Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Front Medal, With Award Document To Helmut Garz, By Förster & Barth Hold Grande croce)

Grande croce)

and informally to Brigadier General Billy Mitchell

43 mm x 48

very minor scratch on the black enamaelled swastika

hallmarked with a boar's head on the tip of the ribbon on the obverse

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Front Medal, With Award Document To Helmut Garz, By Förster & Barth Hold Grande croce)(Ostmedaille mit Verleihungsurkunde). Constructed of silvered and patinated zink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse with a central raised Heer style German national eagle clutching a swastika, the reverse with an inscription of WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941 42 (WINTER BATTLE IN THE EAST 1941 42), above a crossed sword and laurel branch, topped by a Stahlhelm and stick grenade, the suspension loop maker marked with LDO