My grandfather recently passed away and we found a letter stating he won the Army Bronze Star during WWII in the Phillipines. Just want to find out why he got it for family history.
2006-10-31 08:43:39 · 8 answers · asked by bill417rex 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
+ There is no website that lists them all but many partial web sites. Specific inquiries can be addressed to the branch of service's records dept that your grandfather served in. It should be listed on his discharge papers and you can get a copy of the actual commendation from using the service record number listed on the discharge. (please, you don't win medals, you are awarded medals and often times you are awarded a medal to honor the actions of several individuals some no longer with us)
2006-11-02 11:51:18 · answer #1 · answered by Clamdigger 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You can complete the form SF-180 and request a copy of his service record which will list any awards that he received. If he was taken prisoner in 1941/42 on Corregidor/Bataan in the Philippines then he was indeed awarded the Bronze Star as all of them were given one.
Begin your search here:
http://www.archives.gov/veterans/evetrecs/index.html
2006-10-31 17:01:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, there is no such website yet. It's too bad really. Your grandfather most likely really earned his Bronze Star. I noticed while deployed to Iraq, that you don't need to do anything really extraordinary to receive a Bronze Star anymore. You either need enough rank and it becomes automatic, or you need to have friends in command. They give Bronze Stars for meritoriously processing paperwork nowdays.
2006-10-31 16:50:10 · answer #3 · answered by theronjustron 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no comprehensive list of US military medal winners by medal category, whatsoever.
However, here are some suggestions:
Not a complete list but this is a list of medal recipients from from Pearl Harborhttp://www.pearlharbor.org/medal-winners.asp
There is listing of Service medal winners through the Library of Congress and the National Archives. I researched info on my Godfather through these resources. While I knew he was in the army and every once in awhile he would talk about it I didn't realize that he performed such heroic acts. He never mentioned anything about his medals. I grew very curious at his funeral when an armed services band, color guard, bugler and the 21 gun salute was performed. While I knew he was in the army and every once in awhile he would talk about it I didn't realize that he performed such heroic acts. He never mentioned anything about his medals. It is was easier to search and find data in the National Archives. I was told that the VA (Veterans Administration) has this data but I never checked.
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/Moh1.htmhas Medal of Honor winners, by war.
2006-10-31 16:46:01 · answer #4 · answered by USMCstingray 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you have to have the service number in order to search at the Library of Congress for your Godfathers records?
I would like to find out about an uncle from the First ww that won a silver star, he would not talk about it.
That link by the first responder is crap.
2006-10-31 16:53:04 · answer #5 · answered by madjer21755 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your grandfather's surviving spouse, son, daughter, sister, or brother can request his military records from the National Archives.
The citation for his Bronze Star will be among his records.
http://www.archives.gov/veterans/evetrecs/
2006-10-31 16:59:03 · answer #6 · answered by abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can try submitting his name and info in stars and stripes and some of his battle buddies might contact you.
2006-10-31 16:45:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
try ww.imdb.com
2006-10-31 16:44:41 · answer #8 · answered by bluecheese465 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋