suspended from a green enamelled wreath with three white peony flowers
The badge has been pushed through two ribbons for presentation
It measures 210 mm x 296mm
This was the first hostile encounter between the Moros (the Muslim populations of the Philippines) and the United States Army
2 WS and No2 BGS graduating on 8th November 1941 and commissioned in 1942
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Grand Duchy. A War Service Cross, I Class Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic suspended from a green enamelled(Kreuz fr Auszeichnungen im Kriege I. Klasse). Instituted 1 January 1915 by Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich VI. (1915 1923 issue). Constructed of a silvered alloy, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse with ribbed arms, bearing a central raised inscription of FR TAPFERKEIT (FOR BRAVERY) on a pebbled field, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the six oclock arm bearing a date of 1914, unmarked,