a light blue field with a gold NaziNational Eagle grasping a gold wreath with swastika, behind which crossed marshal's batons. The border as in the earlier version. Reverse: like that of the earlier version, except the large 1939 Iron Cross is replaced by a 1939 Iron cross about half the previous size surrounded by a gold laurel wreath. Replaced earlier version in February 1941. Illustrated in Flaggenbuch 1939, pl. Vb, Davis 1975, p. 104 and [Roger James] Bender, The Luftwaffe, p. 285.
Norman Martin, January 1998
