AJA Veterans Awards & Honors
The National Japanese American Historical Society thanks the Go For Broke Educational Foundation for the following statistics:
Decorations
8 Presidential Unit Citations (including the MIS citation)
18,143 Individual decorations including:
9,486 Casualties (Purple Hearts)
5,200 Bronze Stars (4,000 Bronze Stars plus Oak Leaf Cluster)
33 Distinguished Service Medals (19 previous DSMs were upgraded to Medals of Honor)
21 Congressional Medals of Honor (20 medals were upgraded in June 2000 and given by the President of the United States)
   

Last updated July, 2003

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