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The Medal of Honor is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen,
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- The connecting bar, hinge, and pin are made of bronze.
- The pendant is made of gilding metal.
- At the Department of the Air Force leadership's insistence, the new medal depicted the Statue of Liberty's image in place of Minerva on the medal and changed the connecting device from an eagle to Jupiter's thunderbolt flanked with wings as found on the Department of the Air Force's seal.
- When the Air and Space Force's version was designed in 1965,it incorporated similar elements and design from the Army version.
- In 1944, the suspension ribbons for both versions were replaced with the now-familiar neck ribbon.
- When the amendment passed, the Department of the Navy returned to using only the original 1862 inverted 5-point star design.
- In 1942, in response to a lawsuit, the Department of the Navy requested an amendment to expressly allow noncombat awards of the Medal of Honor.
- The Tiffany Cross itself was not popular among recipients—one author reflected that it was "the most short-lived, legally contentious, and unpopular version of the Medal of Honor in American history."
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- Byrd himself apparently disliked the Tiffany Cross, and eventually requested the alternate version of the medal from President Herbert Hoover in 1930.
- The decision was controversial within the Navy's Bureau of Navigation (which handled personnel administration), and officials considered asking the attorney general of the United States for an advisory opinion on the matter.
- Despite the "actual conflict" guidelines, the Tiffany Cross was awarded to Navy CDR (later RADM) Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett for their flight to the North Pole in 1926.
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- The so-called Tiffany Cross was to be presented to a sailor or marine who "in action involving actual conflict with the enemy, distinguish[es] himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty."
- Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels selected Tiffany after snubbing the Commission of Fine Arts, which had submitted drawings that Daniels criticized as "un-American".
- The original upside-down star was designated as the non-combat version and a new pattern of the medal pendant, in cross form, was designed by the Tiffany Company in 1919.
- this allowed the Department of the Navy to claim that it was not literally in violation of the 1919 law.
- By treating the 1919 Medal of Honor as a separate award from its Civil War counterpart,
- which would have foreclosed non-combat awards.
- This was an attempt to circumvent the requirement enacted in 1919 that recipients participate "in action involving actual conflict with the enemy,"
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- After World War I, the Department of the Navy decided to separate the Medal of Honor into two versions, one for combat and one for non-combat.
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- In 1913, the Naval version adopted the same ribbon pattern.
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- The 1904 Army version also introduced a bar with the word "Valor" above the star.
- In 1904, the Army "Gillespie" version introduced a smaller redesigned star and the ribbon was changed to the light blue pattern with white stars seen today.
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- In 1896, the Army version changed the ribbon's design and colors due to misuse and imitation by nonmilitary organizations.
- There are 34 stars surrounding the scene, representing the number of states in the union at the time.
- In her left hand, she held a fasces.
- The medals featured a female allegory of the Union, with a shield in her right hand that she used to fend off a crouching attacker and serpents.
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- The Army's 1862 version followed and was identical to the Naval version except an eagle perched atop cannons was used instead of an anchor to connect the pendant to the suspension ribbon.
- The upside-down star design of the Naval version's pendant adopted in early 1862 has not changed since its inception.
- The Medal of Honor has evolved in appearance over time.
- The finish on the pendant and suspension bar is hard enameled, gold plated, and rose gold plated, with buffed relief.
- The connecting bar, hinge, and pin are made of bronze.
- The pendant is made of gilding metal.
- The star is suspended from a bar inscribed with the word *VALOR* above an adaptation of Jupiter's thunderbolt from the Department of the Air Force's seal.
- Centered on the star, an annulet of 34 stars is a representation of the head of the Statue of Liberty.
- one point down, tipped with trefoils and each point containing a crown of laurel and oak on a green background.
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- The Air and Space Forces version is described as "within a wreath of green laurel, a gold five-pointed star,
- It is made of solid red brass, oxidized and buffed.
- The medal is suspended from the flukes of an anchor.