WWII U.S. RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION MEDAL FULL WRAP BROOCH WW2

--ORIGINAL WORLD WAR II UNITED STATES RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION MEDAL, W/ FULL WRAP BROOCH.

--RIBBON DRAPE TESTED U.V. NEGATIVE.

INFORMATION:

The Reserve Officers Association of the United States (ROA) was founded on October 2, 1922, when several hundred officers, many of them combat veterans of World War I, first gathered with General of the Armies John J. "Black Jack" Pershing at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., to formally establish a new organization.In the period between the World Wars, the right of the Reservist to appear before Congress in support of appropriations and matters affecting the national defense was established. Also during this time, Reserve programs, which were to prove invaluable in the mobilization period of 1941 and 1942, became established on the foundations laid by the citizen-soldiers who had served in World War I.During World War II, the Association became inactive "for the duration" as its members went off to war. ROA was reactivated in 1946.