Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Merit Medal, Ii Class GTRexclude measuring 158 mm (w) x

measuring 158 mm (w) x 242 mm (h)

smaller size of Member’s badges are very rare)

Infantrie Regiment 15 of Eisenarch

Original brass capped pins on either side connecting to the brass chin strap

The TF was formed on April 1

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Merit Medal, Ii Class GTRexclude measuring 158 mm (w) x(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of zink, 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 with a central raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR VERDIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR MERIT IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse with a central raised date of 1938, unmarked, measuring