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Volume 75

Public Law 87–56

To change the name of the Army and Navy Legion of Valor of the United States of America, Incorporated, and for other purposes.

Approved June 21, 1961

Statutory text

AN ACT

To change the name of the Army and Navy Legion of Valor of the United States of America, Incorporated, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the corporation

Legion of Valor of the U.S.A., Inc.

Change of name.

known as the Army and Navy Legion of Valor of the United States of America, Incorporated, which was incorporated by the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Army and Navy Legion of Valor of the United States of America”, approved August 4, 1955 (69 Stat. 486), shall be known and designated hereafter as the Legion of Valor

36 USC 631.

of the United States of America, Incorporated, and any reference to such corporation under the name of the Army and Navy Legion of Valor of the United States of America, Incorporated, shall be held to refer to such corporation under and by the name of the Legion of Valor of the United States of America, Incorporated.

Sec. 2.

That sections 3(b) and 6(a) of the Act of August 4, 1955 (69 Stat. 486) are amended by inserting after the words “Distinguished

36 USC 633, 636.

Service Cross,” the phrase “Air Force Cross”.

Approved June 21, 1961.

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