Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, by Friedrich Linden consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Grand Cross badge

Grand Cross badge

when he was awarded the Philippine Insurrection Medal

along with many other Canadian soldiers who were swimming away from the port when they were picked up by a Polish Destroyer and taken back to England

1985 and stamped March 29

1916 - January 10

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, by Friedrich Linden consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Grand Cross badge(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the eagle in place, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Friedrich Linden, Ldenscheid, measuring 63. 81 mm (w) x 53. 36 mm (h), weighing 34. 5 grams, most