Germany, Luftwaffe. A Set of Flight Personnel/Fallschirmjäger Oberst Shoulder Boards GTRexclude And We do hereby Command

And We do hereby Command them to Obey you as their superior Officer

measuring 414 mm x 271 mm

the neck badge portraying a blue and white enamelled Maltese cross with ball finials and wreath segments in each quadrant

For the next almost two years Meuser would fight defensive battles in Karelia and northern Finland

becoming an early piece of space debris in low-earth orbit

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Set of Flight Personnel/Fallschirmjäger Oberst Shoulder Boards GTRexclude And We do hereby Command(Luftwaffe Paar Schulterklappen fr einen Oberst der Fliegertruppe Fallschirmjger). A matching set of Luftwaffe Flight Personnel Fallschirmjger Oberst shoulder boards, each constructed of golden yellow wool with rigid card stock cores, topped by four bands of interwoven silver aluminum wire piping, and pinned with two gilded metal pips, both retaining a period pebbled metal button, the former both maker marked on the reverse with the logo of Dr. Franke