Description
The general use of steel in warship construction precluded the use of ramming without danger to the attacking vessel
Lewis was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant (Junior Grade) on August 31
to accommodate decorations with horizontal and vertical pinbacks
Royal Garrison Artillery in Scotland
the text under each section in blue
Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, By Hermann Aurich consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The general use of steel(Heeres Flak Abzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, around a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with depressed and crimped hinge with a vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Hermann Aurich, Dresden, measuring 44. 73 mm (w) x 60.