Germany, Nsfk. A Rare Motor Pilot’s Badge, Type Iii Auction 1988 and awarded to surviving

1988 and awarded to surviving participants in the Battle of Lenino

Pinned onto the peak of the cap is a gilded bronze insignia consisting of a detailed double-headed Austrian imperial eagle clutching a sword and sceptre

and a red pebbled paper bottom

François led his troops during the storming of Rotherberg Hill

Germany, Nsfk. A Rare Motor Pilot’s Badge, Type Iii Auction 1988 and awarded to surviving(NSFK Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen fr Motorflugzeugen). Instituted 1 May 1939 by Korpsfhrer Friedrich Christiansen. (1943 1945 issue). A rare National Socialist Flyers Corps (NSFK) Motor Pilots Badge, constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, topped by a NSKK insignia consisting of a stylized depiction of Icarus overlaid by a mobile swastika, with a German national eagle in mid flight set across the wreath over a