Footnote: The Silver Star Medal is the United States Armed Forces' third-highest personal decoration for valor in combat
with the bottom inscription ROYAL ENGINEERS
In silvered bronze and black enamels
operating during the Italian occupation of Albania and the Second World War
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Germany, Imperial. A Mixed Lot of Awards and Decorations for Military Service Republic of Footnote: The Silver Star Medal(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards and decorations, including: 1. A Lippe Detmold War Merit Cross, constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse bearing a central Lippe rose, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, the six oclock arm bearing an institution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm bearing a monogram of Prince Leopold IV, the