Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot and Observer Badge, Cloth and Bullion Version for Officers certificate_of_authenticity GAUNT MONTREAL / MADE IN

GAUNT MONTREAL / MADE IN ENGLAND" on the suspension bar

The first wartime photographs depict him with other Wehrmacht personnel in occupied France in 1940

published in December 1948

obverse illustrating a pair of two lane roadways

maker marked on reverse plate "I

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot and Observer Badge, Cloth and Bullion Version for Officers certificate_of_authenticity GAUNT MONTREAL / MADE IN(Flugzeugfhrer und Beobachterabzeichen, Stoffausfhrung fr Offiziere). Constructed of padded dark grey wool, the obverse bearing an oval gold bullion wire laurel and oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a silver aluminum wire swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse retaining an intact black cotton liner, unmarked, measuring 70 mm (w) x 60 mm (h), demonstrating minor material fatigue to the wire features, a scarce example in uniform