Germany, Luftwaffe. A Krim Shield Auction Archive Baker and three Spads

Baker and three Spads

The reverse is taped at the bottom

when he was wounded during an aerial combat and invalided back to Britain

Norway: (JARNKROSS-RIKSPOLITIETS HEDERSTEGN) Three-piece construction

Instituted November 9 1873

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Krim Shield Auction Archive Baker and three Spads(Luftwaffe Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with an intact wax paper backer and dark grey wool liner indicating Luftwaffe issue, unmarked, the shield measuring 54. 98 mm (w) x 61. 93 mm