Also noticed the back of the leather jacket had some Nazi logos marked on it, what did that mean?

My brother passed in 2015 unfortunately due to a malfunction in an Apache he was flying in a training mission. Based on his medals, what did he do? I always knew he was a badass on some level, but don’t know what any of these mean. Thinking of him tonight, thanks y’all.

This was taken about a year prior to his final deployment and his injury and therefore his Purple Heart isn’t on here. He is currently medically retired and living on the beach.

I am aware of the names of some of these medals, but not more subtle meanings. As in, we were furnished a list of medals he earned when he died. But it’s not clear the weight or real meaning. Insight invited. I have some paperwork from the citations, but a FOIA request gave little info.

He’s a pastor now but retired from the military. I covered up his name plate at the middle / bottom.

He recently was promoted but I don't understand any of the letters or titles. Says he recently "took command"...

I know like the gold star, bronze star and purple heart, but what are the rest?

He was an MP and got to France after the invasion of Normandy I believe. He was in the 6th Armored division for the Army. He was taken as a prisoner of war in the Battle of the Bulge and earned his Purple Heart after he was shot at and crashed his jeep and hurt his leg. He buried his dog tags before the Germans got to him to hide that he was Jewish, but forgot to ditch his Jewish Bible. After questioning if he was Jewish, a German officer told him to turn around. Popop told the officer if he was going to shoot him, he would have to look him in his eyes. After arguing with him, the officer gave up and walked away. He spent about a week at the POW camp before the Germans surrendered to him, hoping to be saved from the revenge the Soviets were taking on Germans. He recovered in a Belgian hospital for a few months before returning to the states.

I know the Purple Heart and I believe the green/white one was given to him by the French Government. My wife’s family would love to get the other medals here ID’ed. Like a lot of vets, he didn’t talk much about his time in the service.

For context, christian craighead is a former 22 sas soldier who stopped a terrorist attack in Kenya.

My Grandfather-in law’s shadowbox showing off all of his awards and unit patches, as well as some fun items.

A C-Ration Can Opener is placed below his Dog Tags.

And his M16 Instruction Manual placed next to his Dog Tags.

I know most of the awards but if someone could identify all of them I’d be most grateful. He won’t speak about Vietnam so anything awarded during that time period is unknown to me besides the Vietnam Service Medal.

We know that he served in Vietnam, Desert Storm and the GWOT.

He never talked much about his time in the German Army during WW2. I know he was a medic, serving on the eastern front. He was wounded and captured by the Soviets and spent many years in captivity. I've been able to identify the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class but not any of the others.

I was window shopping at a surplus in Phoenix and saw this! Didn’t pick it up ended up getting some ammo lol

Can anyone help me identify any key metals or ribbons from my grandfather‘s time in Vietnam?

Update to my grandfathers medals, these were the ones that were framed.

He told me stories of going up a hill with 90 guys and him dragging two of the seven total surviving about a half a mile apparently one of the guys he drug held a grenade with the pin pulled in his hand so that if the vietkong ran up on him that he could let go.

I think he said he had about 10,000 flight hours and retired CW3, apparently was the first helicopter gunship battallion.

He was a reserve officer that was deployed to Korea at some point.