Germany, Luftwaffe. A Belt Buckle for Enlisted Ranks, Mid-War Example, by Richard Sieper & Söhne consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and an overall body length

and an overall body length of 720 mm

While in charge of the Military Section of the Office of the Chief of Engineers during the early period of the war

vertical straight rectangular pinback with a barrel hinge and a flat wire catch

the reverse with a single pin assembly flanked by dual stays

He signed his CEF Attestation Paper on September 25

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Belt Buckle for Enlisted Ranks, Mid-War Example, by Richard Sieper & Söhne consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac and an overall body length(Luftwaffe Grtelschnalle fr Mannschaften). Constructed of dark grey painted magnetic steel, the obverse bearing a central Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika on a pebbled field, situated within an oval laurel leaf wreath joined together at the bottom by ribbon, the reverse with a loop and claws emanating from a functional roller, the latter retaining an original brown leather strap, the buckle maker marked with the logo of Richard Sieper &