Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, by Wilhelm Hobacher Hold a Leading Aircraftman Sleeve Badge

a Leading Aircraftman Sleeve Badge (in white embroidery

and especially for honouring our men and women who served in armed conflicts"

ribbon with hook and eye

on horizontally-pierced ball suspension

88 mm (w) x 45

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, by Wilhelm Hobacher Hold a Leading Aircraftman Sleeve Badge(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 round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Wilhelm Hobacher, Vienna,