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Lets try something new
lets do a thread on High resolution medals and orders of various contries.
I start
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anyone got anymore
this is a poor effert
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US Purple Heart, created by George Washington in 1782, reestablished in 1932.
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US Bronze Star.

Sorry for the small size of the picture.
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Bronze Star, reverse.
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US Congressional Medal of Honor, navy version.
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Soviet (Armenian?) polluters medal for polluting.
Or something like that.
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Soviet Order of Lenin & document.
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Soviet Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Patriotic War and the Order of Kutuzov.
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The Soviet Order of the Patriotic War - Orden Otechestvennoy voyny, photographed by Drake, /k/'s most luminary weapons maven.
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Here's the Order of the Patriotic War next to a WW2 Soviet SVT-40 Tokarev self-loading rifle, for scale.
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Here's a Soviet Sniper medal, provided by Drake.
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German/Prussian Order Pour le Mérite (aka the Blue Max).

French was the court and diplomacy language of Prussia, in case you were wondering.
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German P WW2 medal for Athletes.
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German WW2 General Assault Badge, for 25 Assaults.
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German WW2 Infantry Assault Badge (Infanterie Sturmabzeichen).
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German WW2 Iron Cross with oak leaves and swords, 1939.

Probably a replica, as the real authentic ones are worth their weight in gold.
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Iron Cross, Second Class.
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German WW2 Navy Minesweeper Badge.
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German WW2 silver issue army panzer crews badge.
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SS Death's Head Badge.

If anyone actually has /hr/ versions of this or any of the above, then please post.
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German WW1 Luger P.08 DWM pistol in 9x19mm Luger/Parabellum (1917) with a WW1 Iron Cross and an Imperial 'Gott Mit Uns' (God's with us) belt buckle, photographed by Drake.
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German Cross in Gold.

These medals --in importance between the Knight's Cross and the Iron Cross, I believe-- were gigantic and heavy.
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Here's a German Cross, not in gold.
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The National Order of the Legion of Honor, France's highest distinction.
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Perhaps the giantest collection of heraldry and medals, though alas, not in any particularly high resloution of image quality.

http://books.google.com/books?id=RRkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+british+herald#PPT2
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Victoria cross medal set
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German Luftwaffe and
Wehrmacht.
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Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) medals set
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anone else got awsome pictures?
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republic of cuba, order of military merit