Germany, Luftwaffe. A Radio Operator And Air Gunner Badge, By Berg & Nolte Auction Archive Burma and Indochina

Burma and Indochina

Footnote: Lieutenant Michel Rousseau was flying with Captain Louis Pierron in a Farman aircraft

surrounded by a gilt wreath with raised relief

but was reinstated following their surrender and the end of the Japanese occupation of Malaya in 1945

" and marked "SILVER" on the reverse

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Radio Operator And Air Gunner Badge, By Berg & Nolte Auction Archive Burma and Indochina(Fliegerschtzenabzeichen fr Bordfunker). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a mobile swastika, overlaid by a swooping German national eagle clutching a pair of lightning bolts, the reverse with two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked with the logo of Berg & Nolte,