Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge, Late-War Example, by J.E. Hammer & Söhne visually-hidden in hardly used condition

in hardly used condition

both maker marked “A

set on a field-grey wool patch

with the reverse inscribed “Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen - Fachamt für Handball Deutsche Handball Meisterschaft 1935 16

He was hospitalized in April 1915 for a hernia and later that year

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge, Late-War Example, by J.E. Hammer & Söhne visually-hidden in hardly used condition(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaying a stylized cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, the reverse with a single visible rivet securing the eagle in position, with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating