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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.
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BeauIn the US Military, there is NO Oak Leaf Medal; Oak leaves are affixed to medals signifying multiple awards of the same medal.
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Difference between silver oak leaf and bronze oak leaf on a army 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.
What is the first oak leaf cluster to the silver star?
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.
What does an oak leaf Custer symbolize?
Typically an Oak Leaf Cluster represents an additional award of the medal. Others use a star to indicate a second award.
What does the Oak leaf cluster on good conduct medal mean?
It indicates a second award.
What is the oak leaf cluster with a bronze star?
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.
