LBJ's Silver Star
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:31 am
1964
The New York Times
In the lapel of his coat, most days, President Johnson wears the red-, white- and blue‐striped ribbon of the Silver Star, the third highest decoration for valor of the United States armed services.
It was awarded him by the late General of the Army Douglas MacArthur for a mission he flew with members of the 22d Bomb Group over New Guinea on June 9, 1942, while he was on an inspection trip for President Roosevelt in the Southwest Pacific.
Mr. Johnson, then a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, flew the bombing mission” without orders and only so that he could see what such missions were like. It was the high point of a little oyer seven months he spent in uniform in World “War II.
He was a Representative from Texas when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 71941. He had been in the Naval Reserve since Jan. 21, 1940, at which time he had been commissioned a lieutenant commander.
The New York Times
In the lapel of his coat, most days, President Johnson wears the red-, white- and blue‐striped ribbon of the Silver Star, the third highest decoration for valor of the United States armed services.
It was awarded him by the late General of the Army Douglas MacArthur for a mission he flew with members of the 22d Bomb Group over New Guinea on June 9, 1942, while he was on an inspection trip for President Roosevelt in the Southwest Pacific.
Mr. Johnson, then a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, flew the bombing mission” without orders and only so that he could see what such missions were like. It was the high point of a little oyer seven months he spent in uniform in World “War II.
He was a Representative from Texas when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 71941. He had been in the Naval Reserve since Jan. 21, 1940, at which time he had been commissioned a lieutenant commander.