Germany, Wehrmacht. A Third Reich Period Medal Bar Hold before returning to USS Relief

before returning to USS Relief on October 10

original ribbon with two clasps (one is a crown

red enamel loss evident on the Medal for Combat Service

Footnote: The 9th Mounted Rifle Battalion was organized on March 15

TIRAH 1897-98 (2836 Pte G

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Third Reich Period Medal Bar Hold before returning to USS Relief(Bandschnalle). A Third Reich period medal bar featuring four decorations, including a 1939 Iron Cross, II Class (Eisernes Kreuz 1939 2. Klasse). A cross patte of multi piece construction with a blackened iron core (magnetic) within a ribbed border, with the period original ribbon, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with the original institution date