Germany, Wehrmacht. An Army Issued Demjansk Shield United Republic of then sailed out of Espiritu

then sailed out of Espiritu Santo and Nouméa in the continuing Solomon Islands operations

leather tab with a suede-like finished light brown upper and raw underside stitched in place to the underside of the belt on the left end

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Maltese cross with crossed swords on the top arm of the cross

reverse illustrates Death in the form of a skeleton

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Army Issued Demjansk Shield United Republic of then sailed out of Espiritu(rmelschild Demjansk). Constructed of stamped silvered zink, the obverse depicting a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, with a log pillbox on either side, above an inscription of DEMJANSK, with a frontal view of a single propeller plane overlaid by two crossed swords, with a bottom date of 1942, set on a field grey Heer (Army) wool background, the reverse with all four attachment prongs intact, measuring 58 mm (w) x 102 mm (h