Prussia, Kingdom. A Pour-Le-Mérite, With Oak Leaves, By Rothe, C.1945 Auction A Luftwaffe Trapezoid Cap Insignia

A Luftwaffe Trapezoid Cap Insignia - Embroidered light gray eagle insignia above a tri-colour cockade

SS-Mann in the 27th SS-Standarte

The title story is about the U-boat war and the damage German U-boats have caused

It was at first a oval blue enamelled badge but with a design in its centre looking very much like the cap badge of the Army Ordnance Corps

one stripe on its original triangular ribbon with hook and eye indicating one wound

Prussia, Kingdom. A Pour-Le-Mérite, With Oak Leaves, By Rothe, C.1945 Auction A Luftwaffe Trapezoid Cap Insignia(Pour le Mrite). Instituted in June 1740 by Frederick II of Prussia. In gilded silver, presenting as a blue enamelled Maltese cross, with four open beaked eagles between the cross arms, each carefully hand etched and detailed and held solidly in their respective positions, the obverse centre with typical and expected Roman style gold lettering on the obverse as well as a finely detailed gold crown, the reverse presents plain blue enamel, the blue