Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Breast Eagle GTRexclude Manitoba Regiment

Manitoba Regiment

constructed of silvery machine embroidery on an olive green rayon blend backer

A Veterans Affairs Canada letter dated 1991

he was appointed the GOC of the recently arrived 5th Canadian Armoured Division when it arrived on the Italian Front in November 1943

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Breast Eagle GTRexclude Manitoba Regiment(Luftwaffe Brustadler fr Offiziere). Constructed of blue grey wool, the obverse bearing a hand embroidered silver aluminum wire Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse retaining a mostly intact paper liner, unmarked, measuring 80 mm (w) x 45 mm (h), demonstrating oxidation throughout the wire, in uniform removed and fair condition.