Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short-Range Fighter Clasp, Silver Grade certificate_of_authenticity (Friedrich Kreuz)

(Friedrich Kreuz)

showing SS Unterscharführer Felix Wüster wearing an Iron Cross 1st Class

Its members were known as străjeri ("sentinels")

at first given confusing orders by his superior officer

A Volunteer Nurse’s Association senior member’s badge

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short-Range Fighter Clasp, Silver Grade certificate_of_authenticity (Friedrich Kreuz)(Frontflugspange fr Jger in Silber). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a swastika, surrounding a central patinated winged arrow, flanked on each side by nine oak leaves, the reverse with a central visible rivet securing the obverse arrow in place, with a barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 76. 25 mm (w) x 25.