Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, First Pattern, by C.E. Juncker Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic cotton-lined pocket at the hip

cotton-lined pocket at the hip on the right side

then promoted to Lieutenant in the Canadian Engineers on February 9

by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to denote military participation in the victory of the Soviet armed forces over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War

with functional catch and clasp

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, First Pattern, by C.E. Juncker Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic cotton-lined pocket at the hip(Flak Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered tombak, 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 barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked C. E. JUNCKER, BERLIN S. W., measuring 44. 30