A Fine Quality First War Prussian Pilot’s Badge By C. E. Juncker In Its Original Case Of Issue Archive on black cloth and brass

on black cloth and brass plate on reverse

It was the testimony of survivor Private First Class Eugene Nielsen that convinced the United States military to embark on a campaign to save the POWs in the Philippines in 1945

only faint scratches overall

box better than than extremely fine

10” on the reverse

A Fine Quality First War Prussian Pilot’s Badge By C. E. Juncker In Its Original Case Of Issue Archive on black cloth and brassA fine quality textbook example of a first war Prussian Pilots (Flugzeugfhrer) badge; in silver (marked 800 for silver content, with the standard crescent moon); hollow construction; the obverse with the standard pilots badge motive with very fine details within a wreath consisting of oak and laurel leaves; a bow on the bottom with a Prussian crown at the top; vertical pinback with a barrel hinge and a single breather hole underneath the round wire