An Air Gunner Badge Award Document; Unqualified Air Gunner Badge Recipient certificate_of_authenticity 2c with Lewis gun

2c with Lewis gun

when a direct hit by an enemy shell on the ammunition storage killed most of the gun crew including two Cobourg men

His period of recuperation at Woodcote Park would entail ten weeks

Constructed of bright lemon-yellow wool with rolled and flat silver bullion insignia consisting of two eagles above crossed branches with raised accents in the leaves to represent veins

An Air Gunner Badge Award Document; Unqualified Air Gunner Badge Recipient certificate_of_authenticity 2c with Lewis gunA certificate, measuring 210x297mm, fine condition with most of the vertical folding crease having come apart, two small holes along the crease, some fraying, and additional horizontal folding creases. It states that Oberleutnant (Senior Lieutenant) Walter Stipproweit was awarded the Air Gunner Badge without Lightning. The document is dated to November 9, 1944 and carries a facsimile of the Supreme Commander of Aerial Fleet 10, General der Flieger