United States. A Presidential Gold Lifesaving Medal, German Steamship General Osorio 1931 Auction Archive left for his new unit

left for his new unit in the field on the 18th and joined them on the 19th

with broken chains around his right arm with a national eagle with outstretched wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons below

25 mm x 43 mm

the reverse maker marked “EUGEN MARKUS

Instituted September 11 1942

United States. A Presidential Gold Lifesaving Medal, German Steamship General Osorio 1931 Auction Archive left for his new unitIn 18K Gold, weighing 39. 7 grams, struck by the United States Mint, engraver marked with an "M" (George Thomas Morgan) at the base of the bust, obverse illustrating the left facing bust of Liberty, with a band inscribed "LIBERTY" and incorporating laurel leaves in her hair, surrounded by the inscription "PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", with a six sided star at the bottom, reverse engraved "To ARNOLD BOLM SEAMAN OF THE GERMAN