Cross for Heroic Valour in Combat
Award
Argentine Nation for Heroic Valour in Combat | |
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Type | Cross |
Awarded for | "acts of heroic valor in action in hazardous circumstances" |
Presented by | Argentina |
Eligibility | Members of the Argentine Armed Forces |
Status | Currently awarded |
Last awarded | 1982 |
Total | 18 |
Ribbon | |
Precedence | |
Next (lower) | Argentine Nation to the Valour in Combat Medal |
Argentine Nation for Heroic Valour in Combat Cross (Spanish: Cruz "La Nación Argentina Al Heroico Valor En Combate") is the highest national military decoration in Argentina.[1]
The decoration consists of a silver cross pattée bearing the Coat of arms of Argentina in gold, suspended from a chest ribbon of equal light blue-white-light blue stripes.
Recipients of the decoration for service during the 1982 Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) are listed below.
Posthumous
Argentine Army
- Lieutenant Roberto Estévez - 25th Infantry Regiment (Argentina)
- Lieutenant Ernesto Emilio Espinosa [es] - 602 Commando Company
- Sergeant First Class Mateo Antonio Sbert- 602 Commando Company[2]
- Commander Pedro Edgardo Giachino - Amphibious Commandos Group
- Petty Officer First Class Julio Saturnino Castillo [es].[3] The ship ARA Suboficial Castillo (A-6) was named after him.
Argentine Air Force
- Captain Omar Jesús Castillo [es] - Pilot Grupo 4 [es]
- Captain José Daniel Luis Vazquez - Pilot Grupo 4[4][5]
During lifetime
Argentine Army
- 1st Lieutenant Jorge Manuel Vizoso - 602 Commando Company
- 2nd Lieutenant Juan José Gomez Centurión - C/25th Infantry Regiment (Argentina)
- Corporal First Class Roberto Bacilio Baruzzo [es] - RI 12
- S/C 62 Oscar Ismael Poltronieri - RI Mec 6
- Lieutenant Owen Guillermo Crippa [es] - Aermacchi MB-339 Pilot Argentine Naval Aviation
- Lieutenant (JG) Héctor Miño
Argentine Air Force
- Captain Pablo Marcos Rafael Carballo - A-4 Skyhawk Pilot Grupo 5 [es]
- Lieutenant Ernesto Rubén Ureta [es] - A-4 Skyhawk Pilot Grupo 4
- 2nd Lieutenant Gerardo Guillermo Isaac [es] - A-4 Skyhawk Pilot Grupo 4
- Sergeant Pedro Prudencio Miranda [es]
- Sergeant Carlos Omar Ortiz [es][5]
See also
References
- ^ "El heroico valor en combate". gaceta.marinera.com.ar. Argentina Ministerio de Defensa. Retrieved 24 Jul 2022.
- ^ "Héroes de Malvinas, Héroes de la Patria: Sargento Primero Mateo Sbert". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). 30 May 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ^ Homenaje a un valiente, el Suboficial Primero Julio Castillo (in Spanish)
- ^ "30 de Mayo 1982 - Capitanes (PM) José Daniel Vazquez y Omar Jesús Castillo". avionesenargentina.com (in Spanish). 30 May 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ^ a b "Condecoraciones - Ley 24.229" (in Spanish). Argentine Air Force. Archived from the original on 2009-04-25. Retrieved 2009-05-31.
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Highest military awards for gallantry
- Argentine Nation to the Heroic Valour in Combat Cross (Argentina)
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