Rattle's US collection

[Rattle]

Iron Cross 2nd class, Milit?rpass and patriotic ring named to a soldier from the 2. Westpreu?isches Pionier-Batallion Nr.23.

[Paul R]

Fantastic Stuff!! I really like the 101st Airborne Doctor's uniform!

[nesredep]

Iron Cross 2nd class, Milit?rpass and patriotic ring named to a soldier from the 2. Westpreu?isches Pionier-Batallion Nr.23.

Hello!

AMAZING FIND.

All the best

Nesredep

[Rattle]

Thanks Guys.

Navy Good Conduct Medal given to D. E. Webber in 1948.

[Rattle]

Navy Good Conduct Medal given to CE (RO) A.B. Weeden.

Weeden enlisted in the Navy in 1912 and served on various ships and stations as electrican for radio equipment, radio operator and instructor.

He was on the U.S.S. Rhode Island and served with the ship in the Mexican campaign. In WWI, he served on the U.S.S. Frederick and U.S.S. New Hampshire on convoy escort duty. He was medically discharged in 1921

Regards,

Stephan

[Paul R]

Navy Good Conduct Medal given to CE (RO) A.B. Weeden.

Weeden enlisted in the Navy in 1912 and served on various ships and stations as electrican for radio equipment, radio operator and instructor.

He was on the U.S.S. Rhode Island and served with the ship in the Mexican campaign. In WWI, he served on the U.S.S. Frederick and U.S.S. New Hampshire on convoy escort duty. He was medically discharged in 1921

Regards,

Stephan

That would mean that he was also entitled to a Mexican Campaign and WW1 victory medals!

[Rattle]

That would mean that he was also entitled to a Mexican Campaign and WW1 victory medals!

Yes he was. He was awarded the Mexican Campaign Medal #12940 and the WWI Victory Medal with Atlantic clasp.

If someone has info about the whereabouts of these medals, drop me a mail

Stephan

[Rattle]

It's about time to update this thread

This is a WWI uniform group of Pfc L.R. McGlothern. 353rd Infantry, 89th Division.

It includes uniform jacket, trousers, overseas cap, helmet, picture and discharge papers of L. R. McGlothern.

Lee was a farmer boy from Kansas and was drafted into the National Army in April 1918. He went over with C-company, 353rd Infantry, 89th Infantry Division and fought with it through WWI.

He was discharged in June 1919.

He was born in 1891 and died unfortunately to young in 1957.

The 353rd Infantry fought in the St. Mihiel offensive, Meuse Argonne offensive, and was fighting in the Lucey and Euvezin sectors.

[Rattle]

Small group including a named and boxed Army Good Conduct medal and ribbon, ribbons for the WWII Victory medal,

Pacific campaign medal with three stars and a Distinguished Unit Citation.

Mr Wilson was a radio and switchboard operator in HQ and HQ Co. 187th Para-Glider Infantry, 11th Airborne.

He fought all battles of this regiment in the PTO. Luzon, New Guinea, southern Philippines.

Stephan

[Rattle]

USMC Good conduct medal to Loren Cole.

He was stationed at the USS Charleston and at the Naval Prison, Mare Island.

[Rattle]

This Air Medal was awarded to 2nd Lt. Maurice Losh.

Lt. Losh was a Pilot in the 98th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force.

He arrived in Italy in March 1945 and flew missions over Germany and Italy.

Stephan

[Rattle]

Set of night desert parka and trousers, as used in Desert Shield/Storm.

[Rattle]

Legion of Merit of Col. E. G. Thomas.

He was a Span-Am war vet and retired after WWII.

This is his biographie

The parents of E. G. Thomas (1880-1977), were Welsh converts to the Mormon Church who came to Utah in 1878. Their family eventually consisted of ten children, and Thomas's papers contain at least some information on seven, though the three daughters are poorly documented. Of the sons, there is less information on Alfred, a druggist in Salt Lake City and Richmond, than the other sons, probably because he died in 1919. Two of the other brothers exhibited their Welsh heritage in a lifelong love for vocal music: Warren John "Jack" Thomas, who was a railroad passenger agent, was business manager for several well-known musical groups in Salt Lake City, including the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Moyer Delwyn "Dell" Thomas, a Rhodes scholar with no fewer than four degrees from Oxford University, who was employed as an agricultural chemist with American Smelting and Refining, was Vice President of the National Gymanfa Ganu Association of Welsh singers.

Elmer Thomas received an extremely limited formal education, yet enjoyed a distinguished career as a military officer in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps and the Corps of Engineers. He completed the eighth grade, then was admitted to the University of Utah's preparatory program in mining engineering. When his Utah National Guard unit was called to active duty in 1898 for the Spanish-American War, Thomas dropped out of the University and never returned. Thomas served as an enlisted man, a bugler, in the Philippine Islands for a year. Instead of returning to school upon his return, he went to work for the Oregon Short Line Railroad, where he was employed for fifteen years, and for the state as Auditor of Counties.

Thomas's experience in the supply, purchasing, and mechanical departments of that railroad evidently impressed the army, for when he re-enlisted in 1917, he was given a commission. He was to serve for nearly four decades, retiring as a full colonel well after the end of World War II.

Thomas's papers are full of high praise from others for his expertise as a Quartermaster, and he served in a number of important and far-flung posts in this country and in the Territory of Hawaii. Most prestigious, no doubt, were two periods of service with the Quartermaster General's office in Washington, D.C., where he traveled extensively to inspect and report upon construction and supply operations. He also served two periods of duty in Utah, one at Fort Douglas from 1929-1931, then in Ogden and Salt Lake City from 1940-1943. During the latter period, Thomas built virtually all of the military installations in Utah that were created as a result of World War II, spending some $165,000,000. After his retirement in 1946, Thomas managed the LDS Church's Eagle Gate properties for a time, and served two terms in the Utah State Legislature (1953-1957).

For one thing, he felt that army life, which kept him on the road and separated from his family much of the time, compromised his effectiveness as a husband and father. He said, "I regret very much that I stayed in the Regular Army because we would have made our home in Salt Lake and would have grown up with the community and been a respected part of it. Instead of going around the country as we did. However at the time I thought I was doing everything for the best but I have long since realized my mistake." Thomas died at age 97 in 1977.

He served as a bugler in Co A. Utah Light Artillery in the Philippine Islands.

On April 6, 1898, Congress declared war on Spain and President William McKinley organized United States forces for the "Splendid Little War." Of the tens of thousands of regular, volunteer and National Guard (Militia) troops who served, 343 Utah Guardsmen saw service in the Philippine Islands. On May 1st, after the Navy's stunning victory at Manila Bay, McKinley authorized an invasion force to capture the Philippine archipelago from Spain. Organized into two batteries, the Utah "Light" Artillery mustered into federal service on May 9, 1898 at Fort Douglas, Utah. Shortly thereafter, at Camp Merritt near San Francisco, the Utah Artillery became part of Brig. Gen. Francis V. Greene's brigade of the U.S. VIII Corps under the command of Maj. Gen. Wesley Merritt.

Leaving San Francisco, Greene's brigade first raised the U.S. flag in Guam and then arrived on the island of Luzon on July 17, 1898. In the Philippines, 15,000 Americans not only faced 13,000 Spanish soldiers but a second army of some 12,000 Philippine rebels under Emilo Aguinaldo. The rebels had been fighting for national independence from Spain and hoping for American assistance. When Merritt ordered to keep the rebels out of the fight against Spain, the rebels became a second possible enemy.

On August 13th, the Utah Artillery supported Greene's brigade as it attacked towards the "old" city of Manila. The battle was predetermined to be a "limited" one in order to preserve Spanish honor and minimize casualties. The rebels, however, made this impossible. As American forces moved quickly against the Spanish defenses, a race to the old city center developed between the Americans and Aguinaldo's rebels. The Utah batteries fired and re-deployed several times providing close and accurate support for the infantry attacks.

The Utah Light Artillery continued in federal service for another year and fought in the Philippine Insurrection until returning to Utah in August 1899

Thomas was also Commander in Chief of the United Spanish War Veterans.

[Rattle]

W. H .Lambert

Bill joined the U.S. Army in 1931! He was on Bataan as a medic with the 31st Infantry when the Japanese invaded the Philippines and became one of about 2,000 men to escape to Corregidor. He missed the Bataan Death March, but contracted pneumonic malaria and was hospitalized when Corregidor surrendered. He survived six different "Slave Camps" as he prefers to call them so his voyage home on the USS General A. E. Anderson, was: "The best 30 days of duty in my 30 years of Army service". His medical talents were utilized in the ship's sick bay where he enjoyed all the food and ice cream he could handle. He was one of the liberated prisoners transported by the USS General A. E. Anderson (AP-111) in January, 1945 after they had been liberated by the 6th Rangers from the Cabanatuan prison camp. While on the ANDY, Bill was a temporary crewman assigned duties in the sick bay as a lab tech.

His Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal and American Defense Service Medal with foreign service clasp.

[Rattle]

This is a simple NGCM awarded in 1947 to a T.R. Sibson.

As far as i have found out,

Sibson enlisted in 1941 in the USN and was posted on the Battleship USS Maryland.

He survived the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7th Dec. 1941.

In 1944 he transferred to to Submarine training and was a crewmember of the SS Queenfish in the Pacific .

After the war he was given a commission and was the engineering officer on the USS Bellatrix.

He was with the ship in the waters of Vietnam during the war and was also a Navy MARS operator during the Vietnam war.

Regards,

Stephan

[Rattle]

I had to relocated my collection movies.

So here they are. :

My WWII Collection-The movie I

My WWII Collection-The movie II

My WWII Collection-The movie III

Regards,

Stephan

Edited May 27, 2009 by Rattle

[Paul R]

I had to relocated my collection movies.

So here they are. :

My WWII Collection-The movie I

My WWII Collection-The movie II

My WWII Collection-The movie III

Regards,

Stephan

Thank you for displaying your treasures for us!! I always look forward to seeing your postings. Your displays are amazing!

[Alfred]

Great presentation ! It?s a viewing pleasure.

regards

Andreas

[TacHel]

Great collection!

Absolutely stunning photo editing! You bring the entire collection to life! Thanks for sharing!

[Ulsterman]

Outstanding collection!

Outstanding!

[Rattle]

I have to say again to all many, many thanks.

I'm glad you like my pictures.

This one is my newest medal.

This USMC Good Conduct Medal was awarded to G.F. Schnetzler.

He was a NCO in A and later N company, 4th Marine Raider Bn.

He received the Purple Heart for wounds also. I wonder where it is.

Regards,

Stephan

[nesredep]

I have to say again to all many, many thanks.

I'm glad you like my pictures.

This one is my newest medal.

This USMC Good Conduct Medal was awarded to G.F. Schnetzler.

He was a NCO in A and later N company, 4th Marine Raider Bn.

He received the Purple Heart for wounds also. I wonder where it is.

Regards,

Stephan

Hello!

Stephan

Amazing display and nice new medal.

All the best

Nesredep

[jovanmara]

Hello Rattle

The presentation is wonderful and this is in my opinion AAA+ standard for presentation the collections .The photos are inspiring and I will tru to reach Your standards. It is sad that nobody make a comment since 2009 . Maybe it is time for administrator to open one special topic the best presentations or good collections and to be like small scholl for all new collectors to learh or tu upgrade their collections . I will shurly suggest this to the administrator.

NICE TO HAWE GMIC MEMBERS LIKE YOU HOPE IT WOULD ME MORE IN THE SAME OR CLOSE TO YOU STANDARDS

KIND REGARDS

Jovan Mara

[Paul R]

Yes Stephan,

Do you have any new treasures to share with us lately?