Russia, Imperial. A Cossack Chokha Auction Yankee left Hampton Roads on

Yankee left Hampton Roads on July 17th and arrived in Guantanamo Bay four days later

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered golden-brown Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Footnote: The Medal for the Capture of Koenigsberg was established by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on June 9

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Russia, Imperial. A Cossack Chokha Auction Yankee left Hampton Roads onA rare and very well preserved Imperial period Cossack chokha, constructed of black wool. The shoulders are flanked by boards constructed of golden yellow wool with a buckram core, and which are topped by silver aluminum wire tresses bisected by a single length of red machine emroidered piping and pinned with dual gilded stars (corresponding to an Imperial Army rank of Podporuchik). Each measuring 62 mm (w) x 145 mm (l), the boards are affixed in