Germany, Heer. A Dress Bayonet, by E. & F. Hörster consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and in the rescue operation

and in the rescue operation of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini

naming 15 German Wehrmacht personnel whose unit information indicates that the awards were issued for protecting Croatian railways from Partisan attacks

(Ritterkreuz der Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern)

base with a recessed medal bed and slotted for the pinback in violet felt

reverse marked by Monetny Dvor

Germany, Heer. A Dress Bayonet, by E. & F. Hörster consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and in the rescue operation(Heer Bajonett). A well preserved Heer dress bayonet, measuring 40 cm in total length when inserted into the scabbard. It features a 25 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade which retains factory original sharpening to both the tip and lower edge. A wide fuller runs the majority of the length of the top edge of each side of the blade. The obverse ricasso bears a makers mark of E. U. F. HRSTER, SOLINGEN, circumscribing the firms monogram logo.