Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Prototype War Commemorative Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Paratroop Badge (1944)

Paratroop Badge (1944)

first published in the USA in 1982 by Stemmer House Publishers

A cloth version of the German Cross in Gold issued to Heer personnel

suspended from a loop for suspension from its period original ribbon

letter 43/80/147 - MSK (504)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Prototype War Commemorative Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Paratroop Badge (1944)(Kriegserinnerungsmedaille Prototyp). Constructed of magnetic iron, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Cross Patte, overlaid by a central Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, bearing dates 1939 1940 in the quadrants, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of DEN KMPFERN FR DIE DEUTSCHE FREIHEIT (TO THE FIGHTERS FOR GERMAN FREEDOM), unmarked, measuring 32. 57 mm in diameter,