Recent news media reports covered the delivery of a Medal of Honor for Philippine Insurrection Army veteran James W. McIntyre to his granddaughter. McIntyre served with the 1st North Dakota Volunteer Infantry, raised to serve in the Philippines. McIntyre volunteered to serve with a scouting contingent consisting of around two dozen soldiers. Without getting into all of that group’s various actions, a number of them were awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry on May 13 and/or May 16, 1899. Appropriate recommendations for these men were submitted to the War Department and ultimately approved.   Apparently, McIntyre’s MoH was not a “late” award in the sense that he was not originally recommended for it in 1899. It was just never delivered to him because of a faulty address (formal presentation ceremonies were a rarity at this time) in the War Department’s records. According to the media, McIntyre was murdered by bandits in Mexico in 1930.   In recent years, McIntyre’s story came to the attention of a history enthusiast. That person researched the situation and, with the help of a congressman, was able to have the medal presented to McIntyre’s oldest living relative, his granddaughter.   All of this information is readily available via a Google search. McIntyre’s situation is not unusual, particularly with the recent granting of late Medal of Honor awards for actions ranging from the Civil War to the Gulf Wars. What is unusual is that I cannot find any reference to McIntyre in any of the contemporary Medal of Honor reference books.   McIntyre is not on the lists of scouts recommended as per the 1916 Staff Corps and Medals of Honor publication. I do not have the second volume of Deeds of Valor, so I don’t know if his name appeared in the account of these scouts contained therein. Perhaps a reader who has this volume could look and see if McIntyre’s name is in DofV, volume 2, and let me know.   Of course, DofV is a privately published book while the 1916 Staff Corps and Medals of Honor report is as official a document as there is. I am curious as to why McIntyre’s name was not included among the other scouts recommended for this award. He was alive at the time of the recommendation and still on active duty. If a MoH was approved, it would normally have been forwarded to his unit for an appropriate presentation ceremony.  And, of course, at the time of the recommendation, his home address was valid.   The current newspaper articles make it clear that McIntyre’s award was approved (it says TR approved it in 1906, but I don’t believe MoH recommendations were normally reviewed by the president at that time. And, why there was an apparent 7-year delay in approving his award, is not known) but just not delivered to him. If TR had personally approved this award, it surely would have been included in the 1916 report.   I would ask if anyone has either the 1916 Staff Corps report and/or volume 2 of DofV, to take a look for McIntyre’s name. I might well have overlooked it somewhere, and two or more sets of eyes are always better than one.   I’d appreciate any insight anyone has on this unusual late presentation, as well as any valid documentation concerning the recommendation and approval for this MoH.  This one seems very unusual to me.   Thanks!!

You’re very welcome.  Happy to give you more information about this soldier.  Take care and God Bless! 

Without better photos I am not a fan of it being ww2 vintage.    Twill material seems off, stitching of letters seems 1960s and reverse base material needs a better image. 

Here's my P38 on my Tags, this in a 1992 photo, got that 1/9 scale Esci Grenadier kit there that I buit in like 1985 as this was the focus of the photo

SAC's 99th Air Refueling Squadron (H) used the callsign "Ramrod" back in the late '50s into the '70s. I used to have the black with yellow/gold "Ramrod" tab/patch. 

Pictures from the above link:

Hey do ya know a good place to get a replica made patch of the 778th or an original one? Great grandfather was with them on his 2nd tour 

Major Casteel, 82nd Airborne, eating his rations with an M3 strapped to his ankle:  

Here’s some AI-generated verbiage that might prove helpful: The Maves Bros. Co. was a historic American manufacturer known for producing military insignia, medals, and marksmanship badges. They notably supplied official badges and pinback awards to various components of the United States Armed Forces, including the Army National Guard.  Common Identification Marks   Medals or badges produced by this manufacturer are highly sought after by militaria collectors. They can typically be identified by a specific hallmark stamped or die-struck directly onto the reverse (back) of the metal piece:  "THE MAVES BROS CO" "MAVES BROS CO."    Cool badge, by the way!

My  father was with HMH-462 for Operation Eagle Pull and Operation Frequent Wind during the evacuation of Saigon. He had some incredible photos of them pushing those birds off the ship. After the operations, the “screwees” were inducted into the Royal order of Screws and awarded the Leaking gear box award with cluster.