A Late War Luftwaffe Radio Operator & Air Gunner Badge By C. E. Juncker Archive swing mounted as worn

swing mounted as worn

July 1 1913

Officer (bronze gilt with red and white enamels

Printed in navy blue ink on an off-white paper stock

1916 and diagnosed with Furunculosis (skin inflanation that usually starts with a single infection

A Late War Luftwaffe Radio Operator & Air Gunner Badge By C. E. Juncker Archive swing mounted as wornAn interwar manufacture example of a Luftwaffe Radio Operator & Air Gunner Fliegerschtzenabzeichen badge by this maker; in silvered and patinated zink; two piece construction, with a wreath consisting of laurel leaves on the left side and oak leaves on the right side, with a mobile swastika on the bottom of the wreath, and a eagle superiposed onto the badge holding lightning bolts in its talons; the reverse plain, with a vertical needle style pinback,