A Large Bronze Luftwaffe Fighter Squadron Emblem From Ground Base Gate Archive and Republic: Artillery Badge (two-piece

and Republic: Artillery Badge (two-piece construction

when he suffered a case of shell shock and a concussion

New Brunswick aboard the S

Obtained from a Canadian WWII vet

M31 leather liner with all eight fingers and the original tie string intact

A Large Bronze Luftwaffe Fighter Squadron Emblem From Ground Base Gate Archive and Republic: Artillery Badge (two-pieceMeasuring 19. 5 cm diameter, in solid cast bronze, showing usual and pleasing tarnishing from oxidization, very large and heavy, with three bronze post for attachment on reverse, very fine. Footnote: This would have been placed on the iron gate of a Jagdgeschwader hunting wing base. These were typically equipped with the Messerschmitt 109 or Fw 190 to provide close air support to Wehrmacht ground troops.