Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Silver Medal Of Merit With Swords, By The Vienna Mint United Republic of obverse portraying a blue and

obverse portraying a blue and white enamelled maltese cross with crossed cannons and a central medallion featuring a red enamelled surround inscribed VCA SNY 1790 with the American Eagle in the centre holding laurel branches and arrows in its talons

the obverse with a central monogram of Franz Joseph I on a pebbled background

he was sent to France

1964-on) (in bronze

For most of his service

Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, Silver Medal Of Merit With Swords, By The Vienna Mint United Republic of obverse portraying a blue and(Orden vom Deutschen Adler, Silberne Verdienstmedaille mit Schwertern). Instituted 1 May 1937. Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross, with its quadrants joined by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastika, the twelve oclock position bearing crossed swords, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of DEUTSCHE VERDIENST