Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Hold A Third Reich period DLV

A Third Reich period DLV (Deutscher Luftsport Verband/German Air Sports Association) Saarbrücken Balloonabteilung badge

With Adolf Galland’s postwar business card

Awarded to officers for outstanding military merit

seventeen days shy of his twenty-fifth birthday

Germany, Wehrmacht. An Infantry Assault Badge, Silver Grade Hold A Third Reich period DLV(Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, tied together at the bottom by a bowtie ribbon and topped by a German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, diagonally across the badge is a Karabiner 98k with the bayonet attached to the front of the barrel and the carrying sling hanging from the rifle, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire