Germany, Federal Republic. A Close Combat Clasp, Gold Grade, 1957 Version consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac smooth cream-coloured underside

smooth cream-coloured underside

7 - Air Training and Organization of the UATC (University Air Training Corps)

Footnote: Belletta Paulson graduated from the Illinois Training School for Nurses in 1914

each joined through the quadrants by finely-detailed and double-sided Prussian imperial eagles

Such positions also allowed him to play a central role in training the militia forces who repelled the Bay of Pigs Invasion and bringing the Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles to Cuba

Germany, Federal Republic. A Close Combat Clasp, Gold Grade, 1957 Version consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac smooth cream-coloured underside(Nahkampfspange in Gold Ausfhrung 1957). Constructed of gilded bronze, the obverse consisting of an square oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, flanked on each side by four rays and four oak leaves with two acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and horizontal pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked measuring 95 mm (w) x 25 mm (h), missing its backplate, an early 1957 version in better than very fine condition.