World War Medals

PLEASE FOLLOW OUR E BAY STORE. SALE SEE OUR STORE. PLEASE READ WHOLE ADD. We do not want your feed back. We want your repeat business. We get that by posting new items at a fair price. For sea-related war duty, the Navy issued the following operational clasps. Which were worn on the World War I Victory Medal and inscribed with the name of the duty type which had been performed. Clasps for Navy and Marine Corps personnel are rectangular bronze bars with a stylized rope border measuring 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches. Asiatic: Service on any vessel that visited a Siberian port. Asiatic: Port visit must have exceeded ten days in length. Service in the Atlantic Fleet. Service involving flying over the Atlantic Ocean. Service on destroyers on the Atlantic Ocean. Personnel regularly attached to escort vessels on the North Atlantic. Laying: Service in mine laying sea duty. Mine Sweeping: Service in mine sweeping sea duty. Mobile Base: Service on tenders and repair vessels. Naval Battery: Service as a member of a naval battery detachment. Overseas: Service on shore in allied or enemy countries of Europe. War patrol service on the Atlantic Ocean. Salvage duty performed on the seas. Submarine duty performed on the Atlantic Ocean. Submarine Chaser: Anti-submarine duty performed on the Atlantic Ocean. Personnel regularly attached to a transport or cargo vessel. Service on any vessel which visited a Russian port or war patrols in the White Sea not less than ten days. Unlike the army, the navy only allowed one clasp of any type to be worn on the ribbon. Members of the marine or medical corps who served in France but was not eligible for a battle clasp would receive a bronze Maltese cross.