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This is an interesting award: it's a 1960s 70s vintage Navy Commendation Medal to a man who was a surgeon/medical officer in the US Naval Reserve (ending-up in the rank of Captain, i.e., a full colonel by Army standards). The hand engraving is especially gorgeous (see photo). I have a little background information on him (included). He was born in 1908 and died in 1997, and served in the Navy during World War Two (January 1941 to January 1946). He apparently served 21 months in the Pacific, and set up the Navy Base Hospital at Milne Bay, New Guinea, among other achievements br />It's pretty i... |
