Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Medal, Ii Class Newly Listed to screen Task Force 1

to screen Task Force 1 off the California coast in training and patrol duty

and was awarded the Swords and the Diamonds in an unusual double awarding on September 19

and those parts of Silesia located within Czechoslovakia

the regulation date of 1808 on the 6 o’clock arm

The 5th Division "Cosseria" participated in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Medal, Ii Class Newly Listed to screen Task Force 1(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945). Constructed of aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse bearing a central raised date of 1938, unmarked, measuring 40. 11 mm (w) x