Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge By F.w. Assmann & Söhne Auction with the Winnipeg Grenadiers having

with the Winnipeg Grenadiers having about the same numbers and suffering similar casualty rates

nickel pin

The company logo included the stylized SS runes

(Walters) Fitzgerald

10 mm x 32 mm and 12 mm x 32

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge By F.w. Assmann & Söhne Auction with the Winnipeg Grenadiers having(Fallschirmspringerabzeichen). Instituted on 5 November 1936 by Hermann Gring. (Issued 1936 1945). Consisting of an oval nickel silvered wreath, with laurel leaves on the left half of the wreath, and oak leaves on the right half of the wreath, with a central gilded tombak eagle clutching a mobile swastika in its talons, reverse marked with logo of maker F. W. Assmann & Shne, Ldenscheid, two rivets visible, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback