Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An Officer’s Dress Sword, by Peter Daniel Krebs Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic He was promoted to Oberschütze

He was promoted to Oberschütze on September 1

it stated that "Tarawa has now been fully occupied by American Forces for more than three months and it must necessarily be concluded that he lost his life in action"

A Royal and Distinguished Order of Charles III

Type I with "Usque Ad Aras"

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. An Officer’s Dress Sword, by Peter Daniel Krebs Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic He was promoted to Oberschütze(Polizei Degen fr Fhrer). A very well preserved Ordnungspolizei Officers dress sword, measuring 96 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 79 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade retaining factory original sharpening to both the tip and lower edge. A fuller runs approximately two thirds of the top edge of each side of the blade. The reverse ricasso bears a makers mark of PET. DAN. KREBS, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the