Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, By Carl Poellath Archive 1945 Reichling was redeployed to

1945 Reichling was redeployed to serve in the Landschutz (Homeland Protection) Battalion 847 Bamberg

one silvered

the blacker appears fire damaged/molten

with a blackened leather strap looped through its opposite end and connected to a metal buckle

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, By Carl Poellath Archive 1945 Reichling was redeployed to(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silver, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Bavarian royal crown, around a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and tapering vertical pinback meeting a round wire cach, maker marked KARL POELLATH, SCHROBENHAUSEN (reflective of the early alternative spelling of the firm