Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge Award Document to Fighter Ace Friedrich Simon consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 1886-1931 Issue

1886-1931 Issue

his citation stating: "The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Commander [then Lieutenant] Kent Manning Cushman

indicating that this uniform was worn by a member of an Artillery Unit

marked “8” with a black stamp on the obverse

featuring a white enamel Latin cross with a laurel wreath segment in each quadrant

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge Award Document to Fighter Ace Friedrich Simon consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac 1886-1931 Issue(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen Verleihungsurkunde). A historically significant Luftwaffe Pilots Badge award document, constructed of off white paper stock with black ink, named to GEFREITER FRIEDRICH SIMON, a fighter pilot who would go on to become an ace after achieving 22 victories while serving with Jagdgeschwader 51 during the Second World World, issued in Berlin on 21 December 1938 and certified by the handwritten signature of Generalmajor Robert Ritter