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    Dana B

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    1. I do own it. I picked it up along with a Uruguayan medal on the wrong ribbon from someone in Indiana.
    2. Any idea would be helpful - obviously a country with French influence and the use of scimitars and a crescent moon with star smacks of Horn of Africa or Middle East.
    3. You mean as in later-Major General Eckhard von Geyso, (German Cross in Gold, etc)?
    4. If you look to the right of the picture, you'll see a bunch of GI's wearing their steel pots - as is the US officer to the wearer's left of the guy with the life vest (and I think he is RAF by the rank stripes on his shoulders). I would think that someone is getting ready to leave the ship and invade someplace. Plus they all seem to be in winter gear (the dark cap covers on the Navy types and jackets zipped and buttoned up). We can see the Captain's braid on the cuff of the one Brit but the other RN guy with the ribbons showing has 2 rows of braid on his cap so I would tend to think Flag Grade. The wings on the fellow whose head is mostly cut off on the right of the picture are clearly Brit Commonwealth type wings. The two guys on the left foreground are wearing Commonwealth Army insignia with Lieutenant Colonel and Major grade showing. Whatever the guys at the rail were watching was more interesting than the officers' meeting on deck. I agree that it was an ideal photo op for some other rank. "Look grandkids, see where Gramps was when they were discussing hitting the Jerries before the invasion. . . "
    5. I remember when I started collecting medals in the mid 1960's one of the first catalogs I had was from Kaufman Surplus in the 300 block of W 42nd St in Manhattan across from the Port Authority Building. Inside the back cover they listed all the miniatures including Army and Navy versions of the Medal of Honor - but alas as a kid I couldn't afford the outrageous $14.95 EACH!! (I had to settle for $5 1939 EK2's and $1 Brit Victory Medals) And I remember a few lucky treks into Midtown where I could stop into Kaufman's and see them first hand pinned to a board behind the register . . . so although long out of regulation by then (if, in fact, they ever were regulation), they were still being sold to the public while the Worlds Fair played on in Flushing Meadows and Americans couldnt legally buy full size US medals . . .
    6. Queens is Queens County; Brooklyn is Kings County.
    7. And if you go to the county courthouse (Recorder of Deeds, Prothonotary, whatever) there are usually what are called Soldiers and Sailors Records Books where returning vets registered an original copy of their Honorable Discharge Certificate and forerunners of the DD-214. I've used them in NY, NJ & PA with 100% success. You will need to know what county the vet returned to when he was discharged.
    8. Jeff, as usual, is correct that only the full size Medal of Honor is authorized to be worn - HOWEVER - this photo of USMC WW1 Medal of Honor recipient Louis Cukela clearly shows him wearing a mini Army MoH in this 1920's-1930's circa pic that also shows him with his Navy Tiffany-style MoH at his neck.
    9. I bought that silly 1926-58 GSM with the cutoff rifle butts - I paid $1 for it in Harrisburg PA 2 years ago because I wanted the ribbon. The planchet rests in a junk box/parts box.
    10. I have that little publication by Al Gleim dated October 1982 and the entry for your guy is toward the end and his name is spelled slightly differently as Major Andrew Jackson McElroy, United States Aviation Services, Headquarters London (formerly attached South-Western Area, Royal Air Force, Salisbury, Wiltshire). The award is dated 19 July 1919 from the Air Ministry, Hotel Cecil, Strand, London WC2. I wish I could scan it and show you here but it is copyrighted. And as a foreigner it is an Honorary Companionship of the DSO. Dana
    11. What becomes really fun with the dead Germans database is searching by place of birth ONLY (Geburtsort). Granted, you can find other relatives from some of those obscure little German towns where your ancestors came from (mine were from Lamstedt, Hirschberg and Grosssachsen, one in Prussia, the others in Baden) and yes, I've got dead relatives from two, BUT the fun comes in trying to figure out the oddities. I grew up in New Jersey (hey, we all come from somewhere) and I live in Allentown PA today (yup, one from here, too. I wonder if he's in one of the local high school yearbooks at the public library???) I plugged in New Jersey, New York, Hoboken (18 dead German soldiers born in old Blue Eyes' hometown), Jersey City, Chicago, and even Pittsburgh - yes, Steeler fans there was a Hauptmann named Fritz Peter Weber-Meder who died in France "oy, yunz guys?!" Or how about a guy from Dallas (hook 'em horns) Gefreiter Hugo Burtscher who died on the Eastern Front. Yup, there's even a quartet from Los Angeles and an Unteroffizier from Quebec . . .
    12. It may be a shot in the dark and a lot of hit or miss, but you can access the German battle casualties (dead only) list at the following link and just enter the last name "Faber" - there are 751 of them - however, this includes Franco-Prussian, WW1 & WW2 so clearly figure those with dates outside of WW2 can be disregarded. It may take some time but I'll bet an Oberleutnant or two would show up. Then figure out where your vet was who brought it back and then disregard the other theatres. http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche/content_suche.asp Yes, its in German but schoolboy German will get you navigating around. I, too, have an Afrikakorps single decal helmet with a name in it, however my guy didnt die and isnt listed in the above database(and hence no damage to the wonderful helmet that I've had for 40+ years). [i'm a medal collector, not a helmet guy so that's about all I have to add]. Good luck . . .
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