The Medal Of Honor Of The United States Army

Author : United States. Department of the Army. Public Information Division
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medal of Honor of the United States Army written by United States. Department of the Army. Public Information Division and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Medal of Honor was the first medal for which all enlisted men in the U.S. military could be nominated. A bill introduced by the junior senator from Massachusetts, Henry Wilson, on February 17, 1862, calling for the introduction of an army Medal of Honor, was fashioned after a navy medal bill signed by the President two months earlier. On July 12, 1862, Lincoln signed Wilson's bill into law, which called upon the President to present the Medal of Honor "in the name of Congress to such noncommissioned officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldier like qualities during the present insurrection." -- Medal of Honor website.

Author : United States. Department of the Army
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medal of Honor of the United States Army. [With Plates.]. written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : The Editors of Boston Publishing Company
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 0760346240
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medal of Honor written by The Editors of Boston Publishing Company and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of America's highest award for military valor. The Medal of Honor chronicles the creation, evolution, and awarding of the Medal, from the battlefields of the Civil War to the jungles of Vietnam, through a wealth of illustrations and hundreds of authoritative, action-filled accounts of heroism in America's conflicts. This wonderfully detailed and beautifully designed history book puts the Medal and its recipients into the context of their times, with brief and accessible introductions explaining each war and conflict for which the Medal was awarded. It also includes photo essays, intriguing stories of the Medal's sometimes quirky personalities, effects on surviving recipients, and the Medal's preeminent place in the American story. Whether you're an avid reader on the history of the Medal of Honor or simply intrigued by its place in our history, you're certain to want to flip through the pages of The Medal of Honor again and again.

Author : Dwight S. Mears
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700626654
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medal of Honor written by Dwight S. Mears and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medal of Honor, 1863-1968 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of all the Medal of Honor awards from 1863-1968, and the deeds that inspired the awards.

Author : United States. Department of the Army. Public Information Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medal of Honor of the United States Army written by United States. Department of the Army. Public Information Division and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Bellavia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471105873
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House to House written by David Bellavia and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 8 November 2004, the largest battle of the War on Terror began, with the US Army's assault on Fallujah and its network of tens of thousands of insurgents hiding in fortified bunkers, on rooftops, and inside booby-trapped houses. For Sgt. David Bellavia of 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, it quickly turned into a battle on foot, from street to street and house to house. On the second day, he and his men laid siege to a mosque, only to be driven to a rooftop and surrounded, before heavy artillery could smash through to rescue them. By the third day, Bellavia charges an insurgent-filled house and finds himself trapped with six enemy fighters. One by one, he shoots, wrestles, stabs, and kills five of them, until his men arrive to take care of the final target. It is one of the most hair-raising battle stories of any age -- yet it does not spell the end of Bellavia's service. It would take serveral more weeks before the Battle of Fallujah finally came to a close, with Bellavia, miraculously, alive. In the words of the author: "HOUSE TO HOUSE holds nothing back. It is a raw, gritty look at killing and combat and how men react to it. It is gut-wrenching, shocking and brutal. It is honest. It is not a glorification of war. Yet it will not shy from acknowledging this: sometimes it takes something as terrible as war for the full beauty of the human spirit to emerge."

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Total Pages : pages
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Author : C Douglas Sterner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
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Download or read book United States Army Heroes - Volume I-b written by C Douglas Sterner and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "United States Army Heroes" is a 14-volume collection of the citations for our nation's highest military awards. Volume I-a (Civil War through World War I), and I-b (World War II through the Global War on Terrorism) contain the citations for Army awards of the Medal of Honor. Entries include photos of the recipients when available, as well as brief biographical information including date and place of birth, Home Town, date of death and burial location, and more. Volume I-b includes appendixes that analyze the Medal of Honor awards by such criteria as rank, MOS and specialty, Unit, Home Town, and more.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
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Download or read book To Authorize the President of the United States to Award a Special Congressional Medal of Honor to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, United States Army, (H.R. 523) ; to Authorize the President of the United States to Award a Congressional Medal of Honor to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, United States Army (H.R. 524) ; to Authorize the President of the United States to Award a Special Congressional Medal of Honor to Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower, United States Army (H.R. 525) ; to Authorize the President of the United States to Award a Congressional Medal of Honor to Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower (H.R. 526), Mr. Larcade ; and to Authorize the President of the United States to Award Posthumously a Congressional Medal of Honor to Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. (H.R. 743), Mr. Rankin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: