Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Archive (Preisschiessen Abzeichen)

(Preisschiessen Abzeichen)

with WWII in full swing

the cockade framed by two rows of angled bright pink twist piping indicative of a Panzer Anti-Tank Battalion

Price was taken on strength of the Canadian Active Service Force (USA) on November 18th at Fort Lewis

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Long Service Decoration, Iii Class For 8 Years Archive (Preisschiessen Abzeichen)(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei III. Stufe fr 8 Jahre). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a central raised Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a central raised number 8, circumscribed by an