Army Unit Citation and Campaign Credit Register, WWII-Korea
Statistics:
This book has approx 540 pages
ISBN 978-1-932891-38-6
ISBN 1-932891-38-2
Library of Congress Control Number Pending
Units had to be entitled to at least one of the following campaigns or commendations to be included in this work:
Campaigns
Air Offensive, Japan
Aleutian Islands
Bismarck Archipelago
Burma 1942
Central Burma
Central Pacific
China Defensive
China Offensive
East Indies
Eastern Mandates (Ground)
Guadalcanal
India - Burma
Leyte
Luzon
New Guinea
Northern Solomons
Papua
Philippine Islands
Ryukyus
Southern Philippines
Western Pacific (Ground)
Air Offensive, Europe
Algeria - French Morocco
Anzio
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe
Egypt - Libya
Ground Combat, EAME Theater
Naples-Foggia
Normandy
North Apennines
Northern France
Po Valley
Rhineland
Rome-Arno
Sicily ( Ground)
Southern France
Tunisia (Ground)
UN Defensive
UN Offensive
CCF Intervention
First UN Counteroffensive
CCF Spring Offensive
UN Summer-Fall Offensive
Second Korean Winter
Korea Summer - Fall 1952
Third Korean Winter
Korea Summer - Fall 1953
Service Medals
WWII Occupation
Berlin Airlift Device
Commendations
Distinguished Unit Citation
Presidential Unit Citation
Navy Presidential Unit Citation
Meritorious Unit Citation
Navy Unit Commendation
Air Force Outstanding Unit Citation
French Fourragere
Belgian Fouragere
Dutch Orange Lanyard
French Order of the Day
Belgian Order of the Day
Dutch Military Order of William Unit Citation
Italian Cross of War Merit Unit Award
Greek Gold Bravery Medal Unit Citation
Republic of the Philippines Presidential Unit Citation
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation
Republic of Vietnam Presidential Unit Citation
This is a companion to the series of indexes of general orders of divisions, corps and armies of the US Army in WWII. Those indexes are published as they are completed.
This is a reprint of the Army Regulation governing campaign credits for World War II and the Korean War and a register of unit awards received between 1941 and 1961 by army units. I am reprinting this regulation because I have been asked on numerous occasions by various people about unit award entitlement and campaign information on non-divisional units that are not covered in other sources. I feel that this will help many collectors and persons interested in history in their pursuits.
Please note this is the best reference for non-divisional units not covered in Stanton’s World War II Order of Battle. But only units that were entitled to at least one campaign or a unit award are listed.
Most Army Air Force units are not included in this work. This work does include navy unit awards and, foreign unit awards awarded to Army units during the stated time frame. There is also a list of army units entitled to the Berlin Airlift Device on page 533.
The print quality of some pages are poorer than others. I apologize for this, but it is the best that I could do in the limited time that I had available. Although I found reference to each of them in governmental records, I doubt that a member of a unit cited once in the French or Belgian Armies’ Order of the day would have been entitled to wear the ribbon of the respective Croix de Guerre with a gilt frame, but I could be wrong! Please also note that some of the commendations shown on the cover may never have been authorized to be worn by US service members in the form shown.
The page numbered “2” contains the numerical code for each campaign. The campaign credits 1-21 apply to the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, 22-38 apply to the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal and 39-48 apply to the Korean Service Medal. Codes 49-60 refer to foreign unit awards
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.