Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards Newly Listed various sources and even eyewitnesses

various sources and even eyewitnesses provide widely differing accounts of the events surrounding the sinking of Athabaskan

as that appearing on the crossguard

nicks in the red enamels on the upper and left arms

and retains one of its two original reverse attachment prongs

a superb look at a Gebirgsjäger’s wartime experiences in extremely fine condition

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards Newly Listed various sources and even eyewitnesses(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards, including: 1. Two War Merit Medals, each constructed of bronze, on loops for suspension from period original ribbons, the obverse of each bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and central wreathed mobile swastikas, the reverse of each bearing a raised inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), both unmarked, measuring 32. 11 mm in diameter, and weighing 12. 6 grams, in overall near