Germany, SA. A Shoulder Board for Ranks Sturmführer-Hauptsturmführer, 1940-1945 Pattern Archive (b) Medal for Merit for

(b) Medal for Merit for Five Years' Service with 1957 Clasp

thus the first decorated persons were the participants in King Michael I's Coup against Romanian Conducător

III’ and interior marked MONETARIA NATIONALA

the Germans attempted to mount local counterattacks with the 3rd Panzergrenadier Division

illustrating three colourful maple leaves

Germany, SA. A Shoulder Board for Ranks Sturmführer-Hauptsturmführer, 1940-1945 Pattern Archive (b) Medal for Merit for(Sturmabteilung Schulterklappe). Constructed of red wool with a rigid card stock core and topped by four bands of braided silver aluminum wire piping, unmarked, measuring 32 mm (w) x 110 mm (l), in uniform removed and extremely fine condition.