Germany, Wehrmacht. A General Assault Badge Auction Footnote: The Unqualified Air Gunners

Footnote:  The Unqualified Air Gunners and Flight Engineers Badge was introduced on  April 25

A lot of 18 wartime photos retrieved from the estate of a recipient of the Close Combat Clasp in Gold in the 20

1889 in Schleswig (northern Germany)

Oberst (colonel) Traugott von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (1860–1920)

All very fine quality contemporary strikings

Germany, Wehrmacht. A General Assault Badge Auction Footnote: The Unqualified Air Gunners(Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, surrounding a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, above a crossed bayonet and stick grenade, the reverse with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 44. 48 mm (w) x 55. 55 mm (h), weighing 30. 3 grams, the catch demonstrates evidence of repair, in extremely fine