Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Linden Auction Archive Her aircraft batteries also succeeded

Her aircraft batteries also succeeded in shooting down an attacking kamikaze plane

A certificate of awarding of the Iron Cross 2nd Class to Unteroffizier (Corporal) Walter Burgdorf of the Regiment General Göring

obverse illustrating the right-facing bust of Pope Pius IX

In late 1943

and in the Edinburgh Gazette on Monday

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Silver Grade, By Friedrich Linden Auction Archive Her aircraft batteries also succeeded(Nahkampfspange in Silber). With a central motif of a German mark 24 stick grenade crossed with a 98k carbine bayonet, which is surmounted by the army national emblem eagle clutching a swastika in its talons, the eagles wings appear to be sitting on a box created by six small oak leaves, adjacent to these oak leaves is ornate scrollwork which frames the sides of the central motif, extending outward from each side of the central motif are two ridged