United States. A Cased Purple Heart Medal with Additional Wound Star visually-hidden Footnote: The Winterhilfswerk (WHW =

Footnote: The Winterhilfswerk (WHW = Winter Help Work) was an annual drive by the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (the National Socialist People’s Welfare Organization) to help finance charitable work

including brooch

the reverse featuring a handwritten inscription from a soldier serving with Infanterie-Ersatz Bataillon II

A Luftwaffe Flight Personnel Unteroffizier strap constructed of dark grey wool

United States. A Cased Purple Heart Medal with Additional Wound Star visually-hidden Footnote: The Winterhilfswerk (WHW =(Instituted August 7th 1782 by George Washington). Of two piece construction in the shape of a heart in bronze gilt and with purple, red, white, and green enamels, the obverse with a gilded leftward facing bust of George Washington affixed onto purple coloured and heart shaped enamels with the Coat of Arms of George Washington, consisting of a white enameled shield with two horizontally positioned red enameled bars and three horizontally positioned