GENERAL: President’s Message (4) ...... 1/4-5, 6/4-5, 8/4-5, 10/4-5, 11/4, 12/4-5 Now Available From the Secretary ...... 1/5, 4/39, 8/24, 11/16 OMSA Monographs Available ...... 1/33, 4/36, 5/22, 6/20, 7/20, 10/21, 11/36 25 Year Service Bar Available ... 1/35, 4/35, 5/18, 7/9, 8/13, 10/36, 11/25 The Ribbon Bank ...... 1/37-38, 4/21-22, 5/14-15, 6/27-28, 7/17-19, 8/24-25, 11/13-14 Convention Announcements ...... ¯ ...... 3/29, 6/29, 7/16 Call For Nominations (32) ...... 3/32 O.M.S.A. Index ...... 3/33 Special Announcement --- Ribbon Bank Manager’s Change of Address ...... 5/14, 6/27 Secretary’s Report of Nominations Received (32) ...... 7/31 1987-88 Awards For Best Articles ...... 8/31 Books From Willson Estate Donated to OMSA Library (34) .... 8/31 Dues Payments ...... 8/35, 10/31, 11/35 The 1988 OMSA Convention (47) ...... 10/6-20" OMSA Long Range Planning Effort ...... 10/30 Report of the 1988 Election Teller Committee (32) ...... 10/36 Treasurer’s Report For the Year Ending June 30, 1988 ...... 11/17

CAMBODIA: Award of the Cambodian National Defense Medal to an American ’Green Beret’ (9) ...... 4/19-21"

CANADA:

Posthumous Award Honors Portage Man (64) ...... 11/27-28 Two Winnipeggers Named to Order of Canada List (64) ... 11/28-29

CUBA: Orders, Decorations, & Medals of the Republic of (29) ...... 4/4-13" Notes on the Article "Orders, Decorations, and Medals of the Republic of Cuba" (I) ...... 7/21-23

GERMANY: "Kamerad" Memorial Medal (23) ...... 1/27-28" The Grand Cross of the Order of the Iron Cross (21) .... 5/19-31" An Award Document for the German Wound Badge in Gold (33) ...... 6/16-19" Correction (16) ...... 7/17 Iron Cross Token of World War I (63) ...... 11/18"

31 GREAT BRITAIN: Britain’s New Lords & Heroes (39) ...... 3/34-35 Charles Lucas: A Fire Fighting Career in London [13) .. 5/16-18~ Queen Elizabeth Slaps Down Honoree (63) ...... 11/27

IMPERIAL AND THE : Russian Medals for the War Against Napoleon (57) ...... 4/23-26" Medal Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Victory in World War II (57) ...... S/27-28" Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern [65) ...... 7/4-9" The First Russian Journey Around the World [15, 54) ...... 7/10 The Order of the Red Banner of the Armenian Socialist Republic (46) ...... 8/26-30" New Soviet Medal Commemorates the 70th Anniversary of the Soviet Armed Forces (57) ...... 11/15-16"

KOREA (NORTH): A New North Korean Order: The Order of the Red Banner of the Three Revolutions [I) ...... 8/17-18"

KOREA (SOUTH):

A Medal for Veterans of the Korean War (51) ...... 3/31-32

NEW ZEALAND: Victoria Cross to Be Auctioned (30) ...... 11/26

PAKISTAN: Pakistan Elite Army Unit Losses (61) ...... 6/33

POLAND: New Book in Progress on the Polish Order of the Virtuti Militari ...... 8/I5-16~ Determination of Scarcity and Valuation of Polish Militaria (58) ...... 10/27-30

ROMANIA: Addendum to "The Romanian Commemorative Medal of the Crusade Against Communism" (33) ...... 1/19-21" Additional Information Concerning The Romanian Commemorative Medal of the Crusade Against Communism (29) ...... 12/24-25"

32 SPAIN: Controller Gets Spanish Medal (18) ...... 11/30-31

SWEDEN: New Swedish Medal (40) ...... 12/6-7

THAILAND: Knights of the Barter (9) ...... 7/32-33

UNITED STATES: USA Typhus Commission Medal (34) ...... i/6-17~ New Army Civilian Service ~¢ards (38) ...... 1/21 Veteran and Hereditary Organizations of Military Service and/or Wars of Colonial America and the United States (35, 53) ...... 1/23-26 Philip C. Katz (22) ...... 1/31 Reagan Honors Teen Who Rescued Toddlers (62) ...... 1/32 New Medal Design (18) ...... 1/32 Combat Readiness Medal (18) ...... 1/32 The Merchant Marine Gallant Ship Citation Plaque and Bar (36) ...... 3/4-29~ Flier Who Shot Down Yamamoto Dies (33) ...... 3/34 Kenneth Porter, World War I Flying Ace (33) ...... 3/35 Alaska Territorial Guard Medal (6) ...... 4/15-18" An Additional Recipient of the Typhus Commission Medal (8).. 4/18 Addendum to "Veteran and Hereditary Organizations of Military Service and/or Wars of Colonial America and the United States" (53) ...... 4/26 The Neptunus Rex Campaign Medal (59) ...... 4/27-30~ Sgt. Maj. Berry Perry, Marine Guard, U.S.S. Boise (60, 49) 5/4-14* The Medals and Decorations of Brig. Gen. Charles R. Krauthoff (12) ...... 5/19-21~ Aliases Traced to Hero (39) ...... 5/32-33 Military Memories: Institute is a Showcase for Army’s History (62) ...... 5/33-35 General’s Years in Marines Were Truly Active Service (31) 5/35-36 War Merchant Seamen to Get Veteran Status (62) ...... 5/36 A Fighter Pilot ’Mystery Group’ (37) ...... 6/6-15~ What Happened to the Heroes? David Mangum, World War II Navy Pilot (7) ...... 6/21-26e USA Typhus Commission Medal Update (24) ...... 6/30-32~ Congress Authorizes New POW Medal (26) ...... 6/33 World War I Draft Cards (i0) ...... 7/ii-15~ The Chicago Tribune’s R.O.T.C. 1961 Medal for Military Merit (25) ...... 7/24-25e Spanish-American War Medals of Oregon (6) ...... 7/26-31~ Reward for Distinguished Service (62) ...... 8/16 Heroism Awards of the Boy Scouts of America (19) ...... 8/19-22~ Addendum to The Medals and Decorations of Brig. Gen. Charles R. Krauthoff (17) ...... 10/22-23 A New Striking of the Merchant Marine Meritorious Service Medal (36) ...... i0/23-24* Polar Awards of the United States: "Jeanette" Arctic Expedition Medal, 1879-1882 (31) ...... ii/5-13*

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