Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flight Personnel Leutnant’s Tropical Field Blouse, North Africa Service United Republic of 3rd Class: silver gilt and

3rd Class: silver gilt and enamels

in the Ionian Sea

where he trained on BE 2Es and Bristol Fighter Falcon 3s at Croydon

The design of the Rising Sun symbolizes energy as powerful as the rising sun in parallel with the "rising sun" concept of Japan ("Land of the Rising Sun")

70 mm (w) x 14

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Flight Personnel Leutnant’s Tropical Field Blouse, North Africa Service United Republic of 3rd Class: silver gilt and(Luftwaffe Tropenfeldbluse fr Leutnant der Fliegertruppe). An extremely well preserved Luftwaffe Flight Personnel tropical field blouse, constructed of a light khaki tan cotton blend. It features a turned down collar which transitions into double breast lapels. The shoulders are flanked by boards constructed of golden yellow wool with buckram cores and topped by four bands of silver aluminum wire piping. Each measuring 32 mm (w) x 105 mm (l), the