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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3518382, member: 101855"]<b>The American World War II Service Medals</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 rendered the American Defense medal instantly obsolete. From that time on the United States was at war, and the era of passive defense activities had ended. During the First World War the War Department had issued a victory medal that had clasps added to the ribbon to denote the areas where a specific member of the military had served. For World War II, President Roosevelt decided to issue separate medals for of the three theaters: American, Asiatic-Pacific and European-African-Middle Eastern. Roosevelt authorized all three medals by Executive Order 9265 on November 6, 1942.</p><p><br /></p><p>Each of the three medals had a distinctive obverse design with a common reverse motif of an American eagle that was designed by Adolph Weinman. Weinman is best known to American collectors for his designs for the Mercury dime and the Walking Liberty half dollar. Thomas Hudson Jones designed the obverses of the medals, which were 1 and a quarter inches in diameter. The Asiatic-Pacific and European-African-Middle Eastern medals were award to all members of the armed forces who served in those theaters. The requirements for receiving the American Campaign medal were more restricted, and will be explained below. The service ribbons for all of the medals were issued during the war, but the medals were awarded in 1947.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The American Campaign Medal</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]934202[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]934203[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]934204[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>This medal was awarded to all service personnel who served in the American Theater from December 7, 1941 to March 2, 1946. The American Theater was defined as the entirety of The United States, most of the Atlantic Ocean, part of Alaska and a small part of the Pacific Ocean bordering California and Baja California. The service term was at least one consecutive year within the borders of The United States or 30 consecutive days or 60 non-consecutive days outside of the U.S. border.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse featured a Navy cruiser underway and a B-24 Liberator bomber flying overhead. An enemy submarine is shown sinking in the foreground, the skyline of city in the extreme background and the words, "American Campaign" above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3518382, member: 101855"][B]The American World War II Service Medals[/B] The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 rendered the American Defense medal instantly obsolete. From that time on the United States was at war, and the era of passive defense activities had ended. During the First World War the War Department had issued a victory medal that had clasps added to the ribbon to denote the areas where a specific member of the military had served. For World War II, President Roosevelt decided to issue separate medals for of the three theaters: American, Asiatic-Pacific and European-African-Middle Eastern. Roosevelt authorized all three medals by Executive Order 9265 on November 6, 1942. Each of the three medals had a distinctive obverse design with a common reverse motif of an American eagle that was designed by Adolph Weinman. Weinman is best known to American collectors for his designs for the Mercury dime and the Walking Liberty half dollar. Thomas Hudson Jones designed the obverses of the medals, which were 1 and a quarter inches in diameter. The Asiatic-Pacific and European-African-Middle Eastern medals were award to all members of the armed forces who served in those theaters. The requirements for receiving the American Campaign medal were more restricted, and will be explained below. The service ribbons for all of the medals were issued during the war, but the medals were awarded in 1947. [B]The American Campaign Medal [ATTACH=full]934202[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]934203[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]934204[/ATTACH] [/B] This medal was awarded to all service personnel who served in the American Theater from December 7, 1941 to March 2, 1946. The American Theater was defined as the entirety of The United States, most of the Atlantic Ocean, part of Alaska and a small part of the Pacific Ocean bordering California and Baja California. The service term was at least one consecutive year within the borders of The United States or 30 consecutive days or 60 non-consecutive days outside of the U.S. border. The obverse featured a Navy cruiser underway and a B-24 Liberator bomber flying overhead. An enemy submarine is shown sinking in the foreground, the skyline of city in the extreme background and the words, "American Campaign" above.[/QUOTE]
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