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124th Fighter Aviation Squadron "Thunder" (124. ловачка авијацијска ескадрила "Громови").

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123rd Fighter Aviation Squadron "Lions" (123. ловачка авијацијска ескадрила "Лавови").

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119th Helicopter Regiment (119. хеликоптерски пук).

98th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (98. ловачко-бомбардерски авијацијски пук).

83rd Fighter Aviation Regiment (83. ловачки авијацијски пук).

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Here are couple of Air Force patches (and scans) from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia era (Савезна Република Југославија - СРЈ).

Useful wiki links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yugoslav_Air_Force_squadrons

Air Force (Ваздухопловни корпус) and Air Defense Corps (Корпус противваздушне одбране).

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Greetings Paul,

Pictures of Parachute instructor's badge ("I class", II class badge and golden one as well) can be found here: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/53280-yugoslavia-parachute-instructor-badge-in-gold/

One more interesting thing, compare these pilot badges with the ones of the previous, royal Yugoslavia. Communists kept almost the same design! Crown was replaced with red star and old royal coat of arms with new one...

Regards,

Radmilo

Back side, unnumbered, 3 hallmarks.

Hexagon with rooster, 900 and IKOM.

Front side, 6 torches.

Socialist Yugoslavia introduced Pilot's badge (Летачки знак пилота) in 1953. First type (1953-1963) had 5 torches in the coat of arms, second type had 6 (1963-).

Golden pilot's badge (gold) was introduced in 1967 and Gilded pilot's badge introduced in 1985 (gilded silver).

Apart from these pilot badges there were also:

-Navigator's badge (Летачки знак извиђача) 1953-1967 (After 1967 no longer in use).

-Specialist's badge - also called Mechanic's badge (Летачки знак специјалисте); 2 types (1953-1963 5 torches, 1963- 6 torches).

-Parachute instructor's badge (Летачки знак падобранског инструктора); 2 types (1953-1963 5 torches, 1963- 6 torches).

-Parachute instructor 2nd class (Летачки знак падобранског инструктора II класе) 1971-1985 (After 1985 no longer in use).

-Golden parachute instructor's badge (Златни летачки знак падобранског инструктора) 1984-

Here are couple of pictures of 2nd type of Pilot's badge (1963-).

To be honest I really don't remember, and some of those Sorlini's orders are so similar to Huguenin that it's hard to make a difference. Anyway thanks for that information Obi!

Greetings gentlemen,

I agree with Emanuel, looks genuine to me. When you take a look at the back side of the medal bar you can see that the Albanian retreat medal was added later. It could be that it was the last award that person received and then just placed on the already existing medal bar (in my opinion better there, on the first place, than on the last one). Stranger thing about this medal bar is that the Obilić medal is placed after Medal for military merits and Medal for zealous service...

You are welcome Igor, I am glad if that was useful

Iver you are welcome

It really does resemble to Arhus Bertrand but there are couple of differences, also all of the Bertrand's boxes were, as far as I know, rectangular. Some of the boxes that Rothe used for White Eagle were very similar, but they were signed and their coat of arms is slightly different. I believe that the box is Fürst's because of the crown, that producer used coat of arms with a large crown (compared to the rest of the coat of arms) and also the cross on top of the crown is a different than for example Rothe's.

I found one nice picture of Bertrand's coat of arms on my HDD, here it is just for comparison.

Kind regards,

Radmilo

Greetings Iver,

I could be wrong but I think that it is for the Order of the Cross of Takovo as well. And considering that there is no inscription on the inner part of the lid and the look of the coat of arms my guess would be early Anton Fürst.

Regards,

Radmilo

Actually it was two weeks ago, but I forgot to brag about my present before Anyway thanks Rogi!

Here's my birthday present

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Greetings Obi,

Great collection, thanks for images! One second class got sold on ebay two months ago for less than 800$...

Regards,

Radmilo

I am not sure but I believe that Karađorđevićs continued to award decorations from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia while they were in exile. But this certainly had nothing to do with them, Cross of Takovo was decoration of the rival dynasty. There are some living descendants of the Obrenović family (I think Miloš's half brother Jakov descendants) but I think this has nothing to do with them either.

By the way in 2009 new law on decorations instituted Order of Sretenje (Сретењски орден - 3 grades) with Order of the Cross of Takovo as it's model. Here are just couple of pictures of it.

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Could be something related to Greece as well. Flag with 4 Bs (Basileus Basileon Basileuon Basileuonton) was first used by Palaiologos of the Byzantine Empire.

Regards,

Radmilo

Dear all,

Meleq Frasheri was an albanian officer under prinz zu Wied. He continued his career later for the albanian state till '30-es. Fortunately, he was so exhibitionist to do a picture in any possible occasion.

I find today another picture of him with the officer of Black Eagle order in his austrian uniform. He served in the A.H. army during WWI. Can anyone help me about the uniform: rank, branch, medals, etc?

Regards,

Artan

Greetings Artan,

James identified first two medals, the third one is Karl-Truppenkreuz (Karl Troop Cross). As for the uniform I believe it is for the Grenzjäger captain (Hauptmann).

Regards,

Radmilo

Greetings Obi,

I watched that decoration on ebay, if I remember well another member of the forum was the seller. That was the first time I saw that variant, nice catch, thanks for images!

You are welcome Antonio. Easy mistake to make considering the name, location and predominant nation in both of them.

Those are ribbons for decorations of Republic of Serbia introduced in 2009. First row is Order of the Serbian Flag (Орден српске заставе) although I think that the stripes should be yellow, not white. Second row is Order of the Star of Karageorge (Орден Карађорђеве звезде), third Order of Sretenje (Candlemas) (Сретењски орден). First ribbons in all three rows represent the look of sashes, neck ribbons and the triangular "chest" ribbons used for those orders, others are for first, second and third grade.

Fourth row, from left to right Golden medal for zealous service (Златана медаља за ревносну службу), Silver medal for zealous service (Сребрна медаља за ревнсосну службу), Golden Miloš Obilić bravery medal (Златна медаља за храброст Милош Обилић) Silver Miloš Obilić bravery medal (Сребрна медаља за храброст Милош Обилић). And the last row Golden medal for merits (Златна медаља за заслге) and Silver medal for merits (Сребрна медаља за заслуге).

Serbia today has three more orders not represented on table above, Order of Republic of Serbia - 2 grades (Орден Републике Србије) Order of the White Eagle with swords - 3 grades (Орден белог орла са мачевима) and Order of merit for defense and security - 3 grades (Орден заслуга за одбрану и безбедност).

Regards,

Radmilo

06. Medal for military virtues is a single class decoration awarded to members of Armed Forces of Republic of Srpska for excellence in performing of duties and for exemplar behavior.