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Cross to the Heroic Valour in Combat

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Type
  
Cross

Last awarded
  
1982

Status
  
Currently awarded

Total awarded
  
18

Cross to the Heroic Valour in Combat

Eligibility
  
Members of the Argentine Armed Forces

Awarded for
  
"acts of heroic valor in action in hazardous circumstances"

Argentine Nation to the Heroic Valour in Combat Cross (Spanish: Cruz "La Nación Argentina Al Heroico Valor En Combate") is the highest national military decoration in Argentina.

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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.

Argentine Army

  • Lieutenant Roberto Estévez - 25th Infantry Regiment (Argentina)
  • Lieutenant Ernesto Emilio Espinosa - 602 Commando Company
  • Sergeant First Class Mateo Antonio Sbert - 602 Commando Company

    • Argentine Navy

  • Frigate Captain Pedro Edgardo Giachino - Amphibious Commandos Group
  • Sub-Officer First Class Julio Castillo. The ship ARA Suboficial Castillo (A-6) was named after him.

    • Argentine Air Force

  • Captain Omar Jesús Castillo - Pilot Grupo 4
  • Captain José Daniel Luis Vazquez - Pilot Grupo 4

    • Argentine Army

  • First Lieutenant Jorge Manuel Vizoso - 602 Commando Company
  • Sub-Lieutenant Juan José Gomez Centurión - C/25th Infantry Regiment (Argentina)
  • Corporal First Class Roberto Bacilio Baruzzo - RI 12
  • S/C 62 Oscar Ismael Poltronieri - RI Mec 6

    • Argentine Navy

  • Ship-of-the-Line Lieutenant Owen Guillermo Crippa - Aermacchi MB-339 Pilot Argentine Naval Aviation
  • Corvette Lieutenant Héctor Miño

    • Argentine Air Force

  • Captain Pablo Marcos Rafael Carballo - A-4 Skyhawk Pilot Grupo 5
  • Lieutenant Ernesto Rubén Ureta - A-4 Skyhawk Pilot Grupo 4
  • Ensign Gerardo Guillermo Isaac - A-4 Skyhawk Pilot Grupo 4
  • Sub-Officer Pedro Prudencio Miranda
  • Sub-Officer Carlos Omar Ortiz

    • References

    Cross to the Heroic Valour in Combat Wikipedia
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