Germany, Luftstreitkräfte. A Prussian Pilot’s Badge Newly Listed 36 mm x 43 mm

36 mm x 43 mm

the top two clasps on the QSAM not joined to the other five clasps

Five Medals of Honor and numerous Distinguished Service Crosses were awarded to Operation Tidal Wave crew members

issued in Memmingen on 23 November 1942

Germany, Luftstreitkräfte. A Prussian Pilot’s Badge Newly Listed 36 mm x 43 mm(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a German State Crown, around a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the revere with a barrel hinge and vertical piback meeting a flattened pinback, the pin marked with partially legible silver content number of either 800 or 900, measuring 43. 40 mm (w) x 70. 86 mm