Germany, Third Reich. An Order of the German Eagle, Silver Merit Medal, by the Prussian Mint Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Spanish Cross in Bronze (in

Spanish Cross in Bronze (in bronze)

on a 52 mm pin

tank badge in silver

Then the hull sprang a leak and for six days the seamen worked the pumps for their lives

Niagara-on-the-Lake

Germany, Third Reich. An Order of the German Eagle, Silver Merit Medal, by the Prussian Mint Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Spanish Cross in Bronze (in(Deutsche Verdienstmedaille in Silber in Frakturschrift). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1937 1943 issue). Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross, with its arms joined through the quadrants by NSDAP style German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of DEUTSCHE VERDIENST MEDAILLE (GERMAN MERIT MEDAL) in Fraktur script,