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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons






Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right

Top Row - American Campaign Medal

Second Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (7 Stars)
World War II Victory Medal
Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

Third Row - National Defense Service Medal - 
Korean Service Medal (9 Stars)
Vietnam Service Medal (10 Stars)

Fourth Row - United Nations Service Medal - 
Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - 
Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)

 

Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
Gilbert Islands operation
Tarawa - Betio Island, 20 to 28 November 1943
Iwo Jima operation
Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, February 1945
Marshall Islands operation
Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, 31 January to 4 February 1944
Okinawa Gunto operation
March through June 1945
Marianas operation
Capture and occupation of Guam, 21 to 27 July 1944
Third Fleet operations against Japan
July and August 1945
Western Caroline Islands operation
Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, Peleliu, 15 September to 3 October 1944
.

Korean War Campaigns
Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
North Korean Aggression
18 September to 8 October 1950
Second Korean Winter
30 November to 16 December 1951
29 December 1951 to 10 January 1952
22 January to 3 February 1952
14 to 26 February 1952
10 to 27 March 1952
5 to 12 April 1952
Inchon Landing
15 to 17 September 1950
Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952
24 May to 5 June 1952
14 June to 17 July 1952
30 to 31 July 1952
First UN Counteroffensive
15 to 18 March 1951
31 March to 11 April 1951
Third Korean Winter
4 to 22 January 1953
2 to 10 and 18to 24 February 1953
2 to 7 March 1953
22 March to 1 April 1953
13 to 19 and 29 to 30 April 1953
Communist China Spring Offensive
24 April to 6 May 1951
14 to 18 May 1951
Korean Summer-Fall 1953
1 to 5 and 14 to 17 May 1953
UN Summer-Fall Offensive
1 to 21 November 1951
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Vietnam War Campaigns
Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
Vietnamese Counteroffensive
12 February to 2 March 1966
9 March to 6 April 1966
Vietnamese Summer-Fall 1969
9 to 13 and 20 to 23 June 1969
30 June to 15 July 1969
24 July to 8 August 1969
1 to 2 and 9 to 23 September 1969
1 to 16 and 30 to 31 October 1969
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II
12 to 15 and 30 to 31 May 1967
Winter-Spring 1970
1 to 12 November 1969
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III
1 to 11 June 1967
28 June to 13 July 1967
24 July to 16 August 1967
Sanctuary Counteroffensive
7 to 26 June 1970
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase V
7 to 17 April 1968
26 April to 6 May 1968
16 to 29 May 1968
12 to 24 June 1968
11 to 24 July 1968
3 to 22 August 1968
9 to 16 September 1968
24 September to 8 October 1968
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII
5 to 21 July 1970
27 July to 4 August 1970
14 to 18 August 1970
17 September to 3 October 1970
20 October to 4 November 1970
Tet 69/Counteroffensive
29 May to 8 June 1969
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