Germany, Heer. A Gebirgs-Pionier-Bataillon 54 Anti-Partisan Campaign Commemorative Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac most notable among the private

most notable among the private photographs is a studio portrait of SS-Standartenführer Johann Maier

or professional conscientiousness

In the intervening years between WWI and WWII vast amounts of data concerning weapons were correlated

each of the insignias linked together via fine links

while Russia had emerged as a new empire

Germany, Heer. A Gebirgs-Pionier-Bataillon 54 Anti-Partisan Campaign Commemorative Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac most notable among the private(Gebirgs Pionier Erinnerungsabzeichen). Constructed of a silvered zink alloy, topped by an integral loop for suspension, the obverse bearing two raised edelweiss topped by a pennant, circumscribed by inscriptions of GEB. PI. BTL. 54 and UNBANDIG BEINAND!, the reverse bearing a central raised map of the Balkan peninsula, Turkey, and souther Ukraine, with arrows charting the movement of Gebirgs Pionier Bataillon 54 from the Eastern Front (Kuban