Germany, Luftwaffe. A Luftwaffe Front Flying Clasp For Transport Pilots, Gold Grade Newly Listed A OTTAWA" on the front

A OTTAWA" on the front cover

A copy of the “Völkischer Beobachter”

encirclement and destruction of the enemy at Podwyssokojy in August

Footnote: Hugh McLeod was born on July 6

the only readable part says that he was “deployed in the West”

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Luftwaffe Front Flying Clasp For Transport Pilots, Gold Grade Newly Listed A OTTAWA" on the front(Frontflugspange fr Transport und Luftlandflieger, in Gold). Instituted on 30. 1. 1941 by Reichsmarshall Hermann Gring. (Issued 1941 1945). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse with a central laurel wreath with a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a swastika in the centre, with nine oak leaves on either side of the wreath, the reverse plain, with a horizontal banjo style tapered pinback, with a sheet metal hinge, and a flat wire catch, measuring 77. 03 mm