Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Bomber Clasp, Gold Grade, by Richard Simm & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic KAMPFGENOSSENVEREIN GESLAU u UMGEB”

KAMPFGENOSSENVEREIN GESLAU u UMGEB”

The award came attached to a piece of cloth to allow its bearer to sew it to the sleeve of the tunic

Schäfer was wounded several times

Looped around the right shoulder board and top breast button is a finely-detailed officer’s shoulder cord

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Bomber Clasp, Gold Grade, by Richard Simm & Söhne Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic KAMPFGENOSSENVEREIN GESLAU u UMGEB”(Frontflugspange fr Kampf und Sturzkampfflieger in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of a central circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a swastika, surrounding a central winged bomb executed in silvered tombak, flanked on each side by nine oak leaves, the reverse with a single visible rivet securing the bomb in position, with a crimped barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire