Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Radio Operator And Air Gunner Badge, Cloth Version For Officers Auction USS Surfbird (MSF 383)

USS Surfbird (MSF 383)

A Mint Condition Iron Cross Second Class 1939 - with a silver frame

A silvered round medal

on an off-white pressed paper stock

But with the looming Normandy invasion

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Radio Operator And Air Gunner Badge, Cloth Version For Officers Auction USS Surfbird (MSF 383)(Fliegerschtzenabzeichen fr Bordfunker, Stoffausfhrung). Constructed of padded dark grey wool, the obverse bearing a hand embroidered silver aluminum wire laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a mobile swastika, overlaid by a diving Luftwaffe eagle clutching two lightning bolts, the reverse retaining an original black paper lining with the remnants of a sales label, measuring 58 mm (w) x 64 mm (h), a rare version of this