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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Medal of Honor Languages : en Pages : 1126
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A summary of all the Medal of Honor awards from 1863-1968, and the deeds that inspired the awards.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs Publisher: ISBN: Category : Medal of Honor Languages : en Pages : 1126
Book Description
A summary of all the Medal of Honor awards from 1863-1968, and the deeds that inspired the awards.
Author: Dwight S. Mears Publisher: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700626654 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 320
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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. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy) Publisher: ISBN: Category : Decorations of honor Languages : en Pages : 190
Author: Thomas R. Buecker Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806136462 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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Most fort histories end when the military lowers the flag for the last time and the soldiers march out. In contrast, Fort Robinson—occupied and used for more than fifty years since its abandonment by the U.S. army—has taken on new roles. This book recounts the story of this famous northwestern Nebraska army post as it underwent remarkable transformation in the first half of the twentieth century. In the early 1900s, Fort Robinson hosted the last of the African American buffalo soldiers to serve in Nebraska. In the 1920s and 1930s the fort procured and issued thousands of horses for the U.S. army’s largest remount depot. During World War II, Fort Robinson housed the army’s primary war dog training center and served as a major internment camp for German prisoners of war. After 1948, Fort Robinson became a beef research center and is now the state’s premier park. Fort Robinson and the American Century, 1900-1948, is based on more than twenty years of archival research as well as the personal recollections of the men and women who served at the fort. More than ninety photographs and five maps supplement the narrative.
Author: John Avlon Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982108134 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 368
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A groundbreaking, revelatory history of Abraham Lincoln's plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War-a vision that inspired future presidents as well as the world's most famous peacemakers, including Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a story of war and peace, race and reconciliation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Author: Dwight S. Mears
Author: Bob Proft
Author: United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy)
Author: Carl Berger
Author: Thomas R. Buecker
Author: John Avlon
Author: Erwin N. Thompson
Author: Erwin N. Thompson