U.S. Army Air Force
Awards of the Silver Star

	for  Conspicuous Gallantry in Action During
WORLD WAR II

The pages linked from the menu below represent nearly 5,000 General Orders citing Silver Star Awards to members of the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. (These are based on G.O.s issued by a USAAF command, and there remain some USAAF recipients indexed in the U.S. Army pages that we have yet to identify and parse out.) This work is based largely on the unprecedented hard work of the late Colonel Albert Gleim to index G.O.s for Silver Star awards. The list includes all names from Volumes I, II, and III of Colonel Gleim's 1991 compendium, and includes additional recipients not identified in Gleim's work.

This index does NOT contain ALL awards of the Silver Star, though we believe that 80% or more of the Army Air Force awards of the Silver Star are represented herein or in the Army indexes. Posting these indexes are our initial step in the much larger effort to identify ALL recipients, and eventually to post their citations. Please keep in mind the following:

• As with any data as complex and as expansive as the 60,000-name Army/AAF indexs, there are certainly input and spelling errors. We have tried to correct those input/spelling errors made in Colonel Gleim's compendium, but in the process of transcription have undoubtedly also incurred many new ones on our part. Please notify us if you have corrections and/or additional information on the recipients listed herein.

• This is more an index of Silver Star General Orders than an index of Silver Star recipients. MOST names listed are those of Silver Star recipients, however some of these awards may have been upgraded to other awards. In coming months we will attempt to identify these to correct the listing. The listings herein indicate a General Order with reference to the Silver Star, and the name of the individual referenced. In a very few cases, that G.O. may in fact be a revocation of that award.

• When a name is listed multiple times, it GENERALLY indicates subsequent additional award(s) of the Silver Star. In some cases however, an additional listing may be a correction to an error in an earlier G.O., not indicating a subsequent award.

• The only way to specifically identify a recipient is to examine the General Order cited. By providing this information, you can at the very least attempt to obtain a needed G.O. by citing a specific G.O. Check out our link for more information on How to Obtain a Needed Citation or General Order. 

Silver Star Home Page World War I World War II Korean War China (1947) Vietnam War Korea DMZ Congo (1964) In addition to the Silver Star, the pages linked below also include citations for  all awards of the MOH/DSC/NX/AFC in the specified actions. USS Liberty (1967) USS Pueblo (1968) SS Mayaguez (1975) Grenada (1983) El Salvador (1987) Panama (1989) Persian Gulf (1991) Somalia (1993) Kosovo (1999) War on Terrorism

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