Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot And Observer Badge, By Friedrich Linden Archive measuring 30 mm (w) x

measuring 30 mm (w) x 18

issued in 1939

Sydney Joseph Heald of Esquimalt

the reverse shows a soldier behind a frontier fortification protecting a woman and child

An “Eisernes Kreuz 1939 1

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot And Observer Badge, By Friedrich Linden Archive measuring 30 mm (w) x(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