Index of the General Orders of the 5307th Composite Unit Provisional “Merrill’s Marauders,” in WWII
Statistics:
Purple
Heart Medals 366
Combat Infantryman Badges 41
Expert Infantryman Badges 1
Total Awards 408
This book has 14 pages
ISBN 978-1-932891-92-8
Library of Congress Control Number
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WWII Campaigns
India-Burma
This is the fifteenth in a series of indexes of all infantry regiments and independent infantry battalions of the US Army in WWII. Others will be published as they are completed.
This work includes all decorations cited in the general orders of the 5307th Composite Unit Provisional. Please note that some decorations to members of the 5307th Composite Unit Provisional may have been cited in general orders of other commands. This index lists members of the 5307th Composite Unit Provisional that were awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge or the Combat Medic Badge by the 5307th Composite Unit Provisional. Combat Infantryman Badges and Combat Medic Badges are important, since the recipients of these badges are retroactively entitled to a Bronze Star Medal under Change 13 to Army Regulation 600-45, Department of the Army, 4 November 1947. I have made no attempt to list the Unit Awards, awards of specific Battle Stars, or Good Conduct Medals.
The 5307th Composite Unit Provisional awarded the Expert Infantryman Badges “for satisfactory conduct in action against the enemy.” The Expert Infantryman Badge in this respect seemed to have been issued as a junior award to the Combat Infantryman Badge. I have listed the awards of the Expert Infantryman Badge as they may be convertible to a Bronze Star Medal under the change to Army Regulation 600-45 cited above. The Expert Infantryman Badge is a non-combat proficiency badge; the 5307th Composite Unit Provisional use of the Expert Infantryman Badge in this context is unorthodox.
How to read the sources: (GO#12,1945,5307Comp) is broken down as “GO” (General Order), “#” (Number 12, 1945), “5307Comp” (5307th Composite Unit Provisional).
The 5307th
Composite Unit Provisional was disbanded on August 10, 1944, and its assets
were transferred to the 475th Infantry Regiment. The 475th
Infantry Regiment also issued general orders; please consult the index to
the general orders of that command when researching soldiers who served with
the unit prior to August 10, 1944. The vast majority of the Combat
Infantryman Badges awarded to members of the 5307th Composite
Unit Provisional were cited in the general orders of the 475th
Infantry Regiment.
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. Corrections with
supporting documentation can be sent to D-Day Militaria.