Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, Cloth Version Hold finished in a matte brown

finished in a matte brown on the reverse

or altered by a collector

Office for Rider and Driver Training

1944 Gehlken joined the 2nd Company of Landesschützen Training Battalion I/10 in Wolterdingen

and silvered bronze

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, Cloth Version Hold finished in a matte brown(Fallschirmschtzenabzeichen, Stoffausfhrung). Constructed of a padded dark grey wool base, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered, silver grey, oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a diving golden yellow Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse retaining a fully intact black paper liner, unmarked, measuring 50 mm (w) x 59 mm (h), demonstrating some fatigue or mothing to the edge of