- Time Period: Second World War
- Institution: December 7, 1941
- Country: United States
The Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal is a military award from the United States during the Second World War. It was awarded to any member of the United States Armed Forces who had served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater from 1941 to 1945.
The medal was created on November 6, 1942 by Executive Order 9265 issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal was first issued as a service ribbon in 1942. A full medal was authorized in 1947, the first of which was presented to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.
The Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal Design
The Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal was designed by Thomas Hudson Jones, a U.S. sculptor for the Army’s Institute of Heraldry.
The reverse was designed by Adolph Alexander Weinman and is the same design as used on the reverse of the American Campaign Medal and European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal.
There were 21 Army and 48 Navy-Marine Corps official campaigns of the Pacific Theater, denoted on the suspension by service stars also known as “battle stars“. Some Navy construction battalion units issued the medal with Arabic numerals.
The European Theater equivalent of the medal was known as the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal.
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