Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Medal, I Class Miniature Archive who were the re-organizing into

who were the re-organizing into an artillery outfit

self sacrifice and a devotion to duty and to his men of the very highest order

Klasse Kreuz mit Schwertern und Emailleband des Roten Adler-Ordens)

and a fire gilded numeral “9”

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Protection Medal, I Class Miniature Archive who were the re-organizing into(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen, I. Klasse Miniatur). Constructed of gilded bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with pebbled arms, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, circumscribed by a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR PROTECTION), the reverse bearing a date of 1938 on the three and nine oclock arms, unmarked, measuring 17 mm (w) x 18 mm (h), in extremely fine