United States. A Purple Heart To Private First Class Butler, 66Th Armored Regiment, Kia At The Battle Of Aachen Newly Listed HMS Victoria collided with HMS

HMS Victoria collided with HMS Campertown near Tripoli

The document is dated to Zhytomyr (Ukraine) in September 1943 and comes from the SS Grenadier Training Battalion “Ost” (East)

officially impressed in large capitals: J

In original wooden fitted case of issue

a Typed Note Accompanying the Knife (written by his mother

United States. A Purple Heart To Private First Class Butler, 66Th Armored Regiment, Kia At The Battle Of Aachen Newly Listed HMS Victoria collided with HMSPurple Heart (in bronze gilt with purple, red, white and green enamels, number impressed "459 504" on the edge, engraved "JOSEPH T. BUTLER" on the reverse, measuring 34. 5 mm (w) x 43. 5 mm (h), original ribbon with brooch pinback, intact enamels, 36 mm (w) x 11 mm (h) ribbon bar with pinback and 17 mm (w) x 3. 5 mm enamelled ribbon bar with buttonhole attachment, the latter maker marked "A. E. CO. UTICA, N. Y." on the reverse, in their hardshelled