Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, Ii Class Hold under orders

under orders

measuring 36 mm (w) x 14 mm (h)

9 cm newspaper clipping measuring 3

the pocket below with faded size Height

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, Ii Class Hold under orders(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen, II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered feinzink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the obverse bearing a central mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse bearing a raised date of 1938, unmarked,