Thoughts on this Heeres Flak SB?

[Bcarver]

http://www.hiscoll.com/viewphoto.php?shoph=34512&phqu=5

Hiscol has this SB for sale at a very good price IMO, however I had a thought about it and wanted some opinions. The flak badge was awrded in Jan 44, the 2nd issue SB was done in Apr 44, so why is he not wearing the badge in his photo? There is so much fakery out there it just made me think of either-1: fake award entry, or 2: photo added. Any thoughts? I know the seller is a really stand up guy so maybe I am just being too paranoid.

[hucks216]

Maybe the photo was taken before his award and they used it anyway? The stamps on the photo match the ones on the second leave entry and the signature for the Flak Badge matches that on page 2.

Interesting unit - his Batterie was equipped with a very rare type of self-propelled flak gun combination...
http://www.kfzderwehrmacht.de/Haupts...gkw__18_t.html

[Bcarver]

That makes sense Huck, thanks for posting the additional info. This is such a hard to find SB that I wanted to make sure of the entry. Been burned too many times by good fakers.