Korea CIB NCO dress green 1956 tunic help to ID insignia

[Pluto]

Normally don't look too closely at these but they have a story like everything else and at £22 in London vintage store I could not pass it by.. nice bullion CIB and embroidered WWII / Korea ribbons, long service - but what are the combat leader DUI's ? .. they look Korean or Japanese made ? Can anyone ID this DUI ? Looks like before the black/white corps patch was hand-stitched there may have been another SSI underneath, perhaps square at top..

thanks for your sage insight ..

P

 

 

[Pluto]

details

[Rakkasan187]

Trying to decipher the motto on the crest...

 

Leigh

[rd12]

Good find, the bullion CIB is a good buy all by itself

[doyler]

633rd Engineer Co??....PER ASFERA AD FINEM

[Pluto]

thanks Doyler, think you are right .. the red background and the castle to the top left...

thanks very much, could just not decifer the latin..

P

[Rakkasan187]

Here is what the unit crest looks like..

 

Leigh

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Martinjmpr]

Interesting - never saw a dress green with the unit award on the cuff before.

[doyler]

Interesting - never saw a dress green with the unit award on the cuff before.

 

Just a guess but may have been a carry over from his WW2 service??

[patches]

Here's another DI for this unit, a little different, the Sun, if that's what it is is different, this one was sold, and this small image is all that I could grab, but it's listed as Japanese made, as is another one that was on Ebay (sold too). So since this is for a company size unit, a non color bearing unit, it will yet again another example of an unauthorized locally approved DI, that's seems to have been made in Japan, That it shows up in this form embroidered on a Green Leadership loop on a post 1957 AG 44 uniform is interesting, in that it shows the unit still used this insignia for quite awhile.

[patches]

Interesting - never saw a dress green with the unit award on the cuff before.

These were worn till 1966, the time the Army came out with the framed Red ribbon for this award, they were in fact made on AG 44 to match the new uniforms in 1957-58, but as it was with all OD bordered and OD background shoulder patches, these too, the MUC were worn in the old OD versions for a bit past 1957-58.

 

The Army Green version.

 

[patches]

 

Just a guess but may have been a carry over from his WW2 service??

The Toilet Bowl patch as worn here on this coat will be a unit award for this particular unit, mandatory wear for all assigned members, 633rd Engineer (Light) Equipment Company awarded the MUC for service in Korea 1 Jan 53-10 Mar 54.

[doyler]

Was looking when the sleeve emblem was replace by the ribbon with gold frame and saw this...

 

 

The Meritorious Service Unit Plaque was originally established by War Department Circular 345 on 23 August 1944. The circular provided units which received the Plaque were entitled to wear on their right sleeves of their service coat and shirt (four inches from the end) the Meritorious Service Unit Insignia. A gold star placed on the plaque represented additional awards until War Department Circular No. 54, 1946, provided that additional awards would be shown by placing a gold numeral on the inside of the wreath. In December 1946, the Meritorious Service Unit Plaque was eliminated, replaced with the issue of the Meritorious Unit Commendation. A new design of the Meritorious Service Unit Emblem was approved in April 1947. This replaced the sleeve insignia and was to be effective 1 January 1949.

On 16 May 1947, AR 260-15 announced the MUC, granted the wear of the MUC emblem, and provided for the display of the scarlet MUC streamer, with the name of the applicable theater of operations in white letters.^[6] On 11 April 1949, TAG advised D/PA that the stock position was such that it would not be exhausted prior to 1959. By Comment 2, 1 March 1960, DCSPER stated that for planning purposes the new Meritorious Service Unit emblem would be authorized for wear on or after 1 January 1961, with wear of the old one prohibited after 30 June 1962. However, the stock level was still so high that it was not introduced into the supply system until 14 July 1966.

[MattS]

Not an expert, but if the CIB was awarded it in WW2 he would have been eligible for a Bronze Star also, right?

[patches]

Pluto, were there any stars on the Asiatic Campaign ribbon?