Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Cloth Version Province of China on a 49 mm pin)

on a 49 mm pin)

Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Woodstock

For his China service

Allersheimer bought the F

СТАНИСЛАВА 1Й СТЕПЕНИ” (“BADGES OF THE ORDER OF SAINT STANISLAUS I DEGREE”)

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Cloth Version Province of China on a 49 mm pin)(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen, Stoffausfhrung). Constructed of padded dark grey wool, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered silver grey oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse affixed with a post manufacture black paper liner partially concealing a period original black cotton twill backer, unmarked, measuring 70 mm (w) x 65 mm (h), in extremely fine condition.