Germany, Third Reich. A Lot Of Eleven Items Archive 18 mm x 222 mm

18 mm x 222 mm

Footnote: The International Gliding Commission awarded a series of proficiency badges to glider pilots on their successful completion of the appropriate tests and gliding trials

silver framed crosses were private purchase and are scarce

he left the French theatre in March 1919

233 mm in diameter x 50 mm in depth

Germany, Third Reich. A Lot Of Eleven Items Archive 18 mm x 222 mmA II Class Air Protection Medal, constructed of aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR PROTECTION), the reverse bearing a central raised date of 1938, unmarked, measuring 38. 76 mm (w) x 43. 95 mm (h), weighing 12. 9 grams