Distinguished Service Cross
Possibility #1-Decoration was awarded by a different command:
During World War II the lowest proving authority for the Distinguished Service Cross was the army commander. There were some exceptions to this rule. Below is a list of commands known to have issued Distinguished Service Cross during WWII:
1st Airborne Army
1st Allied Airborne Army
1st Army
3rd Army
5th Army
6th Army Group
7th Army
9th Air Force
9th Army
10th Army
12th Army Group
15th Army
15th Army Group
Alaskan Defense Command
Allied Forces Headquarters
Army Air Forces, Mediterranean Theater of Operations
Army Air Forces, North African Theater of Operations
Army Air Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas
Department of the Air Force
Department of the Army
European Theater of Operations, US Army
Far East Command
Hawaiian Department
Headquarters, Advanced Echelon, US Army Forces in the Far East
Headquarters, Army Air Forces
Headquarters, Communication Zone, European Theater of Operations
Headquarters, Theater Service Forces, European Theater
Headquarters, US Army Troops, APO 726 (Attu Landing Force)
Mediterranean Theater of Operations, US Army
Military Mission to Moscow
North African Theater of Operations, US Army
Office of the Deputy Commander, 20th Air Force
Office of the Deputy Commander, South West Pacific Command
Provisional Headquarters, Army Air Force, Middle Pacific
South West Pacific Area, General Headquarters
US Air Forces in Europe
US Army Forces in Australia
US Army Forces Central Pacific Area
US Army Forces China Burma India
US Army Forces in the Far East
US Army Forces in the Middle East
US Army Forces Middle Pacific
US Army Forces Pacific Ocean Area
US Army Forces in the Philippines
US Army Forces in the South Pacific
US Forces in Austria
US Forces China Theater
US Forces European Theater
US Forces India Burma Theater
US Forces Pacific
US Strategic Air Forces
US Strategic Air Forces in Europe
War Department
XVI Corps
XVIII Airborne Corps
XXI Bomber Command
Possibility #2-The decoration was awarded years after the action in which it was earned:
As such it is announced in generals issued beyond the scope of this particular work. Try looking in the General Orders of the appropriate Defense Department, department.
Possibility #3-The general order issuing the decoration is missing from the files at the National Archives:
Please consult the web pages for the book you purchased, to see if any general orders were missing. Just because there are missing general orders does not prove that the claimed decoration was actually issued. Try locating a copy of the veterans discharge to see if it has the general order number listed after the decoration.
Possibility #4- There may be an error in the spelling in the original document or error may have occurred while transcribing the information from the original source:
Statistically the transcription error rate is 5%, I try my best to reduce the possibility of errors, but they do occur.