IkesGrunt Posted March 5, 2014 Share #1 Posted March 5, 2014 Hello and thank you in advance for the help...a 4th Marine Division marine that participated in the Saipan and Iwo Campaigns would have been authorized to wear two stars on their PUC ribbon correct? Thank you, Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USMCR79 Posted March 5, 2014 Share #2 Posted March 5, 2014 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teufelhunde.ret Posted March 6, 2014 Share #3 Posted March 6, 2014 .... would have been authorized to wear two stars on their PUC ribbon correct? Thank you, Pat NO, the ribbon represents the first award, and a single star representing the second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uplandmod Posted March 6, 2014 Share #4 Posted March 6, 2014 Actually according to both my 4th MarDiv Iwo/Saipan uniforms paperwork, the Saipan PUC was awarded with a Blue star, Iwo would constitute the second star. The PUC should have two stars. LF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medalcollector Posted September 16, 2016 Share #5 Posted September 16, 2016 I'm sorry to rehash an issue. But according to the few things I have seen, the first award is just the pic ribbon, subsequent awards are stars. That's consistent with award practices of other medals. Can an expert please confirm? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Barickman Posted September 17, 2016 Share #6 Posted September 17, 2016 Have seen them both ways. Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLeo Posted September 17, 2016 Share #7 Posted September 17, 2016 During the war, weren't they awarded with a star (blue early on) to denote actual participation in the action for which it was awarded and later or post war it became to denote the second award? That is what I recall reading or finding somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medalcollector Posted September 29, 2016 Share #8 Posted September 29, 2016 TLeo may be right. It may have been done that way in some instances. I have a first award presentation letter that came in the service file saying "forwarded with a star". I found this http://www.amervets.com/replacement/puc.htm#isr According to that "NAVY/MARINE/COAST GUARD: Additional awards of the Presidential Unit Citation are denoted by Bronze and silver stars three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter. Subsequent award of the Presidential Unit Citation are currently denoted by bronze stars three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter; a silver star three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter is worn in lieu of five bronze stars. -- Blue stars three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter (now obsolete) were initially used to denote second and subsequent awards" Thanks to all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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