An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Auction Wehrmacht Long Service Medal -

Wehrmacht Long Service Medal - Four Years - silvered tombac

Naming is officially engraved on the KM and privately engraved on the UNKM

surmounted by a swastika

awarded for a Swimming Competition of the Association for Popular Aquatics

a bow along with a case bearing four arrows and a ribbon banner inscribed "Blut und Boden" at the base of the sword

An Italian Fascist Youth "Opera Balilla" Badge Auction Wehrmacht Long Service Medal -Italy : Silver, maker marked "S. JOHNSON MILANO" on the reverse, 38 mm, vertical pinback, dark patina, very light contact, extremely fine. Footnote: The Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) was an Italian Fascist youth organization functioning between 1926 and 1937, when it was absorbed into the Giovent Italiana del Littorio (GIL), a youth section of the National Fascist Party. It takes its name from Balilla, the nickname of Giovan Battista Perasso, a