Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Overseas Field Cap Hold by François Frédéric Steenackers

by François Frédéric Steenackers

Decorations and Medals of the Armed Forces 1939-1945 (Continued from Volume 1) (sixty-seven awards: Army/Armed Forces (eleven awards)

89mm(height)

inside lid lined in white satin

numbered "12684" on the edge

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Overseas Field Cap Hold by François Frédéric Steenackers(Luftwaffe Schiffchen fr Offiziere). A Luftwaffe Officers overseas field cap, constructed of dark blue grey wool. It is fully surrounded by fold down side walls which slope downward toward the front. A length of silver aluminum wire piping fully trims the top edge of the walls. Stitched onto the peak is an insignia consisting of a dark blue grey wool backer bearing a machine embroidered silver grey Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika,