Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge, by Arno Wallpach Archive Ontario with his wife Agnes

Ontario with his wife Agnes

and Service Pilot badges were qualification badges of the United States Army Air Forces issued during the years of the Second World War

Boyd Redner Jr

the lining overlying the hinged area exhibiting rust from the underlying hinge

marked "80" on the reverse

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge, by Arno Wallpach Archive Ontario with his wife Agnes(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered and toned zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaying a cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, the reverse with an integral hinge and vertical pinback meeting a large integral catch, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture