HISTORY. The Kuban Campaign Shield was instituted by Adolf Hitler on September 21, 1943, as the last official campaign shield to see production and issue during the war. The shield was designed for award to personnel, in all branches of service, who had served in the defensive battles in the Crimean peninsula from February 1943 onward. Criteria for award of the shield dictated that personnel had to have been involved in at least one major engagement, served two months in the theater or had been wounded in battle. The shields were bestowed by Knight’s Cross, Oak-leaves and Swords winner, Generalfeldmarschall Ewald von Kliest as the commanding officer of Army Group South Ukraine.

Die stamped, magnetic construction shield with a bronze wash featuring an embossed, stylized, national eagle with out-stretched wings. Reverse still has the original paper backer. Unissued. MINT.

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