Germany, Luftwaffe. An Air Gunner Badge, by Wilhelm Deumer Auction Archive Footnote: Reflecting the decoration’s scarcity

Footnote: Reflecting the decoration’s scarcity

in pocket of issue (by same maker

within an open-ended wreath of oak leaves

" The following summer of 1918

9 grams (inclusive of hardware)

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Air Gunner Badge, by Wilhelm Deumer Auction Archive Footnote: Reflecting the decoration’s scarcity(Fliegerschtzenabzeichen fr Bordschtzen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a mobile swastika, overlaid by a Luftwaffe eagle in mid flight, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular base plate, maker marked W. DEUMER, LDENSCHEID, measuring