Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, Cloth Version Hold and silvered bronze

and silvered bronze

the German night fighters gave them their full attention and shot down 25 of the Lancasters

1944 Gehlken joined the 2nd Company of Landesschützen Training Battalion I/10 in Wolterdingen

label glued to the tab where it is stitched to the body of the belt

finished in a matte brown on the reverse

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, Cloth Version Hold and silvered bronze(Fallschirmschtzenabzeichen, Stoffausfhrung). Constructed of a padded dark grey wool base, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered, silver grey, oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a diving golden yellow Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse retaining a fully intact black paper liner, unmarked, measuring 50 mm (w) x 59 mm (h), demonstrating some fatigue or mothing to the edge of