Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, By Wilhelm Deumer, Ludenscheid GTRexclude one silver with a silver

one silver with a silver gilt star affixed

marked “Original Olympia”

The logbook of the Ontario shows that the passage must have been a bad one

A 1933 NSBO (National Socialist Factory Cell Organization/Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellenorganisation) Kreis Naila den 1

35 mm x 55 mm inclusive of its wreath and wing suspension

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, By Wilhelm Deumer, Ludenscheid GTRexclude one silver with a silver(Fallschirmschtzenabzeichen). Instituted on 5 November 1936 by Hermann Gring. Constructed of gilded and silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets holding the obverse eagle in place, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked P. MEYBAUER BERLIN on reverse, measuring 42. 72 mm