Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Overseas Field Cap Hold with an oak and laurel

with an oak and laurel leaf wreath in each quadrant

but in some cases

Decorations and Medals of the Armed Forces 1939-1945 (Continued from Volume 1) (sixty-seven awards: Army/Armed Forces (eleven awards)

by François Frédéric Steenackers

obverse illustrating two soldiers standing in front of a brick wall

Germany, Luftwaffe. An Officer’s Overseas Field Cap Hold with an oak and laurel(Luftwaffe Schiffchen fr Offiziere). A Luftwaffe Officers overseas field cap, constructed of dark blue grey wool. It is fully surrounded by fold down side walls which slope downward toward the front. A length of silver aluminum wire piping fully trims the top edge of the walls. Stitched onto the peak is an insignia consisting of a dark blue grey wool backer bearing a machine embroidered silver grey Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika,