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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 1609943, member: 4910&quot;]I don&#039;t collect medals but I have a few.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have this one temporarily:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_medal_americancampaign_ribbon.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My mother lives in an assisted-living facility nearby.</p><p><br /></p><p>She is in her 90&#039;s and was in the US Navy from 1944 to 1946.</p><p><br /></p><p>I went through her Navy papers recently to copy some and found her release from the Navy.</p><p><br /></p><p>It noted that she was awarded two decorations, the World War II Victory Medal and something called the American Campaign Medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>My family had a Victory medal since I was a kid, but whose it was I didn&#039;t know, as my father was also in the Navy.</p><p><br /></p><p>We didn&#039;t have a Campaign medal, and I found out there was a reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>I became curious about the American Campaign Medal and found that it was issued to service people who were stationed in the United States for a year or more.</p><p><br /></p><p>The medal was officially created in 1942, but the actual medals weren&#039;t made until 1948, long after my mom was discharged.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were originally made by the US Mint, but later by private contractors.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found several Campaign medals on Ebay, and bought an original US Mint one for her.</p><p><br /></p><p>The medal had two designers, one for each side.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse has a Navy cruiser, a bomber, and a submarine, and was designed by Thomas Hudson Jones who worked for the US Army.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse has an eagle and was designed by Adolph Alexander Weinman, who designed the Walking Liberty half dollar and the Mercury dime.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_medal_americancampaign.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>American Campaign Medal</p><p><br /></p><p>The eagle looked familiar, and I found this:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_unitedstates_d10_1914d.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>United States gold $10 1914-D, designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens</p><p><br /></p><p>The eagle also somewhat resembles an ancient Greek-Egyptian Ptolemaic eagle.</p><p><br /></p><p>The medal is also known as the American Area Campaign Medal and American Theatre Campaign Medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>My mom gets her medal when I see her later this week.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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