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PUBLIC LAW 489-JULY 10, 1952

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SEC. 703. Each member and former member of the uniformed services shall be entitled to receive combat pay in the amount of $45 per month for each month beginning after May 31, 1950, for which such member was entitled to receive basic pay and during which he was a member of a combat unit in Korea on— (a) not less than six days of such month; or (b) one or more days of such month included within a period of not less than six consecutive days on which he was a member of a combat unit in Korea, if such period began in the next preceding month and he is not entitled to receive combat pay under this title for such preceding month. SEC. 704. Each member and former member of the uniformed services shall be entitled to receive combat pay in the amount of $45 per month for each month beginning after May 31, 1950, for which he was entitled to receive basic pay and in which— (a) he was killed in action, injured in action, or wounded in action while serving as a member of a combat unit in Korea, and for not more than three months thereafter during which he was hospitalized for the treatment of an injury or wound received in action while so serving; or (b) he was captured or entered a missing-in-action status while serving as a member of a combat unit in Korea, and for not more than three months thereafter during which he occupied such status. SEC. 705. No person shall be entitled to receive for any month— (a) more than one combat pay authorized by this title; or (b) combat pay under this title in addition to any incentive or special pay. SEC. 706. (a) The Secretaries of the services concerned are authorized and directed to promulgate regulations for the administration of this title, which regulations shall be as uniform as practicable, and in the case of the military departments shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Defense. (b) Such regulations may include appropriate provisions for the withholding of combat pay under section 703 of this title from any member or former member of the uniformed services (or any class of such persons) for any period during which such person or class of persons was not placed in substantial peril by the action of any hostile force, as determined in conformity with such regulations. SEC. 707. (a) The Secretary of the Service concerned, or such subordinate as he may specify, may make such determination of fact as may be required for the administration of this Act, and any such determination shall be final. (b) Appropriations currently available for pay and allowances of members of the uniformed services shall be available for the payment of combat pay under this title for any month prior to the date of enactment of this title. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1953". Approved July 10, 1952.

Public Law 489

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CHAPTER 631

AN ACT To amend section 508 of title 14, United States Code. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the analysis of

July 10, 1952 [H.R. 7654]

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