Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Narrow Hinge Variant, by Gustav Brehmer Auction Archive After subsequent inspections in 1943

After subsequent inspections in 1943 and 1944 he was ruled unfit for service

most of these buckles present a core of Angolia’s book “Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich”

Private First Class Butter was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and the Army Good Conduct Medal

The whistles were used to coordinate movements across companies

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flak Badge, Narrow Hinge Variant, by Gustav Brehmer Auction Archive After subsequent inspections in 1943(Flakkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Instituted January 10th, 1941. Constructed of silvered tombac, the obverse consisting of an oval oak wreath joined together at the base by a ribbon and topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, all overlaid by a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a raised narrow barrel hinge signature to manufacture by Gustav Brehmer, vertical round