Private Patrick D. Moran, 111419, U.S. Marine Corps ~46) .. 5/4-6e Log Book of U.S.S. Yankee, Spanish-American War (65) ... 5/15-19e Medal of Honor and POW License Plates (85) ................. 5/21 Sampson Medal Roll - USS Harvard (20) .................. 5/25-28 Guardsmen Earn Awards for Lifesaving Action (19) ........... 5/32 When Push Came to Shove, Trainman Proved a Hero (46) ... 5/32-33 Commission and Medal (38) .................................. 5/37e Everett Winthrop Read, Fireman First Class USS Boston, 1898 (3) .. 6/4-Iie Ammonia Gas and Ever-Ready Batteries (53) .............. 6/15-17e West Indies Naval Campaign Medal of 1898 Observed Distribution: A Preliminary Report (78) ........................... 6/21-22 Sampson Medal Roll - USS Dolphin (20) .................. 6/26-28 Log Book of U.S.S. Hornet, Spanish-American War ~65) ... 6/35-37 A Century of Service (21) ............................... 7/4-iIe Reproduction Merchant Marine Medals (53) ............... 7/21-24e Testing Their Medal ... (58) ............................... 7/36 Medal Honoring Vietnam Veterans (30) ....................... 7/37 Personalities (58) ..................................... 7/37-38 Sailor Buried a Hero 105 Years After Death (55) ........ 7/38-39 Archie Van Winkle, 61; Korean War Hero Was Awarded Medal of IIonor (46) ............................................. 7/39 South Kingstown, R.I. to Her Crusader (61) .............. 8/4-13e Sampson Medal Roll, USS Leyden (20) ....................... 8/18 A Boy Hero of the Civil War (29) ........................ 8/26-g9e Adm. Glynn R. Donaho, 81, Won 4 Navy Crosses in ~VII (85) ¯. 8/3o A Purple Heart Museum is Planned (55) ................... 8/31-32 ADM. Holmberg, 71; WWII Pilot (46) ........................ 10/27 Merchant Marine Asks Wartime Decorations (55) ............. 10/27 Ex-Marine Corps Gen. Hanneken Dies (46) ................... 10/29 The Medal of Merit and World War II Recipients (74, 27) 11/12-18 The Kearny Medal and the Kearny Medal Awarded to General Birney (56) ............................................... 11/21-30* The Third Mate Stuck (53) ............................. ii/31-34~ U.S. Rectifies Error, Honors Naval Officer Killed in 1942(85) 11/39 Medals OK’d for Hurricane Relief (51) ................... 11/39 Ship’s Log, USS Massachusetts, 1898 (65) ................ 12/4-iIe Awards of the Syracuse Fire Department (9) ............. 12/15-20e First of the Gallant Six Thousand (53) ................. 12/22-27e Medals Stolen From War Hero (46) ....................... 12/29-30 VIETNAM: NVA Medals (7) ........................................... 4/13 Clasps with Dates for the Republic of Vietnam Campaign ~edal (7) 7/12-20e Variation of the Vietnamese National Order (72) .......... 7/32e MULTIPLE COUNTRIES: A Note (74) ............................................... 1/5 In the Finest Traditions of Service (53) ................ I/6-17~ PM Given Cuba’s Highest Honour (48) .................... 1/27-28 The Kiwanis World Service Medal (46) ..................... 1/28 Hero’s Trip Downhill All the Way ~46) .................... 1/32 Italy Honors Nobel Winner (85) ........................... 1/32 Sphinx --- A Cross That is Not (86) .................... 5/29-31e 37 Illustrations of Recently Instituted Orders (22) ....... 6/18-20" A Note on the Sphinx Cross (74) ........................... 7/24 The Ingrate (19) .......................................... 8/25 General Receives Cross of Honor (34) ...................... 8/30 End Notes (58) ............................................ 8/30 Fidel Castro Turns 60 (81) ............................. 10/27-28 The V.C. Town (85) ....................................... 10/37 Carnegie Hero Fund Cites 19 (31) ....................... 12/30-31 BOOK REVIEWS: Angels in Blue Jackets (6) .............................. 3/33-34 For Extraordinary Heroism: The Air Force Cross (49) .... 3/34-35 Dragons Can Be Defeated (50) .............................. 4/30 Lieutenant Stephen Polkinghorn, D.S.C., R.N.R. (50) ....... 4/30 Wings of World War II (50) ................................ 5/31 Jettons of Imperial Russia (87) ........................... 7/33 Orders, Decorations, Medals of the Republic of (South) Vietnam "Nam" (72) ........................................... 7/33-34 Honor to the Airborne (50) .............................. 8/33-34 The Traditional Awards of Annam: The Khanh, Boi, Tien, & Bai (71) ................................................... 8/34 The West Indies Naval Campaign of 1898: The Sampson Medal, the Ships and the Men (50] .............................. 10/36-37 Honours an~ Awards - Canadian Naval Forces - WWII (6) ..... 11/37 Canadian Flying Services Emblems & Insignia (50) .......... 12/28 Great Battles of World War II .......................... 12/28-29 SECRETARY’S REPORTS (45): 1/36-39, 3/38-39, 4/39-40, 5/39, 6/39-40, 7/40-41, 8/36-39, i0/38- 40, 11/40, 12/40-41 IN MEMORIAM: C. Whitney Carpenter II (43) .............................. 3/40 Erik Eriksen (45) ......................................... 6/40 Harry A. Mohler (86) ................................... 8/22-23" Bob Heller (45) .......................................... 10/40 MISCELLANEOUS: Announcement ............................................. 1/34 Poster Offer (81) ........................................ 1/35 For Your Information (54) ................................ 1/40 19th Orders and Medals Show (23) ......................... 3/18 OMSNC - New Officers ..................................... 3/18 Confession of an Armchair Collector (8) ................... 3/29 The Grand Order of the Cross of the Holy Sepulchre as Awarded to Dwight D. Eisenhower (24) ......................... 4/14-17" An Invitation (57) .............................. 4/40, 2/24, 7/26 European Congresses Planned (59) ......................... 5/11 Letter (28) .............................................. 5/40 What Happened to My Medal !?! (67) .................... 6/29-30 Nippon Kunsho Kenky~-Kai Newsletter ...................... 7/11 Missing Medal ............................................ 8/14 The Toronto Militaria Show ............................... 8/24 Missing Items ............................................ 10/31 38 IDENTIFICATIONS REQUESTED: IDENTIFICATIONS: 86 - 3 - 1 (15) 3/36e .... 86 - 3 - Z (Z5) S136-$7 ............................ (lZ) 5133 86 - 5 - S (19) 3137’I ¯ ................ (69) 5134, (26) 5/34 86 - 4 - 5 (9) 4/36~ .... 86 - 4 - 6 (9) 4/36" .... 86 - 4 - 7 (86) 4/37~ ............................ (83) 7/34 86 - 4 - 8 (46) 4/38* . ...... (6) 6/38, (80) 7/35, (II) 7/35 86 - S - 9 (60) 5/34-35* .... 86 - 5 -i0 (52) S/35~ .... 86 - s -11 (61) 5/36~ ................ (36) 7/35, (67) 7/SS 86 - 5 -12 (61) 5/36e .... 86 - 8 -13 (86) 8/34-33~ .... 86 - 8 -14 (12) 8/35e .... 86 -i0 -15 (47) i0/33e .... 86 -i0 -16 (73) i0/34e .... 86 -10.-17 (86) i0/35e .... 86 -i0 -18 (86) i0/35e .... OTHER IDENTIFICATIONS: 58 - S -14 .......................................... (35) 12/32e 84 - 5 - 2 ......................................... (2) 10/33 85 -i0 -29 .................... (64) 113S, (33) 1/3S, (32)23/33 85 -i0 -31 .......................................... (13) 4135 SPECIAL NOTICE TO THOSE WITH INQUIRIES AND IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS This section of The Medal Collector will attempt to resolve puzzles that present them~l~ to collectors and students of awards° We shall try to publish questions and answers at the same time° When our panel of experts will itself become stymied, the inquiry will be presented to the readers for solution~ Everyone is urged to send in comments~ All mail regarding "Inquiries and Identification Requests" must be addressed to: Po O~ Box 777, Millbrae, CA 94030. 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