Today I learned that the late Robert B. Sherman, who along with his brother Richard M. Sherman won two Oscars and two Grammys for their music in Mary Poppins, also was granted the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge, two Battle Stars for his European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, an American Campaign Medal, a World War II Victory Medal, and a Good Conduct Medal, and several Army Weapons Qualifications badges.
On April 29, 1945, Sherman was among the first soldiers who entered the Dachau concentration camp to liberate it from the Nazis.