[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1759 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1759

 To ensure that any person who served aboard the vessel HMT Queen Mary 
and who was awarded the American Theater Campaign Ribbon for service in 
World War II is able to obtain a replacement for that ribbon if it has 
            been lost, destroyed, or rendered unfit for use.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 7, 1995

  Mr. Duncan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on National Security

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that any person who served aboard the vessel HMT Queen Mary 
and who was awarded the American Theater Campaign Ribbon for service in 
World War II is able to obtain a replacement for that ribbon if it has 
            been lost, destroyed, or rendered unfit for use.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REPLACEMENT OF CERTAIN AMERICAN THEATER CAMPAIGN RIBBONS.

    (a) Replacement Ribbons.--The Secretary of the Army, pursuant to 
section 3751 of title 10, United States Code, may replace any World War 
II decoration known as the American Theater Campaign Ribbon that was 
awarded to a person listed in the order described in subsection (b).
     (b) Ribbons Properly Awarded.--Any person listed in the document 
titled ``General Order Number 1'', issued by the Third Auxiliary 
Surgical Group, APO 647, United States Army, dated February 1, 1943, 
shall be considered to have been properly awarded the American Theater 
Campaign Ribbon for service during World War II.
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