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	Army of Occupation of Germany Medal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Army of Occupation of Germany Medal is a decoration of the United States military which was created by an act of the United States Congress on November 21, 1941.
		The medal was primarily created due to the rising tension with Germany, between 1939 and 1941, and also as a means to honor the World War I service of General of the Armies John J. Pershing, whose likeness appears on the actual medal.
		The Army of Occupation of Germany Medal is a separate award from the Army of Occupation Medal which was created in 1946 for post World War II occupation duty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Army_of_Occupation_of_Germany_Medal (325 words)

	Army of Occupation Medal
		The Army of Occupation Medal is worn after the World War II Victory Medal and before the Medal for Humane Action.
		ARMY OF The bridge was the Ludendorff railroad bridge at Remagen, Germany and was situated 22 miles northwest of Koblenz.
		The ribbon to Army of Occupation Medal consists of equal portion of red and fl with white edge stripes.
	foxfall.com /csm-army-aom.htm (527 words)

	Army of Occupation Medal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Army of Occupation Medal is a military decoration of the United States military which was established by the United States War Department in 1946.
		For those who performed occupation duty in West Berlin, during the Berlin Airlift, the Airlift Device was authorized for wear on both the medal and ribbon of the Army of Occupation Medal.
		The Army of Occupation Medal was also authorized for posthumous presentation, with the first posthumous award granted in 1950 to the late General George S. Patton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Army_of_Occupation_Medal (534 words)

	Zion Lutheran Church - Ahrens, Harry R.
		He reported to the Army in San Antonio and was assigned to the 90th Division, the "Alamo Division", which was being formed at Camp Travis in San Antonio at that time.
		Army of Occupation of Germany Medal - The Army of Occupation of Germany Medal** was not established until November 1941.
		The medal was authorized to any member of the Army who served in Germany or Austria-Hungary between November 12, 1918 and July 11, 1923.
	lonestar.texas.net /~gdalum/veterans/ahrens_harry.html (402 words)

	32 CFR PART 578 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The medal is suspended by a bar from a moired silk ribbon, 1 3/8 inches in length and 1 3/8 inches in width, composed of a bank of scarlet (5/8-inch), a stripe of dark-blue (1/16-inch), a band of white (5/8-inch), a stripe of dark-blue (1/16-inch), and a band of scarlet (5/16-inch).
		The medal is suspended by a moired silk ribbon 1 7/8 inches in length and 1 3/8 inches in width, composed of a stripe of purplish-red (9/16-inch), a stripe of white (1/16-inch), a stripe of purplish-red (1/8-inch), a stripe of white (1/16-inch), and a stripe of purplish-red (9/16-inch).
		The medal of bronze is 36 millimeters in diameter.
	www.washingtonwatchdog.org /documents/cfr/title32/part578.html (14871 words)

	Army of Occupation of Germany Medal
		The Army of Occupation of Germany Medal was established by Act of Congress (Public Law 322, 77th Congress) on November 21, 1941.
		In the center of a bronze medallion one and a quarter inches in diameter, a profile of General of the Armies John J. Pershing.
		The ribbon to the Army of Occupation of Germany Medal consists of a central stripe of fl flanked by narrower stripes of white.
	www.foxfall.com /fmc-aogm.htm (525 words)

	American Medals
		The original version of this medal was authorized by Congress on July 12, 1862, and was the same as the Navy medal of the time, with a different suspension.
		The medal was reestablished in 1932 by the War Department for Army personnel and in 1943 by the Navy Department for the Navy and Marine Corps.
		The Army of Occupation of Germany Medal was established on November 21, 1941 for members of the US military(or next of kin) who served in Germany or Austria-Hungary between November 12, 1918 and July 11, 1923.
	www.gwpda.org /medals/usamedl/usa.html (1596 words)

	MILNET Brief
		The Soldier's Medal was established in 1926 to recognize soldiers for voluntary acts of bravery during peacetime or heroism not involving actual conflict with an enemy.
		The Army of Occupation of Germany Medal was not established until November 1941.
		A campaign medal was designed for each Theater, and participation in designated battles or campaigns was designated by the use of small campaign stars (rather than bars as was the case for the WW I Victory Medal) affixed to the medal and service ribbons.
	www.milnet.com /pentagon/medals/medals.htm (11161 words)

	US Medals
		Clasps for Army personnel, bearing the name of a specific campaign or country are 1/8th wide by 1 1/2 inches long, with rounded ends.
		Army personnel were authorized 13 Battle Clasps for participation in specific battles and a "Defensive Sector" clasp for service in the Defensive Sector.
		The Army of Occupation of Germany Medal was not established until 21 November, 1941.
	www.nchsinc.com /shop/US_Medals_Page_Seven.htm (911 words)

	Silas L. Copeland - Former Sergeant Major of the Army
		Silas L. Copeland, the 3d Sergeant Major of the Army, was sworn in on October 1, 1970 and served until his term ended in June of 1973.
		In late 1945, he returned from Germany with the 2d Armored Division and was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, where he became Operations and Intelligence Sergeant of the 67th Tank Battalion and 82d Reconnaissance Battalion.
		He was chosen to be the division Command Sergeant Major in April 1968 and served in that capacity until July 1969 when he was assigned to the Republic of Vietnam as the division Command Sergeant major of the 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One).
	www.army.mil /leaders/leaders/sma/former/copeland.html (428 words)

	William O. Wooldridge - Former Sergeant Major of the Army
		William O. Wooldridge, the 1st Sergeant Major of the Army, was sworn in on July 11, 1966 and served until his term ended in August of 1968.
		In December 1958 he was assigned with the 2d Battle Group, 28th Infantry, to the 24th Infantry Division in Germany.
		Upon completion of his term as Sergeant Major of the Army in 1968, he returned once again to Vietnam as Sergeant Major of the Military Assistance Command-Vietnam.
	www.army.mil /leaders/leaders/sma/former/wooldridge.html (466 words)

	Occupation Service Medal - Army, Navy, Marine Display Recognition Application
		The first Army of Occupation Medal was presented to General Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 2, 1947; the second was forwarded on April 2, 1947, to General Douglas MacArthur.
		The bridge was the Ludendorff railroad bridge at Remagen, Germany and was situated 22 miles northwest of Koblenz.
		The first award of the Army of Occupation of Germany Medal was made to General John J. Pershing.
	www.amervets.com /replacement/aoc.htm (1327 words)

	Army Occupation Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The reverse is the same as the China Service Medal and is an eagle perched on the shank of a horizontal anchor with a branch of laurel entwined around the anchor.
		MARINE CORPS: The medal for the Marine Corps is the same as the Navy, except the inscription around the top of the reverse is "UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS".
		Thomas Hudson Jones and the first medal was presented to General Eisenhower on 2 April 1947.
	www.trailblazersww2.org /medals/aom.htm (673 words)

	World War I (WW1) Victory Medal Display Recognition
		Ribbon: The medal is suspended by a ring from a silk ribbon 1 3/8 inches in width, representing two rainbows placed in juxtaposition and having the red in the middle.
		The name originally proposed for the medal, the "Allies' Medal," was rejected by the Commission because the name technically excluded the U.S. (America was an Associated power versus an Allied power) and Germany, ironically, could issue a medal by the same name.
		The medal shall be bronze, round, its diameter 36 mm.
	www.amervets.com /replacement/w1.htm (3564 words)

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		He was selected to go to the Army Industrial College in 1939 and in June 1940, graduated from that institution and assigned to the Finance and Supply Division of the Surgeon General's Office.
		Occupation facilities, limited in scope, were seriously taxed to meet large numbers of battle casualties, but through an astute organization of limited facilities, equipment, and personnel, he instituted procedures whereby a large percentage of casualties which might otherwise have been evacuated from the theater, returned to duty.
		Armstrong, The Surgeon General of the Army, noted that he could be absent from his office on long official trips with complete confidence, that the decisions made and the actions taken by Hays in his absence will be sound, logical, and resourceful.
	history.amedd.army.mil /tsgs/Hays.htm (1871 words)

	Army of Occupation and Navy Occupation Service Medal
		Italy between 9 May 1945 and 15 September 1947 in the compartment of Venezia Giulia E. Zara or Province of Udine, or with a unit in Italy designated in DA General Order 4, 1947.
		Japan between 3 September 1945 and 27 April 1952 in the four main islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu; the surrounding smaller islands of the Japanese homeland; the Ryukyu Islands; and the Bonin-Volcano Islands.
		The Army Occupation Medal was established by War Department Circular 102, dated 5 April 1946.
	www.gruntsmilitary.com /aoom.shtml (699 words)

	SAMC History
		He was assigned to the famous 15th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division where he fought in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany.
		Discharged from the Army on September 21, 1945, Audie went to Hollywood at the invitation of movie star James Cagney.
		He remained in California for the rest of his life and was closely associated with the movie industry, both as an actor and a producer.
	www.knox.army.mil /samc/history.html (549 words)

	SBCCOM-Natick Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While recuperating at a military hospital in Paris, an Army official visited the patients and notified them that they were eligible to receive a Purple Heart.
		George decided to research the information that would enable his father to get the long-lost medal, but all of his leads evaporated as he couldn't find any records or survivors to confirm his eligibility.
		Unexpectedly, a letter from the Army Review Board notified him that the Purple Heart had been declined, but because he has the Combat Infantryman Badge, he was eligible for an even higher award, the Bronze Star.
	www.natick.army.mil /about/pao/2002/02-23.htm (392 words)

	HD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Prior to that assignment, he saw duty as Commanding General of the Second Marine Division in the occupation of the Japanese homeland and for three months in 1946 was Commanding General of the I Corps, U.S. Army, in Japan.
		He was a member of the Army of Occupation in Germany and sailed for home on 25 July 1919.
		Appointed Division Commander, he led the Division in the occupation of the Japanese homeland.
	hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil /HD/Historical/Whos_Who/Hunt_LP.htm (849 words)

	Lawrence T Page - 148th Combat Engineer
		He was in Eisenach, Germany at the end of the war and returned to the states on the Victory ship Waycross.
		The General Hodges Bridge - Gene Fiducia informed me that the men in the photo are officers of the 1110th Combat Group, which the 148th and 631st were part of.
		William J. Irby, received orders from First Army to build a Class 40 floating Bailey bridge at Remagen.The floating Bailey was regarded as a "semi-tactical" bridge, normally used to replace treadway bridges and requiring considerably more time to construct than either treadways or pontons.
	www.6thcorpscombatengineers.com /LawrencePage.htm (838 words)

	Edward Hale Brooks, Lieutenant General, United States Army
		He served as a Gunnery instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, from 1922 to 1926, then was in the Philippines for two years where he had command of Battery D of the 24th Field Artillery, a pack mule outfit.
		He was cited for "personal gallantry and leadership." Later in the war he rose to the command of the VI Corps and its nearly 150,000 men.
		Accepting the surrender of the German 19th Army during this time (two days before V-E day) was what he considered to be one of his greatest achievements.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /ehbrooks.htm (1148 words)

	Holland M. Smith Bio
		On the eve of World War II General Smith directed extensive Army, Navy and Marine amphibious training which was a major factor in successful U.S. landings in both the Atlantic and Pacific.
		Later he helped prepare U.S. Army and Canadian troops for the Kiska and Attu landings, then led the V Amphibious Corps in the assaults on the Gilberts, the Marshalls, and Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas.
		The Amphibious Corps, Pacific Fleet, was later redesignated the V Amphibious Corps, and in September, 1943, as commander of that unit, General Smith arrived at Pearl Harbor to begin planning for the Gilberts campaign.
	www.orgsites.com /al/birminghammcl/_pgg8.php3 (1318 words)

	General Douglas MacArthur (in detail)
		These medals were awarded but are not illustrated on the uniform on display at the memorial
		Once again, MacArthur found solace in the Philippines, where he took command of the Army's Philippine Department and renewed a friendship with the island's leading politician, Manuel Quezon, whom he had known since 1903.
		When war finally came with the blow at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Philippines was doomed: MacArthur's air force was quickly destroyed, his army shredded, and by January his forces had retreated to the Bataan peninsula, where they struggled to survive.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-leaders/ww2/macarthur.htm (2281 words)

	Congressman Fred Upton
		Alfred K. Cochrane, both of Kalamazoo, did not receive their medals following the completion of their service in the United States military.
		Fooy with the World War II Victory Medal and the Army of Occupation Medal Germany for his service in the United States Army Air Corps.
		Cochrane, a member of the United States Army saw combat action throughout Korea and served from September 1950 through June 1951.
	www.house.gov /upton/press/press-05-24-04.html (219 words)

	America's Greatest Generation: Army Heroes: Real Hollywood Heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He served in the Canadian Army (Royal Canadian Artillery, landing as part of the Canadian Army's 3rd Division on Juno Beach).
		He was wounded no less than six times during the course of the war, including the loss of part of his right middle finger in the Juno Beach landings.
		Entered the Army Air Force as a private and worked his way to the rank of Colonel.
	carol_fus.tripod.com /army_hero_hollywood.html (1379 words)

	MG John G. Zierdt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In March 1958, he became Chief of Staff when the Army Ordnance Missile Command (AOMC) was activated.
		His awards included the Bronze Star Medal, the Army Commendation Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster), the American Campaign Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, the Army Occupation Medal (Germany), and both the American and National Defense Service Medals.
		In 1981, General Zierdt was inducted into the U.S. Army Ordnance Hall of Fame.
	www.redstone.army.mil /history/chron4/zierdt.html (431 words)

	David Hackworth fades away. \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hackworth saw combat in World War II (having joined the Army at 15), Korea, and Vietnam; in 1967 he and Gen.
		Samuel Marshall wrote the Vietnam Primer, a "lessons learned" document prepared for the Army to explain how not to fight a guerilla war.
		Hackworth was a distinguished war correspondent, a self-appointed advocate for the average soldier who used his website as a soapbox, a best-selling author, a critic of American tactics in the Iraq War, and possibly the only figure respected by both WorldNetDaily and Common Dreams.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/41796 (958 words)

	MG Edwin I. Donley
		His military schooling included graduation from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School in 1943; the U.S. Army Ordnance School in 1946; the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1961; and the U.S. Army Logistics Management Center in 1963.
		Later that year, he took command of the U.S. Army Mobility Equipment Command in Saint Louis, Missouri, until February 1968, when he was assigned as Commander of the U.S. Army Materiel Command in Europe.
		General Donley is a recipient of the Legion of Merit (with one Oak Leaf Cluster), the Distinguished Service Medal, the Bronze Star Medal, the Army Occupation Medal (Germany), the American and National Defense Service Medals, the American Campaign Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal.
	www.redstone.army.mil /history/chron4/donley.html (578 words)

	David H. Hackworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Air Medal (with "V" Device and Numeral 34 - One for heroism and 33 for aerial achievement)
		Army Commendation Medal (w/ "V" Device and 3 Oak Leaf Clusters)
		Army of Occupation Medal (with Germany and Japan Clasps)
	www.geocities.com /thomp45/Hackworth/Hackworth.html (225 words)

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