hhbooker2 Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 "GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" Although not in the shape of usual chevrons, these discs for Private First Class, Gas Service, 1917-1920, would have been considered chevrons for all practical purposes. Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California (hhbooker2@yahoo.com) Hesitated giving these away to serious chevron collectors as their quality is often so poor and some were eatten by moths, not making them desireable for a collection on display. Had second thoughts about destroying them so the recipient would not be disappointed at their detrioration? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted August 4, 2009 Author Share Posted August 4, 2009 Some of the Private First Class, Gas Service chevrons may have been made a year or so after 1918? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted August 4, 2009 Author Share Posted August 4, 2009 Gas Service P.F.C., maybe 1919 or later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted August 4, 2009 Author Share Posted August 4, 2009 One more P.F.C. Gase Service chevron. Does anyone collect these? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 :Cat-Scratch: I've never seen the like! What is the creature between the shells? It looks like a winged pegasus horse, or is it supposed to be a phoenix? Neither bring "gas" to mind directly. My late friend David S would have enjoyed these. This guys wouldn't have been very popular-- certainly not with anyone who had served at the front. :speechless1: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 I've never seen the like! What is the creature between the shells? It looks like a winged pegasus horse, or is it supposed to be a phoenix? Neither bring "gas" to mind directly. My late friend David S would have enjoyed these. This guys wouldn't have been very popular-- certainly not with anyone who had served at the front. Greetings & Salutations! Dave S. as in my friend, David Melvin Shores of Maryland? After Dave Shores died, got a letter from his two daughters and they were trying to sell his collection, he wanted the United States Navy to get it, last time he mentioned it? That is probably a dragon's head, the fire-breathing type? Actually the least popular troops worked for "Grave's Registration" which is under the Quarter Master Corps, often non-white soldiers tasked for the job of picking up bodies. Navy Corpsmen are the people who scrape the bulkheads of ship's that an enemy torpedo or bomb killed men when it entered the vessell, not a fun job! Permanent Latine Orderly like "Commando" Kelly who held off a platoon of Waffen-SS men in Italy had a very terrbiile job digging slit treaches and filling in the old ones. After they executed the nazi war criminals and created them, they threw their ashes in a slit-trench to be filled in, hard to find the graves of folks like Herman Goering? Sarge Booker of Tujunga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 No, David S here at GMIC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Histaria Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 I've never seen the like! What is the creature between the shells? It looks like a winged pegasus horse, or is it supposed to be a phoenix? Neither bring "gas" to mind directly. My late friend David S would have enjoyed these. This guys wouldn't have been very popular-- certainly not with anyone who had served at the front. The creature is a mythological griffin (griffon, gryphon), which had the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. It has long been associated with the heraldry of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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