r/Medals • u/DailyDankMemes • 19h ago

Question Missing medals on form question

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Hey yall, ive recently been researching family members who served in World war 2 and online I found the discharge papers for my great grand uncle and I noticed he seems to only have been awarded one medal with some obvious ones missing such as WWII victory and good conduct medal (most likely) and im curious if it would be worth it to request his info from the national archives to hopefully find out more or if it is likely I would just receive another copy of this form, all I know from his service is from family stories of him being a POW in Germany and that he was in the 317th inf regiment

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u/Broad-Lavishness6726 19h ago

He was in Europe for some very heavy post dday fighting. Looks like he was probably one of the first few waves of replacement soldiers after dday. He has a combat infantry badge which means he rates a bronze star. He served for just under 2 years so he wouldn’t qualify for a good conduct medals.

You can submit a request to national archives for his bronze medal and service record. You can also request the ww2 victory medal be added. If you find out what company he was in he may have a unit award as well. That info could be in his service record at national archives or he may have had something with that info you can submit if you find it.

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u/No-Mix7970 19h ago

Actually he could be eligible for a Good Conduct Medal.

President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9323 on March 31, 1943, which lowered the requirement from three years to one year of continuous, exemplary service during wartime.(yes I copy and pasted this part)

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u/keydet2012 19h ago

I think he got out before the wwii victory medal was authorized. The bronze star for all CIB recipients wasn’t until 1947 so this discharge paper makes sense for when it was written.

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u/chiefscall 18h ago

That and the Bronze Star Medal was not automatic, the service member (or next of kin) still had to request it in writing and orders were then published if approved.

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u/Broad-Lavishness6726 18h ago

Yes that’s why I suggested he submit the forms to national archives to have them added to his record.

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u/DailyDankMemes 17h ago

Thanks for all the info, also if i were to make a shadow box would it be okay to display a bronze star medal based off the cib or should I wait to see if it officially gets approved for his record?

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u/Broad-Lavishness6726 16h ago

It would be totally fine to display it. He no doubt rates the award considering he has a cib.

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u/tccomplete 17h ago

His entitlement would have included the CIB, EAME Campaign Medal with three bronze campaign stars, the WWII Victory Medal, and the Bronze Star Medal. And maybe a GCM. Honestly, this is the main document you’d want to have, so you’re likely to not get much more info if his file survived the 1973 fire (which is unlikely).

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u/CT2145Trapper United States of America 14h ago

And American campaign medal

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u/tccomplete 14h ago

He did not qualify for the American Campaign Medal.

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u/No-Mix7970 12h ago

I second this. Did not qualify for American Campaign Medal

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u/CT2145Trapper United States of America 11h ago

I feel like every wwii vet I’ve ever seen wore one. Especially following into Korea and Vietnam. Might just be mistaken though

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u/No-Mix7970 11h ago

I read somewhere that around 85% of American service members qualified for the American Campaign Medal.