Original German WWI Silesian Eagle Medal Bar - 3 Awards Helmets the 101st Airborne Division had

the 101st Airborne Division had reorganized sufficiently from the haphazard scattering of its component units and managed to cross the flooded Douve River valley exploiting their superior training and utilizing the few causeways passing through the flooded fields

who we know to have also been KIA in the fall of 1944 (see document image)

Known by collectors as "ice cream cone" binoculars (due to the shape)

The guard does not fold down

Original German WWI Silesian Eagle Medal Bar - 3 Awards Helmets the 101st Airborne Division hadOriginal Item: One of a kind. This is a very nice genuine medal bar removed from the uniform of a fallen or captured German officer who served in WWI, and probably saw some type of service in WWII. The set of 3 medals offered in good condition is mounted on a backing board with pin and lined in uniform wool and consists of the following medals: Imperial German WWI Iron Cross 2nd Class Medal Imperial German WWI Honor Cross of the World War 1914 1918