The United States Navy Haitian Campaign Medal (1915) is an American naval campaign medal authorised on 22 June 1917 to recognise eligible United States Navy and Marine Corps personnel who served during the American intervention in Haiti from 9 July to 6 December 1915. The intervention occurred during a period of political instability and revolution, when American forces were deployed to protect lives and property and support a more stable government. Eligibility extended to qualifying personnel who served ashore in Haiti or aboard designated naval vessels during the specified campaign period.
The bronze medal features a coastal landscape depicting the mountains and shoreline near Cap-Haïtien, with the sea in the foreground and a palm tree to one side. The obverse bears the inscription “HAITIAN CAMPAIGN” above the scene and the date “1915” below. The reverse depicts an eagle with outstretched wings perched on an anchor, accompanied by oak and laurel branches and the inscriptions “UNITED STATES NAVY” and “FOR SERVICE”. The medal is suspended from a dark blue ribbon with two narrow red stripes running vertically through the centre. The Navy and Marine Corps versions share the same general design, with the appropriate service inscription on the reverse. This decoration is of interest to collectors of early twentieth-century United States Navy medals, Marine Corps campaign awards and American intervention-era militaria.
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