Ed_Haynes

Named?? Who??

The badge? Any "order holes"?

Nice!

Yes, and I am wondering if I could work out a swap including my solo T1V2 (with "Paul Papers").

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8627&st=16

I'd agree totally with you, OoV. Had I the cash available, it'd be gone now!

Lovely and very impressive group. Thanks for showing it.

The posthumous award of the Medal of Honor to Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham of Scio, N.Y. has been announced. He died when he jumped on a grenade in Iraq and saved the lives of two comrades.

See:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/10/...in2173203.shtml

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-11-10-voa53.cfm

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/na...1,3528945.story

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/10/medal.hon...tion=cnn_latest

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?sectio...p;article=41423

Is the Urdu word for glacier really "glaysheer"?

No, Dave, that is the Angrezi shabd [the "English word"] rendered into Urdu.

The national language of Pakistan, the language in which the legends on these medals and clasps is written.

Thanks Ed!!! I missed the rare clasp. I'm learning...I have a good teacher

Doc

Hey, all you need to do is read Urdu. No biggie.

After some digging, most likely the progressive rock musician (bass and bass pedals), see: http://www.progressiveears.com/asp/reviews...mp;albumID=1673 and http://www.alexgitlin.com/npp/epid.htm and http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_ro....asp?cd_id=2813

Interesting, and looks quite good to me too. The Tamgha-i-Diffa (General Service Medal) is for Siachen Glacier, the most recent (and rarest) of the clasps for this medal. Nice things you have.

OK, let me try . . . .

When medals have been approved, and maybe authorised, but not issued, military tailors fill the gaps by making medals that are (approximately) in the right design and selling them to serving personnel who want to (or have been told to) mount up their medals. This is especially the case when contemporary medals are issued unnamed (as they are in Pakistan). As far as I know, the Badr Medal has not been officially issued, though your specimen looks very good and may well be legitimate. It would be the first I have seen. Maybe the Pakistani Mint has been hard at work? (Or the tailors are making better copies?) Tailors' copies are available in Pakistan, quite easily, at Rs. 30 or Rs. 40 each (approximately $0.60 US). These FLOOD e$cam.

Most of your medals, "ilja599", look good. I'd like a closeup on your General Service Medal (Tamgha-i-Diffa) as the clasp is unclear. I assume all are unnamed?

I have never seen a tailor's copy named for a Pakiatni medal, though Indian military tailors have started offering naming services for their patrons ( ).

The naming you show looks like normal nbaming for a Pakistan Medal 1947 ("Independence Medal"). These are the only Pakistani medal to have been routinely named. (Blast!)

Sorry, but I have no idea what you are asking. Do you want identifications?

Would like to help, but . . . ?????

And what about regular Soviet soldiers - infantry privates, artillery NCOs and other "unnamed" pawns of this war? How do you define their impact to the victory?

About the same as that of the workers.

At the risk of unleashing more trouble, here is one I seem to have forgotten to post here.

Iurii Anderivich Vol'vin

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7767 and following posts.

Came with a patch, and while I don't "do" patches, here it is too anyway:

May we post Chechen awards here?

Order of Schamil

Not much known, but in two classes. Named after Schamil, one of the anti-Russian Chechen leaders of the nineteenth centuiry.

Screwbacked, with a slightly "Soviet" feel, but of fairly light construction.

See other Chechen awards at http://www.syrtash.com/showgallery.php?cat=561

Closeup on the recipient.

Interior, part 2. Oddly, it seems to be a 31 October 1966 document, the same date as what I always assume to be the inside-the-front-covber next-of-kin inscription?

Some (though I guess they don't frequent this forum) may question the photo, but it seems legit (and is over-stamped) to me.

The interior spread, part 1, with the next-of-kin entry (31 October 1966).

The badge.

An interesting unnumbered screwback (type 1.2) documented (in Cyrillic!) set.

Q 04 -- One Million Hours Flight Pilot Badge

Interior 2 - awarded 9 July 1981.

Interior 1

Reverse, # 5050.