Netherlands, NSB. A Rare Mussert Cross for Combatants certificate_of_authenticity Navy Paratrooper Patch

Navy Paratrooper Patch

It measures 297 mm x 210 mm

bears Japanese characters on the top in gilt

the centrepiece ring inscribed in Latin "VIRTVTI ET MERITO" (Virtue and Merit)

The unremitting efforts made to rescue the men of the wrecked Fortress are shot through with the attitude expressed by Major Lafarge in the following words: "Wherever our men have been stranded or cast away

Netherlands, NSB. A Rare Mussert Cross for Combatants certificate_of_authenticity Navy Paratrooper Patch(Mussertkruis). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with horizontal pinback, consisting of a Maltese Cross with black and red enameled arms and with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse overlaid by a central white enameled medallion bearing a gilt swastika defaced by a Wolfsangel, situated above a semi circular oak leaf wreath, the reverse overlaid by a