Germany, Kriegsmarine. A 13th U-Boat Flotilla Trench Art Plaque Auction Archive The Glider Pilot Badge is

The Glider Pilot Badge is among the rarest of all the qualification badges of the Luftwaffe of the Third Reich

Westfalen-South Dortmund Gautag Badge - 1936 - Aluminum with enamels and an inset "soldier" bronze plate

Stuttgart) on the ring

obverse with depiction of a ship and reverse bearing bust of Queen Victoria

measuring 420 mm (w) x 53 mm (h)

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A 13th U-Boat Flotilla Trench Art Plaque Auction Archive The Glider Pilot Badge is(13. Unterseebootsflottille Gedenktafel). Constructed of hand carved and lightly varnished wood, the obverse consisting of a shield bearing a raised depiction of a Viking longship cutting throughout waves in a style used as an emblem by the 13th U Boat Flotilla (based in Trondheim, Norway), the reverse topped by two metal rivets for the accommodation of a hanging string, retaining an early postwar label bearing a handwritten dedication from a