Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, With Case, By C.e. Juncker Auction Archive with a metal backer on

with a metal backer on the reverse and all four prongs intact underneath the fully preserved black paper backer

Attached is a large period aluminum wire portapee tied to the handle in the appropriate fashion

obverse bearing gilded bronze German national eagle clutching wreathed swastika

an island in the South China Sea off the coast of mainland China

a single depth charge left her launcher and landed in the sea alongside the stricken boat

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, With Case, By C.e. Juncker Auction Archive with a metal backer on(Fallschirmschtzenabzeichen). Instituted on 5 November 1936. An oval badge constructed of a tombak wreath of oak leaves on the left side and laurel leaves on the right, tied with a ribbon at the bottom, riveted to the wreath is a gilded brass plummeting eagle with a swastika in its claws, the reverse presents a vertical pinback, maker mark C. E. Juncker Berlin S. W. on eagles reverse, measures 42. 36 mm (w) x 53. 10 mm (h), weighs 40. 1 grams,