My Uncle was a Combat Medic with the 71sr Inf Div. He came home with 2 Bronze Stars and and no Purple Heart medals, because he was too busy helping the wounded to fill out the injury report that was sent from the front line medic to the nearest mobile hospital. He was wounded by bullets and shrapnel 3 times during the war and didn't report any and never received a Purple Heart medal! He said after the Bulge (Malmady), he never treated a SS soldier, but did treat Wehrmacht soldiers.

I asked why and he said: "There weren't any SS alive to treat".

He was later captured near the end of the war and spent 2 weeks in Dacau Concentration Camp. The GI's that freed him did a fully complete job on the Krauts that ran the camp.