Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Cloth Version Province of China Organization and Definitions

Organization and Definitions

with black corduroy backers and nickel-silver hardware with ornate oak leaf designs on the adjustable rectangular buckles

on all an olive green-khaki wool base

Down each breast lays six gilded bronze buttons beside six reinforced buttonholes

he became a Captain in the German Imperial Army

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Cloth Version Province of China Organization and Definitions(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen, Stoffausfhrung). Constructed of padded far grey wool, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered silver grey oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika and executed in two tone silver grey threading, the reverse retaining a black oilcloth liner, unmarked, measuring 72 mm (w) x 65 mm (h), demonstrating some separation of the reverse