Germany, Third Reich. A Pair Of Badges Newly Listed one on each breast

one on each breast

We had about three weeks training down at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and then one morning were called about four or five in the morning and told

the crossguard presents the air force insignia on one side and the coat of arms on the other

Footnote: The Commemorative Medal for the Estonian War of Independence was established on December 14

Elsie Thorpe (Wood) Hebden of the Isle of Man

Germany, Third Reich. A Pair Of Badges Newly Listed one on each breast(Abzeichen). A pair of badges, including a Black Grade Wound Badge, constructed of blackened magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 37. 40 mm (w) x 45. 08 mm (h), weighing 10. 8 grams, in near mint