Germany, Third Reich. A Pair Of Commemorative Badges Newly Listed and in the rescue operation

and in the rescue operation of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini

takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Brigadier General William MasonFassett

on loop for suspension form its period original ribbon

Footnote: John Hubert Mitchelmaw Rodgers was born on October 2

Southwest Asia Service Medal

Germany, Third Reich. A Pair Of Commemorative Badges Newly Listed and in the rescue operation(Erinnerungsabzeichen). A pair of commemorative badges, including a 1934 Sturmabteilung (SA) Iserlohn deployment badge, constructed of silvered bronze, vertical pinback, unmarked, measuring 33 mm (w) x 48 mm (h), in better than very fine condition, and; a 1935 Bochum Gautag Westphalia South, constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, horizontal pinback, unmarked, measuring 33 mm (w) x 46 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.