Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Pilot’s Badge, Thin Wreath Aluminum Eagle Version, By F.w. Assmann & Söhne Newly Listed Footnote: The Rudolf Diesel Medal

Footnote: The Rudolf Diesel Medal is an award by the German Institute for Inventions in Nuremburg (Deutsches Institut für Erfindungswesen [de]

with two hooks on the reverse for cap attachment

having served twenty-one months in France

The card shows the photo of four Imperial Austro-Hungarian soldiers

In the interwar period

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Rare Pilot’s Badge, Thin Wreath Aluminum Eagle Version, By F.w. Assmann & Söhne Newly Listed Footnote: The Rudolf Diesel Medal(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered tombak wreath with aluminum eagle, 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 a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of F. W. Assmann & Shne, Ldenscheid, measuring 42. 15 mm (w) x 53. 16 mm (h), weighing 21.