| Mr. Carl W. S. Chun | Director | |
| Mrs. Nancy Amos | Analyst |
| Mr. John N. Slone | Chairperson | |
| Ms. Margaret V. Thompson | Member | |
| Mr. William D. Powers | Member |
2. The applicant requests that his Report of Separation be amended to add the 2d award of the Purple Heart and the 2d award of the Bronze Star Medal (BSM).
3. The applicant makes no additional statement.
4. The applicant’s military records were lost or destroyed in the National Personnel Records Center fire in 1973. The information contained herein was obtained from alternate sources.
5. The applicant was inducted into the Army on 15 May 1943 and entered active service on 22 May 1943. He arrived in the European Theater of Operations on 5 November 1943 and departed on 23 December 1944. He was discharged with a certificate of disability on 24 July 1945. His Report of Separation shows he served as a rifleman and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster, and the BSM.
6. The applicant provided two BSM certificates, both dated 20 January 1958. One was for the BSM for heroism in ground combat near Warencourt, France on 23 September 1944. The other was for the BSM 1st oak leaf cluster for meritorious achievement in ground operations against the enemy during the Naples-Foggia Campaign.
7. The Bronze Star Medal was established by Executive Order 9419, 4 February 1944. Army Regulation 600-8-22 provides for the award of the BSM to any person who distinguished himself or herself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight, in connection with military operations against an armed enemy. It also provides that members of the armed forces who, after 6 December 1941 and prior to 3 September 1945, have been cited in orders or in a formal certificate for meritorious or exemplary conduct in ground combat against the armed enemy. A citation in orders for the Combat Infantryman Badge or Medical Badge awarded in the field during the period of actual combat against the armed enemy is considered as a citation for exemplary conduct in ground combat. It provides that the Purple Heart is awarded for a wound sustained as a result of hostile action. A Purple Heart is authorized for the first wound; for each subsequent award an oak leaf cluster will be awarded.
CONCLUSIONS:
1. The applicant’s Report of Separation already reflects his two awards of the Purple Heart by indicating he was awarded the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster.
2. The Board accepts the award certificates provided as evidence that the applicant was awarded two awards of the BSM. It appears that he was awarded the first BSM for a specific act of heroism performed on 23 September 1944 (after the establishment of the BSM). It appears that the BSM 1st oak leaf cluster was awarded as a result of his award of the Combat Infantryman Badge; i. e., for meritorious achievement in ground operations against the enemy. It would be appropriate to add this second award of the BSM to his Report of Separation.
3. In view of the foregoing, the applicant’s records should be corrected as recommended below.
RECOMMENDATION:
1. That the applicant’s Report of Separation be amended to add the 2d award of the Bronze Star Medal.
2. That so much of the application as is in excess of the foregoing be denied.
BOARD VOTE:
__jns___ __mvt___ __wdp___ GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION
________ ________ ________ GRANT FORMAL HEARING
________ ________ ________ DENY APPLICATION
John N. Slone
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CHAIRPERSON
| CASE ID | AR2001055458 |
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| DATE BOARDED | 20010724 |
| TYPE OF DISCHARGE | |
| DATE OF DISCHARGE | |
| DISCHARGE AUTHORITY | |
| DISCHARGE REASON | |
| BOARD DECISION | (GRANT) |
| REVIEW AUTHORITY | |
| ISSUES 1. | 110.04 |
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