Military Awards and Honors
Castor received three battle stars for World War II service:
- Pearl Harbor
- Gilbert Islands operation
- Okinawa Gunto operation
She received two for Korean War service:
- Communist China Spring Offensive
- UN Summer-Fall Offensive
During the Vietnam War she earned the following campaign stars:
- Vietnam Defense
- Vietnamese Counteroffensive
- Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II
- Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III
- Tet Counteroffensive
- Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase IV
Her crew was eligible for the following medals and campaign ribbons:
- Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
- China Service Medal (extended)
- American Defense Campaign Medal
- American Campaign Medal
- Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3)
- World War II Victory Medal
- Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
- National Defense Service Medal (2)
- Korean Service Medal (2)
- Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2 Taiwan Straits, 32 Quemoy-Matsu, 11 Vietnam)
- Vietnam Service Medal (6)
- United Nations Service Medal
- Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
- Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)
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