An Early Pilot’s Badge To Pilot Downed May 19 1940, France certificate_of_authenticity to join the Navy Air

to join the Navy Air Corps

On November 6

England and was a Godson of Queen Victoria by proxy when he joined the Royal Navy at the age of 15

Footnote: The medal dates circa 1821 and is the first medal to commemorate the independence of Mexico

a battle setting with cannon

An Early Pilot’s Badge To Pilot Downed May 19 1940, France certificate_of_authenticity to join the Navy AirAn Early Pilots Badge to Pilot Downed May 19 1940, France A so called J 1, wreath in nickel silver, eagle in patinated tombac, thin wreath, measures 65. 13mm (w) x 53. 05mm (h), weighs 30. 2 grams, with period repair to catch, marked on reverse C. E. Juncker Berlin S W, with nice old patina, textbook example, in worn condition. Footnote: Pilots Badge of Friedrich Weidenbach, Unteroffizier Pilot of Kampfgeschwader 51. He was wounded in action on 19