Luftwaffe Airborne Wings?

[Proud Kraut]

Not my focus of collecting but I'm sure the WAF's community knows exactly what I do have here:

Found these Airborne wings in a bunch of Bw insignia I acquired last week. They look similar to the two "Small Parachute" variations depicted in Kunstwadl's book on page 154, except those are cloth variants and mine has curved ends.
I havn't seen such a variation before. All Bw wings I have seen yet had straight ends.

All other insignia of this lot are Luftwaffe so my guess is, these wings are Lw as well. Can anybody confirm this? If so, when were these kind of wings worn? The wings measure 8 cm; they have no manufacturer's logo.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Lars

[Guardian 5]

Wow Lars, that's a new one for me. Very interesting.

Good luck on finding out more information about this variation.

All the best,
TJ

[uscob]

Looks weird. Never saw this type of Brooch on an official Award.

[Tom B]

Looks weird. Never saw this type of Brooch on an official Award.

???me either ????? Tom

[Proud Kraut]

TJ, Nico & Tom, thank you all very much for your replys! At least it seems to be uncommon...

[Willi Z.]

Interesting! I too have never seen that variant.

[Gordon Craig]

Lars,

A new one on me as well. The design, pin and manner of fastening just doesn't fit the BRD.

Regards,

Gordon

[Proud Kraut]

I received a kind mail from another German collector yesterday. He stated that he had seen this kind of wings as specimen that were not introduced in the 1980's while serving with the Heeresamt. Thanks a lot for this hint!