A German-Italian Africa Campaign Medal Zimmermann First Strike Buy Now Ontario prior to enlisting in

Ontario prior to enlisting in the RCAF in March 1940

reprinted from Maclean's Magazine with additions

Battalion in the field on the 24th

Afterward there was a triumphal parade through flag-brightened streets

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A German-Italian Africa Campaign Medal Zimmermann First Strike Buy Now Ontario prior to enlisting inBronze, obverse and reverse are independent of one another, obverse is 42 mm x 43 mm, reverse is 40. 8 mm x 42 mm, very fine. Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards, German and International, and was destroyed in an allied bombing raid in the early 1940's on Pforzheim, Germany. Sometime in 1990, during construction on the site, a quantity of medals was discovered (about 50 kilos) and bought by eMedals.