Medaille – US WW2 Bronze Star in orig box + ribbon bar + pin – Infantry – Airborne – with oak leaf device

Offered for auction is a nice original and not that easy to find (boxed) Bronze Star medal, lapel pin and ribbon bar as awarded during WW2. Great 100% original award in good condition for its age; the bronze star has am amazing age tarnish! The ribbon also has the ''oak leaf device'', i.e., the owner earned the bronze star twice. The box and medal and accesoires are thus in generally used condition, see photo's, overall a great set. See all photo's for an important own impression, as they are part of the description. Great boxed medal for your WW2 collection! ''The Bronze Star Medal is a United States decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone.Colonel Russell P. "Red" Reeder conceived the idea of the Bronze Star Medal in 1943; he believed it would aid morale if captains of companies or of batteries could award a medal to deserving people serving under them. Reeder felt another medal was needed as a ground equivalent of the Air Medal, and suggested calling the proposed new award the "Ground Medal". The idea eventually rose through the... lees verder bij Catawiki