The Oak Leaf Cluster is not a medal. It is a small pin in the shape of an oak leaf that is issued for the 2nd (and 3rd and 4th) time you receive a medal. If you earned a Purple Heart Medal for being wounded, then the second time you would be issued "an oak leaf to the Purple Heart Medal".
Campaign Medals were issued for service in a region for a specific time. Then if you continued serving and were in another campaign, you would receive a 2nd Oak Leaf to the Campaign Medal. Thus the Normandy landing was one campaign. Then if you fought into Germany there was one for that.
In the US Military, there is NO Oak Leaf Medal; Oak leaves are affixed to medals signifying multiple awards of the same medal.
A bronze oak leaf indicates a single additional award of the same medal. A silver oak leaf indicates five awards of the same medal.
Oak leaf clusters indicate subsequent awards of that same medal. The 1st OLC to a Silver Star indicates the second time that medal has been awarded.
Typically an Oak Leaf Cluster represents an additional award of the medal. Others use a star to indicate a second award.
It indicates a second award.
The Bronze Star Medal is awarded for valor in battle or for achievement in a battlefield theater of operation. In US Military, oak leaf clusters are awarded for additional awards of the same medal. So two (2) oak leaf clusters indicates a person has received three (3) total awards of the same medal.
A bronze oak leaf indicates a single additional award of the same medal. A silver oak leaf indicates five awards of the same medal.
That is an award that was issued issued four times...Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters. That means when the person was first awarded the Air Medal, he/she received the basic medal, then any additional awards was denoted with an oak leaf cluster that is wornon top the basic ribbon. If he/she get a silver oak leaf cluster, that means six awards of that medal.
The Bronze Star medal was established in 1944. An oak leaf cluster on US medals indicates additional award of the same medal. Thus one (1) oak leaf cluster on a medal indicates the wearer has been awarded the same medal twice.
The oak leaf cluster is positioned in the center of the Ribbon and in the center of the Ribbon which hangs to a Medal.
Oak leaf clusters indicate subsequent awards of that same medal. The 1st OLC to a Silver Star indicates the second time that medal has been awarded.
In US military, first award of a decoration is the ribbon (and medal) itself. Additional awards are reflected by the addition of an oak leaf cluster on the ribbon. When the sixth award of the medal occurs, the four oak leaf clusters on the ribbon are replaced with a silver oak leaf cluster, denoting 5 additional awards of the medal.
The Bronze Star Medal is awarded for valor in battle or for achievement in a battlefield theater of operation. In US Military, oak leaf clusters are awarded for additional awards of the same medal. So two (2) oak leaf clusters indicates a person has received three (3) total awards of the same medal.
Typically an Oak Leaf Cluster represents an additional award of the medal. Others use a star to indicate a second award.
a second award of the same medal....................
It indicates a second award.
The Bronze Star Medal is awarded for valor in battle or for achievement in a battlefield theater of operation. In US Military, oak leaf clusters are awarded for additional awards of the same medal. So two (2) oak leaf clusters indicates a person has received three (3) total awards of the same medal.
The Oak Leaf Device was a small leaf that was attached to the ribbon of a medal to denote the 2nd issue of that medal. So if a soldier had a Campaign Medal with 2 Oak Leaves meant that the soldier had been awarded the medal three times.When the soldier earned his 5th PHM, he would use the Bronze Star Device in place of the multiple Oak Leaves. (I believe that is the correct number)