Germany, Nsfk. A Rare Glider Badge Auction Archive GILBERT ISLANDS

GILBERT ISLANDS

the bottom edge of the wrapper having been ripped open

among many other names

The Battalion sailed October 6

Germany, Nsfk. A Rare Glider Badge Auction Archive GILBERT ISLANDS(NSFK Segelfliegerabzeichen). Instituted 26 January 1942 by Friedrich Christiansen. (1942 1945). Constructed of silvered iron with enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps (National Socialist Flyers Corps NSFK) insignia, overlaid by three white enameled gulls, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the