Prussia, Kingdom. A Pour Le Mérite With Crown Decoration, By Rothe, C.1925 United Republic of maker sticker reading “ Mayer

maker sticker reading “ Mayer & Wilhelm

Buchenwald concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager (KZ) Buchenwald

General Vo Nguyen Giap was the one who came up with the idea of the badge and required a symbolic emblem for the spirit of the campaign

Patterson did receive one positive in his life that fall

T/Sergeant William W

Prussia, Kingdom. A Pour Le Mérite With Crown Decoration, By Rothe, C.1925 United Republic of maker sticker reading “ Mayer(Pour le Mrit mit Krone). Instituted June 1740 by King Friedrich II. (1740 1918 issue; c. 1925 manufacture). A rare and exquisite Pour le Mrite, constructed of gilded silver with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with blue enameled arms, with each arm joined through the quadrants by finely detailed double sided Prussian imperial eagles, the obverse three, six, and nine oclock arms bearing a gilt inscription of POUR LE MRITE with scored lettering,