Germany, Luftwaffe. A Cased Combined Pilot And Observer Badge By C.e. Juncker Newly Listed He was Mentioned in Despatches

He was Mentioned in Despatches in the London Gazette six times: on June 22

which was overrun in heavy fighting at Lorenzo during Operation "Chesterfield"

being diagnosed with neurasthenia (exhaustion of the central nervous system's energy reserves)

The Brigade

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Cased Combined Pilot And Observer Badge By C.e. Juncker Newly Listed He was Mentioned in Despatches(Flugzeugfhrer und Beobachterabzeichen). Instituted 1936. (Issued 1937 1945). Constructed of gilted and silvered tombac, with an oak leaf wreath bearing a stylized Luftwaffe eagle clutching a hand filed mobile swastika in J 2 variation, the reverse presents with a barrel hinge accommodating a vertical pinback with a rounded tip meeting a round wire catch, two rivets at the top half of the reverse of the wreath securely hold the obverse eagle in