USMCRECON Posted June 13, 2009 Share #226 Posted June 13, 2009 Last for now is a set of custom Studley ribbons on a 1920s officer's blouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1st Sgt CES Posted June 18, 2009 Share #227 Posted June 18, 2009 Here is a nice set, bullion Navy wings and ribbon bar embroidered on tan twill 1950s. 1st Sgt CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItemCo16527 Posted June 28, 2009 Share #228 Posted June 28, 2009 My latest custom group, still sewn to the uniform. These belonged to Lt. Col. Ernest Stees, U.S. Army Signal Corps. The ribbons are sewn to a piece of Army green material, and then sewn to the uniform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMcCulloch Posted June 28, 2009 Share #229 Posted June 28, 2009 I am stumped. What's the error? @ 1946-47, German/Italian made? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItemCo16527 Posted June 28, 2009 Share #230 Posted June 28, 2009 Which post are you referring to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItemCo16527 Posted July 4, 2009 Share #231 Posted July 4, 2009 My obsession with custom bars continues.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim2 Posted July 7, 2009 Share #232 Posted July 7, 2009 My latest one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItemCo16527 Posted July 7, 2009 Share #233 Posted July 7, 2009 Nice one, Jim! Do you have a name to go along with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhmilitarycollector84 Posted July 12, 2009 Share #234 Posted July 12, 2009 nice ribbons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItemCo16527 Posted July 31, 2009 Share #235 Posted July 31, 2009 My latest one, still attached to the uniform. This one belonged to Major Stanford S. Speaks, who served in both WWI and WWII. He was served with the 37th, 3rd, and 33rd Divisions in WWI earning the "Defensive Sector" clasp, and with the 3rd Army in WWII. I'm in the process of researching him right now, and he comes from quite an interesting family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItemCo16527 Posted August 22, 2009 Share #236 Posted August 22, 2009 My latest set: Served in WWII with the Navy, and in Korea with the Army. This is a really great combo of ribbons, and I could not pass it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted August 23, 2009 Share #237 Posted August 23, 2009 From a grouping I recently sold - LIEUTENANT COLONEL ARTHUR S. (SHEL) FRENCH, USAAF/USAF These items belonged to Shel French, who flew B-17 flying fortresses out of Bury St. Edmunds, England during World War II. He was a pilot in the 8th Airforce, 94th Bomb Group, 410th Squadron credited with 34 Combat Missions over Europe. He retired from the USAF Air Weather Service in 1966. The custom embroidered ribbons awarded to Lt Col. French include: The Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), Air Medal with 4 oak leaf clusters, American Campaign Medal, European/African/Middle Eastern Campaign medal with one silver star & one bronze star, WWII Victory Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Air Force Longevity service award (one with two oak leafs & one with three oak leafs), and the Armed Forces Reserve medal. He must have been subsequently awarded the Air Force Commendation medal which was not issued until 1958, so I surmise that these 'ribbon racks' were made prior to this award. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted August 23, 2009 Share #238 Posted August 23, 2009 Photo - The crew of 'Million Dollar Baby', with Arthur French standing center in sheepskin flight jacket. A/C 42-97268 GL-Z 'Million Dollar Baby', 94th Bomb Group, 410th Squadron The following is his obituray from the USAF Air Weather Association - Departures Arthur S.French (Shel), LtCol USAF, Ret. passed away at Merritt Island, Florida on May 14, 2003 at age 84. He retired from the Air Weather Service in 1966 at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fl. after 24 years of service in the United States Air Force. Shel was born at Hasbrouck Hts., New Jersey where he attend schools and spent summers at his parents summer camp on Lake George, Ticonderoga, N.Y. There he assisted in swimming, canoeing and horseback riding. He attended Rutgers University and graduated from Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, earning his B.S. degree in Chemistry. In 1943 he joined the US Army Air Corps, attending flight schools at Orangeburg, S.C. and Dyersburg, Tenn. where he earned his wings. Advanced training was at Pyote, Texas in B-17s. Stationed with the 8th Air Force, 94th Bomb Group at Bury St. Edmunds, England during WW11, he flew 34 combat missions over Germany in his B-17 Bomber the "Million Dollar Baby". After the war he returned to home at Clearwater, Florida where he taught science at Clearwater High School. At Clearwater he met and married his wife Pat and re-entered the Army Air Corps, attending weather schools at Chanute Field, Ill. and Keesler Field, Biloxi, Ms., and became part of the Air Weather Service. Together they finished his Air force career in meteorology, having been stationed at Clark Field in the Philippines in the late '40s and Fuchu Air Station, Japan in the early '60s. His stateside assignments were Andrews AFB, Va. where their daughter was born, MacDill AFB, Fl. where their son was born, Wright Patterson AFB, Oh., Patrick AFB, Fl. and Tyndall AFB, Fl. Highlights of his Air Weather Service assignments were Operation Hardtack at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands in 1957 with underwater testing of the nuclear bomb and accompanying President Dwight Eisenhower and his staff as meteorologist on the President's Goodwill Tour of South America. in 1960. Following retirement from the Air Force in 1966, Shel returned to school teaching and taught at Hollywood Hills High School in Hollywood, Fl., Florida Air Academy at Plantation, Fl., and Crystal River High School at Crystal River, Fl. where he taught science, physics and ground school aviation classes. He retired from teaching in 1981. Shel was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and Quiet Birdmen Society, Ocala, Fl. Chapter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItemCo16527 Posted September 5, 2009 Share #239 Posted September 5, 2009 Just added another Vietnam-era group to the collection. The only flaw is that the bronze "1" fell off the Air Medal ribbon at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItemCo16527 Posted October 10, 2009 Share #240 Posted October 10, 2009 Latest custom group which just arrived yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWalsh Posted October 10, 2009 Share #241 Posted October 10, 2009 Been meaning post this one for a while now. From the front side, it appears to be a typical, not unusual theater made U.S. ribbon bar. No big deal I guess. But... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWalsh Posted October 10, 2009 Share #242 Posted October 10, 2009 When this ribbon bar is flipped over to the rear, one sees that the cloth strip used to back and bind the entire ribbon bar together, is actually the ribbon from a lapel pin / lapel button sized ribbon for the German / Nazi War Merit Cross! I have to laugh every time I look at this one, thinking that somewhere, some German tailor who made this bar was probably laughing all the way to the bank, with the knowledge that some American GI was walking around with a Nazi ribbon secretly on his uniform! I doubt the GI's NCO's and Officers would have appreciated that fact MW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11-Bull Posted October 10, 2009 Share #243 Posted October 10, 2009 In country made Viet-Nam war ribbon rack. Typical coarse weave ribbons with off color silk screening. Brass, not bronze campaign stars on VN service ribbon. 69-70 scroll on VN Campaign ribbon. The Bronze Star and ARCOM Vietnamese copies stand out as unusual, but not being a collector of these oddities I just may not have noticed how many are on the market. These were given to me decades ago by a good friend who was in the 101st Airborne, Viet-Nam 1969-1970. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue88s Posted October 11, 2009 Share #244 Posted October 11, 2009 great bars all of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1stDivVet Posted October 12, 2009 Share #245 Posted October 12, 2009 WW2/Korean War USAF vet. Still on the PX card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US82Bravo Posted October 13, 2009 Share #246 Posted October 13, 2009 Found at the thrift store. No history. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItemCo16527 Posted December 10, 2009 Share #247 Posted December 10, 2009 Just arrived today. Ribbon group with matching mini-medals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siling Posted December 10, 2009 Share #248 Posted December 10, 2009 But there is from my collection in far Poland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItemCo16527 Posted December 11, 2009 Share #249 Posted December 11, 2009 Very nice. You don't see too many Korea Service Ribbons with the Arrowhead device. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNY Militaria Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share #250 Posted December 11, 2009 Just arrived today. Ribbon group with matching mini-medals Very nice, I wondered who won that as I was watching it myself! Good pickup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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