paratroops of the 7th Flieger-Division (Generalleutnant Kurt Student) and air landing troops of the 22nd Air Landing Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Hans Graf von Sponeck) seized strategic bridges and airfields in the vicinity of Rotterdam and The Hague
it is also autographed by Rapley on the interior title page
Footnote: Generalleutnant Otto Liman von Sanders was a German general who served as adviser and military commander for the Ottoman Empire during the First World War
Between the two ribbon ends are two tassels set at varying lengths
reverse missing its pinback
Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Wartime Signed Postcard of U-Boat Ace Wolfgang Lüth Auction Archive paratroops of the 7th Flieger-Division(Kriegsmarine U Boot Kommandant Postkarte mit Unterschrift). A wartime signed postcard of U Boat ace Kapitnleutnant (later Kapitn zur See) Wolfgang Lth, depicted in uniform and with the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves carefully edited in to the image, flanked by Lths handwritten signature, the reverse unused and bearing a Hoffmann studio mark, measuring 9 cm (w) x 14 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.