Germany, Nsfk. A 1940 National Socialist Flying Corps Motorized Model Flying Medal GTRexclude 5 mm x 62 mm

5 mm x 62 mm inclusive of its wreath and ball suspension

dated “1942”

perhaps to relieve tensions surrounding him in Italy

233 of the General Assembly approved the twenty-eighth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen

1943-1944 issued

Germany, Nsfk. A 1940 National Socialist Flying Corps Motorized Model Flying Medal GTRexclude 5 mm x 62 mm(Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps Reichtswettbewerbsmedaille). Constructed of gilded zink; the obverse depicting Icarus in flight, inscribed NSFK Reichswettbewerb fr Motorflugmodelle; the reverse plain; measuring 74. 74 mm (w) x 80. 26 mm (h); weighing 73. 4 grams; in overall very fine condition.