Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Summer Uniform Eagle, First Pattern United Republic of His Flying Goggles

His Flying Goggles

Institution Date 1922

a Belgian United Nations Command Patch (in blue

with the eagle’s head circumscribed by a green enameled laurel wreath in the style of a halo

He also is documented as having endured a bout of Rheumatic Fever in Malta in 1898

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Summer Uniform Eagle, First Pattern United Republic of His Flying Goggles(Luftwaffe Adler fr Offiziere). Constructed of white wool, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered silver aluminum wire droptail style Luftwaffe eagle, the reverse modified post manufacture with a horizontal pinback for alternative wear, unmarked, measuring 70 mm (w) x 54 mm (h), an unusual example in very fine condition.