Germany, NSFK. A Rare Glider Badge certificate_of_authenticity “Paris”

“Paris”

A set of 13th Field Artillery Regiment “König Karl” Leutnant shoulder boards

as an Aircraftman 2nd Class

an oak leaf wreath lays in the quadrants between the cross arms

increasingly focusing on warplanes in the lead-up to World War II

Germany, NSFK. A Rare Glider Badge certificate_of_authenticity “Paris”(NSFK Segelfliegerabzeichen). Instituted 26 January 1942 by Friedrich Christiansen. (1942 1945). Constructed of silvered iron with enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps (National Socialist Flyers Corps NSFK) insignia, overlaid by three white enameled gulls, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch,