Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Cloth Version With Document, To Unteroffizier Gerd Eberhardt Auction and the Destroyer Tender (AD)

and the Destroyer Tender (AD) Dixie Class U

Western Samoa

2 mm inclusive of its wreath with "EXCELSIOR" banner suspension

The page pertaining to his assignment in the military is left blank besides a date for his swearing in in 1942

enemy troops approached to within a few yards of Private Lewellyn’s position but he steadfastly refused to fall back and killed several enemy soldiers at his position before he fell mortally wounded

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, Cloth Version With Document, To Unteroffizier Gerd Eberhardt Auction and the Destroyer Tender (AD)(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen, Stoffausfhrung mit Verleihungsurkunde). Constructed of dark grey wool, the obverse bearing a machine embroidered silver grey oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, overlaid by a swooping Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, unmarked, measuring 78 mm (w) x 65 mm (h), with minor fatigue evident to the wool backer, in near extremely fine condition; accompanied by its award document, constructed of off white paper with black