AH, forgot to check the date 😭 But I am sure, you will come across an even better one ;) Keeping my fingers crossed for you :))

Indeed Kevin, I found this during a Battlefield tour with NCO cadets in Jack's Woods ( Bois Jacques) near Foy back in the early 2000s Colleagues of the EOD took care of them...    

In addition to the Test Team patch that I posted in post #40, I acquired one of the Flight Test pin badges from the nephew of a Fairchild employee. I also splashed out on the pin badge that was on sale over on Ebay. These will make a fine display together.  

Yeah, I hope, that they do eventually come my way ;) But you got really lucky!

It came from the family of a Fairchild employee. I'll be photo dumping a whole bunch of stuff in the coming days.

I don’t like the buttons nor the lapels 

I picked this book up some time ago that has some signatures of Eagle Squadron members in it.  In this case, a member from each of the three fighter units signed their name.   The Eagle Squadrons were three fighter units (Nos. 71, 121, and 133) within the British Royal Air Force (RAF) in World War II comprised entirely of American volunteer pilots who flew before the US officially entered the war. Serving from 1940 to 1942, they specialized in combat against the Luftwaffe in European skies before being transferred into the US Army Air Forces (USAAF).      

Thank you, that is truly amazing.    a very unexpected surprise.

Here's a grouping I picked up at one of the Heartland Militaria Shows / Sales when it was held in Chickasha, OK.  It's now held at the Oklahoma City Fairgrounds.                                             Ancestry - Ector Dalton Lively .pdf CPL Ector D Lively_21 NARA Morning Reports.pdf

His PH orders (NARA)   I could not locate the 378th IR orders for his CIB.   In case you were not aware, based on his Hospital Card (with incorrect discharge date of Sep 44-should be Sep 45 as per other docs above), he was given a Sec. II, AR 615-360 Certificate of Disability for Discharge (CDD). As the 15 Dec 44 MR notes, his wounds were serious and likely resulted in him being returned to the USA (before the end of the war in the ETO) for long-term treatment, possibly via England. The 40 percent disability pension mentioned in the newspaper article above hint at the severity of his wounds.