Looking for info on my grandpa

Here it is View attachment 21508

 

We still have the mystery surrounding the award of a battle star for the Central Europe Campaign. Dates for that campaign are: March 22 to May 11, 1945. He was a POW at that time.

The award may have been a mistake or something else is going on? I don't know enough about campaign awards to even offer a theory.

 

Is it possible for me to get any documents regarding POW?

 

NARA shows this on PW status.
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/display-partial-records.jsp?dt=466&sc=11675%2C11660%2C11679%2C11667%2C11669%2C11676%2C11672%2C11673&cat=WR26&tf=F&bc=%2Csl%2Cfd&q=&btnSearch=Search&as_alq=&as_anq=&as_epq=&as_woq=&nfo_11675=V%2C8%2C1900&op_11675=0&txt_11675=35878490&nfo_11660=V%2C24%2C1900&op_11660=0&txt_11660=&nfo_11679=V%2C1%2C1900&cl_11679=&nfo_11667=V%2C2%2C1900&cl_11667=&nfo_11669=V%2C2%2C1900&cl_11669=&nfo_11676=V%2C1%2C1900&cl_11676=&nfo_11672=V%2C1%2C1900&cl_11672=&nfo_11673=V%2C3%2C1900&cl_11673=

SERIAL NUMBER 35878490
NAME MARSHALL ORAN
GRADE, ALPHA PVT Private
SERVICE CODE ARMY
ARM OR SERVICE Infantry
ARM OR SERVICE CODE INFANTRY
DATE REPORT: DAY (DD) 30
DATE REPORT: MONTH (MM) 07
DATE REPORT: YEAR (Y) 1944
RACIAL GROUP CODE WHITE
STATE OF RESIDENCE Kentucky
TYPE OF ORGANIZATION Branch Immaterial/Infantry Division Band/Dental Corps/Medical Department
PARENT UNIT NUMBER 115
PARENT UNIT TYPE Group/Regiment/Commands/System
LATEST REPORT DATE: DAY (DD) 01
LATEST REPORT DATE: MONTH (MM) 06
LATEST REPORT DATE: YEAR (Y) 1945
SOURCE OF REPORT Individual has been reported through sources considered official.
STATUS Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated
DETAINING POWER GERMANY
CAMP Stalag 12A to 9B Limburg An Der Lahn Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-08

Apparently the NARA server for the E&E reports is down I will search there later.

 

I remember the storie's he would tell us as kid's will stick with me forever .even as a old man id catch him looking off an the look in his eye's were of deep thought an im sure he was bk in the war.He was alway's very kind but did have a strong reign on us he had too .His time in ww11 shaped the rest of his life.He was my hero an missed very much.