Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Narrow Hinge Variant, by Gustav Brehmer Hold of fine quality manufacture

of fine quality manufacture

the top bearing a Royal Canadian Corps of Signals in silver with blue and white enamels above a United Nations Beret Cap Badge in bronze gilt with white enamels

Historical Text

Collar Tab (in browning copper

The document is dated to January 9

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Narrow Hinge Variant, by Gustav Brehmer Hold of fine quality manufacture(Flakkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Instituted January 10th, 1941. Constructed of silvered tombac, the obverse consisting of an oval oak wreath joined together at the base by a ribbon and topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, all overlaid by a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a raised narrow barrel hinge signature to manufacture by Gustav Brehmer, vertical round