Germany, Imperial. A Wound Badge, Gold Grade Hold the chin strap is 100%

the chin strap is 100% complete with all leather components

In an interview conducted with Franklin in later life

Machine embroidered in light gray cotton threads on a bluish-gray wool Luftwaffe base

sewn onto a field gray wool backer

about the DFS 230 gliding plane in the mountain emergency service in 1944

Germany, Imperial. A Wound Badge, Gold Grade Hold the chin strap is 100%(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded bronze, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, with a central Stahlhelm on top of crossed swords on a hollow background, the reverse with a crimped and raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 54 mm (w) x 43. 63 mm (h), weighing 8. 0 grams, in near extremely fine condition.