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Wedemeyer Maj. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, deputy chief of staff to Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of SEAC, was presented the Distinguished Service Medal by Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of U.S. Army Forces in the CBI Theater. The high award was made, according to the citation, for Wedemeyer's "Exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility as Chief of the Strategy Section and subsequently as Chief of the Strategy and Policy Group, Operations Division, War Department General Staff, and as the War Department representative with the Joint and Combined Staff planners." |
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