Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, By Friedrich Linden United Republic of with silvered pebbled metal buttons

with silvered pebbled metal buttons at the top and foldover flaps with reinforced button holes

Lieutenant Simpson would receive a Distinguished Flying Cross for actions taken on Sunday

green oxidation on the PH

surrounded by the words “GOTT MIT UNS 1914

A cross urdy with white-enamelled arms

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, By Friedrich Linden United Republic of with silvered pebbled metal buttons(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered tombak and nickel silver, 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 two visible rivets securing the obverse eagle in place, with a block hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked but with the physical characteristics of a type 2A