Germany, Ss. A Ss 8-Year Long Service Award Archive War Medal 1939-1945 with MID

War Medal 1939-1945 with MID Oak Leaf clasp

77 mm (w) x 46

are believed to have been designed and initiated by personnel on the staff of the Commander of the Yangtze Patrol in the fall of 1937

to commemorate the victorious conclusion of the 1878-1879 war against Turkey

Germany, Ss. A Ss 8-Year Long Service Award Archive War Medal 1939-1945 with MID(SS Dienstauszeichnung fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a raised swastika with ribbed arms, overlaid by a raised oak leaf wreath with central double Sig runes, the reverse with a raised number 8, overlaid by an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN THE SS), unmarked,