Description
hidden by a fold over flap
Organization badge
with a large patinated eagle with spread-out wings superimposed on the badge
one is maker marked "Arthus Bertrand"
the most elite military unit of the air force and was named such because it mimicked a circus's logistics by using dedicated railway trains to transport it to forward airfields
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class United Republic of hidden by a fold over(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). A Cross Patte of multi piece construction, on loop for suspension from its period correct replacement ribbon, with a blackened iron core within a ribbed silver border, the obverse with a raised central mobile swastika with the re institution date 1939 in raised numbering on the lower arm, the reverse with an initial institution date of 1813 on the lower arm, unmarked