Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short-Range Night Fighter Flying Clasp, Silver Grade GTRexclude (Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen mit Einsatzzahl 50)

(Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen mit Einsatzzahl 50)

interior lid marked Sousa

the reverse plain with a catch and a double-prong crossbar

circumscribed by an inscription of “FÜR VERDIENSTE IM KRIEGE 1914/15” (“FOR MERIT IN WAR 1914/15”)

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Short-Range Night Fighter Flying Clasp, Silver Grade GTRexclude (Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen mit Einsatzzahl 50)(Frontflugspange fr Nahnachtjger in Silver). Constructed of blackened and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a central blackened circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a swastika, around a central bronzed winged arrow, flanked on each side by nine oak leaves, the reverse with a central visible rivet securing the obverse arrow in place, with a barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flattened catch, unmarked,