Germany, Heer. A Gebirgs-Pionier-Bataillon 54 Anti-Partisan Campaign Commemorative Medal Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic showing cracking but remaining supple

showing cracking but remaining supple

The Chief of Police (certificate is signed

It was published in 1972 by Arms and Armour Press of London

with a hole in the fabric immediately to the right of the second button from the bottom on the fly

Germany, Heer. A Gebirgs-Pionier-Bataillon 54 Anti-Partisan Campaign Commemorative Medal Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic showing cracking but remaining supple(Gebirgs Pionier Erinnerungsabzeichen). Constructed of a silvered zink alloy, topped by an integral loop for suspension, the obverse bearing two raised edelweiss topped by a pennant, circumscribed by inscriptions of GEB. PI. BTL. 54 and UNBANDIG BEINAND!, the reverse bearing a central raised map of the Balkan peninsula, Turkey, and souther Ukraine, with arrows charting the movement of Gebirgs Pionier Bataillon 54 from the Eastern Front (Kuban