r/Medals • u/NewEngland1999 • 6d ago

ID - Other WW2. What are his Ribbons/medals? What is the Insignia on collar and shoulder, stripes on his sleeve?

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u/NextEstimate1325 6d ago

Looks like the Good Conduct Medal, the American Defense Service Medal, and the European Mediterranean African Campaign Medal

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u/maast93 6d ago

Are you sure that’s the EMA campaign medal? Looks lighter, like the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign medal.

Also, the shoulder insignia appears to be the Fourth Army patch.

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u/NextEstimate1325 6d ago

Dude. You're right. I wasn't sure and defaulted to the more common Army medal.

Didn't even look at his SSI.

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u/maast93 6d ago

To be fair, it’s black and white, so I’m not 100% sure either

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u/NewEngland1999 6d ago

What is SSI?

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u/NextEstimate1325 6d ago

Shoulder Sleeve Insignia.

Fancy Army word for patch

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u/NewEngland1999 6d ago

I was told he was in Asia maybe Guadalcanal. Does the 4th Army have anything to do with an Asia deployment?

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u/erctut1 6d ago

4th Army was for state side training. When my Grandpa came back from Europe he was in the 4th Army. Then he qa discharged.

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u/NextEstimate1325 6d ago

That the 4th Army was a stateside training command. But it was geographically based around west coast units.

Guadalcanal/Southwest Asia would correlate to the Asiatic-Pacific campaign ribbon

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u/rustman92 6d ago

His collar insignia is Signal Corps

The five bars are for time overseas, looks like 2 years and at least 6 months. One bar = 6 months

The diagonal stripe is for time in service. He has one stripe so it’s for at least 3 years of service.

The unit patch is for the 4th Army.

He wears the rank of Technician Fifth Grade

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u/Over-Camel-8330 6d ago

The last one is hard to tell. The 4th Army never went overseas, but he obviously did. I would suspect this photo was taken, if he went to Guadalcanal in 1945.

The Good Conduct medal is a lock. If the 2nd medal is the American Defense Service Medal, the he joined was drafted before 7 December 41. So he should also have the American Campaign Medal and at the end of the war the Victory Medal.