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3 PC WWI & WWII BRONZE MEDALS & STERLING SILVER

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3 PC WWI & WWII BRONZE MEDALS & STERLING SILVER
3 PC WWI & WWII BRONZE MEDALS & STERLING SILVER
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1- Gilded Large Sterling Silver 339th Infantry "Overseas" Badge. Measures 2.25"x1.50". Made by Harry R. Newcome & Co., 130 West 42nd St., New York 18, N.Y. and on the original card/ The 339th Infantry was one of three infantry regiments of the 85th Infantry Division, Army of the United States. The regiment went overseas with the division in 1944 and was assigned to Fifth Army, 15th Army Group in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. As a unit of the 85th Infantry or "Custer" Division, the 339th Infantry saw combat service in Italy from March 1944 until the surrender of German forces in May 1945. 2- Bronze WWII US Air Force American Campaign Medal with ribbon bar. The American Campaign Medal is a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was first created on November 6, 1942 by Executive Order 9265 issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The medal was intended to recognize those military members who had performed military service in the American Theater of Operations during World War II. The medal, made of bronze, is 1 1/4 inches wide. The obverse was designed by Thomas Hudson Jones. It shows a Navy cruiser underway with a B-24 Liberator bomber flying overhead. In the foreground is a sinking enemy submarine, and in the background is the skyline of a city. At the top of the medal are the words AMERICAN CAMPAIGN. The reverse of the medal, designed by Adolph Alexander Weinman, is the same design as used on the reverse of both the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal. It depicts an American bald eagle between the dates 1941 - 1945 and the words UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 3- TWWI Bronze Victory Medal. he World War I Victory Medal is a service medal of the United States military which was first created in 1919, designed by James Earle Fraser. The medal was originally intended to be created due to an act of the United States Congress. However the bill authorizing the medal never passed, leaving the service departments to create the award through general orders. The United States Army published orders authorizing the World War I Victory Medal in April 1919 and the U.S. Navy followed in June of that same year. Weight all 3.6 oz. PROVENANCE: A Charleston SC Private Estate.
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3 PC WWI & WWII BRONZE MEDALS & STERLING SILVER

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