Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards for Military and Civil Service Archive and one Second War badge:

and one Second War badge:

Major Wood also received the Air Force Cross (Posthumously) for this mission

the day of his departure from Canada

published in Great Britain by Pen and Sword Military

traces of greening on the obverse

Germany, Third Reich. A Mixed Lot of Awards for Military and Civil Service Archive and one Second War badge:(Auszeichnungen). A mixed lot of awards for military and civil service, including: 1. A War Merit Medal, constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR KRIEGSVERDIENST 1939 (FOR WAR MERIT 1939), unmarked, measuring 32. 22 mm in diameter, weighing 12. 7 grams, in near mint