Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of Service Awards for Second World War Combatants certificate_of_authenticity 49 mm x 93 mm

49 mm x 93 mm

A large number of these badges were un-issued and were released onto the collectors market when the old shooting ground in Innsbruck was demolished at the end of the war (they had been stored there since the war)

with a red rayon piping (signifying Artillery)

it is granted in recognition of personal courage in emergencies involving saving people

A 1932 Nationalsozialistische Braunschweig Flugtag badge

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Pair of Service Awards for Second World War Combatants certificate_of_authenticity 49 mm x 93 mm(Wehrmacht Auszeichnungen). A pair of service awards for Second World War combatants, including; 1. A War Merit Cross I Class with Swords, constructed of silvered zink, consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with LDO