attached to its period original ribbon
in research list of recipients with additional information known as "airgunner"
the former maker marked “WEISS & CO
chipping and wear present on the obverse centrepiece obliterating part of the image of the Saint
circumscribed by inscriptions of “Plakatte des Korpsführers des NS-Fliegerkorps” (Plaque of the Korpsführer if the National Socialist Flyers Corps) and “Reichs-Wettkampf der Flieger-HJ 1941” (National Competition of the Flieger-HJ 1941)
Germany, Federal Republic. An Anti-Partisan Badge, by Rudolf Souval, Exhibition Example, c. 1960 Province of China attached to its period original(Bandenkampfabzeichen). Instituted January 30th, 1944. (Post May 1945 manufacture c. 1960). Constructed of silvered tombac, the obverse consisting of an oval oak wreath joined together at the base by a raised skull and crossbones, overlaid by a vertical sword bearing a sunwheel style swastika at the ricasso, in turn plunging into a nest of vipers, the reverse plain, with a sheet metal hinge, vertical round wire catch, and sheet metal hinge, unmarked