45govt Posted February 3, 2016 Share #76 Posted February 3, 2016 Maybe too early for most of you but a new favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
45govt Posted February 3, 2016 Share #77 Posted February 3, 2016 And a couple more that I got in an auction,not e-bay, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
45govt Posted February 3, 2016 Share #78 Posted February 3, 2016 and the second one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMaddoxUSMC Posted February 3, 2016 Share #79 Posted February 3, 2016 Love that marksman / sharpshooter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted February 3, 2016 Share #80 Posted February 3, 2016 A WWI PH to a USN corpsman who served with the 5th and 6th Marines. While WWI PHs aren't rare, you never see them to USN recipients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted February 3, 2016 Share #81 Posted February 3, 2016 Reverse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam R Posted February 3, 2016 Share #82 Posted February 3, 2016 Award cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted February 3, 2016 Share #83 Posted February 3, 2016 The U.S. Naval Academy Short Range Battle Practice medal. They were awarded from 1935 until 1943. 500-600 were issued. This example is from the first contract of 100 medals. The first ones had the hallmark at the top of the medal. image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg Aloha Kurt, I recently saw one of these being worn in a photo......now I just have to remember where I saw it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanemono Posted February 3, 2016 Share #84 Posted February 3, 2016 Here is another WW1 Purple Heart to a Corpsman, PHM2 John Ernest Wicker. There were 146 Navy Corpsmen wounded and 16 Killed in action while serving with the Marines in WW1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0811gysgt Posted February 3, 2016 Share #85 Posted February 3, 2016 Dick & Adam, Great posts for those Navy Corpsman Purple Heart's. I would have never guessed there were so few Corpsman KIA/WIA during WWI, considering the combat that they participated in. Good bless the US Navy Corpsman. Rocco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted February 4, 2016 Share #86 Posted February 4, 2016 It took me 30 years to find one of these. It's a posthumous US Navy Legion of Merit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted February 4, 2016 Share #87 Posted February 4, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katieony Posted February 4, 2016 Share #88 Posted February 4, 2016 Kurt, That's definitley a tough award to find...a nice addition to your collection. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decwriter Posted February 4, 2016 Share #89 Posted February 4, 2016 Agreed, that's a rare LOM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javelin4life Posted February 4, 2016 Share #90 Posted February 4, 2016 Wow Kurt that LOM is a beauty and quite a diamond in the rough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted February 4, 2016 Share #91 Posted February 4, 2016 Thanks guys! I just recently acquired the LOM and it is part of a grouping. I will be devoting a thread to it soon. Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KurtA Posted February 4, 2016 Share #92 Posted February 4, 2016 Silver Lifesaving Medal awarded to US Coast Guard Aviator #26. He attempted to save a fellow pilot who crashed his Grumman JF2 Duck near the Coast Guard Aviation Station at Cape May, NJ on January 19, 1935. Here's more of the story: http://www.check-six.com/Coast_Guard/Last_Flight_of_Charles_Thrun.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted February 4, 2016 Share #93 Posted February 4, 2016 Great example of a rare medal Kurt The other Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green hell Posted February 5, 2016 Share #94 Posted February 5, 2016 Hey, Buzzbomb - You asked for a WWI DSC group. Pfc George B. Greer was awarded this DSC and Purple Heart for actions on March 19, 1918 near the village of Negre in France. Also pictured are his WWI Victory Medal, with bars for Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne and Defensive Sector. Below the WWI Victory Medal is a French Verdun Medal and beneath the Purple Heart is a named 1929 11th reunion medal. Below the DSC is one of his dogtags. There is also a cloisonne 42nd 'Rainbow' Division 'shoulder patch' pin and the chunk of shrapnel which earned him the DSC and PH (also in the group is a 1918 Baltimore Sun newspaper article detailing the events, which states that the surgeon had to make an eight inch incision in his back to remove this piece of shrapnel from a German artillery round). The Purple Heart and the DSC are both numbered and engraved (PH is 245041 and DSC is 3827). I also have a rare unit history of the 117th Trench Mortar Battery (they were a Baltimore, Maryland, unit) which has some period photos, including one of Greer, and the autographs of 21 veterans of the unit, including the author and Greer. Colonel Douglas MacArthur was the Division Chief of Staff in WWI, eventually being promoted to Brigadier general and Commanding Officer just before the armistice. Another famous personality associated with the 42nd is Father Duffy, played by Pat O'Brien in the movie 'Fighting 69th', which starred Jimmy Cagney. 'Wild Bill' Donovan, founder of the OSS (the WWII predecessor of the CIA), was also a member of the 42nd in WWI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikes militaria Posted February 21, 2016 Share #95 Posted February 21, 2016 A few more to keep this great thread going I know nothing about this medal, I like it and thought I'd share. WW1 Military Order of the Cootie USA. Comradeship-Industry. With a France Bar. Reverse says " Closer than a Brother, Busier than a Bee". It has places for three numbers, NIT No., Grayback No. and Cootie No. Any info on this medal, who gave them out and who got them would be appreciated, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikes militaria Posted February 21, 2016 Share #96 Posted February 21, 2016 Reverse, Order of the Cootie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikes militaria Posted February 21, 2016 Share #97 Posted February 21, 2016 One more of the Reverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra 6 Actual Posted February 21, 2016 Share #98 Posted February 21, 2016 Here's an article about the Military Order of the Cootie: http://www.veteranspage.com/cooties/cootie%20history.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikes militaria Posted February 21, 2016 Share #99 Posted February 21, 2016 The City of Stamford Conn. for WW1 service. Not necessarily rare, an estimated 1,651 were issued. Interesting ribbon design. Engraved on the back to Michael De Angelio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikes militaria Posted February 21, 2016 Share #100 Posted February 21, 2016 Reverse. I really like the engraving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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