Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, First Pattern, by C.E. Juncker Auction Archive A patriotic brooch

A patriotic brooch

The blade sits firmly within the nickel-silver plated upper crossguard

and gunner

Private Cook was attached to 2/16th Battalion on June 21

topped by dual oak leaves

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, First Pattern, by C.E. Juncker Auction Archive A patriotic brooch(Flakkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of nickel silver, 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 tombak catch, bearing a makers mark of C. E. JUNCKER, BERLIN S. W.,