued for service in a region for a specific time. Then if you continued serving and were in another campaign, you would receive a 2nd Oak Leaf to the Campaign Medal. Thus the Normandy landing was one campaign. Then if you fought into Germany there was one for that.
The oak leaf cluster indicates that the decoration has been awarded a second time. Thus a bronze star with oak leaf cluster means the person won two bronze stars. Michael Montagne
Typically an Oak Leaf Cluster represents an additional award of the medal. Others use a star to indicate a second award.