Description
printed in black and red ink on a cream-coloured thick paper stock
being awarded the Iron Cross II Class (23 June 1940)
Footnote: The 27th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was comprised by men raised almost entirely in York County
and appears to be hand-stitched to the tunic
Lieutenant Baker was wounded in the knee by a splinter and our cook
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, Type A With Case, By G.h. Osang certificate_of_authenticity printed in black and red(Fallschirmschtzenabzeichen mit Etui). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a gilded diving Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a soldered barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a soldered flat wire catch, maker marked G. H. OSANG, DRESDEN,