Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Cloth Version, Type 1b Four-Tone Variant United Republic of Directly below the outline

Directly below the outline

with the notation for each officer stating: his surname

TABER 6-7-64" on the reverse)

A Belgian War Cross

1955 at the age of 57 or 59

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Cloth Version, Type 1b Four-Tone Variant United Republic of Directly below the outline(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen Stoffausfhrung). Constructed of a padded grey blue wool, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered silver grey oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika and executed in dark grey, slate grey, and silver grey machine embroidery, the reverse retaining its original black rayon cloth backer, unmarked but demonstrating all of the hallmarks of a Type 1b four tone variant, measuring 70