An Unissued & Mint Luftwaffe General’s Breast Eagle GTRexclude with four years and ten

with four years and ten months of that service in China

following by a posting later that month to the Cruiser Essex on April 23rd

suspended from an 8 mm x 34

his particular buckle is illustrated on page 381 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

dated June 4th and 5th

An Unissued & Mint Luftwaffe General’s Breast Eagle GTRexclude with four years and tenConstructed of fine quality hand embroidered gilded flat and round wire, with rayon strings for the outlines of the wings; on a Luftwaffe grey wool backer; black paper backer still intact; measuring measuring 83 mm tip to tip, and 88 mm x 46 mm overall; light scattered signs of oxidation on the wings from storage; unissued.