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The American Campaign Medal was a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was first created on November 6, 1942, by Executive Order 9265 issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The medal was intended to recognize those military members who had performed military service in the American Theater of Operations during ...
Army of Puerto Rican Occupation Medal: Philippine–American War campaign medals Philippine Campaign Medal Philippine Congressional Medal: Navy & Marine Corps expedition medals Nicaraguan Campaign Medal (1912) Haitian Campaign Medal (1915 & 1920–1921) Dominican Campaign Medal (1916) Nicaraguan Campaign Medal (1926–1930)
Pages in category "United States campaign medals" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. ... Air and Space Campaign Medal; American Campaign Medal;
A campaign medal is a military decoration which is awarded to a member of an armed force who serves in a designated military operation or performs duty in a geographical theater. Campaign medals are very similar to service medals but carry a higher status as the award usually involves deployment to a foreign region or service in a combat zone.
Service stars (were sometimes referred to as campaign stars or battle stars) were also authorized for the World War I Victory Medal, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, and Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal. The specific manner of wear and symbolism of the stars varied from ...
The medal's obverse was designed by Mr. Thomas Hudson Jones based on General Eisenhower's request that the medal include an invasion scene. The reverse side was designed by Adolph Alexander Weinman and is the same design as used on the reverse of the Asiatic–Pacific and American Campaign Medals. [2]
This list of military decorations is an index to articles about notable military decorations. It is organized by country in alphabetical order and in order of precedence. Note that there are many pages which overlap the domain of this page, including military awards and decorations and campaign medal, and pages mentioned within category:Military awards and decorations, category:Battle honours ...
After the Spanish–American War, however, medals in the U.S. Army fell into disuse and, apart from a few peacetime Medal of Honor decorations, two medals for service in Mexico, or on the border, during the period 1911–17, plus the Civil War Campaign Medal and the Indian Campaign Medal, both finally authorized in 1907, there were no further ...