Baden, Grand Duchy. A Golden Merit Medal, With Case, C.1875 Archive Sorge flew 72 combat missions

Sorge flew 72 combat missions as a long-range reconnaissance pilot for the Condor Legion

Part VI - Appendix (A

1943 and upon arrival in the United Kingdom

1929 in Kiel

48 mm x 63 mm

Baden, Grand Duchy. A Golden Merit Medal, With Case, C.1875 Archive Sorge flew 72 combat missions(Goldene Verdienstmedaille). Instituted 30 September 1866 by Grand Duke Friedrich I. (1869 1881 issue). Constructed of gilded silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse consisting of a leftward facing profile of Grand Duke Friedrich I, circumscribed by name and title, the reverse with a central inscription of FR VERDIENST (FOR MERIT), within an oak leaf wreath tied together at the bottom by ribbon, unmarked, measuring