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1. Polish Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari Silver Cross medal and box awarded posthumously to a Polish Jewish soldier

Date:: commemoration: 1944 August 19
issue: 1944 December 07

2. Polish military eagle badge worn by a Polish Jewish solider

Date:: use: approximately 1943-1944 August

3. Infantry tank officer’s field jacket with several ribbon bars and pins worn by a US soldier

Date:: use: approximately 1944 November-approximately 1945
manufacture: approximately 1944
commemoration: 1939-1945

4. US Combat Infantryman Badge in silver bullion awarded to a US soldier

Date:: use: 1944-1945
commemoration: 1939-1945
issue: after 1943 October 07

5. US Army 9th Armored Division shoulder sleeve insignia patch issued to a soldier

Date:: use: 1945 September-1945 October

6. Weimar Germany, 10 mark note acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.31 front

Date:: issue: 1920 February 06

7. Imperial Japan, 5 yen note, issued in occupied China acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.36 front

Date:: issue: approximately 1942

8. US Army 9th Armored Division shoulder sleeve insignia patch issued to a soldier

Date:: issue: 1945 September-1945 October

9. Nazi Germany, 2 Rentenmark note acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.29 front

Date:: issue: approximately 1937 January 30

10. Germany, occupation currency, 50 crowns, issued in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.33 front

Date:: issue: 1940 September 12

11. US Army 11th Armored Division shoulder sleeve insignia patch issued to a soldier

Date:: use: 1942 August-1945 August

12. Germany, occupation currency, 50 crowns, issued in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.34 front

Date:: issue: 1940 September 12-1945

13. Nazi Germany, 5 mark note, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.23 front

Date:: issue: after 1939 June 15-before 1942 August 01

14. Ahrweiler District, Weimar Germany, 1 million mark note, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.32 front

Date:: issue: 1923 October 15
issue: 1937 January

15. Imperial Japan, 10 yen note, issued for use in occupied China acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.37 front

Date:: issue: approximately 1944-1945

16. Belgium, 10 francs or 2 belga note, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.41 front

Date:: issue: 1943 February 01

17. Small poster made to discourage US troops from socializing with Germans received by a soldier

Date:: creation: 1945 May
received: 1945 May
Artwork Title:: Don't Fraternize

18. Nazi Germany, 5 mark note, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.24 front

Date:: issue: after 1939 June 15-before 1942 August 01

19. Belgium, 50 francs or 10 belga note, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.42 front

Date:: issue: 1938 July 13

20. British India, one rupee note, inscribed and acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.13 front

Date:: issue: 1940 July 24
issue: 1940

21. Great Britain, 1 pound note, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.35 front

Date:: issue: 1940 March 28-1948

22. Imperial Japan, 10 yen note, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.38 front

Date:: issue: approximately 1930-1943

23. Two-sided Company B, 11th Armored Division, US Army, poster depicting the advance through Europe received by a soldier

Date:: received: 1945 June
creation: 1945 June
Artwork Title:: 11th Armored Division thru France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and Austria

24. Imperial Germany Reichsbanknote, 100 mark, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.26 front

Date:: issue: after 1908 February 07

25. Nazi Germany, 5 mark note, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.25 front

Date:: issue: after 1939 June 15-before 1942 August 01

26. Weimar Germany, 20 mark note, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.43 front

Date:: issue: 1929 January 22

27. Small poster issued to US troops to discourage socializing with Germans received by a US soldier

Date:: creation: 1945 May
received: 1945 May 08-1945 June 09
Artwork Title:: Don't Fraternize

28. Two-sided 11th Armored Division, US Army, after action poster of battle events received by a soldier

Date:: depiction: 1945 April 01-1945 May 09
publication/distribution: 1945 June 15
Artwork Title:: G-2 After Action Report April 1945 / Miscellaneous Extracts

29. Iceland, 10 kronur, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.39 front

Date:: issue: 1928 April

30. Two-sided Company B, 11th Armored Division, US Army, poster depicting the advance through Europe received by a soldier

Date:: received: 1945 June
creation: 1945 June
Artwork Title:: 11th Armored Division, Combat Company B, thru France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and Austria

31. Name tag

Date:: use: approximately 1944 November-approximately 1945
manufacture: approximately 1944
commemoration: 1939-1945

32. US Army 9th Armored Division shoulder sleeve insignia patch issued to a soldier

Date:: issue: 1945 September-1945 October

33. Nazi Germany, 1 Rentenmark note acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.30 front

Date:: issue: 1923 October 15-1937 January 30

34. 11th Armored Division double sided poster of news reports received by a soldier

Date:: commemoration: 1945 January 28-1945 May 28
issue: approximately 1945 June
received: approximately 1945 June
Title:: The Press Says...

35. Nazi Germany, 2 Rentenmark note acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.28 front

Date:: issue: approximately 1937 January 30

36. Pair of leather boots given to a US liberator by a concentration camp inmate

2014.479.1 a front

Date:: received: approximately 1945 April 27

37. Allied Military Authority currency, 2 francs, for use in France, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.20 front

Date:: issue: 1944

38. Allied Military Authority, 50 groschen, for use in Austria acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.40 front

Date:: issue: 1944

39. Allied Military Authority currency, 10 sen, B series, for use in Japan, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.14 front

Date:: issue: 1945 September-1958

40. Allied Military Authority currency, 50 sen, B series, for use in Japan, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.15 front

Date:: issue: 1945 September-1958

41. Allied Military Authority currency, 5 francs, for use in France, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.18 front

Date:: issue: 1944

42. Allied Military Authority currency, 2 francs, for use in France, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.16 front

Date:: issue: 1944

43. Allied Military Authority currency, 1 schilling, for use in Austria, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.22 front

Date:: issue: 1944

44. Allied Military Authority currency, 2 francs, for use in France, acquired by a US soldier

2012.442.19 front

Date:: issue: 1944

45. Allied Military Authority currency, 10 francs, for use in France, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.17 front

Date:: issue: 1944

46. Allied Military Authority currency, 1 schilling, for use in Austria, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.21 front

Date:: issue: 1944

47. Allied Military Authority currency, 1 mark, for use in Germany, acquired by a US soldier

2013.442.27 front

Date:: issue: 1944

48. The last phase : the allied victory in western Europe / by Walter Millis.

Author/Creator:: Millis, Walter, 1899-1968
Published:: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1946
Availability: …World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.…

49. Hitler's Blitzkrieg campaigns : the invasion and defense of Western Europe, 1939-1940 / J.E. and H.W. Kaufmann.

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Author/Creator:: Kaufmann, J. E.
Published:: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, [2002?]
Availability: …World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.…

50. 29, let's go! : a history of the 29th Infantry Division in World War II / by Joseph H. Ewing.

Author/Creator:: Ewing, Joseph H.
Published:: Nashville, Tenn. : Battery Press, 1979
Availability: …World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.…

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