Pacific Star

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Pacific Star
Date	1945
Branch of Service	British and Commonwealth forces
Campaign	Pacific 1941-45
Ribbon	Dark green with a central yellow stripe, narrow stripes of dark and light blue, and widers tripes of red at the edges
Metal	Bronze
Size	Height 44mm; max. width 38mm
Obverse Reverse Plain reverse Clasps Burma

This article is about the war decoration. For the cruise ship, see Pacific Star (ship).

The Pacific Star was a campaign medal of the British Commonwealth, awarded for service in World War II.

The medal was awarded for operational service in the Pacific Theatre between 8 December 1941 and 15 August 1945. The Pacific Star was authorized for immediate bestowal to any soldier who had been killed or wounded in combat.

British uniform regulations stipulated that Burma Star would not be awarded to a recipient of the Pacific Star. Subsequent entitlement to the Burma Star was denoted by the award of the Burma Star clasp. In undress uniform, a silver rosette was worn on the medal ribbon to denote the award of this clasp.

The ribbon for this medal, along with those of the other Second World War campaign stars, is reputed to have been designed by King George VI. The jungle is represented by dark green, the beaches by the yellow stripe. The Royal Navy, Army, and Royal Air Force are represented by stripes of dark blue, red, and light blue respectively.

[edit] Clasps

• Burma

Awarded to those who subsequently qualified for the Burma Star.

[edit] Notes

[edit] Bibliography

• Mackay, J and Mussel, J (eds) - Medals Yearbook - 2006, (2005), Token Publishing.
• Joslin, Litherland, and Simpkin (eds), British Battles and Medals, (1988), Spink

[edit] See also

• British campaign medal