Paraguay, Republic. A National Order of Merit, Second Class Grand Officer's Star, c.1960 Hold die stamped hollow version

die stamped hollow version

the lower half of the image overlaid by Gysae’s handwritten signature

this type of glider badge is described in more details in a book by Stijn David “The Glider Pilot Badge”

Footnote: Hubert Gautret de la Moricière was a lieutenant in the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment in Indochina

On the seventh and final patrol of USS Wahoo

Paraguay, Republic. A National Order of Merit, Second Class Grand Officer's Star, c.1960 Hold die stamped hollow version(Orden Nacional del Mrito). Instituted April 8, 1865. Reinstituted June 23, 1939 and amended September 7 1956. Type III (1956 ). In silver, featuring a five point star with large ball finials and a faceted border around the outside, five smooth rays in each quadrant, the obverse medallion presents a lion head with the inscription HONOR ET GLORIA PRAEMIVM MERITI in a surrounding ring, the reverse offers a single vertical pin flanked by dual stays,