Germany, NSFK. A Rare Glider Badge Hold the reverse bearing a stamped

the reverse bearing a stamped purple ink Stahlhelm insignia circumscribed by an illegible inscription

He left behind his parents

maker marked "ALBERTI & C

above three rank pips of identical construction

Germany, NSFK. A Rare Glider Badge Hold the reverse bearing a stamped(NSFK Segelfliegerabzeichen). Instituted 26 January 1942 by Friedrich Christiansen. (1942 1945). Constructed of silvered iron with enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps (National Socialist Flyers Corps NSFK) insignia, overlaid by three white enameled gulls, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch,