Wednesday, April 13, 2011

My Awards

Foreign military honors
  • Brazilian Order of Military Merit
  • British Order of the Bath (Knight Grand Cross)
  • Chilean Order del Merito
  • Colombian Grand Cross of the Order of Boyacá Cherifien (Given by President Ospina Perez as he opened the IX Panamerican Conference)
  • Cuban Order of Military Merit, First Class
  • Ecuadorian Star of Abdon Calderon, First Class
  • French Croix de Guerre
  • French Legion of Honor
  • Greek Grand Cross Order of George I with swords
  • Liberian Centennial Medal
  • Montenegro Silver Medal for Bravery
  • Netherlands Grand Cross with Swords in the Order of Orange Nassau
  • Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Italy)
  • Order of the Crown of Italy
  • Moroccan Grand Cross of Ouissam Alaouite
  • Soviet Grand Cross Order of Military Merit
  • Soviet Order of Suvorov
  • Panamanian Medal of La Solidaridad, Second Class
  • Peruvian Gran Official del Sol del Peru
Civilian honors
  • In 1948, I was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award for my role and contributions during and after World War II.
  • Nobel Peace Prize 1953 for the Marshall Plan.
  • The United States Postal Service honored me with a Prominent Americans series
  • 1959 Karlspreis (International Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen).
  • 1960 George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
  • The British Parliament established the Marshall Scholarship in recognition of my contributions to Anglo-American relations.
  • Many buildings and streets throughout the U.S. and other nations are named in my honor.
  • George C. Marshall Award, the highest award given to a chapter in Kappa Alpha Order.
  • George C. Marshall High School, founded in 1962 and located in Falls Church, Virginia, is the only public high school in the United States named after me
  • The Marshall Elementary School is in the Laurel Highlands School District, Uniontown, Pennsylvania
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