United Kingdom. A Lusitania Propaganda Medal, With Case certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: Wolfgang Kretschmer was born

Footnote: Wolfgang Kretschmer was born on April 15

Tropical Kriegsmarine

(Cruz por la Campaña del Yaqui)

46 mm x 107 mm)

in glazed ceramic

United Kingdom. A Lusitania Propaganda Medal, With Case certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: Wolfgang Kretschmer was bornConstructed 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