Germany, Third Reich. A Luftwaffe Ground Assault Badge Archive white and black cord

white and black cord

It completed with a rounded pommel bearing a double-sided wreathed and gilded mobile swastika

fixed in place with the shell rivets

presenting mild cracking to enamels

Germany, Third Reich. A Luftwaffe Ground Assault Badge Archive white and black cord(Luftwaffe Erdkampfabzeichen). Constructed of silvered and patinated zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaying a stylized cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, the reverse with a soldered on sheet metal hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch on a raised plateau, unmarked, measuring 42.