3) A War Merit Cross Second Class with a Sudetenland Medal Ribbon Bar
on 24 December 1943
E/B RHA kept firing until the last moment
and two Italian-Austrian War Medals (first medal in bronze
Group - Distinguished Service Medal
Germany, Federal Republic. A Complete Set of Close Combat Clasps (Gold, Silver, Bronze Grades), by Rudolf Souval, Exhibition Examples, c. 1970 Republic of 3) A War Merit Cross(Nahkampfspange). Instituted November 25th, 1942. Constructed of gilded, silvered, and bronzed (respectively) feinzink, consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, in turn situated above a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four rays and four oak leaves with two acorns, the reverse with a horizontal pinback, falsely marked RZM,