On 2017/9/10 at 23:04, Ulsterman said:

Ah! I did not realize you were behind an internet " Great Wall". hang on-I'll have a look and and detail what I find below. Then others here who have bigger libraries/Ancestry I am sure can add more. 

thank u so much

On 2017/9/4 at 23:12, Petro said:

Cool James , its awesome by the way do you know the name of the man on the medal ?

thank you Petro

MAY BE DUAN QIRUI，

22 hours ago, Ulsterman said:

HUGE questions! There is an OMSA article about this topic and the OMSA Bronze Star monograph goes into great detail. Bottom line is -yeah-big differences. During the war specific machines were used and some collectors can actually tell which operator engraved the names by their 'writing' . War time issues tended to be for KIA or VIPs only.

the vast majority of these were awarded unnamed and lots of vets later had them privately engraved. I did my Dad and Uncles in the 1980s at our local trophy shop. 

Fakers of course try to augment unnamed pieces wit names, but honestly a guy like Carson was brace,but obscure. Finding the details of his award would take real work and would cost more to research than to engrave. The " profit" is not there-at least for BS or GC  or Merit medals. 

REALLY REALLY THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!

     孔繁錦，安徽合肥人，民國7年(1918年)，帶省防軍三營援陝駐夭水，鎮守隴南。原為總鎮，1921年改總鎮為鎮守使，統管天水、秦安、甘谷、武山、通渭、清水、西和、禮縣、徽縣、成縣、西固、武都、兩當等縣。
    孔繁錦任隴南鎮守使後，竭力擴充軍隊，以固其統治勢力。先後新建右軍二營，巡防四營，騎兵一營，砲兵一排，左軍步兵五營，騎兵一營，砲兵一營。後又陸續添募保衛團三營，游擊四營，憲兵一連分編為若干支隊，屯兵隴南各縣。 1924年孔繁錦又任甘肅邊防督辦兼援川總司令。
    從1918至1926年孔任隴南鎮守使，對隴南人民橫徵暴斂，殘酷鎮壓。
    孔繁錦駐隴南9年，對康縣人民殘酷統治，血腥鎮壓，民不聊生，巨額徵款，致民家貧如洗，流離失所，群眾怨聲載道。
    民國15年(1926年)秋，孔繁錦被國民軍第十三師師長張維璽驅逐出境，逃往四川。

1.It was the merit medal of south GANSU province awardes by Kung Fanjin ,between 1918-1926，In general, he is a warlord、dictator & tyrant

2. the ribbon is not Chinese ，its Japanese the order of rising sun

3.I havent see a red Enamel before

HI guys：

     I have a doubt that is only the official Issued  medals  Engraved Name？and what's the differents between the  official Issued version & the Commercial version？

Thanks

James

9.9.2017

14 hours ago, Ulsterman said:

original? 

I THINK ITS NOT FAKE

On 2017/9/8 at 11:02, Ulsterman said:

His obit. is found at "supersabre". He died in NV in 2015. My Dad knew him at Bitburg. He got his wings at age 16. Retired a Colonel in 1969.

Looks like he had the American theater ribbon and WW2 Victory medal, with the National Defense, (2 stars) , Korean War, UN Korea, Vietnam War and Vietnamese Vietnam campaign medals as well as the usual USAF service ribbons. I do not think he had the occupation ribbon and he was out before they started handing out excessive achievement medals. 

He would have rated the Korean Korean War medal too, but they just started handing those out about ten years ago. 

thanks so much for your information，I just have these medals and know nothing about Walter E.Carson，and as you know Chinese government locked many web such as Google，I hardly find more information about him

与子同袍、明耻教战 from two Chinese ancient books more than Two Thousand years ago

与子同袍means:"We are  comrades and we will live or die together."

明耻教战means:"Teaching soldiers to fight, let them know that retreating is shame, so they can able to courageously forward, kill the enemy to get victory."

theres no more information 

it was bought by a Chinese，but I forgot his name

from the words reserved "與子同袍、明恥教戰"，its medal may be a military merit medal，but the ribbon is not Chinese ，its Japanese the order of rising sun

1 hour ago, Chris Boonzaier said:

Probably awarded to a Foreign soldier. French soldiers who recieved them had no name on the rim.

bought in Japan

Just now, gongz said:

Probably because he liked it !  Without viewing the rim it looks like an unnamed original. They appear occasionally.

yes， its an unnamed medal ，I didnt see such one before

HELLO gentleman：

              My friend bought a distinguished conduct medal (dcm) but without name tags，can anybody know why？

thanks

53 minutes ago, Hugh said:

Quite an impressive set of gongs.  I'm a little surprised that he didn't get a "V" for his Bronze Star nor Oak Leaf Clusters for his Air Medal.  These medals (unmounted) have the look of being just out of the box.  Perhaps he never had the chance to get all the doodads on the ribbons.  Or perhaps it's a set of replacements after he left active service.  

I THINK I KONW LITTLE ABOUT IT,ITS MY SECOND TIME BOUGHT USA MEDAL

14 hours ago, TacHel said:

I haven't seen any official numbers at all.  I'll ask on a few Russian forums but don't hold your breath...  They kind of lost control on numbers in the 90s.  Add to that the fact these were also produced and bestowed in Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Armenia...  

thank you ，i‘m looking forward your information

On 2016/8/23 at 15:14, ÖSTA said:

Hi Petro

For these try Taiwan:

NOT TAIWAN, ITS 1938，THE 27TH YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA

This man is Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama(1883–1937)，A religion leader in China

On 2017/8/26 at 21:51, peter monahan said:

Unfortunately it is not simple to research a veteran from WWII.  here is the e-dress of the National Archives, but apparently one needs to know from which state the veteran came to make much progress.

Good luck.

thank you， I found the info

Hello，gentleman

           Anyone who has the information about the totally  Awarded Number of Jubilee Medal for 50、60 、65、70Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945？

thank you！

James

On 2017/6/26 at 07:57, Dieter3 said:

Why would this person claim a real medal was a forgery that he made? Makes no sense, does it?

THIS MEDAL HAD ALREADY authenticated as a real one by scientific verification in NWU, I think this man just want to buy this real medal in a forgery price , by the way now I clearly konw that this beijing guy is a forgery maker and he sold many copy japanese uniform、orders、medals、badges in China，and now he have a web shop in yahoo japan that sold copy medals,I hope everybody take care about that.

Hello,gentleman：

            I bought a bronze star medal few month ago，its my first USA medal，and I want to know its version ，production，date of manufacture and so on，thank you！

Aad  this medal Engraved a name"Thomase E.Davern",anyone who have this person‘s information？

JAMES

2017.8.24