Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot And Observer Badge, By Friedrich Linden Hold He embarked Liverpool for Canada

He embarked Liverpool for Canada aboard the S

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

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

Grand Cross Set of insignia

missing its ribbon)

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot And Observer Badge, By Friedrich Linden Hold He embarked Liverpool for Canada(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