Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, By Schwerin Newly Listed Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with

Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Overseas Service Clasp

A brief but illuminating summary of the trials and tribulations of the Balloonatics is to be found in the introduction to Alan Morris’ definitive history of the same title: "Perceiving their elongated brownish-grey skins the Allies eschewed the technical description of "gasbag

the beret itself lightly soiled

obverse with raised central mobile swastika and reinstitution date of “1939” on lower arm

HAS AWARDED A SILVER STAR TO Major Stephen L

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, By Schwerin Newly Listed Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central depiction of a destroyer cutting through waves, with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a horizontal block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, topped by a stabziling clip, maker marked SCHWERIN, BERLIN,