Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, V Class Cross With Swords, By C.f. Zimmermann certificate_of_authenticity a 9th Army Air Force

a 9th Army Air Force Shoulder Patch (three-colour embroidery on blue wool

surface wear on both sides on the WM

24 mm x 25

marked “L F 1932”

Lüdenscheid) and “Ges

Germany, Third Reich. An Order Of The German Eagle, V Class Cross With Swords, By C.f. Zimmermann certificate_of_authenticity a 9th Army Air Force(Orden vom Deutschen Adler Verdienstkreuz V. Stufe mit Schwertern). Instituted on 1 May 1937. (1943 1945 issue). Of multi piece construction, composed of a Maltese Cross in gilded bronze with white enameled arms, along with four German national eagles clutching wreathed mobile swastikas between the quadrants of the cross, with crossed swords superimposed through the centre of the obverse, the reverse plain, on loop for suspension, unmarked but