Germany, Luftwaffe. A 1941 Trench Art Memorial Plaque to a Luftwaffe Blitz Crew, Made by the Sole Survivor United Republic of the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered

the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered grey threaded Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

Original packet of issue embossed “Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter

Die-stamped bronze with a gold-coloured wash

7 mm (h) x 39 mm (w)

a RADwJ rank badge

Germany, Luftwaffe. A 1941 Trench Art Memorial Plaque to a Luftwaffe Blitz Crew, Made by the Sole Survivor United Republic of the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered(Gedenktafel der Luftwaffe). A unique 1941 Luftwaffe trench art memorial plaque, consisting of a dark brown wooden frame decorated with hand carved oak leaves which are joined together at the bottom by a Stahlhelm, surrounding a black painted field insert with faithful replicas of the 1939 Iron Cross I Class, Pilots Badge, Observer Badge, Radio Operator and Air Gunner Badge, and Bomber Clasp, each executed in a silvered zink alloy, the Iron Cross