Germany, Third Reich. A Luftwaffe Ground Assault Badge United Republic of Knight’s Cross (27 July 1941)

Knight’s Cross (27 July 1941)

1915 with a case of Gonorrhea

Footnote: Corporal Georg Markonett was Killed in Action at Waterloo

two sidehooks

signed LORIOLI

Germany, Third Reich. A Luftwaffe Ground Assault Badge United Republic of Knight’s Cross (27 July 1941)(Luftwaffe Erdkampfabzeichen). Constructed of silvered and patinated 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, overlaying a stylized cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, the reverse with a soldered on sheet metal hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch on a raised plateau, unmarked, measuring 42.