 From the French government he received the Legion of Honor, the British Government made him an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and the government of China honored him with the Order of the Sacred Tripod and the Special Order of Pao Ting.Olmsted returned to Des Moines in 1946.The management team that he had built in his companies before leaving for military service had performed well during the war years and his return became a matter of picking up where he had left off.