Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, By Carl Poellath Archive a patriotic medal

a patriotic medal

A 1935 Hitler Youth/Hitlerjugend (HJ) Deutsches Jugendfest badge

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

Commander’s Cross - in silver gilt and enamels

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

Bavaria, Kingdom. A Pilot’s Badge, By Carl Poellath Archive a patriotic medal(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