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Dear Sir,
I’m trying to find out the name of the ribbon that was issued during World War II-the color scheme goes from left to right: Forest Green, Yellow, Black, Orange, Yellow, Forest Green, Orange, Yellow, Black, Forest Green, Yellow, Orange, Black, Yellow, Forest Green.Any help would be greatly appreciated-Colonel Robert A. Lynn, Florida
Here is the photograph and thanks.
service-ribbons.jpgDear Mr. Floyd,
This isn’t the American Campaign Medal/Ribbon because their is no blue in it. It is a forest green-Colonel Robert A. Lynn, Florida GuardSeventy years does odd things to the dyes in ribbons and I suspect that happened in this case. By its position following the American Defense Service Medal and preceding the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the American Campaign Medal and the Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal are the most likely candidates. With 10 stars on his Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, he probably didn’t have enough time to get to Europe, but would probably have qualified for the American Campaign by virtue of spending a year or so in training in the CONUS before deploying to the Pacific.
In the image, the American Campaign Medal is on the left and Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal on the right.
Whatever the base color is now, the stripe pattern matches the American Campaign.
img068.jpgYellowed ! Maybe because of glue ??
The white stripes become yellow and the blue stripes become green (Blue + yellow = green)
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The plastic covering will certainly change the colors of the underlying ribbon. That one is unmistakably the American Campaign Medal.
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