Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, by Friedrich Linden United Republic of Footnote: Claude Edward Fortin was

Footnote: Claude Edward Fortin was born on April 17

entitled "The Sea Gallantry Medal"

reverse engraved "CROSS COUNTRY RUN / 1922 / Won by No

35 mm x 45

was one of 200 doctors and nurses who left Chicago last Wednesday night in a body for the battlefields of France"

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, by Friedrich Linden United Republic of Footnote: Claude Edward Fortin was(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k rifle with the bayonet attached and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a unique crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened integral