Description
around a central insignia consisting of a black and white enameled square within a red enameled border
measuring 52 mm (w) x 68 mm (h)
Cloth label on reverse
(Fallschirm-Division Ärmelband)
with an outline of a War Merit Cross First Class with Swords embossed in silver paint
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge, by Gustav Brehmer visually-hidden around a central insignia consisting(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered 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 crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire which, maker marked with the logo of Gustav Brehmer, Markneukirchen,