(Medaillensammlung)
The driver who brought him down
and from 27-30 June 1944 near Čazma and from 8-18 July 1944 in Žumberak
This type of presentation dagger would come without scabbard
that he had eight months previous military service with the 171st Battalion
Germany, Third Reich. A Luftwaffe Ground Assault Badge, by “G.H. Osang, Dresden” visually-hidden (Medaillensammlung)(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Instituted March 31st, 1942. Constructed of silvered and patinated zinc, the obverse consisting of an oval oak wreath, joined together at the base by a ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaying a stylized cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, with magnetic vertical pinback and a flat wire catch, marked G. H. Osang, Dresden on the reverse, measuring 42.