Germany, Nsfk. A Rare Motor Pilot’s Badge, Type Iii Archive Grand Cross Set of Insignia

Grand Cross Set of Insignia

showing age and use

the outside of the shell with a 45 mm wide strip of leather stitched in place

when a training accident occurred at RAF Thornbury

Germany, Nsfk. A Rare Motor Pilot’s Badge, Type Iii Archive Grand Cross Set of Insignia(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