Download or read book American War Medals and Decorations written by Evans E. Kerrigan and published by New York : Viking Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as a guide to many medals, decorations, badges, and awards conferred throughout the history of the United States.

Download or read book Medals for Soldiers and Airmen written by Fred L. Borch III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first and only comprehensive history of all decorations and medals that may be awarded to men and women serving in the United States Army and Air Force. The background and design of each medal are examined, as well as award criteria governing each decoration. The book first looks at the Army and Air Force Medals of Honor before continuing with other awards, including the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Air Force Cross, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart. The histories of more common medals like the Air Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army and Air Force Commendation Medals and Army and Air Force Achievement Medals are also included. Photographs of each medal (obverse and reverse) accompany the text, along with selected photographs of recipients and the citations for their awards.

Download or read book Sea Service Medals written by Frederic L. Borch and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only comprehensive examination of all decorations and medals that may be awarded to Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard personnel for heroism, achievement and service. Features never-before-published historical information on the background and development of each medal, while also providing in-depth discussion of award criteria, design and recipients. Decorations examined include combat heroism awards such as the Navy Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, and Silver Star. Non-combat heroism awards such as the Navy-Marine Corps Medal and Coast Guard Medal are also discussed. All decorations and medals for achievement and service also are examined, ranging from the Navy and Coast Guard Distinguished Service Medals, Legion of Merit, and Meritorious Service Medal to the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation and Achievement Medals and the Combat Action Ribbon. Fifty full color photographs of sea service awards, many of which have never been published, provide context for this unique history. The authors, both of whom retired from the Armed Forces, are experts in the history of U.S. awards and decorations.

Download or read book The Decorations Medals Ribbons Badges and Insignia of the United States Army written by Frank C. Foster and published by Medals of America Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete guide to United States Army medals, ribbons, rank, insignia, and patches from WW II to the present day. Each medal and insignia shown in full color. Includes listing of respective criteria and campaigns.

Download or read book Decorations Medals Ribbons Badges and Insignia of the United States Marine Corps written by James G. Thompson and published by Medals of America Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most thorough and easy-to-use guide on all decorations, medals, badges, and insignia of the Marine Corps, complete with beautiful color plates.

Download or read book The Medal of Honor written by Dwight S. Mears and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medal of Honor may be America’s highest military decoration, but all Medals of Honor are not created equal. The medal has in fact consisted of several distinct decorations at various times and has involved a number of competing statutes and policies that rewarded different types of heroism. In this book, the first comprehensive look at the medal’s historical, legal, and policy underpinnings, Dwight S. Mears charts the complex evolution of these developments and differences over time. The Medal of Honor has had different qualification thresholds at different times, and indeed three separate versions—one for the army and two for the navy—existed contemporaneously between World Wars I and II. Mears traces these versions back to the medal’s inception during the Civil War and continues through the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—along the way describing representative medal actions for all major conflicts and services as well as legislative and policy changes contemporary to each period. He gives particular attention to retroactive army awards for the Civil War; World War I legislation that modernized and expanded the army’s statutory award authorization; the navy’s grappling with both a combat and noncombat Medal of Honor through much of the twentieth century; the Vietnam-era act that ended noncombat awards and largely standardized the Medal of Honor among all services; and the perceived decline of Medals of Honor awarded in the ongoing Global War on Terror. Mears also explores the tradition of awards via legislative bills of relief; extralegislative awards; administrative routes to awards through Boards of Correction of Military Records; restoration of awards previously revoked by the army in 1917; judicial review of military actions in federal court; and legislative actions intended to atone for historical discrimination against ethnic minorities. Unprecedented in scope and depth, his work is sure to be the definitive resource on America’s highest military honor.

Download or read book Military Medals and Decorations written by Yves Arden and published by Newton Abbot, [Eng.] : David & Charles ; Vancouver : Douglas, David & Charles. This book was released on 1976 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British War Medals and Other Decorations written by J. Harris Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The A B C of War Medals and Decorations written by W. Augustus Steward and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book War Medals and Decorations written by D. Hastings Irwin and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Medals of America Presents the Decorations and Medals of the Republic of Vietnam and Her Allies 1950 1975 written by John Sylvester (Jr.) and published by Medals of America Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete guide to all Republic of Vietnam military and civilian decorations, medals, ribbons, and unit awards, from the beginning to the fall of the republic. More than 110 medals displayed in full color. Also includes an illustrated guide to medals of South Vietnamese allies.

Download or read book Orders Decorations and Insignia Military and Civil written by Robert E. Wyllie and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The ABC of War Medals and Decorations written by W. Augustus Steward and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The A B C of War Medals and Decorations written by William Augustus Steward and published by London, S. Paul 1915.. This book was released on 1918 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy written by John Horsley Mayo and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Military Badge Collecting written by John Gaylor and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2001-03-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An identification guide to British Army cap badges from the Calvary and Royal Armoured Corps, the Guards, Women’s Units, Kitchener’s Army, and others. This book is a comprehensive guidebook, which will appeal to anyone with an interest in medal collecting. The book contains British Army badges from the earliest days to the present, with photographs of 800 examples. “This is an excellent text and complements the bookshelves of any researcher of the British army . . . an outstanding feat of research and I can only summarise by saying ‘Well done.’”—Military Archive Research.com