Jump to content
Logging In to USMF has changed from using your USERNAME to requiring the EMAIL ADDRESS associated with your USMF account. Click to read more.

MEDALS & DECORATIONS

Post any pictures, documents, ribbon bars, or other items pertaining to U.S. medals and decorations.

Subforums

  1. REFERENCE (Medals & Decorations)

    Please be advised: posting and / or editing is restricted on this post to moderator's and forum staff. In an effort to compile useful information about certain medals, information and pictures from multiple threads have been combined to create a useful reference topic. We encourage further comments about any medal/decoration that may be included in this board. In order to discuss anything further,  please start a new post in the general "Medals & Decorations" board. 

    1k
    posts

  2. ATTRIBUTED MEDAL GROUPINGS

    2.7k
    posts

  3. DECORATIONS/VALOR AWARDS

    Have a military Decoration or Valour award that you want to share or ask questions about? Feel free to post it here!

    1.9k
    posts

  4. CAMPAIGN/SERVICE MEDALS

    Have a Campaign or Service medal from any Military branch that you'd like to share or discuss? Feel free to post it here!

    1.8k
    posts

  5. NATIONAL GUARD & COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS

    Have interesting National Guard medals? Commemoratives? Unofficial medals? Post them here!

    212
    posts

  6. RIBBON BARS

    This is the place to post pictures or questions about any ribbons - bars or racks - that you want to discuss!

    2.7k
    posts

  7. MEDAL PAPERWORK, CERTIFICATES & CITATIONS

    The place to post any paperwork relating to medals and decorations. Orders, citations, certificates, documents of any kind. 

    13
    posts

  8. Everything Else

    99
    posts

10,939 topics in this forum

  1. Nov 18 1965 H13S pilot group

    By scottplen,
    • 3 replies
    • 797 views

  2. Taking "The Factory"

    By TrevorR,
    • 7 replies
    • 1.7k views

  3. Purple Heart Medal privately engraved or official government engraving?

    By WEAVER45,
    • 16 replies
    • 1.3k views

  4. 82nd A/b 504th PIR Silver star/Bronze Star group missing the Purple Heart

    By Garth Thompson,
    • 8 replies
    • 3.1k views

  5. Official WWII Hand Engraving? I think it might be. 1 2

    By KASTAUFFER,
    • 48 replies
    • 9.4k views

  6. Thoughts on this Navy Civil War Campaign Medal

    By MMcollector,
    • 5 replies
    • 1.1k views

  7. WWII Boxed Merchant Marine Mariner's Medal Find

    By AustinO,
    • 5 replies
    • 748 views

  8. Machine engraved Purple Heart Medal privately or official government engraving?

    By WEAVER45,
    • 8 replies
    • 802 views

  9. Pvt. Floyd H. Mellott Jr.

    By TrevorR,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.5k views

  10. Philippine Department Military Cav. Merit Medals 1920

    By INIMICUS,
    • 11 replies
    • 631 views

  11. Phenix City Alabama Campaign Medal

    By hawk3370,
    • 11 replies
    • 2.5k views

  12. ID a uniform owner via the ribbons?

    By FA_MAJ,
    • 3 replies
    • 531 views

  13. Indian Wars No.770 Campaign Medal 1 2

    By Tolzer,
    • 31 replies
    • 2.7k views

  14. Was it ever discovered what happened to the Joseph Mayer dies after the E.J. Towles sale?

    By TGAZ,
    • 2 replies
    • 623 views

  15. Can someone tell me how to know how old a medal is judging from the box?

    By ShibaLegend,
    • 6 replies
    • 741 views

  16. 83rd Division Silver Star Group.

    By mkite93,
    • 5 replies
    • 756 views

  17. Navy Good Conduct, 1936

    By digi-shots,
    • 4 replies
    • 577 views

  18. WW2 Single Ribbon ID

    By tony75,
    • 2 replies
    • 456 views

  19. This "Tin Can" Kicks back...USS Johnston 1 2

    By tarbridge,
    • 27 replies
    • 2.9k views

  20. RI woman arrested for profiting off fake Bronze Star, Purple Heart

    By WEAVER45,
    • 22 replies
    • 1.4k views

  21. Help with identifying unit. BS/PH medal

    By kristoffer,
    • 7 replies
    • 537 views

  22. Engraved Numbered PURPLE HEART Question 1 2 3

    By GAZOO,
    • 57 replies
    • 3.8k views

  23. Awarded 1st Byrd Expedition Bronze Medal 1 2

    By wartimecollectables.com,
    • 38 replies
    • 3.5k views

  24. Numbered USMC GCM

    By Sailorjerry45,
    • 5 replies
    • 523 views

  25. NY NATIONAL GUARD LONG AND FAITHFUL SERVICE AWARD 30 YEARS- RARE EXPERIMENTAL MEDAL!

    By Aoder99,
    • 4 replies
    • 448 views

  26. Navy Cross loss of detail on newer ones - Why?

    By stratasfan,
    • 10 replies
    • 781 views

  27. Air Medal

    By Twillie2,
    • 3 replies
    • 490 views

  28. Major Lyman S Frasier WWI DSC/SS/PH and more... 1 2

    By tarbridge,
    • 41 replies
    • 2.6k views

  29. Different USN GCM

    By gijoeonthego,
    • 3 replies
    • 520 views

  30. "The one that got away", Medals you wish you'd bought, and can't get off your mind

    By RDUNE,
    • 11 replies
    • 2.3k views

  31. LATEST USN GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL

    By USN,
    • 11 replies
    • 1k views

  32. AM + DFC - John A Fincke - Help ID Unit?

    By gamsdivision1944,
    • 4 replies
    • 719 views

  33. WWI Victory Medal Question

    By Daytonian777,
    • 13 replies
    • 754 views

  34. Named Dsm to John H Wolf

    By skipranney,
    • 2 replies
    • 898 views

  35. Does the 3 volume Silver Star Planchet Press series contain all the SS names or is there another list?

    By TGAZ,
    • 3 replies
    • 503 views

  36. A 4 BAR MASSACHUSETTS NATIONAL GUARD REVOLVER EXPERT MEDAL

    By Aoder99,
    • 0 replies
    • 401 views

  37. WWII USMC Bronze Star Grouping 1 2

    By vicjoy1945,
    • 27 replies
    • 4.4k views

  38. Medal identification needed

    By jrgen20,
    • 13 replies
    • 789 views

  39. Joseph C. Kolinsky - 102nd Infantry regiment - WWI - born in Czechoslovakia

    By Hobza,
    • 23 replies
    • 1.7k views

  40. WWII Operation Torch 9th Division Posthumous Distinguished Service Cross to Alfred Sharff

    By Frank_Smith,
    • 0 replies
    • 624 views

  41. Pennsylvania Mexican Border Service Medal - were all numbered medals issued?

    By Packard1969,
    • 5 replies
    • 996 views

  42. Named WWII USMC Purple Heart

    By Austin_Militaria,
    • 11 replies
    • 2.1k views

  43. ww1? ww2?

    By Aoder99,
    • 2 replies
    • 588 views

  44. 1918-1922 Marine Good Conduct Medal to Minnie E. Wright 1 2

    By kanemono,
    • 29 replies
    • 2.6k views

  45. USN SPANISH CAMPAIGN MEDAL 3215

    By 0811gysgt,
    • 1 reply
    • 539 views

  46. 8th US Infantry research required on medal entitlement

    By kbulow,
    • 5 replies
    • 532 views

  47. Named Air Medal Purple Heart Group - Earl R. Springstead

    By wildcat123,
    • 7 replies
    • 2.1k views

  48. What era is this award from?

    By Aoder99,
    • 4 replies
    • 533 views

  49. Documented late issue Army Civil War Campaign Medal

    By MMcollector,
    • 5 replies
    • 622 views

  50. Collecting Medals From Your Home State

    By B24AT6,
    • 9 replies
    • 1k views
×
×
  • Create New...