A Large Bronze Luftwaffe Fighter Squadron Emblem From Ground Base Gate Archive M31 leather liner with all

M31 leather liner with all eight fingers and the original tie string intact

Obtained from a Canadian WWII vet

It left base to carry out a night cross-country flight

New Brunswick aboard the S

A Large Bronze Luftwaffe Fighter Squadron Emblem From Ground Base Gate Archive M31 leather liner with allMeasuring 19. 5 cm diameter, in solid cast bronze, showing usual and pleasing tarnishing from oxidization, very large and heavy, with three bronze post for attachment on reverse, very fine. Footnote: This would have been placed on the iron gate of a Jagdgeschwader hunting wing base. These were typically equipped with the Messerschmitt 109 or Fw 190 to provide close air support to Wehrmacht ground troops.