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Flak Unit table trophy of sorts..thoughts?

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Thoughts on this piece if you would. A friend showed this to me last week.
His dad brought it home during the war. Might have sat on an NCO’s desk at the units HQ? Pretty cool old piece that has been sitting in a garage for many years. The engraving is for a flak unit that i was able to find info online... has anyone seen anything similar?

Very heavy steel, and is about 14 inches tall..the luft bird is slightly bent down
 

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Thats really cool!

I am guessing its some sort of NCO comradeship presentation piece for the Staff Battery...probably sat in the unit "trophy case". It was 1936, no war yet, so they had time for such things...

Here is some info on the unit:

1.Flak-regiment 14 Ludenscheid.

Formed 01-10-1936 with 5 batteries in Lüdenscheid .

In May 1940 the unit took part in the western campaign and supported the XI Army Corps.

In April 1941 the unit was under the staff of the 201 Flak-Regiment in the Balkans.

June 1941, the unit took part in the Russian campaign.

In July 1942 the unit was at Sevastopol (Ukraine)and September 1942 in northern Russia in the sixth Flak-Division.

In March 1943, the Division moved to France in Toulon with the 18 Flak-Regiment in the 13 Flak-Division.

From March 1944 the unit was under the staff of the 85 Flak-Regiment from the 5th Flak-Brigade.

In August 1944 the unit moved to southern France (Tarascon) under the staff of the 18 Flak-Regiment.

In September 1944 they entered the 5th air district under the 13 Flak-Division.

In 1945 the unit moved to the Elsass- and Upper Rhine area.

And some pics I found online...
 

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looks like a homemade piece to me... Not that it takes away from the coolness. It just has that cottage made look to it. I have a Luft hand carved plate given to a CO.
 
looks like a homemade piece to me... Not that it takes away from the coolness. It just has that cottage made look to it. I have a Luft hand carved plate given to a CO.

Agreed. It looks like one of the soldiers made this as a presentation piece. Very interesting.
 

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