Upon my recent visit to Budapest, I picked up some of these vintage badges at the Military History Museum. Can you help me identifying it?
The second one is a Medal of Merit, if I know it correctly there is an abundance of those because every single law enforcer or armed forces got those back in the day (or even today?). The first one is probably some paratrooper medal I couldn’t find this particular one.
Edit: The second one is from 1956-1969
I did some research into the paratrooper one because I have one of these too,just for truck driving,so I was curious.
According to the source I found,it was given to the best 3 after “certification exams” in a certain category (in this case,paratroopers),the number missing here indicating which of the 3 the badge belongs to.
For the second one,according to wikipedia,it was created in 1964 for exceptional performance or for long service time. It has 3 versions:Bronze,Silver and Gold,this one being the Bronze. The text says “For the service of the country” if you are curious.
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Upon my recent visit to Budapest, I picked up some of these vintage badges at the Military History Museum. Can you help me identifying it?
The second one is a Medal of Merit, if I know it correctly there is an abundance of those because every single law enforcer or armed forces got those back in the day (or even today?). The first one is probably some paratrooper medal I couldn’t find this particular one.
Edit: The second one is from 1956-1969
I did some research into the paratrooper one because I have one of these too,just for truck driving,so I was curious.
According to the source I found,it was given to the best 3 after “certification exams” in a certain category (in this case,paratroopers),the number missing here indicating which of the 3 the badge belongs to.
For the second one,according to wikipedia,it was created in 1964 for exceptional performance or for long service time. It has 3 versions:Bronze,Silver and Gold,this one being the Bronze. The text says “For the service of the country” if you are curious.