Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Medal, Iii Class For 8 Years, With Case Buy Now He became a Instructor Navigator

He became a Instructor Navigator in February 1972 and assumed the role of Wing Chief

residue evident in the recessed ares from cleaning

(Erinnerungsmedaille an die Proklamation Friedrichs VIII zum Herzog)

Phillip de Bock referse to badges of this type in his book “The German Panzer Assault Badge of World War II - A Collectors Guide to the German Panzer Assault Badge of World War II” as a badge by the “Unknown Maker I” on page 224

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Police Long Service Medal, Iii Class For 8 Years, With Case Buy Now He became a Instructor Navigator(Dienstauszeichnung der Polizei, III. Klasse fr 8 Jahre mit Etui). Instituted 30 January 1938. (1938 1945). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a 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 a raised inscription of FR