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Originally Posted by JCFalkenbergIII
Perhaps it was also due to personal taste. There are many photos out there with German soldiers wearing multiple decorations. You would have thought he would have worn at least the Iron Cross First Class like everyone else LOL.
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HI J.C. I think you correct in your assumption about personal taste. I can't say anything for definate but, I think the foreign awards were mainly worn for official occasions and or if the soldier in question was a liason officer of sorts attached to an allies staff, or if he was posted to a post in a foreign allies Country as some sort of an Military Advisor?? Being no awards expert that I am not, I think the wearings of foreign awards were done so only on the day that award was given to the soldier-and then thereafter, on only official occasions. I can't think of any other reasons either way.
One case in point I can think of is when Sergeant Alvin C. York was awarded his foreign decorations including a Croix de Guerre etc. I have only seen a few pics of him weariing his awards (after he was awarded the Medal of Honor) and in those pics-he only wore his American decorations.
Best regards--C.