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Nice medal, cptbilly.  Errers and Varietys.
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Publicity article from Coin World for the Chennault Medal:  For more about Chennault's "Flying Tigers," disputes with General Stillwell, and his career see his Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair...e_Chennault. An excerpt: Quote:
Stilwell and Chennault loathed each other partly because of their very different personalities, which were described by the British journalist Jonathan Fenby as a clash between Stilwell, the New England Puritan and proud "Yankee" who "prized moral courage" above all else, and Chennault, the Southern gentleman and "Good Ole Boy", who accepted "human foibles" as natural. . .British Field Marshal Alan Brooke, who met both Stillwell and Chennault in late 1943, wrote that Stillwell was a "hopeless crank with no vision" and Chennault was "a very gallant airman with a limited brain." Chennault retired in April 1937 as a Major after being passed over for promotion. He was restored to active duty on 7 April 1942 as a Major. Three days later he was promoted to Colonel. 12 days later, he was promoted to Brigadier General. P.S. The silver DeGaulle -- 19th in the series -- medal shown in a post above [ and why aren't posts numbered ? ] sold for $196.00. Edited by cptbilly
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Very nice, cptbilly. Errers and Varietys.
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Examples of the Presidential Art Patton medal pop up on the secondary market with some regularity and command a premium over lesser celebrated figures in the series. The Oscar-winning film that dramatized portions of his career-- Patton -- debuted in 1970. Among those earning Academy Awards was a man who would go on to win a second Best Screenplay Oscar two years later-- for The Godfather: Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola's Patton screenplay, co-written with Edmund North, relied on Hungarian military historian and journalist Ladislaw Farago's Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, published in 1964, and A Soldier's Story, General Omar N. Bradley's 1951 autobiography. CCF members can learn more about the controversial general via his Britannica.com entry: https://www.britannica.com/biograph...Smith-Patton or his Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton |
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Edited by cptbilly
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Edited by cptbilly
08/24/2024 9:00 pm
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Nice medals, cptbilly. Errers and Varietys.
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Thanks, E & V. Glad to share the series with the community.
Sculptor Grove or his PAM overlords were doing their best to push sales. The gentleman who clipped those articles deserves credit for doing so. There aren't any more with the collection.
The size of the font used for signature, maker, and copyright seems oversized to this oberver. . .almost to the detriment of the obverse portraits.
All of the medals have been photographed, scanned, and returned to the album. I scan the flyers as I go, then use Pixlr Express to convert it all to file sizes that can be uploaded to CCF.
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Another nice medal, cptbilly. Errers and Varietys.
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General Arnold was instructed in flying by the Wright brothers, was the founder of Project RAND -- which evolved into the global policy think tank, the RAND Corporation -- and was one of the founders of Pan American World Airways. He was the only officer to hold a five-star rank in two different U.S. military services. The details found in his lengthy Wikipedia Entry make for very interesting reading, including the tragic back-story of how he came to have the nickname "Hap." General Spaatz [ pronounced "spots" ] as commander of Strategic Air Forces, directed the United States portion of the strategic bombing campaign against Germany, directing the Eighth Air Force, which was then commanded by Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle, based in England, and the Fifteenth Air Force, based in Italy. After VE Day, he was transferred to the Pacific and assumed command of the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific and directed the strategic bombing of Japan. Per Spaatz' Wikipedia Entry : Quote:
Spaatz was present at Reims when the Germans surrendered to the Americans on May 7, 1945; at Berlin when they surrendered to the Soviets on May 8; and aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered on September 2. He was the only man of general rank or equivalent present at all three of these acts of surrender. Edited by cptbilly
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thanks for the History of this General. I have not heard of him before this..
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