Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, by E. Ferdinand Wiedmann Auction Archive on a medium blue cotton

on a medium blue cotton blended armband

accompanied by its period original package of isse

Connaughton PPCLI

7mm(w) x 85

instituted on 2 April 1915

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, by E. Ferdinand Wiedmann Auction Archive on a medium blue cotton(Flak Kampfabzeichen 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, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular plate, maker marked with the logo