The presentation carbines were really beautiful rifles.  Thank you for sharing it. 

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An late 70s E Troop 1st Cavalry (Air) bird,, a Cobra, this unit of course having it's own choppers apart from the 222nd Aviation Battalion, and would naturally be Red and White too.

Are these GI? or private purchase? perfectly fine to wear on the uniform?   Rubberized Stamping on Cloth, Velcro back no doubt. The top one Yellow on Blue, would this be Navy?

Thanks to work, I won't be traveling much the rest of the summer so I've made the best of the time I've got at Reading WWII Days and a short trip this weekend.  Mostly patches, but one service coat from Reading and a set of aviation working greens from a local thrift store.   Late WWII, early post-war Lieutenant's aviation working greens.  Some damage and no identifying information in it.   Near perfect condition service coat that, on the other hand, had plenty of identifying information on the pocket label!  Belonged to, I believe, 1st Lieutenant Bernard Lionel "Ben" Allaire of Bristol, CT.  Mr. Allaire worked in construction in civilian life and had attended Cornell.  He was also a well-known local high school and amateur basketball player.   Big patch lot for this post.  Most of the Cold War USAF patches came from Reading.  Top to bottom, left to right: 550th SMS (Atlas F unit at Schilling Air Force Base, '61-'65), copy/repro/what-have-you of an interwar 95th Division, Falcon Weapon Loading Team, 465th Combat Defense Squadron (Robbins AFB with the 465th Bombardment Wing), 577th SMS (Atlas F unit at Altus Air Force Base, '61-'65), 8th Air Force Blue Ribbon Crew, 552nd AWAC Division (1983-1985), original design 29th Infantry Brigade, desert 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD), 2nd Space Operations Squadron Navigation Analysis section, Western Defense Command, 14th Armored Division, 92nd Infantry Division, 49th Armored Division, WAVE-size Aviation Metalsmith 1st class, 306th Armor Group over 120mm gun tab (not together, just positioned together), A/3/109th Infantry unit patch, 130th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (WV ANG) Spaatz Trophy patch.

I'm afraid it completely slipped my mind to respond earlier. There's sadly no writing on the back that I've been able to make out (there may have been some at one point, but the printing on the back has long since faded and worn). The idea of it being a funeral is admittedly just guesswork on my part, given the location of a cemetery, one of those times where I'll certainly admit my own lack of knowledge (at least when I originally wrote my post). Southern France would certainly fit, he was in Lamalous-les-Bains from March 27 to April 8, 1919 (alongside spending Easter that year in "Barn-l-Arne," which I've sadly been unable to ID as of yet).   An outdoor church service could be a potentiality (or some other sort of ceremony? I can't think of anything that would have been taking place around that time off the top of my head, but I'm not as well read on the directly post-war history of the division, or the war more broadly). I've been digging through the National Archive's WW1 photo collection to see if I can find any possible leads (alongside looking for other images of the 29th and locations they were at, similar activities, etc.) Closest I've found so far, subject wise at least, is some of the cemeteries made by G.R.S. Unit 304, but the process itself has been great. I'll be sure to update if I come across any clear leads one way or the other in any of my research.

Were they real vintage Minis patches?

Asked A1 and she said Union Hardware in Connecticut. Then I found this. 

Your man is Gerald “Gerry” W. Crabbe.  He rose to the rank of colonel and served in the CBI.    

Another one. Why would they try and get rid of the "Sterling" marking? This one has the "G" still showing.