Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Breast Eagle, First Pattern certificate_of_authenticity with a cream-coloured underside

with a cream-coloured underside

1944 and signed in blue ink by the leader of Grenadier Regiment 266

measuring 44 mm (h) x 37 mm (w)

After having received additional training in England

Connolly was born on July 1

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Breast Eagle, First Pattern certificate_of_authenticity with a cream-coloured underside(Luftwaffe Brustadler fr Offiziere). Constructed of a dark grey wool and canvas backer, the obverse bearing a hand embroidered silver aluminum wire droop tail Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, unmarked, measuring 95 mm (w) x 50 mm (h), with extensive material fatigue evident to both the backer and wire, in overall poor condition.