Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Award, II Class for 15 Years consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with a bronze gilt button

with a bronze gilt button bearing a crown in the buttonhole for uniform attachment

(Friedrich der Große Porträt mit Rahmen)

Generals knew them as observation-balloons

the obverse presents a faint

3rd Wisconsin Infantry on April 18

Germany, NSDAP. A Long Service Award, II Class for 15 Years consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with a bronze gilt button(Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP, II. Klasse fr 15 Jahre). Instituted 2 April 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered zink alloy with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with ribbed and blue enameled arms joined through the quadrants by stylized rays, the obverse bearing a central blue enameled disc overlaid by a circular oak leaf wreath topped by a German national eagle clutching a