Index to the General Orders of the 15^th Army, in WWII          

This is the forty-second in a series of indexes of all the divisions, corps, armies and commands of the US Army during WWII. Others will be published as they are completed.

 This work includes all decorations cited in the general orders of the 15^th Army.* Please note that many decorations presented to members of the 15^th Army may have been cited in general orders of other commands. Most awards of the Purple Heart Medal were cited in the general orders of the hospitals that the men were evacuated to and, therefore, are not included in the work. This index does not attempt to list all of the awards of the Bronze Star Medal that were retroactively awarded under Change 13 to Army Regulation 600-45, Department of the Army, 4 November 1947. Most awards of the CIB and CMB were made in general orders of the respective infantry regiments. I have made no attempt to list the unit awards, awards of specific Battle Stars, and Good Conduct Medals.

 Some of the 15^th Army’s general orders do not contain the recipient’s unit assignment information. The recipient’s branch of service is listed in its place. Some of these general orders had the numerical designation of recipients penciled into the margin; when this information was present, it was included in this work. Please note that some members of tank destroyer battalions were actually members of the field artillery branch; likewise, members of tank battalions are commonly assigned to the infantry or cavalry branch. So the branch of service is only a lead in determining what unit an individual served in.

 How to read the sources: (GO#46,1945,15Army) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 46, 1945), “15Army” (15^th Army). 

            Every effort has been made to minimize errors and misspelled names. An error may be attributable to the source document, or may have occurred while transcribing the names/units. Some of the original documents are of very poor print quality, making them difficult to decipher

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Distinguished Service Cross 1
Silver Star Medals 4
Soldier’s Medals 4
Bronze Star Medals 242
Air Medals 23
Purple Heart Medals 39

Total Awards 313

This book has 10 pages

ISBN 978-1-932891-63-8

ISBN 1-932891-63-3

Library of Congress Control Number
2005-282190

15^th Army's
WWII Order of Battle