Germany, Nsdap. A Golden Party Badge, Large Version, By Deschler & Sohn Auction Archive 15th Air Force Badge

15th Air Force Badge

both boards with wear evident in the purple trim at either end and exposing the underlying cardboard support

approx 13mm diameter Footnote: “We had more fun in the old days when pilots flew those old crates covered in fabric and held together with wire

He had an 8th Grade Parochial School education and had been employed as a Machinist's Helper for two years with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Shops

100 cm in length

Germany, Nsdap. A Golden Party Badge, Large Version, By Deschler & Sohn Auction Archive 15th Air Force Badge(Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der NSDAP). Constructed of gilded tombak with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, with a central white enameled disc bearing a black mobile swastika, within a ring of red enamels bearing a silvered inscription of NATIONAL SOZIALISTISCHES D. A. P. (NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS PARTY), the reverse with a horizontal pinback, engraved with a NSDAP membership number of 60897, maker