Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Gold with Case, by Wächtler & Lange Archive Its principal roles were air

Its principal roles were air defence and land bombardment

3mm (w) x 57

reverse inscribed in the centre "SÜDAMERIKAFAHRT MAI-JUNI 1930 (South America Trip May-June 1930) / FRIEDRICHSHAFEN / SEVILLA / PERNAMBUCO / RIO DE JANIERO /LAKEHURST / SEVILLA / FRIEDRICHSHAFEN"

73 mm (w) x 65

Gardino / Gioielleria / ROMA"

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Peoples Merit Decoration, I Class in Gold with Case, by Wächtler & Lange Archive Its principal roles were air(Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung fr Ostvlker, I. Klasse in Gold mit Etui). Instituted 14 July 1942. (1942 1945 issue). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an eight pointed starburst, bearing a central raised rosette, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath, in turn surrounded by a pebbled border, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from an oval plate, the