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This is the way it breaks down.
The E grades are just that, pay grades. O is for Officers, O-1 for 2nd Lt and so on through O-10 General or Admiral.
Here's a good site that give a better explanation
http://www.bluejacket.com/usn_ratings.html#pay
HMCS - Senior Chief Hospitalman
A Senior Chief Petty Officer (SCPO) (E-8), equivalent to a USMC Master Sergeant
HMC - Chief Hospitalman
A Chief Petty Officer (CPO) (E-7), equivalent to a USMC Gunnery Sergeant
HM1 - Hospitalman First Class
A Petty officer 1st Class (PO1) (E-6), equivalent to a USMC Staff Sergeant
HM2 - Hospitalman Second Class
A Petty Officer 2nd Class (PO2) (E-5), equivalent to a USMC Sergeant
HM3 - Hospitalman Third Class
A Petty Officer 3rd Class (PO3) (E-4), equivalent to a USMC Corporal
HN - Hospitalman
A Seaman (SN) (E-3), equivalent to a USMC Lance Corporal
HA - Hospitalman Apprentice
A Seaman Apprentice (SA) (E-2), equivalent to a USMC Private First Class
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Those are RAF colors.
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Thanks Rick !!!!
Your talents never cease to amaze me !!!!
That makes three with names Niemeyer - Wambold - Meyer
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Closer on the Speiss
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As requested
From
Uniforms And Insignia of the Luftwaffe - Vol 1 - 1933 to 1940
by Brian L Davis
page 165 - no date on the picture
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As stated above the straight bars were for Marksmanship (ascending grades). I believe there were 24 grades.
The chevron bar idenotes Sniper qualification.
The Luftwaffe used them from April 1935 to Autumn 1936 as well.
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For what it's worth
A scan from an Angolia book stating this was HH's bar
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Thanks for the tour
Very well presented
So many wonderful, wonderful bars . . . I really need a drool guard for my keyboard
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Glad to be of assistance
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British
21st Army Group (1943 to 45) which became British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in August 45.
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Don't waste your money on this, somebody made it up!
Many, many things wrong !!
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A look through my references turned up nada (didn't expect anything with him probably being a Reservist)
A google search turned up this . . .
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacambri/news/1967TD.html
Maybe, just maybe the same guy . . .
The Good Conduct medal is interesting, shows he had enlisted service at some point in his career.
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From the USAF site http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=6178
His distinguished service has won him many awards and decorations from his government, as well as from foreign governments. The United States has awarded him the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters, the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Distinguished Unit Citation with oak leaf cluster, the American Defense Service Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three service stars, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with four service stars, the World War II Victory Medal, the Army of Occupation Medal with the Berlin Airlift emblem, the Medal for Humane Action and the National Defense Service Medal.
His foreign decorations include the British Distinguished Flying Cross; the French Legion of Honor-Degree of Commander, and the Croix de Guerre with Palm; the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross, and the Order of Aeronautical Merit, the Russian Order of Patriotic War-1st Degree; the Belgian Croix de Guerre with Palm; the Moroccan Oissam Alaouite, the Chilean Order of Merit and Medalla Militar de Primera Clase; the Argentinean Order of Aeronautical Merit--Grade of Grand Official and Grade of Grand Cross; the Swedish Commander of the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Sword; the Ecuadorian Order of Aeronautical Merit (Knight Commander) and the Uruguayan Aviador Militar Honoris Causa (Piloto Commandante).
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Here is the rack in question
Obviously NOT a second Air Medal ribbon, although design is similiar.
If Navy Expeditionary it is seriously out of place.
Could be a foreign award as he had a few, but again out of place.
There is a ROTC award that has matches, but I seriously doubt it.
I am stumped . . . as well.
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Awesome is correct
Love the silenced stens in #9
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By the way, how often do you think thoughts strayed from the solemnity of the occasion to the pair of legs encased in those stockings?
My thoughts exactly ! Nice looking as well.
We called the ARCOM the " Green Weenie"
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Riding Instructor
Looks like he is a Physical Training Instructor as well,
the crossed swords below the Riding badge indicate that.
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You have a enviable collection of little known and rarely seen medals !
I look forward to seeing more.
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Hope this helps
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This is offered on Ebay with a number of 2x ribbon bars.
Love the swords on the 1897.
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Not officially.
There are some unofficial commemorative medals brought out within the past ten years.
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This is a good site for Thailand Awards and Decorations
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Here's something on Arnold, albeit not much. Hope it helps
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No picture, but here's a couple of basic biographies
http://www.answers.com/topic/edward-leonard-ellington
http://web.genealogie.free.fr/Les_militair...r/Marshal/E.htm
I'll keep looking
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unknown ribbons
in United States of America
Posted · Edited by David S
It could be The US Presidential Medal of Merit, at least the ribbon colors are the same.
Look here : http://www.answers.com/topic/presidential-medal-for-merit
Here's a pic of the medal just in case