Germany, Luftwaffe. A Bomber Flight Clasp, Gold Grade Hold 1st Class for Veterans

1st Class for Veterans

including a 1908 Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph Diamond Jubilee Medal

a thin wire loop attached to the end of the braided portion

Type IV (silver gilt with red and white enamels

Personal Selection Record

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Bomber Flight Clasp, Gold Grade Hold 1st Class for Veterans(Frontflugspange fr Kampf und Sturzkampfflieger in Gold). Instituted on 30 January 1941 by Reichsmarschall Hermann Gring. A clasp constructed of gilded zink, the obverse with a central downward sloping winged bomb within a laurel wreath, and nine oak leaves on either side of the wreath, meeting a swastika at the bottom, the reverse presents a magnetic horizontal tapering pin with a sheet metal hinge and a flate wire catch, measuring 76. 47 mm (w) x