(Militär-Verdienstorden Kreuz IV
TACK BREDA"" on the ribbon support)
bearing a machine-embroidered off-white Luftwaffe-style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika
Type II (1916-1947) (in silvered bronze
1st Class Cross with Red Distinction
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Bomber Clasp, Gold Grade consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac (Militär-Verdienstorden Kreuz IV(Frontflugspange fr Kampf und Sturzkampfflieger in Gold). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of a central circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a swastika, surrounding a downward pointing winged bomb, flanked on each side by nine oak leaves, the reverse with a single visible rivet securing the bomb in place, with a barrel hinge set within a crimped base and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch,