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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 56 STAT. · July 20, 1942 · Public Law 243

Public Law 243.

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*Decorations, orders, medals, etc.* AN ACT To authorize officers and enlisted men of the armed forces of the United States to accept decorations, orders, medals, and emblems tendered them by governments of cobelligerent nations or other American republics and to create the decorations to be known as the “Legion of Merit”, and the “Medal for Merit” July 20, 1942 662 672 *Army of the U. S., temporary appointments of certain officers.* AN ACT To authorize temporary appointments in the Army of the United States of officers on duty with the Medical Administrative Corps July 20, 1942 663 673
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