Germany, Hj. A 1939 District Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, By Ferdinand Wagner Hold a Wehrmacht 40-Year Long Service

a Wehrmacht 40-Year Long Service Award with Oak Leaves

A Grand Cross sash badge consisting of a white-enameled cross pattée in gilded silver with swords in each quadrant

the interior is fleece-lined

Bomber Wing 100 was one of the units sent to defend against the Allied invasion of Normandy

In a letter from his mother

Germany, Hj. A 1939 District Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, By Ferdinand Wagner Hold a Wehrmacht 40-Year Long Service(Ehrenzeichen Kreissieger im Reichsberufswettkampf). Constructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, around a white enameled disc overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a cogwheel, in turn bearing a HJ insignia, topped by an inscription of KREISSIEGER, flanked by a date of 1939, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flattened wire catch, maker marked