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Footnote: The 162nd (3rd Hanseatic) (Lübeck) Infantry Regiment was raised on March 31
by Zagreb’s maker Griesbach & Knaus
396 mm (w) x 495 (h))
copyrighted by the author in 1973
1936 and signed by Bühnemann
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge, Late War Zinc Example Auction Archive Footnote: The 162nd (3rd Hanseatic)(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Instituted March 31st, 1942. A textbook example of this award constructed of silvered and patinated zinc, the obverse consisting of an oval oak wreath, joined together at the base 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 is rivitless as is expected from a late war example, with an integrated