Recipients
See also: Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (United States)- Among the first awards of the Distinguished Service Medal for service in World War I, were those to the Commanding Officers of the Allied Armies:
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch
- Marshal Joseph Joffre,
- General Philippe Petain of France,
- General Sir Arthur Currie of Canada,
- General Sir John Monash of Australia,
- Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig of Britain,
- General Armando Diaz of Italy,
- General Cyriaque Gillain of Belgium,
- General John Joseph Pershing - United States
More than 2,000 awards were made during World War I, and by the time the United States entered World War II, approximately 2,800 awards had been made. From July 1, 1941 to June 6, 1969, when the Army stopped publishing awards of the DSM in Department of the Army General Orders, over 2,800 further awards were made.
Until the first award of the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal in 1965, United States Air Force personnel received this award as well, as was the case with several other Army decorations until the Air Force fully established its own system of decorations.
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