Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flight Personnel Oberst’s Summer Tunic Newly Listed Duke Carl Theodor

Duke Carl Theodor

It begins with a Note to the Illustrations

this was a pre-existing condition to his enlistment in the CEF

obverse centre presenting a beautiful hand painted crowned red and ermine mantle with the monogram of St

initially flying a Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flight Personnel Oberst’s Summer Tunic Newly Listed Duke Carl Theodor(Luftwaffe Sommerdienstrock). A well preserved Luftwaffe Flight Personnel summer tunic issued to a decorated Oberst, constructed of a white cotton blended cloth. It features a turned down collar which transitions to double breast lapels, and which is flanked on each side by tabs. The latter are constructed of golden yellow wool with buckram cores, trimmed with twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire piping, topped by three silver aluminum wire gulls