The Fifth Infantry Division

    

    

Silver Star Medal

Vietnam

 

 
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Silver Star Medal

  
     

This page is dedicated as a memorial to those members of the First Brigade, Fifth Infantry Division (Vietnam) who were awarded our Nation's third highest award for gallantry and sacrifice in armed combat - the Silver Star Medal.

Last Name
First Name
Middle Init.

Rank
General
 Order
Number

Year General Order Issued and Authority

5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) Unit

Blunt

Stanley A.

CPT

148

1970   C24

D/1-11 Infantry

Blunt

Stanley A.

CPT

645

1967   F2

 

Doll

James J.

SP4

28

1969   C24

B/1-11 Infantry

Pink

Nicholas T.

SP4

268

1968   C24

D/1-11 Infantry

Smallwood

Donald B.

CPT

934

1969   F2

D/1-11 Infantry

Smallwood

Donald B.

CPT

63

1968   F1

D/1-11 Infantry

Starr

William J.

CPT

147

1970   C24

B/1-11 Infantry

Walker

Alvin E.

PVT

1819

1969   C24

D/1-11 Infantry

Widener

Russell K.

 

4

1970   C24

B/1-61 Infantry (M)

Ard*

Randolph J.

CWO

23

1979   DA

HHC/1-5 Infantry Div

No complete database for the award of this medal is accessible:  Please submit information to the National Historian of the Society of the Fifth Division, U.S. Army with a copy of the citation and General Order if you have them, or else contact (e-mail) the National Historian with the name of the recipient.

Authority Abbreviations for General Orders:  DA - Department of the Army (1964 - Present date); MV - MACV - Military (1966 - 1967); RV - USARV (1968 - 1969); F1 - I Field Force (1967 - 1971); F2 - II Field Force (1966 - 1971); PC - Prov Corps (1968); C24 - XXIV Corps (1968 - 1971).

 

* Indicates Posthumous Award