Germany, Luftwaffe. A Krim Shield certificate_of_authenticity topped by an integral loop

topped by an integral loop with a suspension ring

they are now complete

twenty-four days shy of his nineteenth birthday

engraved "GEORGE S

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Krim Shield certificate_of_authenticity topped by an integral loop(Luftwaffe Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942 affixed with all four reverse attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with a dark grey wool liner indicating Luftwaffe issue, the reverse training a fully intact black paper liner, the shield measuring