cockade in silvered zinc with a black painted base and red painted centre
The personnel sheet for SS administrative leaders is dated to August 15
location identified
two die-stamped silvered iron disks placed back-to-back
sewn upon an Army green wool uniform
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, By Gebrüder Wegerhoff Auction cockade in silvered zinc with(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Instituted on August 12, 1935. (Issued 1936 1945). An early period badge constructed of silvered and patinated nickel silver, consisting of an oak and laurel wreath, bearing a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a hand filed mobile swastika, the reverse plain with a vertical pinback, and a barrel hinge unique to this maker, and a flat wire catch, marked GWL for Gebrder Wegerhoff, Ldenscheid on the reverse, measuring 63. 2 mm (w) x 52.