Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Flak Badge, Hollow Version, by Wilhelm Hobacher consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 49th The Loyal Edmonton Regiment

49th The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (green embroidered lettering on steel blue felt

reporting for duty on August 13

Women were also subject to compulsory service

München” on reverse

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Flak Badge, Hollow Version, by Wilhelm Hobacher consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 49th The Loyal Edmonton Regiment(Flak Kampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered feinzink, 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, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse hollow and with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular plate,