Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Decoration, I Class Cross Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 19mm (w) x 51

19mm (w) x 51

measuring 12 mm (w) x 25 mm (h)

pinning down the Japanese Air Force

based in Gibraltar

Czech inscriptions in black and blue inks on the reverse

Germany, Third Reich. A German Social Welfare Decoration, I Class Cross Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 19mm (w) x 51(Ehrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege, Kreuz I. Klasse). Instituted 1 May 1939. (1939 1944 issue). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Geneva Cross, the obverse with white enameled arms, overlaid by a central black enameled German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with feathering and details highlighted in gilt, the twelve oclock arm with an integral ring and suspension loop, in turn connecting