Meritorious Service Medal-L
Flight Commander Frederick Carr Armstrong
the 4th Armored Division received a strange order from XIIth US Corps: to form a Task Force to liberate a prisoner of war camp at Hammelburg about 80 km behind the enemy lines
on a loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with a sword clasp
John D Rockefeller Jr
Romania, Kingdom. An Order Of The Crown, Grand Cross, Civil Division, By Joseph Resch, C.1940 Hold Meritorious Service Medal-L(Ordinul Coroana Romniei). Instituted on 14 March 1881. Type II. Civil Division. (1932 1947 Issue). A silver Maltese cross, with red enamelled arms bordered in white enamel, with gilded silver crowns between the crosss arms, the obverse centre bears the monograms of Charles I on a red enamelled background, circled by the legend PRIN NOI NINE (BY OURSELVES) and the date 14. MARTIE 1881, the reverse centre presents the date 10. MAIU on red enamel,