A Luftwaffe Oberfeldwebel Pioneer Tunic 1940 Auction brooch pinback

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Shore Base Portsmouth)

681st recipient of the Oak Leaves on December 18

class - with Third Reich clasp to the Iron Cross 2nd Class 1939

maker marked “CEJ” for “C

A Luftwaffe Oberfeldwebel Pioneer Tunic 1940 Auction brooch pinbackThe tunic is fabricated from a coarse dark gray wool. The shoulders are adorned with Oberfeldwebel (Flight Sergeant) shoulder straps, each strap incorporating a 9 mm wide strip of fine silvered wire threading, sewn in place via white threading upon a dark gray wool upper, the edges trimmed in black cord piping indicating the branch to be Pioneer, each strap with three silvered pips surrounding a silvered number "6", with a blackish gray wool