American Campaign Medal owned by Lt. Louise Lomax, Army Nurse Corps

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American Campaign Medal and ribbon bar owned by Lt. Louise Lomax. The medal (2022.42.7.1a) is suspended from a ribbon with vertical blue, red, and white stripes. The back of the ribbon has a metal clasp attached to it. An identically colored ribbon bar with a clasped back (2022.42.7.1b) accompanies the medal. The face of the bronze medal features an embossed design of an underway Navy cruiser with a B-24 Liberator bomber flying overhead and an enemy submarine sinking in the foreground. The back of the medal features an embossed image of an eagle. The ribbon has vertical blue, red, and white stripes. The back of the ribbon bar has a metal clasp attached to it.

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