Germany, Luftwaffe. A Bomber Clasp, Gold Grade Auction Archive a Machine Gunner badge

a Machine Gunner badge

A German Eagle Order “Deutsche Verdienstmedaille des Deutschen Adler”

Silver thread on Luftwaffe cloth

before returning to duty on the 27th

s Badge in January 1943

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Bomber Clasp, Gold Grade Auction Archive a Machine Gunner badge(Frontflugspange fr Kampf und Sturzkampfflieger in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a swastika, around a central silvered and winged bomb, flanked on each side by nine oak leaves, the reverse with a single visible rivet securing the obverse bomb in place, with a block hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 76. 62 mm