United States. An Air Force Distinguished Service Medal Auction marked in white ink with

marked in white ink with the RCMI Museum code "RCMI 1978

Instituted 14 February 1735 by Karl Friedrich

with two balls immediately to the left

Five-piece construction

United States. An Air Force Distinguished Service Medal Auction marked in white ink withIn bronze gilt with white enamels, circular blue glass centerpiece, measuring 54. 3 mm in diameter, intact enamels, original ribbon with brooch pinback, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Air Force Distinguished Service Medal was created by an act of the United States Congress on July 6, 1960. The medal was intended as a new decoration of the United States Air Force, to replace the policy of awarding the Army Distinguished Service