United Kingdom. A Lusitania Propaganda Medal, With Case Archive measuring 238 mm x 154

measuring 238 mm x 154 mm

ARMY AIR CORPS

By June of 1944 he was active in Croatia

Given the wreck’s fine state of preservation and the fact that he had dove that area many times before without seeing any evidence of a shipwreck

Accompanied by its paper packet of issue with “Deutsches Schutzwallehrenzeichen” printed on the obverse in black gothic script and “E

United Kingdom. A Lusitania Propaganda Medal, With Case Archive measuring 238 mm x 154Constructed of magnetic iron, the obverse illustrating the stricken liner sinking, her stern submerged to left while her ram shaped bow, laden with armaments, rises clear of the water (an image contradicting eyewitness accounts which stated that the ship went down bow first, the shape of the bow being a reference to the configuration of warships of the period and possibly a reminder that the British Admiralty had ordered merchant vessels to attempt to