Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, Cloth Version Newly Listed these innovations arrived too late

these innovations arrived too late to change the course of the war

mounted to a blackened silver cross

the maker mark "L2/600/43" and "CROUPON" on the underside of the belt beside the clip

Footnote: The Order of the Redeemer (AKA Order of the Saviour) is an order of merit of Greece

and pinned with two silvered rank pips and numerals “79”

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Fallschirmjäger Badge, Cloth Version Newly Listed these innovations arrived too late(Fallschirmschtzenabzeichen, Stoffausfhrung). Constructed of a padded dark grey wool base, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered, silver grey, oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a diving golden yellow Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse retaining a fully intact black paper liner, unmarked, measuring 50 mm (w) x 59 mm (h), demonstrating some fatigue or mothing to the edge of