Show your Navy Chief Uniforms!

[navyman]

Josh,

The tags reads: DAVIS CLOTHING CO, Boston Mass

 

Jason

[navyman]

Chief Electrian's mate cpo uniform, named and dated 1942

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chief Carpenter's mate cpo uniform. Guy was with the CB's. Uniform is named.

 

 

 

 

Jason

[navyman]

Here's a new one I just got.

I was unable to find any information on this guy.

 

 

 

 

Jason

[navyman]

Chief V rate

 

 

Jason

[dpcsdan]

Chief V rate

Jason

Specialist-V, very nice. Scarce, in general, rare in bullion.

-dan

[PaulR]

The owner of that Boiler Chief's tunic has been on every front in WW2! I bet that he has some stories! Are the holes in the Bronze Star and American Defense ribbons from missing devices?

 

What is the "V" rating mean? What career was this rate?

[Lee Ragan]

What is the "V" rating mean? What career was this rate?

 

The "V" rating, was for Transport Airman 1942-1948. Combined by sub-specialties into Air Controlman, Aviation Machinist's Mate, Aviation Store keeper, and Exclusive Emergency Service Rating EST (Transportation Airman).

Aviation Pilot : Chief, 1st and 2nd Class, 1948-1962. (All this is quoted from John Stacey's book on Navy rating badges. Page 85.)

[navyman]

Got this one in this week.

Aviation Radioman

 

 

 

Jason

[USMCRECON]

I posted this uniform in the acquisitions section last week and got some good comments on it so I'll only post a couple representative picture here for reference. This is a WW-I (possibly through 20s) Aviation Chief,s uniform. I'd been working on this for a couple months with a seller in Gettysburg and last week when I was up there, the price was finally right and I bought it. It consists of the blouse, trousers, and vest....it's all in great shape and I feel lucky to have gotten it. The Chief may have been stationed at Great Lakes at some point as the tailor's label is from Marshal Field & Company.

 

 

 

 

[navyman]

CHIEF TORPEDOMAN, GRAY UNIFORM. THIS ONE IS NAME TO A CHARLES A. BELLUS AND SERVED ON SUBMARINES MOST OF HIS TIME IN THE NAVY. I FORGOT I HAD THIS ONE AND THIS ONE SHOULD MAKE A GOOD RESEARCH PROJECT.

 

 

 

 

 

THANKS AGAIN JOSH B FOR THIS INFO.

 

AS-14 Pelias TM3 1939-42 Aboard 9/5/41 to 9/6/42

SS-198 Tambor TM? 1942-43

SS-200 Thresher TMC(SS) 1943-44

SS-205 Marlin TMC(SS) 1944-45 New London Chief of the Boat

SS-63 O-2 TMC(SS) 1945-45

Highest Rate:

E7 - TMC(SS)

USN Retired- No

Dates of service: 7/20/1938 to 6/1/1946, service number 410-41-53

 

HIS OBIT.

 

BELLUS, Charles A. Charles A. Bellus, 90, passed away on Wednesday, (February 11, 2009). He leaves his loving wife of 68 years, Veronica; his son, Charles Jr.; his daughter, Cheryl and her husband Mel; as well as numerous grand and great grand children. Charles was a Pearl Harbor survivor stationed on the U.S.S. Pelias. He served on the U,S.S. Tambor and then the U.S.S. Thresher as Chief Torpedoman. He completed his war service as Chief of the Boat aboard the U.S.S. Marlin in New London. After the war he was employed as a commissioning engineer for Emhart Mfg. Co, where he traveled throughout the world, retiring in 1980. A private funeral will be held on Tuesday, February 17th with internment at Fairview Cemetery. Charles' family is grateful for the dedicated care rendered by the Hartford VNA and Hartford Hospital Hopice professionals. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to those organizations or to St. Thomas the Apostle Church in West Hartford. The Sheehan Hilborn Breen Funeral Home, 1084 New Britain Ave., West Hartford has care of the arrangements

[navyman]

Hi,

This just came today. A nice Australia made navy chief uniform from Perth. Uniform came with pants not picture. The bullion patches are nicely made. I can't find a name, the only thing I found was 2810 which is stamp in the lining. Also the same number in the pants. Sorry for the poor picture quality.

 

 

 

 

 

Jason

 

Close up of the bullion patches

 

 

 

Jason

[Josh B.]

Another very nice sub CPO. Aussie tailoring makes it even more desirable- no doubt a guy who spent some time in Fremantle.

[navyman]

WW1 Navy Chief Pharmacist's Mate uniform. Dated 1918 and is named, has a nice bullion rate also.

 

 

 

Jason

[R Michael]

Great set of uniforms in this thread. I thought I would post mine. I have had it a good while and picked it up I am sure because the price was right. It is unnamed and I am not sure of the era. Is it WWII? I am guessing it is.

 

Mike

[Justin B.]

Great set of uniforms in this thread. I thought I would post mine. I have had it a good while and picked it up I am sure because the price was right. It is unnamed and I am not sure of the era. Is it WWII? I am guessing it is.

 

Definitely WW2 era anyway. It looks like a conversion from an 8-button coat, I think I can see the re-woven button holes. The rating badge would have been on the right sleeve before '48, is there a "shadow?" That wider lapel notch is not common on WW2 coats I've seen. A really great example, thanks for showing.

 

Best regards,

Justin B.

[R Michael]

Thanks Justin, Funny you should say that as there are 4 button holes on the underlap and there is a ghost of a rating that one can see from looking at the inside of the sleeve. I never noticed the re woven button hole either. Do the ribbos look good? all the clasps on back appear period and looks like they have been there a while.

 

thanks! Mike

Definitely WW2 era anyway. It looks like a conversion from an 8-button coat, I think I can see the re-woven button holes. The rating badge would have been on the right sleeve before '48, is there a "shadow?" That wider lapel notch is not common on WW2 coats I've seen. A really great example, thanks for showing.

 

Best regards,

Justin B.

[sigsaye]

Thanks Justin, Funny you should say that as there are 4 button holes on the underlap and there is a ghost that one can see from looking at the inside of the sleeve. I never noticed the re woven button hole either. Do the ribbos look good? all the clasps on back appear period and looks like they have been there a while.

 

thanks! Mike

Somewhere, I had the instruction that authorized the conversion of the older style coats. This is only like the third one I have seen though. Really cool.

 

Steve Hesson

[carnut63]

I love these dress white jackets so much I had to pick this one up on ePay when I saw it come for sale. It came with the ribbons attached but I cant tell if they belong with the uniform or not. I cant find a name anywhere. Its hard to see but the senior chief star is an add on.

 

 

[sigsaye]

When E-8 and 9 came out in '58, they did not at first make crows for them, but rather just the seperate patches with stars to add on to the exsisting crows. The ribbons look a bit suspect to me. Too new, and I don't think they had the multi star attachments at that time. One too many GC ribbons (they were four years each then) and the pink on with the stars was very uncommon for enlisted to get back then (did it even exsist then?)

 

Steve Hesson

[4STARCHRIS]

Those are the wrong stars on the MSM and Commendation ribbon as well. These are battle stars. Shouldn't the stars be "gold" for the Navy and USMC for additional medals?

4starchris

[sigsaye]

Those are the wrong stars on the MSM and Commendation ribbon as well. These are battle stars. Shouldn't the stars be "gold" for the Navy and USMC for additional medals?

4starchris

No, we wear the bronze stars on everything except the NAM and NCM. On those we wear gold. I would guess the pink one (MCM?) would also have gold. Pretty rare for enlisted. The other thing I was saying is that the bronze stars all mounted together on a bar didn't come out until the late '70s, early '80s as I remember. Prior to that we had to stick all the individual stars on the ribbons, and they never lined up right. Just sayin, I think the ribbons do not go with the coat.

 

Steve Hesson

[USMCRECON]

Those are the wrong stars on the MSM and Commendation ribbon as well. These are battle stars. Shouldn't the stars be "gold" for the Navy and USMC for additional medals?

4starchris

I can only go on what I remember from my Marine Corps service in the 60s and it may have been different earlier or later but I remember stars for subsequent unit commendations were bronze, just like campaign stars but the stars for individual awards such as a Combat Action Ribbon, Navy Achievement Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, et. al were the larger gold stars (silver for the 5th device).

[navyman]

Hi,

Thought I add this one to this thread. I got this one from a forum member. The hat came with along with the pants. The hat cover was put on over the hat band, I didn't fix that yet. The hat is 1930's or ww2 era I would think.

 

 

Jason

[carnut63]

here is the other one I picked up. It is a pre-WWII RMC uniform. I am always a little suspect about the authenticity of these dress whites because they looked the same for so many years. It came with 2 pairs of white pants but the white cover did not come with this uniform, I just thought that it looked pretty appropriate. On the inside tag is written "R. Sell 10-1939" I did a little research and came up with this:

 

Sell, Robert

b. 9 Mar 1908 Pennslyvania

d. 25 Oct 1978 Ilwaco, Washington

SN: 242-90-73

 

30 Nov 1939 Receiving ship San Diego, Ca

CRM(AA) Enlistment 15 Dec 1938, San Diego, Ca. Received 24 Nov 1939 from USS Bridge

 

31 Dec 1939 Receiving ship San Diego, Ca

Transferred 18 Dec 1939 to USS Edwards

 

30 Sep 1940 USS R-16

Received 20 Sep 1940 from submarine base New London, Connecticut

 

31 Oct 1940 USS R-16

C.R. 16 Oct 1940 Issued CRM (PA)

Transferred 17 Oct 1940 to submarine base New London, Connecticut

 

1930 US Federal Census

3977 Iowa Street, San Diego

Robert Sell b. 1908 Pennsylvania wireless operator w/ us government

 

 

 

[dg0223]

The larger gold stars are worn on everything worn above, and including, the Combat Action Ribbon. The only exception is a DOD medal such as the Defense Meritorious Service medal would have bronze oak leaf clusters. Presidential Unit Citations, other unit citation ribbons, and service medals all use the smaller bronze stars as attachments.

 

Obviously, every fifth gold star would equal one silver one, every fifth bronze oak leaf cluster and small bronze star would equal one silver oak leaf cluster or small star.