Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Identity Badge of the Military Administration of Belgium and Northern France Archive “Aircrew Badges and Honor Prizes

“Aircrew Badges and Honor Prizes of the Flying Troops from 1913-1920” by Carsten Baldes

(Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen)

The miracle of the rescue was in finding the small hole in the crevasse bridge in a glacier six miles by eight miles in the dark of Antarctic night

While at Halifax

all affixed to a 135 mm-long bronze bar with a horizontal pinback and grey wool reverse liner

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Rare Identity Badge of the Military Administration of Belgium and Northern France Archive “Aircrew Badges and Honor Prizes(Wehrmacht Dienstabzeichen fr Angestellte der Militrverwaltung Belgien und Nord Frankreich). Constructed of silvered bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of an oval disc, finished in a Wehrmacht red, white, and black tri colour motif, the black enameled band bearing a silvered inscription of MILITRVERWALTUNG BELGIEN UND N. FRANKREICH (MILITARY ADMINISTRATION BELGIUM AND NORTHERN FRANCE), overlaid by a silvered Wehrmacht eagle