Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, Ii Class Buy Now Marienbad (modern day Czech Republic)

Marienbad (modern day Czech Republic)

bearing a silvered Algiz rune and a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

1943 and carries a facsimile of Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein

Footnote: Alexander McKinney was born on September 27

slight loss to the silver finish from wear

Germany, Third Reich. An Air Defence Honour Decoration, Ii Class Buy Now Marienbad (modern day Czech Republic)(Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen II. Klasse). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of aluminum, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribboned, the obverse bearing a central raised mobile swastika, circumscribed by an inscription of FR TREUE DIENSTE IM LUFTSCHUTZ (FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE IN AIR DEFENCE), the reverse bearing a central raised date of