Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, by Wilhelm Hobacher Auction 1916” (“Great experience makes you

1916” (“Great experience makes you reverent and true in your heart - Kaiser Wilhelm II

with the exception of the Vatican City

rejoined his unit on the 16th

causing some shortening of the leg

the SS had pushed south and was fighting a defensive battle east of Kiestinki (Kestenga) on Lake Topozero

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, by Wilhelm Hobacher Auction 1916” (“Great experience makes you(Flak Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered zink, 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 crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Wilhelm Hobacher, Vienna,