Germany, Luftwaffe. A Krim Shield Buy Now Retaining a 4th Battalion Officers

Retaining a 4th Battalion Officers cap badge and it appears to have been with this cap since the war

Footnote: The Heeresabnahmestelle (Army Acceptance Organisation) was a subsidiary of the Heereswaffenamt (Army Weapons Agency) tasked with arming the Wehrmacht and testing weapons

U-69 Photo album

the reverse marked “M1/35” and “81761

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Krim Shield Buy Now Retaining a 4th Battalion Officers(Luftwaffe Krimschild). Constructed of bronzed magnetic metal, the obverse consisting of a map of Crimea and southern Ukraine, topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by dates 1941 1942, affixed with all four attachment prongs to a magnetic metal backplate with an intact paper backer and dark grey wool liner indicating Luftwaffe issue, unmarked, the shield measuring 52. 38 mm (w) x 61. 48 mm (h), in extremely fine