Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot And Observer Badge, By Friedrich Linden Hold in various lengths and colours

in various lengths and colours

missing its ribbon)

the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath topped by a Luftwaffe eagle

"Bill" Hibbard

Apparently even as the Red Army was advancing and the fall of Berlin was in the foreseeable future

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot And Observer Badge, By Friedrich Linden Hold in various lengths and colours(Flugzeugfhrer und Beobachterabzeichen). Constructed of silvered and gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a crimped barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of manufacture by