Cuba, Republic. A Group of Four Security and Border Protection Awards Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Doctors’ reports from late 1944

Doctors’ reports from late 1944 indicate that his health kept him from being fit for service

for she became the fourth vessel to circumnavigate Antarctica - and the first to accomplish this feat in winter

each star point with five pairs of faceted rays

as well as a Reichszeugmeisterei logo and code “17”

displaying a total of twelve brown-painted metal buttons

Cuba, Republic. A Group of Four Security and Border Protection Awards Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Doctors’ reports from late 19441. (Medalla Por la Proteccin de las Fronteras), gilt bronze circular medal depicting a border guard with rifle and dog under a rising sun above the inscription POR LA PROTECCIN DE LAS FRONTERAS (For the Protection of the Frontiers), the reverse featuring the Cuban coat of arms and the inscription REPUBLICA DE CUBA CONSEJO DE ESTADO (Republic of Cuba, Council of State), suspended from a pentagonal ribbon of green with a central red stripe, accompanied