Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot And Observer Badge, By Friedrich Linden Hold missing its ribbon)

missing its ribbon)

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

GREGORIUS MAGNUS

as close to life and as colorful as today's fine graphic art and pictorial journalism can come

"Bill" Hibbard

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot And Observer Badge, By Friedrich Linden Hold missing its ribbon)(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