Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, Ii Pattern, By Wilhelm Deumer Hold Solingen - Measuring 378 mm

Solingen - Measuring 378 mm in length with the scabbard on

and some possibly in Italy

Date of item: 1952/53

thirty-nine hours after the sinking

numbered "9405"

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, Ii Pattern, By Wilhelm Deumer Hold Solingen - Measuring 378 mm(Fallschirmschtzenabzeichen). Instituted on 5 November 1936 by Hermann Gring. (1936 1945). Consisting of an oval nickel silver wreath, with laurel leaves on the left half of the wreath, and oak leaves on the right half of the wreath, with a gilded tombak eagle (denazified), the reverse with two rivets visible holding obverse eagle in place, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked W. Deumer, Ldenscheid,