Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, By Fritz Zimmermann certificate_of_authenticity and a Hound-Head silver hallmark

and a Hound-Head silver hallmark

The interior is fully lined with an intact brown leather sweatband

The C-54s were based in the Calcutta area and crossed the Hump on the south end

In the middle of April 1942

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Gold Grade Wound Badge, By Fritz Zimmermann certificate_of_authenticity and a Hound-Head silver hallmark(Verwundetenabzeichen in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with LDO code L24 for Fritz Zimmermann, Stuttgart, measuring 37. 00 mm (w) x 44. 24 mm (h),