Beautiful hand embroidered silver and gold threads feature a stylized "diving" eagle clutching a swastika in its talons, encompassed by a vertically oval wreath. The wreath features embossed laurel leaves to the left hand side and oak-leaves to the right hand side. The badge shows nice detailing to the eagle. The Paratrooper’s Badge was instituted by Hermann Göring on November 5TH 1936 for award to Luftwaffe personnel who had written the required tests and completed six parachute jumps. Individuals who were awarded the badge were obligated to re-qualify annually in order to retain it. On May 2ND 1944 award of the badge was extended to include Luftwaffe medical, administrative and legal personnel who had passed the required tests and completed one parachute jump. As with most other Luftwaffe qualification badges, regulations also stipulated that a hand embroidered version for Officers and a machine embroidered version for EM/NCOs were permitted for wear.