Germany, Army. A Wehrmacht Issue Flak Badge by C.E. Juncker with Vertical Oblong Catch consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac officially engraved to JOHN E

officially engraved to JOHN E

All magnetic metal buttons on the tunic are marked on the reverse with a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo and code “M5/267” for Gustav Körtel

Bruce Catton

posted to HMCS Chaudiere at Esquimalt on October 16

Germany, Army. A Wehrmacht Issue Flak Badge by C.E. Juncker with Vertical Oblong Catch consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac officially engraved to JOHN E(Flakkampfabzeichen 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 wreathed mobile swastika, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a squared off wire catch soldered to a vertical oblong baseplate