[1] On December 7, 1941, Kinnard was stationed at Pearl Harbor, and manned a machine gun to defend the base on the morning of the Japanese attack.

[2] He parachuted into France in the early hours of the Normandy Landings in June 1944, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroism during Operation Market Garden, as part of the Allied airborne attack against German forces in the Netherlands in September 1944.

[1] In December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, German forces surrounded the town of Bastogne, a town in Belgium then held by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division and located at a crossroads that could have allowed the Germans to break through the American lines and reach their goal of retaking the port city of Antwerp.

Colonel Joseph H. Harper, commanding the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, who had delivered the message, explained to the Germans, "If you don’t know what 'nuts' means, in plain English it is the same as 'go to hell.

[4][5]With improving weather allowing air support to assist the troops, the American forces were able to hold Bastogne.

The script was written by Robert Pirosh, a veteran of the battle, and Kinnard served as the Technical Advisor.

[6] Twenty years after the Battle of the Bulge, Kinnard drew criticism from members of the 101st Airborne Division for his comments in a newspaper interview where he said, "We never felt we would be overrun.

[7] After the war, Kinnard served as commanding officer of the Aviation Test Section at Fort Bragg.

The colors and subordinate unit designations of the 1st Air Cavalry Division were transferred from its post in Korea.

[11] Kinnard was ordered by General Westmoreland at the end of October 1965 to take the 1st Air Cavalry on the offensive and seize the initiative in Pleiku province.

The opening Battle of Ia Drang resulted in heavy North Vietnamese casualties at the cost of 300 American deaths.

The Order is the highest and oldest honour of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is bestowed for "performing excellent acts of Bravery, Leadership and Loyalty in battle".