What's on africa campaign medal?

[cysior]

Friends!
I was just searching/trying to find something about the gate from the back of africa campaign medal.. No luck yet.. Does anyody know what is it?

[Ischak]

There are two soldiers killing a crocodile. Ahh You must edited your msg, I didnt read anything about gate first time :P

[Ischak]

hope it helps:

The obverse of the medal is concave and features two gladiators symbolizing Italy and Germany doing battle with a crocodile, which symbolizes Britain. The reverse shows a swastika and fasces, each on one side of the Italian Felini Arch again depicting Italo-German cooperation. Under the arch is the Royal Knot of the House of Savoy. Around the rim of the reverse is the inscription “Italo-German Campaign in Africa”, in German (on the side of the swastika) and in Italian separated on top and bottom by two single leaves.

[cysior]

Josef!
Thank you very much.
So it's Italian Felini Arch and it's no more on the site ..
thank you again





http://www.mediterranees.net/geograp...philenes2.html

[Ischak]

You are welcome

[paddywhack]

where is the gate and what happened to it??

[cysior]

According to this website http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/lrdg/roadwatch.html

"The Arch was destroyed by Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi around 1970"

More info here:
http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/north-a...mussolini.html

[kenneth wolfe]

Hi

Wow that sucks that it was destroyed. It's kind of like that paratrooper one in Crete. I think people keep destroying that one too.


Kenneth

[paddywhack]

thats crap that it survived till the 70s and was destroyed! great pity!!!!

[Steve P]

Wow that sucks that it was destroyed. It's kind of like that paratrooper one in Crete. I think people keep destroying that one too.


Kenneth

Both being destroyed, or any monumenst such as these, is just a travesty! Very interesting guys..

[Bruce Simcox]

Hi guys......

......great info and images.

thats crap that it survived till the 70s and was destroyed! great pity!!!!

Both being destroyed, or any monumenst such as these, is just a travesty! Very interesting guys..

......The hare-brained col. Khadhaffi seems to have had a similarly twisted viewpoint as those Taliban morons that destroyed the huge Buddha statues in Afghanistan......