Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Hold clean ball finials

clean ball finials

With Adolf Galland’s postwar business card

Awarded to officers for outstanding military merit

Footnote: John Johnson Stewart Bell was born on May 3

A Third Reich period DLV (Deutscher Luftsport Verband/German Air Sports Association) Saarbrücken Balloonabteilung badge

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Hold clean ball finials(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, tied together at the bottom by a bowtie ribbon and topped by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k with the bayonet attached to the front of the barrel and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire