Distinguished Service Medal
Possibility #1-Decoration was awarded by a different command:
During World War II the lowest proving authority for the Distinguished Service Medal was The War Department. There were some exceptions to this rule. Below is a list of commands known to have issued Distinguished Service Medals:
Allied Forces Headquarters
Department of the Air Force
Department of the Army
War Department
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.