Description
His medals were dispatched to him before he died on May 31
with two more stitches on the left pocket to accommodate a decoration with a horizontal pinback
On the seventh and final patrol of USS Wahoo
Footnote: The Georg Thiele was a destroyer built for the Kriegsmarine in the mid 1930’s
Un-researched and with interesting historical possibility
Germany, Third Reich. A Fire Brigade Honour Decoration, II Class with Case Hold His medals were dispatched to(Reichsfeuerwehr Ehrenzeichen, II. Klasse mit Schwertern). Instituted 22 June 1936 by Wilhelm Frick. (1936 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from tis period original ribbon, consisting of a Geneva Cross, the obverse joined through the quadrants with a circular ring bearing an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM FEUERLSCHWESEN, with white enameled arms overlaid by stylized flames, bearing a