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Mint Will Turn Out More Than 3,700,000 DecorationsThe amount of work that has gone into the minting of medals, campaign stars, clasps and oak leaves — the eagerly awaited Service decorations of hundreds ot thousands of Canadian men and women — is revealed in figures released at Ottawa.They show that to suitably reward all Canadians who served during the Second World War, more than 3,700,000 decorations must be turned out by the Royal Canadian Mint at Ottawa.That's a lot of medals — and a lot of metal. Just how many pounds of silver, bronze and other materials, or how many miles of ribbon are involved was not revealed.Figures for individual decorations as ordered by defence authorities from the Mint are just as staggering.As almost everyone who enlisted for active service is entitled to the War Medal, some 1,060,000 have been ordered. For sheer numbers this is rivalled only by the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal of which 900,000 medals and 524,000 clasps — denoting service outside of Canada — are being struck.Other decorations and the number on order at the Mint are: 1939-45 Star, 288,000; Atlantic Star, 40,000; African Star, 12,000; Pacific Star, 10,250; Burma Star, 5,200; Italy Star, 102,500; France-Germany Star, 250,000; Defence Medal, 460,000, and the Air Crew Europe Star, 12,000.
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Bowmanville Canadian Statesman
Bowmanville, Ontario, CA
Thu, Mar 31, 1949
Page 9
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Bill M.
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