Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Early-War Example, by Gustav Brehmer Auction mounted a silver and bronze

mounted a silver and bronze gilt eight-pointed star base

Ultimately only one of six crewmen survived the war

6 - A Cockerel Liberated - France 1944 (with two appendices)

of those 29 were destroyed in close combat 63 anti-tank guns

when the aircraft left the perimeter track just before the start of the runway

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Early-War Example, by Gustav Brehmer Auction mounted a silver and bronze(Flak Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of nickel silver, 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, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a narrow barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a rounded catch, maker marked BREHMER, MARKNEUKIRCHEN, measuring 44. 70