An Italian Expedition To Albania Campaign Medal Newly Listed before returning to H

before returning to H

2 APRIL 1801" (Copenhagen

With original ribbon and packet of issue

painted black chape and locket wired to the leather body

An Italian Expedition To Albania Campaign Medal Newly Listed before returning to HAn Italian Expedition to Albania Campaign Medal Type 3; Bronze, 33 mm, original ribbon, extremely fine. Footnote: The medal was instituted on March 7, 1940, to be awarded to military and civilian participants in the Italian occupation of Albania. By 1939, Italy dominated all aspects of Albania life but in the minds of Mussolini and Ciano, German triumphs in Austria and Czechoslovakia demanded an Italian response. This came in the form of the invasion