Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge Archive DIVINAE HVMANAEQ

DIVINAE HVMANAEQ

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Footnote: This badge appears on page 174 of "Eagles Recalled" by Warren Carroll and comes from his personal collection

reverse inscribed "Handabzug-Kunstverlag Voigt Elmshorn / (Veröffentlichung nur mit Genehmigung)" (Voigt Elmshorn Publishing House / Publication with Permission only) at the upper left and "Celle / Bomann-Museum / Ehrenhalle der Hannoverschen Armee" (Bomann Museum at Celle / Remembrance Hall of the Hanoverian Army) at the lower right

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge Archive DIVINAE HVMANAEQ(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered and patinated zink, 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, overlaying a stylized cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, the reverse with three visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire