Author: United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
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Category : Medals
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Record of the Medals of Honor Issued to the Bluejackets and Marines of the United States Navy, 1862-1910
Author: United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher:
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Category : Medals
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medals
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Record of the Medals of Honor Issued to the Bluejackets and Marines of the United States Navy, 1862-1877
Author:
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Category : Medals
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medals
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Record of Medals of Honor Issued to the Bluejackets and Marines of the United States Navy 1862-1910
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Navigation
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Category : Medals
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Medals
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Medal of Honor
Author: Dwight S. Mears
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700626654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700626654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
The Soldiers' Memorial. Portsmouth, N.H., 1893-1921
Author: Joseph Foster
Publisher:
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Category : Portsmouth (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Portsmouth (N.H.)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Alphabetical Catalogue of the Navy Department Library
Author: United States. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books, Mauscripts and Prints and Other Memorabilia in the John S. Barnes Memorial Library of the Naval History Society
Author: Naval History Society. Barnes Memorial Library
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Era of the Civil War--1820-1876
Author: Louise A. Arnold-Friend
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
The Era of the Civil War--1820-1876
Author: US Army Military History Research Collection
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Special Bibliography - US Army Military History Research Collection
Author: US Army Military History Research Collection
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description