A Third Reich Westfalen Fire Defence Service Officer's Belt Buckle Newly Listed An RLB Air Protection Award

An RLB Air Protection Award - In silvered bronze

on a roadside near a school in the Cemetery at Portel

as a very determined SS officer named Captain Schmidt identified him as an allied airman and attempted several times to try to have him released into the custody of the German Wehrmacht

Roma on reverse cartouche

he had destroyed thirty-three enemy aircraft - twenty-one of these since the date of the last award (second Bar to the Military Cross) was conferred on him

A Third Reich Westfalen Fire Defence Service Officer's Belt Buckle Newly Listed An RLB Air Protection AwardIn toned brass, with unmarked reverse, measuring 48. 2 mm, lightly worn, near extremely fine. Footnote: From the collection of approximately 900 German buckles accumulated by John R. Angolia, who start collecting buckles, belts and brocades from 1944 until around 1990; most of the buckles were obtained from the American and German veterans; most of these buckles present a core of Angolias book Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich, published in