This is a truly incredible 100% genuine medal bar removed from the uniform of a fallen or captured high ranking German officer (Colonel or higher) during WWII and brought home by an American soldier as a war trophy
Also included in this wonderful documented set are the following:
Germany entered World War I with this single grenade design: a heavy 750-gram (26 oz) ball-shaped fragmentation grenade for use only by pioneers in attacking fortifications
WW2 Ink Stamp
Adopted by the United States in 1832 for use by Artillery Units this style of short sword
Original U.S. Civil War Named Ohio Volunteer Infantry 1850 Field Officer Saber Gahendra Martini Rifles & Parts This is a truly incredibleOriginal Item: One of a kind. Lieutenant Colonel Krewson Yerkes was Civil War Union Army officer. He served with the Fifth Ohio Infantry Regiment, April 20, 1861 to July 26, 1865. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of a carpenter. In 1860 he went to Centreville, Indiana, and later in the same year to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged in his trade until the outbreak of the Civil War. He was one of the first to respond to the