Germany, Luftwaffe. A Luftwaffe Pilot’s Badge By Friedrich Linden Auction Archive in turn bearing a machine-embroidered

in turn bearing a machine-embroidered multi-piece black rayon mobile swastika

a veterans badge

flying the RCAF's first bombing operation ten weeks later

on each clips

measuring 27 mm (h) x 22

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Luftwaffe Pilot’s Badge By Friedrich Linden Auction Archive in turn bearing a machine-embroidered(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse presenting with a swooping Luftwaffe style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, within an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, with two rivets holding the eagle in place visible, unmarked but bearing the physical characteristics of manufacture by Friedrich Linden, Ldenscheid, measuring 62. 33