✚9342✚ German WW2 Kriegsmarine Senior Aircraft Warning Service NCO's insignia

Original German Navy / Kriegsmarine Senior Aircraft Warning Service NCO's Career Sleeve Insignia, (Flugmeldemaat Laufbahnabzeichen - WW2, IN VERY NICE CONDITION - GOOD EMBROIDERED EXAMPLE

HISTORY OF THE INSIGNIA:

On entering Kriegsmarine service all personnel were assigned and trained for a specific career. These careers consisted of a wide variety of specialty trades and functions with some of the careers restricted to certain rank groups. On successful completion of the appropriate training, personnel were issued distinctive career insignia to be worn on the upper left sleeve of the uniforms. For EM/NCO’s the career insignia could be worn combined with the rank insignia or as separate insignia. Enlisted ranks of Matrose up to and including Hauptgefreiter career insignia were generally embroidered on small round bases while NCO ranks of Maat up to and including Oberdeckoffizier career insignia were on larger, vertically oval bases and could come in embroidered or stamped alloy versions. Regulations dictated that the base color of the insignia was to match the color of the uniform it was worn on. Of Note: Rank designations were tied to the career the individual was assigned to and in this case the proper rank designation is Steuermann Maat. Physical description: the insignia consists of a roughly, 90 mm tall, 70 mm wide, vertically oval, ribbed white rayon base with machine embroidered stylized "wings" superimposed on a vertical anchor with the anchor superimposed on dual, serrated, diagonally angled "lightening bolts" all in cornflower blue rayon threads over a single chevron. The outer edge of the white rayon base has a narrow, ribbed, white cotton/rayon blend reinforcement strip machine stitched in place.