From December 1948 through February 1949, she roamed to the West Pac, visiting Australia and Japan for a bottom mapping exercise, a cruise that earned her a Navy Occupation Service Medal and a China Service Medal. Bergall at Brisbane in December 1948, note she is still largely in her WWII ...
On May 16, President Barack Obama will award Specialist Leslie H. Sabo, Jr., U.S. Army, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry. Specialist Sabo will receive the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic actions in combat on May 10, 1970, while serving as a rifleman in Company D...
World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation Medal with Germany Clasp French Liberation Medal Vaughn A. DeVorse Add to this record. Raymond "Smokey" Lovesee 634th Anti Aircraft Artillery Regiment Raymond Lovesee was originally the 61st Coastal Artillery and later changed to the 634th AAA AW...
Valuable evidence of the WWII historical context as the basis for an anti-classical film style was given on the spot by James Reston, a journalist for The New York Times, who specialized in diplomatic and foreign affairs.His book, Prelude to Victory, was published in the summer of 1942, ...
Brig. Gen. Laura Yeager became the first woman to lead any U.S. Army infantry when Maj. Gen. Mark Malanka retired from the California National Guard's 40th Infantry Division on June 29, 2019. The division was led by men since its inception in 1917. Yeager was promoted in 2016 to brig...
Throughout World War II, 473 U.S. troops received theMedal of Honor. About 405,399 U.S. service members died in World War II. Important Figures and Events of WWII World War II dates: Sept. 1, 1939, to Sept. 2, 1945. Attack on Pearl Harbor(Dec. 7, 1941): The Imperial Japanese...
1942 WWII Adolf Hitler Cartoon US Propaganda For Victory…Put At Least 10% Of Every Pay Into War Bonds! 16.75”x22” Poster This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/3/2017 Cartoon-style poster depicts Adolf Hitler speaking to Hermann Go¨ring and Joseph Goebbels. Hitler says to...
E. Royce Williams, just that in the form of the Congressional Medal of Honor. The tale of Capt. Williams’ real-life heroics and the reason why it has taken so long to secure for him the United States government’s highest and most prestigious military decoration could fit right in with ...
1997: 7 Black WWII soldiers get Medal of Honor - Army strength: 491,707 people (0.18% of U.S. population) Not one Medal of Honor was awarded to a Black soldier for service during World War II until a U.S. Army-commissioned 1993 study looked into racial discrimination in awarding medal...
(with One Arrowhead and Five Battle Stars), American Defense Service Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal, Army of Occupation Medal (Germany), National Defense Service Medal, Parachutists Badge, Expert Marksman Badge, Philippian Presidential Unit Citation He is survived by ...