Four Wartime Knight's Cross Recipient Postcards Buy Now Badge in massive tombac

Badge in massive tombac

NCOs Version - In a soft blue wool

With all communication wires cut

3-1/2”x6”

Below the shoulder flash on the right shoulder is a three-colour embroidered parachute wings patch above a white and black embroidered "O" patch

Four Wartime Knight's Cross Recipient Postcards Buy Now Badge in massive tombacA grouping of postcards, measuring 91x140mm, extremely fine condition with minor scuffing, slightly bent. Footnote Obergefreiter Brinkforth: Hubert Brinkforth (19161942) was a gunner in the 14th Battalion (antitank defense) of Infantry Regiment 25. On May 27, 1940, he was able to destroy nine British tanks in just 20 minutes. He received the Knights Cross as a Lance Corporal on March 7, 1941, the first enlisted man to do so. Brinkforth was killed in