Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short-Range Night Fighter Flying Clasp, Silver Grade GTRexclude with "Vertical Crimp set-up"

with "Vertical Crimp set-up"

interior lid marked Sousa

1942 when he was deployed to the 4th Company of Infantry Replacement Battalion 21

Footnote: The London Gazette of December 2

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short-Range Night Fighter Flying Clasp, Silver Grade GTRexclude with "Vertical Crimp set-up"(Frontflugspange fr Nahnachtjger in Silver). Constructed of blackened and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a central blackened circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a swastika, around a central bronzed winged arrow, flanked on each side by nine oak leaves, the reverse with a central visible rivet securing the obverse arrow in place, with a barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked,