patches Posted July 17, 2019 Share #1 Posted July 17, 2019 Worn in Combat Photos of the Combat Medical Badge, WWII, Korea, Vietnam Only Please, I say this as these periods would be the rarer periods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share #2 Posted July 18, 2019 I know it will be a toughy this one, but here's the first one, a 2nd Div medical aidman in Korea, sometime in 1951. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 17, 2019 Author Share #3 Posted October 17, 2019 Posted this in Uniforms, it's on a kinda curious IKE, but merits a post here. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/334072-the-case-of-the-curious-korean-war-vet-ike-jacket/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted May 22, 2022 Author Share #4 Posted May 22, 2022 Here's one, Hank Welzel, the CMB being worn in the field in Korea. a Medic in the 179th Infantry 45th Infantry Division. Now this guy here? He is a former medic in WWII, in the German Army! He was born in Ohio, and his family shortly moved back to Germany, Heer unit unknown, but became a POW in Italy in late 1944. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 8, 2022 Author Share #5 Posted July 8, 2022 Verifiable 2nd Award Combat Medical Badge recipient. Charles Shay, Charles Shay 16th Infantry 1sst Infantry Division WWII, and 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division Korean War. He left the Army sometime after Korea in 1952 and Re-Uped in the Air Force. Reserve, later transferring to the Active Air Force.. "joined the US Air Force Reserve in February 1952 and a year later became an active-duty Master Sergeant. After several months, he was transferred to the Tinker Air Force Base (Oklahoma) as a medic for the 6th Weather Squadron. As a member of that mobile squadron, he traveled to the Marshall Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean and participated in a series of atomic bomb tests ("Operation Castle") at Eniwetok Proving Grounds in 1954. In 1957, having been reassigned several times, Shay returned to Germany, joining the US Air Force Hospital in Wiesbaden. There his son Jonny was born. Shay’s last active duty military position was at the US Air Force hospital at Sembach, the Cold War airbase for the Tactical Missile Wing in Germany. In the summer of 1964, after more than twenty years in the US military, Master Sergeant Shay retired. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 10, 2022 Author Share #6 Posted July 10, 2022 On 7/17/2019 at 7:52 PM, patches said: Worn in Combat Photos of the Combat Medical Badge, WWII, Korea, Vietnam Only Please, I say this as these periods would be the rarer periods. I have had this topic's title changed, so it can be a companion to the CIB one, so we can post photos of the CIB being worn not only in Combat but in Portraits, formal or informal, so add them when you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 29, 2022 Author Share #7 Posted July 29, 2022 A Paul A. Musselman, a Doc in the 79th Infantry Division proudly wears his CMB, sub unit unknown. note he is not wearing the French Rope which he is entitled to wear as a member of the Cross of Lorraine Division. https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/131216 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 29, 2022 Author Share #8 Posted July 29, 2022 Specialist 5th Class Lonnie R Butts DSC, Recon Platoon Headquarters Headquarters Company 1st Battalion 327th Infantry 1st Brigade 101st Airborne Division KIA May 15th 1967, Butts we see wears a South Vietnamese cloth CMB. https://www.virtualwall.org/db/ButtsLR01a.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted August 10, 2022 Author Share #9 Posted August 10, 2022 99th Inf Div Vet Bennie Trujillo with some kind of Oval like backing behind his Combat Medical Badge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share #10 Posted December 10, 2022 I think I didn't post this one yet in any topic, so lets post it here. A 66th Infantry Division Vet now in the 42nd Infantry division going home. Painted a bit as we see and on a dark oval patch, Dark Purple???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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