Germany, Third Reich. A Medal for Meritorious Animal Husbandry Archive for commanding abilities and continuous

for commanding abilities and continuous service in time of peace

both suspended from an 80 mm-long zink bar with a horizontal pinback and black wool reverse liner

the last page missing a forty-eighth photograph and inscribed in pencil "10

joined together at the bottom by initials “СССР” (“USSR”)

most notably at the Battle of Vinh Yen

Germany, Third Reich. A Medal for Meritorious Animal Husbandry Archive for commanding abilities and continuous(Erinnerungsmedaille des Reichsministers fr Ernhrung und Landwirtschaft). Constructed of bronze, the obverse bearing a raised German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central inscription of FR BESONDERE LEISTUNGEN IN DER TIERZUCHT (FOR SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY), circumscribed by an inscription of DER REICHSMINISTER FR ERNHRUNG UND LANDWIRTSCHAFT (THE REICH MINISTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE), unmarked,