Verenigde Staten – Medaille – US WW2 Bronze Star in orig box with miniature medal – Infantry – Airborne

Offered for auction is a nice original and not that easy to find (boxed) Bronze Star medal and additional miniature medal as awarded during WW2. Great 100% original award in good condition for its age; the bronze star has a nice age tarnish! The box is in quite 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 military bureaucracy and gained supporters. General George C. Marshall, in a memorandum to President Franklin D. Roosevelt dated 3 February 1944, wrote... lees verder bij Catawiki