Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge, by C.E. Juncker Newly Listed Keitel was promoted to Major

Keitel was promoted to Major General and appointed to the Armed Forces Office (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht)

It is currently awarded for the preservation and promotion of Italian national prestige abroad

the cap measuring 230 mm x 270 mm x 160 mm in height overall

where she assumed the role of training vessel

/ DIED IN HIS COUNTRY'S SERVICE / 26 MAY 1944)

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Ground Assault Badge, by C.E. Juncker Newly Listed Keitel was promoted to Major(Erdkampfabzeichen der Luftwaffe). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika overlaying a stylized cloud from which a lightning bolt emanates and strikes the ground, the reverse with a single visible rivet formerly accommodating an eagle plate on the obverse, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat