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Hi all,

Not sure this ones not good so opinions welcome.

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Hi all,

Basically the Lifesaving medal:

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Hi all,

Here's a Fire Fighting medal:

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Hi all,

A high falutin' title for Border Guard medal:

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Hi all,

Here's three Partisan medals:

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Dan

Hi all,

Here's an Order of Lenin. Again not one to fool anyone but again okay in a display when you can't afford the real one:

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Hi all,

Again not anything to seriously fool anyone but okay in a display when you can't afford the real McCoy:

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Hi all,

Here's a couple of Hero stars. Note one has an inscription on the reverse, the other is blank:

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They look much better when they're polished. Fine for display but not ones to seriously fool anyone.

Dan

Hi all,

Guess I'll start this out with my copy of the Pilot Cosmonaut of the USSR:

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And a Proficiency Badge that I'm assuming is a 2nd class:

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As with all Hungarian awards I just love the color combinations and overall design. Beautiful pieces that really catch the eye... even for the low level awards.

Charles... again my most humble and profound thanks to you my friend. These have definitely made an outstanding addition to my small but ever growing Hungarian collection. Can't wait till you're back in the states so we can visit and share our collections in person. I'm sure we'll both have added quite a bit to them by then, God willing.

Dan

A badge to commemorate the 35th Anniversary of the End of WWII:

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Now a Distinguished Service Order which is cased but I couldn't put that in the scanner and as I believe this is the same one from Charles post #45-47 that I'd just go ahead and show the Order itself:

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And one of my favorite parts of all complete Hungarian awards... the ribbon bar with the miniature device. Very well made and just beautiful in my opinion:

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Here's a bigger scan of each page:

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Hi all,

I hope Charles does not mind but I wanted to post my newest additions which he was kind enough to send along as an early Christmas present!

Now do we have the greatest members or what? Thank you my friend, from the bottom of my heart. You've also got some goodies coming before too much longer. Will let you know when they're on their way.

Also Charles, I'd promised to send scans of the award book so you could translate but right now my laptop is on the fritz and being worked on. Hoping it will be back to normal in the next couple of days. But for now my mail is locked up on that except for what I can access online. So figured this would be the quickest/easiest way to get these to you.

Here goes. First off the award booklet for my Labor Order from post #21:

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Looks heavy enough to hold down a Turkish flying carpet.....if u ask me.

I had some "Rocket Practice" cylinder cases from the early 50s painted the same colour.... Around 3 feet long and lined with cardboard inside. I still wonder what these were ..... .Painted same colour with yellow/white print. If only I had kept some photos!!

Jim

Hi Jim,

Definitely heavy enough, especially if it's in flight.

I'd love to see those practice rockets... perhaps one of the members may have one... be neat complete with the case. I've got a practice shell complete with the case:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9173

Posts #4, 5 and 6.

Dan

I am beginning to think the collectors with too much stuff are the ones with the parctice bomb. Back in 2004 my family was visiting the home of a fellow collector who had been ammassing US itmes since the 1980's. His wife had lost the spare bedroom, the den and the two car garage to the collection. When I showed my wife she realised that things could be much worse - so much worse when she saw the 500 lb practice bomb! When you use one of those things as a paper weight on your desk - it just speaks more than the 'complaint department - please take a number' handgrenade gag...

Hi Charles,

Hmmm, hadn't thought about that. I did do up one of my dewat grenades with one of those complaint department type labels, but doing so with the practice bomb didn't even enter my mind. I may give that a try.

Wow! A 500 pounder! Can't imagine how much bigger that one was!

Dan

Anyone know what orders and medals Fidel Castro has been awarded? I wonder what Soviet medals he has recieved!

If anyone has any photos, I would love to see them!

Hi Paul,

I'll get this started. I could not find a ton of info on his awards. Nor could I find a single picture of him in any uniform wearing awards or even ribbon bars. He doesn't seem to like to wear such things even in dressier uniforms and of course likes to wear fatigues more than just about anything. However, I have seen pics of his brother Raul in uniform with a fairly large set of ribbon bars... nothing close to say a Marshal of the SU but a good number.

I'm hoping someone can come up with some pics of him wearing some or all of his awards and that others can add to this thread.

Here's what I was able to find including links to the sites where they were found:

Hero of the Soviet Union (HSU).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union

Order of Lenin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Lenin

The Order of Duarte, S?nchez and Mella, golden cross (the highest Dominican decoration) presented on 24 August 1998.

http://dr1.com/news/1998/dnews082498.shtml

The Order of Good Hope (South Africa's highest civilian award for foreigners).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro

Ghanaian Star Order (the highest decoration

awarded by the African country).

http://www.library.yale.edu/~fboateng/castro.htm

Jamaican Order of Merit. Castro is an Honorary member of this Order.

http://www.jis.gov.jm/officepm/html/200503..._excellence.asp

Havana, Cuba - 31 August 2003 - A Native American activist group awarded its highest honour for exceptional warriors to President Fidel Castro - the first time the "Eagle Feather" has been bestowed on a non-native of the United States. Daniel Cheng Yang, leader of the American Indian Movement's youth group, presented the award to Castro along with a declaration honouring"the man who represents respect, success, honour and bravery," Cuba's official National Information Agency said.

http://www.aparchive.com/aparchive/pages/l...tro_cuba_3.html

Wish I could have found more but hope this helps. Very interested to see if others can come up with more, especially pictures wearing same. Also hoping others may be able to provide photos of these awards.

Thanks for coming up with what I feel is an excellent thread.

Dan

You said.... paperweight.... what kinda paper you have that needs a 3 foot bomb???

Oh you'd be surprised how much paper builds up around here. Plus we have extremely high winds at times here in North Dakota... tie downs don't always do it, so I bring in the heavy artillery.

Dan