Historical and Revision Notes

Revised

Section

Source (U.S. Code)

Source (Statutes at Large)

130302

36:633.

Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 546, § 3, 69 Stat. 487; June 21, 1961, Pub. L. 87–56, § 2, 75 Stat. 95.

In subsection (b), the word “purposes” is substituted for “objects” for consistency in the revised title. The words “Navy Cross” are restated before “Air Force Cross” in accordance with the order preferred by the Legion of Valor of the United States of America, Incorporated.