Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge With Case, Obtained During The Liberation Of Rome, By The Vienna Mint Hold WWII Group to Sergeant Pilot

WWII Group to Sergeant Pilot Officer Robert James McKay

The letter addressed to his mother Anna reads: as the current address of your son Arno is unknown to us

(Friedrich-August-Medaille in Bronze für Frauen)

a United States War Department technical manual issued on 15 March 1945

He was a veteran of World War II

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge With Case, Obtained During The Liberation Of Rome, By The Vienna Mint Hold WWII Group to Sergeant Pilot(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold mit Etui). Constructed of gilded tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a clip hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the reverse bearing a hand etched inscription of ROM 8. 4. 44. indicating that the recipient suffered