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File:President Truman presents Gen. Dwight Eisenhower with the third Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal - NARA - 199630.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

File:President Truman presents Gen. Dwight Eisenhower with the third Oak  Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal - NARA - 199630.jpg -  Wikimedia Commons

Eisenhower wore only two medals in the portrait (linked below): His Army Distinguished Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters and his Legion of Merit. Why two medals, and why those two?

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President Truman presents Gen. Dwight Eisenhower with the third Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal in a ceremony at the Pentagon Stock Photo - Alamy

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Eisenhower wore only two medals in the portrait (linked below

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