Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot And Observer Badge, By Friedrich Linden Archive An “Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1

An “Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1

Sydney Joseph Heald of Esquimalt

(wreath 40

issued in 1939

enamelled Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps affixed

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot And Observer Badge, By Friedrich Linden Archive An “Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1(Beobachter und Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of gilded and silvered feinzink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a hand filed mobile swastika, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch, with two visible rivets holding the obverse eagle in place, unmarked but with the physical characteristics