in the following grades: Cross of Merit
The airship flew from March 1936 until destroyed by fire fourteen months later on May 6
1937) inside a circle on the middle row
silvering evident on the reverse from previous mounting
the reverse bearing a partially-legible name and number
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short-Range Day Fighter Clasp, Bronze Grade consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac in the following grades: Cross(Frontflugspange fr Jger in Bronze). Constructed of bronze, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a swastika, around a central patinated winged arrow, flanked on each side by six oak leaves, with a single visible rivet securing the obverse arrow in place, with a barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 75. 96 mm (w) x 25. 74 mm (h), weighing 18. 2