Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, with Case GTRexclude and situated above an inscription

and situated above an inscription indicating that the plaque was issued to participants of the 8th Silesian Glider Flight Competition from NSFK Groups 4 and 6 in 1938

Accompanied by his Military Pass (with various Bavarian and Prussian stamps

the obverse bears the crowned cipher “WR” (Wilhelm Rex)

Designed by the U

He saw service in the Korean War during 1950-51 with the 3rd Battalion

Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, with Case GTRexclude and situated above an inscription(Deutsche Olympia Erinnerungsmedaille mit Etui). Instituted 31 July 1936. (1936 1937 issue). Constructed of silvered magnetic metal, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with pinback, the obverse bearing a raised column topped by Olympic rings, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, and flanked by a date of 1936, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN