Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, by Rudolf Souval United Republic of with a detailed machine-embroidered hand

with a detailed machine-embroidered hand clutching a scimitar with a mobile swastika positions below the blade in grey-silver threads

having been discharged by the Airship Guarantee Company (a subsidiary of Vickers) after the R101 disaster also caused the grounding of the more successful R100

he was captured and became a POW in Russia

with a central viking longship sailing over a globe

it was redeployed to Italy and southern France (Istres) to fight Allied navy targets in the Mediterranean

Germany, Heer. A Flak Badge, by Rudolf Souval United Republic of with a detailed machine-embroidered hand(Heeres Flakabzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central Flak 88 with its barrel raised and extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch emanating from a circular base plate, maker marked with