Decorations
General Vandenberg was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters, the Bronze Star, the World War II Victory Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the American Defense Service Medal, and the European-African-Middle East Campaign Medal.
His foreign decorations include the Mexican Military Order of Merit; Netherlands Order of Orange Nassau (Grand Officer with Swords); Brazilian Cruzeiro do Sul (Grand Officer), and Medal of War; Luxembourg Order of Adolphe of Nassau (Grand Cross), and Croix de Guerre; Order of Leopold (Belgium) (Grand Officer with Palms); and French Croix de Guerre with Palms; British Order of the Bath (Knight Commanders Cross); Polish Order of Polonia Restituta (Commander's Cross with Star); Portuguese Order of Aviz, Gra Cruiz; Egyptian Order of the Nile, Grand Cordon; Chinese Order of Pao Ting (Tripod with Grand Cordon); Chilean Medallia Militar de Primerera Clase; Argentine General Staff Emblem and the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Italy.
The Manuscript Collection of Hoyt S. Vandenberg at the Library of Congress as of November 2005 is Classified information.
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