C. Older 5th and 4th Deg  5th Num 285 4th Num 466 10 Victories A member of the 3rd Pursuit Squadron (the "Hell's Angels"), he is credited with 10 victories, making him a double ace. By the end of the war, he had been promoted to lieutenant colonel. BTW I have found more than one with paperwork calling this Version with White edge Ribbon & Rossette a SPECIAL BREAST ORDER.  and now thinking there may have been a later War Updated VERSION for foreign military, I also found one with paperwork STATING the highest deg for the SPECIAL BREAST ORDER was 6 th deg. Thinking they may have created this SPECIAL BREAST order and started to award them later in the war. His official Paperwork from China requested he send back the earlier 5th deg award. also this one was called a 4th Deg in paperwork, This may be the reason for the cut ribbon ? maybe they did a fast re-ribbon for the second award (4th deg) he received but never corrected the paperwork ? just a theory)  Again thinking there may have been this later Special Breast VERSION for foreign military, I also found one with paperwork STATING the highest deg for the SPECIAL BREAST ORDER was 6 th deg. ??? but Olders paperwork says 4 th Now thinking they may have created this SPECIAL BREAST order around the same time as his higher 4th deg award.  

Wow! I'm shocked to hear this. We shared a few chats over the years, A great loss to the community. Prayers for his family. RIP Eric. Youll be missed here. 

Looking for an attribution for Spanish War CMS #569.

Picked this up at a show over the weekend out of a box of patches.   Appears to be the same patch as the example on the hat above.  I have my doubts too - mainly due to the threads on the reverse. Under magnification they have a "translucent glisten" to them.  (unfortunately, by blacklight bulb died). But, for $5, I viewed it as a scratch-off lottery ticket.  

I had several interactions with Eric over the years.  All were great.  Very sad to hear this.

R.I.P.

Thank you for the help

Just got this

Very sad to hear this news. Eric was very well known with his work with Military working dogs and he will be greatly missed.   Condolences to his family   Leigh 

I am evaluating a small group from a veteran. The purple heart is the late war stamped variant done at the Discharge Facility.  It matches the style and size in Schwind's book. The problem is the last name is misspelled. I am sorry but have no pics to post yet.   Has anone ever seen a mispelled stamped PH? Everything in the group is legit, photo, name, patches, details etc. except the mispelled name. A C was used instead of an S in DORSEY.     Strange