Awards and Honors
Erskine's awards include:
| 1st Row | Navy Distinguished Service Medal | Silver Star | Legion of Merit w/ 1 award star & valor device | |||||||||||||||
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| 2nd Row | Purple Heart w/ oak leaf cluster | Navy Presidential Unit Citation w/ 1 service star | Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal w/ 1 service star | World War I Victory Medal w/ Aisne, St. Mihiel, & Defensive Sector clasps | ||||||||||||||
| 3rd Row | Nicaraguan Campaign Medal (1933) | American Defense Service Medal w/ Base clasp | American Campaign Medal | Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 4 service stars | ||||||||||||||
| 4th Row | World War II Victory Medal | National Defense Service Medal | Nicaraguan Medal of Merit | Knight Grand Cross, Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant | ||||||||||||||
- Admiral Richard Byrd, during his last mission to Antarctica, named Erskine Bay in honor of General Erskine.
- Honorary Chieftain in the Cherokee Indian Tribe
- Kentucky colonel.
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