Description:

"LAPPLAND" SHIELD
Field-made cast aluminum award shield, approx. 2 1/2" x 1 1/2", showing a droop-winged eagle at top, above the title "Lappland", with a map of northern Norway beneath. Three holes are drilled at the top corners and bottom, allowing the shield to be sewn to a uniform. This award the last commemorative campaign shield to be issued by the Wehrmacht during World War II, was instituted in February of 1945 and granted to soldiers of Gen. Fritz Bohme''s 20th Mountain Army, which fought a two-front battle against Finnish and Soviet forces between November of 1944 and the war''s end in May of 1945. The shields were produced in the field, and continued to be awarded by Bohme after the unit''s surrender to Norwegian forces. Many were produced in prisoner-of-war camps, accounting for the crudeness of this and many other examples. Shows a small vertical crack through the eagle, else very good.

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December 19, 2017 10:00 AM EST
Elkton, MD, US

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