Medals Medals Soldiers are awarded medals for the campaigns they fight in, for good service and of course, gallantry. The Museum has an inspiring display and shown here is a typical World War II group, enhanced by the Military Cross. 88mm PAK 43 Ask any Allied tank man. The thing he feared most was the dreaded German Eighty Eight. This is a late version on a field carriage which displays the menace of a gun that could destroy any Allied tank in its day. 88mm PAK 43