Accomplishments and Recognitions
For his military service he received the Legion of Merit and the Purple Heart posthumously.
In addition to his military service, he also authored, To inspire and to lead: The letters of General Vicente Lim, 1938–1942 and was, in 1936, a charter member of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines. He also claimed to have supported the founding of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines.
In recognition of his services to the Filipino people, General Lim appears on the Philippine 1,000 Peso banknote in 2010.
The former Camp Paciano Rizal was renamed to Camp Vicente Lim, located in Laguna, pursuant to GO Nr. 457, GHQ, AFP in honor of Brig. General Vicente P Lim who commanded the 41st Infantry Division. Camp Vicente Lim used to be a vast track of land in the early 1937. It became training ground during the mobilization period sometime in 1937, when American forces started to call able bodied young men to go on military training due to the outbreak of war in the western hemisphere. On September 1, 1941, the 41st filed Artillery Regiment Philippine Army was mobilized in this camp. On September 8, 1946, it became the Headquarters of the 4th Military district which covers the whole southern Luzon.
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