Original German WWII Black Wound Badge with Named Award Document - Dated 1945 MG 08-15 Maxim dated 1943 and with serial

dated 1943 and with serial number 8368 on the top cover barrel jacket make this a one of our very finest museum quality examples of the most prolific German issued Light Machine gun of WW2

1944 Five airplanes from this squadron participated in a bombardment mission over Dublon Town on the sixteenth of the month

This plating remains bright

It is offered in good condition complete with brass fuse cap and cast lettering on the side that reads (hardly legible) Trench Howitzer

The resulting dagger is in an ideal covert easily concealable weapon with a very strong stabbing blade

Original German WWII Black Wound Badge with Named Award Document - Dated 1945 MG 08-15 Maxim dated 1943 and with serialOriginal Items: One of a kind grouping. The Wound Badge (German: Verwundetenabzeichen) was a military decoration first promulgated by Wilhelm II, German Emperor on 3 March 1918, which was awarded to wounded or frostbitten soldiers of the Imperial German Army, during World War I. Between the world wars, it was awarded to members of the German armed forces who fought on the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War, 193839, and received combat related