ETO Certificate of Merit (Hanson, 44th Cav Recon Sq)

European Theater of Operations Certificate of Merit to Sergeant Maynard E. Hanson, Troop B, 44th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, Mechanized, for service between 13 December 1944 and 7 May 1945 in Germany. The document is dated 5 June 1945. The unit arrived in France in November 1944, saw action in the Battle of the Bulge and ended the war on the Elbe River.  Creased from folding.