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Author: Fred L Borch
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 161251409X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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More than one million men and women have received the Purple Heart since its creation as an award “for military merit” in 1932. This book provides a brief history of the Purple Heart, with a focus on how the decoration’s award criteria have evolved over the last 75 years. The book then takes a representative look at Purple Heart recipients from all the services by conflict, starting with the Civil War and concluding with the on-going conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Author: Fred L Borch
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 161251409X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Book Description
More than one million men and women have received the Purple Heart since its creation as an award “for military merit” in 1932. This book provides a brief history of the Purple Heart, with a focus on how the decoration’s award criteria have evolved over the last 75 years. The book then takes a representative look at Purple Heart recipients from all the services by conflict, starting with the Civil War and concluding with the on-going conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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ISBN: 9780660433561
Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563117231
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Author: Christopher McCreery
Publisher: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)
ISBN: 9781100206349
Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Author: Fred L. Borch III
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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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.
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Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Author: United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy)
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Category : Decorations of honor
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Author: Randy W. Baumgardner
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563116588
Category : Distinguished Flying Cross (Medal)
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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Author: Dwight S. Mears
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700626654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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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.
