Germany, Third Reich. A German Olympic Games Commemorative Medal GTRexclude obverse illustrating the German Labour

obverse illustrating the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront = DAF) insignia above the inscription "GAU SACHSEN" in a rectangular box

the neck badge in silver gilt

3 mm (w) x 71 mm (h)

Sawyer retired from active duty on 31 August 1955

the obverse with a gilded facing-left portrait of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa

Germany, Third Reich. A German Olympic Games Commemorative Medal GTRexclude obverse illustrating the German Labour(Deutsche Olympia Erinnerungsmedaille 1936). Instituted 31 July 1936. (1936 1937 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised column topped by Olympic ring, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, and flanked by a date of 1936, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN 1936 (FOR