Germany, Luftwaffe. A Bomber Flight Clasp, Silver Grade Auction Archive leather straps exhibit crazing but

leather straps exhibit crazing but remain relatively supple given their age

where it lists him as Lt

285599” on the inside behind the swastika roundel

when he was buried by a shell explosion during the Second Battle of Ypres

bottom arm marked W (for Wagner)

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Bomber Flight Clasp, Silver Grade Auction Archive leather straps exhibit crazing but(Frontflugspange fr Kampf und Sturzkampfflieger in Silber). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a swastika, overlaid by a downward pointing winged bomb, flanked on each side by nine oak leaves, the reverse with a visible central rivet securing the obverse bomb in place, with a block hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch, unmarked, measuring