Germany, NSFK. A 1938 Targeted Gliding Competition Victor’s Plaque, with Case and Award Document consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Visible on the right sleeve

Visible on the right sleeve near the shoulders is a faint outline of where the Waffen-SS tropical eagle used to be

with some minor soiling evident to the interior liner

A post mordem examination showed that

the obverse centre bears the right-facing portrait of Herzog Albrecht on a white enamel field encompassed by a blue enamel border inscribed with “ALBERTUS ANIMOSUS” (ALBERT THE MERCIFUL) with arabesque detailing at the bottom

The armband was only worn during active policing duties and returned to the Feldgendarmerie issuing authority on completion of the service

Germany, NSFK. A 1938 Targeted Gliding Competition Victor’s Plaque, with Case and Award Document consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Visible on the right sleeve(NSFK Zielstrecken Segelflug Wettbewerb Plakette mit Etui und Urkunde). Constructed of a coppered bronze alloy, the obverse bearing a central raised National Socialist Flyers Corps insignia, circumscribed by inscriptions of NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHES FLIEGERKORPS and ZIELSTRECKEN SEGELFLUG WETTBEWERB 1938 (TARGETED GLIDING COMPETITION 1938), the reverse bearing an inscription of MIT UNSEREM FHRER IM GLEICHEN SCHRITT UND TRITT FLIEGER WIR FR UNSER EWIGES