Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge Award Document to Fighter Ace Friedrich Simon Auction Archive He returned to the Pacific

He returned to the Pacific in 1944 and took command of the 2nd Fast Carrier Task Force and a little later Task Force 38 of the US 3rd Fleet with nine fleet aircraft carriers and eight light aircraft carriers

Footnote: The Punjab Medal was issued to officers and men of the British Army and Honourable East India Company who served in the Punjab campaign of 1848-49

client state of Nazi Germany (1939-1945)

while directly below are the traces of a Totenkopf formerly adorning the centre of the side wall

AND AN ENLIGHTENED AND GENEROUS FRIEND TO LITERATURE

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge Award Document to Fighter Ace Friedrich Simon Auction Archive He returned to the Pacific(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen Verleihungsurkunde). A historically significant Luftwaffe Pilots Badge award document, constructed of off white paper stock with black ink, named to GEFREITER FRIEDRICH SIMON, a fighter pilot who would go on to become an ace after achieving 22 victories while serving with Jagdgeschwader 51 during the Second World World, issued in Berlin on 21 December 1938 and certified by the handwritten signature of Generalmajor Robert Ritter