Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, Third Pattern by Friedirch Linden consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Ottoman casualties were much higher

Ottoman casualties were much higher

The front cover features an airplane in the sky

the latter bearing a Nasjonal Samling-style emblem

Includes: Eleven Glass Aerial Photography Slides (illustrating various trenches

with two silvered rank pips attached to each of the boards

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Close Combat Clasp, Bronze Grade, Third Pattern by Friedirch Linden consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Ottoman casualties were much higher(Nahkampfspange in Bronze). Constructed of bronzed zink, the obverse consisting of a central square oak leaf wreath, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a mobile swastika, situated above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, overlaying a magnetic metal backplate, flanked on each side by four rays and four oak leaves with two acorns, the reverse with a barrel hinge and wide banjo style pinback (in this makers characteristic fat belly style) meeting a