Awarded to members of the United States military on active duty from December 7, 1941 to December 31, 1946. On the obverse side are the initials "T.J". The designer of the medal was sculptor Thomas Hudson Jones (1892-1969) who also designed the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (1928) and the Vietnam Service Medal. He was a designer at the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry. On the reverse of the medal are the Four Freedoms.
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Victory Medal World War II
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Victory Medal World War II
Michael Reese Much FRMS EMS Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA