General Orders 1946 - Fort Benning

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keeping with the highest traditicn of the armed forces of theUnitcd States. (Gen-
eral Orders 2217, Headquarters Far East Air Forccs, 29 November 1945, as ap-
proved by the Currmander in Chief, United States Army Forces, Pacific.)
IX..LrNfTED STATES OF AMERICA TYPHUS COMMISSION MEDAL.-By
direction of the President, nnilir the provisions of Executive Order m85, 24
December 1912 !see. 11, WD Bul. ?, 1943) mld AR GOO-45, thc United States of
America l'yph~ls Cummi~siun ZIcdal for exceptionally meritorious servicPs in
connection with lhr work of llie Commirsior> daring the period inrlientcd was
awarded by the Wnr Depnrtmcnt to lhr following-namxl officer:
Colonel John E. Gordon, OI(J5OS5, Nedical Corps, Army of the United States,
while scrving ns chief of prevrrilire medicine in the office of the Chief Surg~on,
European Theater, of Opx'xtions, rnndrr~rl cxceptiounlly merilorions services
in the control of epidemic tyrhos in t h American occupied region of Germmy
from 19 May to 7 July 1945. His intelligcnt su~ervision of modern control
methuds checked the spread of typhns in lllr inner Rsirh, protected the ndvnnc-
Ing American forces, and prevented the dissemination of typhus with the return
of repatriates info Arnr~ce. Coloi~el Gorrlon contribuled rubstar~ti:rlly to an
achieremrnt which ranis as one of the greatest nccomplishmenls of mndern
military prerentive medicine.
X..AIR MEDAL (OAK-LEAF CLUSTER),So much of section KIII, WD.
General Orrlcrs 60, 1915, as llerlaiils to S :!fl Sergeant .l,lic P. Almz, Air Corps,
as reads "Air Medal was awardeil". is amended lo read "eiglilh bronze Oak-Leaf
Giuster was anwnlcd."
BY ORDE;Il OF THE SE~~F~'ARY OF WAR:
Orr~cra
: DWIGHT n. EISENHOWER
EDWARD B'. WITSRLL Chmf of &ofr
Mujor General
The Adjutant General
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