Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden Hold USS Louisville helped to sink

USS Louisville helped to sink the bow section of the Japanese battleship Fusō

the inner row with thirty-two small coils

A Group of Veteran’s Stick Pins

A certificate for participation in a course of the Profession Education Department (Berufserziehungswerk) of the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront)

affixed to a base via a screwback

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, By Friedrich Linden Hold USS Louisville helped to sink(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse with a central Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a bayonet and stick grenade, within a square oak leaf wreath, with sun rays emanating from the centre of the left and right sides, and with four oak leaves and two acorns on each side, the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with a magnetic metal centerpiece backer, the