Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Fire Police Marienbad District Sleeve Insignia, 1936 Pattern Hold he was in air transit

he was in air transit to the Middle Eastern theatre on May 14th

the USO sought to be the GI's "home away from home" and began a tradition of entertaining the troops that continues today

surmounted by an enameled green laurel wreath

0 mm (l) without its suspension

after fifteen months' service in France

Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Fire Police Marienbad District Sleeve Insignia, 1936 Pattern Hold he was in air transit(Feuerschutzpolizei rmelabzeichen). Constructed of field grey wool, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered carmine Ordnungspolizei insignia in the form of an oval oak leaf wreath overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed black mobile swastika, topped by an embroidered carmine inscription of MARIENBAD (now Marinsk Lzn, Czech Republic), unmarked, measuring 90 mm (w) x 100 mm (h), demonstrating moderate mothing and soiling, a 1936